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| Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | | 1:10 pm |
XKCD FTW
Something like this must be whats happening with my dice... http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nachos.png Coz seriously, with the possible exception of a BLAZING run i had playing my own game at RinCon a few weeks back, I have dice that hate me in really profound ways. | | Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | | 10:38 pm |
From the Not Getting It file: How is it that the so-called 'spontaneous anger and concern' that has 'materialised from nowhere' at health care forums (and on every thread I've tried to read where previously normal discourse turns to hate-filled blather) doesn't count against the conservatives but 'coarse and un-civil' speech by an advisor to the President in the past is worthy of resignation? | | Friday, August 21st, 2009 | | 10:14 am |
| | Sunday, July 26th, 2009 | | 10:02 pm |
| | Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | | 7:49 pm |
Why is Al Luddington(sp) still employed by the AMA?
Just so happens a backmarker is wired for sound when he gets ripped a new one by the AMAs Luddington for, apparently, following the rules.
If this happens this once on camera, can we only assume that this happens all the time _off_?
I feel like turning in my card. The Association is broken, badly.
| | Sunday, July 19th, 2009 | | 9:06 pm |
obGaming
Had HotCon09 this weekend at Scott's place. Battlestar Galactica: the Board Game is a fine bit of kit and has major replayability potential. Also, the add-on 'Pegasus' is soon to be released (if not already). We dinna get to go to a gamestore during our mini'Con, so I went over to GD in the PPM this afternoon. I discovered some excellent basing stuff (Groundwerks, Dark Age Games). I am very happy, but utterly confused as to the pricing standard for the product(s) under that banner. Will do more research. Also, Need to find my hardcopy of Blitz: Locked and Loaded - we tried to play a game last night at the 'con and had a rougher time that one should rightly have playing Heavy Gear. I wish I had brought the reference sheets with me - on looking at those before I slipped into the sack I realised how many of the stoopid questions we had were answered or referenced there. pooh. anyway, yay for getting to game with my people. Boo for not getting to game Smallworld with them this morning. DoubleplusBoo that Ti dinna get to game wither - I hope his Dad is doing okay and is comfortable. | | Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | | 11:21 am |
Will someone please tell me what the issue is about 'detainees' being in the US prisons?
Seriously, I don't get it. We have so many prisons. We've been doing prisons for a long time. Escapes have been thin on the ground. Are these prisoners THAT scary? 1)I hear that they may inflame the population in the prisons. As a pundit quipped this morning, are they going to sully the "upstanding citizens already in prison?". Or are the prisons potentially already tinderkegs of revolution and unrest? If the former, I titter. If the latter, maybe it's not the soon-to-be-detained's fault. Also, don't prisons already deal with 'isolating populations'? 2)The community will be made less safe: Huh? the community already has a prison in it, so if the worry is the 'camp-follower' side of the equation, that all their kin will start living outside the gates like they seem to do at some locations (I suggest a view of the Florence Prison as an example). Or is it that the fellow terrorists will start to attack the town hosting the prison in order to show their displeasure? In the former case....I'm almost beyond words. The syndrome I describe is one of the saddest products of a messed up subculture I've ever seen, so seeing the Muslim counterparts stooping to same will just make me 1) even more sad and 2) aware that there will always be sad subcultures of every seemingly robust host culture. So Ka. 3)We'd be letting furriners and terra-wrists loose onto American soil: ...and straight into PRISON, if I read the copy correctly. Is anyone seriously suggesting setting these people (and by 'these people' I refer to the segment of the poulation in question that poses a threat in terms of dialogue and ideology or 'consistent past action' or can aactually be charged and found guilty in a legal framework) up in townhomes on the park? No. Prison, people. So it is a good idea to foist a prison and its implied population on a community when the people we'll be housing incarcerating are 'drug users, illegals and hippies' (to paraphrase a local politician-in-waiting) but not such a good idea anymore when they are actual, I don't know, CRIMINALS? | | Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | | 9:44 pm |
In the 'color me shocked' column....
- Republicans are up in arms (pun mine) that Homeland Security would actually consider the possibility that any of our returning veterans might be swayed to take out frustrations about their lot in life (mental health stigmas, stress, a crap economy) on their own country.
Do they propose we just leave them in another country and let them do their worst instead of taking
complete care of them as befits their station as warriors? Or will they just act shocked (SHOCKED!) that a
returned, damaged soldier would consider his or her own countrymen an enemy? Trying to take Sgt McVeigh out of the discussion sadly only makes their case seem more pathetic: a
classic case of the exact type of person who would eventually find fertile soil for his hatred to take root is a
lesson, not a liability.- 'Tea Parties' break out all over the country, protesting the deficit, runaway taxation and a plethora of other issues important to oppressed Americans.
This always makes me giggle, so I'm not even going to try to seem fair. Don't like taxes? Me neither, but like it or not, your book(s) makes me My Brother's Keeper. I strongly beleive in that concept, even though none of The Books have thus far kindled any solitary loyalty in my soul. Does the idea of taking care of the Common Good smack a teensy weensy bit of social contract, dare I say socialism? Yup. Thats the part of socialist theory I have no problem with: A portion of a country or state's responsibility is the care and welfare of it's least and lowest. Are there abuses? Of course there are, but the fewer kids I see living out of cars or in combat zones, the better. So next year, save yourselves the Tea Party fun and swear off using public water systems, air travel, highways, any fraction of the telecommunication's backbone. While you're at it, put your mouth where your money is and go patrol the border, or maybe arrange to be overseas so you can fight in one of our ongoing wars. Just for a day. Get back to me on how that works out. And on that note, I'm going to go and angst about my job, contemplate the future of my child, paint minatures for a wargame of all things and dream of a motorcycle I can't afford. Business as usual! Cheers! :) | | Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | | 10:37 am |
| | Friday, March 27th, 2009 | | 2:55 pm |
I love you Caelibug. I Love you Sarah. Everything will be okay. | | Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | | 7:12 pm |
Let me just start out by spreading some big news: I'm an enormous softy for my girls. Okay, I didn't say it was surprising news, but there it is. Caeli just bounced in here for besos and hugs before bed and I'm convinced that she's just about the best thing to happen to Planet Earth in, like, forever. Blaspemy, Blaspheyou as they say in the old country. We're all trying to get over a nasty, lingering malaise that we picked up at the 'Fearnow/Hovermale(Hovermill?) Reunion Of Sorts' and while I did take the day off to catch up on sleep from a week of being up most of the night with CaeliBug, right now I'm feeling no more rested. Hopefully I feel better in the morn. Hopefully we all do. Have I mentioned I saw Watchmen? Brilliant stuff. Have I mentioned how much I've liked BSG over the years, and now it's an episode from being done altogether? Not happymaking. Have I put forth that an internal battle is raging between Warmachine and Heavy Gear in my heart? 'Fast and Dirty' may be the Grand Unification Theory to this schism of worlds, but I'll know more once I've made some armies and rolled some dice. I should also say that while I should be writing more, I'm not. Having peered into my mental mirror while doing dishes I realize that my brain feels like less than fertile ground of late. The FunkaStrada project has hit a snag, and a crisis of identity: I've lately had a chance to ride with My Sister from another Mister (Dace) and while I was all ready to street-tyre the bike she got me rockin' and rollin on some excellent trails up by Sonoita. What to do? What to DO??? First, buy a chain and a seatcover and stop it looking/sounding like a rat. Oh, and Payne was found guilty. Peace be unto his children. | | Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | | 10:11 pm |
Two Zero. Your Move.
So i just saw Watchmen. Maybe I'm just a pushover, but I have zero complaints. Did the director stick to the exact story? No. Did it have any deliterious effect on the story? Not at all. Having a bunch of unknowns as the main characters was a bit of genius, really - not knowing who these people had played before gave me no sense of ownership of their personas, something that only the very best actors can shed from role to role. The violence was as real and as raw as implied in the novel, though if the implication of violence when played well can do the trick in spades, the violence here verged on gratuitous. That said, as squicky as some of it may have been, the point of the horror got through. I've read that Rorshach(sp) stole the show and as a character who was so alien and rigid he was played perfectly, but I think he, as in the novel, played the role of foil and narrator very well. So fitting that the unyeilding one be the true conscience. Really good stuff. I'm going back soon. | | Thursday, March 5th, 2009 | | 1:58 pm |
Can we just call it a depression now and move on? | | Thursday, December 4th, 2008 | | 7:09 pm |
| | 1:14 pm |
Okay, I'm breathing again. Yeah, the election was a month ago, but I'm paranoid, history is a little too obvious, and like that. But I'm breathing again, my predictions were wrong, and yay. As for the rest of it, looks like we're in some pretty sh1t now. As a state employee, and married to same, I'm more worried then ever that funding is going to be cut, one or both of us lose our jobs, and then the happy house gets sold down the river and we're hand-to-mouth in a crappy apartment. eugh. On the upside, we're healthy, CaeliBug is reveling in her glorious two-ness, and Sarah just finished a project that has consumed her for months. Friends and relatives should be getting theirs in th mail presently. That wasn't me. I didn't say that. What is it about being a Dad that makes one tear up at every sad, kid-got-sick story? never mind if the kid gets really hurt or killed - I'm useless after that. Is it just my chemistry that makes me this way or are all parents like this? Just finished Haruki Murakami's 'After Dark'. He's such a poet, and I think somebody like Coleen might identify with the character Mari. Need to re-read An Evil Guest by Wolfe: I know I missed a shload (i always do in his stuff) and his clever exploration of the HPL Mythos was wicked fun. Heard Toni Morrison on NPR this morning - I'm afraid to read her stuff now (for the teary reason explained above) but she's rightfully renowned for her wordplay. | | Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | | 11:28 am |
on the immediate future
October Suprise: My money is that it will happen either Thursday evening (US-time) or Friday morning the 23rd-24th. I suspect it will be an international thing (Hey look! We had bin Laden all along!) or a potentially prolonged terrorist/hostage event will unfold. In that case it would give the Republicans a full week to milk it for the 5-10% McCain needs to win. That, or a similar thing arises at the same time next week and rivets the electorate over that weekend and scares voters into a November 4 turnaround for Republicans. You can say you heard it here first, if you like. I hope I'm wrong. | | Friday, September 19th, 2008 | | 2:57 pm |
And here I am at the freakin' last minute...
SO: Why is anyone taking Palin seriously, other than the GOP says we have to (and that by not accepting her wholesale is somehow sexist)? She's probably a nice person, but she's not qualified to take the reigns of the Presidency should her running mate pass away during his first term (and the likelihood is that he would). She's also hardly qualified to be in a serious position of power, so extreme are her views on liberties, the role of the US in the world, etc. Just makes me nuts that McCain, whom i had a lot of respect for in the past, would make such a choice. For all the talk about being an indie candidate it sure smells like a typical GOP powerplay, though I'm thinking even Rove may be slipping on this one. Or maybe the US has finally had it's BS-detector upgraded after 8 years of being clogged with America Uber Alles. I can hope so. In other news, somehow the world still exists in spite of the Large Hadron Collider. or, as ScaryGoRound would have it, the Large HardOn Collider (hurr hurr).....
| | Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | | 2:57 pm |
For Micaela
So Caelibug... I love you, little Bug. Everyone said it was going to happen, but being one of those guys who thinks thought himself so unique that 'that which happens to the masses shall not happen to me', i dismissed it. It happened, though: I fell so madly in love with you that simply thinking about your grinning mug or your out-of-step 'Good!" makes me smile. Your Mom will tell you i had a hard time with there being a You in the world at the beginning. She's right. I kinda had a meltdown fell apart. I couldn't believe that I was really going to be responsible for your care and feeding and well being and everything when I was so bad at seeing to my own needs, but there it was. There YOU were, and while everyone else was looking happy that you were such an angel and so precious I was terrified that this perfect creature, this little dollop of awesomeness would get damaged somehow by being my kid. See, I'd always said that I wouldn't have a kid of my own until I could gaurantee a better life for them than I had for myself. It was an enormous cop-out, really: There was no way I could assure that so there was really no way I'd have to deal with having a kid of my own. Of course, then your Mom came along. Your Mom is awesome, by the way. She is also an awesome force. When she wants something bad enough, she will do that thing, no matter the consequences. I found this out when I was trying to weasel out of being a Dad. You should ask her about it some time. She tells the story better than I would. So you have to know this: I Love You. You are my baby, my girl, my bebegrrrl, my Bug, my kid. I suspect that if I live long enough, you'll still be called by most if not all of these things when it is way past embarassing for you to hear it. I'm sorry, but you'll have to deal. I want you to be the happiest person ever, with awesome memories of growing up, with an eye for noticing the inchworms and the clouds and the weird people and even the people who aren't your friends. I want you to live forever and never be sad, never be hurt, and never go away, though I know that somewhere along the line I'll have to deal with not getting my wish. I'll write more later, but I just wanted to get this started. | | 2:56 pm |
| | Monday, July 28th, 2008 | | 11:59 am |
In the news today, radicals feel marginalized by a tide of change they're powerless to stop, except through violence. Carnage brings attention to their actions and their cause, so choosing a public place full on innocents works very well for their purposes. Shadowy support from others in their community and the fringes abroad gives them the rationale that they can bring real change through their actions. So they take a shotgun to a church in Tennessee and try to kill a bunch of people. Because those people had minds that were open to alternatives. Sounds a little like Iraq. Or for that matter, Turkey, Pakistan et al this week. see also :( |
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