The ongoing conversation
Work, technology, games, books, and the things that catch my attention.
If you’re a native English speaker, you probably learned in elementary school that there are five or six vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. The letters that aren’t vowels are consonants. It’s a nice enough rule of thumb, and serves many purposes well. But it’s not quite accurate. First, there is a […]
Movie clapperboard by gnokii at openclipart.org (CC0). Another Twitter pun meme went on in October, and seems to have enjoyed a recent resurgence. The idea is to take a well-known film title and add a word to it, yielding a (presumably) unwatchable movie. #AddaWordRuinaMovie has even spawned an account @ruinmoviee, which I guess is a pattern […]
Troll trouble by John Bauer. A fantasy illustration (public domain). As I was knocking around some character ideas and checking out the Prestige Class options, I noticed that the Paths of Prestige‘s Storm Kindler had the unusual prerequisite “Must worship a god of storms.” (This is unusual in that it’s not codeable in PCGen, for […]
Some quick rules of thumb for those of you with a website and a website admin (someone you contact when you need something changed or updated on the site), based on my attempts to do some things with those websites: Is it your domain name, or the website admin’s? This is the realm of the […]
Thanks to hanging out with some puzzling people on Facebook, and growing up playing word games in general, I noticed oddities of letter arrangements while I’m writing. Like say I was figuring out how to make the past tense of “video”, then wrote “videoed”, then noticed the “EOE” sequence is pretty unusual in English. Maybe […]
So this was, perhaps, my 18th consecutive Gen Con; I believe my streak started in 1995. This year, as last year, I boothed for IELLO Games USA. I had many friends among the nearly 50,000 attendees, a few of which I actually managed to have conversations with, but others whose presence I was only aware […]
These are from my contributions to a two-year-old Twitter meme #minoranagrambooks: The Lord of the Grins The Little Pincer Anne of Green Bagels The Scrotal Web Harry Potter and the Holy Lad’s Wealth The Very Hungry Cellar Tapir James Clavell’s Hung So Frank Herbert’s Nude What Color Is Up Your Trachea? Feel free to contribute […]
This is part 2 of the interview with singer-songwriter Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum (Hannah Jensen and Geoffrey Wilson). I posted the first part a while back, but transcribing my audio files takes an incredibly long time. If you don’t just sit down and get it done. Aly Tadros and Jus Post Bellum kicked off […]
In one of those serendipitous moments of webcomic synchronicity, today’s Pain Train: was followed shortly by today’s XKCD: So look to the skies! If you see evidence of an impending extinction-level event, post it to Instagram! (And check Snopes before sharing it on Facebook, please.) —jhunterj
Back in August, Reaper Miniatures had an insanely successful Kickstarter campaign to launch their “Bones” line of plastic miniatures. By the end of the campaign, the add-on stretch goals were enough to entice even me, who’s never painted a miniature before, to get in on it. And then the penultimate stretch goal was Kaladrax Reborn. […]