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Below are the 11 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Julian Lighton" journal:
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05:24 pm
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Dominion Variants
I've been playing a lot of Dominion lately. (Shocking, I know.)
We've been playing locally with a variant where, when the game ends, you still finish the round, so everybody gets the same number of turns. This reduces the advantage of going first.
Another idea to make things fairer is to mandate the 3-4 money split in the first two rounds. The 5-2 is usually way stronger, and it's pure luck.
(It would also be a handicapping method -- give the stronger players 3-4s, and the weaker 5-2s.)
Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) drcpunk figuring out her turn in Dominion
Tags: gaming, geekery, variants
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04:08 pm
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Origins 2009
Been a while since I posted here. I blame Facebook. It's so much easier to toss out a quick status update than to write something that feels worth posting to LJ.
( Anyway, Origins )
All in all, a good con, with no significant low points other than my inability to operate the Board Room. I spent more time in the Looney Labs room this year, and played no Shadowfist. (The only event I was willing to play and had a deck for clashed with Icehouse.)
Current Music: a playlist of various Katamari songs
Tags: gaming, geekery, origins
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03:49 pm
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Oddly appropriate
My bookmarks list is full of lots of clutter, some of which is organized into folders, so I don't see exactly how much crap I've bookmarked over the years.
I was bookmarking a web site that has patches for some of the old Ultima games so they can actually work on fast machines. (Also improving the graphics and music.)
When the Add Bookmark dialog came up, it was defaulting to the last folder I added a bookmark to, which was "Avatar builders".
Current Mood: amused
Tags: geekery, obscure, video games
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11:40 pm
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The all-time vaporware award
Reminded by a conversation with ladymondegreen the other day, I thought to get around to checking on the status of Cliff Johnson's The Fool and His Money.
It was announced in the closing credits of The Fool's Errand, released in 1987. The website says it's in final beta testing.
Having enjoyed both the original and 3 in Three, I'm probably going to get it when it comes out.
Current Mood: cheerful
Tags: geekery
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12:13 pm
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Can I panic yet?
We'll be at Intercon in a week, where we're running two LARPs.
One of them isn't yet written. Yeah; it's mostly written, but I don't think it's as finished as Ghost Fu was at this point last year, and that one was finished at close to the last minute. (Though, to be fair, Ghost Fu had a lot more components to generate.)
Current Mood:  worried
Current Music: The Beatles, "Help!"
Tags: gaming, geekery
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06:22 pm
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I'm still too vulnerable to shiny things
Did I need my own domain? Not really.
Will it be useful? Yeah. Wikis, mailing lists, non-isp web space, source-control repositories, etc. If LJ folds I can host a blog there.
It was, at least, pretty cheap. The host has a special offer that comes to $4.44 a month.
Bonus points for anybody who isn't mnemex who guesses the domain (It's in .org)
Current Mood:  geeky
Tags: geekery
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02:06 am
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Yay!
Audacity is well-documented enough that I seem to be able to operate it. I'm currently doing a test-run on an album I've already got on CD.
Once this is done, I'll hack it up into tracks, then throw it all away and start again with a non-scratch monkey.
Edit: And the noise removal tool seems to do a good job on tape hiss without me having to fiddle with settings I don't understand. The "attempt to mark track separations" tool got kind of confused by Stairway to Heaven, though.
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Led Zeppelin, "The Battle of Evermore"
Tags: geekery, music
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12:12 am
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I've finally got the point of Twitter
It's where you go to post things like this:
I've mustered enough energy to go to bed, where I may dream more dreams combining politics and rock band.
Current Mood: tired, sick
Tags: geekery, prattle
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06:40 pm
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Origins 2008
This was my first Origins ever where I wasn't running anything. It was weird having the opportunity to plan my schedule in advance. (Not that I did, but it's the principle of the thing.)
I think this may have been more tiring, but also more fun.
( Long )
Tags: gaming, geekery, prattle, rpgs
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12:42 am
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What has it got in its pocketses?
I just got a new bag which can fit my computer.
In one of its compartments, it's got two little pockets for holding your PDAs, MP3 players, and the like. I have both, so what immediately got stashed in one pocket?
My Set deck.
I know where my priorities are.
Tags: gaming, geekery, prattle
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04:50 pm
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Things you can learn by being dumb
Since I forgot to copy my new music onto my iPod until I was packing in a hurry, I just threw the cable in my bag, and synced while I was on the bus.
I now know two things I didn't know before:
- There isn't really enough room to use a 17" MacBook Pro while sitting on a NJ Transit bus. (Shocking, I know.)
- From the middle of the street, you can pick up a lot of wireless networks. (Seven, in my case, about half running without security.)
The latter makes me wonder if it would be possible to run an internet connection while in motion by having your machine auto-hop from one network to the next, or whether the constant transition from one NAT device to another makes this impossible.
It also makes me wonder if global ad-hoc mesh networking is already possible in dense suburbia.
And, for the NIN fans on my friends list (all maybe one of you), The Slip is ok so far. Worth the download if you're a fan. Probably not the best intro if you don't know them already.
Current Location: 163
Current Mood:  okay
Current Music: Nine Inch Nails, "Lights in the Sky"
Tags: geekery, music, prattle
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