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Pat Robertson: Hundredth Level Paladin?
Okay watch this clip and be prepared for a lot of ballistic eye rolling. Okay, so to put this video into context, Sherman, let’s dial the way-back-machine to 1979, Michigan State University and James Dallas Egbert III* This was when … Continue reading
Udra's Gnomes and How They Differ from D&D and Cliche
Gnomes–the also-rans of Dungeons and Dragons. Ever since being introduced to them in AD&D’s Monster Manual, it’s been hard for me to know how to distinguish them. They aren’t quite dwarves, aren’t quite haflings and Gygax and the writers at … Continue reading
Global Trade Negotiations Need to Be Democratized
My first inclination is to support trade because, ideally, it ties nations together peacefully and helps the economies of all nations involved. I support trade because, ideally, I think it’s a path toward that utopian ideal where nationalism and ethnic … Continue reading
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Remember FOAF and Atom?
Yeah, me neither. Due to the requirements of technical skill, the WWW, RSS, Atom and FOAF never evolved into the decentralized social networking and news dissemination platforms that smart people in 2001 hoped they would be. Instead we got Facebook … Continue reading
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A Neurochemical Con Job?
This strange but hopefully reassuring essay was prompted by an exchange with a friend via the shallow artificiality of Facebook. I guess it could have been worse; it could have been prompted by the shallow artificiality of Twitter or some … Continue reading
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Going Postal: Reunion, Trading Hats and Orcs in the Driver's Seat!
[This is recounting of the May 14th, Martha’s Vineyard, Birthday Session. I did not record the audio of this session, not having the appropriate tools–there were a few technical issues. So this is all based on memory still green and … Continue reading
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My Most New Wave of T-Shirts
Long ages of the Earth ago, in 1982, when I was 19, my mother bought me a t-shirt for my birthday (Or was it Christmas?) that had this single panel illustration on it as a sort of a parody of … Continue reading
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Going Postal: The Spider Swarm!
[This session happened on April the 30th, 2016, a Saturday. This was because I would be traveling out of state on May Day. With a few late arrivals and some technical issues as others got used to doing teleconferencing through … Continue reading
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Going Postal: Spellgaunts Attack!
[Taking place on April 24th, 2016, this was my first session where we used the WebRTC function of Roll20. As with my prior use of audio recording software with Skype, I had found a new tool to record the audio, … Continue reading
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What Bernie Sanders Means to Me
This started off on Sunday the 17th of March, after my attendance, as a Bernie Sanders delegate, of the 43rd Legislative District Caucus of the Democratic Party. This meeting was to accomplish many things, the chief of which was the … Continue reading
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