When I played SWTOR in beta, my favourite character was an Imperial Agent (not pictured). I was a cyborg with a cool implant just above my left eye, which made it look like I always had an eyebrow raised. Combined with a smooth voice, devilish charm, and shrewd initiative, I felt like a mix between James Bond and Spock.

So when the game launched, I tried to recreate that character. Unfortunately, my preferred implant was missing and cyborgs were stuck with these ugly red eye piece things. I made a human instead and decided to go with the same overall look, less the implant.

I ended up a baby-faced pretty boy, and I hated it.

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Stop SOPA

January 18, 2012

From Google’s SOPA Page: Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA. The Senate will begin voting [...]

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Write me a letter

January 17, 2012

Before I graduated, I spent some time deciding what to do with my considerable post-college free time. I was going to have about ten extra hours a week, not to mention the lack of stress and worry about homework, assigned reading, and papers that had hung continually over my head and put a pall on [...]

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My wonderful piece of paper

December 23, 2011

I graduated from Hillcrest High School in the spring of 2003 with a ton of honours, trophies from speech and debate, a great ACT score, a full-ride scholarship to Missouri State, and a lot of excitement about moving out of my mom’s house in the near future. And then I discovered that I didn’t know [...]

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Our Experience with Community Sponsored Agriculture

October 25, 2011

What’s not to love about Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA)? You hand them money, and every week they hand you a bag of food. You don’t have to go to a store, sort through stuff, make a bunch of decisions, or stare at weirdly shaped roots that you don’t know what they are. They pick it [...]

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Writing a PAX East Enforcer Training Manual

October 22, 2011

Last year when I was preparing for PAX East, I signed up to be an Enforcer and worked to learn everything I could. I read through the forums, signed onto IRC, and asked lots of questions, but the experience was really frustrating. The response from most veterans was, “Read the forums!” but there isn’t a [...]

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While sitting in a too-small seat, not paying attention to a class I’m almost failing

October 20, 2011

In my defense, I’m only almost failing because I missed an assignment while out of town to attend a wedding. Most weeks, we do nothing, but that particular week we had to put on a play with a group. I wasn’t here, couldn’t do the play, and subsequently missed the points. It wasn’t as big [...]

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Mozy loses the backup race (and why CrashPlan is superior)

September 3, 2011

About a month ago, I decided it was time to look  into a backup solution for my MacBook. All of our photos—everything from the last five years or so that April and I have been together—are on this laptop in iPhoto. All of our music is stored in iTunes. If my MacBook dies, everything we [...]

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Graduation excitement

August 8, 2011

I’ve lost the blogging buzz. My promotion brought with it both an increase in activities as well as increased focus on finishing everything. I want to wrap up this year and seal it away in the archive so I can move on with my life.

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