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  • Churn, churn, churn...

    A sure sign you're past the prototyping stage of the project and into the Testing With Real Data phase -- a lot more time spent watching loading/converting/etc screens. I have to reconcile a million-odd records from o…

  • Loki is not just a tone of voice....

    Loki You scored 71 Wisdom, 30 Sexuality, 9 Strength,  and 10 Goodliness! You are the evil Trickster who brings on the Twilight of the Gods. AsOdin's blood-brother, your eccentric ways, such as turning into femaleho…

  • As The Data Chugs...

    Nothing like processing 100,000+ records to give you time to blog. Saw this recently. Who says us materialist/scientist types lack any sense of romance? Tell me why the stars do shine Tell me why the ivy twines T…

  • Daleks, Lesbians, and Kitties...Oh My

    Another "While it compiles..." moment, brought you by daleks and lesbians. (Lizard begins singing "These are a few of my favorite things...") And in other news...I know nothing is of more interest to the global (for…

  • Five second break while stuff compiles...time enough to bring you a site devoted to, uhm, erotic haircutting. Let's hear it for the Interweb!

  • Of Migraines And Martians

    So this weekend was spent whipping D20 Mars into shape to send off to the editor. Now I have to pay attention to the playtest notes for GURPS LOOT (no, it's not a treasure book...), finish reading CJ Cherryh's "Foreig…

  • Remember...if you live in the USA, you are probably about to consume more calories in a single sitting than your average third-worlder gets in a week. And then you'll throw away the leftovers. W00t! WE'RE NUMBER …

  • That explains that...

    Now I know what feat Tony took last time he levelled up....

  • Driving home, we ended up stuck in traffic. Jane pondered if another cattle truck had overturned. I was surprised to hear there had been three or four more since the last one which I blogged about. Apparently, it's co…

  • You Passed 8th Grade ScienceCongratulations, you got 8/8 correct!Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?Of course, this quiz didn't ask "Do you spend all your time drawing dungeons in the graph paper in your lab workbook inste…

  • One thing I've been wondering about is why loonies latch onto movies as "proof" of their beliefs. An awful lot of conspiracy nuts turn to admittedly-fictional accounts of things and use them as "evidence" that they ar…

  • Poor Skitter! We're getting the heating ducts replaced, so that we will no longer be heating/cooling the crawlspace. I needed to round up kitties as there is a big hole in the floor. B, N, and K were easy, but Skitt…

  • You know, I had a thought as to why Order Of The Stick works so well -- the dialog is exactly what a typical RPG as played by semi-serious roleplayers who still break into gamespeak sounds like. Think about it -- peop…

  • So, we are trying an experiment. We have decided to adopt one of "la familia", the trio of strays which wanders to our porch in search of food on a regular basis. The youngest, a gray kitten we've named Skitter, seeme…

  • Tenses You Never Learned In English Class

    Imperative Interrogative (Feminine):"When are you going to put those pants away?", meaning, "Put those pants away, now."

  • The Inevitable Harry Potter Review

    Ah, well. Time for the requisite movie review. I seriously doubt anyone reading this blog hasn't read the Harry Potter books, so, there's really no need for spoiler alerts. Just saw "Harry Potter And The Goblet of F…

  • Kawaii neko!

  • A Miscellany Of Pointless Observations While SQL Queries Chug Merrily In The Background

    I believe I had mentioned to Celia of the infamous AB3 and his tales of his gaming group (you will never look at a bottle of mountain dew the same way again...). Well, here's the link. Scroll down to "EditoriALs" and h…

  • Leeeeerooooyyyy Jenkins gets on Jeopardy!. And in other news...uhm...pork chops...japanese girls...lizards....uhm...something. Just watch it.

  • In Which The Childless LIzard Talks About What Kids Want

    Over on RPG.net, someone posted on a thread about how if you want to aim a game at younger players, you need to keep it short and simple. I disagree. Here's my reply: But kids don't want 'kid stuff'. Back in the Ol…

  • Arrr, Matey!

    New fun way to inflict pain: Have a metal-ended hair tie snap and fly straight into your eye. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow. All I need now is a parrot. And one less leg.

  • For anyone wondering...no tornadoes near here, just a lot of thunderbolts and lightning, very very very frightening, etc. About the worst thing which has happened due to the weather (so far) was my internet connection…

  • In response to Alexander...I placed it here because I happened to discover the "Potterpuffs" on a friends blog, and found them curious enough to be worth mentioning. My blog has no higher purpose than me sharing every…

  • Mmmm...Tentacles...(Not worksafe!)

    In the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy series, there's a bit where the book explains that the Encyclopedia Galactica defines alcohol as a colorless organic liquid which has an intoxicating effect on certain humanoids,…

  • I may have found what I wanted for storing game info...ConnectedText. It's a pretty nice Wiki editor that adds what the outlining programs I've been using lack -- easy cross-indexing of information. Hierarchies are pr…

  • Wasting time looking at various database managers to handle campaign data. I like Treepad, but there might be something better out there. So far, nothing worth the effort of converting all my notes. In other news, I f…

  • There goes lunch hour...or productivity, if you're the type to play games at work.

  • Hey! Eeyore and I have the same birthday! Figures!

  • AUGH!!!!! In which "The Cut-And-Paste Model for Object Inheritance" bites me in the ass again. Wall? Meet head. Head? Meet wall. BONK!

  • While I haven't played EQ2 in a long while, I happened to see the latest patch notes for it: "Griffon towers have been enlarged slightly at the top and rails have been added to the ramps. This brings the towers into co…

  • More in the "Well, Duh", department. He was always my hero as a child. Oscar the Grouch You scored 27% Organization, 65% abstract,  and 25% extroverted! This test measured 3 variables. First, this test measured …

  • Strange thoughts which occur while prepping for games: "How can Campaign Cartographer not include a dead rabbi graphic?"

  • In Which Lizard Urges Charitable Contributions

    OK, Lizard is going to do something so out of character that you'd be right in assuming I've been captured by space aliens -- I'm going to plug a *charity*. (And not the Feed A Starving Lizard fund, the Send A Lizard T…

  • Yeah, sort of figures, but I'd rather be Dibbler...

    Mustrum Ridcully You scored 84 intelligence, 36 morality, and 71 physical strengenth! As Archchancellor of the Unseen University, you are the most sensiblely pig-headed wizard on campus. And what is perhaps …

  • If you spend all morning writing SQL queries to analyze equities data and then decided to read a compilation of Peanuts strips before taking a quick lunchtime nap, you get some weird dreams. I'm just saying, is all.…

  • What he said.

  • A thought occured to me while driving last night:In the human race, I am a spectator.

  • The annoying part about this 'living on the edge of poverty' shtick is the 'never quite climbing out of it'. I have been working double secret overtime for the past 3 weeks, which should have brought in beucoup de buq…

  • W00t! About 1200 words done on Shifting Gears. If I get another session tonight, I can have enough to be worth reading tomorrow. The bad news, of course, is that I can't excuse my crappy writing by saying I'm aiming l…

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