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Watch Us Play: Vicious Crucible of the Verdigris Valley
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Tonight, instead of hitting Reload on political websites, I ran The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley for some folks on Google Hangouts. You can watch us all act funny and figure out how to play over the Internets (my first time!)
It's an hour and fifty-five minutes, and we ( Read more... ) -
One-Bowl Cookies
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Because sometimes, you just need a cookie. This takes about half an hour and produces cookies.
It's the age-old Nestle Tollhouse recipe, scaled down about as far as you can go (1 egg is hard to split any further). So it makes, like, a dozen cookies or so, depending on how big ( Read more... ) -
I Loved The Hunger Games, Except For One Absolutely Stupid Decision
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There are 24 tributes from all over Panem.
Two of them are black. They come from the same district.
Of all the 22 tributes from other districts, only two interact with Katniss with anything other than unbridled antipathy.
And so the only two black tributes help the main ( Read more... ) -
Josh and Deadlines
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So once upon a time, I used to work at a Big Publishing House that made textbooks, which have crazy-tight and crazy-serious deadlines. And as I learned most of my publishing process there, deadlines being really fucking serious business got firmly entrenched in how I do things.
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Void Vultures
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Ten years ago, the powers of Earth and their many solar colonies erupted into vicious, system-wide war. With terrible weapons at their disposal, both sides reduced every planet and moon to irradiated dustballs. Years of mass starvation and deprivation later, survivors strain ( Read more... )
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