The Walton Firm Memos

This is a very exciting week for me because Chris Onstead has put up three Achewood strips,  and he hasn’t been this prolific for a while.  I’ve been anxiouse about the strip ever since he dropped the “you don’t always feel that way” bomb in a radio interview. Specifically, I’ve been worrying that he might go the way of other [...]

Back in the late 20th century an accomplished economist was buying some vacation property out west. The real estate agent picked him up from town in an antique ox-drawn cart, hoping that he could tempt the businessman into buying the animal as a pet to complement his new rustic estate. “Yes shes a beautiful animal”, the [...]

Our startup is currently developing an innovative web platform to “centralize the web” by means of incorporating a variety of advanced web features along with our signature web services to meet a significant need in the market for efficiency and productivity. It will be completely web based and will have a focus on the consumer/user [...]

So this one time when I was twelve I was waiting for a bus at the kirkland transit center and this socially inept fat guy sat down next to me. The guy insisted on telling me all about his (presumably) imaginary life as a kung-fu master. I had no problem with this at first, but [...]

Fascinating article in the Guardian today on the Swiss assisted Suicide organization, Digniatas. Most astaoundingly:
Since Swiss law allows assisted suicide, but not euthanasia (the difference being that the person who wants to die must actively take the dose himself), the act of voluntarily drinking the drug, mixed with 60ml of water, and the subsequent death [...]

…and after that, fuck role-play you can have it back.
Dragon Age is the Dre 2001 of RPG’s. It is not about new flash like casual or online play (WOW, Torchlight), but rather rolling heavy with some classic fantasy tropes. There are three races. Guess which ones? The classes are also traditional staples, no death knights [...]

… Because I am ALL of these things:
Interior design for teeny tiny apartments (on a budget)
Travel – with a twist (the twist is up to you)
Fashionista
life coach
gay
style guy
teen
prom obsessed
business expert
tattoo artist
alternative lifestyle
interior / exterior design expert
cool young mom
college student
foodie (but you’d better have a unique angle here, this is really overdone)
gadget guru
happiness project
etiquette expert
bride
personal shopper
culture [...]

Sadly, due to recent annoncements,  it looks like Steorn has turned out to be a rather ordinary failure of a free-energy scam. Miracle-energy is a classic gag. Going back by some accounts all the way to the early 1600’s,  there have been lots of people who have all billed themselves as renegade scientists who have [...]

“I think selling out is pretty much a dead concept,” said the panel’s moderator, Rob Levine.
It’s okay everyone, Rob Levine said it’s ok, and not a moment to soon might I add. I’ve been sitting here on this sort of upbeat, dancey elctro-pop thing for which the new energy drink, Twitpocalypse has just been pounding [...]

Before it gets too far away, there was another thing I wanted to mention about Infinite Jest, particularly the fish joke that appears on page 445:
Robert F./Bob Death asks Gately if by any chance he’s heard the one about the fish…He leans in more toward Gately and shouts that the one he was talking about [...]