Gadgets

Better Living Through Statistics

It’s a pretty well established fact that I lose weight when I follow through on my goal to keep track of everything I eat. That fact has been firmly tested by the fact that I have lost weight while keeping in that habit, and have gained it back when I’m not paying attention to what [...]


Dungeons and Large Lizard-Like Creatures

A month or so ago I started running a D&D game with a handful of people from my family.  It’s the first game I’ve ever run, so I’m not sure I’m doing all that great as a DM.  I think we’re all having fun, though, and that’s what is important.  We’re doing Keep on the [...]


Wherein I Become Even More of a Loser

I’ve been intending to write a new post for this blog, and I’ve been horribly slacking.  And that’s not to say that I’ve been posting to anywhere else, which might have been implied by the ‘this blog’ part of my first sentence. I started playing World of Warcraft (shut up, I know, hold your loser [...]


What Vernal Equinox

Nature decided to give a big ‘fuck you’ to Western New York. Didn’t I say I was sick and tired of the cold already a little while ago? Today, on the supposed first day of spring, it’s been snowing all day long. It’s not really accumulating, but it’s just annoying. I mentioned that I was [...]


Monty Python References Are Always Topical

She’s got HUGE…tracts of land! So I’m sitting here watching Batman Begins, and I’m just to the part where he starts dressing like Batman for the first time.  It’s pretty kickass and all, but as anal as I am, I had to ask why nobody connected the fact that Wayne resurfaced with the introduction of [...]