You Know What Part

So, I’m lazy (and busy) but mostly lazy, and haven’t posted my Christmas post. Not that I had some huge thing to post or deep insights into the Season, but it can hardly go without a mention.
Obviously, my big gift to myself was building my computer (and buying the parts). J– got her pink [...]

This has to be the weirdest use for a game mod I’ve seen in a while. Garry’s Mod allows you to pose the characters and actually construct new machines in-game. A cool hack to be sure, but the screens used to demo the mod are, uhm, odd, to say the least.

I think the title says it all
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Tonight, J– and I went out for Chinese food. Which is to say, we went to a strip mall that served food cooked by Chinese-Americans. We had Triple Vague Delight, Six Ways, with rice. Of course, at the end of the meal we got not just the bill. Oh no, we also got fortune cookies. [...]

I have to say, I have my doubts about the authenticity of this, but it’s damn funny, no matter where it came from. I’m especially enamoured of the response form at the bottom. Classic newsgroup rage.
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My new machine is up and running. Actually, it’s been running for a while, I’ve just been playing with it so much I didn’t post.
One annoying thing to remember if you’re building a new system and expect to play any game made in the last 4 years. Many of the game publishers are putting [...]

Not that my posting has been heavy with the holiday (or ever, for that matter), but it will be lighter still as I’m going to be putting together my new machine. Last component came today and now I actually have to do this. (Deep breath).