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More D & D racism
I love how just one day after I posted a link about racism in D & D, I played in the most racist D & D game (one-shot) I’ve ever had the misfortune of being in. Every Halfling was a “peck” (I don’t really get that), we were reminded again and again about how dwarves are so “resourceful” and “industrious”, and well, you know how those swamp women are. Half-elves aren’t just half-elves, they’re disgusting half-breeds, and the NPCs had to play up asking the full elves whether they’d be willing to work with one. I think the GM was going for gritty realism — after all, real people are…
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links!
These are my links for January 14th through January 30th Continue Reading Tastee (del.icio.us) links!
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WinRAR to 7zip
I finally got sick to death of WinRAR’s nag screen when I loaded or manipulated archives and installed 7zip. I’m pleased with it so far, even though I had to install a slightly older version to get integration with WinMerge.
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Sunny furniture adventures
All I wanted — in the short term — was a nice coffee table. I didn’t want bells or whistles or fancy carvings. I started with trying to refinish my current coffee table, which ended in disaster when I realized that I was spending my time (and my Friday night) trying to gently chisel off glued and nailed panels of wood from the sides of the table. You can’t gently chisel that mess. The sanding afterwards would have been painful. Screw that. So bright and early on a Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago, G and I set out to see what Charlotte has to offer in terms of…
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Wishful thinking
Sometimes — often after a boring or frustrating experience at work — I wish that I were somehow gainfully unemployed so that I could more easily do the things I wish to do but am not doing. Writing, coding, reading, running, researching. Then I realize — usually with a sigh — that I must not want these things badly enough if I can’t manage to do the few things I want to do in the 5 – 7 non-working hours I have a day. It’s about that time to sit down and prioritize again.