Some techno-gibberish: forestry.io offers a free CMS service that integrates with Hugo, the tool I use to generate the site. What that means is that I can now update the site from my iPhone 📱!
Hopefully that’ll allow me to do something from time to time that I’ve never done here before — real-time site updates. Capture some things in the moment before they’re lost to time and fleeting attention.
Celebrate with me by dancing to this song.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the Catholic holy day that begins the penitential season of Lent. This year I will not be celebrating as a Catholic.
Last year on September 1st Kassi and I, after a long season of spiritual apathy and suffering, took our first steps into the Russian Orthodox Church. There were private reasons, of course. Personal reasons that are always at the core of any conversion; but also open reasons. We did not take the step lightly.
Continue Reading »I’ve had this song stuck in my head for a couple of days, and maybe if I post it I can get rid of it. It’s from The Jerk, and features Bernadette Peters, my first screen crush when I was just a little kid. That bit at the end where she pulls out the coronet still cracks me up. Still, it’s a touching scene, don’t you think? A little reminder that life can be sweet sometimes.
Infexxion is an iPhone game based on the old arcade game Attax. My cousin Carl introduced me to it. There was a cabinet in the lobby of a (surely long-since demolished?) movie theater in what is now a rough part of Lafayette, Louisiana. I forget what we were seeing that night. He played — I didn’t, as I recall. It had a weird, edgy kind of quality to it, like an Exidy game. It’s addictive. The only place I’ve seen it since is Freeplay Arcade in Richardson, Texas, where if you can beat the final “boss” AI, you get a free beer.
One time, just a few weeks after discovering Infexxion, I scored a 40. I’ve been playing that game for over a year now. In all that time, I have never matched or beaten that score.
Not a single time.
