The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by eric:

I couldn't fine a real rogue walkthrough, but while you and I are waiting for it to show up on the intertubes, I give you this: ADOM a roguelike game.

Grrr. Washing machines. The helpful local repair dude talked with us a bit when our dryer was out. Kenmores aren't a make, they're a brand. They are rebadged whatevers that Sears sells, and the real manufacturer changes with some regularity. Also, like many other small industries (mattresses in particular. I hate mattress salesmen more than I hate car salesmen, and that's saying something), you can't find the same model in two places for price comparision. They're all slightly different to prevent that from happening.

Jenny@876 You're not going to believe this but... I just had to find which browser/machine had the tab open with that. The Troll Bingo card is here.

Oh, and I'd really like that Troll Whisperer book. I've got a 60k member community that needs soothing, and other mods to indoctrinate.

Also, it appears that clever cycles brings them in: blog category here.

And a link to the cargo bikes, though, It hink I remember different ones.

Albatross@816 -- damn straight.

Elliot - yes, there's a company in Eugene, OR that makes them. If I still lived in Seattle, I'd have one....

I wonder if the author is an authentic or a technical dumbass.

I think the conservatives are better at rhetoric, or at least, they have been for the last decades. I first noticed it in college, the conservative review was funny and well written, the liberal whatever it was was really badly edited and just a poor paper. A lot of that's probably funding, but it's been in the pipeline for a long time.

It's good to see a few Democrats have the chops to deliver some good lines. Rhetoric has been around politics since the beginning -- It's a necessary but not sufficient quality for political success.

Though, I have to quibble a bit. I don't think that the republicans plan is for people to die. It's to go bankrupt, then die. Gotta squeeze that turnip.

Oh well, My halloween got significantly more exciting later -- the 5 yr old was croupy and went to bed early, then woke up having labored breathing (and hunger, he missed dinner). Over the space of about 10 mins, we go from 'should we go to ER' to 'yeah we should probably go to ER' to 'ummm, not driving, calling 911'.

When you live 30 min from the ER over roads where there's no reliable cell signal for 25% of the time, the line between drive and ambulance is pretty thin for this type of thing.

There were a lot of learning points in this experience. One is that it would be nice to have oxygen around for those 7-10 minutes between call and response. Another is that we _really_ need big reflective numbers at the road. (We're on the wrong side of the road, numerically, and not visible from the street)

(and now, he and his little brother are emptying the book shelves and taking the books to his room. They're having a party, and they want the people who come to have something to do.)

Third year in the house, third year without trick-or-treaters. But we live in the boonies. Somehow three bags of candy found their way into the house to be consumed by the adults.

(last year, we bought two bags of candy. no trick or treaters)

We took the kiddos into town for trick or treating at a few businesses. They weren't really into it this year, maybe next year.

I wonder how many people in the US could write a check for their health care max out of pocket expenses without going into debt. Or hell, even the deductible.

I'm a little peeved now, since my health insurance company has changed the plan we're on for next year 'to remain competitive'. They're upping the max-out of pocket, and going from 80% coverage to 70% coverage once you hit the deductible. Thankfully, it appears that there are other options, from other carriers. I wonder how long the others are going to last...

A family friend is in the Army Mens' Chorus (at least, I think that's the one. It's one of the choral units at any rate.) On the weekends, he's is/has been a church choir director, has been the programmer at a startup and all that. Not the military type. It was stunning to see the pics of him with a shaved head and an M16 in basic.

He was recruited specifically for the music position. I'm pretty sure that he went in as a Sergeant.

Also, I'm teaching the older boy to read now. We're doing a phonics course. I looked at a couple of other curricula and the others didn't impress. It was also the sort of thing that I was willing to try for a while to see if it worked. One thing that I liked about this one was that while it is phonics and it does do some regularization, that gets phased in and out pretty quickly, so that by 2/3 of the way through the course, they're just teaching english. By 10 lessons in, they've started with some of the irregular stuff.

At a little more than a month into it, It's working really well. He's picking up all the lessons and reading simple stuff. He's always been into listening to stories, so I'm expecting that at some point, he's going to have a critical mass of reading skill and will just take off.

I'm also sort of expecting the 2.5 yr old to decide that he wants to read too. That will be amusing.

I was at Home Depot this weekend with the two older boys, (5 and 2.5) looking around and killing a bit of time. I was _not_ invisible, and it's really hard to be invisible with two boys in one of the race car carts. I was greeted by at least three people as I walked by whatever they were doing.

Then again, the last time I was in that Home Depot, It took a long time (tens of minutes) for someone to show up to answer some questions after having the customer service people call for him. And in the end, the only help that was provided was the willingness to open the boxes so that I could look at the directions.

I don't go there much, I prefer the little stores that are overrun with all those little parts that you'd never think to need until you do. And there's at least three of those stores closer than the hour drive to HD.

John Houghton -- That's evil. Bonus points if you can make it happen during a PGA event.

David Harmon@668 - He's 5. You know in Jurassic Park when they realize that the raptors are intelligent and plan ahead? That's sometimes how I feel.

dcb: we do the story thing here, but we can't withhold stories due to behavior from early in the day because the boy started budgeting things so that he'd get one story. He was willing to lose the other two to do whatever he wanted to do for the next x minutes.

Natural Flavors hides a world of icky stuff you don't really want to know about. They're basically artificial flavors (i.e. chemicals) that are derived from something vaguely food like, rather than synthesized directly from chemicals.

I don't like what's been done to food.

And now, I'm off to start some bread. 4 ingredients. (unless I add barley malt, and then it's 5).

Xopher @597:

Also, recalled from somewhere the depths of my mind, people are disguised as soylent green on ingredient lists.

Xopher @597:

Also, recalled from somewhere the depths of my mind, people are disguised as soylent green.

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