This last week has been light on posts because I spend a decent part of the week LANing it up at my buddy’s house to celebrate the release of Starcraft 2. It was a two day gaming session that saw countless cans of Mountain Dew consumed and a veritable epic of rollercoaster nerd drama: we laughed as we owned noobs and cried when we ourselves were owned. It was awesome.
But now it’s over – and after sitting down for an all day crunch session spent powering through the single-player campaign …

In summer the need for genre reading grips me, stacks of fat squat books howling my name like newsprint-scented wolves. I love serious fiction. There are Great Books gathering dust unread on my shelf. But ultimately the call of the genre will get me, wrap me up in a quick-drawn world and plot-drive me where it will. The inevitability makes me wonder how bad a fate that is.

I began to learn Adobe In Design in college – I first used it to lay out a student literary magazine when I accidentally stumbled into the Senior Graduate Editor position. I’m not sure how that happened. But it mean that I needed to learn a real layout tool, since the extent of my experience with layout software before that was limited to Microsoft Word. Which is to say: I didn’t have any layout experience.
Since then, I’ve come a long way – I’m using the program to lay out a …