i like fritos. and if you don’t follow, then you need to listen to jonathan coulton. so badly. seriously. he’s really talented!

if you’re interested in hearing more, less-talented audio, might i direct you to episode 01 (nee 00) of the rulezero podstravaganza. in it, you will hear the poetic waxings of myself, jon “safety monkey” grover, esquire, and paul the websiteless. we discuss a few things about video games and d&d 4th edition, make some dick jokes, and generally banter about like you’ve probably seen us do in real life. we’ve got one more episode already in the can, and a halfisode made with too high of a beer-to-content ratio that will hopefully show up on the commentary track for the rulezero podstravaganza premium boxed set remastered platinum extended edition.

today is a day of feeling like a slacker, because christmas break is right around the corner. tonight if you’re in the greenlake area you should come by to cheer on the contestants in the third annual greenlake race of champions. and then tomorrow i’m gonna shake off my hangover and fly to bfe western oregon, and christmas break will have officially begun.

it’s december. i’m not entirely sure how that happened. the end of my summer was a blur of trying to get my bike out into the woods as much as possible, then then lovely and talented miss c. headed off for her fancy job making movies down in bfe, oregon. until 2008. so fall’s been a fair amount of riding bicycles, drinking beer, and various and sundry getting into of troubles. i also got involved in a few new projects.

• tryst, an application we’ve helpfully tagged as “something about filesharing” has been a fun programming project of late. it’s reminding me of all the mad h4×0r skills i used to have and have apparently subsequently lost, replacing them with something else. i did use it as an excuse to visit san francisco and ride around, which was pretty cool. neat city. anyhow, tryst is a cool idea and i’m working with some cool people on it – i think y’all will like it, once we get it done.
• television. a project? perhaps. no longer having to work my series-watchin’ around caroline’s schedule let me plow through all of the amazingly-brilliant-how-did-i-not-watch-it-before-now cowboy bebop. space cowboys? sold. i’ve also finally started watching rome and it’s great as well – hbo brings the hits – and even better it comes with free history lessons.
• bicycles! i’ve been volunteering at the bike shack and convinced myself to sell almost my entire bike pile. in exchange, i now have one practical bike and two fairly impractical bikes – a pugsley and a swift folder. yes, one has very very big wheels and one has very very small wheels. it’s comic. sadly, the one day it snowed here i was using the practical bike to help a friend move from lynnwood and didn’t get to use my snow bike at all. lame.
• podcasting! soon you will be able to hear my sultry baritone (and that of my colleagues monkey and paul) talking about video games and other nerdy games on the internet once in a while. it may or may not be something like this, only in audio-only form.

hopefully this post will be adequate for getting me back onto maggie’s blogroll.