As I may have mentioned before, I'm a bit of an NPR Most Emailed Stories junkie. So: I was listening to a story about video game music, specifically with regards to the hit orchestral tour, Video Games Live.

And now I want a copy of Carmina Burana. Because they played a clip of it, before they played a clip of Myst III that it inspired. And... damn ( Read more... )

About two months ago, Sara and I were getting a ride back to American's campus from a costume party. And, at some point, Adaptation was brought up.
It occurs to me that the film would have been more fitting had it been Eternal Sunshine. So it goes.

"Man," she says. "I lost the game."

This, of course, confused me. So she explained how it works: one ( Read more... )

I don't know what a good Saturday for normal people consists of. Now, mine had Dungeons and Dragons for about five hours, followed two hours later by the six-hour kick-off event for AU Gamers, featuring (among other events) Apples to Apples, Super Smash Brothers Melee, and Puerto Rico. Also, it must be added, a judiciously timed study-break/kissing ( Read more... )

Puerto Rico es muy bueno. Es divertido. Y, yo soy el Rey del Puerto Rico!

... That's about it for me and Spanish. Five years of the stuff have done absolutely nothing.

Still, good time. Calvin was beat, so it was me, Basil, Mom, and Zoe. And even if Zoë complained a lot (I was keeping the game moving along by repeating actions to make sure. My ( Read more... )

Remember when I left my suitcase in Venice?

Well, at the moment it's still not entirely clear when I'm going to get all the stuff back (I should work on that, eh?). Which is a shame, for a number of reasons. One of which was that, quite simply, I'd discovered that I enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons with my family. Sure, I'm a crap DM at the ( Read more... )

Three Pie updates:

1. Despite my constant eagerness to ascribe sinister intentions to my baking, the pie (strawberry, banana, and frozen blueberry) was delicious. Which is a problem because:
2. There is now one piece left, and I said that it should be saved for Calvin, who drove to Vermont yesterday* to pick up a copy of his transcript so that he can ( Read more... )

So, as I type these words, the Internet is out in the dorms. Which is, of course, a travesty, although not one without it's benefits. For example, I don't know whether, lacking the Internet, I'd be writing these words to you, given I'd be too busy actually using the internet. I also probably wouldn't have finished the Modern Chinese History reading ( Read more... )

One thing I didn't mention when I was discussing what I got for Christmas were two things which I got for myself. One of them was the Dungeon Master's Guide, because I had a borders coupon and because it seemed like the kind of thing I should have. The other one I bought off my roommate:

Final Fantasy X.

Not counting Kingdom Hearts, it's my first ( Read more... )

7/26/2006 (7/22-26/2006 visit)

From time to time, I need to get out of my comfort zone, and this trip has done that. Without the Internet, or cellphones, or even the radio, for five days... It''s a shift, and a belatedly welcome one, at that. A chance to, ultimately, think about less than I would otherwise. I didn't read, or write, as much as I'd ( Read more... )

It's an odd place that has a Wi-Fi in the pizzeria (I'm saving my five dollars and waiting until I get home), but not a cell-phone tower for miles. How they survive is beyond me.

Yesterday, something I forgot to mention: we went to a museum of the Adirondacks, which was (perhaps surprisingly) fascinating. If you will, think the Mystic Seaport, with ( Read more... )