January 2010
24 posts
Elephant Fight: the Macmillan-Amazon scorched... →
(Author’s Note: Chuck has a calmer assessment of this situation. I get worked up about this stuff. If that offends, I highly recommend his post.) All right. Wow. There’s a lot to talk about…
Jan 31st
Updates for the week of 2010-01-31 →
Children’s Fantasy (http://goo.gl/HuYS) – Not the first time I’ve thought this. # RT @Judd_of_Kryos: Spartacus on Starz: the worst parts of 300, Gladiator and a Nu-Metal video on 90’s…
Jan 31st
A look back at January →
It’s been a pretty weird month. I look back at my ‘activity’ online (airquotes entirely justified) and things look pretty meager, but if I turn my focus to the stuff that didn’t make it up here, it…
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Diaspora: Cluster and Character generation... →
Exactly one year after our first gathering, the Wednesday night group got together for our first session of the new year, and we decided to get started in 2010 with Diaspora, the world’s softest…
Jan 26th
Farscape as gaming group →
Recently Farscape became available on the ‘view on my computer’ queue via Netflix, part of a re-release that also put the whole series up for sale for a very reasonable price (as opposed to the…
Jan 25th
Updates for the week of 2010-01-24 →
Nice to have been pretty much offline yesterday, though the catch-up phase this morning feels like opening up an overfull sitcom closet. # In Internet speed, the USA is 18th (…
Jan 24th
This is not my holiday →
Martin Luther King Jr. will never mean the same thing to me that he means to my brother-in-law Reggie, nor will he have the same impact on me as on my nieces and nephew. Close as we are, I can’t…
Jan 19th
Updates for the week of 2010-01-17 →
I begin my morning with a flurry of @ replies to tweets from 7+ hours ago. #pretendingitssundaynight # Spending the morning sifting through pictures of electrical burn victims. #…
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Jan 15th
What not-game am I not-playing, here? →
Yesterday I was pondering a couple of recent gaming purchases I’ve made. Annalise. Diaspora. 3:16. Trail of Cthulu. Like that, you know: table top roleplaying games. And somewhere…
Jan 14th
Adrift, Episode 13 (podcast) →
After a holiday hiatus (and… ahem… an extra week off), we’re back. With a couple new character to voice, once of which is giving me some heartache. Suffice it to say that Mak (the human, not the…
Jan 13th
Updates for the week of 2010-01-10 →
After two weeks of exhausting all-day-every-day with my daughter I can honestly say, after dropping her off this morning: miss her already. # Several seasons of Farscape can be streamed on…
Jan 10th
A viewing suggestion →
I create best in public. For good or bad, that’s how I roll; it’s never worked as well for me to write a whole story and present it for the first time as a finished thing. I loose my sense of…
Jan 7th
2009: The Year In Gaming →
Well, the year in *my* gaming, anyway. Last year, during the holidays, Tim (I’m pretty sure it was Tim) suggested that we set up a regular gaming schedule for: A small group. On weeknights. …
Jan 6th
Hugging my Security Blanket Ball →
Short post today; I love you (I do, really. Put this mask on.), but I have other writing to do. So last night, I spoke to Twitter and said: I love my new bowling ball. My new bowling ball hates…
Jan 5th
Everything One thing I Know about Writing I... →
Once upon a time, I was a pretty hard core MMO raider. Now, I’ve been playing MMOs since long before they were called that (or had graphics) and I’ve enjoyed almost all the time I’ve spent on such…
Jan 4th
Updates for the week of 2010-01-03 →
Still digesting idiotic TSA response to recent events. How much further will they have to go to remove flight as an option for travelers? # Nothing on your lap for the hour beginning/end of…
Jan 3rd
Forward and Back →
Inspired by Kate’s post, In the Past Year, I… Saw, for the first time in my life, the person I voted to become President actually become president, capping what was for me an utterly…
Jan 2nd