Month: June 2006

A few recent posts from others on their dreams reminded me – I haven’t had any vivid dreams lately. I’m not sure if it’s work stress, or not enough sleep, or too much caffeine, or just growing up, but it’s kind of word. The last one I remember was a requel dream – by which…

and I just finished Requiem for a Dream. It’s hard to call a movie like that “good”; I usually say “well-done”, because it was. It’s just not the kind of movie you want to see. I thought back to the incredibly lame and cheesy “scary” anti-drug movies we watched in health class in middle school.…

I was on a business trip down to D.C. this week, and at the hotel I saw something I had never seen before: elevator dialing wands. Every elevator panel, inside the car or at each elevator lobby, had an 18″ wooden dowel attached to a chain with a convenient velcro holder. Obviously, they were intended…

So I tried out a D&D Meetup (http://dnd.meetup.com/768/?gj=sj8) at the Boston Beerworks near Fenway. Five other guys showed up; they all seemed pretty cool, although unfortunately most of them live way oot and want to run games in the ‘burbs if they can. One guy is running a game at MIT, but I’m not sure…

I have discovered what I call the Hatred Frequency™. I call it that, because if you hear it long enough, it will cause you to hate everything, and eventually slip into an inescapable murderous rage. I’m not sure how long that process takes, because I have no experimental data, but I was definitely slipping into…

Today one of my coworkers offered me, as she called it, raktajino – aka Klingon coffee. Obviously, there is not actually any such thing, but we Trekkies can dream. In actuality, it was some coffee from Sudan. This stuff was not messing around – I have coffee every day, and this gave me a bit…

Disposal wins.

The fundamental reason why I love the plots of the Myst games is because of their founding premise: that books literally take you to other worlds. That appealed to me when I played the first Myst on our old PowerPC 6115 CD; it still appeals to me as I play Myst IV on my iMac…

When I was at the Apple Store yesterday, I picked up Myst IV: Revelations for cheap, since it’s an older game. They’ve done a really amazing job of extending the pre-rendered pannable interaction; between the excellent ambient sound design the Myst series has always had, and the ability to project many movies onto the viewing…

As I was walking back from Star Market just now, there was a pair of hawks circling my apartment house, riding asphalt thermals and screeching a lot. I think this is the first time I’ve seen a bird of prey in Boston since that one decloak… never mind.