January 2009

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January 16, 2009

    Everyone’s favorite Pope around town, Benedict XVI has declared jihad on a threat to the unity of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. This threat comes from… Satan… I guess?… and carries with it the potential for leading god’s flock straight into the bowels of hell, to be digested slowly along with pre-chewed bits of Devil’s food [...]

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January 15, 2009

    Okay, this French Banker walks into a bar, his name is Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, but we’re gonna call him The Banker cuz that’s way easier to say. In the bar he meets a guy called Bernie Madoff, who we’re gonna call The Other Guy. So the Other Guy says to the Banker, [...]

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January 14, 2009

  In Nanjing China, a (now widely reported) shopping and restaurant mall has opened up featuring a wide variety of western goods and foods… sorta. Apparently China has always had a proclivity for hiding their disdain for international copyrights behind the Bamboo Curtain, but now that the curtain has been drawn back we can see [...]

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January 13, 2009

  As he leaves the White House, President W. says he is looking to lead a quieter life. I can well imagine. But he will have his projects — things to keep an ex-president busy in his puttering-around time. He will be working on a book of his memoirs and the George W. Bush Presidential [...]

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January 12, 2009

  I took a class in comparative religions once. The teacher was a buddhist, though he claimed not to want anyone to know it. He also claimed to be open-minded. I’m not sure if either claim was genuine, though his closed-mindedness made him a lot of fun in class. (Possibly the subject for a later blog.) One [...]

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398 — A Week With Enkidu

January 9, 2009

  I had my first experience playing 4e Dungeons and Dragons last night. (Up until now I had only run it.) It was a real blast. From a player’s perspective the combat was fast and smooth, the mechanics were very easy to track and use, and the only misstep we had was when Lena thought [...]

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397 — A Week With Enkidu

January 8, 2009

  (Okay, I’m not supposed to be posting this today because of the server migration, and I hope I don’t get smacked down for it, but I figured you guys at least deserved the attempt.)     Meet Antonio Vazquez de Alba, the self-proclaimed “Grand Warlock” of Mexico and leader of the National Association of [...]

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396 — A Week With Enkidu

January 7, 2009

  (By the way… we are undergoing server migrations over the next few days. The downside is that I’ve been asked not to post anything new until it is done, but the upside is that when it is all over with we’ll be on shiny new servers that run faster, better, and stronger than before! [...]

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395 — A Week With Enkidu

January 6, 2009

  I’m going to borrow a leaf from Shamus over at Twenty-Sided and complain a bit about something that has been bugging me for a LOOOOOOOONG time. That would be videogame difficulty settings… or really the lack thereof. I bought the original Playstation back however many years ago the damn thing came out, and Lena [...]

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394 — A Week With Enkidu

January 5, 2009

  I seem to have the insomnia tonight. Usually it only strikes when I’m nervous or bummed about something, which doesn’t seem to be the case now. In point of fact, I was extra-tired when I went to bed earlier from working all day on the house. I think I slept about an hour, then… [...]

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