By Brandon Kirk
[This is part two of an ongoing narrative based around a single playthrough I did of the Indie game FTL. It's highly abstracted and fictionalized, but it's entirely based on in-game events and situations. It's a fun game. You should play it.]
Dear Diary...
by Brandon Lionel Kirk
[This is the first in a series of posts narrating a single playthrough of the indie game FTL. It's all made up, but entirely based on things that happen in the game. We open on a aspiring young captain, setting off on a vital mission to save the Federation . . . ]
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending (and participating in) the "Laugh"ayette "Fun"stival, a really great comedy spectacular hosting by some friends of mine in Lafayette Indiana. They asked me to participate, and I'm afraid there was a bit of a misunderstanding. (with video!)...
So a lot of talk has been going around about supposed sounds out back and theories about what those sounds were. Sure, we could knock around ideas all day about what we think about this or that sound, but where would that get us? The fact is that there are sounds all the...
Once, when I was a kid, my Dad took me to a gun range. We went with another guy and his kid - their family was sort of friends with my family or whatever. We had an old .22, the other dad had a huge-ass muzzle-loader, and there was some sort of medium-caliber revolver. I don...
Somehow my email address was signed up for this “Apartment Guide” newsletter, which basically just sends me random garbage about apartments pretty much every day. I totally don’t need that, since I’m already an apartment expert. Apparently it’s ...
Is there anything that you can’t get on Amazon.com? I don’t think so. The problem now, though, is that it can be pretty hard to find what you’re looking for, because you have to search through a collection of everything that has ever been sold.
Let me...
My birthday is this Saturday. I’m going to be 26 years old. I’m having a harder and harder time justifying asking my friends and family to buy me toys this year. The problem is that aside from a new $5000 camera or a new $600 camera lens, there isn’t really...
Calling all dudes! Perhaps you’ve heard of this newfangled thing called Pinterest. It’s a great new way to share pictures from your favorite websites online. The problem is that it’s totally just for girls. Are you a dude who’s tired of being on the outside...
Hey, students, what’s up?
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Welcome to the world of public transportation! So you found yourself wanting to be somewhere, and you came to the conclusion that you had to take the bus. Despair no more! A city bus is a logical place, governed by a strict set of rules. Those rules...
I've been pleased as punch with the response to the first excerpt from my new novel, District Alpha: Government Mandate Zone. I was so encouraged by all the positive feedback, in fact, that I have decided to release the next chapter for your consideration! Even though everybody seems to love it, for some reason I still haven't been sent an offer for the movie rights. Reminder: the movie rights are still available!...
Not long ago, Alyson was reading a cosmopolitan magazine. I think it was called Cosmopolitan, actually. Don’t worry, she isn’t actually into the thing. We were on a bus trip, so neither of us had anything better to do. As she flipped through the magazine...
I recently became unemployed, again. Now that I'm back on the job market, I figured it was time for me to put out my shingle, as it were, and offer my services as a freelance web designer. To be honest, I'm a bit sick of the usual sorts of clients one has to deal with when traveling the world of freelance, so I came up with a great idea. I just recently made a post on Craigslist as a fulfillment of that idea. Check it out!
Apparently the thing to do these days is write a catchy pseudo-sci-fi dystopian future novel and then have that novel adapted into a movie. I’ve therefore started working on a new novel, which is entitled District Alpha: Government Mandate Zone. It’s about a young girl...
I made some product reviews on Amazon.com today. They're mildly amusing, so I thought I would post them here since I haven't posted anything here in months.
Check out this ad I recently posted on Craigslist.
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My parents live in the middle of nowhere. They like it because it's nice and remote, and they get to see plenty of wildlife. My parents love wildlife. They love the deer, the birds, and the turtles. They love everything . . . except the snakes. It turns out my Mom hates...
So, I use Google Voice. It's a phone thing that does things for your phone thing. Whatever. One of the things it does is transcribe your voicemails to you, so you don't have to listen to them (if you don't know why that would be useful, don't bother askin...
Yup, it's another episode of the podcast.
This week on the Expertcast, we get unpleasantly close to subjects we actually know something about, with an in depth discussion of how to make a great cleric in Dungeons and Dragons, with Al Pratt and special guest...
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This week, on our Halloween Special, WFFF's DJ Dan and Emanuel Leopold Maximillion III share tips on how to buy a haunted house. In this episode: the ghost birds and ghost bees, the terrible secret of Taco Bell, and...
