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Monthly Archives: June 2004

fahrenheit 911 with joriel this night; found mother, sister, brother (who saw the showing before ours) in the departing crowd amongst the faces of the shocked and angry and energized. there were some passing out fliers in regards to an anti-war, anti-bush march being held in monroe park on the coming saturday. we’ll [...]

day five
heading home. slept in this morning, given last night’s revels. wanted to do a little more at the con, but got to that inevitable crossroads when a party is winding down: you can either rush around and still feel like you didn’t get around to everything you wanted to do, or hang [...]

day four
slept in a bit today, what with blogging until 3am this morning. put on my jedi robe and headed over to benevolence for another tasty brunch; i was ‘on call’ for chris today, since he’s involved with another big wargame, and needed a lunch runner - he’s playing the japanese in a scenerio in [...]

day three

i started the day off by picking up the latest tome from the shadowrun folks, who assured me that tomorrow they’ll be dressing up; apparently, today’s outfits (seen above) are pretty much how these young cyberpunks normally dress. i also discovered the source of yesterday’s ‘rules for medieval combat with foam weapons’ - essentially [...]

comfest impressions

day two
our second day at the city of origins, here in the bowels of the columbus arcology.

i was tempted today to create a seperate blog for all the stuff i’ll be writing about - my fear being that it would ‘take up too much room’, and/or seem out of place. but then [...]

origins impressions

day one
thus begins my random reportings from the origins game convention here in columbus OH.

chris, john and i arrived late this afternoon. the drive was uneventful but pleasant; the time seemed to fly by. chris had burned several CDs for our listening pleasure, including one with nothing but ska punk covers of various [...]

you have to step carefully around the trappings modern life; there are many closed loops one can fall into: channelsurfing, netrambling, fridgegrazing, wandershopping, babblemail. you estimate any such activity will only take a few moments - then the feedback builds, and your attention snowballs until vast swaths of time are drained away, leaving you [...]

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night babble