It was the middle of my shift at Nintendo and I was giving some poor shmoo advice on Battletoads (as an aside I was the first person in North America to finish the game, it was an early Rare title and the NOA testers had not bothered to finish it ( Read more... )

Gary Gygax died today, and of course I'm sorry he's passed on. Had I met the man I probably would have slapped the shit out of him. He stole the system from Arneson and held out for years trying to keep the credit (and the money) away from him. One of my early gaming groups called him the "E.G.G." and we firmly believed he was cracked. He took ( Read more... )

Had lunch at the Secretary of the Navy's dining room at the Pentagon today. Crabcakes and a fruitcup, not bad. Amazing china!

So now this thing is owned by russkies, which I have no problem with, but the only reason I started this was becasue my good friend had a lifetime account for giving the creators 50 bucks or something when they started out and it seems a bit far removed from that. I'm not totally bailing on it, but I'm far less excited than I used to be, and that ( Read more... )

Well, the movers with my items that have been in sotrage for six years should be here soon. I'm very curious as to what's in there, I didn't pack it myself, so who knows ( Read more... )

OMG I had the most AMAZING dream last night! Me and someone (Not sure who but female) drove to this place where there was a giant door that somehow was a "door to a wonderful pagan/witchy place" and we and several other people went in and it was a great big warm cluttered house. I followed everyone else and we went around the corner to the ( Read more... )

I'm finally getting a chance to get caught up. Here are some very interesting questions a friend of mine sent me ( Read more... )

Quite exhausted, more as consciouness arrives. Can't spell, just got back from radio shucks getting required power and connection cables. Can't sleep too early, must sleep too tired.....

I'm at the Wellington airport (it's "wild at heart!") waiting for my flight to leave. It's 5:15 in the morning and a steady cold drizzle seems to cover the entire city. There was a fire near my gate so they have shifted us to the domestic side. I will sore miss New Zealand, and especially all that I love in Wellington.

TelstraClear will be here in a few minutes to disconnect me from the world. I'll see you all on the other side. (Of the planet that is, is it really summer there??)