On the upper floor of my house I have a large room furnished with a single persian rug that I call The Dojo of Deprivation. On the outside of the door I have a sign that says: "Kris's room. The Dojo of Deprivation. Keep out." And two skulls and crossbones for good measure. Nobody can see the sign except me.
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People often say to me: 'Kris, why are you walking around clutching a jar full of wasps to your chest?' And I just say, 'I'm befriending them in case of a wasp plague.' It feels nice when people worry about me. Lately it has been pointed out that very little is known about the individual(s) behind Wrongcards. I'm addressing that lapse today. Let's do this.
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I'm a bonafide alpha male, so I am pretty rich in the lore of Being a Man. And the last thing I would want to happen is for my Nanna to watch Guy Code and suddenly just, you know, figure me out. Still...
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I'm on vacation in Europe and thinking a lot about civilization, the pros and cons etc. I've decided I'm in favor of civilization (except when it gets in my way) so I wanted to write an important defense of libraries and librarians. If, like me, you care about looking cultivated, you'll forward this around.
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It's obnoxious, but whenever we change something significant with our RSS feed, things go awry with it. Please don't hate us. We had to change the way our feed behaved and whenever we do that, it can cause a bunch of older items to appear marked as 'unread' in your feed reader. We're sorry. And besides, XML is pseudoscience anyway; it's the most nonsense technology I've ever had to learn about.
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I remember it clearly, as if it all happened yesterday. Tony and I were playing chess and I was winning, which is no surprise to me because in all my memories I win at chess.
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When my phone began to vibrate around on my desk I didn't answer at first, because my ring tone is the first minute of Tank!, the theme from Cowboy Bebop, and it's a particularly good piece of music.
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