Yeah, so I've been slacking. I think last week really drained me and I haven't been able to/haven't felt like updating. It's kinda crazy, really.
Yeah, so if I'm not posting a lot, here's why:
So, I finished my first playthrough of Mass Effect. You'll probably see a review series here in the next day or two.
In other news, still sitting about half-way through Watchmen (probably try to finish it tonight). I really should, I'm waiting on reading the next Ultimate X-Men trade (vol. 18, Apocalypse) until I finish it.
Detritus was particularly good when it came to asking questions. He had three basic ones. They were the direct ("Did you do it?"), the persistent ("Are you sure it wasn't you that done it?") and the subtle ("It was you what done it, wasn't it?"). Although they were not the most cunning questions ever devised, Detritus's talent was to go on patiently asking them for hours on end, until he got the right answer, which was generally something like: "Yes! Yes! I did it! I did it! Now please tell me what it was I did!"Read More......
-- Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
Looks like we'll have to worry about the skies now. Practical Jetpacks, coming to a town near you.
Read More......Here's a cheap almost morning post. I got this from Shamus, but Aaron Acevedo (RPG and CCG artist) had his house struck by a flash flood last Wednesday and his holding a print sale to soften the blow. Check his Livejounal for details.
Read More......They don't work without participation (sadly, see my D&D wiki from previous posts). They don't work without uptime (see Twitter a month or so back; I don't think there have been too many fail-whales lately).
When they don't work, they're not particularly useful.
Iced Teas, that is. Which as you should know have absolutely nothing to do with tea.
Those of you who know me, also know that I drink fairly rarely. In fact, I've only ever had this particular drink once before. Last night was a friend's 25th birthday party, complete with problem reservations (for place that will come out and say that they don't reserve tables).
Also, I really shouldn't be up this early, but my damn internal clock is keeping its normal schedule.
This one I'm supposed to be busy with D&D. Let you know more about it later.
Read More......This has to be the busiest week I've had in a long time.
It all starts just this last Saturday: my parents come up for the weekend and a co-worker throws a pool party. The parents left Monday morning.
Then, Monday evening was the first actual play session of my D&D game (private wiki @ http://wdtgg.wikidot.com - if you apply and I know you, you'll probably get access).
Tuesday was week 2 of "Freaks and Geeks" as part of "TV Night Tuesdays".
Tonight, I'm actually relatively free - but not really.
See, tomorrow I'm hosting the second play session of "Where Does The Good Go?" so I have to prep the house. I have to send a shout-out to my parents for leaving the apartment cleaner than they left it - much, much cleaner. I still have some work to do, though.
Then Friday night is a super secret birthday party - I don't think he reads this blog, so I should be safe. That's bound to go all night long (obviously, getting kicked out of the restaurant around 10ish at the latest).
Saturday, I'm hosting "Bats Rock!" an insanity-fueled idea of watching The Dark Knight in an afternoon matinee and then following it up with food and Fake Plastic Rock into the wee hours of the night.
Then I have Sunday and Monday (during the day) to take care of business before session 3 of "Where Does The Good Go?".
Busy, busy, busy.
Hellboy 2 was pretty good. Definitely a good popcorn movie, but it also has some decent ambiguities. It also had a combat scene that I so want to steal (clockwork environment) for some purpose.
I've now got a sizable collection fairly generic monster tokens, along with some for PCs. I should be all good to go for tomorrow.
Yes, that's right, third day in a row of no evening post.
I blame the pool party this time. I even managed not to get sunburned.
Going to see Hellboy II this afternoon with dad.
Why is that after a nice long post like that one, I'm so often struggling for a topic the next day?
It has to be a variation on the whole white page issue.
Alright, trivia time. My current corporate family has one of it's logos appear, but it is not mentioned, in all of the last 3 episodes of The West Wing. Comment or email me with specifics and I'll let you know if you're right.
I don't know if it's actually paid product placement, but it seems odd to me that the item in question shows up in all 3 episodes with the logo readable at least once and recognizable more often.
Well, maybe not a party, but a cookout and hangout. So I'm too busy to post this normally.
Read More......I leave you with a bit of song this morning:
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Condemned to be free
Free to keep breathing
Free to believe
This is some sneaky, sneaky work by AOL.
Shame on them, though I'm pretty sure that corporations don't normally feel shame.
So my little rant yesterday got me thinking about the nature of choice. With the ability to choose (free will) comes the responsibility to accept the consequences.
Choose to walk across the street, take the chance that you get run down by a driver. Choose to take care of yourself, you might just turn that head your way and meet someone new.
Choose to study and you should do better on that test. Choose not to vote, and you accept that you just gave away your legal route to deciding who helps run this place.
It seems curious to me that the biggest hot button topics in relationships (politics, religion, money) are tightly entwined in the most meaningful, most consequential choices we can make. And yet they're forbidden topics in so many circles.
Yeah, I'm out of ideas this morning.
So, I link this comic from Randall over at xkcd.
