As if playing tabletop, pen and paper roleplaying games isn’t geeky enough for me. Here’s what I’ve been doing lately with my spare time. The miniatures are painted with Reaper series acrylic paints. The 3-d models are papercraft from World Works Games. (Papercraft is where you get a pattern, in this case I buy a […]

 Kudos to Congress for putting together bi-partisan legislation on the immigration issue. No, it’s probably not perfect. But I bring it up because I often criticize both sides (though mostly the right in recent years) of their extremism. Once cooler heads prevail, we can put together something that helps to solve real issues and while […]

Well we had a great party this weekend at our house for Ian, Layton and Corey’s birthdays as well as our friend James’ graduation from UNT. There was even a staged graduation for James (he didn’t walk on his graduation day as he was helping his partner run for city council that day!). I put […]

I’m working from home today and it took me until this afternoon to realize something. I have a laptop with wireless, and it’s sunny outside. So I’m sitting outside in my beautiful back yard with my dogs on a cool, clear day doing my coding. Not too bad.

Several more to go.
 Jerry Falwell passed away today. And to be perfectly honest and harsh, I’m none too sorry to see him go. He was a bigoted asshole and the world is a better place without him. Sadly, there will be others to step into his shoes. He was often a proponent of anti-gay legislation […]

American society continues to confound me. First everyone balks at the idea of gay marriage, rushing through amendments and laws to ban it. Then, not a year or two later, legislature after legislature is passing civil union and domestic partnership bills. The list below are states which allow gay marriages, civil unions, domestic partnerships or […]