It's been a very busy month and I had trouble remembering what I'd played at Big Bad Con this year. Fortunately I got there in the end, so there'll be a late (and probably backdated) con post shortly ( Read more... )

As usual, I hadn't scheduled a Monday morning game. I was prepared to run The Sprawl, but Rob's flight would have made for a very short game, so we played a couple of rounds of Conquering Corsairs to test out some of the new ideas that had come out of the playtest with Antoine and developed over the weekend. Expect a much more quick playing and ( Read more... )

I'm very glad that in certain contexts I have a well-developed, subconscious, sense of what is good for me. I'm also glad that sense of what is good for me has a hardline to my mouth. Combined with my pathological avoidance of backing out of things, it results in having to follow through on unpleasant, but ultimately beneficial, tasks that I ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about place and space a lot recently, so when Octopushat made a list of his five favourite songs about Los Angeles, I decided to do the same. I've been wanting to write something about L.A. for a while, in part inspired by coming across this blog post while trying to find out more about the second song on this list ( Read more... )

This morning I read Mash's post about social dynamics (f-locked). I was going to reply there, but I felt like the subject deserved a fuller treatment, or at least one I was capable of editing!

I can't remember how old I was when I first did the Myers-Briggs test, about 14 maybe? I was certainly old enough to realise the validity problems of self- ( Read more... )

There are a lot of little things that I could post about right now. It's been a funny old day. I had to teach at 10 and I had to prepare a quiz and look over the Latin I expected we'd get through beforehand, so after a late night and not much sleep last night, and a late night and not much sleep the night before and several others between previous ( Read more... )

A.K.A, Red or Blue?

I've read a lot of inspirational stuff recently and I'm slowly percolating and processing it all. Some of it has relatively simple take-away messages; others will require much longer to tease out. Some are interesting to reflect on in a detached manner; others I'd like to really get to grips with and use. Some are linked below ( Read more... )