We all knew it was just a matter of time until the zombies rose up from their graves, the sickly-sweet smell of confectioners sugar still clinging to their rotting forms, and attacked the neighborhood gingerbread church. Or at least, we should have. This gingerbread diorama features a gingerbread church surrounded by the newly risen undead, … Read more
Of course, it wasn’t enough to recreate the Battle of Helm’s Deep in candy. The brilliant, creative minds behind that project had to go and make The Battle of Pelennor Fields … in candy. It’s got it all — the white icing walls of Minas Tirith, the black licorice corpse of the Witch King’s mount. Gumdrop … Read more
Every year at Christmas time I spend the better part of two weeks re-watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy in all of its extended glory. But I could be making far better use of my time, say rebuilding the Battle of Helm’s Deep in candy. This post first made its round in 2007, but … Read more
Clearly I’ve only just begun to explore the frontiers of gingerbread construction, especially geeky gingerbread construction. This gingerbread TARDIS (pictured at left) is just too darn cool; I love the attention to detail, especially the window panes AND K-9 the robodog. I’m also impressed that it stayed together long enough to take the picture (especially … Read more
The kids and I built our annual gingerbread houses on Sunday, using gingerbread house kits from Wegman’s and candy from the remains of our Halloween horde. You can find the full photo gallery (with annotations) on Flickr. We built two houses, one for my six-year-old daughter StarGirl, and one for my three-year-old son, NeutronLad (with … Read more
Looking for ideas for the geek on your Christmas List? Are you a geek looking for ideas about what to ask for? Nuketown has you covered (albiet, a bit late in the shopping cycle but hey, there’s still nearly two weeks until Christmas). Two quick notes: 1) all of the items on this list link … Read more
The Blackrazor Guild — my local gaming group — has had a web site since 1997. It’s gone through many iterations over that time, usually in tandem with some project I needed to research at work (being a gamer means never wanting for large reams of test data for web apps).
The site’s known as The Griffin’s Crier, and for the longest time it was the archive for our Dungeons & Dragons campaign. However, over the last few years our group’s changed. Our primary campaign’s now Star Wars, half the group is blogging, and we’ve created a small galaxy of spin-off sites supporting our different efforts.
The GriffCrier needs to reflect these changes. To that end, I’m redesigning the site using Drupal. The new site will serve as a gathering point for our various interests; it will include campaign and group news, links to the latest blog posts from group members (using the Feed API and Views modules), and serve as a jumping off point to our various wikis, web sites, and forums.
“What Earth Would Look Like with Saturn’s Rings” is a YouTube video that gives Earth its own ring system. It provides views of the planet and rings from space … but then takes it a step further and shows what the rings would look like from the planet’s surface (a thin edge rising through the … Read more
After a few years away, the Blackazor Guild and I returned to MEPACon last weekend, our local gaming convention held near Scranton, Pa. every spring and fall. We used to be regulars at the local convention scene, but over the last few years we been running our own homegrown Nuke(m)Con instead. We decided to return … Read more
Here’s my Follow Friday list for October 23, 2009: @WriteRCastle: Fictional account for the lead character of Castle @PlanetStoriesTM: Features news and updates for Paizo Publishing’s Planet Stories pulp fiction reprint line. @LancerX: Fellow Blackrazor Guild member. @Hardcorhobbs: Fellow Blackrazor Guild member.