The useless yet obligatory linkage page

Local cartoonists, international fame, lots of gaming references.

Don't ask me why I stuck with PvP to the dismay of my co-workers... it's sort of my UserFriendly.

So cute! So emo! I can't help it, I just love the drawing style and color choices and the fact that for a month straight in the early 2000's, the comics seemed to be pulled directly out of my life.

An adventurer is me!

A mafia user is me!

A clan are we!

Games, video games, video games, video gaaaames / Video games, video games, video games, video gaaaames / Video games, video games, video games, video gaaaames / Video games, video games, video games, video gaaaames / Video gaaaaaaaaaaames!

1. Kill skeleton. 2. Get sweet sword.

More audio content than I will likely be able to ever catch up consuming.

Useful fast color contrast checker that's purely online vs requiring a separate download.

My poor eyes, they thank this person mightily, for giving me an easy way to uncrunch CSS.

Amazing CSS showcase.

The definitive source for thoughtful articles on web design and industry, for longer than you can really conceive.

The best programming question/answer community around.

What is there to say? It's /. Always has been, always will be.

Better than /. except when your attention span is on the 5 minute scale.

There are many good things on php.net, but the manual is by far the most useful, particularly considering that they (now long ago) implemented a forum-style commenting system that allows people to ask questions and offer code snippets.

Very similar manual set for my favorite database; I loves me the open sourceness.

Linguistics nerdity of all sorts.

Jim Breen of Monash University is the grandfather and God of Japanese Internet resources. I use the dictionary and kanji lookup system, but there's plenty of other information.

We are gland you could come! I hate my self and I want to die! Bourbon pickle lemon milk! May Japan never change, that I may laugh at them forever and ever, amen.

The classic (and completely and totally on-the-spot) essay mocking people wanting to study Japanese.

All the pasta recipes, all the time.

No kidding, this is where I learned how to make okonomiyaki.

Particularly good for desserts.

Tex-mex forever and ever, amen. Jalapeños really do belong in basically everything.

Japanese food for everyday people.

That "No Recipes" is full of recipes should not deter you from cooking all the things.

I do not believe in paleo as A Thing to Do, but the whole "nom nom" in this name is beyond well deserved.

Pure comfort food that is both terrible for you and totally awesome.

Straight-up, unprententious, food, with a recipe for just about any "normal" dish I've ever thought to make.

My definitive source for any and all baked goods (that I make Jeff make).

Sporadic (far less sporadic than me, over the years, and in the end, downright regular) and scathing John: movie reviews, random bits of cynical insight, and of course, harangues.

Ex-boyfriend and Japan-picture-taker extraordinaire: once updated infrequently, but always with pictures... last I checked, there was just a pretty visualizer.

Give up the hatred, he hasn't been Wesley Crusher for decades; smart, funny, cute, complete and utter geek? You know I'd date him.

Perhaps the angriest man on the planet: stop being a pussy: beat your kid!

The fascinating and eloquent blog of the most famous pro domme in Seattle.

Love it or hate it, until you've been on the buses in Japan or Boulder, CO, you don't have a clue how nice we've got it.

It doesn't always rain here—like now: it's not raining now. Maybe.

The best radio station in the world: all manner of electronica, ranging from dance to industrial to gothic, and the only station in Seattle to never ever be playing talk at 9 am. Hooray for Nathan Hale High School!

The definitiveness... Quote quality suffered so badly since they started letting anyone up them that I mostly gave up, but IMDB still does have that over Wikipedia.

The Self-Made Critic wrote my favorite movie reviews when he was writing. Probably because he's nearly as much of a geek as I am.

Classics forever (even if we disagree about video games).

The only worthwhile locator for movie times that I've yet to find (seriously, I've been using this site for approximately a billion years).

Perhaps the most genius use of Flash on the Internet, and I hate Flash. Humor that I never cringed to show my mother.

Gimme some of this... gimme some of this... Because lemme tell you... a One that is not cold, is scarcely a One at all.

Containing a brilliant Apple switch parody and a comedy series shot with footage from Halo when I first linked over to them in, oh, 2000.

A repository of funny: Tokyo Breakfast and Yatta! are highlights.

Hands down my favorite source of desktop wallpaper.

Dot OD has been my laptop background for more years than you can shake a stick at.

What's the weather in Seattle like RIGHT NOW?!? Let's see! And I went to school here.

These guys gave me a Master's degree! No one will ever know how crazy my department was save for those insane of us who actually stuck it through the program.

The host department for my tiny speck of a program stuck in a basement closet. Bonus points for being a real Tech Comm department rather than some bastardized offshoot of an English department.

Somehow, I managed to get a BS in Chemistry from here. How did I pull it off? Sheer brute stubbornness.

The people that helped me love Japanese are located somewhere in the UW's Asian Languages and Literature department.

I worked for these people through at least three name changes. How we continually managed to unearth both the stupidest geeks and the best people in the world through the same hiring process, I will never understand. They employed me for five years and I adore them still.

I was fortunate to get to work on really cool international problems at Microsoft for several years out of college.

I ran windows.com from the technical end for more years than is seemly to recount, with a particular emphasis on the 61 non-US sites (who wants to work just on a single English site when you could drive work for 62 sites in 36 languages? C'mon now!)

Gluing flies to balsa wood to learn life's lessons since 1996.

Roger Ebert's epic knowledge bomb on rice cookers.