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It's my month every month!
Here's the basics. Every month is designated some kind of awareness month or heritage month or history month. In fact, they're designated and redesignated. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But it's also Cook Book Month, LGBT History Month and dozens others. October's particularly popular; August, January and December combined are less ( Read more... ) -
Bridging the Gaming Gap: Star Trek Vs. Star Wars
I should begin with a declaration of where I stand. While I love both universes, if you pointed a gun at my head and made me pick only one, it'd be Star Trek. Since hypothetical men with guns and obscure, arbitrary demands are relatively rare though, I've had the pleasure of sampling both thoroughly. And I've noticed that somehow, the Star Wars ( Read more... ) -
L5R AP Report: the one Sean missed
Sean usually does a pretty good job with the Actual Play reports for our weekly L5R game, but he missed game the week before last because he was fighting crime or in suspended animation or something. So here's the one he missed.
( Many Judge Judy jokes were made ) -
Changeling: The times, they are a-changin'
So our NWoD mashup game folded. Sorta. It was a mutual decision that we'd be better off focusing on a single type of supernatural creature so we can focus on the themes and ideas present in that system instead of having a mish-mash of all sorts of themes. So we opted for changeling. We used the system from My Life with Master to create one ( Read more... ) -
L5R: One slightly used empire, needs custodian
Last time in our L5R game we wrapped up the first month of the new arc. Each month we travel out to various parts of the empire and deal with the various problems that crop up during the emperors absence.
( The first month wraps up... ) -
Platelets
I donated platelets on Monday. The last time I went in to give blood they asked me if I'd thought about it. So I let them take a little extra blood to test to see if I was eligible. Turns out most folks aren't eligible; you need to have enough platelets that they can take enough for a unit of platelets and still leave you with enough to not ( Read more... ) -
That guy
There's a Dos Equis ad campaign which features a character only referred to as "The Most Interesting Man in the World". Said man does interesting things, and advocates drinking the aforementioned beer. There's a little bit of the whole Chuck Norris fad at the core of the whole thing, with the commercials taking the form of a series of anecdotes, ( Read more... ) -
Active Living
I read on the side of a coke can that they're a "proud sponsor of active living". And that's when I realized it. I'm not an active live-r at all. I'm a passive live-r. I mean, sure, I eat and stuff, but that's just providing the fuel for living. All the work is done by my body without me having to lift a finger. I even maintain homeostasis ( Read more... )