Ugh, Monday. And I have a cold. I was struck by inspiration while walking to work, though, and now I know what I’m going to write for NaNoWriMo — a ZOMBIE story! It’ll probably end up having been done better by Shaun of the Dead, but I don’t care. Perhaps I’ll have to take a look at this “choose your own adventure”-style zombie movie. Or read this article by Douglas Rushkoff on what we can learn from zombie stories. In any case, all I know at the moment is it’s going to end up starring many people I know (what is more fun than obliquely writing your nemeses as zombie food?), and will include a city bus at some point.

MoreCowbell.dj – upload an MP3 and add as much Christopher Walken cowbell as your heart desires. Profit!

Oh, and to those flocks of people who now find this site by searching Google for “team building”.. I’m sorry the technical world has yet to implement the <sarcasm> tag.

I know, I know. I’m a slacker. I have been too busy to give too much love to this blog lately, but I was reminded of it the other night at a “team building” work dinner. We all had to share our favorite hobby, and as usual I was vaguely panicked and trying to come up with the least weird thing. Reading? Boring! Video games. Weird. Running a kickass raiding guild? VERY weird. Slowly cross-stitching a zombie movie poster sampler.. close, but no. So I ended up using ‘blogging’ as my hobby. I then of course had to both explain what blogging was and steadfastly refuse to divulge the URL, but everyone was satisfied with my answer. So thanks, blog. Here’s a little yummy content in return for the favor.

The Game of Daleks: someone made an offhand mention of Daleks recently, and I was instantly transported back to my childhood. It’s simple, it’s addictive, and it’s really really fun. Another childhood favorites was Archon (battle chess!), not the least of which because I would repeatedly stomp my sister in combat. (What was the old, old console game with the little dude with the face and arrows, and you would go through dungeons and into rooms with chests and creatures? I don’t remember actually playing it, but the image is burned into my brain.)

I can be a little skeptical about modern art, but I liked the whimsy of Talking Popcorn. If popcorn could communicate through morse code, what would it say?

My reaction to CubeCraft was also initially a little full of doubt. “This is silly. It’s .. printouts. Of little pop culture characters that look like cubes. Who would make these? What a waste of tim– ooh, Dexter cube! *print*”