Archive of posts filed under the life category.

Perspective and Creation

Everything we do has consequences. Some are more noticeable than others, and many are expected: cleaning off the table usually results in a clean table. Inaction is an action with consequences as well, which can often be predicted without any extraordinary psychic talent. Certainly not all consequences are predictable, and many go unnoticed.

Obligatory iPad Opinion/Speculation/Analysis

Almost everyone seems to have an opinion about the recently-announced Apple iPad.1 If you don’t, I may surmise that you either a) live under a rock, or have been distanced from the internet and tangential media and people enough that you have not yet heard about it, or b) you do not have any opinions at [...]

Chrome for Mac

Chrome is finally available for Mac! It’s beta, and so far it runs a bit slower than the Windows version (opening and closing tabs is noticeably a little slower), but it will improve. Already set as my default browser… Safari 4 is really nice, but the “omnibox” is the one thing I missed when using [...]

Worldbuilders 2009

Patrick Rothfuss has just begun his second annual Heifer International fundraiser, which now has a name: Worldbuilders. If you donate you can get lots of cool prizes, most of which are sci-fi/fantasy books.

You are being conned.

Beware the little “offers” which get you in-game perks on social games like the ones on Facebook and MySpace: most of them are scams.

On the way to 0.2.0

Photos? Oh, right. I’ll get around to putting them up before too long. Really.
Also, spam-bots are getting more clever. I was almost taken in by this spam comment:

Whew. Seattle.

We’re back from our trip to Seattle. We got back Tuesday last week [at least, it was last week when I first wrote this sentence], but brought with us a flu, perhaps the “PAX Pox” as some are calling it, so this post has been unstarted for a while.

Optimism and Zen

Since my last post, things have apparently gotten worse in some ways. Maxed out credit cards, unexpected bills. But as I said at the end of that one, things are still moving in the right direction. Things are still moving. Everything changes.

What’s up?

(If you’re reading this on Facebook Notes, consider clicking through to the original post so you can see the links, since it doesn’t seem to translate them.)

Twitter & Stuff

So I’m on Twitter now. Maybe I’ll use that a little more frequently than I post here? Anyway my username is SharedProphet, on both Twitter and Facebook (they let you have a username on Facebook now to make it easier for people to find you).

Another shirt? Is that all I do anymore?

Well, no, I also work, eat, sleep, help take care of Chloe, etc.
But yes, I have created another shirt. For this one, I looked at the gaming-related shirts I could find on CafePress and noticed that people newer to gaming, specifically new audiences reached by the Wii and DS, were generally under-represented. So I decided [...]

And again…

Yet another new shirt, in exchange for your money. I’m having fun with this…

Very busy…

There’s been a lot going on, and I don’t have time to explain it all. But that hasn’t stopped me making another amusing shirt, which it so happens is now available for purchase.

More pictures of Chloe are on Facebook.

Here’s the link.

I have a new daughter.

On Friday May 22, 2009, Chloe Zen Johnson was born. She was 20.25 inches long and weighed 8 lbs, 13 oz.