4:09 PM
Okay, I can live with Purgatory!
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very High |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Moderate |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Moderate |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Moderate |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Very Low |
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
2:27 PM
Steampunk Technology!
Yes, this thing, this Victorian House on wheels, actually exists. Courtesy of Mr. Pearse's livejournal, I found a link to the Aether Emporium, and the Photo above (taken at the recent Burning Man Celebration) and video snippets below. I applaud the solid work of the folks at the Shipyard in creating this thing. It's so freaking beautiful... See the Neverwas' Tribe Page for more information.
The story of the Neverwas Haul is told here, and some dedication snippets are below.
Dedication Ceremony, Part 1:
Dedication Ceremony, Part 2:
9:55 AM
R is for Roses
Round 6 continues the more obscure conflicts in this BPD Series. This is the WAR OF THE ROSES round. CORRECT answers shall be bounded by the time period called the WAR OF THE ROSES, a small series of civil wars fought in England between two septs of the Plantagenet family, York and Lancaster during the years 1455-1485. This round has some special rules. MANY of the leading personages of the period had the same or similar names. Do NOT just answer with a first name and think this is sufficient.. give the Name AND Number (aka John IV) also any last name or descriptor (John IV "Lackland").
The Magick Letter is R.
Standard Rules: If naming a person, the magic letter can stand for a first, commonly known middle name, or last name. If naming a place, it should be the first letter of any word in the place title. If naming a thing, the magick letter should be prominent and recognizable.. It's not rocket science. In all cases, articles or common words (the, if, and, but) will not count as Magick Letters.
Categories
Category 1: A Lancastrian Leader, Male or Female
Category 2: A Yorkist Leader, Male or Female
Category 3: A Presumptive Heir to the Throne of England, either side
Category 4: A Yorkist Victory
Category 5: A Lancastrian Victory
Category 6: A Siege
Good luck, History Droogs!
4:46 PM
Lace Wars Results, Categories Tonight
A couple of points:
1) Bill Ramsay has been somewhat incapacitated recently as a result of a bad fall. He won't be participating this week.
2) Jason Schmidt
Scores: Quite Granulated, maybe our "hardest round EV-var" according to some. Well, it was meant to be after the "Gimme" World War Two round. Suggestions for a Round 6 would be appreciated, but it can't be too easy. Otherwise, I'm doing War of the Roses.
12:38 PM
Quest for the Chest 2007
Saturday, Drey and I pointed the minivan towards points North and headed up to Maryland for a "Privateer Feast" benefit in honor of breast cancer research. The group putting on the event, Team Wench, is a wonderful group of (mostly) MD, VA, and PA "Ren Faire" ladies who combine knavery, silliness, flirtation and other activities with a strong sense of philanthropism. I only know one or two "wenches" reasonably well-- but I'm impressed with their efforts, having seen them in action this weekend!
The Privateer Feast is obviously themed around pirates and privateers (DUH!), and every year the title of the ball is a pun on breasts-- in years past it was "Save the boobies!" and "Four the Boobies!" and this year "Quest for the Chest!".. now that's a cause I can get behind.
We stopped off at Steve and Lynda's place to join the happy throng garbing up for the event, where Drey opened up an almost 15 year's closed wound in my earlobe and Repierced my ear to give me a piratical look-- without the benefit of ice or whiskey, which played a big factor in the decision last time. I had various bits of loaner pirate clothes on, including a green tunicky thing that looked suitably dashing. Or so I have been told. Drey was wearing her wench gear-- big patchwork skirt, fishnet stockings (rrrrrrrr) and one of those bodice thingies that pushes boobies up into a tableux that defies physics, gravity and common sense. A nice effect.
I had a great time at the feast-- it was sold out, pretty crowded with a bunch of people I didn't know from Adam but were willing to yack away regardless.. the entertainment was fantastic... in particular I liked the War of 1812 Sea Chanty singers and the Pyrates Royale.
My camera was dead, but many, many other people took piccies, and I won't waste their bandwidth by posting image links to them here. Instead, here are the direct links:
Save the Boobies 2007 Album A
Scaleslea's Pirate Feast 2007 Album
Save the Boobies 2007 Album B
The Jury Rig Album
I had a wonderful time.. we were going to spend the night up in Northern MD but the impending ice storm and a sick little girl sent us home again that night. We partied, we donated outrageous sums to a worthy cause. What's not to like? The next big event is the MS FANTASY BALL, June 2, 2007 http://www.teamwench.org/msfb/. For information on the International Fellowship of Royal Privateers (The Guild of St Errol), see: http://www.ifrp.org/
3:49 PM
Need to hear from...
Jason Schmidt (US)
J.R. Tracy (US)
I have indeed heard from Dan and English Peter. Bill is laid up with an injury after a nasty fall this week.
5:30 PM
What a combo!
4:58 PM
True Micro Design Art
I like postcard wargames. So much, in fact, I made one, available right here on this blog if you want it. I may make another.
Turns out the idea is catching on with people.. Last Stand on Mortain was a freebie offered up by the Against the Odds people. I've seen "Postcards from the Revolution" on Boardgamegeek. Now I hear there is another... MALAYA: V-MAIL POSTCARD GAME NUMBER ONE. It doesn't get any more "micro" than a game that you can mail to someone, with the rules on back and the counters too.
Product Blurb:
The Japanese invasion of Malaya was one of the most perfectly executed military plans in history. Can you, as the British commander, slow the Japanese advance sufficiently to disrupt the timetable for the capture of the East Indies? Or will the Japanese succeed in capturing Singapore in time to establish the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere?
This 5x8 inch postcard game includes 18 counters, complete rules which include the asymmetrical abilities of the Japanese and UK forces,and a 5x5 1/2 inch board.
MALAYA can be found on WARGAME DOWNLOADS.com, for free. Do the hobby a favor and mail it to some friends.
4:50 PM
And now, for the funny...
(click to Enlarge)
Attribution: Wondermark is copright 2007 David Malki see http://www.wondermark.com
4:42 PM
Australian Wargaming..
A raw-ther nicely done piece on wargaming from an
(note to audience: I didn't catch the references to Auckland on first glance, and was making assumptions based on accents. Apologies to any outraged Aussies or New Zealanders who might be casual readers, and thanks to Peter for bringing up the distinction)
4:38 PM
Oh, I say..
Lace Wars Round is due!
Toodle Pip,
the Lord Quizzmaster
1:02 PM
Thrilling Tales of Adventure!
As I've often said, I have a 'feel' for the pulp noir, pulp serial and adventure series set in the thirties or forties. I guess I was just born out of time. So when my pal Todd Goff sent me this information, I was pretty impressed..
The game is "Thrilling Tales of Adventure!, set in the milieu of pulp serials and adventure novels. There's a nice long thread on it at Boardgamegeek.
Map
Character Card
Action Cards
The design seems.. laborious at first glance, but heck, it might work. The only other game I know of even remotely close to a setting like this is Arkham Horror, and that's a whole other kettle of fish.
To quote Wayne Campbell, "It will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine."
10:20 AM
What do librarians laugh at?
Here we go.. a good friend of mine (who is a librarian) sent these to me. As a former bookstore employee (underpaid, overeducated and totally snarky).. I felt an immediate sense of empathy.
CLICK TO ENLARGE
(Yes, this is a librarian themed webcomic called UNSHELVED. Ain't the Internet grand?)
The cartoons above and more can be found at OVERDUE MEDIA, a highly literate webcomic, found here: http://www.overduemedia.com/
Unshelved website
copyright (c) Overdue Media LLC and used with permission.
10:03 AM
L is for Lace, lots of lace.. and beauty marks..
Round 5 begins the more obscure conflicts in this BPD Series. For lack of a better term, I shall call this the "Lace Wars" round. CORRECT answers shall be bounded by the years 1700 and 1800, EXCLUDING the American Revolutionary War, and the NORTH AMERICAN PHASE of the SEVEN YEARS WAR (we may revisit those separately).
The Magick Letter is L.
Standard Rules: If naming a person, the magic letter can stand for a first, commonly known middle name, or last name. If naming a place, it should be the first letter of any word in the place title. If naming a thing, the magick letter should be prominent and recognizable.. It's not rocket science. In all cases, articles or common words (the, if, and, but) will not count as Magick Letters.
Categories:
Category 1: Name any Military General (rank of brigadier or higher) in the War of Austrian Succession
Category 2: Name a major political leader (non military) from either the Holy Roman Empire OR the Kingdom of France who participates at some level (negotiating, etc.) in the War of Spanish Succession.
Category 3: Name any general under the Command of (or Allied with) the Duke of Marlborogh in any of his known battles
Category 4: Name a Famous Treaty or Concord from this time, that impacted the history of the time period-- ended a war, created an alliance, vastly changed the way of life for a large population, etc.
Category 5: Name ANY BATTLE from the Seven Year's War, with the restrictions mentioned above
Category 6: Name Any campaign or battle (not previously mentioned) participated in by "Frederick the Great" of Prussia
Wow, and I thought categories would be tough.
Good luck, history lovers.
7:10 AM
The Round of the Noobs
And here we are.
Definitely the lowest scoring, most granulated answers we've had so far, and that's a good thing after a relatively easy round 3.
The newbs did very well this turn, With Richard Low taking the Round, followed by the always impressive Mr. Reed, and a three way tie for third with newcomers Eva, Daniel and German Peter.
Stand by for Round 5, the Lace Wars.
Round 5, "The Lace Wars" begins shortly.
5:13 PM
Shiny!
As you might know if you've been reading along all this time, I'm a drooling fanboy over Fantasy Flights' WINGS OF WAR system.
Fantasy Flight has just posted pictures of the new soon-to-be-released OFFICIAL Wings of War aircraft miniatures. The good news (as you can see, is that they are really, really slick, and correspond roughly to 1:144 scale.
The bad news? To paraphrase Kevin Nikolai Payne:
The price is Euro 9.50 for a single airplane, and a 4-pack costing quite a bit (For us clueless Americans, that's about 11 bucks for one plane). That's pretty steep, but you do get the stands (with proper WoW markings) as well as the plane assembled and painted, so it may well be worh it.
I'm sorry, Fantasy Flight, buy you done lost me. I'll go seek out 1:144 scale aircraft and make my own damn bases. That's hideous.
Confirming Kevin's guestimates, Rich Low (of BPD fame) sent me this URL:
Wings of War Miniatures: Fokker DR I - Rahn $8.36
http://www.thoughthammer.com/product_info.php?products_id=3324
That's right, 8.36 for a single 1:144 scale miniature. And Thought Hammer Discounts out the wazoo, ladies and gentlemen..
12:51 PM
Munchausen by Wiki.. and maybe in Second Life, too
Peter Cobcroft (aka Curufea), that talented Ozzite that wrote a variant of my own Le Grand Cirque back a few years ago, is another talented lad with delightful lack of focus... delightful, in that he has many design projects going at once. ONE of them that caught my eye was a link off of his main page, called MUNCHAUSEN BY WIKI. Basically Peter has created an electronic, wiki-based method of playing the fantastic but sadly out of print Board/RPG storytelling game by Hogshead Publishing, THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. The advantages of his approach over PBeM are clear: no waiting for emails, an immediate response, and hyperlinking in various places to keep the source material (and preceding paragraphs) all sorted out.
Description:
Quite the best game of competitive boasting that has ever been written, based on the exploits of a real-life German aristocrat, soldier and adventurer in the eighteenth century, whose after-dinner tales of his extraordinary exploits were immortalised in a book by Rudolph Raspe, and turned into several films.
An extradordinary game that takes an hour to play and there’s an actual winner. You can start playing three minutes after starting to read it, it’s so easy to learn. Instead of dice or cards, its system of mechanics uses money and fine wines. And you don’t need a GM.
The players all play eighteenth-century noblemen, and challenge each other to tell stories of their amazing adventures. For example, if it was my go, I might turn to you and say, "My dear Baron, do tell us the story of how you defeated the entire Turkish army with only the aid of two rabbits and a piece of cheese."
I can add my enthusiastic endorsement to this wonderful game-- alas, very difficult to run without the right crowd in tow. I have only played it at conventions (so far) and I own a copy of the original. I have so far been thwarted in my attempts to run it locally, but I stil have hopes. On the good news front, I recently received an email from the author, James Wallis, that reports:
(Mr. Nizz)
I've no idea how long your mail's been sitting in my inbox -- apologies if it's been a while -- but the book is now out and in fact I received my author's copy today. The title is Second Person, the editors are Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and contributors include Greg Costikyan, Jonathan Tweet, John Tynes, Bruno Faidutti, Kim Newman and George R. R. Martin. I recommend it highly.
-James
So we can look forward to this great game being back in print (after a fashion) pretty much as of now. The book is not cheap at 40 simoleons but I think it will be worth it.
I like Peter's approach but I can see that it would take a long time to get through a game via email or even via his Wikified approach. I have decided I will try to distill the essence of this game and see if we can't possibly run this in SECOND LIFE, the virtual world I have been shamefully addicted to of late. The immediate response (and ability to create 18th century style AVIs in an 18th century setting) strikes me as really being evocative of the source material. More on this as my evil plan develops; I am right now working on a way of bringing WEREWOLF to Second Life (specifically in Caledon) in a format called "RIPPER".
9:58 AM
It's bacon! No, it's a light, refreshing mint! No, BACON! MINT! BACON! MINT! Dear God, it's BOTH!
Hey, kids, you ever want the refreshing tast of bacon, in the light and portable format of a breath mint? Sure, Uncle Nizz!! Well it's HERE!
Our friends at Archie McPhee have gone one step beyond the normal madness!
Each one of these mints tastes like a delicious slice of crispy bacon with just a hint of mint flavor to give it that extra punch! It may sound weird but once you taste it, you'll see that mint and bacon is a match made in China. Each 2-1/4" x 2" x 1/2" tin contains one hundred mints.
(source: Mcphee Website)
Click HERE for details...
3:34 PM
Fundamental errors in Algorithms
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10:18 AM
And now for the funny...
10:11 AM
Ante up, players
I am waiting on:
J.R, English Peter, Eric, Mike, Daniel, and Eva. If you have sent via email already, beg pardon..
12:18 PM
Just for grins
Apparently they don't like each other...
12:05 PM
5:11 PM
"M" is for Manifest Destiny
The secret letter is M
This round will concern itself with events that led towards Westward Expansion, from the years 1801 to 1900, on the North American continent but mostly the United States. The subject is (loosely) "Manifest Destiny", excluding the Civil War period which has been covered in part. Again, M can be a first or last name, but not an article or common object, unless the answer specifically is a title, like "The Battle of Moose jaw"..
Category 1: A Native American Military Leader, active between 1801-1900, engaged in hostilities towards the United States.
Category 2: A battle in the Mexican American War.
Category 3: A Native American tribal name (the tribe, not an individual)
Category 4: The name of a famous Railroad "Robber Baron"
Category 5: A Famous Woman Pioneer, living somewhere in this time period
Category 6: The name of a town that a "Rush" took place in.. gold or silver, makes no matter.
Good luck, history fans!
2:04 PM
It's not an "Army of One", by any stretch
Be all you can be!
1:35 PM
Hey babe, I'll give you my wood for some of that mutton...
Yes, it's the Settlers of Cataan bedspread. Good for those devil-may-care gaming bachelors when they are bringing a wild chick back to the game cave.
I've had my geek moments and I'm not ashamed... but I'd think long and hard before springing this one on a member of the gentler sex.. I couldn't handle the rejection.
11:56 AM
Spurny surges ahead, Bunger and Ramsay at her heels..
Here we go...
A very high scoring round for everyone, but sometimes that's a good thing.
To quote Jonathan Richman, in "Walter Johnson":
When the Washington Nine was a-goin' to win (Boomba boomba etc.)
Walter would ease up a little on the opposition (Boomba boomba etc.)
The other team mates just didn't get it
They'd say,
"Hey there, Walter, how come you let them hit it?"
Walter told them with his gentle smile,
said,
"Boys, this game's no fun if you don't get a hit once in a while." ...
The easy answers (Henderson Field, Admiral Halsey, and Bob Hope) were probably a mistake, but eh, it will get harder later.
(CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE)
Congrats to game leaders Spurny, Burger, and Ramsay... and an impressive showing from newcomer Bellambi, who is "on fire!"
4:17 PM
Funny what a little ominious music and a voiceover can do
Isn't it?
When Harry Met Sally: The Obsession:
Ten Things I Hate About Commandments:
Must Love Jaws:
1:44 PM
It's Friday
Clio Round 3 Answers are due.
12:22 PM
A long road from Hardware Wars
A while back I discovered a great quarterly periodical, MAKE, about accessible technology that you can make on your own. MAKE is published by the O'Reilley publishing group, so it is no secret that the theme of the publication is demystifying technology and making it available to anyone (a recurring theme on this blog, too!). So you can expect to find discussions ranging from cardboard robots to open source software therein. What I didn't expect to find was a short piece catching up with Ernie Fosselius. Who is Ernie Fosselius? Shame on you! The Director of Hardware Wars? Porklips Now? A contributing member of the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo? Ernie has retired from filmmaking and now devotes his time to carving wonderful kinetic woodcarvings that have a visual pun or message. I can see the conneciton with MAKE.. the idea and the construction are simple enough but the overall effect is hilarious.
Check out BI-POLAR BEAR, whose head rotates from happy to sad as you turn the crank:
Or this one, called "April 15"
(the meaning is obvious)
Or the donation machine, with a hand-cranked mesmerist:
(laughing) I'd give you money, Ernie!
In any event, here's the rest of them, as a FLICKR slide show! That's Ernie in the bowler, and his cool little bicycle powered car he built. Here's his interview in MAKE.
5:06 PM
Oh the possibilities...
cackle, cackle...
I'm pretty sure I'm not malicious enough to use these.. but there are days when it is extremely tempting...
Click on the image to see more... Hmm....
3:28 PM
My friend who seems to be specializing in finding media debuts of older bands (see Devo, below) also sent me the first appearance of Oingo Boingo on national TV...
On the Gong Show.. yep, that's right. Way back in 1976. It's hysterical, watching the "celebrities" trying to figure out Oingo Boingo in this context. Buddy Hackett?? Sheri Lewis?? Considering Chuck Baris' raging coke habit at the time, this clip becomes even more surreal.
At least they did the right thing and made them win!
On the Gong Show.. yep, that's right. Way back in 1976. It's hysterical, watching the "celebrities" trying to figure out Oingo Boingo in this context. Buddy Hackett?? Sheri Lewis?? Considering Chuck Baris' raging coke habit at the time, this clip becomes even more surreal.
At least they did the right thing and made them win!
3:07 PM
5:19 PM
No Recap/Spoilers this week
The SCI FI network cheesed on us and ran back to back reruns of the last two episodes. There will be a new ep on Sunday.
Art copyright Grant Gould, 2006
5:11 PM
Er, yes, of course. How did I end up missing that?
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Which Cthulhu Mythos character/God are you? |
4:03 PM
H is for Hirohito
Continuing the World History theme. Scorable answers will be on the subject of the Great Pacific War, land, naval and air actions taking place in the War between the Western Alliance and the Empire of Japan, from (roughly) 1940 to 1945. First names and last names are okay, but not titles or articles.
The Secret Letter is H
Category 1: The Name of a Ship in the Pearl Harbor Anchorage present on the morning of 07 DECEMBER, 1941
Category 2: Name a Naval Commander at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Category 3: Name a land objective (something fought over) during the Battle of Guadacanal
Category 4: Name an Ace Pilot (more than five kills) on any side.
Category 5: Name of a Commonwealth General Officer (e.g., not Dutch, not American)
Category 6: Name of a USO performer known to have toured Pacific installations during WW2.
Good Luck!!!
5:16 PM
Satisfaction
A buddy of mine sent me this link.. DEVO at the height of their powers, when they were new, wearing yellow suits and performing in that stuttering, synchopated style I always admired from their early years before MTV.
No reason for this, I was always a fan...
4:49 PM
J is for Jackson, Results
Clio picked up two players, J.R. Tracy and Mike Reed, from the second turn onward. Mike's post of his answers looked legit to me, so I gave him appropriate credit for turn 1. You may recall Mike and J.R. from the literature game we just put on. Mike, a trained historian who attended the USMA, assures us all that our butts are all collectively kicked, we just don't know it yet.
Not that Jason answered "Johnston" for one of the answers. no mention as to whether he meant Joe or Albert Sidney. So I could only give him one point for this answer..
New categories will be posted here and elsewhere tonight.
5:04 PM
Well, is he or isn't he??
Apparently, he's not... didn't I tell you that?
Taking a break from all your worries, 13th aired episode this season, was directed by Edward James Olmos (aka, Admiral William Adama). Edward Olmos ("Eddie") has a far darker, surrealistic vision than I had expected and was quite the dab hand at setting up scenes. Funny thing is, according to Ron Moore's last podcast, this was supposed be a comedy (as initially conceived). I can see a little bit of that, in the bar scenes where Galen and Lee retreat to get drunk and discuss their dysfunctional marriages. But for the rest of it, I would hardly call it a comedy. At least not "funny ha-ha" comedy.
Okay, I'll say this now.. I'm getting sick of who's sleeping with whom on this show. I really could care less if Anders is boinking Starbuck or Apollo is boinking Starbuck. Moore, Eick and company need to revisit those themes that made this show great-- humanity in flight, a merciless enemy bent on our extermination, and lots of whiz-bang. There's been a dearth of whiz-bang since the two part Exodus show at the beginning of the season, and I'm starting to miss it. I understand that the underlying sexual tensions between flight officers is titillating for some people but really, it moves the plot along not a whit and gets horribly repetitive. So I was zoning out a bit on the Lee/Starbuck/Anders/Dualla love quadrangle. They argued a lot, snarled at each other and had some soulful, whistful conversations about their relationships. Kind of like last week, and the week before.
Far more interesting was the almost-suicide of Baltar, foiled by his one-time stooge Gaeta. In Baltar's minds' eye, he hangs himself, and is awakened in a chamber with three number sixes (none of which are Caprica Six, presumably in a brig somewhere). Fantastic performances were given by Mary McDonnell (Laura Rossyln) and Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh, putting in his outstanding performance). They play bad-cop/bad-cop on Baltar, giving everyone (including the viewing audience) the distinct impression that Baltar will very shortly be breathing vacummn. Hogan (as I have said many times) is at his best when playing the bitter, twisted Sol Tigh in just this sort of situation.. loaded with hate. McDonnell was a real suprise. I thought she was serious.
The attempt to use a hallucigenic drug on Baltar in a ploy to get him to reveal Cylon secrets goes somewhat awry; he reveals nothing of value and babbles on incoherently much like he did under Cylon torture (if he can't forward project, like the Cylons do, then what the heck IS going on in that man's head, eh?). Olmos is great here, bringing Baltar down from his "bad trip".
There's a nice twisty, oogy ending with Gaeta that is worth watching twice for the way Callas (Baltar) and Juliani (Gaeta) play off of each other. As usual, James Callas as the ever-madder Baltar steals the show.
Not the best episode, but far from the worst. Definitely NOT the comedy they were looking for.
8:46 PM
Who actually pitches these ideas, and why aren't they ashamed of themselves yet?
Shatner Talks Star Trek XI
1:27 PM
Answers are Due!
I have heard from British Peter, German Peter, Daniel, Bill, Karen, Eva and Andy. I have yet to hear from Rich, Eric, Jason, and Mike.
Note about Mike. He DID enter a turn for last time and somehow I didn't receive it. I'm willing to extend him the courtesy of a turn one score since he posted what he submitted for everyone to see (on CSW).
Eric, on the other hand, starts on turn 2...
