Random Announcements

So exams are over, although my work at the institute is not, and I’m finally doing something interesting with Google Wave: Playing RPGs. Specifically, Eclipse Phase, which is a CC-licensed RPG that deals with transhumanist themes:
Eclipse Phase is a pen & paper roleplaying game of post-apocalyptic transhuman conspiracy and horror.
An “eclipse phase” is the period between [...]

My Geek Code

GE/L/P d(+) s:+ a– C+(++) UL P L+(++) E(-) W+++ N++ o? K w(+) !O !M !VMS PS+(+++) PE++(-) Y+ PGP t 5? X R tv+ b+++ DI+ D+ G e++>+++ h- r z?
Man, that was LONG!I’m not supposed to be this jobless!
Explanation:

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for indicating “cross-overs” or ranges. Geeks who go from C+ to C— depending [...]

The Purple-Haired Desktop

I switched over from Samurize to Rainmeter and got a totally new config. Or rather, mixed and matched the pre-packaged configurations (Arcs, Enigma, Tranquil) that they provided to get this. Wall paper is a portrait by Alraunie-stock over at Deviant Art. It’s not really meant as a wallpaper, I think, but it seems to work.

Snow Crash

Snow Crash is a novel about hackers. This is fairly obvious, although like in many dramatizations these hackers are not particularly realistic-one is a champion swordsman, which is hard enough to take, and another is a hot chick, which we all know is utterly ridiculous. It is, in fact, a book where they are the [...]

Dangerous Dungeons and Dragons

So, I was reading these, which are truly, amazingly fantastic, and I got really excited about Dungeons and Dragons, and then I went and found I had a complete collection of the rulebooks for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2, and then I found that it’s really, really tedious. Which made me give it up.
And then [...]

Blogger Code

Apparently, my “blogger code” is:
B9 d- t- k s+ u– f- i- o x e l c-
Click on the link to get yours. I don’t think it’s a very deep quiz, though.

Firefly

..is totally, completely, mind-blowingly awesome. All the characters are awesome, the setting is awesome,  the theme song is awesome(and I didn’t even know I liked that kind of music!),the humour is awesome-standard Joss Whedon humour, just like in Buffy, but it feels even more awesome in this show, I don’t know why- and even the [...]

I can’t NOT link to this:

Sex in Science Fiction: Spring Mating Season on i09. Read and enjoy.
Seriously, go there, now. They have the most embarrassing alien sex scenes of all time,Spring Mating Season in Space, and Human-Alien Love Children. Also, a never-anthologized, sorta, kinda sexy story by Asimov himself!

“Average Female Scientist”

And I had no idea. Well, at least now I know I definitely don’t have Asperger’s.

Click to read the text.
UPDATE: Click here to take it.
For the record, I don’t know quite how this came about, and it’s not really a good indicator of where I stand, because for a lot of the choices I wasn’t [...]

The Working-Around-the-Crack Desktop

Said crack being a non-negligible chunk of the lower right corner of my screen. I had to move the taskbar up so I could see the clock and access my system tray. Others are all minor adjustments.

By the way, Jason Mraz was awesome when I made my first mix CD, and he’s still awesome. Anyone [...]