Vewy vewy quiet

Lots happening... and yeah no blogging. Can't really tell why.. maybe later.

Anyway, great link here from Matthew Monin.

Acts of Gord has stories of a video game store owner who has to deal with really stupid people. It's hilarious.

Back soon, hopefully with a lot more than I've had in the past two weeks.

Are you a Geek?

I've always identified with being a "Geek" due to association of interests. I'd object to the "social ineptness" factor in the definition, as that can be overcome. That doesn't prevent me from liking sci-fi and fantasy, or doing interesting stuff. Funny how this kind of label was applied to the kind of knowledge that everyday people don't subscribe to. Does that mean your normal person has a lack of imagination and/or intellect?

Anyway.

Take the Geek Test!

My score:

30.96647% - Total Geek

Lots of checks for sci-fi and fantasy interest and knowledge, doing well in science and math, enjoying tech and the web and being interested in "academic interests" in spare time.

Whoever made that test clearly wasn't a game geek though - not enough RPG or boardgame content. I scored no points since I have no love for Risk, Chess, Trivial Pursuit or the like. Scabble and other word games, yeah.

Jessica

Sometimes this is all you need to bring a smile to your face. :)

Boardgameblog Update: Game night and a review

Updated Boardgameblog with Saturday night gaming on 2 April, plus a review of Dragon Delta, which is in the running for worst game we've inflicted on ourselves this year.

Karol May 18,1920 - April 2, 2005

Dying Lights

Karol Wojtyla, John Paul II, the Pope in Rome for most of my life, lies on his deathbed. I've never been a devout Catholic, but there's always been a certain mystique around JPII. I saw him in person twice when he came to visit this country, the only predominantly Catholic one in Asia. He had the same aura that great leaders tend to have. He was a kindly man, who did far more for the Roman Catholic Church in terms of finding the line between keeping its traditions and changing to face the future than many will realize or admit. He also transcended his role as the leader of Catholicism, and was one world leader about whom no one had a negative thing to say. He was a good man. I think history will find him to be a great man. JP2 had one tough job. I think he did it well.

Thanks, Karol. Say hello to the Big G for all of us down here.

On Writing

I'll post this here because I keep referring back to it whenever I think that writing is just something I do when there's nothing better to do, or when I think that I should give it up and just do something regular and productive and common.

Neil Gaiman's "On Writing"

My favorite quote from the piece:

"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. It has no job security of any kind, and depends mostly on whether or not you can, like Scheherazade, tell the stories each night that'll keep you alive until tomorrow. There are undoubtedly hundreds of easier, less stressful, more straightforward jobs in the world."