Old Man

Re: Musings on Random Musings We use an axe to "encrypt" hard drives that are slated for disposal. Seriously.

Re: Do any of you still play 4th edition and FH Circa 1990? I prefer the original edition. 4th ed screwed up published STR mins. 5th ed is too wordy, and I hate the talents. I'd play any edition, though.

Re: Post-Apocalyptic Hero Oh yes, perpetually election time right before christmas, for all eternity. It's like a fricking utopia.

Re: Spell cost multipliers? Use them or not Could try an EC, maybe.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I thought Kara was blonde?

Re: The cranky thread Good for you. I spent most of the time trying to get my sick kid to quit crying.

Re: The cranky thread Two hours of sleep. Braaaaiiiiinnnssss.....

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Just finished China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. I see what the hype is about. The first 1/4 of the book was a bit slow, almost Gormenghast slow, though Miéville certainly is a master of descriptive, atmospheric writing. But once certain plot elements emerge, the book really takes off. This book would have rated a 10 except for the ending, which was a pointless failure. I'd give it an 8.9.

Re: Daily Art Findings What?! Susano stumped?!

Re: ~ All Out War~d&d Vs Hero Vs Palladium

Re: Musings on Random Musings Routé.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I always found it much easier to do grading at 2 in the morning. There is no mercy at 2 in the morning.

Re: The cranky thread What if that is all? What if this is as good as it gets?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I'm listening to the high-pitched whine of the data center. We have the door wedged open because the A/C in there is still broken.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Yeah, I glimpsed the headline to that article and instantly closed the window. Fry 'em.

Re: Home-made Castles I built a castle just the other day. But then the tide came in.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings My desk is a mess. This isn't exactly a new or infrequent occurrence either.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER What did Cancer do to earn such a terrible insult?

Re: The cranky thread I'll put you out of your misery if you put me out of mine. We have dual redundant internet connections, for fck's sake, but of course both Time Warner and Sprint have internal issues right now that have taken us down with them. And when does this occur? Half an hour into Thanksgiving, of course. Tell you what, don't put me out of my misery, just kill everyone at Time Warner and Sprint. Please. Oh, and Cookie Monster rocks.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER No, these are scientific images so each is B/W, usually taken through a filter so that you know you're catching photons of a particular wavelength. Typical filters when I was crunching comet data were violet, red, and infrared. (I used to know what the specific wavelengths were, but hey, I can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday either.) Good for science, less so for spectacular imagery.

Re: The cranky thread And speaking of crap breaking, I am now going to head back to the office to find out why its internet connection has gone away. Not like I have better things to do on thanksgiving eve. Someone at sprint is going to die a very painful death. A death involving... severed connections.

Re: The cranky thread This being the year 2007 A.D., well into the twenty-first century, you'd think we'd have mastered the technology of air conditioning. What is air conditioning anyway, a pipe, a pump, and a fan? So why does it break down with such alarming regularity? I don't like coming to the office at 10pm on a weekend to find that it's 103 degrees in the server room.

Re: Whats your view of PC expiry? What's your in-game mortality rate? I like to use two PCs per player, so that the player isn't out of the game when a PC takes a bad hit. And there is no resurrection, ever. Wear a helmet.

Re: The cranky thread "Burned wire"? How the hell?

Re: The cranky thread Ah, yes, that would be like the time I spent three days troubleshooting a COBOL program only to discover that the version I was using was case-sensitive. And then for a really good laugh, try doing intensive string handling in C, especially at 3 in the morning. Star star ampersand ampersand!