[NOTE TO THE POTENTIALLY OFFENDED:  this is a rant about game design.  It isn't a rant about anything else]

mechanteanemone  has begun running a "Firefly" campaign using the mini-six system, and one of the design features of the system has me vaguely pissed off.


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I originally posted this as a note on Facebook because I couldn't acess my livejournal at the time.  Now I can put it where it belongs.

Since the shootings in Arizona, I have read numerous comments regarding the miraculous nature of the event.  It was a "miracle" that Gabrielle Giffords survived, for example.  I have read comments such as "God ( Read more... )

I'm back, finally, with a new Livejournal entry!  For the past month or so I have been unable to access my livejournal account .  It has been a real pain for me (and a real relief for you) but all that is over now.  And for my very first post I would like to talk to you about LAMININ!

For those of you who don't know...

"Laminins are major proteins in ( Read more... )

I stayed at a friend's house this weekend that has a lot more mirrors than I have in my house.  Two brief comments.

1)  there is nothing, nothing in the universe, like seeing yourself naked in a full length mirror first thing in the morning to convince yourself that you need to lose weight.

2)  anyone, anyone who thinks that it is a good idea to ( Read more... )

As an atheist, I pay more attention to religion now than I did when I was an agnostic.  Now that I exchange facebook messages with a United Methodist pastor and have Facebook friends that are obviously devout Christians, I do try to keep my anti-religious rantings somewhat toned down, and when I see an article about religious organizations doing ( Read more... )

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My fellow Americans,  citizens of allied nations, members of the world community ( Read more... )

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Attention politicians, workers, employees, and staffers of the Democratic party!

Pass the healthcare bill without a public option and you are going to be branded a party of corporatists.  You will lose the progressive vote.  You will lose the youth vote.  And without them you will get killed in the next couple of elections.

That is all.

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