The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

War with China?

| November 14, 2005

My father sent me this in an email: http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-8/31055.html The best part: Take response to war as an example. The reason that the United States remains today is that it has never seen war on its mainland. Once its enemies aim at the mainland, they enemies would have already reached Washington before its congress finishes [...]

How I spent my weekend

| November 13, 2005

Friday Night: Saw the Tempest at PC and went to Pastiche afterwards. The dark chocolate cream pie was good, but I make better coffee at home. Meanwhile, my paintball guns sold for $850 on ebay. Saturday Morning: Taped and painted the living room Bibbidy Bobbidy Blue (same color as the living room in the old [...]

My printed SR4 arrived today

| November 7, 2005

(crossposted from ) Binding looks solid. Printing looks good. Printing passes the rub test (rub finger on oily part of skin. Rub back and forth over text. Text should not smear. I've had some books which do). Ack! Pages 17 – 32 have a nasty registration problem. Basically, it looks like there were two layers [...]

Final entry about SR4 content

| November 5, 2005

I've been working on missions and the like, so I've been remiss in my final discussion of the Shadowrun 4th ed book. I don't have a print copy yet (though Amazon has shipped it), so I can't comment on the binding, etc. This is just on the gear section. Concealability is now a modifier to [...]