Archive for August, 2004

Damn you, Andrew

Hey, that sorta rhymes!
Anyway, Jenny read “Public Enemies” a book about John Dillinger, Baby
Face Nelson, the Barkers, Bonnie and Clyde, and all those other 1930s
outlaws.  And when she was telling me that Nelson was shot a
ridiculous number of times by high-calibre sub-machine guns, and then
twice in the legs with buckshot, before shooting an FBI agent right
between the eyes from across the road, then got away and lived for two
days, I thought, “Hmmmm, endure pain, 80+, handguns, 80+.” (continued)

The Movie Hero

Okay, I know that it is ShortSpeedFreak’s job to post movie reviews,
but after watching Hero last night I felt compelled to post one for all
of you to read.  Most of you know me as being a picky film (not
movie) watcher and critic, and so you know that it is rare when I say
that a movie is excellent.  It is also hard for a movie to make it
to Stephen’s to 10, but Hero has managed to do both. (continued)

Play Virtual God (without your Black and White disc)

GenePool, an artificial life simulator

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I wanna be an astronaut

What Neil Armstrong MIGHT have said… (continued)

Off to NoCal

For the next few days, I’m going to be up in the San Francisco and Santa Cruz region, visiting my spunky sister, Erica, my wonderful cousins, Jason and Shari, and my long-time friends, Laika and Khirsath. If you have a message for any of them, I’ll gladly relay it along… when I get a chance to read these boards, and who knows when that may be. (But knowing my nerdiness, probably not too long). Have a few great days, all! (continued)

Roleplaying Bananza

Over the last few days, I’ve received a lot of new roleplaying games in the mail…. Specifically, the new incarnations of both the World of Darkness, and of GURPS. Let me just say, GURPS 4th edition is beautiful. Not only is the book a wonderful full-color hardback, but the rules changes are excellent, and it’s so clean and efficient. The new World of Darkness is certainly cleaned up (and it needed it!), but unsurprising beyond the clean-up.

So to celebrate, here’s myself statted up in both GURPS 4th, and World of Darkness 2.0: (continued)

When Harddrives commit suicide

So I got home last night turned on my computer and try to access my back up hard drive.  My computers response was the E:\ is not formatted woudl you like to format it now.

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What to do on one’s 21st birthday…

So, I’m turning 21 next Saturday and I’m still really not sure what to do… any ideas?  Stories?  (No, I’m not going to get wasted…)

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Civ3 changes

So there are a lot of Civ3′ers in our little circle.  I was
wondering what changes people think should be made?  I’m thinking
of making a scenario including a bunch of changes, but I bet I’m
missing something and would like y’all’s input. (continued)

Dave Barry’s Blog

His weblog is in itself a linkdump.  Funny stories, games, etc, etc

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