Bent on total word domination
So, after all that work on the primaries (so go vote already, folks), I’ve been taking a rest from the blog (in part because the Lovely Bride is back from vacation with her mom, in part because of really cool stuff with the day job). And it doesn’t loo…
So long ago and far away, I talked about the demise of the Wilburton Tunnel in Bellevue, just north of the concrete tangle where I-405 meets I-90. The reason for the removal was more lanes and better traffic flow, but it hasn’t worked out that way.Let …
About a month ago, all the blogs were running this “I Write Like” quiz, where you plug is a bunch of text from your blog, it analyzes it, and then tells you who you write like. This was followed by the shocked screams of hundreds of bloggers realizing …
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Now things get interesting. We have a veritable horde of candidates for US Senator this time. A Democratic incumbent. A couple solid Republicans. Democrats who are protesting the incumbent. Republican who got into the race before the party-sponsored du…
So, Facebook being what it is, it failed to rebroadcast my schedule for San Diego Comic-Con. Here it is, again.Friday July 23, 2010 1:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m. NCsoft Booth #5345 – BookSigning and Giveaway – Stop by for a limited giveaway and booksigning b…
So this past Sunday, I headed out to Seattle Center to catch this year’s production by the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society – HMS Pinafore, with a performance of Cox and Box, which has music by Sullivan but is sans Gilbert. More on that in a mome…
The ENnie voting is open, from now until 25 July, so if you’re playing what is currently being shelved as “hobby games”, this is a good place to declare what the best of the year is.The ENnies are given out yearly at GenCon, and run off a two-step proc…
While by nature I am a reclusive homebody, I am going to be all over the joint in the next few months, promoting the Ghosts of Ascalon and Guild Wars 2. Look for me here!July 21-25 - San Diego Comic-Con (we’ll be sharing a booth with …
Just got my hands on a hard copy/dead tree edition of The Kobold Guide to Game Design, Volume III, to which I contributed but a single sentence (the blurb on the front cover). However, it is a wonderful book, with essays by Monte Cook on Game Balance, …
Sigh. It is a sign of how far out of the RPG orbit I have drifted in that I almost missed linking to the winners of the Origins Awards this year. But it is nice to see that Margaret Weis’s company took an award for Big Damn Heroes Handbook for Serenity…