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And perhaps the horse will learn to sing. - The Mote in God's Eye I have this dream where I live in the future and the only thing I have to carry on me is my pocket computer which takes the place of my phone, wallet, and keys. It's going to be the future soon. Carrying almost nothing is everyone's dream, right? Other people have this dream where they discard all of this other stuff and just carry this one thing around with them. To do it these days that thing would probably be the size of, oh, say a phone. Each passing year it should be getting smaller. I dumped most of the cards out of my wallet a while ago by scanning them all (960x640 @ 290 dpi) and putting them into a photo album that syncs to my phone. I mostly haven't missed them, mostly. Sometimes doctor's offices get annoyed with making a photocopy of my insurance card off my phone (or I get annoyed with them taking my phone). Sometimes the barcode scanner has no problem reading off my phone an...

They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast - Anthony Quinn I started my new job on July 16th, which means today marks two months there.  My first month at work, Mrs.Chaos was away, and so I spent it being 100% at the office and staying with a coworker up in the Berkeley hills or at my old temporary lodging in Palo Alto.  The commute was crazy, but I did get my exercise in.  I had to do "recovery commutes" to let my feet and shins heal up. In my former job I went every two weeks and it involves a three hour drive down on Monday morning, a half-hour commute to my bay area lodging each day, and then a three hour drive back home on Wednesday night.  Not the greatest commute.  I told myself that every two weeks I would end up spending eight hours driving which meant I had about an eighteen minute commute each way to work - just spread out. Now in my new job my commute involves much less driving.  Today is only my second time try...

Armies marched, fought, claimed victory or conceded defeat, all for the wellsprings... - Thormun's Journal It was a long time ago that I bought Heroscape. 2004? 2006? I think somewhere in there. In the years that I've owned it, I really only ended up playing it once or twice a year. Part of it is that you need a certain crowd to want to play a complex epic fantasy battle and the other problem is the setup. That certain crown that wants to play gets obsessed over the fact that there are 20+ different characters all with their own stats and special abilities. The way it ended up was we would spend an hour putting the board together followed by another hour of people just looking through the various army cards. Maybe we'd get to the point of spending another thirty-minutes selecting armies and putting them on the board. Then everyone was done for the day. No need to play. So unless I could get people to set aside a good six or more hours to play it wouldn't...

I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth. - Jerry Holkins (Gabe) After five long years of being out of the country for Labor Day weekend, I finally made it to PAX. My friends have been going for, basically five years. Whereas I have been busy going to Turkey, England, India, Korea, etc. But this year? This year I went to PAX ! Since my friends have been going year-after-year they have built up a set of traditions. Things which must be done. During Gabe and Tycho's Q&A session after the keynote and kid (12?) went up to the mic and started with, "This is my first PAX..." and Tycho immediately responded, "if it's your first PAX, then you have to PAX!" In case you did not immediately recognize that, it's from Fight Club. Rule #8 - If this is your first fight club, you have to fight. So this became the theme of the weekend. When a tradition was mentioned that I or Mrs.Chaos (did I mention she was there?) d...