For those of you who bought (or STOLE!!!) “The Math Song” off the internet and don’t have the liner notes for our album Spaceship Zero, here is the equation:
Use degrees, not radians!
Wordle Wildlife Federation of Justice
Here is a cool thing. You type a block of text into wordle.net and it arranges by size the words used. That was an awkward sentence – just look:
I input my writing for the Mutants & Masterminds supplement for World Wildlife Federation of Justice. I think the result is keen. Click on the pic to see a bigger version and try to figure out what a mouldywarp is.
Hey Look What I Found on the Interweb
(We’re Gonna) Kill the Chupacabra (Tonight)!
Get it HERE
Dude, Sleestak Were So 2007
If you weren’t cool enough to listen to The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’ “Sleestak and Yeti” you can at least experience the remake of Land of the Lost coming up this year.
So Close Yet So Far
We are very, very close to detecting an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star, maybe even one in an Earth-like orbit. I wouldn’t be surprised if we find one in the next year or two.
Read more here!
Toren Falls Down (Again)
Toren Atkinson of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets talks about what happened at Cthulhupalooza, Second-Level Wizards, Saturday Morning Cartoon Party @ the Rio, Ghostbusters 25th Anniversary + video game, Anne McCaffrey, Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, inspirations for “Theme to an Earthquake”, The World Wildlife Federation of Justice, and the big show forthcoming on February 7th with Bloodhag & The Bossmonsters @ The Bourbon.
Accompanying tracks include songs by: Ray Ellis, Dethklok, Bloodhag Three Inches of Blood, and of course The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets INCLUDING newly released “(We’re Gonna) Kill the Chupacabra (Tonight)” now available on the Child’s Play compilation CD with Freezepop & Johnathan Coulton.
All on CiTR’s “We All Fall Down” – download the entire hour of nerdly giggles at:
http://playlist.citr.ca/podcasting/xml/weallfalldown.xml
and visit Marielle’s blog
A Square Peg In A 20-Sided Hole
Another experiment has more or less played out to its conclusion. When I made up my character for 4th Edition D&D, I designed him to be a non-combatant. I wanted to see how the new rules would handle that. I gave him maximum points in Diplomacy and spent all my feats on languages.
As a diplomat, he didn’t fare very well, but I’m not sure it’s entirely 4th edition’s fault.
It was my choice to be a thief. This was probably not the best class for a diplomat.
I didn’t show up regularly to the game, and as such missed some of the best opportunities for diplomacy
I didn’t put in the time to properly learn the rules, so someone else leveled up my character for me.
It may not have been the best campaign for a diplomat, but by the same token I can think of very few scenarios that really are geared for diplomacy, and so I think that D&D by it’s nature really is a “kill them and take their stuff” game. And I knew that was true from previous editions going in, but I still felt it was worth the time to do this test to see if any paradigms had changed in the new edition. The biggest downside unfortunately was that the rest of the group had to deal with a character who didn’t fit in. So, K’hlwch Dodsworth Smelt, R.I.P.
On to the next character, whatever and whenever that may be.
On a semi-related note, one of the things I’ve found about 4th edition is that leveling up happens more often. For a guy who has a hard time keeping track of the myriad of powers that a character has, I found that before I could familiarize myself with my character, he’s already changed.
Seems Like A Good Candidate for the Cartoon Party
The Spirit
The Spirit is playing at The Rio but I haven’t torn myself out of my home pants this holiday season as of yet with the exception of a Very Geisel Breakfast. Looks like a lot of fans of 300 and Sin City are disappointed in The Spirit – I wonder if that means I’ll like it? Anyone seen it yet?
This is an Outrage!
I have been tracking – on the Canada Post website – the journey of my new batch of giant squid light switch covers which have ironically been coming from Nova Scotia (ironic because they have giant squid there from time to time).
Yesterday I noticed they were in Richmond so I was excited because I thought there’d be a good chance I’d get them in the mail today (Monday). I had them mailed to my work. I was at work from about 9:45 until 4:30 or so. So were 3 other people, on and off. So you can imagine my surprise when I checked at 4:30 to see that there was an “attempted delivery” and “notice card left” because somehow all four of us missed it and there was nary a notice card to be found in the place.
I went down to the West Broadway PO and I says to the lady “what’s all this then?” She checks her computer and tells me it’s not there. I say something to the effect of “you mean this information off the website is not accurate?
Isn’t the package scanned at these times at these places?” She tells me bluntly “No. Try again tomorrow.”
So now you know that the Canada Post tracking system is a bunch of bullshit. Just thought you might like to know so that you too can be OUTRAGED!
Thanks to David Herrold – from the 2008 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
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