I just spent seven-and-a-half hours talking to a charmingly fascinating woman, and my mind is exhausted. But it was totally worth it. I don’t think I have any pearls of wisdom left for today.
I just did “the Geek test”:http://www.innergeek.us, which tells me that I am only 28.59961% geek. Apparently this still makes me a “total geek,” but I’m a little disappointed (though also relieved). Only 28.59961%! I think I ought to get at least an extra 0.00001% because these are the main things I’ve done today: Written a [...]
Richard Bartle, QBlog. “Fact Checking.” 16 February 2005. Since I just started playing World of Warcraft, I had a look today at Richard Bartle’s “typography of online players”:http://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm, which Espen Aarseth refers to in his great paper “Playing Research”:http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n08/reviews/aarseth.html. From there I went on to Bartle’s blog. For those who don’t know, Bartle was involved, [...]
On Monday, I completed the first draft of my PhD thesis: Kingdoms Without Borders: Single-player role-playing videogames’ aspirations for the future of human society. Today, it’s exactly three years since I formally commenced the course. So things are going fine. I’ve got an extension, and a full six months to redraft. I’ll be going chapter [...]
A little while ago, I mentioned that I was keen to start playing Lineage. Well, I did start it, and despite the fact that I’d paid US$15 upfront via PayPal because NCSoft insisted my credit card verification number was invalid, I think I only managed to spend about half an hour on it. It’s an [...]
Pixar. The Incredibles. 2004. 9/10 Last night, I finally saw The Incredibles. A while ago, I read “a review”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/dkelley_rff-the-incredibles.asp of the movie by David Kelley of “The Objectivist Center”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/index.asp, an organisation that promotes and investigates the philosophy of Ayn Rand. It assessed the movie pretty accurately, so I won’t go into detail: read “Kelley’s review”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/dkelley_rff-the-incredibles.asp [...]
BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | Teacher jailed for sex with girls This post is the one where you start to guess that I’m a libertarian. Today, something happened again, as it often has, recently, which is a grave injustice: an adult was sent to jail for having consensual sex with a [...]
Okay, Chinese New Year was yesterday, but Happy Chinese New Year, anyway. This morning I found the following image on the site of that purveyor of fine videogaming paraphernalia, “Lik-Sang”:http://www.lik-sang.com, which I thought was amusing. Incidentally, this lunar year, which I prefer to call the year of the rooster, or of the chicken, is the [...]
Sometimes I feel a little sad about my life. For the last three years, I’ve spent most of my time inside, alone, doing the following things: researching writing my thesis reading books surfing the web looking at porn playing with my two computers and their three operating systems (Windows XP, various Linux distros, and Mac [...]
“Arthur Conan Doyle.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle “A Study in Scarlet.”:http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9556 1887. Project Gutenberg. Audiobook. There’s a pattern in my media consumption habits: get very close to the end of something, then put it aside for months, only to finish it off when I’ve got some spare time. I downloaded this audiobook when I was working non-stop on my [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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