matt | June 28, 2008
Some thoughts I had on possible settings/adaptations for Spirit of the Century. Since FATE is such a flexible system, SotC lends itself to being used in.. well, anything even vaguely pulpy…
Spirit of the Gumshoe – I've mentioned this before, but basically FATE + GUMSHOE for investigations.
Spirit of the Shadowrun – A non-crunchy way to run [...]
matt | June 28, 2008
article, written by a Mr. King
Logic:
(1) Criminals have ignored DC's handgun ban. To quote: “You thought D.C. stands for “District of Columbia? “Dodge City” is more like it.”
(2) Said criminals are overjoyed at the Supreme Court decision, because they've been doing it for years, and now everyone else can too!
(3) This will lead to even [...]
matt | June 26, 2008
For those who are not aware, today the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees* the individual right to keep and bear arms.
I have not read the whole opinion, but the crux of the decision as far as I am aware is that the DC gun ban is unconstitutional, but nothing explicit has been [...]
matt | June 26, 2008
I was working on my computer one afternoon this spring and I heard a thump from the sliding glass doors. There was nothing there, so I presumed it was expansion of the wood or glass.
Some time passed, and I went out to fire up the grill.
Sitting at the base of the door was a hummingbird. [...]
matt | June 25, 2008
In about February or so, the cracks on the bottom of my laptop got so bad that I bought another one.
Last month, another drive died in my old workstation, leaving me with no spares, so I bought a new computer.
Now Liz's powermac (the one from the big mac supercomputer) has finally decided to flake out [...]
matt | June 24, 2008
So, this past week I was in RI at the office for work, and the cubicle farm is very noisy, so I was grateful for my noise canceling headphones. I had sushi at Seven Moons, visited URI, gamed with the old wednesday night crew (Flames of War, for the curious), and visited my brother and [...]
matt | June 23, 2008
Plant Rights
In other news, we got the rest of the tomatoes and all the sweet peppers in tonight, and will do the broccoli, eggplant, hot peppers, herbs, onions, chives, and anything else I missed tomorrow night.
That leaves some seeds which we might have missed the window on (not sure, need to check), and the potatoes, [...]
matt | June 23, 2008
But habeas corpus is back.
matt | June 20, 2008
At breakfast yesterday, I was sitting next to a group of young teachers. The exact specifics of their roles are uncertain. However, what really angered me was the fact that they were making fun of their students.
That, in and of itself is not unusual.. there are always the odd kids which give people pause.. but [...]
matt | June 13, 2008
I'm not doing BLITEOTW this year. Nothing against, it, just busy.
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