The Tumbling Pig

I came home from Worldcon to some hard drive trouble. All fixed now, but it was the work of days to track down the problem and solve it, and it wasn’t till last night that I…

I have successfully raised my computer from the dead.

Seems it was just the hard drive. I swapped out the old, dead 100 GB drive for the 320 GB drive I had sitting around. There were a lot of…

So I hauled my laptop to Tekserve (saving NYC Mac-owners’ asses since 1987), and the helpful guy at the repairs counter was successful in getting my machine to boot off a network volume. He ran…

Typing this from Chris’s computer (Windows Vista, MSIE — oh, the pain!) because my laptop is fucked.

Last night I was getting a barred circle on startup, an error message I’d never even heard of…

Back from Worldcon. Had a great time. I’ll try to scan in the sketch-blogging tomorrow; probably link to it from Making Light.

Is anyone else going to be taking Amtrak to Montreal on Wednesday Aug 5th on the east coast? There’s only one train on that route per day (at least, going from NYC — [the Adirondack][ad]), so if a…

Rope in Fate

Watching the latter part of Hitchock’s Rope, it seems to me that you could run that whole long psychological and investigative cat-and-mouse game in Fate, with most of the…

Kate Beaton isn’t the only one doing historical webcomics. London-based animator Sydney Padua is doing a series of comics about an alternate-historical Charles Babbage and Ada…

Shortly before going to bed last night, I saw a thread on Story-Games about cobbling together an RPG based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim comics.

Result: Last night, I dreamed that I…