I was going through some photos today and it occurred to me that I didn’t have a set of Mount Hood stuff. So here it is, in slideshow format. I got engaged up there, and come August I will be married up there as well. It’s really a cool place.
Earlier today I laid out a hierarchy of awesomeness, and wanted to archive it here for saving through the ages.
Basically what I said there was that Wizards are better than Ninjas which are better than Robots which are better than Pirates which are better than Zombies which are better than Cowboys.
Maybe I’m biased because I just like Wizards, but I think the rest of those things (except maybe Ninjas) are way over hyped.
There’s a Laughing Squid Drinkup this Friday at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne. Come on down and hang out with us. You can RSVP here if you’d like to.
What is a drinkup you ask? It is a meetup that involves drinking.
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Well it’s been a busy couple of months. Sadly, I failed to complete the Nanowrimo due to some extended traveling in November. I vowed to make it up by taking an online writing class, which turned out to be a really disappointing series of multiple choice quizzes.
So it’s a new year, and I have some new ideas. I’m going to try and get into the habit of writing at least an hour every day and see where that leads me. I found a cool writing workshop that’s held right down the street from me, so might have to start attending that. I’ve got a separate blog I’ll be collecting fiction and stuff in and I’m going to start by revising some older stuff and putting it in there. I think I’m going to keep that private for the time being, but I’ll open it up at some point.
I’ve decided to try this little contest again and see if I can finish it. I’m pretty determined to hit that 50K word mark, even if none of them make any sense. It’s definitely at that point, I’ve already moved on to another idea from my original one but I’m going to soldier on. So anyway, this is why I’m quiet here this month. Wish me luck.
Ben Tippet theorizes using SCIENCE that all of Superman’s powers are based on the manipulation of inertia. Found via Dinosaur Comics.
Just testing out sending pictures with this IM bot thing. Mt Hood is pretty sweet, isn’t it? We’re thinking about going hiking out there on Sunday. Hopefully we’ll even get snowed on.
Posting from a bot! IMified and WordPress. Check this out, I mentioned offhand how it would be awesome to be able to post to my blog from an IM account, and lo and behold an answer has presented itself. Marty gave me a link to IMified, which allowed me to set up exactly that. Neat. I’ll release the code at some point, but just going to mess with it a bit first.
Something that gives me an unreasonable amount of joy is re-lacing boots and shoes. I don’t know why, but I love sprucing up a fancy pair of boots like this. For all my lacing needs, I go to Ian’s Shoelacing Site. My combat boots here are currently using the “Straight (European) Lacing” method.