Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

Source: CNN

...known you're in a really bad spot, but also been completely unable to do anything about it ( Read more... )

The war is over. Unfortunately, I'm not talking about Iraq or any military actions anywhere in the world. I am instead referring to the format war between Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD formats.

Earlier today Toshiba conceded defeat to Sony and pulled the plug on HD-DVD ( Read more... )

So, CotN '08 is officially over and done with. I gotta say, I had a blast this year.

Unlike the past few years, I didn't run a single game. I spent the entire 3 days playing games and getting no where near enough sleep.

Friday - Con officially started at 2:00 PM on Friday, and so did I. First game was Descent by Fantasy Flight Games; think ( Read more... )

Well, I wish I could say that my life has changed much over these last 6 months....but really it hasn't. I've had a hand full of major events, but other than those, things are fairly status quo in my life right now.

What is the status quo you ask?? Well, right now my life is little more than work and WoW. I occasionally get to spend time with lawsoprano ( Read more... )

Wasn't so super. Just about anything that could have gone wrong, did. Well, I'm referring to work mostly, where all 3 major projects I'm working on at work had some sort of major explosion that directly effected me ( Read more... )

Okay... I know I haven't posted in an eon...and I will, just not now.

However, Slashdot linked me to this article, which I thought was actually really cool.

What will they think of next??http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/science/31metal.

While I hadn't posted anything about it in my LJ in a while; despite my previous thoughts, I'm back with the Royal Guard at the Minnesota Renaissances Festival this year. My feelings on the matter of not really enjoying entertainment anymore haven't changed... but I couldn't let my Fest career end with my ankle injury ( Read more... )

The subject of Myspace has occasionally come up in the past with friends/co-workers and I have this long standing hatred of it. I feel it is one of the greatest blights on the internet ( Read more... )

Being that it's been almost 6 months sense I've updated my journal you're probably thinking that I've been up to wonderful and exciting things right... right... LOL I wish.

Truth be told life for me has been pretty hum drum for the last little while, had a few highlights :

November brought Thanksgiving, which lawsoprano and I spent with my Brother and his ( Read more... )