We should set up an office in the old "Faces" building

Allow me to summarize my evening adventures by stating that I managed to get between the Lanes 'n' Games on Rte. 2 and Somerville City hall in half an hour without a car. And Christmas was saved.

Happy birthday to taskboy3000! I'm sorry I had to flee from the bowling!!

Person of the Year

I'm guessing that it's bringing down the snark something fierce amongst those who are into that sort of thing, but I think that Time's Person of the Year choice for this year is actually quite clever and appropriate.

Summary: they chose "you", referring to the ever-increasing relevance of services like blogs, Wikipedia, and YouTube. To a great extent I hang my own life off of this whole concept, so who am I to object?

In some ways this is the other shoe, nearly 25 years in the dropping, to their famously choosing the personal computer as the PMotY in 1982. The cover of that issue featured a colorful and lively PC being used by a colorless, inanimate plaster-of-paris person. It would have been clever to pun on that old cover, visually showing how the tables had turned, but I guess that'd be hard to do nowadays without seeming exclusionary. So they went with a mirror inside of a YouTube-ish window instead.

It's kinda twee, but I like it.

At least Edward James Olmos is hot right now.

Michael "oblivio" Barrish once wrote that physical aging doesn't happen gradually, but in quanta. This year it's happened that my acne scarring, which I've worn like a domino mask since I was 20, has all at once started to deepen and network, going from mere craters to majestic lunar rilles. The effect is more pronounced when I smile. It's because I'm so goddamn happy is why.

Oh well. Call it rugged. I'll take the Moon over Mars on my face any day.

Fischerseries

Some DragonCon photos found via friendsfriends. I had to laugh at the progression from one to three to four to five Fischer-clones. How many ARE THERE