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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in the "The Dread Champion" journal:

January 1st, 2010
09:15 am [Link]	Short Term Retrospective I'm not going to talk about the past ten years -- it's more than a third of my life, and that much is hard to grapple with (the starting-2000 me hadn't yet picked a major, was considering serious research as a life choice, and didn't really see anything beyond deciding where his schooling was going). I'm not even going to talk about the last year -- it kind of sucked, in a few, mostly related, ways (the only good thing to say about was it was my first calendar year admitted). What I would like to talk about is how 2009 ended on, in pretty much every way, up-notes for my life. Employment outlook warming up. The sword and doom hanging over me all of 2009 was removed (it lasted almost exactly one year, having come fully into existence in mid-December 2008, and ending the last week of 2009). I faced a soul-destroying, evil-endorsing, "self-help" program that sought to make me hate myself so I'd be someone else (who would then pay them money after money after money to be that new self harder), and came away pleased with myself and with a new confidence and consciousness about why I do the things I do. Closed out some financial matters. Current Mood: awake Tags: 2009, 2010, retrospective (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
December 26th, 2009
09:40 pm [Link]	Dr. Who nattering SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS ( Spoilers ) (Leave a comment)
December 24th, 2009
02:50 pm [Link]	A video from LGM: I've been trying to say something about this, but I really really can't. (if you don't know what RAFAEL is) (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 31st, 2009
03:22 pm [Link]	Those who made it to lunch @Charles may remember me mentioning the sapeurs, and those who didn't may also find them interesting: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/28/world/fg-dressers28 for an article http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/mediavilla/ for some pictures Tags: i found something, interesting (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
September 28th, 2009
08:11 pm [Link]	The Return 10/15, or so they say. If you've never had his chicken, you should plan to go. It's amazing. Current Mood: hopeful Tags: food, slightly cryptic, the unknowable future (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
September 25th, 2009
09:12 pm [Link]	I R DUMMY Obviously, Dollhouse and My Own Worst Enemy share a universe. Current Mood: silly Tags: sf, tv (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
August 26th, 2009
08:35 am [Link]	He's with his brothers now Whatever his faults were, they were not lack of compassion, drive, or competence. Current Mood: sad Tags: i'm trying to say something meaningful, politics (Leave a comment)
August 25th, 2009
11:28 pm [Link]	I probably lack the juice but I might as well try Lazyweb time: Short story in which aliens restrict humans to earth for the usual reasons In the form, mostly, of alien memoranda and reports, which end with ( SPOILER ) Current Mood: curious Tags: help me, i'm asking a question, sf, this is cryptic to me (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
August 14th, 2009
04:42 pm [Link]	So maybe I WILL buy a setting book Scroll down. You can probably guess, this was predicted before 4e launched. Current Mood: bouncy Tags: dnd4e, gaming, possibly a little bit cryptic (11 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 10th, 2009
05:02 pm [Link]	I don't think I've ever seen them fight And I've been reading for 10 years. PA is having a bit of a disagreement. Let's not export that disagreement to here -- I'm sure everyone reading this knows everyone else's opinions on the topics. Current Mood: curious Tags: i found something (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:16 am [Link]	And sometimes I'm perfectly wrong apparently a sequel to Halting State involving 3D printers. What are the criminal applications? Comments that it's well known that one of the first applications of any new technology is pornography.... So arbitrary realdolls, I guess. via, ultimately, ML. Current Mood: content Tags: i was told about something, sf (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
August 8th, 2009
06:01 pm [Link]	Once Upon a Time, I Made a Joke That Was True At the relevant time -- call it January 2002 through sometime in 2007, when we just gave up trying to understand his motivations for anything -- one of the big questions among those of us who weren't fond of GWB was "what's the real reason he wants to invade Iraq?". Threats of violence had quickly returned Saddam to compliance with the inspection regime, the No-Fly Zone and associated surveillance kept him securely contained, a free Kurdistan was wobbling to its feet, and any Al-Qaeda connection was based upon tenuous evidence of a distant alignment (held against compelling evidence of a vicious mutual antipathy). By then, the "Corporate Greed-Monger" narrative for Bush and his controllers had already overcome the "Religiously Obsessed Bumpkin" narrative (though both had currency, along with "Monomaniacal Hegemony Humper" and "Daddy-Obsessed Revenge Seeker"). Back then, I made, to at least some people seeing this now, this joke. "Joke". Ha. Ha. Ha. Well, I suppose it's better than my other joke theory. Tags: i did something, politics, you can't possibly call this cryptic (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 28th, 2009
08:21 am [Link]	I was about to post "Somebody's getting fiiii-rrreedd" But then I read the addendum at the bottom. Current Mood: amused Tags: i found something, politics (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 27th, 2009
11:36 am [Link]	This is why I have to keep apologizing I'm not up on CA solicitation/incitement/vicarious liability laws, but I have to imagine that EA's lawyers were either not consulted* or awful nervous about this I typed "consluted". Freudian typo? YOU DECIDE! Current Mood:* aggravated Tags: gaming, hate, law (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 15th, 2009
09:31 am [Link]	Prediction Charles Stross's next book (described only by title and what it's not here) will concern a system (probably highly-automated with distributed human components (possibly a hijacked altruistic distributed-computing platform) for generating arbitrary, high-quality, realistic pornography featuring arbitrary persons. Said pornography will then be used for some kind of financial shenanigan -- either a major stock manipulation (most likely of a large entertainment company, but possibly of an insurer/bank by causing them to pay out completion insurance on a major production) or, for the weirder but smaller payoff, a move in the royalty backed bond secondary market. Current Mood: curious Tags: books, sf, the unknowable future (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 14th, 2009
10:29 am [Link]	Glad he didn't get that spot on the bench Senator Sessions: Unable to distinguish between "should" and "can". Current Mood: annoyed Tags: politics, possibly a little bit cryptic (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 8th, 2009
07:39 am [Link]	Annals of the Unsurprising Everyone said this BEFORE they announced the Chrome browser. Everyone said this WHEN they announced the Chrome browser. Everyone has said this SINCE they announced the Chrome browser. Now Google says it. [via bb] Current Mood: shocked Tags: google (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 6th, 2009
02:57 pm [Link]	Remake Madness Be still my ●Heart. Current Mood: chipper Tags: gaming, i found something, possibly a little bit cryptic (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 1st, 2009
05:30 pm [Link]	pleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuck My personal-favorite show starting with alien gibberish chanting (yes, more favorite than Farscape) to be remade/rebooted/sequeled (it's not clear). If this goes as well as the BSG reboot, I'll finally get to wear my own version of Emily's actually-very-terrifying Halloween costume. Sadly, this has been a dream of mine for more than a decade, but no one would have gotten it. Current Mood: bouncy Tags: syfy, things that i love, tv (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 29th, 2009
08:29 am [Link]	A Link To a Good Show You're Probably Not Watching. A Recap on the Creator's Blog. Current Mood: amused Tags: leverage, possibly a little bit cryptic, tv (2 comments \| Leave a comment)

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