Let's say that I know this guy who has a really interesting choice to make. This guy is friends with a very sweet lesbian couple. The couple calls the guy over the weekend and make him a proposition: they would like him to be the biological father of their child. The guy learns that it's…
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Reading List: Star Trek comics, Quaker mystics, b-girls, and small town drama
I've been trying to get caught up on my reading list. Here's some of the great stuff that's on my bookshelf: The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly Star Trek New Frontier by Peter David We B*girlz by Martha Cooper and Nika Kramer More about each…
52nd Swifty self-portrait!
My roommate and friend Swifty just posted his 52nd and final self-portrait as part of the "52 Weeks" Flickr group. Check out all of Swifty's self-portraits here. Some of my favorites: Swifty as a monster for Halloween The Epcot Tour On the throne Fall edition of International Male catalog Mermaid Swifty Swifty in the rain…
Malagayang Pasko! / Merry Christmas!
I'm in Cali with the family preparing to celebrate Christmas in the usual ways: making lumpia shanghai eggrolls with my sister, taking mom to Christmas Mass at our family church, and wrapping presents for our family's raucous gift exchange tomorrow. Cori dug up some old Christmas photos, including this one from 1980 of my cousins…
Scary dental implant illustrations!
I have resolved that in 2009 I'm finally sucking it up and getting a tooth replaced that fell out about a year and a half ago. It's going to be expensive — somewhere between $2,000 and $5,000 to get a new dental implant. And it might take up to a year for series of surgical…
“Stuff I’m Into” as organizational chart
I was playing around with the bubbl.us’s cool web chart creation tool and decided to map all the stuff I was "into." No wonder I’m so scattered at times. It’s a wonder that I can plan my day at all. Click on the image for a larger version.
Thanks for the link luv, Gothamist, Kotaku, New York Times, etc!
I didn’t expect such a fuss when I blogged about the 9/11 memorials in Second Life and Madeleine Albright speaking in SL from UT Austin. But I guess others found those topics interesting, because I got several mentions on prominent political, news and gaming sites. Thanks to: Gothamist Kotaku Game Politics The New York Times…
Congrats to Coreina Grace & Jade Lily on getting engaged at SLCC!
Here’s the perfect metaverse romance: At the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago last year, Global Kids’ own Coreina Grace (aka Meghan in real life) met in the flesh her friend SL developer Jade Lily (aka Keith in real life). They apparently hit it off because they began dating and then moved in together soon…
1,5001 blog posts on Rikomatic!
I just realized that today’s post about COBU is the 1,500th blog entry to Rikomatic.com! The image here is the actual first blog post to the previous version of this site, that I created in Plone starting in May 2004. Yes, I know, it’s so so pretty. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been blogging…
It’s my sister’s birthday — buy one of her bags!
Happy birthday, to my lovely, crazy dope sister Cori. You’re not just my favorite sister, you are my ONLY sister. Love you! (And if anyone wants to get a really hip, handmade handbag or clutch for yourself or a loved one, Cori designs these lovely Mean Bags. Tell her that her big brother sent you.)