THIS POST from more than a year agospawned an additional thought this weekend: because "grown" is no longer a necessarily desirable state to be in if you're younger than a Baby Boomer, then not only is "half-baked" free from its previous stigma, it's a state approaching norm-hood. I'm not sure I know ANYBODY my own age who's "together". Or maybe they're "stealth together", showing a few "half...
The Bag Of Goodies I left at Aleks' place hadn't been touched when I went by Saturday, so I went to two places in the neighborhood he visited regularly. One place, they hadn't seen him and were worried. The staff at the other told me a rumor that he had been hospitalized, for causes they couldn't specify. I went to the two biggest hospitals on that side of town--Parkwest and Baptist Turkey ...
Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 22, 2009 The average middle class person alive today has more goodies than the kings and queens of times past. In fact, even during this time of economic retrenchment, most of us have a higher standard of living than 99 percent of all the humans who've ever walked the planet. In pointing this out, I don't mean to discountthe suffering of those who'...
Remember my post about Sparkplugs: The Swindle ? Had another one of the dreams last night. Same filmmakers. They made a parody prequel of Spaceballs titled Spaceballs - (Minus) : The Menace Attacks Revenge ...basically doing the lampoon job Spaceballs did on the initial Star Wars movies for the prequel trilogy. It was about the child who would grow up to become Dark Helmet, of course...
A sort ofpostscript to This Very Old Post : I've been going over Rapid Library with a fine-tooth comb since I noticed that they have a huge load of old Maly Modelarz content. The main problem is that the folks who have added these files to the Library didn't bother to identify their contents, or did so in a confusing manner. That and there's no way to sort the search results. So I've been cross...
An Old Theme Of Mine and I want to revisit it again. If there were such a thing as a Capri today from Mercury it would have to be based on the Milan; the Milan is the smallest car they make and the choice of powerplants nearly matches in spirit what was available in the Capri. The Milan's wheelbase is about half a foot longer than the Capri's so that will have to be altered, but that can be ...
Nothing like going back to an old theme to see if it has anything I hadn't discovered the first (or second, or third) time. In this Previous Commentary I did a look through of the 1981 Book of Predictions to see where we had been in the turn of the 21st Century as opposed to how things looked to happen back then. Today I found the library's copy to look at predictions for 2010. What I saw ...
One thing to be grateful for today...when Ted Kennedy's funeral was going on in Washington, the TV networks had the restraint not to pre-empt the scheduled programming all day, like they did for other public figures' funerals in the past. I still haven't forgiven THEM for Hubert Humphrey's funeral coverage in 1978. Who knows?--perhaps even the bloodthirsty jackals of the networks are getting ...
frustratedpilot writes "What do you like for an RPG for modern-era settings?" That's a pretty broad question, and one that begs some assumptions on my part, but that's ok. I'll make them. I assume you're looking for a multi-system that can support a variety of settings. My old answer would have been GURPS, and if you're looking for something with lots of rules, that's really complex ...
