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Review: Variable Star

Posted on June 18, 2009 by admin

I was at the Liberal Arts library at UT for the first time in probably 2 years the other day, since I was looking for a book that Porter had recommended to me: The Name of the Wind. The card … Continue reading →

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Middle-Earth RPG, continued

Posted on May 23, 2009 by admin

Alright, I have 6 interested people in playing. Five of them have made requests for a character, and the sixth I am still waiting on. There is of course the 6th character that hasn’t been requested left, but in case … Continue reading →

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Middle-Earth RPG recruitment

Posted on May 21, 2009 by admin

Well, I spent a week in Utah visiting with my family. It’s the first time in a few years that all of us have been together, and it may be the last time in quite a while. However, we were … Continue reading →

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Map-making with GIMP

Posted on April 28, 2009 by admin

Over the past few months, off and on I’ve been playing around with trying to make maps for role-playing games. It turns out that there is a whole web community devoted to this hobby, located at the Cartographer’s Guild. They … Continue reading →

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Little Red Riding Hood

Posted on March 30, 2009 by admin

I just saw this video for a modern reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood. I don’t know what to call this style, but the execution is excellent. SlagsmÃ¥lsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

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Nielsen TV Ratings

Posted on March 23, 2009 by admin

A few weeks ago we got a letter from Nielsen Media Research, the company that has done the TV ratings for almost 50 years here in the U.S. It said that they had randomly selected my household to participate in … Continue reading →

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X-COM: the walkthrough story

Posted on December 24, 2008 by admin

Back when I was a freshman in college, my roommate and I would often spend the entire day on Saturday playing X-COM and its sequel X-COM: Terror from the Deep. The premise is fairly simple, alien invaders of some kind … Continue reading →

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How to Start Your Own Martial Arts Style, pt. 3

Posted on December 1, 2008 by admin

For the three of you that read this blog (considering I generally update it about monthly), you may remember my posts in the distant past about founding your own martial arts style here and here. Well, that second post still … Continue reading →

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Watership Down subtitles, pt. 2

Posted on October 24, 2008 by admin

A couple of years ago I made a post about making Japanese subtitles for the the 1978 British cartoon Watership Down, based on the book by Richard Adams. Back then I had actually finished 3/4 of it when I made … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Contraption

Posted on October 3, 2008 by admin

I ran across this flash game while I was killing some time during lunch. It’s quite addictive (and frustrating), and really appeals to the engineer in me. What I really like about it is the open-ended nature of it. There … Continue reading →

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