Intermittence

From the ABC News web site:

I don’t know who Katie is, and I’m not clicking on the link. What, exactly, does the adjective “bangin’” mean?

Our dinner last night consisted of:

• Roasted garlic (slice the tops off of mostly-depapered garlic, partially wrap in foil, drizzle with olive oil, seal, and bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes)
• Thin slices of baguette
• Chavrie brand plain chevre
• A Texas-made peppered chevre
• Pesto
• Shaved Black Forest ham
• Sliced Spanish-style chorizo
• Shiner Black Lager (Donnell did not partake in this)

This is my ideal Last Meal.

Pay attention!

The Child’s Play web site says it best:

Since 2003, over 100,000 gamers worldwide have banded together through Child’s Play, a community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Over two million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world have been collected since our inception.

Two regular guys who like video games and have some writing and drawing talent (and run an online comic about gaming called Penny Arcade) reacted with remarkable vigor to a newspaper article critical of video games and gamers, and have done something truly amazing. Check out the Child’s Play site, and please consider making a donation to one of the children’s hospitals associated with them.

I’ve known about Child’s Play since their first year, and somehow resisted making a donation—until this year. There are a lot of charities that I just can’t subscribe to, but this isn’t one of them. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, not really, but it’s getting closer. I mean, the mall is already decorated. Santa was entertaining children at the local grocery store. Donnell’s been humming carols. And…I’ve made the decoration (singular) for my office. Behold!

It’s half of a paper clip, cradling a large button-cell battery and soldered directly to an AVR ATtiny13V microcontroller (which I programmed myself), a 330-ohm resistor, and a red LED. When operating, it flashes ‘Merry Christmas’ in Morse Code. I’m really proud of this—perhaps too much so—and am considering writing up an Instructable for it.

Yay, nerds! Read the rest of this entry »

This is all eerily familiar to me.

Please, somebody, tell me that I’m not this person.

(Thanks to John Gruber)