No, not the HBO prison series, but the magical one where houses fall onto evil witches. This holiday-time brought snow, barking puppies, and a little portal to Oz, right on our kitchen table. A portal made out of gingerbread. The general idea was to abandon the instructions and make a house worthy of the most [...]

The whole package is called the Orange Box and it’s Valve’s latest 5-pack with all sorts of Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 goodness. The game that is getting all the attention though? Portal. A short, two or so hour game, the premise is simple – you’re an unwilling test participant in some sort [...]

It would seem that my turtle trio was hungry. Or brownfish #2 perfected his jumping skills and is now living in a puddle outside. Either way, my pet count is now -1. And he didn’t even say goodbye. How rude. On another animal-related note, as requested, here’s a picture from our first Santa Cruz thanksgiving. [...]

So, in an effort to replace the zope/plone craziness of kzsc.org, I’ve been looking into CMS alternatives. I know – exciting, right? It’s been a whole lot of uploading files, changing permissions and using the wonderful new tabbed terminal in Leopard. I’ve set up a few on this site so far, with only one looking [...]

Well that sure makes things suck. Guess we’ll all have to go back to the old way of doing things.. For now at least. It was sure fun while it lasted though. edit: this is a useful page about this all