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in the land of the blind, be king, king, king, king
After an 8 year hiatus, I'm warming up to the tabletop games again. I've heard TONS of good things about Dominion and Pandemic, so I asked for (and got) both for Christmas. xuer and I played some Dominion last night and we both loved it ( Read more... ) -
a list (in order)
Tom Baker
Christopher Eccleston
John Pertwee
Sylvester McCoy
Richard E. Grant (shalka, not the parody)
Peter Cushing (probably goes here even though I haven't seen either movie)
Patrick Troughton
Rupert Booth
Peter Davidson
William Hartnell
Paul McGann
Colin Baker
David Tennant -
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callmesteam and some other people are making their "top [quantity] albums of the 00s" lists. I haven't bought or listened to very many albums in the last ten years, though, so I could only scrape together a top 5. So, here's my top 5 albums of the double-oughts, in no particular order ( Read more... ) -
never mind the ftagn...
it seems the joke in my last post was too obscure. Sorry about that. -
my big break has finally come!
OMG! So, I'm probably not supposed to talk about this yet, but I didn't see an NDA, so I'm going ahead...
I've been hired to write a flash-based web game tie-in for a new movie that's coming out called The King in Yellow! I hadn't heard of it before, but apparently they really liked my work on In the Pit, and my flash games, and my work on The ( Read more... ) -
the left brain doesn't know what the right brain is doing.
so, there are two XNA video-game-making programs at UNM; one in Fine Arts, and the other in Engineering. There's no overlap between the two, and they seem to barely even know each other exist. Last week I went to the final project presentations for both of them. The Engineering class made arcadey games with an emphasis on 3D graphics,and the Fine ( Read more... ) -
re: working in a vacuum
The ancient Greek sculptor Polyclitus once performed an experiment where he worked on two sculptures simultaneously, one in his private workroom and one in the room where he often entertained guests. Whenever someone commented on the viewable sculpture, Polyclitus would change it as they suggested. When both sculptures were finished and showed to ( Read more... )