I spent the last week coughing and hacking (and taking care of equally sick kids) instead of going to the gym. The upside to all the phlegm though is that I didn’t have much of an appetite, and as usually happens when I’m sick, I lost some weight. In fact, I’m now down to 208 … 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
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
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).
Slow and steady wins the race, or so they tell me. I’m at 212 lbs now, down from a starting weight of 224. The promised land of wearing pants 36 waist has been reached, though my old 36 jeans remain a little tight. I expect they’ll be just fine once I hit 208.
With the election season now in full force (I know this because I’ve started to receive phone calls from the myriad political groups and candidates) I’m going to spending more time blogging about politics, mostly in my home state of Pennsylvania, but occasionally on the national level as well. Politics and scifi don’t often mesh, … Read more
Political commentary web site Slate has released a graphic novel version (Internet Archive) of The 9/11 Report. (Internet Archive). I haven’t read beyond the first few pages yet, but I find it a fascinating experiment. It takes a government report, typically dry and uninspiring affairs (though I think the 9/11 Report is better than most) and … Read more
If you’re ever feeling like, gee, you’re just not geeky enough … try downloading some polyhedral dice icons for your computer. Available for Windows and for Macintosh. Now if only they had one that matched my glow-in-the-dark d20…