As I was flipping through the local paper this week, I ran across a letter praising the Zoning Board of Appeals for denying Vineyard Church a variance that would have allowed the church to expand. The writer was glad that the board's judgment had improved since that dark day in 1997 when it heedlessly granted a similar variance to First United ( Read more... )

When I started reading the 5th Edition Ars Magica rulebook to get ready for luckymarty's upcoming game, I noticed that the copyeditor had apparently missed two grammatical overcorrections in the Oath of Hermes:

"...should I be slain in a Wizards' War, no retribution shall fall on he who slays me."

"Woe to they who try to tempt me to break this oath...."
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ladytiamat seems to have started a meme-avalanche on my friends list.

( Here's another stone. )

For the past few months, I've been using Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds videos as part of my exercise program. As exercise videos go, they're excellent, but I'm getting a little tired of hearing about the Walk-Away Weighted Balls(1) several times a week, and I'd like to add a few new videos to the rotation. I'm looking for a safe, low- ( Read more... )