October 2007
15 posts
Poetry: Robert Frost
The Armful
For every parcel I stoop down to seize
I lose some other off my arms and knees,
And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,
Extremes too hard to comprehend at once.
Yet nothing I should care to leave behind.
With all I have to hold with hand and mind
And heart, if need be, I will do my best.
To keep their building balanced at my breast.
I crouch down to prevent them as they...
Solved! One Mystery of Geek Dating Problems
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Podcast Dead Zone
I did it. I just hit a Podcast Dead Zone. I’m scraping around the bottom of my podcast barrel trying to find something - anything - to keep me entertained until the next Seventh Son comes out, or until Playing For Keeps starts, or until the Sons of Kryos put out another one, or until The Game Master Show puts out another one. *click* Still nothing. *click click* DAMN. Oh wait - new Sigler...
NaNoWriMo Coming!
Hi there! I am not participating in NaNoWriMo this month, but in a way, I am. That’s because my novel, Heart of the Hunter, is an outgrowth of a previous attempt at a NaNo novel. I had at one time written about 30,000 words towards a novel that ended up really going nowhere. The benefit to having written the novel is that, well, I had really gotten to know my characters. For example, I...
New Actual Play recording posted
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Dedicated to The Girl
Kioshi is not allowed in the room when I’m trying to sleep, because he either keeps me awake, or lets me get just into sleep, then goes on a tear knocking things off every surface in the room.
But the girl—let’s just say he might really want that baseball bat!
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Writing for the Gnat-Like Attention Spans of Sales...
I wrote two emails today. One of them was a reasoned treatise of approximately 500 words, in three paragraphs, as to why a course of action was not wise and why further information was needed. The second one was a bullet-point style bite-size chunk email about why a course of action was not wise and why further information was needed, and was about 100 words less than the first one. The second...
Til we have faces...
This, too, is kind of interesting:
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Happiest of birthdays go out to ryden!
ryden is one of those gamers I know who is a pleasure to game with. She rocks. We miss you, ryden! Happy Birthday! (via Tangled in the Autumn Leaves)
Mazel tov to highmoonmedia
And Happy Birthday! Many happy returns upon the day! May the angels sing your name this day, Daniel! (via Tangled in the Autumn Leaves)
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Episode Information: Ramblings from Sambear
Author: sambearpoet
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Episode 2: Games You Will Meet
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Episode: 2
Air Date: October 7, 2007
Subject: Genres of role-playing games
Links to RPGs and other sites mentioned in the episode:
Fantasy RPGs
Dungeons & Dragons: www.wizards.com/dnd
Earthdawn: www.earthdawn.com
Tunnels & Trolls: www.flyingbuffalo.com/tandt.htm
Burning Wheel: www.burningwheel.org
Mazes & Minotaurs: storygame.free.fr/MAZES.htm ...
Free Burma!
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