Cryptic Studios has announced the development of Champions OnlineIt looks like it could be reeeeaaaally cool. I was not a big fan of the Champions tabletop RPG...mostly because of all the accounting and the combats lasting many hours...but to give it its props, back in the day, it was way before its time in many ways. It used a point system and ( Read more... )

Okay, so people "in the know" are now saying that the television writers' strike has cooked the whole season. This is kind of a bummer, mostly because it might screw over some of the newer shows...and I really like Pushing Daisies in all its quirkiness ( Read more... )

It's been forever since I posted. Here is my score on the Ultimate Role Playing Purity Test gakked from maastrictian. It's not much, but it's something ( Read more... )

I'm going to a Halloween party thrown by a co-worker of mine on November 4th. I need a costume. I think I have the idea I am going to go with, Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light.

Phil is a minor character in the comic strip Dilbert. He is a sort of lesser devil, and as it turns out, the brother of the pointy haired boss. A cheap devil ( Read more... )

The great experiment is at an end. I decided to try satellite television, but I didn't like it. Unfortunately, that's not where the story ends. I got out of it okay, but the Dish Network company showed themselves to be real jerks.
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A while back, Scott Adams posted on his blog that he was disappointed by the low quality of spam he was receiving, the poor grammer, spelling, etc. On the whole, I agree, but this one is just craptacular. It goes beyond poor grammar and spelling and into the realm of pure unadulterated gibberish. It uses English words. It occasionally vaguely ( Read more... )

I'm not sure just how it happened, but Kos wrote something that I pretty much entirely agree withI hate the idea of self-identifying as a Democrat, but the truth is that I've been voting in the Democratic primaries and voting for far more Demotratic candidates than Republican candidates for quite some time now. How many times can you quack and ( Read more... )

Election season is upon us. Locally, we have the usual incomprehensible local elections, Jim Moran's (D) House seat, and George Allen's (R) Senate seat. Here are my current thoughts:
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A brief break from my general no quizzes policy. This one was just plain fun to think about, especially considering I am coming up on 20 years since I graduated. Gakked from kleenestar.
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...at the Republican party ( Read more... )