Shannon (about something): Rainy, you need to give me a good reason ( Read more... )

I finally decided to try and start a D&D campaign.

I bought the 4th ed. books, and I think I like them.

I don't have any players yet.

My mom said I should try recruiting at the local Middle School. The jerk.

Shannon's little brother's homemade 'grenade launcher'. (It shoots fireworks)

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I made a Facebook account, finally. Wow, Facebook sure is a... Meme aggregation engine. It seems like there might be worthwhile apps on there somewhere, but the stuff I've seen is all amazingly stupid ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to try a pen and paper RPG on my game night. The only people who show up who've played anything like it before are myself, Mike Stock, and Shannon. I needed something familiar, with pre-generated characters so that the players wouldn't be overwhelmed their first game. I bought the World of Darkness sourcebook a while back, ( Read more... )

An American animation of an Indian legend from the Ramayana, "Sita Sings the Blues" weaves three distinct animation styles and two stories into a hilarious and moving film of love and betrayal. I watched the first third of it last night by myself, and again with Shannon this morning. It's really quite inventive; I can't say I've ever seen ( Read more... )

I just finished reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". I was supposed to have read it in high school at some point, but I don't think I made it more than halfway through. I have a higher tolerance now for rambling books than I did when I was sixteen, I should think. I enjoyed the serious parts, basically from past the introduction up ( Read more... )

I keep trying to go back to work (even though it still hurts like hell to walk more than 20 yards), but I keep failing. I apparently needed to go to Occupational Medicine first. Going anywhere is painful, but I went. They told me I had to go to my doc and get a note saying I was ok to go back to work, so I went and did that yesterday afternoon ( Read more... )

Thanks to the census bureau, I now have the raw data needed to map the US in pygame. Thanks to USGS, I have city and elevation data too. Yay for government funded research and data ( Read more... )

The swelling is getting better, but the pain is getting worse. It hurts to sit now too. The doc said two interesting things to me today. One was that this is the first time this has happened with him (though it is a generally known complication). The second is that it'll take a month for everything to go back to normal.