http://pesartain.com/ 2012-02-07T02:59:45-08:00 http://pesartain.com/ http://pesartain.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-12-26T07:18:33-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/wishlist Although this is called my wishlist, it has very few wishes on it. Infact, it's more like an extended 30-day list. Sooner or later, I'll get around to either buying everything, or removing things off the list! Books to own * The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel text/html 2011-11-23T13:49:16-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2011/1123_super_dungeon_exploring Because Pam is awesome (one of the many reasons I'm marrying her), Christmas arrived early this year in the form of Super Dungeon Explore! This is very exciting, since I expect I'll still be painting it all up by the time Christmas day rolls around. Luckily, I had an opportunity to unbox and slap some paint on to get a couple of games in this weekend with Pam and our good friend Miss H. text/html 2011-11-23T12:21:22-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/games/sde_gallery text/html 2011-05-28T15:26:08-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2011/0528_the_opening_gambit I am anxious. Basically all the time. I mean, pretty much everything makes me worry as soon as I start thinking about it. I'm not medical crazy, but it doesn't take much to send me into a deep dark spiral of worry. The longer I think about something, the worse it gets (sort of explains why I'm always doing some new project or another: keeps my mind busy on stuff that's harder to worry about). The biggest worry for me is travel. Presumably as it's something that I've not learned how to cope wit… text/html 2011-04-30T15:26:47-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2011/0430_6ixes Merlin does it better with 5ives. The following six things have been swimming around in my head for too long to write lengthy interesting pieces around: * You don't appreciate the value of money until you have to pay to live. * You don't appreciate saving until you have no income and still have to pay to live. * The only time you truly feel a part of a team is when someone else observes you to be so. You're the new guy until someone else is. * You only really know a subject when you te… text/html 2011-04-30T14:56:10-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2011/0430_the_case_of_the_20_pound_typo It was late; maybe a year ago now. The rain was coming down outside like cats and dogs. And I don't even know why cats and dogs would be coming down this hard out of the city. The lights were off, or maybe I'd forgotten to pay the bills, but either way it was dark. The kind of dark you have nightmares about and wake up in the middle the floor sweating over. text/html 2011-04-30T14:40:58-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2011/0430_big_bo_o_ty_girls Even when I know they're bots, I can't help myself. This happened tonight. 22:21 ladypignotti Looking for a Prince 22:22 Piete Still? All I can offer is a frog, I'm afraid. 22:22 ladypignotti Hello there.. My name is Kat.. 22:22 Piete Unlikely, but sure, you can call me Jerry. 22:22 ladypignotti I love chatting with new people.. Would you like to chat today? Where are you from? 22:23 Piete Deep in the heart of self-deprecation. 22:23 ladypignotti Nice Im 21 .. Can i ask you… text/html 2011-04-30T12:08:36-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2011/0430_app-taculous In the first 5 days of owning my first Android smartphone, I went a little app crazy. Granted, I had a few problems to solve, but still, it was a heady time. So in no particular order, the following apps have graced my phone ... Diagnostic Tools Spare Parts* Useful for diagnosing network usage per app SystemPanel* Task manager with a big kill-all button Network Monitor WiFi and 3G network usage tracker (with graphs!) System Tools Tasker* A progra… text/html 2011-04-29T16:07:18-08:00 piete http://pesartain.com/blog/2011/0429_app-spectations Two things: * The post name is awesome, but this isn't really about apps. * This wasn't the promised app-list, so consider this bonus material! Anyway, I have certain expectations (app-spectations - geddit? Geddit??) of a phone (despite this phone being more computer than phone), which are largely borne of 3 Sony Ericssons (hell, I think the first was a Sony, pre-Ericsson) over a 10 year period.