Archives for the Month of July, 2006

A moratorium on self-censorship

I am issuing a challenge to every user of the Internet: Stop self-censorship. It’s annoying and shallow and not really censoring anything at all.
By example: This sh*t has got to stop.
Most people literate in English read that sentence as ‘This shit has got to stop.’ I challenge you to find one person who read that [...]

Trust me, there is a point, you just have to be patient

It’s been nigh unto too long since I really put some meaty content on this blog, and in the spirit of staying relevant, interesting and committed, I’d like to follow up on something I wrote about earlier.
I wrote about Hellgate: London, and I meant a few things which I probably didn’t get across all too [...]

Drama in the office

Scott and I got up at the same time to get chocolate pudding from the fridge. Yes, the office manager, Jade, is kind enough to buy pudding. And that stuff goes fast.
However, today, there was only one pudding cup left. And both Scott and I head eaten a very hearty meat-and-rice Persian-lunch, which absolutely demands [...]

Statistics

This one’s been making its way around the net. Here’s a great snippet, not indicative of the interestingness of the other quotes:
One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Many do not even graduate from high school.
How is it that many high school graduates never graduate high school?

Replayability in games

A recent interview on IGN got me thinking about replayability.
With respect to replayability - the answer is nearly infinite. The entire play experience is randomized. This means that once you set foot outside of the Underground station that acts as your “town”, you never know exactly what you’re going to find. The layout is randomized, [...]

We finish each others sentences

rustbox808: first album transferred to my Sidekick 3. guess.
SilentSausage: plaid
rustbox808: which album
SilentSausage: double figure
rustbox808: correct.

Monica made her first web page

And to celebrate, she even got her own domain. We’re working together on identifying a scalable framework and design, but for the meantime one can mosy on over and check out the product of her first quarter of copywriting portfolio classes.
In terms of creating a real site, I was thinking about using Django, as I’ve [...]