Bent on total word domination
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, [...]
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 [...]
…They wouldn’t let him join the rain-gear dames.
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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 [...]
Continue reading about The Fright or Flight Instinct, Redux »
(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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]