Can you all help keep me honest?

Tsuyoku Naritai

There are less than two months til Halloween, and I'm pretty behind on costuming.  Last year I was a cyberpunk courier, and this year I'm planning to be a dryad.  Last year's costume was finished in a couple of hellish late nights, and I'd really like to avoid that fate this year.  Except I made a map using Freemind of everything I need to do and think about, and the results were sobering. So, would you all mind if I did a costuming progress post every Monday so you can shame me if I'm … [Read more...]

7 Quick Takes (5/4/12)

Cooking my way into a more accurate philosophy!

--- 1 --- As I announced earlier this week, the Ideological Turing Test is starting up again.  (This is the contest where Christians and atheists see how good they are at imitating each other).  I'll be asking for feedback on specific questions soon, but right now I'd love feedback on general logistics in the comment thread of the post linked above.  I think it's going to be super!   --- 2 --- As you may have inferred from my choice of words in that last Take, I went to see … [Read more...]

Halloween Costuming

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I really do shut down almost everything when Halloween comes around.  This is the first season in a while that I didn't pull a costuming all nighter (though most of my nights were 2am nights this week).  I'm a little zonked, so you'll get content-y posts tomorrow, but today you'll just get the photos that are brought to you by sleep deprivation and an entire rewatched season of Battlestar Galactica.  Voila! Confused about what I'm dressed as?  Perhaps this paragraph I had to write for … [Read more...]