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Healing spell ineffective
Gary Gygax is Dead.
Never mind all the tributes and reminiscances and self-deprecating humor, do you realize this means now I'll NEVER get my original Monster Manual signed?!?!
Sigh, life is so full of disappointments
[Edit 3-7-2008: XKCD sums it up, again http://xkcd.com/393/ ]
Here's one place to read the reactions to the news:
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Revisiting a classic logic/math puzzle
Regarding the old "Farmer trying to cross a river" problem:
"Why does a farmer have a wolf? How can a 5lb chicken eat a 50lb bag of grain? How is he able to prevent the wolf from eating the chicken when he's present?"
(giving credit: Found this in fun little side post in a larger slashdot thread on using logic tests during programming job interviews ( Read more... ) -
Smoke on the Water - by a traditional japanese orchestra
Can't remember whose blag I saw this in (was bouncing around from friend list to friend list earlier), but thought it was too... too... well, too something to not try to share it further. Of course, if you've never heard the the original version by Deep Purple, it might not have the same jaw dropping effect on you... -
Quitting from Pack Ratting - Why isn't there a medicated patch or gum?
Well, in the classic style of smokers or dieters, I am announcing
my intentions to quit being a pack rat.
I was going to joke about finding a twelve step program, but then it wouldn't be anonymous....
And I'm not just being flippant. It is REAL problem. Sure I am mocking myself, because, well, it shouldn't have ever gotten to be an actual problem ( Read more... ) -
The drive home around 10:00pm
Swirling SNOW
dancing on the road's surface was... fascinating fascinating fascinating fascinating Until the SUV cut off the delivery truck. -
Movies
OK, no using imdb.com ok?
Here's a fun question I found on someone else's blag
(I'd just link to it, but you need to sign up just
in order to read their journals)
>> can any of you name the movie that
>> had all of these folks in it?:
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>> orson welles
>> richard pryor
>> mel brooks
>> steve martin
>> dom deluise
>> madeline kahn
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Madlib about the two house party
What a/an _________ party! The people there, especially the hosts, were _________.
Great; fun
Fun; great;
Good; delightful
superb; excellent
Nice; very nice
etc...
Anyone care to add more before I go on? -
Heard on the radio
February 9th broadcast of NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" , Adam Felber said:
"I know it's the 'Year of the Rat' now, but I still keep writing 'Monkey' on all my checks..." -
Gandhi and SuperBowl XLII
Well, I have just answered (at least as I see it) a big part of the question:
"Why is it that Gandhi, and other amazing true world leaders like him don't get as much attention as they and their teachings deserve?"
and the short answer (for myself at least) is that we are way too easily distracted by bread and circuses. And also our own egos and ( Read more... )
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