And I will be picking up the Dark Sun books for 4th Ed when they come out. I feel like my response to mysticalforest today was both overly harsh (Eric, I don't know why, and I apologize for the tone) and missed a good general point he was making. 4th Edition works . People are playing it, enjoying it, it is a perfectly valid system and one some players find superior. Now, I don't feel...

 I came across this tidbit via  mysticalforest  .  Even as I type this, I cannot believe I actually read it.   It seems that the SciFi Channel is changing its name.  To what? SyFy Oh yes, it's real.  But that's not even the truly spitefully retarded part.  It's the reasoning given for this change. " The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in...

I've been thinking for a while about doing some major overhaul on my bookmarks collection, and then mysticalforest mentioned doing just that with his, and so off I went. Putting my Getting Things Done hat on, I thought, well, what is it I'm actually doing with my bookmarks? I ended up breaking it down into three categories: very frequently visited sites, regularly consulted sites, and archives...

A tip of the hat to mysticalforest for a twitter about this. Turns out you can go to the iTunes app store and get Kindle for iPhone as a freebie. You fire it up, sign into Amazon with it, and then go shop at the Amazon Kindle store via whatever browser suits you. Sales are via the 1-click system, and whatever you've acquired is synced to the iPhone (or iPod Touch, in my case) the next time...

Every year, words disappear from our collective vocabulary. If you are like me, and you love words, this is down right criminal. Help save the words! I adopted 'vacivity.' *Found via mysticalforest

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(Trivia & Anecdotes is a series of blog posts I've been meaning to make for years now about weird and sometimes funny behind-the-scenes facts about various books I worked on. Yes, the acronym is deliberate.) If The Star Cairns was my first full-length solo project as a designer, The Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad (its sequel) was my first full-length freelance project. I had freelanced 8-page...

After taking down my personal blog, I moved over to LiveJournal. This was supposed to be a temporary sandbox - a place where I could piddle around until my blog comes back online. I never intended to stay here. This has been a good year, and LiveJournal is a big part of that. LJ allowed me to connect with a number of new friends. While I can’t name all the interesting people I’ve met, I’d like to...

January - The year started off with a bang, with hernia surgery.  That was a couple weeks of unpleasantness, but then my new flame sefue  and I took our first trip together, to Vancouver BC.  She seems like a keeper! February - My co-workers and I try to attend an Obama rally at the Key Arena, but are turned away, no room.  Obama's totally cool, and gives us a speech in the rain before...

There really is no good reason that I should even try to get into work tomorrow. I can work from home with only minor connection annoyances and less people interuptions. And yet, I feel that I at least need to consider it. Partly guilt I suppose, guilt at having a job where I can work from home as opposed to the other folk that need to either take their lives in thier hands or not get paid. But...