I’m having trouble determining whether my enjoying this article qualifies as misogyny, or healthy male pride.

What happens when the woman proposes – Times Online

As sent to me by the great Jeffron Hendrix, a study in the humour of exception.

garfield minus garfield

Words fail. Fail? Word.

The FAIL Blog

Tim sent me this demo of how item use and physics, rather than graphics alone, are getting an overhaul in the latest installment of Alone in the Dark. Interesting, but still not as open-ended as a system a colleague of mine was describing where every item in a game would have a socket and combining items would be organic and almost alchemical.

In his explanation, a flowerpot item and a flamethrower item could be combined, for example. It may end up with nothing terribly useful, but in the real world — if you wanted to — you could somehow “combine” those two things, so why not in the virtual? It’s a concept that he understands intrinsically, and of which I am stuck in the arithmetic, but interesting, nonetheless.

This video demonstrates some “real world rules” that I hope are a first step in that direction.

Gametrailers.com – Alone in the Dark 5 – Tech Demo Episode 1 HD

I think the perfect metaphor for my week is my fervent desire and apparent inability to solve a Rubik’s Cube. The colors taunt me with each side I nearly complete, that sense of accomplishment skirting around my periphery.

I’m going to code some freelance sites this week and at least solve some other people’s pretty puzzles.

SB: I haven’t had dinner yet.
MHG: Aw, you should eat something.
SB: Your love will sustain me.
MHG: I think there’s some chili, too.

Non-sequitir title aside, my company rules. At our awesome party this weekend, we were each given an iPod Touch. We were also given the option of trading it in for in-store credit. Therefore, I am proud to present:

Me with my new iPhone. Total cost? $130 if you include the new data plan and the screen protector.

Yeah, bitches.

The sort of idea that *should* be prominent on the web: flexible content design. Having dealt with only mass email marketing for the past couple of weeks, I pray for someone else to understand that print and web media are as different as paint and clay.

Epitonic.com: Your Source for Cutting-Edge Music

Delivered unto me by the SS chrab.

I was tagged by the inimitable UniversalHead himself, and when such a man as he makes request, you make good or forever be known as a lesser being. So, here are my eight most unusual qualities that I can remember at this moment. I will attempt to avoid things laready discussed in my 100 things post from a while ago.

The Rules:

• Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves
• People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules
• At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names
• Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog

1. I love to get beat up, provided the pain is dull and does not lead to dehabilitating injury. This has brought me to stunts, martial arts and stage combat and away from professional wrestling, boxing and sports. I lose my stage fights when I can and I particularly enjoy being thrown around. I still worry about falling off high things, though, as a small mistake at that height can result in some terrible things.
2. Like my web-friend, UniversalHead, I have played drums in a band for a number of years. My friend Bjorn and I started playing together in early college, and I had played a little in high school in an ill-fated band. I have some technical skills owing to my girlfriend’s extensive skills in percussion, but mostly I play by feel. Recently, both of our girlfriends have begun to play with us, filling out the sounds considerably and freeing me up for more vocals. We switch instruments a lot between us, but I’m only really capable on the drums or the mic. Bjorn is a man of infinite talents and plays everything with equal alacrity and ability.
3. I have two webbed toes on each of my feet, specifically those that correspond to the forefinger and middle finger of the hand. I inherited this from my biological father whose name was Church, a Welsh name. I only mention this because I dated a woman for a short while in college who had the same exact “condition.” She said that one of her parents was Welsh and that it was tracked to in-breeding in Welsh royalty. So… I might be in line behind a few thousand people to inherit the throne, I guess.
4. Together with my girlfriend, I have a zeal for Steampunk and Victorian pseudoscience. Someday, I would like to have a home where all the modern conveniences are masked in that sort of decor. Unfortunately, another part of me prefers spartan, utilitarian home design, so I am not sure how to satisfy them both simultaneously.
5. No matter how full I am, no matter how disciplined about my nutrition, I do not think I have ever refused ice cream. I have to avoid it entirely or eat it begrudgingly.
6. I am staggeringly poorly traveled. I have never left the U.S. and have only visited a few places outside of the midwest. I hope to change that, probably this year. If nothing else, I need to see New York and see if it enchants me the way it does many of my friends.
7. I value intelligence and education, but have never graduated from college. And while I need acting training, a formal education in theater seems a bit frivolous to me. I would like to instead finish my Bachelors in literature or even chemistry and then pursue theater as my career. And I sometimes fret over my discovering this at age 30, rather than 20.
8. Years ago, some friends and I read from a giant astrology book which had every birthdate in it. Mine read like most of these things do, vague enough to be accurate, allowing you to fill in the blanks. One word stuck out at the time as completely wrong and we all commented that happy-go-lucky 20-year-old Chris may be moody but never jaded. Well, that has certainly changed.

There you have it. If you were bored by this, I am sure that the people I’m tagging (Czeltic Girl, BB, OnePlusInfinity, Raggedy Android, K-Co, Brian, Linus, and Sherri) will resuscitate your faith in the blogosphere, such as it is. No pressure, guys.