Well, looks like the back half of the semester finally kicked into high gear. I have enough work to keep me busy for a while (short fiction, fiction analysis, critical paper on Jane Eyre, critical paper on Regeneration, short presentation on Top Girls, linguistic analysis take-home paper...) and will have plenty more to do next week - mostly linguistic studies.
But on the bright side, I can /. for pleasure and to take a break. The nice thing is, I'm

Okay, fellow /.ers - this is a continuation of my post in the Roman D20 auction thread.
I said:

Makes you wonder what'll go under the hammer next...

Yesterday, I had a brief conversation with a friend of mine who's just finishing a degree in Video Games Design & Technology.
The long and short of it was, recently I've been using emulators and sites like Home of the Underdogs to populate my HD with fondly remembered classics - games I played on my Amiga, or on friends' PCs, C64s, Spectrums, BBC Micros and such.

This might be the strangest and most offtopic journal entry ever. However, I feel compelled to note that while browsing /. I have been accosted by a small cat. It has sat on my notes, walked on the keyboard, and rubbed its head on my shoulder while I tried to compose an entry regarding food in space. Luckily, it stayed off my lap.
This is unusual, because I am sitting in a university library. This is not unusual, because the same cat is often seen asleep in the English d

Okay, so the subject is a little lame (though better than my original work-in-progress title, w00t w00t!! fr1s7 p057!1!! i 0wn j00!), but hey - this is /. after all, and I think I spent a little too much time today reading MegaTokyo .