I Hate Moving & I Am Not Buck Dharma

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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"

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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

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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

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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

1979

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Someone asked on the CE boards for everyone to list the things they remember about the year they graduated. I graduated from Concord High School, in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1979, and here’s my essay about the year. — I graduated in 1979. Saturday Night Live was still funny. My mom was into disco. When … Read more