October 2011
1 post
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
February 2011
2 posts
December 2010
2 posts
Get your conference anti-harassment policy here! →
“This is a example anti-harassment policy suitable for most open source, computing, or technology-related conferences. It may be adopted unchanged or tweaked to suit your conference.”
November 2010
2 posts
Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap Podcast Location →
For those that missed it, The ‘Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap” podcast now has it’s own home on LibSyn.
We love LibSyn.
We love our listeners.
Thanks, and hope you continue to enjoy the show.
October 2010
8 posts
Die Antwoord’s Evil Boy - I can’t stop listening to it.
Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap Episode 5 : "It does... →
September 2010
19 posts
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I...
– Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have...
– Lucille Ball
I quit smoking. It’s very hard, but I’m glad I did. I’ll tell...
– Bill Hicks
There’s this passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of...
– Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it...
– Bill Hicks
I’ve noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country;...
– Bill Hicks
…That’s the interface that Microsoft gives troglodyte IT departments to...
– Coderspiel: Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible, terrible bug The moral of the story? If you don’t want your IT department to have control over your personal devices, don’t use them for work. QED. (via frijole)
“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man’s eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hell Yeah, Gamemasters: Speech In A Time of Dice →
Carl is a friend, and a long-time fan of @UrsulaV - gotta love when friends get props like this!
Bryant Durrell writes:
I’m here to talk about Carl Rigney. A lot of people know Carl, these days, as an enthusiastic and highly skilled indie game proponent. Which he is. He also has a not-so-secret past as an awesome traditional GM; back when I lived in California, he ran everything from …
Heads up...
I need one of these in a BAD WAY. For the office. No, really, for the office.
catalogliving:
We had been married 15 years when I discovered Gary’s skull vase and at that point, really, what was I going to do?
August 2010
20 posts
Principia Discordia | the book of Chaos, Discord... →
You *HAVE* read it, haven’t you?
Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza - Boing Boing →
A bit of awesome - 3 real Yakuza review the Sega Japan release of Yakuza 3