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- Why Would Richard Nixon Ever Have Chosen a Black Vice
President?
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Walking near the Washington monument
with Gina, Marlene, and Margit. "This guy," I say,
"I was walking behind him like this," and I pretend
like I'm ducking behind someone as I'm walking, "and he
was going..." I make annoyed, don't-follow-me looks over
my shoulder.
demiurgic
(dem'-ee-urj'-ick) adj. of
or pertaining to the Demiurge or his/her work; creative. see
Demiurge n. a name for the maker or creator of
the world, later conceived by some as being a subordinate to
the Supreme Being, sometimes as the author of evil. from Latin
demiurgos public or skilled worker, from Greek demos
of the people + urgos working; worker.
- Riverworld :|
Good books brought to life
as a bland pilot. At least
it's not Waterworld.
 
The Visualised
Costs of Operation Iraqi Liberation
Wapsi Square
"The Game
Master sounds like a good idea for a promo card for game
stores. It's too geeky a character to put into the basic game
for general consumption (my mom probably doesn't know what a
game master is, for example) but for gamers it's as evocative
an archetype as the President or the little black cat." -- Andrew Petrarca, on the rabbits mailing list
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Making Recipes |
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 Here's
a really cool diagram Alison
put together this week, depicting her recommended method for
loading up a stash tube of Icehouse
pyramids. We need this diagram in order to give very clear instructions
to the people who'll be
packing our next run of Icehouse stash tubes. This diagram is
part of a document we call a Product Recipe, which gives complete
instructions for doing another print run of one of our more complex
products. By "more complex" I mean "non-card"
games... it's easy when we get a card game printed. The finished
decks of cards are delivered in shrink-wrapped boxes, ready to
sell. But it's a different story altogether when the product
is something like a specially-ordered tube filled with custom-made
plastic pyramids, delivered to us by different companies
and assembled for us by a third before ending up in a warehouse
managed for us by a fourth.
Ah, the complexities of running a small business! Isn't it amazing
what Kristin
accomplishes for us?
Anyway, aside from dealing with broken phone lines and watching
TV coverage of Iraqis pulling down statues of their former leader,
we've mostly just been puttering away at various springtime projects. For
example, I'm in the midst of designing a series of new promo
cards, a task which has been occupying a lot of my time this
week... but I'm not really ready to talk about that yet.
Oh, and did I mention that we've got spring
fever?
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