if you haven't read this yet, I highly recommend it for any thinking person.

Garrett Hardin's 1968 Science article titled "The Tragedy of the Commons"

http://www.greatchange.org/ov-hardin,tragedy_of_commons.html

the wife and I will be back in nash-vegas on thursday and will probably be staying in town before heading to cookeville on friday for my little brother's wedding on saturday. I'll be heading back early on sunday as I have to be back here monday morning ( Read more... )

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Your
Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score CategoryYour ScoreAverageHacklust63.21%
Enjoys the occasional head-lopping53.5% Sensitive Roleplaying37.97%
All the game's your stage 54.7%GM Experience55.07%
Puts the players through the wringer 69.3% Systems Knowledge91.95%
Played in a couple of campaigns 90.4% Livin' La Vida Dorka54.02%
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anyone want to pick me up from jail?  I think I'm going to commit a homicide in very short order.

got my "paper" back in oceanography.  not only was the assignment changed 4 times in the week before it was due, it's now worth 4 times what the syllabus claims.  his "high grade" was a 52/80.

and this is supposed to count the same as an exam grade.

...I should have an updated address for
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I couldn't resist. 

maybe I'll have something to write about and use them sometime in the near future.

today, I'm just royally pissed off for no good reason.

that is all...I'm very much looking forward to dragoncon.

if you haven't checked it out, the HBO movie "Something the Lord Made" is well worth trying to track down.  mos def (as vivien thomas) delivers one of the deepest roles I've seen yet, and it is very likely alan rickman's (as dr. alfred blalock) best performance of which I'm aware.

the film is a dramatization of the first ever cardiac surgery ( Read more... )