http://blog.apartment142.com Musings of a Infomancer Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:30:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those that know me in real life, the following will been an outdated update that you will say "duh" out loud to. For those few that actually come across this later, it might be big news. I'm unemployed. That's right. I have no job at this moment except to find a ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2009/10/05/on-the-hunt-the-job-hunt/ Years ago, a friend of mine asked me to take this personality test. He was and still is a strong believer in measuring and quantifying things. And I think he encouraged me to take this test so that he could firmly classify all of his friends in convenient ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/10/01/four-letter-words/ I recently read/re-read the book Flowers for Algernon. I remember reading a short story of it in school a long time ago. I liked it quite a bit then. However, the short story didn't delve into quite the number of complexities as the book. For those that ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/09/23/flowers-for-algernon/ For a long time, my hobby was running a role playing game. I say 'was' only because I no longer have a group or time to run one. A result of this is that I came up with a lot of story ideas and plot devices. One ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/09/15/dark-mana/ A role playing game is a game in which multiple individuals get together to tell a story through distribution of roles. Each person attending takes the part of one character in the story. There is another individual that moderates between players and the rest of the story. ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/09/15/rpg-role-playing-game/ I wrote earlier about Star Pirates. At the end of that blog post, I had a little doodle that showed what the Duct Tape with Rockets would look like. For a reminder, here it is: I think I did a fairly good job of describing it on paper as ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/09/02/s-s-duct-tape-with-rockets/ I recently found out about Google's Chart API. For those that don't know what an API is, it's an interface for programmers to pass information or request information from another application. It's like a user interface, except for programs. Anyways, this great tool will help me a ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/08/13/addicted-to-charts/ Every week or sometimes every other week, I go to Wal-Mart for the restocking of my above ground compound. I usually make a list before I go. You know the usual. Evil Lettuce. Malicious Pasta. Some cold hearted frozen pizzas. I then take this ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/08/02/wal-mart/ Ahoy ye space scum! I've been caught up playing a new game. I periodically find myself playing turn based or relatively slow paced games. With my current schedule, I find it enjoyable to take a 5 minute break every hour or so to mess with something before jaunting ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/07/24/beware-space-pirates/ I've been listening to a new podcast lately. Fear the Boot is a podcast that focuses on various aspects on Role-playing Games (RPG's). A recent one caught my attention. (I"m still catching up, so recent is my time frame, not theirs.) There was a conversation about religion ... http://blog.apartment142.com/2008/06/16/rpgs-and-social-acceptance/