Ken Newquist After a reading lull brought about by way too much painting in September, I’ve returned to my books with a vengeance. Science fiction dominates my reading list this time around as I return to Ben Bova’s “Grand Tour” of the Solar System with the hard science fiction novel Jupiter then have some fun with Vernor … Read more
Geek fitness (or the lack there of) leads Episode 40 as I talk about my quest to lose 35 pounds. Over in Net News, I congratulate Jason Adam’s for reaching the 50th episode of Random Signal, talk about Nathan Fillion’s upcoming appearance on the 7th Son podcast, and offer some old school, 1st-edition D&D-style gaming … Read more
Daylight Saving Time has ended in Pennsylvania and once again the sun crawls into the sky at the ungodly hour of 6:29 a.m., with its accursed forerunners arriving in the dawn twilight at 6:15 or even earlier. It strikes terror into the hearts of vampires and parents everywhere, sending the former fleeing to their dark … Read more
Soda is a staple at almost any gaming table, and ours is no exception. What follows is a list of every soda we’ve ever drunk during gaming. Amp Coca-Cola Cherry Coke Diet Cherry Coke Vanilla Coke Pepsi (otherwise known as “Goodness”) Vanilla Pepsi Cherry Pepsi Diet Pepsi Blue Pepsi Mountain Drew Red Alert Mountain Dew … Read more
Do we need another version of Call of Cthulhu? Pelgrane Press thinks so: Pelgrane Press has announced that they will be producing an adaptation of Chaosium’s seminal roleplaying game, Call of Cthulhu. The new game, as yet untitled, will be written by Kenneth Hite (Call of Cthulhu, Unknown Armies, GURPS, Star Trek) and based on … Read more
The productivity web site The Rirarian Project debunks a bunch of first aid myths, including using margarine or butter to cool a burn, pulling out a bee stinger, using peroxide to washout a wound and sucking venom from a snakebite.
NeutronLad is fourth months old, and if that seems amazing to you, imagine how much it blows our minds. With StarGirl, I was posting updates every month, but with Neutronlad the posts have been far fewer. I think that’s partly because some of the wide-eyed new dad enthusiasm has worn off — the first time … Read more
The gaming world has GenCon. My gaming group has Nuke(m)Con. Radio Active #39 starts with a look at our home grown convention and then takes a look at a couple of new geeky media outlets in the form of the Geek Gazette newsletter and Geek Label podcast as well as an exceedingly useful anti-repetitive stress … Read more
And lo, a great many spammers visit the forums of Nuketown and The Griffin’s Crier, descending like a plague of locusts upon the land. They come seeking page rankings from their great link god Google, and thus, offer endless sacrifices of strange herbs, impossible enhancements and the vast riches of Nigeria. Yet from this plague … Read more
In libertarian circles there’s been more than a little talk about where to go after abandoning the Republican Party. Some will vote for the Libertarian Party of course, though many won’t. Some won’t vote at all, disgusted with all of the ballot options. Some will vote for Democrats not because they agree with their stated positions, but because they aren’t Republicans, and by voting for the Dems they can punish the GOP for pulling the libertarian poles out of the party’s big tent.
And then there are those considering the Democrats as an effective alternative party to the Republicans, one that might share enough common values to make it worth overlooking their overtly collective and big government tendancies (just as the Republican Party’s now-dead limited government doctrine made it easier to leave with it religious wing).