2021: A Year in Fortunes

Fortune is a terminal program. I run it every time I source a new shell. Here are the fortunes from 2021 that grabbed me. January 11th You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you have few friends. January 17th You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old. February 10th Q: Why do ducks have big flat feet? A: To stamp out forest fires. Q: Why do elephants have big flat feet?...

January 11, 2022

2020: A Year in Fortunes

Fortune is a terminal program. I run it every time I source a new shell. Here are the fortunes from 2020 that grabbed me. January 22nd “Do you believe in intuition?” “No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will.” January 24th It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. -- Leonardo da Vinci January 26th Being schizophrenic is better than living alone....

January 11, 2021

Outrageously Ambitious 2019 Goals

Docs Trello Board Google Sheets Writing Calendar Google Docs notepad Game Journal Games Buy no new games (this is going to be a hard one, but I probably spent more in 2018 on games alone than in any other year, between our new Switch, PS4 sales, Humble Bundles, and Steam sales). Play entire collection of unplayed Steam games (at least one session each, finishing them is not required)....

January 1, 2019

Dudeness and Dadness - A Marginally Inappropriate Webcomic  [draft]

Stayed up too late Body working overtime to clear out the stayed up too late toxins Worker cells watching me play games, standing around, bitching Finally someone makes the call to SHUT IT DOWN, I get passy-outy Kidneys have a derp face, pumping out urine Workers frantically cleaning toxins from brain, dumping in bloodstream by the wagonload Bladder full, someone hits the wake his ass up button Workers all laugh at the struggle to aim Some idiot hits the go play games button, but it quickly gets reset by the foreman, he was ready for that shit More toxins cleaning Brain throbs from all the vigorous scrubbing Told from the perspective of ‘workers’ inside the body observing the world through the dude’s eyes....

November 22, 2018

A Blogging Experiment Post-Mortem

Alt Title: How Not To Make a Ton of Money Blogging About Things That Matter to You Why Do I Write? I mostly write for selfish reasons. I started blogging because I thought passive income would be great, but then after a while I realized it’s probably the wrong niche, and I’d have to (be really annoying || prolific || write about popular things to generate clicks) to even be seen, and that’s not what I want to spend my resources on....

October 15, 2017

A Blogging Workflow  [draft]

Have a dumping ground for your ideas It’s important to have a dumping ground for ideas when you are on the go. This can be a notepad, google keep, an email to yourself, or whatever method you have for writing reminders. At first I tried adding drafts to my wordpress site. I found it too easy to forget about the topic this way, though, and did not like the lack of oranization tools....

October 15, 2017