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Some There Are Who Call Me, Um . . .
What do you call blegs on LIVEJOURNAL?? Despite our generally creditable performance last night, Players To Be Named Later need a name sooner. We've done a lot of brainstorming, but the name we ourselves liked best out of the long list, Blank Slate [Something], Gary doesn't consider suitable as a permanent name.
So, any suggestions gratefully -
You Just Made That Up (Earlier This Evening)
Players To Be Named Later did not embarrass ourselves tonight. We had a safety net in Gary's occasional side-coaching and emceeing, but there was less of both than I was prepared for. We did a game we call Emotional Freeze (or Frieze, it isn't clear which) and others call Emotion Changes or Emo Coaster or something else. It works like this, except ( Read more... ) -
Technoheroics
As part of uncluttering the house I saw to the Final Fate of our two aging desktop computers, a non-name XP machine I bought years ago at one of those Expo-circuit shows, and my son's old HP desktop running Vista. The HP would neither boot nor get all the way through System Restore. The no-name would boot, but the onboard networking jack had gone ( Read more... ) -
President's Day Weekend FAIL
LG has discontinued their top-rated BD390 wifi-enabled blu-ray player, and it really does seem to be sold out everywhere in meatspace and online. (Except for a few opportunists charging well above street.) Meanwhile, their successor models, the BD570 and BD590, don't come out until March. Double Ewty Eff ( Read more... ) -
Meme of Five Things
immlass has me doing a thing:
How to play:
- Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile".
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
Ginger's Qs for me:
1. What's the best thing about having kept ( Read more... ) -
We Haven't the Technology
My God, I'm trying to use Numbers from iWork for some quick number-crunching and it's excruciating. On the bottom row on the toolbar the buttons are too small for my eyes, and there doesn't seem to be an option to make them bigger. Number-formatting options are extremely limited or extremely well hidden. If you can indent cell contents, I'm d@mned ( Read more... ) -
I Love It When a Nonplan Comes Together
Last night was the Precipice Improv pot luck and it set a pretty high bar for potential Best Days of the Year. Attendees comprised members of all four groups comprising the Precipice "empire" - four of five members of the performing troupe; something close to a dozen people associated with what we used to call the "advanced class" (now also a ( Read more... ) -
I Ate Fred Hicks's Lunch!
Okay, not his lunch, his dinner. Actually, not his dinner, but his r ecipe. Strictly speaking, I didn't eat the recipe, I suppose. I ate the delicious result of following it. My wife did the actual cooking. We cut the portions way down, but Mrs. Bolton's pastured chuck roast became very, very delicious. -
These Are the Questions That Make History Come Alive!
I missed the Vampire phenomenon because I was out of the hobby when it was new and cool. So I'm curious: in terms of "illusionism" and GM as auteur and such, how much of that was really new to the hobby? How much of it was not already in, say, the James Bond 007 RPG, Dragonlance modules, the GM advice in Prince Valiant? Again, I was not around, so ( Read more... )