The key is taking little breaks, walking away, and then coming back. I don't think I turned the game off all weekend, but most of that time I was doing other things.

They're both on my list; I re-started BG1 a few years ago on my netbook, and that was a blast but I got sidetracked and just stopped at some point. It's one of those games where I got to the middle, didn't want to go as far as I need to finish, but have gone too far to easily re-start.

I vaguely remember trying that and running into issues, but I admittedly may have screwed it up and probably only tried once.

Plus there was the fact that, in Chapter 2, you can basically ignore what you're actually supposed to be doing and just explore the world. It's not truly an open world or anything, but there's tons of stuff that's completely peripheral to the plotline that it feels like it is, which was kind of close enough at that…

I feel like "Best Metaphors to Explain Tech" would be a GREAT post for a blog centered around great ideas for getting things done. ;-)

I know it's just me, but the sound anything larger than .5mm lead makes on paper grates my nerves. It's a bit dependent on the paper (notebook paper with .7mm is fine...printer paper is not), but I just stick to .5mm for that reason.

It took him like fifteen years, but he FINALLY got Everton above Manchester United on the table.

I hate when people try to use the legal system just to get a Payday.

If this were another team, I'd LIKE that they were taking a long time to make this hire. Head coach - especially a head coach with this much money available and this many draft picks to spend - is really important, and you need to make sure that you get the hire right.

I generally use the sale to get caught up on DLC. Like, I bought all the BL2 stuff in the summer sale, discounted...and I bought all the new stuff I'd missed now, also discounted. Did the same with X-Com and Civ5. Now, I'm not currently playing any of these games (I'm on a Football Manager fix), but I'm sure I'll go…

I love this song only because now, when you ask my daughter "What does the fox say?", she does a hysterical "RING-DING-A-DING-DING-A-LING-DE-DING-DE DING" thing that, as a father, I have to say is super cute.

Those N-Strike darts can kind of hurt. My daughter was given a Rebelle revolver thing (which looks like a badass Borderlands 2 gun) and the first time I got shot with it was kind of a surprise.

Also in the running: Craig Bellamy. Take away the on-field persona and check out the dude's charity work.

Totally agree.

I think Amy does a nice job of making me care about someone I Harding cared about at all before this.

So Christopher McComas' strategy isn't really that off-base, then?

Bonus: every time he starts to lose, he's perfected the ability to "rage quit" so as to reschedule the game to a more advantageous time.

It seems like there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians in Washington these days.

Karl Monday's gonna get to the bottom of this.

I'm still mad that I lost my star, and I don't care what kind of Sneetch that makes me.