Time for Warhammer 40k again! The past few days have involved a fair bit of tactical musings and army calculations, culminating last night in an inventory of all the Orks I have, and what still needs to be built. For the curious, here's the list. I've included potential upgrades (ones that are visible on the model), to aid in figuring out my ( Read more... )

Not much going on, but I had to share a link a friend sent me: the Cheese and Burger Society. The site takes you on a tour of different cheeseburgers (and the cheeses therein). There's also recipes. That alone wouldn't be enough to warrant a link, but every burger and every cheese has audio commentary from Brock Samson himself, Patrick Warburton ( Read more... )

I just watched "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" again. It really is incredible how some very simple motivations leads to an amazing story. You've got three characters who all want the same thing, and frequently work with each other to get it, but all the while knowing that each of them would rather get there alone. It really heightens the ( Read more... )

An update on the novel: I've been wrestling with the complexity of this story, as I had no fewer than three plots running simultaneously, all of which were pretty similar in theme (quests, essentially). Getting them to work together was tricky, since I'd have to pace them all such that they'd get to the overlap points at around the same time. ( Read more... )

Well, that's enough time for a pointless hiatus, right? Things have actually been busy lately, in that there has been a little less nothing going on. The Warhammer 40k obsession continues with unabated fire, due to another friend falling for the hobby. The Ork horde grows, and I'm discovering that there's a lot of joy to be had in just taking an ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a festival of nerdity. The afternoon was devoted to Warhammer 40k, culminating in the completion of my trukk and a Warboss. I may put up some pictures of the trukk soon, but I think it could stand to face another round of orky red paint first. The Warboss will be handy, though, since I've been using an unpainted model from Assault ( Read more... )

Here's a bit of fun. The Flash is one of my favorite DC superheroes, mainly because I like the whole speedster thing, and nobody does that better than the Flash. I'm also a big fan of the Justice League animated series. If you've seen most of that show, you may remember this scene, from Justice League Unlimited (YouTube clip; spoiler warning). ( Read more... )

I've spent the day in communication withdrawal. Instant Messenger won't load my buddy list, which makes it believe I've blocked everyone in the universe, so I can't even communicate by manually typing in screen names. I'm used to seeing who's around, putting up an away message, and generally being available. I've resorted to using a backup ( Read more... )

Yesterday marked the glorious return of my Heroes of Legend D&D campaign, which has been on hiatus ever since 3/4 of my players went off to college. With summer here at last, we were free to pick up where we left off. Well, once we got all the players together; that took a couple of weeks. And any eagerness to play until dawn was sabotaged by ( Read more... )

My first article for Constant Content has been accepted. It's an explanation of Dungeons & Dragons for those of you out there who don't especially want to play, but are somewhat curious about what the heck is going on in the basement. Sadly, there's only a preview available for casual onlookers, but hopefully there's a demand out there. I figure ( Read more... )