Back when I was a gamer, I used to pine for out-of-print resources which I couldn’t buy, even used, because they were so rare. In those days, the best thing anyone could do was to hit as many used RPG-bookshops as one could, and hope, and be patient. But now, of course, at an online shop called DriveThruRPG.com, you simply pay for the right to download an Adobe PDF of whatever files you want. Voila: no more out-of-print blues, and it’s cheaper than buying coveted old print editions of the books; for someone like me, who’s much more concerned with …
Month: December 2004
My Own Private… Well, Not Idaho
Adam asks, Because we never get tired of Time Travel questions, I’m wondering – assuming you know you’re going back in time for an indefinite period (possibly life), and can haul with you a couple hundred pounds of supplies, what period (pre-19th Century, just to make it interesting) would you go to if you hoped to build the local technology and set yourself up as a Connecticut Yankee, so to speak? You know, I’ve not actually read that book. It’s Twain, right? I get the basic idea, but you know, I’ve never read the book or seen the movie, either. …
Ritu’s poem
Ritu posts a good poem (by someone else, not her own) titled Say More, Speak Like Rain. Worth a link, really.
Why Blame the USA?
One of my onetime regular readers posted a link to an article about “The Role of U.S. Criminal Negligence on a Global Scale”. Look at this silliness: At least 55,000 people were killed by the tsunami that devastated coastlines from Indonesia to Somalia. Almost a third of the dead are children. Thousands are still missing and millions are homeless in 11 countries. Hundreds of thousands have lost everything, and millions face a bleak future because of polluted drinking water, a lack of sanitation and no health services, according to UN undersecretary Jan Egeland, who is in charge of emergency relief …
New Poll Time
New poll up. Slightly influenced by my visit to John Wendel’s house where I saw the original movie Jaws for the first time. Old poll, by Shawn, is finished. The slight majority of respondents (19, more than usual!) believed that Yasser Arafat is now “… in a box, finishing the rotting that started at birth.” You can see the results here. Please vote in the new (slightly sick) poll! And if you have a better idea for a poll, please feel free to guest-author one!
Screw’d 2004: a video archive
For those who fear that the ridiculousness of the 2004 American Presidential election will be lost on future generations, fear not.
Sogang or Yonsei?
There’s a good comparison of Sogang and Yonsei Universities’ Korean language programs here. Worth checking out for anyone who is interested in studying Korean seriously. Found on the Korean practice-blog that I should be posting on tonight, but which I’ll probably not get to until tomorrow. Waaaah.
Logomacy
Logomacy is a cool page in the vein of things in my sidebar under the “lingua” header. Nice page.
Distractions Courtesy of Blogacide
Ever wonder what the skeletal system of cartoon characters would look like? Ever wonder what would happen if you drank nothing but Pepsi Spice for 45 days? Okay, it’s a stupid project, but some of the videos are mildly amusing, anyway. The first time through, anyway. Ever muse about whether cockroach cybernetics is possible? Ever just want someone to like you? Ever want to know how they do screen-printing? All of this is courtesy of Blogacide. So if you like these, perhaps you ought to check out the site…
What’s rwong?
Sometimes even a little thing out of place can make a big mess. My web page is now refusing to rebuild automatically when comments are submitted, or when I post a new post. This means I must rebuilt it manually, going in and pressing a little button somewhere in my webpage interface. So if you post comments, and they don’t show up right away, don’t be alarmed. It’s just another glitch in the system. I’m trying to take care of it now, though it may mean waiting for a while till I can export all my archives, delete the installation …