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Saturday, April 20, 2002
Just posting quickly as I pass through the office, showing my parents around. My dad says, "Hi." My mom does too. They both say "hi."
Friday, April 19, 2002
Hey! I remember the Yeti! It's a page listing some of the villains Spider-Man faced--on the Electric Company.
Links page updated. A few additions, but mostly just auditing of my daily reading column; the pages (of non-friends--those are off in the left column) I read the most are at the top, and then I work my way down as time permits over the course of the day. Enjoy, and let me know if there're any sites worth a regular visit that I'm missing.
JP is correct to be jealous the owners of cool Rez swag. What I particularly like about these is that they're "vibration headphones". I don't know what those are, but they sound like a carnival ride I'm tall enough to board--and I gots an E ticket! (How to mangle that metaphor further? Must work in clowns, cotton candy, P.T. Barnum, and calliopes...)
Thursday, April 18, 2002
Okay, Karla, I would officially like to hire the Stikfas and Homies Mercenary Army for a scorched-earth mission.
It's like bird-watching, except with redneck neighbors.
Posting what seems like an obit a day is bad enough, but two in one day? Still I couldn't let Thor Heyerdahl's death pass without acknowledgement. Here's hoping we can aspire to living life so large.
Thanks to Chad for bringing both of these to my attention.
Apparently Yahoo is not only spamming you, they're also tracking you. Of course, so am I, kinda, so I guess I can't complain too loudly. (But at least my tracker is visible!)
Jiro the guitar man
Friendly, but a little shy
A kind and powerful
Robotronic guy
Forces of evil beware
Jiro's on his way
His guitar is warning you
He's gonna make you pay
DARK Destructoids
He's coming after you
Sorry. Just had to reprint that. And from the same site, a mask!
Wow. A kid actually raised by monkeys. I am almost positive that this will be a movie at some point.
Google keeps developing their Adwords system, and other people keep playing with it--entertaining public beta testing mixed with some relavent thought.
You may not remember them, but the League of Lame Heroes remembers you, and they're proud to announce their newest and bravest member everest--the Phantom Patriot! (For those of you out surfing the web today, I want--no, I need--a picture of this guy...)
Oh, and I think the League may have found their first batch of super villains.
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Monday, April 15, 2002
Oh, and lest you think I've forgotten to check out MeFi or Blogdex for links, check out this MP3 arcade cabinet and this writer--and his dad--visiting a porn set. Yeah, I know I linked the latter in my earlier post. But it's entertaining (if (tawdry? bawdy? Or, after reading the piece his dad wrote--sad?)) reading ("In the first film, three superheroes are under attack from four female villains who look like cats. If a regular man makes love to one of these "bad pussies" he’s turned into a stuffed animal..."), and I didn't want you to miss it.
Someone asked me why I post more (and, in their words, "post better") on days away from work. I think there are a couple answers:
First, there's a lot of stuff at work that I just can't talk about (yet, ever, need to keep firewall between personal site and work matters, etc.)
Second, at work I spend my days attached to the firehose of the Internet, so you'll see a lot more from me in the way of links. On days away from work I see, well, the rest of the world. So when I get to a computer for a few minutes you get to hear me blather about Scared Straight programs and tiger sanctuaries.
Do I like one type of post better than the other? Not really.
Work-day posts: I honestly like the links I post (unless I'm posting them because I explicitly don't like them.) And I like blathering on and on about the game industry and game design. I like having an archive (even if it is slightly broken right now (UPDATE: fixed now)) of that stuff I can go back to whenever (and heck, from whereever) I want.
Off-day posts: I wish I were out enough, observant enough, smart enough, coherant enough to write posts every day like Lileks. On some of those off days--my trip home at Thanksgiving, the journey out to GDC--I feel like I get at least in the same zip code, if not the neighborhood. But I can't do that kind of thing everyday. So I (try to) entertain you all with the link-and-rant song and dance.
Hopefully that balance works for you. I think it does.
I'm pretty sure it does for me.
Sunday, April 14, 2002
More outdoor fun today, more writing, and then off to the regular Sunday night game (hurray for long-running campaigns!)
Though Liana showed me a copy a few days ago, I finally got to see a copy of Campaign #2 on the stands yesterday. It's always nice to see something I've written hit the stage of public consumption (an article laying out a new prestige class where you can become a cult leader in d20 games, for those who are unaware._ Just knowing that there might be an audience out there is enough to keep plugging away. And though they messed up the formatting of one table and inserted some art of questionable applicability to fill in white space at the end, I'm really happy with the way my article came out--it actually sounds like a prestige class I might want to play someday, and Dave's illustration looks great.
Not much else to say, although I would like to join JP's warband against this idiot. He's very much where I was about two years ago, when I still thought "more story! More story!" But I really feel I've seen the light, so far as games and story go (and I know, Bezzy, I keep promising to write that article; I'll get around to it, I swear): less story, better and more subtly told, allowing the player to play a part in the story, can create a more powerful and unique experience for the player than trying to jam them into the middle of a hamfisted Hollywood ripoff. The designer-told story of GTA3 is weak and full of holes (Where did Donald Love go, for one thing?), so it's the stories I create out of my own experiences that I keep telling--remind me to tell you about when I played a pyromaniac FBI agent who hated mimes for a while the other night.
Okay, a couple links and then I'm off.
I really dig some of the photographs on this site. It's sites like this and the pictures Karla's constantly tossing up in her blog that are convincing me a digital camera is headding toward my Need category (he says, completely unable to afford it, but feeling the itch...)
And: Skulls!
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