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Shorter posts, notes to self, and links to various posts across various sites. If I published it somewhere, it's mentioned here. By Will Hindmarch of wordstudio.net.
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“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
— Malachy McCourt
Fri 11 Jul
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The Ghosts of Us →
Us@Night
Originally uploaded by photoq
If Sara and I were a folk-rock duo, tragically killed on the highway between gigs on one of our national tours with the witty names, this…
Tue 08 Jul
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Fiddling →
Numerous small changes made to the site tonight. Check the buttons along the top to catch up with revisions to the About page and the Work page (which used to be called “Downloads”). The front…
Sat 05 Jul
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Self-Portrait in Cubic Feet per Minute →
Self-Portrait
Originally uploaded by photoq
Taken at the Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, AL.
Sat 05 Jul
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On Broadway, In Chicago →
Back in the day, I lived at the corner of Clark and Belmont in Chicago. When I go back to the city, like I did last week, I make sure to visit the old neighborhood, which sits nicely between …
Thu 03 Jul
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Candidates: Luck or the Bluff →
“Politicians talk of their campaigns as grand contests of ideas. But in practice, the political battle is both a crapshoot and a poker game, a study in managing risk and in manipulating people,” say…
Thu 03 Jul
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Bacon. Origins. Conventions in General. →
Origins was last week; I wasn’t there.
On the subject of Origins, a shout-out to FFG co-worker Corey Koneiczka, the designer of StarCraft: The Board Game, who earned a well-deserved Origins…
Wed 02 Jul
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Books Brought Back: June, 2008 →
Aside from single issues I picked up here and there at Wizard World, like a signed copy of Max Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide: Reported Attacks (if I have the title right), and a copy of The Fra…
Tue 01 Jul
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Back from the North →
That plan, wherein I will do work while I am on the road? That plan is always bullshit, and yet I fall for it every time.
This past week, the missus and I were in Chicago, then northern Michigan…
Mon 30 Jun
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Point of Contact →
I’ve been thinking about the two assumptions usually made about the business of hobby games in general and tabletop RPGs in particular:
1. A game that isn’t supported with expansions is dead.
2….
Thu 19 Jun
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Link: Killjoy Cooking →
While I don’t always agree with Alt Text’s Lore Sjöberg, today he’s got a stellar parody of RPG forum behavior (in some circles) rendered as a reaction to a cookbook, so today I do. It stings with…
Wed 18 Jun
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He is the Champion →
My interview with HERO Games champion Steve Long was published today at The Escapist: read “He is the Champion”. The subject, broadly, is that of RPGs transitioning into MMOs, which you may…
Tue 17 Jun
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