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If you celebrate them around this time of year, I hope they’re good. If you don’t, I hope you’re well anyway.
Pushing on to 2010.

What the heck is going on on this blog? Absolutely nothing, it seems.
Do I make another promise to rectify this situation?
I know enough about myself by now to know that promising such things is a waste of time. I post here when I feel like it, as all bloggy-blogs seem to work (though I’m pleased [...]

From the new GOP website, in response to a question of why people identify themselves as Republicans:
I’m a Republican because I believe in the free market and I don’t want anybody to touch social security. I’m on a fixed income and I don’t want any socialist bureacrats taking away my money! [sic]

The Stranger, even though I no longer live in Seattle, still keeps me informed. And today, Paul Constant blogged that Yann Martel, author of LIFE OF PI, signed a book deal for “an allegorical story about the Holocaust featuring talking animals.” I’m going to steal the Stranger’s blockquote:
“I’ve noticed over the years of reading books [...]

I recently decided I would spend 24 hours avoiding the use of the word ‘cool.’ Harvey Smith has challenged me to 24 hours of not using any superlative or adjective, but instead to describe things as they are, leaving the subjective and unsubstantive words on the wayside for a short period of time.
I accept his [...]

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7576956.stm.
This is a very, very good idea, and I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of this in other venues similar to Xbox Live. The only issue now is encouraging people to stop playing Halo 3 for just a few minutes come election day and actually go to their polling place.
I’m only being partly facetious. [...]

A great video of a procedural city generator. Seen at serial consign, via DesignNotes.
The cities in the video above, with a bit more art direction, look like they could be right out of a Spiderman game, or Mirror’s Edge. Procedural content, especially in terms of environment design, is an iffy area, but those topographies [...]

Austin looks like a real urban environment from up here, originally uploaded by rmattson.

The lede of an MSNBC story on gay marriage:
It’s one of this year’s polarizing issues. McCain, Obama both oppose same-sex marriages, but how to ban them is the question.
Is it really necessary to ban something because you oppose it? Ban is a rather harsh way of dealing with things. As people mentioned when gay marriage had one of its [...]

Nighttime view from the office., originally uploaded by rmattson.