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Here and gone
I have created a new blog for myself at my webserver, for purposes of greater customization and content control. I will be posting there (more frequently than here) in the future, although this will remain my active account on LJ for the ANCD community board.
Onward to http://wedgegeck.chibimoon.net/weblog !!! -
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
Vintage 1962
ISBN 0-679-72342-0
Opening Line:
"Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John Francis Shade (born July 5, 1898, died July 21, 1959) during the last twenty days of his life, at his residence in New Wye, Appalachia, U.S.A."
( Spoilers follow in this review. ) -
The Power to spend $34.99 plus tax
Many of those who know me know that I went through an extended romance with Tabletop RPGs, in particular White Wolf World of Darkness RPGs. Of course, that was before White Wolf decided to end the world. Anyway, my favorite game, even though I flirted with D&D 3e and Vampire etc, was always Mage: The Ascension ( Read more... ) -
I loathe Asia
OK, so I decided to have a go at installing and playing the Korean PC release of Princess Maker 4. This may sound a bit shaky already, but I had zero problems installing and playing the hell out of the Chinese release of Princess Maker 3 earlier this year ( Read more... ) -
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Well, I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. As expected, it was incredible.
I guess that's about all I have to say. -
HP6
Yes, like many of you out there, I am waiting for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. My so-called friend David gloats from across the Atlantic, no doubt clutching his ill-gotten HP6 to his chest. He's probably cackling as we speak ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
So I was cruising my regular news sites when I happened upon this article.
As you peruse this article, take note of the attitude presented toward new-fangled Internet culture. Although the writer does compare the advent of blogging to the proliferation of telephones, he does little else to undermine the negative attitude toward revelatory ( Read more... ) -
Best of all possible
For a while there, I was seriously concerned about the state of our world. War, disease, genocide, apathy, cruelty; everything seemed to be going poorly. I was worried ( Read more... ) -
Lord of Pain
So, I recently applied to Angels Never Came Down, a play-by-e-mail RPG run by a certain individual of my acquaintance. Despite my fears of lameitude, and of eventual accusations of nepotism, I went ahead and submitted the application ( Read more... )