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Near Farmington, New Mexico there is another rock formation that looks like a ship sailing on the desert from a distance. It's called shiprock. http://www.lapahie.com/Shiprock_Peak.cfm

I was watching the news last night and they had footage from a Wal-Mart in New Orleans showing hordes of people just gutting the place of everything that wasn't nailed down.

This whole bit with rising gas prices has pretty much convinced me that it's time to invest (as in stock) in alternative fuels. I figure we're going to hit a point in the next few years where that sort of stuff really starts to take off and alternative energy sources like hydrogen fuel cells...

I noticed $2.46 when driving in yesterday morning. Gas prices are just insane. Yeah, I know they're worse other places but still... I remember thinking gas over about $1.60 was expensive a year or two ago... I do drive a SUV, but it's the most comfortable thing I can find. I'm a big guy...

Humanity didn't even know what the cylons had become before the attack on the colonies. As far as humanity was concerned, the cylon war was over and had been for decades. Likewise, the cylons were gone and hadn't been heard from in just as long. How was humanity to be willing to see that the...

That was more of a blood shower than a blood bath though...

Exactly. Interviewing is a special skill set that some people are masters of. It doesn't reflect how good their social skills are past a basic level, but only how good they are at navigating the minefield of interviewing. People can have good social skills but not be good at interviewing...

That's often true, but I've known people to give preferential treatment to the executive assistant. Depending on who that person works for, how big the company is and how much contact you have with them, having the executive assistant happy with you can potentially be a lot more useful than the...

I'd had a similar thought once. I theorized that you might have a sort of magical brain-drain where the folks who had the talent and inclination for magic would gravitate towards centers of learning in the large empires (like Rome) leaving the less civilized fringes with fewer spellcasters, and...

Something else I noticed: John Milius of Conan fame is a writer and producer for the series.

I loved it. MUCH better than Empire (ABC's recent Roman show). I've read that a reviewer who has seen more of it said that the first episode seems slow because they're introducing the characters and establishing them a bit, but the next two are quicker paced and you'll be hooked by the end of...

Oh good grief, don't get me started on the whole hiring process. It seems tailor made to ensure one of the schmoozers will get the job no matter how qualified (or not) they are while folks like me (who aren't any good at the people games but who happen to be really good at our work) get shut...

Could be. I'm not exactly up on everything in the "Potterverse". I thought I'd heard that she didn't intend to write more books about Harry once she finished these books, but I may be misremembering that. I think it might have been something about exploring other parts of the Potterverse (or...

I've never run a full historical campaign. However, at this point in my life, I'm not sure I could run a game that wasn't influenced by history. Most of my settings generally start with some sort of historical premise which I then twist and turn into a fantasy setting of some sort.

My completely groundless theory is that Dumbledore has just been reborn like a phoenix -- as a baby. The next series will be about reborn-Dumbledore's years at Hogwarts with a new antagonist -- possibly a reborn Voldemort. Harry has a role as the head of Griffendor and the DADA teacher...

You know, I don't want "on demand". I want portable. I don't want to be dependant on being connected to someone's network or server or anything like that. I don't want to have to worry about registering computers. I don't want to have to own special technology like this "blue ray" needs. I...

I'm running a game in San Antonio. We just started a Kalamar game and could use an extra player. I don't have a website for that game yet, but here is the one for our last game: http://benkarl.home.texas.net/spqt/ If you look at the following page of that site, you'll find summaries of all...

I am reminded of the gag on the rerun of David Letterman I saw last night. It dated from before the latest HP book was released and they had a spoiler moment where they released a spoiler about the book. The spoiler? The book's ISBN number. :)

I used to think about things like that. Greyhawk used to mean "D&D" to me back in the mid 80s when I was a teenager. In the last ten years or so, my encounters with Greyhawk fandom have pretty much changed things so that when I think about Greyhawk these days I think about bitter old grognards...

Groan!