memories for Aug 1

2016

2016 Aug 1
Demogorgon

I never got into D&D enough to know about the Demogorgon appearing in an expansion to the first release of basic D&D, but apparently there are even references in Orlando Furioso, The Faerie Queen, and Paradise Lost. I only know about the Demogorgon because of the Commodore 64 game "The Forbidden Forest"

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2016 Aug 1
In Other News

My brother is going to be a father!

2010

2010 Aug 1
mash up

So I had a dream that was a mashup of "Inception", Starcraft II, and the archetypical American Western.

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2008

2008 Aug 1
people still don't grok Open Source

Interesting that KDE appears to be going through what GNOME went through back in the 1.4 > 2.0 transition. There's all sorts of bitching and moaning going on about the recent KDE 4.1 release. Some writers have even employed the hyperbolic description of a civil war.

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2006

2006 Aug 1
sleep continues to elude me

Man, all that caffeine was a serious mistake.

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2006 Aug 1
mistakes have been made

What I probably shouldn’t have done was drink three shots of espresso in addition to the Extreme Black Forest ice-blended caffeinated drink from Coffee Bean. This makes it highly unlikely that I will be sleeping any time within the next twelve hours.

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2006 Aug 1
a meditation on why things fall apart

After work today, I went to the Coffee Bean to get some caffeine because of my impending caffeine-withdrawal headache. I basically spent the time sipping on my ice-blended caffeine drink and scrawling depressing passages into my notebook. Man, I’m on fire these days.

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