This Halloween seems to be making up for all the previous ones in Austin when I had a grand total of, oh, two trick-or-treaters show up in the entire six years I've been in town.

I've probably had forty kids at the door so far and it's not even 7 PM.

I'm so running out of candy. And then I shall under a sea of two-foot princesses and skeletons as they gnaw on my flesh in the hope that it tastes like a Milky Way or a Tootsie Roll.

Dante has been sleeping with this cruise brochure for a week now. Perhaps he is trying to tell us something.

Also, a few new photos up at Flickr.

A little informal poll based on a lunch conversation and the fact that most everyone who reads this site is a gamer:

Have you ever purchased a game, taken it home, and read the game manual before you started playing the game?

Phrase you should never hear accompanied by a video link someone has sent you to watch:

"But wait! You have to keep watching until the penetration starts! That's when it gets funny!"

Want this.

Sadly, they don't sell them anywhere near me. Perhaps a trip to Italy is in order?

You know, I used to enjoy watching Headline News. I'd keep it on in the background while I was working or fiddling around on the computer at home. But now? CNN? Why must you inflict Nancy Grace on me?

The woman is obnoxious, annoying, rude, and makes me want to pull out my own eyeballs after about 12 seconds of her grandstanding. Ugh. My brain aches and I only had her on for about half a minute just now.