Day One of the “Real” Shelter In Place

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 30, 2020Cat Lifestyle, Projects, Shelter In PlaceTags COVID-19, Devil Monkey Games, VidgamesLeave a comment

I'm not counting the weekend since it didn't really change anything. Today I would have gone to work, and that matters. Slept in until 8:30, got up, took a shower, had ham and eggs for breakfast. Made Stacie some eggs too since she was already working from home. Beats getting up at 3:45 and having… Read More »

A Cheap Self-Improvement Trick

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 29, 2020March 29, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Self-ImprovementLeave a comment

As some of you may have noticed, I'm big on self-improvement. I've been known to joke that between my day job, sidelines and online classes I'm effectively a full-time student with two full-time jobs. My weeks are effectively 80-130 hours of work and classes. How do I pull it off? The magic of multitasking. I… Read More »

Drastic Life-Changing Events and Removing Losers

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 22, 2020August 14, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Losers, My History, Self-Improvement1 Comment

Sometimes everything simply goes straight to Hell. Or even if it isn't that serious it still completely rewriting your underlying assumptions about How Things Are. Moving away from home. Things going badly with a roommate. Having to move to another state because everything fell apart. I've been through a few of these. For me they… Read More »

Corona Concerns

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 8, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags COVID-19, Economics1 Comment

Angry makes some good points here. Make sure you watch the whole thing. His take on the "Tito's is not hand sanitizer" thing is Glorious. I was talking to my boss about some of this last week. Specifically the two week self-quarantine thing. I jokingly asked her if we'd get paid if we had to… Read More »

The Spaghetti Incident

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 7, 2020July 16, 2021Cat UncategorizedTags Amusingness, Ancient History, Short BusLeave a comment

Back in 1983, I was just a wee little monstrosity nearing the ripe old age of eight. We came back from Xmas vacation and the teacher wanted us to write some banal little report on what we did. Having done nothing interesting and being bored with the endless busywork that passed for education in ISD… Read More »

TV Episodes That Annoy Me

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 2, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Geek, Glacial Buddhalike Calm, Morons, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science Fiction, TV2 Comments

There are a few generic TV episode types that almost never fail to annoy the fark out of me (although there are exceptions to every one of these). Note that these apply to single episodes, not entire series. In no particular order, here they are: The "Acting" Episode: Yes, we get it. You're actors. You like… Read More »

Book Review: Fantasy Genesis

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 2, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags Art, Gaming, WritingLeave a comment

Went to the art supply store with Stacie a while back; they had a sale on art supplies, but only for a few hours. We got there early to beat the lines, but we had to wait a while for the sale to actually start. Cue the "wandering aimlessly about the store" part of our… Read More »

Starfleet Exterminated the Xenomorphs From Alien

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 2, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags Alien Universe, Blade Runner, Judge Dredd, Movies, Predator, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Star TrekLeave a comment

Soldier, Blade Runner and Alien are the same universe. This is Word of God from an interview with Ridley Scott. Todd's generation of soldiers were predecessors to their genetically-engineered replacements. Their replacements were the predecessors to Replicants, who were predecessors to the synthetics from Alien. Weyland was a protege of Tyrell. At the beginning of… Read More »

Citizens of the Outside, Long Version

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 2, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Inspirational, Science FictionLeave a comment

Here's the full conversation where the concept of Citizens of the Outside is described. "And you will teach me how—how to be a successful crook like you!" His brow furrowed at my words and his expression was grave. What had I said that was wrong? I chewed my sore lip with worry as he unrolled… Read More »

My Rules of Coding

By Patrick MurphyPosted on March 2, 2020Cat UncategorizedTags CodingLeave a comment

I've seen a lot of people struggle with coding. I'm not sure exactly what it is that throws them because they're not generally stupid or otherwise ignorant, and they can describe almost any other process easily in a manner that others can follow. Coding just seems to be one of those things that people have… Read More »