Another Trip to the Natural History Museum in Martinsville
These are the pictures from the latest trip to the Natural History Museum. She is very interested in science and loves these trips.
What? You expected something better? Taste my mediocrity, world!
These are the pictures from the latest trip to the Natural History Museum. She is very interested in science and loves these trips.
My wife and I took our daughter to the park to learn to ride without training wheels.
It was a reasonable success. She's not all the way there, but she did well and will do better next time. I'm proud. She fell a few times and got right back up.
Ron Paul's victory shows his delegate-attainment strategy is working and demonstrates that the media and Washington pundits are underestimating his influence in the nominating process.
Notice that while the reports show Romney with 5 and Santorum with 10 delegates from this Caucus, this (like his strategy across the nation) will give Ron Paul a significantly larger pice of the delegate pie than is being reported.
On account of him kicking off a rap battle, here's my return volley:
I got dice in my hand and the game is on.
Cold stomp through ya house like a mastodon.
My raps is long and strong like an elephant tusk.
The intelligent, rough lyrics that TC will discuss.
I'm chilled with the Elephant Man, can't they tell that it's us?
Ain't no sittin' around now, bitch. Ya better get up.
Sasquatch and Yeti, yeah I'm callin' ya out.
Any opposition to me is just getttin' stomped out.
As a gamer, I am always looking for interesting game aids—stuff I can use in my game to make it more interesting or fun for other players. This generally means nice maps, fake skulls, "bone" dice, interesting playing cards, good artwork, the right background music, etc.... But what's more rare than a good game prop is a way to make fresh ideas from scratch for new game sessions. A GM can only come up with so many ideas before he needs inspiration.
Enter The Storymatic.
it's a way to get the creative juices flowing again. Not sure what happens next? Pull a card.
Revenge!
Aw snap! Revenge it is. But who is seeking revenge? And why? I dunno, but Storymatic can help here too.
Farmer and Prisoner of War
OK. Not two traits I'd have put together, but let's think it through. Our story is one of revenge by a farmer who either is or ws at one time a prisoner of war. Did our character ever do anything that might have such an unintended consequence? Well, there was that one time when he went into the great and vile kingdom of Krith to free prisoners of war. Why would a farmer care, especially if he were one that were freed?
Got it! His wife was a prisoner. She was one that didn't make it out. The farmer now blames the hero for his wife's untimely death during the daring rescue. He has spent countless months preparing his retribution and now the trap is to be sprung! Voilà! The game has a plot, the heroes have something to fear, and the GM has something to work with.
Writing aids, plot devices, and creatively inspirational tools are a great addition to any GM's tool chest.
Things that you might also wanna check out for GMing inspiration
WikiLeaks will shortly release an important press release.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 15, 2012
Very ominous stuff, indeed.
Other Wikileaks Shit you Might Care About
Creating a single antiviral drug that could kill lots of different viruses is a longstanding dream of medical researchers. Beyond all the obvious benefits of such an honest-to-goodness wonder drug, an all-purpose antiviral would give us a much better chance of fighting back against outbreaks of exotic viruses like SARS and swine flu. As a minor but still rather nice bonus, it could also be that long awaited cure for the common cold.
Curing the various virii that plague us (quite literally) would be transformative to our culture and our species. I look forward to the day when we are no longer worried about bacteria and viral infection. And on a more personal note, I'm excited about the idea of dramatically increasing my lifespan. Each such advance, even those that don't pan out, improve the collective survivability of our species, but also the individual survivability of each of us. In other words, awesomesauce!
Bit by bit. Piece by piece. We are slowly learning to replace each part of the human body with a synthetic variant. Right now those variants are a downgrade from the original, but that won't always be the case. Soon enough, we will be able to upgrade parts of ourselves. Newer, stronger, faster, more durable, less prone to defect or disease, impervious to cancer or harmful bacteria. These new bodies will be better in every measurable way. But they will pose an existential question we've not had to work through before. Is there a point at which I'm no longer me, but rather a simulacrum of me, if I replace enough of my body with these upgrades and if so am I upgraded or replaced?
65% of movie industry revenue comes from sources the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business. These people do not get it. SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA, are just the most recent proof of that.
