Archive for December, 2007

TODO: The Doorknob Door

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

I’ve decided to start cataloguing some things I want to do.

First installment: the Doorknob Door.

Step 1) Buy a house.

Step 2) Choose an appropriate door. The work room/study is the clear choice, but if you’re feeling eccentric you could go as bold as the front door.

Step 3) Install many doorknobs into the door. One [...]

The Next Four Weeks

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I believe the next four weeks may be the single most important factor in next year’s presidential election. Our presidential candidates, hitherto suspended in the country’s most ridiculously protracted presidential lead-up, are about to lay their chips down for reals. And it’s the big money chips. Especially for the Democrats.
So if you [...]

The Best Video Game I’ve Seen This Year

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Hint: it’s not on the Wii.
I played this as a kid, except all the motion was in my head:

Utterly cool.
(Really, I used to fill up sheets of paper with frozen-in-time contraptions that funneled a ball around the paper into a goal. But turning that into a video game? Stroke of genius.)