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We’ve been in Dallas a few days now, having a grand time of it. Food has been consumed, movies have been enjoyed (or not), and much slacking generally accomplished. Last night I had genuine crab legs, which if you’re not familiar are in fact the greatest substance to have been placed on earth for human consumption by the intelligent designer who has just as much of a right to play time in our science classrooms as any other alien invader. Leslie and I gave Cam an early present of World of Warcraft (the first one is always free), and as a pair of cows we’ve been gallavanting about the country side, cursing, skinning, and riddling with bullets all recalcitrant bundles of pixels we happen across.

Today, in Texas, it began to snow. At first tentative, wet and flighty. Then with confidence, big hulking chunks of uniqueness smacking you in the face and momentarily blinding you. We hopped–there exists video evidence of this will I will shortly point you to–and I can say with confidence that never has bouncing been more justified.

On the docket for the coming days is more of the same sort of blatant, selfish loafing, with an eventual sojourn to Colorado for some even colder weather and potentially some skiing. Overt has been hit with more comment spam, with over 200 interesting and informative posts about gambling online. I’m not quite miffed enough to resort to a technical solution, but when I do, so help me, I’ll make those inanimate programs wish that they’d never been set to work in the basement of a rich suburban spammer.

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Ali — 2004-12-25 01:43:40

But I rather enjoy the 200+ at least attempted comments my blog receives each day for penis enlargement, online gambling and assorted drugs. They are great fun. Trust me, time to find the technical solution, it only gets worse.

Just returned from “Trek to Tahoe” ‘04. Fun as always. Leslie took off school on Friday and we drove up early, grilled some steaks, sat beside a crackling fire, talked. The next day we skied/snowboarded in gorgeous weather on mediocre snow. I snubbed the SSX-style high jumps and bars this time in favor of the company of others who are not as insane. We wore ourselves out by early afternoon, napped, I cooked up a pasta dinner, enlightened the 9 women I roomed with on the evils of the male psyche, played a half-assed round of King’s Cup, and then slept. Today was absorbed by the drive back, studded with fast-food sins and the smell of snicker-doodle coffee from Truckee.

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the end.

Susan — 2004-12-15 16:51:58

I don’t understand…..er, George’s comment(s). But the snickerdoodle coffee and the skiing sounded great!

cameron — 2004-12-16 09:28:50

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Catie — 2005-01-02 19:40:36

No mention of Oprah…I suppose you repressed the really negative things that happened in Tahoe :) Happy New Year - good luck getting back into the groove at Berkeley!

bryan — 2005-01-05 20:05:38

I have a selective memory.

snapshot of today’s events:

sleep until 9:30. 9-fucking-30.

hop on the train. actually enjoy the hour and a half commute because of kavelier and clay

feel at home on campus. meet with james’ grad students over free beer and bbq.

enjoy train ride home. ride home through playful, impotent drizzle. what passes in norcal as weather. smile the whole way.

i’ve arrived.

What a wonderfully lazy holiday. I kicked things off on Tuesday by purchasing “World of Warcraft,” a video game I’ve been waiting on for some time and participated in the beta test of. I spent most of the rest of the day wasting time with that, and on Wednesday we headed off to Sebastopol for Thanksgiving festivities with Johanna and her family.

Wednesday night we spent with some good pizza, and then a trek out to “Old Main,” one of three bars in Sebastopol, which had approximately 2000 people stuffed into it, all of who’d just gotten in for the holidays. I met a wide array of high-school friends of Johanna, had some bad beer, and eventually retreated with Les and Peanut around 11:30 to home and bed. Thanksgiving was classic: buying food, fixing food, eating food, with all the nooks and crannies filled in with board games. Huge quantities of board games, including Lord of the Rings monopoly (Park Place / Boardwalk become Mount Doom and Barad Dur) and “Loaded Questions,” a suprisingly fun get-to-know-you game that will hopefully be converted into a drinking game for our upcoming ski trip.

Nothing was accomplished for the rest of the weekend other than slaughtering virtual wolves and human zealots with flaming bolts of death from my undead warlock (disarmingly named “Arla”) and her trusty imp Grimnar (he prances).

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leslie — 2004-11-29 19:14:23

He does prance; I’ve seen it.

cameron — 2004-11-30 11:23:54

did you get the collectors edition or regular?

i signed up for the closed beta months ago…apparently they weren’t interested in letting in someone with zero MMORPG experience. :(

bryan — 2004-11-30 11:55:25

it was the regular. it was hard enough to justify the cost at $50, and i didn’t feel like paying $80 for a giant box and the priviledge of having a mini diablo tagging along with me.

leslie — 2004-12-10 09:17:07

You guys are such dorks! I love it!

About four years ago my friend and I did this thing called the “UT Puzzlehunt.” We had a blast, and all the puzzles and answers were recorded on a website. I wrote the site in ColdFusion, so when we moved to the new server the site stopped working. But I just found a free clone of ColdFusion server, so the site is back. I wanted to get it back up because I think I’m going to try to do one at Berkeley in the spring. If you want an interesting walk down memory lane, take a look at them here. What a crowd! And how we’ve changed…