I am accepting preorders for 18IA, a strategy train game set in Iowa.

1. Reality shows are awful. I accidentally caught a few minutes of some crap with a British nanny, trying to help children who, in any just world, would be in The Jumbo-Sized Spanking Machine, with the dial set to Extra-Paddlin ( Read more... )

So, I got my Looney Labs Mad Labs Rabbit gift. (It occurs to me, if you're not familiar with the good folks at http://wunderland.com those particular words make NO sense ( Read more... )

Okay, I have two subscriptions: Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, and a cooking magazine, Taste of Home. It's kinda interesting; I read the recipes, and usually get inspired to try one new dish, not particularly using those recipes ( Read more... )

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Okay, I like sour grapes. So it's gratifying to see Bush learn that many people understand that compromising with an arbitrary point is worthless. Bush, and worthless hand-puppet Treasury Secretary John Snow, are asking for compromise from everyone else ( Read more... )

Okay, so go look at the top 200 books on half.com ( Read more... )

"The No-Cry Sleep Solution" is worth $8 on Half.com. I'm not suggesting that an obsessive person could go through their local Half-Price books and figure out how to arbitrage fifty cents into a cool eight smackers ( Read more... )

I am going to reduce the amount of time I spend on the computer at home. I made a big purchase right before Christmas, and did a few board game trades on BoardGameGeek, and here's what I've got: Ticket to Ride, Runebound (what is wrong with me? I don't need a copy of Runebound), Modern Art, Aladdin's Dragons, and Dragonland. I'll lump Fische ( Read more... )

Played some good games of Magic tonight with Tim, also played a game of San Juan with Lee and Tim, which I won with 27 points to Lee's 25 and Tim's 24. Tighter than I was expecting, that's for sure. I thought I was going to pound the crap out of them after about round 6 ( Read more... )