Author Archives: Filemon

The things that own you

For the first time in my life I own everything under my roof. And now I just want to get rid of all of it.

My Mass Effect

So, in a compellingly suave move as befits their standard operating procedures, EA has decided that for the foreseeable future, the PC versions of Mass Effect 3 will require Origin.

Even the brick and mortar versions.

My Steam copies of Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, where Shepard (no BroShep) stands ready to take on the Reaper threat, suddenly rendered useless by my unwillingness to install a nascent digital distribution framework.

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Ah metro

Overheard on the metro,

Oh my god. When you’re in there at the right time of day, it’s like sitting in butter!

I don’t know about you, I mean my enjoyment of this situation this really depends on butter temperature.

Room temperature? Liquid? Rock solid straight from the refrigerator butter? These questions are important.

Additionally, this woman got up and I saw that she had Bruce Lee airbrushed on the back of her jacket.

Totally Boss.

Geek chic

20120308-001951.jpgI am in the process of finding a suitable jacket to attach this badge to.

I have one in mind so far.

I just need to decide on a mounting method, since the back of the badge has hooks for hook and loop.

Progress

At the allergist, where I am trapped for the next thirty minutes.

To be fair, this is to be certain that I don’t go into anaphylaxis.

Just found out it’s going to be about ninety dollars a month for shots.

I’ll have to budget that in for next month.

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