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Iron Dragon
After dinner with a friend's parents, we returned to my place and pulled Iron Dragon off the shelf. It's basically Empire Builder with a fantasy coat of paint. Two of us had played it a couple times, the third was new to the game ( Read more... ) -
Axis and Allies: Europe 1940
Set aside D&D this Saturday to give Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 a try. I'll had the Pacific 1940 game for a while now, and since the latest version of the Global rules are up, we could have tried that (if we found enough table space...) but we decided to try it with the Out of the Box rules first ( Read more... ) -
30 pages to win me over
Having enjoyed The Magicians and The Magician King, I decided to give Lev Grossman's earlier novel, Codex, a try. It starts off a little odd and I was reluctant to read. Then on page 30, a character is playing Adventure, from the Atari 2600.
Never owned it, but played a friend's copy, and loved it. My interest in Codex has increased considerably. -
Catching up on books I missed
In the various things I've been doing that didn't include updating this LJ, I've been reading a lot. And despite coming away from Borders' closing with around a dozen books (including Smallville, despite never having watched the show and being doubtful I'll ever actually use it, it was staring at me on every visit, and at 80% off, that fell into my ( Read more... ) -
Favorite Christmas Moment
As background, my brother works for Microsoft.
Among the presents my niece opens, she rips the wrapping from one small present. "What is it? IT'S AN IPOD!!!"
"No, it's a Zune," corrects my brother.
"Oh." And the joy flees her face.
It became a better present after a few moments when it sunk in that the zune would do basically what the ipod would -
Pre-Christmas Note
Not quite 2am Christmas morning- local time, eastern, as I'm at my brother and sister-in-law's in Florida. It's a little odd not being in South Dakota- up until last year, every Christmas since I was 10 was celebrated in SD. Now, rather than being in my own bed, I'm on a fold out couch, tree to the left of me, stockings to the right ( Read more... )