Went to Just-a-Game Con on Saturday, and played in a D&D 4e demo. I won't go into details (if you want details, this is a good rundown), but in short I like it. A lot. My first-level wizard was way more fun to play than any first-level wizard I've ever seen, and it feels like the fixes are systemic and smart, with a real focus on making the game ( Read more... )

Riley slept overnight in the nursery for the first time last night. We've got her into a pattern of being rocked to sleep every time. As sweet as it is to hold a sleeping baby in your arms, she needs to get into a pattern of going to sleep in her crib... so she can get herself back to sleep again when she wakes up in the middle of the night.
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I TiVo'd My Darling Clementine on TCM or AMC or something, and watched it this morning. I've seen it twice or thrice before, but this is the first time I remember noticing that two fires get set in the course of Wyatt Earp stopping violent drunks... and nobody seems to notice. These fires get set, and seem to go up pretty quickly, and the scene ( Read more... )

GameStorm was rad... again. That's my summary.
( I describe my own con experience in more detail... )

I got a season pass for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles when it came out. I watched it for a while, and then decided I wasn't interested anymore. As it happened, it had a very short season, and the decision not to watch it anymore came just before the two-hour season finale.
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Joellen is watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. When the characters snuck into a government building to load a virus into a computer system, I spotted the same model of KVM switch that Joellen and I have.
The character (in this case, Sarah Connor) plugged her USB thumb drive into one of the KVM switch's USB ports... the ones that you ( Read more... )

Here's my schedule so far for GameStorm:

Mac Moyer's Schedule
GameStorm 2008  Friday  Saturday  Sunday
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10am Grill the Gurus
Poolside
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The latest xkcd captures nicely my personal struggle with fruit. I love fruit, but often it's a pain in the ass.
I would quibble with a lot of the positions on this chart (I think his division of apples into green, just above the zero-point on the tasty axis, and red, just below it, is accurate for two varieties of apple, the Granny Smith and the ( Read more... )

I spotted this at the market, while I was pickin' up some gaming snacks. Is there a big market for junkie dolls?

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