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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
We spent the night at my good friend's place in Portland last night. He and his wife were incredibly accommodating. We had planned on having to potentially stay there, given the weather, so we were…...
December 21 2008, 6:18pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Yesterday, several of us climbed into my car (aka The Dentmobile) and, with cheap Wal-Mart chains on the tires, clawed our way up to Mt. Hood and went snowshoeing around at Trillium Lake. The drive…...
December 21 2008, 5:55pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Oh, the weather outside is frightful...
Well, the winter storm showed up, finally. As I write this,there are 2-3 inches of snow/ice on the ground outside my apartment. While not the cataclysmic meteorological event that the news was predicting, the snow…...
December 15 2008, 10:29am | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Time just released a special on the "50 Worst Cars of All Time". It's really just a chronological list (from 1899 to 2004) of cars that the author wanted to complain about. I'm going to…...
December 14 2008, 12:55pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
So I just completed my first shift bellringing for the Salvation Army. This year, because I'm significantly less hardcore than in years past, I opted for the indoor Macy's skybridge at the Salem Center, though…...
December 5 2008, 6:49pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Hot on the heels of my Left 4 Dead post, I saw an article at Ars Technica about the Black Mesa Source project. Black Mesa Source is a complete remake of the original Half-Life, which…...
December 2 2008, 4:26pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
A very good friend gave me a copy of Valve Software's Left 4 Dead over the weekend, and I spent quite a bit of time playing it.Left 4 Dead is best described as a cooperative…...
December 1 2008, 9:36am | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
Like so many stories, this one starts out with "I know this guy..."The background: In my free time, since I'm unemployed, I've been helping the owner of an awesome local business out by helping him…...
November 26 2008, 9:47pm | Comments
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I waxed poetic at walkingsaint.com
I'm going to start this post out by saying that I'm pretty good at playing video games. I have, I hate to admit, decades of casually playing games under my belt and I've gotten pretty…...
November 25 2008, 11:28pm | Comments
