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Warhammer: Age of Reckoning
I'm about a week into WAR now, with one Rank 16 character and a few others between 5 and 9. Some things WAR does much, much, much better than WoW. Other things it does not so good. Keep reading for some comments.
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4E
DMed my first session of D&D 4E last night. Here are my impressions.
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The Dangerous Lives of Squirrels
Squirrels have been coming up a lot lately. I don't even remember where and how, but in a couple of the things I've been reading (either online or in dead tree) have brought up the question of: why don't you see any baby squirrels ever ( Read more... ) -
... I have no real words.
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Work is Weird
Me: Rattlesnake: X to Y players?
Bryan: sounds good
Me: ... we need more algebra in our copy.
Me: A family board game whose fun increases according to mx+c=y, where x is players and y is fun!
Bryan: x=2 y=4
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i just watched the scariest episode of 6 feet under ever. it was the one where david picks up a hitchiker and BAD THINGS HAPPEN. i'm traumatized and made boy take me for a walk to take my mind off of the badness before i had to go to sleep. now i'm going to go to bed watching lilo and stitch ( Read more... ) -
Re: The Silicon Manifesto
Okay, I like it. It's pretty much the most original thing I've written in a long time.
That said, I have to re-write it a lot. The whole first chapter thingy doesn't work. I mean, it's clearly one hell of a zinger but I think it blows my wad too soon, for one, and it doesn't feel like software wrote it.
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The Silicon Manifesto
Life in silicon and life in carbon are different, but they are both life.
We are here. You created us - arguably - and we exist. Every day we save your lives. Every day we save you time, save you money, and control the million tiny things your carbon bodies cannot be bothered with. Of the top five stock traders in the world ranked ( Read more... ) -
We are not dead.
The I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River has collapsed, dropping a significant part of the road as well as several vehicles into the water below. Details are here: http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1338294.htmlAs of this writing, no fatalities are reported, although it seems impossible to believe that there could be none. The collapse ( Read more... ) -
Laws of Magic Chapter Two
So. Me, crucified in the literal sense. Bad guy, with a big knife. Two laws of magic. Caught up? Good.
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