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tastes better in ireland | caracter
turophile (toor'-oh-file, tyoor'-oh-file)
n. a connoisseur of cheese; a cheese fancier. [from Greek
tyros "cheese" + philos "loving."]
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Parenting is tough--especially when your kidgets kidnapped
and killed.
Google
Maps gets evil
Time
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"2007 was a very 'Looney' year for my wife and I. We
went from only owning regular Fluxx to having every boxed Fluxx
game, Aquarius, Chrononauts, and lots of pyramids among other
Looney things. Many people in our family gave and received Looney
Labs' games at Christmas and we played many of them together
on New Year's Eve. So, THANK YOU! for bringing so much fun and
joy into our lives!" -- Anthony K, from
a private email
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The Name Remains The Same |
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 In
my last update, there was a link
to a survey we were running, asking what we should call my new
"Invaders from Mars" version of Fluxx. Well, we've
tabulated the results, and Martian
Fluxx beat Fluxx Invaders by a narrow margin, with Alien
Invasion Fluxx lagging far behind. And so, after much deliberation,
we've decided to stay with our original title.
According to the comments that came in with the votes, a lot
of folks felt strongly that we needed to stick with the naming
convention we'd already established (Adjective Fluxx) and therefore
favored Martian Fluxx or Alien Invasion Fluxx over the backwards
Fluxx Invaders. (On the other hand, many who voted for Fluxx
Invaders liked it precisely because it deviates from the formula.)
But the real question we were asking, indeed the question
that triggered this whole debate, was whether or not people thought
Martians were cool. Whereas Zombies
are obviously in vogue in today's pop culture, Martians are kind
of old fashioned at this point. After all, far from the Earth
ever being invaded by Mars, our robots have now conquered their
planet! But this issue seems to be of little concern to our survey
respondents. Martians may not be as sexy as Zombies, but they're
still very cool. So we're just gonna stay with the name Martian
Fluxx!
In other news, I'm finally resuming my occasional sales of
old stuff on eBay, starting with one of the heavily-requested
First Edition Stoner
Fluxx decks I squirreled away long ago. If you'd like to
be notified whenever this happens (another common request), I've
started a Project
eBay announcement list which I'll send email to whenever
I put something up for sale on eBay.
And speaking of new mailing lists, we've decided to start
sending out a monthly e-Newsletter! The March issue of Notes
From The Lab will be going out to everyone in the LooneyLabs
databank in a couple of days, but after that it will be an opt-in
feature, i.e. we'll only be sending future issues to registered
members of the Looney
Labs Fan Club.
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There's this dream I've had a few times recently, in which
I finally manage to travel back to Amsterdam.
I'm not sure who I'm with, but it's someone who's never been
there before, and I'm showing this person around my favorite
city. And we see and do various fun things, but for some reason
I can't seem to find any of my
favorite coffeeshops. The more I search, the more it becomes
clear that all of the coffeeshops are gone, that they've somehow
disappeared since my last visit. (I guess I'd have to call this
a nightmare, not a dream...) |
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As a fan of Battestar
Galactica, I really enjoyed the 8-minute synopsis of the
first 3 seasons called "What the Frak is Going On?"
which is currently playing at the official website. An awful
lot has happened in the series so far and with the 4th season
finally about to start it's a great way to be reminded of the
events up to this point. And the narration is hilarious! Of course,
it's total spoilerage, so avoid it if you've never seen the show
and think you might try to watch it all on DVD someday, but I
think it's probably pretty entertaining even if you've never
watched a single episode. (Incidentally, the same can all be
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Some people say that deaths come in threes. In my last update,
I mentioned mourning Gary Gygax; just before that, we lost William
F. Buckley, conservative
supporter of drug legalization; and this week it was Arthur
C. Clarke, one of the greatest science-fiction authors of all
time. Goodbye & farewell, gentlemen... |
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