One of the games I like to play on the Xbox 360 is Viva Pinata. It's a gentle game, kind of silly but still fun. The gist of it is that you have a garden and you can grow various plants to attract different kinds of pinatas. The fun lies in getting a new special species of pinata and/or in decorating your garden with outlandish stuff. It's a good game. So we picked up Viva Pinata 2: Trouble in Paradise when it came out, and I was kind of excited to see what they had added. Unfortunately, I think they've broken it. It's not fun anymore. You see, in the first game, there were bad guys who would come in and break ...

It was our 5 year anniversary yesterday. Keith's in Haiti, so there was no in-person celebrating, but we did manage to cross paths and chat in IM, just like we used to when this whole thing started.  I've been in love before, a number of times for real for true, but never like this. We spend the greater part of most of our days together - with two freelancers in the same house, it's just how it works out. You'd think that when he goes on a trip, I'd welcome the breathing room (and the quiet). That's true for maybe for a day or two, but after that, I am simply lost at sea. Completely useless. Hanging by a ...

These are my links for January 9th from 08:02 to 16:06: Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Weblog, short fiction, art, and discussion - Beautiful comic. Would make a great short film. ikea hacker: Craft table for 4 - Nice idea for a co-crafting table. For our hacker space. Someday. Yeah. kyle van horn dot com -

These are my links for January 8th from 09:03 to 12:02: re:group - re:branding gone astray - The rest of the article is pretty Meh, but I liked this group of definitions: "It’s not that there aren’t enough name options out there. “Descriptive” names like Mr. Clean have obvious meanings or associations. “Associative” names like Zest or Blockbuster use real words related to the product. “Coined” names that are invented words that sound appealing, like Kodak or Coca-Cola. There are “Egocentric” names, named after an owner or parent company, like Ford or Ben & Jerry’s. And lastly there are “Arbitrary” names, which are real words with no immediate connection to the category like Apple or Amazon." Interoperability Happens - Windows ...

These are my links for January 7th through January 8th: paulmhickman.com - Furniture design - and a Not An Employee sympathizer! Free Agent Nation, Daniel H. Pink, Book - Barnes & Noble - Recommended by Paul Hickman Frankies Tiki Room - Someplace to go in Vegas? Synchronising Things using Dropbox — intranation.com - This is the way you did it, just so you remember all this goofy file pointing.

These are my links for December 30th through January 6th: flipping typical - See text rendered out in all* the fonts installed on your system. Seems handy if you use some sort of font management to keep the number of installed fonts at a reasonable level, unwieldy if not. (* ok, reading the fine print, not all. But a good number.) English Russia » Slime Molds - Very pretty. Saying Nothing in Stereo. Tools as Novella. | Dave Johnston - One Man Lab - "Try to imagine right now an entire blog, updated 24/7, with ten authors dedicated completely to your (or your parents, since you don’t have one) home phone. Yeah, that one. The one with the ...