BrainWyrms

I don’t think this is old news yet, though I cannot seem to find anything in print that confirms what I heard in the latest D&D Podcast.   The closest I can find is a press release from Wizards that says “Organizational change is always difficult on those impacted”.

According to the podcast, the official D&D Podcast, Dave Noonan was let go as part of a restructuring. This annoys me mostly because Noonan and Mearles are basically the forward face of the latest edition of D&D. From what I have seen, 4E was represented by them. They had the answers and the reasons behind the answers. With the amount of crying about staying with 3.5 or moving to new systems, I don’t understand how Wizards or Hasbro could possibly consider it a smart move to get rid of half the friendly intelligent face that Noonan put forth as an ambassador of 4E.

Half the bloody reasons I wanted to get 4E when it came out, and still half the reasons that I want to actually play 4E, are a direct result of listening and reading what Noonan and Mearles had to say.

Gah!

I have been looking around for a while for a good wordpress theme that would allow me to have most post fragments on the landing page.  I played around with one, gridblog, that was extremely plain and simplistic.  I kind of liked that though, as it plain and simplistic sense of style.  [cough cough] But when I ended up having to hack the theme in order to get the plugins to work, and again to get the front page to show snippets of the posts.  That just didn’t work for me.  I started using wordpress because I do not want to waste the time that it would take for me to learn PHP well enough to code my own CMS and then to take the time to actually do the design, coding, testing, etc.  I wanted something more versitile than my setup, deadjournal via javascript output.  So hacking a theme to barely function was not acceptable. Read the rest of this entry »

I certainly had something that I wanted to say.

But then I got shocked and feared into silence by the evil, white, blank screen.

GAH!

For some reason, after reading this article from the NY Times about an all girl band in Saudi Arabia my attitude changed. Initially, I was thinking that this was great. I was happy for the burgeoning freedoms coming to a long repressed culture. You know, the normal thoughts for an elitist bastard from the Elitist States of America.

By the time I had finished reading through the first page, my attitude was switching. I can’t quote any one thing that Dina or Dareen said, but instead of being about fighting against the man or any other boring but understandable rebellions, it felt to me that these were the same spoiled rich kids who feel entitled to whatever they want and throw a temper tantrum as soon as it is denied to them.

In other words, instead of seeing punk rock… I was seeing Paris Hilton.

Quoting some lyrics from Tilt’s Molly Coddled:

Now you’ve chosen poverty
You did it for the sake of being hip
Begging for a dollar
Never doubting for a moment
Your bohemian indigence
And you wonder why the folks
In your run down neighborhood
Don’t recognize you as a kindred soul
‘Cause they know you gotta a bed
In a sunny sub-division
Anytime you wanna run home

I got an interesting email from Facebook today. Yeah, seems that they lost my email settings somehow.

This is interesting because they emailed me to let me know about it.

Obviously, they hadn’t lost my email address. Merely my notification settings. And yet, despite not knowing if I even wanted them to email me notifications, they did so.

I mean, wow.

I ran across a posting from the Steam Punk Home about Holly Black’s Hidden Library yesterday. I definitely recommend checking out the photos of Ms. Black’s wonderful secret library. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been playing around with a variety of different themes lately. I’m trying to find a nice magazine style to use, and so far I have found a few nice ones. Except that they all seem to either have some piece that doesn’t fit my usage style or they seem to require a manual and a dozen plugins. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not a foody. I generally don’t like any food past two or three bites. After that, I’m done.

I also don’t know much of anything about Hummus.

But the Sabra “Go Mediterranean” Greek Olive Hummus was deeee-licious. Expensive too, at 6.38 a pound, but it sure was a good eats. The most fun I’ve ever had eating hummus.

To quote Readernaut’s description of themselves:

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Our website is made with which is built with . We’re running while keeps track of our dataz. is proxying to where Mod_WSGI does its magic on our server at . is our source for book information and rocks!

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This amuses me because I have spent my entire life on the EAST coast, and most of my childhood was in the SOUTH. I take this to mean primarily that, despite my drawl when I’m tired, my parents did a good job of teaching me to speak.

Somebody go check on my folks now. Someone needs to make sure they didn’t just keel over from being complimented.