Warren Ellis recounts the difficulty of shaking many hands in a short period of time.
When I graduated from the University of Washington, I walked across the stage and shook the hand of the President of the University. He winced as I shook, and I thought to myself, “Wow, do I have a booger hanging out [...]

I’m flying out to San Francisco tomorrow for a bit of business in the big city, and our publisher was kind enough to book my flight for me. The 7:10am flight out of Austin on United is apparently not the most popular, as there are a tremendous number of open seats. That’s fantastic, it means [...]

I need to clean my house. I really do.
But instead, I’ll clean my blogs house. Har!
This is a note that I’m changing my RSS feed URL, because I have plans, man. Big plans. And I don’t want to be hampered.
Anyway, if you’ve never subscribed to this frequently-updated, contentful blog’s RSS feed, you can now and [...]

Uh oh, stupid shit alert. School administrators at El Camino high school in Oceanside, CA, thought it’d be a smart idea to bring in highway patrol officers to announce that several students had been killed in a drunk driving accident, as a way to ’scare straight’ students who may think about drinking and driving.
“They were [...]

I noticed today that my blog was down–a database error that was quickly fixed once I actually noticed it wasn’t available. However, this probably isn’t much of an issue, as I didn’t actually hear about it, which leads me to believe nobody else was actually looking, and the people who would be looking are probably [...]

Starbucks had apparently been paying shift supervisors out of the baristas tip jar. So a judge in California rules that this is illegal practice, and the company has to pay baristas the tips back, plus interest.
Starbucks claims that this is unfair to shift supervisors. That shift supervisors should get to share in the tips.
Can one [...]

Gamasutra posted an article about a panel at GDC: The Future of Story in Game Design. Pop over there, read it, it’s interesting.
Well, it sounds interesting at first. And then you read it and realize that the panel was full of bickering developers who couldn’t present a cogent argument about the topic without taking cheap [...]

Saw this on Warren Ellis’ blog, a Steampunks Guide to the Apocalypse.

My Xbox 360 arrived August 29 at the McAllen service center the victim of the loathsome red-ring of death. As of today, Thursday, September 6, this is the message available to me on http://service.xbox.com:

Repair Status: Device Received at Service Center

How informative. No ETA. No “thanks for your patience.” No “we’re backlogged to hell because of [...]

Peter Watts‘ latest book messed with my head.
We, as a species, can communicate. But what is it that we are communicating?