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Socialist or…
I love this cartoon that my brother sent me because I’m so sick of the allegations against Obama that he’s advocating Socialist policies (i.e. redistribution of wealth). What the hell is Medicare? I pay money into it every paycheck but … Continue reading
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Sara’s Back
I can’t believe how busy we’ve been since Saratoga came home three weeks ago; so busy I forgot to post here. She doesn’t have full use of her back legs yet but with the 3x/day physical therapy that we’re doing … Continue reading
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Talesworth Arena flash game
I found this Flash-based lite RPG/combat game through my favorite geek clothing vendor J!nx today and it’s quite fun considering the small amount of effort needed. Try out Talesworth Arena and you might like it. Using that link will add … Continue reading
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Our sweet Saratoga is in the hospital
Our sweet little Saratoga (who is only about five years old) has been in the hospital for five days now with a spinal cord injury. She had premature calcification of her backbone and something caused multiple discs to herniate and … Continue reading
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New Owen & Beru action figures?
Somebody at work forwarded a link to this picture of the new Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru Lars action figures from Star Wars Episode IV. I should have guessed what it would be from the names of the characters. This … Continue reading
Texas: before and after Ike
I got this link on a technical e-mail list where several of the members are located in the Houston area where hurricane Ike went through recently. These are before & after aerial photographs of the Bolivar Peninsula area of Texas. … Continue reading
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Poor dog, this is just wrong
I understand that if your dog has injured feet or is a resuce dog working on hostile terrain that you’d put boots on for protection (the dog, not you) but these people bugged me with all their laughing at their … Continue reading
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Battle College for Warmachine
I have found that the Battle College site has some great information for Warmachine players. Lots of reviews of units as well as faction tactics (including specific counters against other factions). Oh yeah, it has Hordes info too which is … Continue reading
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Tagged Miniatures, Privateer Press, Tabletop Gaming, Warmachine/Hordes
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$400 LEGO Death Star Kicks Ass
I ran across this $400 LEGO Death Star kit at Gizmodo, it looks simply awesome. Too bad I don’t have that kind of money to drop on a one-time build that would probably just sit on my shelf. Dare I … Continue reading
Monopoly Sucks
While I was at GameInk I had to laugh when I came across this one:
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Gygax Memorial t-shirt
Even though I haven’t played D&D in about 20 years I really liked this shirt at GameInk:
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Geek Item of the Week: Campaign Coins
Is tracking your cash loot on paper just too boring for your RPG sessions? Then you can drop $70 on a set of copper, silver, gold & platinum gaming coins at Campaign Coins. You can buy smaller packs by metal … Continue reading
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MST3K 20th Anniversary DVD Set
I don’t have time for a full Comic-Con write-up just yet but I did see the tin box for the MST3K 20th Anniversary DVD boxed set (4 discs). They told us at the booth (where I bought one of the … Continue reading
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Oh no, the website is down!
I forget which one of my buddies linked to this site but if you have any tech support background (or even deal with dumb sales people) you should enjoy it. Warning: audio is NWS and there is in fact a … Continue reading
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Saratoga makes the TV news
Yesterday my wife and I took our dogs Saratoga and Milo for the Walk a Mile for the Animals charity walk to support the Rancho Coastal Humane Society (which is where we got Sara and Milo). We saw a cameraman … Continue reading
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