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Also, if you remember Ultima or Wizardry or any of those old 80s / 90s tile-based RPGs fondly, go see Basilisk Games and get a copy of Eschalon, Book 1, available for Mac, Linux and Windows. Lots of fun. Nice work, Thomas, thank you; looking foward to Book 2.

What the hell is going on?

Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America. We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the signs started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN [...]

Some of you may know that I sometimes lean toward a more liberal interpretation of copyright laws, particularly in the matter of PC games. On the other hand I always do make an effort to reward the folks who are doing really good work; those are the games I buy at least one copy [...]

Charlie Rose on technology.

On the retirement of Castro:
“Eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections, and I mean free and I mean fair, not these kind of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off as being true democracy” – George W. Bush, brother of Jeb

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann

This is why I love the internet.

Unfortunately it was too late for me to call and request that someone come back to my house to rotate the pizzas and re-position my beef pellets.

I’ve been texting more lately (thanks mostly to Heather, Alex and maybe a little Dawn) and was just looking through my cell phone’s custom dictionary, where it puts the words that I have to teach it how to spell. It made me realize that the “custom” words we use are a nice little snapshot [...]

So friend Alex is returning from an extended holiday in the old country, and I see that he’s already got some video online.
Looks like he had a good time.
No, I don’t know what the radishes are about either, sorry.