The Insomniac Coder

  A little walkthrough of my map after building an actual train central and re-routing some of my spaghetti rail lines into something more usable for day-to-day work across a big map.

The geek grandma responsible for this kickass costume for her granddaughter: Lil’ Jawa

From: Dilbert comic strip for 08/03/1992 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. I was trying to show this strip to a coworker who is dangerously toying with the harsh mistress that is Insomnia. What shocked me is how quickly I was able to look up the strip, which was published when he was just 11 years old, and two weeks before my just-out-of-college ass shipped out to US Army Basic Training.

Image via Wikipedia From: Slashdot Entertainment Story | BSG Prequel Series Caprica Canceled Aw frak. Remember when only FOX would cancel a cool Sci-Fi show? Maybe FOX was on to something and it’s not a good idea (economically) to keep producing shows that people are not going to watch. Maybe this frees up the funds for a second spin off show to Destination Truth. I would totally watch it. Here’s a little goodbye song to our friends at Caprica.

From: Northrop Arms Its Robot Pack Mule With Big Gun | Danger Room | Wired.com Ahem. I love it how they claim that they put the gun on the bot to bring people into the booth. Obviously nobody in his right mind would mount a gun on a robot and use it to run point for a bunch of foot soldiers, because it would mean less odds of the evildoers actually having a chance at taking a shot at one of our guys. Right. And five seconds after we deploy these, the hippies are going to start screaming about how unfair it is that we figured out yet one more clever way to kill the other guys   evildoers before they kill OUR guys.

I got my preordered Fable 3 last night and managed to put a couple of hours into it before forcing myself to set it aside until I have some actual peace and quiet around here. The preorder got me: The game on release date, shipped to my door, for 3 cents less than retail. Yes, Amazon sent me an email bragging about how I saved the three cents. A code that allows me to create my own villager (also allows you to add it to a wallpaper, see mine above). The first code was wrong, and the second code didn’t work until the launch date. A card in the game box that allowed me to download some freebies. There isn’t much to say after just two hours of playing. I put over 100 hours into Fable 2 and I really liked it, and so far I am not seeing anything that is worse than in Fable 2. The basic constant for Fable 3 is that they dumbed down the living hell out of the game. Almost everything has been simplified one way or another. Stupid, since Fable 2 wasn’t terribly complex, but it is still...

Thanks to @Pytte for showing me this.