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Showing posts with label bummer_times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bummer_times. Show all posts
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Anybody else starting to get a little spooked by the weather?
Don't get me wrong, I like having lunch outside in short sleeves as much as anyone, but in the middle of February?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
"That was like financial chicken soup."
Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law Professor, Chair of the TARP Oversight Committee, and all-around adorable aunt sterotype, drops by the Daily Show to talk about the ongoing econopocalypse.
About half-way, it looks like she's going to gown in flames - not because she's incapable, but because the banks and the Trasury deaprtment haven't been giving her anything to go on. Then, she turns the bus around and gives the single best summary of the financial situation and the hsitorical precidents I have ever seen anywhere.
Guys, this all just might work out.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Dave Arneson invented Hit Points
Roll that thought around in your head for a while. If you're reading this blog, odds are you've played at least one game in the last 30 years with hit points. Or Armor Class. Dave Arneson invented both of those. He also invented Role Playing Games.
He died last week.
Unlike his partner in crime Gary Gygax, Arneson kept a low profile, so over the last 30 years or so Gygax tends to get the lion's share of the credit for Dungeons and Dragons. By all accounts, that's more or less fair - Gygax created D&D, but Arneson invented RPGs. It's hard to imagine where the wold would be without him - even if you didn't burn most of middle school playing RPGs like some of us, take the computer game industry - billions of dollars a year, now, and essentially all of that attributable to RPGs in some way or another.
When Gygax died a year ago, the obituaries were verbose and plentiful - over the last week, that has not been the case with Arneson. (There are, of course, exceptions) I think most people just don't really know what to say.
Well, here goes: he came up with one thing, and it made the world a better place. I don't think you can ask for a better obituary than that.
He died last week.
Unlike his partner in crime Gary Gygax, Arneson kept a low profile, so over the last 30 years or so Gygax tends to get the lion's share of the credit for Dungeons and Dragons. By all accounts, that's more or less fair - Gygax created D&D, but Arneson invented RPGs. It's hard to imagine where the wold would be without him - even if you didn't burn most of middle school playing RPGs like some of us, take the computer game industry - billions of dollars a year, now, and essentially all of that attributable to RPGs in some way or another.
When Gygax died a year ago, the obituaries were verbose and plentiful - over the last week, that has not been the case with Arneson. (There are, of course, exceptions) I think most people just don't really know what to say.
Well, here goes: he came up with one thing, and it made the world a better place. I don't think you can ask for a better obituary than that.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Well, damn it.
David Tennant is stepping down as Doctor Who after next year's "not-a-season":
Damn, damn, damn. I was really hoping he was going to give Tom Baker's "longest running" title a run for it's money. And the thought of a full season script-edited Stephen Moffat with Tennant in the lead? Bliss.
Still, not to be, I guess. Well, time to roll out all the Eddie Izzard / Bill Ningy / David Bowie / Ian Richardson / James Nesbitt / Richard Griffiths rumors.
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