So, you are reading this, and therefore, you know me. Chances are, you know of "The Evil Overlord List" Note, #12.

I work, as you probably know. as a bike delivery guy for a start up. So, today, they sent me (and presumably, all the other delivery folks) a survey. Several of the questions were "Here are five things. Rate them in order of ( Read more... )

I spent the morning, over and through breakfast, reading my Awesome Neice Jen's novel, "BattleHealer", which she sent me an EXTREMELY advanced readers copy of (I am only the third person, after her parents, to get to read this). It was very good. Well, no. It was brilliant. However, proud uncle bias aside, it was very very good. Yes, needs some ( Read more... )

Terry Pratchett said that cliche's are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of language. They exist because they are so useful.

Times like this, when I want to express myself as being articulate, as caring with more than words, when I want to let people know I am here, and will try to maintain a respectful distance and still want to be ( Read more... )

Yah, I put this off until March. That is probably significant ( Read more... )

So, as you probably know, I am and have been working for Postmates for 11 months now. For Reasons. As a result of this,  I am on and active in discussions on the Facebook group for Seattle Postmates. Since i want this gig to work out and lead to other stuff, I make a point of staying positive. When I raise an issue, or have a problem, I do my best ( Read more... )

So, I just finished re reading "Raising Steam", by Sir Terry Pratchett. Great fun (though, really, not his best work ever, still leaps and bounds better than many many other things I have seen and read).

And as one does, I am thinking about how I would adapt that story (in a nutshell, the introduction of a railroad line to a fantasy world) to an ( Read more... )

The sun will, with any luck at all, rise again in just over three hours. On my beloved mothers birthday, on the first day of winter, on a day that will be a little longer (in daylight terms) than this one was. And I will be awake to see it, more or less (not counting on the weather cooperating, to say nothing of being on the western slope of the ( Read more... )

This has been rattling around my head for a while. What would the real impact of healing magic be, on the world?

In D&D, healing magic is basically commonplace. The entire point of the Cleric is to be able to patch up the  rest of the party after a fight. Yes, okay, Clerics can be badass, can do offensive fightery stuff, etc. And, depending of the ( Read more... )

If you are reading this, you know (should know), I am a gamer.

Does it make a difference to say I oppose those who are willfully and deliberately being complete fucking idiots, who are threatening women with violence, rape and or death?

I literally cannot find the words to express how much I oppose that. I do not know how to say how that angers me. ( Read more... )

So, as of early on October 12, 2014, I officially turned 45. Yay.

As Birthdays go, this one rocked quite a lot ( Read more... )