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Last night, my friend Ariel appeared on the TLC show What Not to Wear (they'll rerun the show several times I'm sure). Ariel is not just a good friend, she's an actress, an avid LARPer, a costumer, an actress and a singer. She's loves geeky stuff and she's a total hottie. Here's a pic of us in a rehearsal for a show:

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One downside of writing for a living is that I rarely have much gas in the tank for my own private projects outside of work. Every week I write at least two articles, each of which must be heavily researched. By the time I get home, I want to put my brain in "Park" and just relax. But I have several projects I want to work on. Some I've already started, and others I just have the germ of an idea. For example, I have a short play called BeMused that I need to finish (I need to finish that one rea… Continue

Note: This post will make very little sense if you have not seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. So if you haven't seen it, go here and then come back and read this. If you're a geek (and you must be, you're here after all), you'll love it. Or at least be amused by it.

So it turns out that Bad Horse opened up the application process to join the Evil League of Evil to the general public. The rule… Continue

Do you use Twitter? I do. You can follow JonStrickland to keep up with my shenanigans. Anyway, one of the feeds I follow is BreakingNewsOn, which posts, well, breaking news. And just now I saw that they posted the Circus Circus Casino in Las Vegas is on fire.

Guess where I'm supposed to stay while I cover the Consumer Electronics Showcase in January?

This is what I get for telling my company that it's ok to put me someplace where we can save money on lodgings. I get a room on fire.

I'm sitting at my desk in a cloud of shame. And nougat.

Let me explain. I went to the office break room for to steep a cup of tea (forgive me, sometimes I slip into faux archaic speech when I tell stories).

While in the break room, I espied within the vending machine a single remaining Payday candy bar. Now I'm not partial to Paydays -- at least, not the candy variety -- but I had a small lunch and thought a Payday might help get me through the afternoon. So I produced fifty cents and prepared… Continue