It's not fucking trees. It's TREE BUKAKKE.

You have a yard! Grow your own hops! Then you can use it and be all THE GROUND HELPED US MAKE BEER! Homebrewing geeks really are solid geeks, who are as nerdy in their pursuits as open source evangelists. For example, Sam C. who runs Dogfish Head -- he's got a beer cookbook out, iirc. alas, I loathe beer (it's the taste of hops, really), so instead of homebrewing beer, I make strange tasty syrups to make teas and sodas out of.

like humans, dogs are pack animals. and part of being a pack animal is taking care of other members of the pack. GOOD RILEY. i'm sorry your've been mostly alone with your grief.

oh, i'm so very sorry. that sucks.

GOOD FERRIS! She looks like she needs to be scruffled behind the ears. definitely.

GAMING GEEK WIN.

how about "wait wait don't tell me"? i love that show so hard.

eyebrows FTW.

see, now i'm tempted to reference you on twitter by a DIFFERENT character you played. but that's because i want to see more of WALTER on CSI. (totally one of the best homeless guy minor characters they've had. i could see walter becoming like a huggy bear "THE WORD ON THE STREET IS..." kind of guys. you all scruffed and skanked up chatting in the interview room with fishburn in his suit? aww yeah.) i mean, i *won't* because 1. i'm not a dick (or at least not that kind of dick) and 2. probably too obscure and unfunny outside of my head. um. yeah. clearly i need to get out more. or something. maybe coffee will help.

fuckin awesome. i remember reading it issue by issue and obsessing over it on rec.arts.comics as each issue came out. my one gripe with the excellent trade paperback version is that it makes the layout of the 'fearful symmetry' issue less OMG shocking. (that's the issue that's completely mirrored in both page layout and content (either matching or contrasting) all the way through until the center where there's a splash page of action involving $SPOILER-CHARACTER) i've heard about some of the changes they've made for the movie, but i think i'm mostly okay with them so far.

oh, i'm a big fan of pseudopod. good stuff.

... wait, what?

that's pretty awesome right there. for some reason, i was totally expecting that video to be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtOW1CxHvNY also, you've seen pictures of VAMPIRE SQUID, right? (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. "VAMPIRE SQUID FROM HELL", right there in the latin.)

oh! *THAT* helmet hairdo. *fear* honestly, scars would've been cooler. i bet that even in the 24th century, chicks dig scars.

so, wait, you talk about a pre-helmet hairdo. does that mean you had to change your hairstyle due to the helmet incident? do tell! i had a bunch of stitches up my forehead (nothing so exciting as a hockey game -- i just wiped out while bicycling around a corner and faceplanted), but the resulting scar is under my hair for most hairstyles i'd be willing to wear.

Apples to Apples for the absolute total win. love it love it love it.

Apples to Apples for the absolute total win. love it love it love it.

Thanks for this set of posts. I held off on reading them until we watched the episode last night on the tivo. Very interesting reading! Also, you should totally change the picture of you here on the wwdnix page to be the one of you all made up in the bloodspatter makeup. at least for halloween!

Thanks for this set of posts. I held off on reading them until we watched the episode last night on the tivo. Very interesting reading! Also, you should totally change the picture of you here on the wwdnix page to be the one of you all made up in the bloodspatter makeup. at least for halloween!

that's pretty cool. also, it's nice to read about someone having a good time at poker -- i just came back from FARGO, and while the FARGO events were fun, the ring games with random folks kept touching me in my bathing suit places and not in that fun way which put me on a depressive tilt for the whole drive home. i would totally play the wwdn tourneys again if you started having them, and i suspect claudia would as well.

that's pretty cool. also, it's nice to read about someone having a good time at poker -- i just came back from FARGO, and while the FARGO events were fun, the ring games with random folks kept touching me in my bathing suit places and not in that fun way which put me on a depressive tilt for the whole drive home. i would totally play the wwdn tourneys again if you started having them, and i suspect claudia would as well.

ZOMG, do you guys have a good TORRENT CLIENT? INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS SUCK AND ARE IMMORAL! ANYBODY WANT TO SWAP SOME MOVIES IN VIOLATION OF THE COPYRIGHT? ... what? oh, not *that* kind of pirate?

ZOMG, do you guys have a good TORRENT CLIENT? INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS SUCK AND ARE IMMORAL! ANYBODY WANT TO SWAP SOME MOVIES IN VIOLATION OF THE COPYRIGHT? ... what? oh, not *that* kind of pirate?

wil -- ever played feng shui? it's incredibly fast and loose role playing where, basically, you're a character in an action movie. instead of character classes like "fighter" and "wizard", you've got "karate cop" and "techie" and such. it's basically a gaming system that doesn't let the game mechanics get in the way of a good story. and your character starts out already badassed, so you don't have to spend way too long casting magic missile against the darkness while you gain levels.

wil -- ever played feng shui? it's incredibly fast and loose role playing where, basically, you're a character in an action movie. instead of character classes like "fighter" and "wizard", you've got "karate cop" and "techie" and such. it's basically a gaming system that doesn't let the game mechanics get in the way of a good story. and your character starts out already badassed, so you don't have to spend way too long casting magic missile against the darkness while you gain levels.