Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

• Spent a relaxing evening shouting obscenities at Puzzle Quest rather than at email. #
• RT @andrhia: RT @jchutchins: God rested on Sunday, because God wasn't a freelancer. #
• Why is Puzzle Quest so damned much fun? #
• Everybody Tom Khlong tonight. #
• Just had an aroma memory from pre-school! I didn't know I could remember back that far. #
• RT @baconator: OH "my 3g isn't working…are sxsw people here already???" #
• Dragon Age 2 shipped! Dragon Age 2 shipped! #
• A Wilhelm scream on House. There's something you don't hear every day. #
• Looking back through my portfolio and realized I've worked on 7 award-winning campaigns. Is that really important? Chime in, freelancers! #
• Funny little thing – I try to launch Dragon Age 2, and it crashes. Every time! Neato. #
• Oh good, I think it was a graphics card driver thing. DA2 works now, but my browser window is freaking out. Like I care about my browser. #
• DA2 companion dialogue: "So, what's with that magical fisting thing you do?" "Um, sorry?" "You know, when you stick your hand into people." #
• Carl Sagan vs. Old Spice Guy: http://bit.ly/haL19p #
• Dragon Age 2 characters keep calling my female protag "Sirrah." Is it impossible for game devs to design with females in mind? #
• #SXSW folk – I'll be at the convention center around 12:30-1 tomorrow. DM me if you need my cell #. #
• Heading down to #sxsw in five. #
• Dear #SXSW walk faster or get the hell out of my way. Love, me. #
• Waiting for the "how to save SXSW from marketer douchebaggery" panel. They won't unlock doors. Is there a message there? #SXSW #
• RT @scott_walker: SXSW #Transmedia peeps: informal meetup at the Driskill Hotel tonight at 7pm! #
• At the True Blood panel, which is already half full. #SXSW #
• A Szulborski puzzle on the screen at #sxsw *tear* #
• Press room is out of coffee. Sad. #SXSW #
• Waiting for The Last Broadcast – Entertainment Is Social panel #SXSW #
• Transmedia travels in a pack. #sxsw #
• Apparently the state of television in Australia is bleak. #futurecast #sxsw #doiwinaprize #
• I don't understand all the emphasis on television – I don't see it as the end-all be-all in these days of TiVo and Netflix #futurecast #
• What about internet-originated entertainment? #futurecast #
• RT @mikemonello: Not only are we co-viewing TV, but we are co-complaining about this panel. #futurecast #
• I am watching my twitter feed more than I am listening to this panel. #futurecast #
• Going to Frank. #
• http://yfrog.com/h0ms6tej Bloody Mary with bacon garnish. #
• At One Story Many Angles #
• Felicia Day is in the audience. #
• The guy who directed the Justin Bieber movie is on the panel. Wondering if I made the wrong panel choice for this timeslot. #
• "Tell stories people like to engage with on platforms they already like to be on." #sxsw #
• Holy crap. Note to self: never EVER tweet about the fluffy-headed teen boy singer again. DIE SPAMMARS. #
• Al Qaeda is #1 social network on the planet – what? this moderator needs to lay off the caffeine. #
• Money is not your barrier to entry – people are shooting films on mobile devices with tiny budgets. Story is what you need, not $. #sxsw #
• Be creative in how you get things done, because if you're not, other people will be. #sxsw #
• Oxymoron? "The web is full of microcosms, so the more specific your storytelling, the more successful you'll be." #sxsw #
• You can do anything if you tell a great story. (So glad to hear a panel that gets it!) #sxsw #
• Christmas is a multi-platform story – music, cartoons, movies, stories #sxsw #
• Was an interesting panel until they started selling PitchCon. #SXSW #
• 15 minutes in and they're only half done pimping their bios. #sxsw #
• The Disney guy talked all about Tron's transmedia properties without touching on the ARG. #sxsw #
• I take it back – Disney mentioned the ARG. #SXSW #
• AOL booth shutting down. #
• Holy crap! Dark Tower book 8 due out next year – http://bit.ly/f1BzoC #stephenking #
• I am so, so in love with my @NAOTusa shoes. Without even breaking them in, they have taken me miles through airports & #SXSW w/NO BLISTERS!! #

• Every day in every way I am becoming curmudgeonlier and curmudgeonlier. #
• If you'd asked me 20 years ago whether Reznor's be in a tux accepting an Oscar I would have giggled. #
• If Cate Blanchett had a hand on either side of that round thing on her dress, it would be the world's largest-broadcast Goatse. #
• Please don't let Randy Newman perform the songs he writes anymore. #
• Can Sandra Bullock make facial expressions anymore? #
• Oh look, the classes are mingling. How quaint. #theoscars #
• Seems that G4 got a mysterious package from North Korea! (Don't forget to listen to the awesome audio file 😉 ) http://bit.ly/hjp2Pd #
• Being Human is the best thing on TV right now. #
• February weight loss: 8 lbs. Total weight loss: 11 lbs. #
• 40 Social Mechanics for Social Games – brilliant! http://bit.ly/eoO0Px #
• I have so much more respect now for people who answer support emails for interactive sites. Be kind to them. Send them chocolate and flowers #
• What's that smell? #
• STABBY STABBY I WANT CHOCOLATE #
• Happy birthday, @Gupfee, happy birthday, @Gupfee, happy birthday, dear @Gupfee, happy birthday, @Gupfee! #
• I'm pretty sure I killed my Meyer lemon plant. Benign neglect. #
• RT @redbanshee: LOVE. THIS. RT: @wired: "Goodnight Arrakis. Goodnight sietch Tabr. Goodnight spice flows everywhere." http://wrd.tw/ezG1Mp #
• So #sxswi tweeps – what's the best schedule tool out there? The SXSW built-in stuff? #
• Novel being posted around the East Village, page by page. http://bit.ly/fmk0li #
• Hoping my sick child does not ensickenate me just in time for SXSWi. #
• One way to cheer up a sick kid: play her the Shaving Cream song. http://youtu.be/JSAEownqddg #

• Nice to see humans and Rovers working well together: http://bit.ly/gBEoJs #youarenumbersix #focusrally #
• LOL thundersnow. #
• In N Out. Yeah baby! http://yfrog.com/hs1mzboj #
• I just paid money for a .34 Mbps downstream internet connection. #
• With the change in scenery, I'm no longer in Fallout: New Vegas. Now I'm in Red Dead Redemption. Meet y'all in Chuparosa. #
• Pollos. http://yfrog.com/gyrkpbdj #
• With a little luck I will be sleeping in my very own bed tomorrow night! #
• Home at last. I am a tired little bunny, but there is no rest for the weary. #
• I snuck out of the pornoscanner lane this morning and into the metal detector lane. Wonder if I'm on a no-fly list now. #
• Placed my Dragon Age 2 pre-order in the hopes that I will get to play it sometime in March. #
• I haven't gotten an email in 23 minutes! #
• Note to self: quit working. Quit checking email, quit checking sites, just stop it already. It's midnight. #
• Happy birthday up there, Mom. #
• Interesting Google Streetview mashup: Zombie Apocalypse! http://bit.ly/ePkegn #
• Dear Austin: Why are there fireworks tonight? #

• Ugh, this hotel room smells like an Abercrombie and Fitch threw up in it. #
• The thermostat doesn't have any words on it, just three circular symbols that all look fundamentally the same. #
• Of course there's a guy here with tight jeans and pointy white boots! #
• For a minute I thought he was going to sit in my line of sight. No way I could eat without laughing. Good thing he moved. #
• The elevator announces the floor with a tone of mild incredulity: "Floor four?!" As in, "You don't _really_ want to get off _here_, do you?" #
• Breaking down in the fast lane while driving up a big hill with 18 wheelers all behind you is almost as good as cardio. #
• Give me a small regional airport over a giant hub monstrosity any day. #
• Apparently "Business Center" = "Bar" and not "Place To Do Business." Interesting. #
• Driving through the desert, tumbleweeds aplenty, eclectic station playing big band and old country and BAM, I was IN Fallout: New Vegas. O_O #
• Couldn't figure out why the restaurant was full of seniors and little kids until I realized I went to dinner an hour earlier than I thought. #
• If I were downloading any slower, I'd be uploading. #
• Today's cheap thrill was brought to me by the TSA. #
• To be clear, I did opt out. #
• Hahaha, bless your soul – you really think you're in control? #
• Snow snow snow! http://yfrog.com/hsuaeblj #

• This sums up the week perfectly: http://bit.ly/fa3hRe #
• RT @jonwaite: Axl Rose is turning in his grave. What? He's not dead yet? Still… #superbowl #
• "America! Show us some LOL!" #
• That Groupon commercial was awesome. #
• Mars Needs Moms is firmly in the uncanny valley. *shiver* #
• I think I'll just keep the Tron soundtrack on repeat all day long. Thanks to @andrhia for the protip. #
• No wonder my pants are falling down. I had three phones in my pockets. #
• I don't think having a meal or two per day is too much to ask, is it? #
• Mechanical shrieking outside. Wrong numbers inside. Conspiracy! #
• Need some travel reading suggestions – fiction preferred. Halp! #
• In fact, I _can_ spell "Texas" without "H.E.B." #isourchildrenlearning #
• Have had the phobia all day of sending mail from the wrong account. #
• I like air. #
• I boiled my hat and now it's spitting at me. #
• Pretty sure Madam Mam's Tom Khlong soup has crack in it. I can't stop thinking about it. #
• To the d-bag wannabe hippie hipster who just screamed "Slow down, bitch!" at me in the parking lot: I was going 10 mph, lame-o. #

• Watching Jesse Eisenberg's hands start to shake as soon as Zuckerberg walks on stage was pretty amusing: http://youtu.be/uzELUzfx7oc #
• Tried to warn hubby about the suckage of The Road. He would not listen. #
• Funny, the results you get when you search for The Black Hole. #
• Reason #397 only to ever see movies at the @Drafthouse: They don't allow jerk parents to run off and let Tron babysit their five year olds. #
• Is there a Yelp for grownups? #
• Have realized that the Kinect Fitness game is not for those with bad knees. 🙁 #
• Ugh, I need to turn on the air conditioning. Tomorrow it's going to get down to 18. #
• "Literally": You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. #FaceOff #
• Oh Livestrong, you're so funny sometimes. http://yfrog.com/h44acp #
• Just corrected my daughter's school report use of "Alot" by using Hyperbole & A Half. http://bit.ly/fFxCcO #ParentingWin #
• Brrrr! http://bit.ly/dJKqcn #
• For the yankees to get a giggle: Austin-area schools/businesses shutting down because of the extreme cold/blackouts http://bit.ly/ifiyf5 #
• Snow Day Calculator says Austin has a 65% chance of at least a delay tomorrow: http://yfrog.com/h2cmnxp #
• Do my Texas peeps have power tonight? #
• Listen. Read. Think. Communicate. #
• Dear Austin: Please bring your dogs inside. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh. #
• Excuse me, but I was told there would be snow. #
• I lured my husband outside so I could throw a snowball at him. #marriagewin #
• There's only one question to ask after a day like this: Where's the booze? #
• I heard that @jimbabb is into cat S&M. Pass it on. #
• To all the producers out there, you need to know this: You are awesome. #
• "It's because they're stupid. That's why everyone does everything." – Homer Simpson #

Step One: Sweet Sharing Kitties

Step Two: Have a Bath

Step Three: The Simultaneous Neck Gnaw

Step Four: WAR!1!!

Step Five: The Tiki God Tires of the Antics of the Felines and has Crashed Down in Wrath

• Have had Gaeta's Lament in my head all weekend. Not that I'm complaining. It's a fine song, and finely sung. http://youtu.be/NY3gY48pxjA #
• And suddenly, just like that, the Christmas tree was gone. #
• When I mutter "Redrum," my cat Red thinks I'm talking to him. What does "Meow?" mean backwards? #
• Golly, doesn't this fancy camera have a lot of buttons! #
• First weekend home since November. I wonder if I can wear pajamas ALL WEEKEND LONG. #
• Your kitchen sponge is dirtier than your toilet seat. Ew. Microwave wet sponges for 1 min. to kill germs. Or use a brush that dries out. #
• Two things that look miserable: wet cats and cell phones just after applying screen protectors. #
• Insane amount of red dye coming out of this Bugga! #
• Better house pet: Gatoroid or Mega Python? #