Folks like to diss Canadian health care, especially Americans who have never used it, but I cracked my ribs last night, made an appointment for this morning, saw a doctor AND got an X-ray in 1 hour and 24 minutes, and the only thing I had to pay was the parking meter.

Balzac used to say "there goes another novel" after making love. But I do look at some of these games I've played 400 hours of, and wondered what I could have written in 10 weeks.

Watch, now they're going to indict Sandwich guy for littering.

One thing I like about the comics we are making for Fragpunk is that yes, we're having fun with unorthodox storytelling, but we get to it because the stories needed it, not because we thought it would be cool or we're trying to be clever for it's own sake.

I really want my Roomba (it's actually a Eufy) to intone "job done!" when it's done.

I guess Andrew Cuomo will be moving to Florida now?

It’s a beautiful frickin’ day

Really wish #SaturdayNightLive would skip the Trump impersonation in the cold opens. It's the same joke over and over, every night. Saturday's mayoral debate cold open was hilarious until James Austin Johnson showed up.

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Went to work dressed as an "indie developer."

I CLEARLY wrote 18 FEET, why is this only 18 INCHES tall?

You can actually catch a bunch of (fruit) flies with (cider) vinegar.

Happy St. Crispin's Day to all of "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." #WeHappyFew

Serves the Dodgers right for leaving Brooklyn

Very poor timing for the power to go out all day just when I am just sick enough to watch TV all day.

How many of these goons were bullies in high school and really miss that

Yes I said Yes I will Yes

The airline wouldn't let us check into our flight online, but there's an exploit: you can check in at the City Airport Train depot at the Wien Mitte railroad station in Vienna.

Hey, anyone know what's become of the IGDA Montreal chapter? Is anyone working on that?

What's opera, doc?

Comes with pillow for your dog.

In Vienna, they play chess in New Game+

Finally realized the answer to the Billie Jean riddle: the kid is his *daughter*.

"The tastiest fish is schnitzel." Now we know.

Vienna was the capital of an empire until 1918, and now it's the capital of a minor European country. Feels a bit like London if half the people went somewhere else. Huge ornate palaces and lovely grand museums, all within walking distance of each other. Adorable.

Graeber and Wengrow's THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING completely rejiggered my understanding of human history. Turns out people have consciously chosen to organize their cities without rulers, or refuse the grain trap, or fight wars. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Remember the tunnel he drilled for the pneumatic train from LA to SF?

Expect the value of polls to decrease as people become increasingly unwilling to tell an unknown voice what they really think.

I'm starting work on a sequel to a game I wrote ten years ago, and, of course, wondering what the heck my former self was thinking when he wrote this stuff...

Also if you want a specific person to be mad at, it's Andrew Alford, President of Nexstar's broadcasting division. He's the one who made the decision to preempt Kimmel's show, totally mischaracterizing what Kimmel actually said in the process.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

I am sorry to report that my new magnetic "tell your dog I said hi" bumper sticker does not stick to my nonmagnetic bumper.

That's Dawn from Contrast, drawn by the fabulous Whitney Clayton, in case you're wondering.

930. GAME ART: ART FROM 40 VIDEO GAMES AND INTERVIEWS WITH THEIR CREATORS ​ 👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/game-art-art-from-40-video-games-and-interviews-with-their-creators #Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames

I'm convinced that "delicacy" means "uhhhhh I guess we could eat that in a pinch, how do we make it edible?"

I was using Camo Studio to zoom in on my webcam, but it turned me green and then crashed my computer. Does anyone know a good app for zooming in your webcam?

Word keeps wanting me to add a comma after the word "but." Is that a thing?

"Experience is just trauma with better p.r." -- my friend John Rumsby

Richard Dansky has an excellent new book! complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2025/08/dans...

The Southern Poverty Law Center cleverly waited until we were watching Sinners to call us for another donation. How did they know?

Rate my setup!

Kpop Demon Hunters was awesome.

TFW the first hundred or so self-tapes gave "What idiot wrote these terrible lines?" (me, I did) and you get the first one that gives "THANK YOU, YES PLEASE!"

Also, and maybe this is asking too much, maybe say *all* the words in the audition lines?

If you are reading lines for a self-taped audition -- figure out who you're talking to. I need to hear that other person in your voice. If you don't know who you're talking to, and what you want from them, it's going to sound like you're just reading lines.

New Lidar-based estimates of classic-era (6-900AD) Maya population in central Maya realm from Tulane-UHouston lidar group: 9.5-16 million people. a) Figure is super-high on a global level for that time period; b) Estimate doesn't include a lot of Maya country, so the total Maya figure is higher.

I now have all the feet.

A friend was asked to contract as a writer on a per word rate. My dudes, you pay me to keep the word count DOWN.

Overheard in the company of Buddhists last week, but widely applicable, IMO. “The thing about them is, they’re just constant gong. But constant gong is the same as no gong.”

My birthday is June 6th.