Adventures in Television

Unpacking is keeping me from MMO gaming, but television is new and exciting. I turned it on last night hoping to see “Mythbusters”. Everyone talks about it, I heard it would be on. I couldn’t find it. As I stepped slowly through the channels, looking for the logos on the bottom of the screen to … Read more

I Hate Moving & I Am Not Buck Dharma

Just in case anyone asks. I truly detest moving. Found the above picture of the flight simulator Mark Snow and I built. Everything you see there – the LED instruments, the control yoke, even the computer hiding behind the simulator on the right – was built by Mark. All the blinking of the lights and … Read more

"The Golden Man"

The next movie based on a Philip K. Dick story is to be called… “Next”. I haven’t read this story (or don’t remember it), about a mutant product of a radioactive war who is gold-colored, sexually irresistable, impossible to kill and a Threat To Humanity. I wonder how the presumeably soon-to-be-released animated “A Scanner Darkly” … Read more

Prophecy of Ro

I have only recently been playing EQ1 again, and the new expansion kinda snuck up on me. I knew Prophecy of Ro was coming out, but I really did not know when. EQ2’s Kingdom of Sky, I knew about. I figured I’d pick up a copy of both on the way home so I could … Read more

Dice

I refuse to believe that any day that begins with finding your dice, can be a bad day. Those blurry bits of plastic saw me through a lot of hard times. Not long ago, I’d have sat right down, pulled out a clean character sheet and rolled up an adventurer. When I found these while … Read more