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Ten Days in London
I just got back from ten days in London!
Copiously illustrated account on my game design blog, since main purpose of visit was to attend conference on professional wargaming.
I got to role-play Kim Jong Un, saw where Throbbing Gristle used to live and work, went to a puppet play, and traveled to far-off Dagenham.
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Believe it or not, I am here most days for a quick troll through my Friends page ( Read more... )CONNECTIONS 2012 AAR
DATE: 9 August, 2012
SUBJECT: After Action Report - Exercise CONNECTIONS 2012
FROM: Brian Train
TO: Dear Readers
CC: Dear Linkers
1. PURPOSE: CONNECTIONS is an annual conference on civilian and military wargaming. 2012 marked the 19th consecutive year this conference had been held. This year the conference was hosted by the Centre for Applied ( Read more... )Connections Conference 2011
Well, I'm back from the "Connections" conference at National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, and things went VERY well ( Read more... )(Untitled)
Yes, been a while, hasn't it... Among other things ( Read more... )Psychopaths and game-players
I haven't read Vonnegut in years, but this makes me want to go out and get his last book:
( Read more... )Weekend Away
Yep, this weekend Lianne and I went over to Couverville to see The Residents, among other things. It was lots of fun mostly, and rather underlined that I ought to get out more, but perhaps I ought not.
We went over on Saturday morning, saw red_thread and other Gothvic people on the ferry - they were headed over for the Goth Prom that night, so had duffel ( Read more... )Game Convention in Surrey
The day after Remembrance Day I went over to swingin' Surrey for "BottosCon": a wargame convention organized by one Rob Bottos, who had been asking me to attend for a few years. It was held at the Compass Point Inn by the King George Highway, which hardly means anything because to me, Surrey looks like an enormous strip mall criscrossed by highways ( Read more... )Bean Aweigh
Took a short vacation. Lianne was on her way back from Ontario, and we agreed to meet up in Vancouver and go to Nelson for a couple of days. Which I did, and we did, and it was pretty nice. I'd forgotten how far it was to get there - a good eight hours driving but once we got there it was worth it. We went up to a hot springs a few km north of the ( Read more... )altThursday5
1. How do you feel about travel? Like it, love it, hate it? Wish you did more or less or neither? Do you have wanderlust? Are you a homebody?I don't particularly like travelling, but I like being someplace else. I like travelling with a purpose - to see friends or see or do a particular something. And, with my gimpy leg, I think I am a bit ( Read more... )