It’s been an incredibly busy week, and I only got to do a very few of the things I wanted to do in my limited personal time – I did get to go to the Web Developers Meet Up group, but I missed out on the local Blogger meeting and another coffee group that met on Thursday night. But in the little bit of free time that I did happen to squeeze in between guests, chores, and other things that life throws you, I downloaded and started playing Battle Forge. It’s … Continue reading
Ok, I’ve been playing Warhammer a bit this weekend and it’s really starting to piss me off in some areas that are just horribly designed. I dunno where Mythic got some of these devs and their crappy ass ideas, most likely from EA, ‘cuz I don’t remember ever being this annoyed so often back in the days of DAoC. List ‘o Peeves: Guild Wars like Maps, where you are forced to take particular paths that are extraordinarily long and convoluted, instead of a direct route, due to non-traversible terrain. Dwarf … Continue reading
I had an interesting experience today. I attended a local “Community Conversation” meeting as a web/database technical liaison/expert . The groups attending were, for the most part non-profit organizations, also known as “Community Benefit Organizations.” This was their third meeting (my first) and it was really interesting just to observe the dynamics of such a diverse group of 40 or so. Honestly, the job of trying to coordinate such an undertaking makes herding cats appear not only tenable, but maybe even FUN in comparison 😀 Anyways, from what I could gather, A LOT of … Continue reading
After reading the Thursday Night Tarot, I’m finding that I understand Joseph Campell’s “Masks of God” and “Hero of a Thousand Faces” much better. Especially his proposal and understanding for the need of a new mythology to suplant the outdated, outmoded, and ultimately false religious mythologies so widespread today (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, all the ‘isms). Anyways, it got me to thinking (always a dangerous circumstance), what context would I use if I were to create a modern mythology. One that actually “works” in this modern era, and would continue to “work” well … Continue reading
…people in the U.S. refuse to believe that we have our own little Taliban/Al Qaeda: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dance_flap Chalk one up for the American Taliban! And a big Zero for Reason. … Continue reading