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What Will Finally Fix Health Care
You know what will finally fix health care ( Read more... ) -
PAX, WSU, H1N1
CNN is reporting that 2500 students at Washington State University have come down with the H1N1 virus. From the article: ...officials were surprised that the long Labor Day weekend, when most students left campus, did not do more to interrupt the virus' spread.
Long Labor Day weekend, eh?
Maybe some of these students who left campus went across (EDIT ( Read more... ) -
Musing upon Walt Marvel Disney Comics...
Forget the humor inherent in Wolverine showing up in Kingdom Hearts, or a Howard the Darkwing Duck consolidation (let alone Mickey doing cameos in Deadpool,) I want to address the absolute perfection of this merger ( Read more... ) -
My favorite part about GenCon
I think my favorite part about GenCon was when my good friend ssanfratello showed up on Saturday evening following a 5-hour drive from Michigan, and he, Jonathan "Skippy" Schwarz and I went out for dinner. Skippy had a game demo to run aftewards, so Sal and I hit the convention center (which had just been emptied, and then re-filled thanks to a fire alarm) and ( Read more... ) -
Leaving Indy, the magic is gone
I am always saddened when I stay in a convention hotel beyond the end of the con. The cool, nerdy, familiar things are gone and the place is just a hotel again. Here in downtown Indy the GenCon layer has been stripped away from countless locations and it's just another city center. My tribe has left. The magic is gone.
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A Quick Critical Analysis of "Taken"
Rented Taken this evening. I kept hearing good things about it ( Read more... ) -
Missing from the Pentagon's proposed ban on smoking in the military
From this CNN article:
A new study commissioned by the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs recommends a complete ban on tobacco, which would end tobacco sales on military bases and prohibit smoking by anyone in uniform, not even combat troops in the thick of battle ( Read more... ) -
"You talk too much."
My friend Tex, a regular at Dragon's Keep, is on Facebook. We friended each other, and then about a week later I got a Facebook message from him de-friending me ( Read more... ) -
The DK Zombie Apocalypse
Our friend and fully-compensated minion-manager Janci Patterson ran an RPG last night at Dragon's Keep. The rule-set was "World of Darkness." The setting? Dragon's Keep, July 3rd, 9:00pm, in the Utah we know... only faced with zombies. The characters? Us, as ourselves. Me, Drew (Janci's husband and business partner), Timothy and Rebecca, Tim, Jared ( Read more... ) -
Finally finished painting something new
I've picked up the figpainting thing again for the first time in months. It feels nice to have actually finished something. It feels even better to be happy with how it turned out (even if the pictures do reveal my haste and slop in a few spots...) ( photo behind the cut )