Two updates in one post today, since we didn't actually make an update about starting this playtest!

( Update 1 )

Starting my first real-life Epic Quest on EpicQuestGame! (If you're interested in helping us to playtest the Epic Quest! Game, please join the EpicQuestGame community and create your own Epic Quest :-))

What is your Epic Quest?
Get my PhD!

What are the first few mini-steps along the way to your Epic Quest?The next steps I want to accomplish are ( Read more... )

Hi everyone,

neo_leviathan, cumbernotathome, A-who-does-not-have-an-LJ and I are making a game ( Read more... )

I found out recently that Ingrid's Haven, a no-kill cat shelter for abandoned cats, is being evicted. All the cats have to find a new place to live by Christmas. So if anyone is thinking of adopting a cat, now would be a very good time!

If you can't adopt a cat, but want to do something to help, there is a donation page here. I've already donated ( Read more... )

altheas and I are moving house soon, so we're getting rid of some of our stuff. If anyone wants a single loft bed or a small computer desk (pictures under cut) they're yours for free if you come by and take them away. If no-one claims them by Friday, we'll post them up on Freecycle or Ebay. They're both from Ikea, so should be possible to disassemble.

( Furniture pictures )

This afternoon I went to a birthday party at the Oriental Tea Room on Little Collins St. It's a yum cha restaurant, and also a tea shop. They had about 8 different varieties of tea available for tasting, and dozens of different varieties for sale ( Read more... )

For anyone who is thinking of going to Unicon - don't forget to sign up soon, registration will close the week before the con! (You can still register on the day, but it will save you time if you've preregistered.)

aurellia and I were talking this evening about ways to bring people together in a social context, without using games as an excuse. Some ideas we came up with were ( Read more... )

SitePoint is offering 5 PDF books for the price of 1, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal. This offer is open until Friday 13th of February.

I know some of the people on my friends list use bokashi bins - you might be interested in the bokashi_au community that pfctdayelise has just started.

(For those who don't know, a bokashi bin is a kind of compost alternative for people who don't have garden space for a real compost bin.)