The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

What are you people, on dope?

| August 31, 2010

I’m watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I was in the mood, because I spent the afternoon listening to 80′s glam rock bands while working.

Zombie cows.. from spaaaaace.

| August 25, 2010

So was after me to post about the game, and I am somewhat appearances, that she beat me to posting. That said, her synopsis covers most of the bases, so I only have a few things to add. There were originally supposed to be two combat encounters – zombies in the bar, and zombies in [...]

Chores

| August 19, 2010

Potatoes are now properly hilled There is now a length of wire holding the outlet hose on to my turbocharger (as opposed to it blowing halfway out every time I hit the throttle too hard)

Warmachine

| August 14, 2010

Liz and I grabbed the Warmachine MKII quickstart rules and gave it a go with some proxy miniatures. The basic mechanics are very simple – anyone who is used to allocating command points and standard movement/line of sight/etc. type rules will be used to it. The use of preprinted cards for each unit (they apparently [...]

Scribd is stupid

| August 12, 2010

So, I find some house rules for 6mm combat for F.A.D. 4.0 on there (thanks to teh google), but apparently I can’t downloading without registering.. so I do, but then apparently I need to either upload something or pay money. WTF? Luckily, bugmenot had some logins which work. Is me, or has the level of [...]

We has a doggie

| August 2, 2010

He’s such a good puppy – all he wants to do is be with people, play fetch, and splash in the water. We’ve got a dog house on order ($115, shipped), and already got him a 4′ diameter pool to splash in. His daytime pen is about 50′ x 200′ or so. Happy doggie.

Addendum to UI post…

| August 2, 2010

Yeah, so E16 has some window placement issues, E17 is slow, so I switched over to IceWM. Figured I’d give that a go.