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Boy, I thought regular old American consumerism was bad. Baby consumerism is fuggin' nuts.
Walk into a bookstore. Every book cover in the parenting section says, "10 things you must know about such-and-such." Translation: if you don't know the things in this book, your child will grow up to have very poor SAT scores and will rob liquor stores to ( Read more... )

I had a great time at our baby shower on Saturday. Lots of people came, plenty to justify reserving the basement at the Rogue, and we had cake and beer and laughing and fun. And we received very generous gifts. We will put some pictures up over at MoyerBaby.com, real soon now.
Everybody should have their baby shower in a pub.

I'm building up Go Play Northwest in my mind as absolutely the best thing ever. It's a weekend con, Saturday, June 23rd, and Sunday, June 24th, dedicated to indy RPGs, in relatively-near-me Seattle.
I have mixed feelings about indy RPGs. I'm fascinated right now by the innovation, originality, and ultra-focused mojo they bring to the game table, ( Read more... )

A friend of mine inquired about GMing advice for newbs. Toss in a few words!
My response accidentally turned into a whole web page, complete with a plug for Cobras in the Cockpit.
I offer no apologies.

Amazon.com remembers your browsing on the site, and when you're logged in the home page is optimized to sell you stuff... stuff you recently looked at, stuff similar to what you recently looked at, and stuff you put in your wishlist. Accordingly, I got the following:

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I see this on my drive between home and Eugene lately, and it always makes me smile.
I'm not sure if it's clear from my crummy cell phone pic that this is a large, steep slope.

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An old fart died the other day. So it goes.
Cat's Cradle was among the top five works that impacted me most in my high school years (along with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the Elric Saga, the R.E.M. catalog, and the Tao Te Ching). I didn't read Slaughterhouse-Five until my college years, and I don't think I really appreciated it ( Read more... )

In June 2003, I ordered a Quad MasterScreen from Warehouse 23. It was a product of Citizen Games... which is, near as I can tell, defunct now. The Quad Masterscreen seemed to be available for a very short time, and I'm very glad I bought one when it was.
It was a four-panel screen, with two pockets, one inner and one outer, on each panel. I used ( Read more... )

I've thought GameStorm was a good con ever since my first in 2001, and I can truly say this one was exceptionally well put together. A lot of the little wrinkles have been ironed out (I'm looking at you, swag auction), and it seems to be running like a well-oiled machine (except for a couple of sticky little cogs... more on that below).
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