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Ok, I’ve got to get on the phone to the camera place. I pulled into the parking ramp this morning and thought I saw a tuft of masking tape stuck to the wall. I figured it had something to do with the painting project that’s going on.

Turns out it wasn’t masking tape. It was a moth. A huge moth. If you took a dollar bill, folded it in half and stuck it to the wall, that’d be about the size (and close to the right shape) of that moth.

And I don’t have a working camera with me.

Here I am, parked next to Mothra, and I don’t have a picture. Crap.

Even for Night Elves, finding a seat on public transport can be a pain…
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Well, we’re at the convention. And for the umpteenth year running, they’ve screwed up our convention badges. It’s become something of a tradition, I’m afraid. I did what I could, giving them the list of Ann Arbor names, as well as telling them that Bryan and Greg are the East Coast contacts and that they’d have the full list of East Coast names… We’ll see how it goes.
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My job is different from yours, part #124 in a continuing series…

Ok, so I’m doing a lot of video capture at work. Almost all of it is surgical training films, so it’s nicely gory stuff. But what’s really fun is that a lot of the films are from the 1970’s. This means that the docs giving the introductions to the operations are dressed in suits and ties that look like something you’d see in reruns on TV Land.

So here I am sitting in my office, watching with great interest while docs slice and dice someone’s face so that they can wire together the broken bones underneath, and what gets me cringing and howling is the guy in the plaid suit with the four inch wide herringbone tie.

A friend of mine came up with an idea for an alien race of intelligent octopi for use in my sister’s Farscape d20 game. It’s the first time she’s GM’d, so I helped her out a bit with hashing out the game balance issues. After going back and forth a bit, he wound up playing something a bit more standard, but there’s no reason that an entire alien race should just languish on my hard drive. Besides, even though they were originally for a sci-fi far future space travel game, with a little bit of tweaking for genre specific rule sets these guys could easily be adapted to pretty much any environment. They’d make outstanding rogues…
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Not a headline you expect to see very often, eh? Ok, so the accident wasn’t all that horrifying, but the pictures accompanying the news article are pretty impressive.

A friend of mine recently gave a way a stack of CDs, part of his Musical Bottom-Feeding project, where he gets and reviews an armload of discs from the record store bargain bin. I’ve put a half-dozen of them into an iTunes playlist to listen to at work.

iTunes has a nifty feature where you can assign a 1-5 star rating to a track, and I got to thinking that it’d be nice if you could assign this rating without having to actually switch to iTunes from whatever you’re currently doing… iTunes is hugely scriptable, so I suppose I could write a hook into it, but that’s too much like effort. Especially when someone else has already written a huge collection of scripts, one of which does almost exactly what I want. Over at www.dougscripts.com there are scripts for pretty much everything. Well worth checking out.

Looks like the Transplant Games webcast is on track for this year! It’s going to be a bit different from past games. The venue is a college campus in Canada, so there’s no worries about plane tickets (we’re in driving distance) and we’ll be staying in dorm rooms instead of at a hotel. Should be interesting.
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Saturday was Rob’s birthday thing. We wound up learning how to play Texas Hold-Em poker, which was kind of fun. Of course, the big thing is that now I can understand some of the strange terminology that crops up in posts from Wil Wheaton, or in the thousand and one Spam emails I get advertising online casinos.
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The staring parrots have flown the coop (if that’s where you keep parrots). The new Michigan Theater marquee is advertising:

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