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This evening, my daughter was eaten by a grue. I am bursting with pride.
It’s an experience that unites a generation, and now the title of grue food has been passed on.
Join us.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, err..that’s not that unusual. Zork was one of the first text [...]
Posted at: August 21st, 2007 - 8:30 pm - Number of Comments » 5
I’m not good at belonging to groups. Humans like to belong, and identify themselves as this kind of person or part of that. We want to compartmentalise people by things like their racial heritage or occupation, and we want to define ourselves by the things we are part of too. And we start then to [...]
Posted at: August 12th, 2007 - 11:32 pm - Number of Comments » 3
On Temptation this evening, we learned that the Game of Life was created by the original guy named Milton Bradley in Massachusetts in 1866. It was significantly different, and not just because they didn’t have tiny little cars to drive in back then. It was called The Checkered Game of Life :
Looks very Victorian [...]
Posted at: August 9th, 2007 - 10:49 pm - Number of Comments » 0
I love to see old games made available for reasonable pricing – just bought WarcraftII battle.net with Tides of Darkness and the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion set, for $20. Almost trivial price, considering how many hours I’ll get out of the 70+ levels, compared to a similarly priced DVD.
Sometimes when you [...]
Posted at: August 7th, 2007 - 6:42 am - Number of Comments » 4
Wrong wrong wrong. Seriously, like, no…The person who did these needs a slap for pimping their skills out this way, but far, far worse, there are no words for the kind parent who would pay someone to turn their human child into some kind of freakish Mattel mannequin photo for any reason.
Oh wait, [...]
Posted at: August 3rd, 2007 - 10:48 pm - Number of Comments » 0
