February 2009

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February 13, 2009

Happy Valentines to my best girl, Lena! You are the best thing to happen to me, every day of my life, and I would be completely lost without you.  Bunches o’ love, Kevin _______ NOTE FROM LENA: Bunches of you have been asking about how to get a customized avatar. I wrote a quickie article [...]

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February 12, 2009

Okay, since we’ve been talking about it, I have a question for those of you out there who think that the whole “economic stimulus” issue is too complicated to understand, or that only real experts are qualified to have an opinion.  Let’s say you are a huge bank* with tens of thousands of employees worldwide [...]

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February 11, 2009

Moody’s Investor Services, a non-partisan economic analysis and ratings firm, made a study of the various forms of financial stimulus being proposed for the nation’s failing economy. Here are some of their results: Food Stamps: $1.00 in food stamps produces $1.73 of stimulative spending. Infrastructure: $1.00 of infrastructure spending produces $1.59 of stimulative spending. General Tax Cuts: $1.00 of general tax [...]

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February 10, 2009

It is a commonly accepted truism that D&D players generally care about the backstory in your game slightly less than they care whether Mr. Rogers kept D. Scholl’s or Odoreaters in his sneakers on the set. But I’m here to tell you that this is not true… and furthermore, if you’re spending all you time [...]

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February 9, 2009

  The following is an advertisement, and it’s also kinda naughty. That said, I thought it was funny. If you decide to watch it, I just want you knowing ahead of time. Good? Good.

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February 6, 2009

So I tried running a D&D game using a bastardization of the Amber diceless roleplaying system last week. I love playing Amber, but I learned that there is a big difference between playing a game designed to be diceless, and trying to cudgel a system designed around a d20 into playability without dice of any kind. [...]

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February 5, 2009

  (This is a hopelessly inside joke for those of you who enjoyed Shamus Young and Shawn Gaston’s webcomic, Chainmail Bikini, which is sadly no longer available. To everyone else, I apologize.) Tom Daschle removed himself from consideration for appointment to President Obama’s cabinet this week, owing, I am certain we can all agree, to [...]

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February 4, 2009

Comcast describes the brief interruption in southern Arizona of the Superbowl by a man receiving the gift of oral pleasure as a “malicious act,” and has offered numerous and repeated apologies for the incident. Kudos to Comcast for their collective mea culpa to all affected viewers who did not get to see this. Good for [...]

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February 3, 2009

Hey, good news everyone! Now that Tom Daschle has joined Tim Geithner as the latest presidential cabinet pick not to pay his taxes, we are only one more tax cheat away from activating the secret appointment tax clause in the United States Constitution… which reads thusly: In the event that any newly elected president shall appoint [...]

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February 2, 2009

Hooray for the new Superbowl champions! That team who won sure played a better game, wouldn’t you say? I particularly loved it when that guy threw the ball and then those other guys scored some points… Okay, okay. I haven’t seen it yet. I wrote this last week. But here’s my official prediction… people will [...]

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