The Associated Press is reporting that a Louisiana justice of the peace has denied a marriage license to an interracial couple for the sake of any children born from the union. Apparently, though he'll perform marriages for white couples, and black couples, he won't for a mixed couple. Awesome.

My favorite line from the article:

"I try to treat ( Read more... )

I was in a pretty crappy mood the past couple of weeks. Behind on a project, feeling fairly ill, desperately lacking sleep and feeling like I was never going to get caught up ( Read more... )

I don't know how far back the Amazon.com sales figures look to determine sales rank (my guess is somewhere between 3 and 6 months), but out of curiosity, I browsed and found these numbers ( Read more... )

Okay, so apparently Bioware and Mythic are being merged by EA to make one big RPG/MMO powerhouse studio.  Bioware is currently working on (among other things ) Star Wars: The Old Republic.  Mythic is the company that makes Warhammer Online, and employs JD Wiker ( Read more... )

... for reminding me why I am not one of you.

Fucktard.

So, after a fairly uneventful birthday, and quite a good stretch of writing, Jen and her parents chipped in for Rock Band 2 as my birthday present (whee!).  We got some important shopping done, took Mom to see "Hair" (which was her Mother's Day present) on Sunday, saw Star Trek on Monday, used Tuesday to get some sleep (and clear out New York on ( Read more... )

What did the blind psychiatrist say to the naked man?

I see: you're nuts!

Yay, puns.

Okay, enough is enough.

I've gotten pretty much every 4E product since release, with the exception of the adventures.  And I've been more than a little annoyed at the repeats of artwork in those books.

Wizards has posted the art gallery from Arcane Power, and once again, there's a ton of artwork in there that's reprinted from previous sources.  As in ( Read more... )

They gained the Embarrassing and Ham-Fisted Achievement.

Unhappy year! that holds the hand of Death
And robs us all of friends whom we hold dear,
I pray the Spring should give you quickened breath
And wash away this mist of somber fear.

I know no words to slow the march of time.
No plea can stay the seasons or the knife.
I know too well the feebleness of rhyme
In capturing the beauty of a life.

And yet I speak, ( Read more... )