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I like to have a few cookies with my coffee in the morning. Not a lot – just a small handfull. Now, we don’t usually have enough bowls in the house to last the day, but we have plenty of mugs. So, instead of using a bowl, I grab a coffee mug to hold my cookies. I sit down in my home office with two mugs – one full of coffee and one with a few cookies in it. Anyone with any degree of common sense will note that this is a terrible idea.
I’ve reached into the wrong mug on more than one occasion, dipping my fingers into the bottom of a long-cold cup of coffee. Other times I would lift the cup to drink and get hit in the lip with a cookie. These were my warnings, which I did not heed.
It was only a matter of time before I stuck my hand into hot coffee, thus burning my fingers, causing a mess, and making myself look like an idiot. Thankfully, nobody was around when I pullled this stunt, but my face turned red anyway.
There are some things which are embarrasing even when nobody is looking.
The Best of 2019
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Quakecon Keynote 2013 Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
The Biggest Game Ever
How did this niche racing game make a gameworld so massive, and why is that a big deal?
Batman: Arkham Origins
A breakdown of how this game faltered when the franchise was given to a different studio.
Trekrospective
A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
And then you can post them on the internet, so the whole “nobody is looking” is completely nullified!
Thank goodness I’ve never actually taken a drink from my cup-of-paintbrush-water. Come close, though.
I have. My teeth were funny colors.
How about the “try to take a drink from an unopened can of soda.”
Or “try to take a drink from the cup with a paintbrush in it, thereby sticking said paintbrush up one’s nose.”
Been there, done that…
Try growing up in a house with an older brother that chewed tobacco and spit it into coke cans.. then left the half-empty cans around the house… pair that with a Dad that drank lots of coke and left half-full cans around the house.. take those two facts and put in a kid that was lazy and thirsty.. often that meant a warm drink of coke. I was always careful to check.. but once my sister started to chew (yes.. a future Brown University grad).. well.. the odds were not in my favor.. and the odds did what odds do..
… Now I’m pretty careful about soda cans.
Hah. What about this?
Middle school. lunch. Students have to wear uniforms- khakis or navy blue bottoms, blue, white, or yellow shirts. Wearing a white shirt while drinking chocolate milk. Student always shakes milk before opening. Forgets it’s already open. Spills all over thin white shirt, which quickly turns see-through. Student with rather big chest for an eigth-grader.
Not a friend. Me.