The Tumbling Pig

Gamers everywhere

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:02:19 -0500

Our apartment building has a recurrent problem with leaks. As one of my neighbors joked, leaks are how we meet each other.

Tonight we discovered a leak in our bedroom, and I went upstairs to tell…

Crisis at Games Club!

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:31:31 -0500

Crisis at Games Club!:

Nobody brought Dominion! Nobody brought Race for the Galaxy! What were we going to do?!

Wasabi
When I got there most of the attendees were already starting a game of Agricola, which I…

King-Con

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:25:37 -0500

King-Con:

I heard about King-Con just a few days ago, through Becky Cloonan’s blog. A comics convention within walking distance of my apartment, how could I not go?

It was a small con, even smaller (I…

The Fake Shack (or the Shack Burger at Home)

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:04:34 -0400

The Fake Shack (or the Shack Burger at Home)

A Guide to Cheap Snacks in Manhattan's Chinatown | Serious Eats : New York

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:29:57 -0400

A Guide to Cheap Snacks in Manhattan's Chinatown | Serious Eats : New York

Bird is the word!

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:53:22 -0400

Bird is the word!:

Google Books has confirmed for me something I recall noticing — that Orson Scott Card’s 1995 novel Alvin Journeyman takes place in a world populated by owls:

Page 35: Becca hooted.
Page 38:…

Star Trek Minutiae

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:05:32 -0400

Star Trek Minutiae

Rapture of the nerds

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:45:30 -0400

Rapture of the nerds:

Alex Lightman, writing for h+ Magazine, on “Sex and the Singularity”:

[W]e will be installing bioports into our body, a la The Matrix or Sleep Dealer, each of which can stimulate our…

Religion is not the primary motivation of suicide bombers

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:38:18 -0400

Religion is not the primary motivation of suicide bombers

nanoc

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:27:22 -0400

nanoc

What's The Harm?

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:30:10 -0400

What's The Harm?

Foreshadowings of senility

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:00:39 -0400

Foreshadowings of senility:

First foreshadowing: Yesterday, on the way to a NYRSF meeting, discovering that I neglected to put my current book (A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham) in my shoulder bag. I make do on the…

AnyDice Calculator

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:48:42 -0400

AnyDice Calculator

Using CSS to Do Anything: 50 Creative Examples and Tutorials

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:22:30 -0400

Using CSS to Do Anything: 50 Creative Examples and Tutorials

t r u t h o u t | The Policy-Speak Disaster for Health Care

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:27:41 -0400

t r u t h o u t | The Policy-Speak Disaster for Health Care

Papier-blogging le Congrès Mondial

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:47:34 -0400

Papier-blogging le Congrès Mondial:

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…

Why I always disable "Wake On Lid Open" on my MacBooks

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:30:46 -0400

Why I always disable "Wake On Lid Open" on my MacBooks

I'm back

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:12:59 -0400

I'm back:

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…

Back from Tekserve

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:23:21 -0400

Back from Tekserve:

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…

Computer fuckage

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:37:17 -0400

Computer fuckage:

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…