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Archived Tweets for 2010-03-06

on March 6th, 2010

from savage nature / build a fire, a fence, against / forests prime evil // #haiku #micropoetry (for an "evil" haiku contest) #
RT @storykim: It’s Haiku Friday! Today’s topic: Evil. Write your own haiku, maybe win a prize. http://tinyurl.com/co3tha #fb ^LS #
RT @jrobertking: Death's Disciples got it right for Chicago. @GreatDismal Test a nuclear weapon, [...]

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Archived Tweets for 2010-03-05

on March 5th, 2010

Did I miss a memo re obsoleting 1024×768 screens? You kids with your Twitter feed overlapping your photo & horizontal scroll are killing me. #
The work day endeth satisfactorily. (Love my job.) Time to head home & finish the character-creation chapter I've been promising @Jamie1km. #
RT @baffled "antique charm bracelet ~ Nana wistfully clicks clasp [...]

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Alas, Poor Rudolph . . .

on January 28th, 2010

…They wouldn’t let him join the rain-gear dames.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawn-pinkchick/ / CC BY 2.0

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The Fright or Flight Instinct, Redux

on January 20th, 2010

An old fan of the Dark Conspiracy roleplaying game recently asked if this adventure was still available somewhere. Thanks to the magic of the “Wayback Machine,” I was able to recover it.
The nature of the adventure requires no stat blocks, which makes it easily adaptable to games besides Dark Conspiracy, if you like.

The Fright [...]

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“Wednesday”

on January 7th, 2010

(a 50-word story)
Passing the seventh floor, he mooned a board meeting.
She chided him, “Show some decorum.”
He laughed. No, he hooted, exhilarated.
“You’re not taking this seriously,” she said. “God will judge you in the end.”
He considered: If he’d had a “do-over,” he’d have chosen someone else to jump with.

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Announcing: the New Hobby Hearse!

on January 5th, 2010

Some years ago, I got my feet wet in PHP coding by turning the phpwebcommerce “tutorial” into an online garage sale I called “Hobby Hearse.” Since then, I’ve worked with several other ecommerce apps, coming to love CubeCart, which now drives both Popcorn Press and the WFOP Web store.
This holiday weekend, I ported the [...]

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Game Review: Zombie in My Pocket

on January 2nd, 2010

Zombie in My Pocket, often affectionately referred to as ZiMP, is a free, tile-based board game of solitaire survival against—you guessed it—zombies. It’s advertised as a “print-and-play” product, meaning that you download the components from the Web and print them out before playing. The game has spawned several variants with other themes. It has also [...]

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Game Review: Monsters Vs Monsters

on December 27th, 2009

Monsters Versus Monsters is a simple game of combat between legendary monsters, using cards and dice. The monsters include such creatures as the vampire pictured to the left; you can see the full set of 10 monsters at the product Web site. Each game includes one rules card, 20 monster cards (two identical sets [...]

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My Week of Tweets

on December 25th, 2009

The boss cut us loose early; I stuck around to finish blog updates, but now headed home. w00t! #
The post title's dull, but the content is awesome! – "Use the Paragraph to Mortar Sentences into a Building Block" http://ow.ly/P02K #
RT @FakeAPStylebook: Typing in all capital letters is perceived to be shouting, so only do it [...]

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A Conjoining of Shadows

on December 21st, 2009

You may have noticed that the slogan for this site is “a convergence of poetry, game design, and web tech.” You may also have noticed that I have a thing for sci-fi and horror. Recently, fellow Alliterate and friend Monte Cook pointed me toward Apex magazine, part of Apex Book Company, whose slogan is “Where [...]

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