Survivor: Samoa, week four

One of the more painful aspects of the early episodes in a season is listening to all the terrible players bragging about their bulletproof game strategies. For example: Erik asks Shambo what the immunity idol clues were, and then Shambo told him. Told him! Her justification: “It’s not like it could do anything but […]

October 11th, 2009 | Category: Survivor | Leave a comment

The crime of eating lunch.

From 2005 to 2008 I maintained a blog about my experiences working in the drug test industry. Every Saturday I revive one of those experiences here. The following was originally posted September 7, 2006.

The crime of eating lunch. My lunch hour is between 1pm and 2pm. As I am the only employee […]

October 10th, 2009 | Category: Peemeister | One comment

cool

Like everyone else on the internet, I once teamed up with an artist to make a webcomic. It didn’t get very far, but I’ll share one here each Friday until there aren’t anymore. Enjoy.

October 9th, 2009 | Category: Nomic | Leave a comment

Night shift.

I can already tell I’m going to love working nights at the office. It’s nice and quiet, nothing but empty hours I can fill with books or DS games. I need to invest in one of those portable DVD players.

I’ve been using this week to re-read my Chuck Palahniuk collection, starting last weekend with […]

October 8th, 2009 | Category: Journal | Leave a comment

Unconventional storytelling.

Ever since FF4 whipped everyone into shape in the early 90s, RPGs have followed a pretty simple formula of “gameplay/story/gameplay/story”. Typically the story is told through cutscenes, and then you play the game some more, and then you get to the next cutscene. In such a story-heavy genre it just seems perfectly natural. The only […]

October 7th, 2009 | Category: Gaming | 2 comments

A can of pure joy.

This is my last can of Mountain Dew Throwback. It sits in my refrigerator, taunting me.

Peanut found it while she was cleaning out the fridge recently. It must have rolled back behind some old vegetables or the giant pitcher with one swig of Kool-Aid left in it. Maybe I hid it in a crisper […]

October 6th, 2009 | Category: Food | 5 comments

Survivor: Samoa, week three

Once again, nothing much interesting happened over on Galu. Some of the kids got together and decided doing yoga. The old woman scoffed at it. One of the girls (Laura? Lauren?) made a comment to the effect of “it’s nice we don’t have to spend all our time in Game Mode. They won immunity, […]

October 5th, 2009 | Category: Survivor | Leave a comment

LittleBigLevels

LittleBigPlanet is about a year old now, and I feel like I haven’t given the game its due. True, it’s got some control issues. And 90% of the community levels are unplayable garbage. And the construction kit has some quirks that tend to get in the way. But the game remains fun, and people have […]

October 4th, 2009 | Category: Gaming | Leave a comment

Phone games.

From 2005 to 2008 I maintained a blog about my experiences working in the drug test industry. Every Saturday I revive one of those experiences here. The following was originally posted July 7, 2006.

Phone games. Ring ring.

Good morning. Patient service center.

“Is this for the drug test?”

This is a drug […]

October 3rd, 2009 | Category: Peemeister | 2 comments

itself

Like everyone else on the internet, I once teamed up with an artist to make a webcomic. It didn’t get very far, but I’ll share one here each Friday until there aren’t anymore. Enjoy.

October 2nd, 2009 | Category: Nomic | Leave a comment
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