http://wantingseed.com/sprout blogs just keep sprouting Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:16:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I never write here anymore, so I'm going to shut down the site. I'll leave the content up for any crawlers that happen by, but I'm locking down any dynamic updates, etc, since I don't feel like policing the vulnerable wordpress codebase. Bye, bye. http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2009/11/14/shutting-down Soon, soon I shall be free of the beast.  For well over a decade now I've been plagued by a demon I could not escape.  There was no respite--even the breaks between vicious bouts were but reminders of how badly I needed to be free. And soon I shall have my ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2009/03/02/free-of-the-beast I don't know how many times I've almost killed off this blog.  I'm not a good blogger.  I can accept that, that's what RSS readers are for.  I don't expect anybody to actually come back here and expect anything new.  I do want to make sure folks that stop by ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2009/02/16/not-quite-dead-yet-2 The thing about Internet memes is that they are apparently viral. Infectious, even. I'm therefore informed that it is my sworn duty to take part. Either that, or help eradicate the plague with some sort of topical cream, but I wouldn't even know where to apply that ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2009/01/18/7-fax Ok, I admit, it was too tempting to resist.  Just as I'm addicted to jpens imports, I'm likewise hooked on little black notebooks of all sorts, so I just had to enter the contest.  Check it out if you're similarly cursed! http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/10/15/too-tempting-to-pass-up I never would have guessed thirteen years ago when I started working on my high school newspaper that I'd actually end up doing something vaguely similar.  Being an actual press person just seemed silly.  Don't get me wrong, I loved the experience, the people I got to work with, and ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/08/19/a-long-time-ago-in-a-city-not-so-far-away There's always some good reason why I'm not posting.  Well, there are always reasons, anyway.  I'm not sure they're always good.  Not that anybody cares, but the following is a non-exhaustive list of things I've been working on besides writing here: finishing my presentation for Rational, playing Final Fantasy Crystal ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/05/18/always-something I was writing an email to a friend when I realized that I'd written most of a blog post I've been meaning to do for a while right into the email.  So in the spirit of eliminating the fowl with stones deux, here's a quick summary of the many reasons ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/05/01/quicksilver-lovn At the Lin wedding last week, each table was invited to write a poem or story beginning with the line, "Ellen and Eric were just wed..."  My table decided the most equitable thing to do was to let each person at the table write two words at a time and ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/02/23/collaborative-effort I sleep funny. Or rather, I sleep in strange and awkward positions that for some reason I find entirely comfortable. Most people upon seeing me sleeping assume I'm a corpse with a broken neck. I was digging through some backups recently looking for a document when I ... http://wantingseed.com/sprout/2008/02/05/nearly-broken-neck