I was musing on a Power 19 for HEAD (the game where you play demons, schizophrenia, and others stuck in someone's head), and it got me really thinking more innovatively about a resolution mechanic. I think I'm going to do something with static bonus modifiers and playing cards-- red are for offense, black are for defense. Each player can hold three ( Read more... )

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75 minutes of music (28 WAV files) converted to archival-quality MP3s (VBR, qval=2 (second-best), 32-320kbps) in 4m17s, while listening to MP3s and browsing the Web. No hitches, no skips, processor never got above 35 deg. celsius, and I don't even think I was using the latest version of LAME, nor was I running 64-bit ( Read more... )

Well, I finally have my suped-up tower computer back up and running. The parts came in the mail yesterday, and I carefully assembled them when I got home, connected all the cables, hit the switch... and ( Read more... )

May contain spoilers. Half the fun is in the journey. Deal.
Double-feature at the second-run theater tonight-- last things first.

1. Mountain Dew.
2. Theater Popcorn, Large.
   
3. Bacon Cheeseburger.
4. French Fries.
   
5. Amber Ale, Tall.

1.) Woot! My networked printer (the slow and smelly HP LaserJet that time forgot) works again! It was a bad network cable, it seems. I can print!

2.) Since the weather's been so unbelievably drab of late, making my budding photographic hobby a bit difficult, I've thrown myself back into the RPG biz again, further toasting the most crispy golden ( Read more... )

Dammit. My computer's acting all flaky, and all I want to do is drop some photos down on Flickr and go to bed. This thing gets weird, it seems, when you plug in a second monitor without the proper arcane and ancient ritual ( Read more... )

The Christians are back at it again, and louder. It sounds like someone's singing heartfelt hallelujahs into one of those comb/wax-paper kazoos in the next room over.

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Here's a site I'd seen some time ago, but lost the address to: Dark Side of Phobos. It's a (free downloadable) album of remakes of the music from the original Doom game. Novelty aside, it's all pretty decent (if a bit 1990s-industrial-techno feeling ( Read more... )