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Superstition holds that how you spend your birthday predicts how you will spend the year that follows. Last year I spent my birthday coding in a robot lab, and as it happens, superstition nailed that one. This year I'd like to spend some part of the day having sex. Most of it, for choice. I'm quite certain that robots will take up whatever time is...
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Handful of cool events for the day:
- Confirmed that my first print published article is going out a month ahead of schedule.
- Climbed my first route, to completion.
- Given a gloriously cheesy homebrew kit "Mr. Beer" by an old friend.

Currently sitting through a privacy rant at the ACM Reflections & Projections conference. Prior to that? An awesome presentation by the Institute for Applied Autonomy. Check these guys out.

Some of their projects:
- Little Brother. A robot to distribute subversive literature.
- iSee. Think google maps, only intesad of plotting the shortest path, it plots the path of least surveilance.
- txtMob...
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I missed you bastards.

Friends, my time on this site is done.
I wish the all of you continued good times.
If you have something left to say, my contact eMail will continue to be effective so long as my account is. This journal will not.

My first print magazine article has been accepted for publication. Previously, it's all been web based magazines. Somehow it feels more real knowing that trees are going to die for my writing career.

Dungeon magazine, issue 130 (January 2006).
The current title is "Within the Circle".

Go me.

P.S. Thanks to Faust for playing editor!

I've just seen 'Alone in the Dark'.

You must see this movie.
I haven't laughed so hard in a horror film since Evil Dead III.

Bring friends who are good to MST3k with.
Being tipsy might not hurt, but we got by just fine stone cold sober.

And Stephen, if you read this, you MUST get yourself a part in the sequel. It would be...
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I had never had vodka before a few moments ago.
I have to say, that tastes exactly like rubbing alcohol smells, only less so.
Verdict: I don't like vodka.

I started installing Half Life 2 some time back.
First, it installed the steam installer.
Then it read each of the 5 CDs in sequence.
Then it downloaded some extra stuff off the net that hadn't...
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"I wouldn't trust anyone here with a penguin, except [baudot]."

"It's like Satan with a teddy bear."
    - a classmate, commenting on me holding a teddy bear.

Double irony: I still get routinely accused of looking like Jesus.

Back to classes for the first time since catching t3h death so violently over the weekend. There are dangers to missing half a week. To begin with, my game programming project team is not only now focusing on mecha-squirrels, but has decided that our military game needs to include a trip to the shopping mall. For artillery, of course.

Also:
For reasons that are mostly...
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What IS this with the repeated plagues?
Seriously. Sick twice in the same month. Not just a little sick. Like, "I think getting out of bed would be a questionable idea" sick. I'm sick of it. On that note: Let's hear it for modern antibiotics. Evidence says there are still some things that garlic doesn't cure.

On the upside, my transition to cable internet is...
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