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The Muppets' Wizard Of Oz :)
It wasn't a dream -
Toto the pet prawn, the rats, the scarefrog, Kansas...
Death
Star
The
Interstate Highway Map, Subway Map Style
"My friends and I had formed a group originally to play
D&D, but things were getting a little too busy for all of
us to play or plan any campaigns, but we still had an urge to
hang out and game together. We had tried video games before,
but they get muddled as the group that was playing constantly
shifted. Finally, one of my friends decided that one night when
we'd planned to go to Denny's, he'd bring out Fluxx. Well, we
tried it, and we ended up really liking it. Thus, we decided
that certain nights when we got together, we would play card
and/or board games. As our nights of these games progressed,
we were introduced to Chrononauts, TreeHouse, and Aquarius, the
last of which is a current favorite. These game nights also helped
to bring our group a little closer especially to the friend who
started the whole thing. So thanks, Looney Labs, for some really
awesome games and for helping us to come together." -- Brad, seen quoted on Knit
Me A Pony's livejournal
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Making a Travel Homeworlds
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 Unless
this happens to be your first visit to this webzine, you've probably
already noticed that I updated the format of this page this week.
Now that the Looney News
is also being updated weekly, some of the content which has always
been here (like the calendar)
has now been moved over there, plus I've started doing this whole
VideoBlogging
thing, and so the time was right for a bit of rearranging. (Plus
I did an overhaul on my Activism
index.)
Another thing I did this week was to create the cool little
pocket-sized Homeworlds
kit shown here. But since I
made a video about it, I'm going to send you over there for
the details on that story. (And don't miss my Tour
of the Looney Labs Office!)
And that's about it for now. (I'm thinking these articles
are going to start being a lot shorter than they used to be,
since making videos is a whole lot more fun than writing...)
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I love the way cellphones have minimized the tedium involved
in picking someone up from the airport. At BWI they now have
a special parking lot set up, just for people with cellphones
to wait comfortably in their cars until they get the call from
the person they're picking up, calling from their cellphone as
they wait to pick up their luggage. Thus you can drive up to
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"For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you
don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and
sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances
are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases
his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new
job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a
trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the
time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast,
flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely
to live with quite a bit of happiness."
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"It has been 30 years since President Nixon's declaration
of war and things have changed, but not for the better. We've
arrested millions, spent billions and drugs today are more plentiful,
cheaper and easier to find. Where is the success in this,
our new Prohibition? Police every day arrest drug dealers and
drug users, but at what cost? The nation that was once proudly
known as the 'Land of the Free' now has the highest incarceration
rate on the planet. If we cannot legislate, arrest or spend
our way to success how do we put an end to tragedies like that
of the 10-year-old in the recent Zanesville bust? As a former
police captain I know from my firsthand experience that this
war cannot be won. I know that we err in repeating the failures
of Prohibition. The same problems that plagued us then, plague
us now; illicitly produced substances are controlled by criminals
and gangs." -- Peter J. Christ, "It's
Time To End Pointless War On Drugs" |
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