I can't recall the last time I did a decent audit of my contact list, so I must be about due for one - and a new phone provides a good excuse ( Read more... )

This whole waking up in the middle of the night thing is getting tiresome, literally.

Leave requested, flights booked, hotels booked, train ticket purchased, Expo ticket purchased.

Now it's a case of waiting for September and another trip to the US to attend PAX.

Wil Wheaton's keynote speech from PAX 2007 was instrumental in my decision to take a trip to the US in 2008, to go to PAX in Seattle.

The weekend that just past, saw the first PAX East, in Boston, where Wil was invited to return and make the inaugural keynote. You can watch/listen to his new speech on YouTube.PAX is my tribe, and if you're ( Read more... )

For those of you who ordered Zelazny books with me, they have arrived. Each book came to $40 AU after the bank took its cut. Delivery to be made when convenient for me, or you can arrange to come and collect them ;)

It seems with the late notice I ran into a scheduling conflict, so how about the 20th of February?

Does anyone else find it amusingly ironic that Infected Mushroom did a brief cover of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus tonight?

I was going to make this post last week, but forgot.

Poker @ my place, 6pm+ Saturday 16th January 2010.

Let me know if you want to play.

The final two volumes, five and six, of the The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny have now been printed, so it's time once again to let me know if you want in on my group order. The books are US $29 each, plus an additional US $6 per book for shipping - I'll let you know what the AU cost is after my credit card gets charged ( Read more... )

Well, it seems that GW have decided that they'd like to do something for their fans for Christmas.

Unfortunately for their fans that something was to send out a bunch of cease-and-desist take-down notices to fan websites claiming breach of copyright/IP infringement.

One of the biggest hits is to Boardgame Geek where a great deal of fan-made ( Read more... )