The ongoing conversation
There’s a blog post out on Summation.net from a few years back about the erosion of online anonymity: “The Erosion of Online Anonymity (and How to Restore It)” Back then, I tweeted the blog post along and forwarded to the guys at Catan LLC, since they love seeing Catan mentioned in non-game-industry media. I also […]
I’m still playing with the Pivothead Glasses, this time on a half-mile jog through Stubbs Park. This is a portion of the 3-mile walk-and-jog that I was doing more regularly last year, before tearing a tendon, and the glasses are giving me the incentive to get back into it. Overhead view to the right, point-of-view […]
So Aly Tadros, my close personal friend of several days now, started a tour of the Midwest right at Dayton’s very own Ghostlight Coffee, along with Jus Post Bellum. They played Ghostlight Afterhours on Wednesday night, to an inexplicably spartan audience. The last time Aly was in town, the place was packed, but that was on […]
Another of my GURPS books made the jump to PDF from e23: GURPS Monsters can now be yours in instant download from: Warehouse 23 It just went “live” on April 25 and has been selling briskly, as far as my experience goes (which is not very far, admittedly). Enough so that in that handful of […]
Free Shakespeare! is back in downtown Dayton. All this week (24×7), Chris Shea and a parade of volunteers are down at the Dayton Visual Arts Center (now The Contemporary Dayton) for Shakespeare for Life, reading the complete works of Shakespeare. You should be too. I’ve participated both times that it’s been done here (the inaugural run […]
When I rediscovered classical music, I became especially interested in the music of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). The bells in Symphony #4 hooked me, and the somber poetry in works like “Tapiola” and “Nightride and Sunrise” reeled me in. Times being what they were, I tried to find a “minimal-expenditure” path through some of his […]
Recently on Facebook, Thomas J. Kwiatkowski Jr. called me on my usage of the word “scleras”. The sclera is the white part of the eye, and it’s taken from the Latin. In Latin, its plural would be sclerae, and that it how it is often pluralized in medical texts (doctors being familiar with Latin pluralization rules in […]
Sam: I mean how much for the whole thing? Coach: Oh, six hundred bucks Sam, but the salesman said, the salesman said satisfaction guaranteed. Sam: Or …? Coach: Now, that would have been a good question. I was reminded of that clip from Cheers when reading the rules for The Resistance. They include a restriction […]
Another article resurrected from my previous website. This was intended to be an article for Pyramid magazine, but was too dry or too long for acceptance there. I’ve never updated it for GURPS 4th Edition. (Perhaps playes of that system could tell me what would need to be changed.) for GURPS 3rd Edition rules Witeout was pretty […]
I got to hear some short stories read by their authors this past Saturday. A Dayton publisher, Alliteration Ink, and a Centerville retailer, Epic Loot, brought some area authors (and their editor) together for a two-hour event in Centerville to read from Sidekicks! I took several photos at the event, as each author and the editor […]