Last night I started playing the LucasArts/Bioware RPG set in the Star Wars universe, “Knights of the Old Republic.” Wow! I’m just barely into the game, which has received multiple awards for game of the year for 2003, and I’m so hooked on it already. The voice acting is incredible, and the storyline seems well-written […]
Earlier this week I had my annual review (“Performance Appraisal Report,” or “PAR,” in State Department parlance) with my supervisor. Granted, this is the government so I’m told there tends to be a fair amount of the equivalent of grade inflation, but even so I was very pleased that I received the highest possible rating […]
Everyone else at work yesterday was making grand plans for today in their hope that the predicted snowfall would cause the federal government to close today. I was much more cautious, noting that the predicted accummulation of 1 to 3 inches wasn’t likely to shut down the government, just make the commute even longer and […]
It’s really just a geek thing, and probably pretty meaningless to most of you, but I’ve generated a FOAF file (not sure what that is? here is some info) for myself (just like Matt and Meredith, for example). If you know me and have a FOAF, drop me a line and I’ll add you to […]
Yesterday, I came across Dude, Check This Out!™, which enables sort of a cross between blogging and social networking (a la Friendster, LinkedIn, FOAF, etc.). You create your own blog on the service for saving links to interesting articles, sites, images, etc., and you’re encouraged to copy links from other Dude blogs; the site then […]
I mentioned this in passing to Jeff the other day, and have been thinking about it off and on; I know it’s a subject I’ve seen discussed elsewhere, and it’s not even necessarily unique to gay and lesbian couples, though that’s the context in which I’ve most often considered it and seen it considered: When […]
Vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney, father of a lesbian daughter, in a 2000 debate with Senator Joe Lieberman: The fact of the matter is, we live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. And I think that means that people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want […]
Jeff and I have been planning to take a long Valentine’s weekend (which turns out to be President’s Day weekend as well, a Monday holiday for me) trip to Manhattan, and today we finally got around to doing more than talking about it. Jeff already had tickets to see the Rufus Wainwright concert that weekend, […]
Earlier today, Jeff and I went to see Big Fish at Shirlington. This magical, enchanting story of a young man trying to come to terms with his relationship with his estranged, dying father, and to understand the truth of his father’s life, seemingly hidden behind–or within–a series of tall tales, has entered my personal list […]
The list of DC metro area gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, etc. blogs and journals has been updated; in the past two weeks I’ve identified another few couple dozen or so entries, for a current total of 75 76 93 94, and this evening I also added links to the XML/RSS feeds for the more […]