So, I bought the Swashbuckler! game from mcroft along with the For the Love of Justice double adventure pack. The game system seems clever and interesting. But the two scenarios in For the Love of Justice? They feel like the games I might have written after I decided RPGing should be about more than running through dungeons, but before I'd ever ( Read more... )

At a late night bull session at ACUS this year, John Lees asked (paraphrasing heavily) what we could do to give Shadow more weight in 'con games. (I believe his specific example was Corwin stopping to help Lance at the beginning of Guns of Avalon, whereas most PCs in a 'con game would just walk on to the next shadow ( Read more... )

So, while mandolinjen, Henry, and I drove to fromtheboonies's wedding and back, we listened to The Lightning Thief on the iPod. I was quite impressed, and I think Jen was as well ( Read more... )

Any time I pick up the phone and a recorded voice says "Please hold for an important message from DTE Energy" and then I'm on hold, I'm going to hang up instantly.

"And back at the house there's a grey sky a-tumbling
Milk bottles piling on door steps a-crumbling
Curtains all drawn and cold water plumbing
Notepaper scribbles I read unbelieving
Saying how sorry, how sad was the leaving
...one day too soon" -- Black Sunday, Ian Anderson

Why did none of my minions inform me that the April/May 2009 issue of F&SF had a new Richard St. Vier from Ellen Kushner? Are they incompetent, or merely non-existent?

Saturday I made spicy chicken broth from leftover bones from the feast with matociquala last Thursday. Today I combined them with a bunch of long, thick noodles (as I could only find a frozen five-pound bag of the kind I like at the Asian grocery yesterday, and so have far more than I need for dinner tonight), simmered it for an hour, then threw in some cut- ( Read more... )

Looks like the media box is still running -- it's just that its Ethernet connection keeps crashing, which makes it looks dead to the rest of our network.

So, after a wave of hardware purchases and struggling with AirPort Extreme, there was a brief day or two where all the computer hardware in the house (save the Time Machine drive) was working correctly as far as I can tell. And then the CPU fan on the media box started wailing. I mean, it was in the basement, but I could hear it from my office ( Read more... )

I saw this when Henry and I were hanging out at Borders last week, I've been meaning to post it ever since. It's the two volume CD set Celtic: The Essential 30 CollectionNow, it's hard enough to imagine an "Celtic Essential 30" collection that doesn't have even a single track from Planxty, the Bothy Band, the Chieftains, the Dubliners, Lunasa, ( Read more... )