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| Friday, January 7, 2005 03:39 AM |
| Snagglebaby? |
 by Fëanor |
First of all, some exciting news: bloginator and his wife are having a little girl! They just figured out the gender a couple days ago. They have a name picked out, but I hesitate to mention it here, as it is a "real" name. Clearly, she needs an internet name immediately--yes, even before birth! In the future, all people will have real names, internet names, Elven names, pirate names...
Ahem. Again, I must present you with some links courtesy Sarcasmo. She always has the best links.
First, a bunch of timelines for things that never happened, compiled by the Historian of Things That Never Were. I particularly enjoyed the Lovecraft timeline and the Tolkien timeline, but this is just a great resource in general for geeks like us.
Another link I really enjoyed was this one--a page of animated films about, and starring, muffins. It's way funner than it sounds. I particularly enjoyed Hungry, Pssst, and Feed Me, but they're all amusing. They're cute, and yet also creepy and disturbing, in a most delicious fashion. The creator of these films, Amy Winfrey, seems quite talented. I checked out the first episode of her Making Fiends series and really enjoyed that, too. I remember watching her Big Bunny series a while ago; it's not as good, but also entertaining.
In other news, game night was fun last night. We finally, to my great joy, got a chance to play Jacob Marley, Esquire. Even though I lost horribly and was frustrated throughout most of the game, I still enjoyed it (as did everyone else, I believe), which to me suggests that it's really quite a good game. It's quite a bit different than the beta version that Cheapass offered in PDF form a couple of years ago on their site, and all of the changes seem to be for the better.
Peccable also tried to make us play a card game called Mao, a game which is actually either a clever puzzle or a really nasty trick. Basically, one person knows the rules, and for everybody else, the game consists of trying to figure out the rules, and ultimately get rid of all of your cards. If I hadn't been hungry and feeling a bit ornery, I might have given the game more of a chance, but as it was, I just found it really frustrating; it reminded me too much of that game Fizban in that one classic "Star Trek" episode. (Whoever gets that reference is a serious old school geek.)
Besides playing a game (or two--I can't even remember now how many times we played) of James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game, we also tried out one of my Christmas gifts--a Steve Jackson card game called Ninja Burger (which is apparently based on the website ninjaburger.com--go figure). I'd played the RPG version of this game at a con a while ago, and had a lot of fun, so I was excited when I got this version of the game, which would no doubt be much easier to trick people into playing with me. Peccable was underwhelmed by the game, finding it too much dependent on chance. And he does have a point, but I still found it to be quite a bit of fun. I mean, you're ninjas delivering fast food with honor and stealth, via card playing and dice rolling. How can that not be cool? Anyway, I think the game is meant to be played a bunch of times in a row, to sort of even out the element of luck.
It seems like there was something else I wanted to talk about, but I can't remember what it was. So that's all you get for now. |
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