So I had a tremendously wonderful thing happen last week, and celebrations had to occur. Here's what I did:

1) Went out for sushi, got the tempura. I love the tempura. There's something about fried veggies and seafood that I just crave (although it doesn't hold a candle to shrimp tempura sushi, which is the most delicious of all food and I wish to someday be buried in a vat of it so I can eat my way out), but I never get it because it adds too much to the bill. NOT YESTERDAY THOUGH. Yesterday I went crazy and spent that extra $6.

This week, my new Nintendo Wii arrived. This is the first console I’ve owned since 1992. (The first video game system I owned was a Colecovision, followed many years later by a Super Nintendo.) I’m not an avid gamer by any means, but the Wii’s unique controller and the Wii’s unique position as a platform for [...]

On Friday I delivered the 2:00pm keynote at the Utah Open Source Convention (UTOSC) at Salt Lake Community College. It would have been nice to attend the whole show, but it has been a full, busy week, and this weekend is the family reunion up in Pocatello, Idaho.

So Sandra and I packed all the reunion stuff into the van, loaded the kids, and drove to SLCC. She dropped me off at 1:00pm and took the kids to lunch and to a park. I met some folks, delivered the keynote, and then jumped in the van and headed north at 2:45pm.

Here's another character idea which pored out from between my ears this week. Slowly, but surely, something is beginning to develop here.

Today's Skin Horse is a shout-out to my homies.

I got quoted in an article on the webcomic Questionable Content in today's Boston Globe. Click here for the full article--my bit's on page two.

It's pretty cool to get my name into the Globe, nearly ten years after leaving Boston. I only lived there for about a year, but I've got a lot of fondness for good ol' Beantown.