Evangelism, Jvstin Style?

Strange, huh? Read it for yourself. Me, Arref, the Michigan Cabal, and Doyce are cited.
http://wso.williams.edu:8000/~msulliva/writing/rem.html
And here I have always thought of myself as a lightweight compared with the others. Maybe I am not such a small fish as I thought. Objective views of ones work can
reveal hidden depths, indeed.

Funny, though, one of my joking routines at work back when Joyce was my Boss involved a book we called "The Bible"--which was a huge compliation of stuff she had gathered over the years on procedures and info. Whenever she asked me to look something up, I would start doing a "sermon" bit, citing a fake chapter and verse.

Darn, this makes me feel good.

New Daily Newspaper in NYC debuted yesterday, under an old name.

THE NEW YORK SUN.

Trivia buffs will recognize this as the name of the paper which has the famous letter to Santa Claus by a little girl named Virginia. That paper ceased publication in 1950. In an neat tip of their hat to history, though, the first issue of the Sun yesterday printed the "previous day's crossword puzzle solution"--which was the solution to the puzzle from the last issue of that original Sun in 1950.

No real web presence as far as I can see, though, which is a pity. The style of the paper's columns and text is definitely a type of voice not heard in New York in quite a while--it definitely has a unique character of its own.
The politics of the paper seem conservative thus far in choice of articles and editorials. I *think* they are trying for a "mature NY Post" in editorial tone, but time will tell.

Meera has a kick-ass entry on the difference between PCs and the various types of NPCs on her general game blog.

Go read it now. Trust me, you will not regret it.

Just found out that Damon Knight passed away.

Name doesn't sound familiar? One line from a classic twilight zone episode is hardly justice for a man's life work, but I am sure, gentle
reader you will remember THIS:
"To Serve Man...It's...it's a cookbook!"

Rest in Peace.

Too many authors passing away, too quickly. What a way to start my day.

Weather is way too hot today. Upper 80's is fine, well and good..on July 16th, not April 16th.

The weather has just been screwy for months. Winter really was nothing more than a cold spring..the number of below freezing days were very few, the previous fall had been warm...the previous summer had been moderate with few very hot days. All atypical for New York's "bake and freeze" climate.

Today, Southern California (17 days to go!) was 20 degrees cooler than here.

My dear friend Felicia had a horrible experience with Circuit City recently.

Like many electronics store, they have a price matching policy. Felicia bought from them a rather nice (and expensive digital camera) that was intended as a gift for her irrepressible husband Scott. Now, of course, not long afterward, she discovered an ad for the identical item, at a price several hundred dollars less. However, due to a fine print technicality beyond belief, they have rejected her request for the price matching. It's the literal equivalent of declaring a page of text spoiled because a t was not crossed.

Needless to say, Circuit City has lost a customer, once Felicia returns the camera (to buy it at the other store of course). I have never been a big patron of the store to begin with, but as having extensive experience in my soon-to-end job, I can appreciate Felicia's anger. Policies are policies, even if its painful to cop to them. Changing the rules of the game in mid stream is, in a word, unethical, and I have gotten very angry at customers who have tried to accuse me of unethical behavior. So, Circuit City's duplicity irks me in a way far beyond simple sympathy for Felicia.

Looks like Wendi is joining Chris Kindred's ILL Met in Amber game. http://www.sfpro.com/amber/IMIA/bea.html

I really need to get into some GOOD games and with good continuing GMs. Empire of the Gleaming Banner certainly fit that bill, but that cycle unfortunately is done. On the other hand, I AM now a part of Deb's Rites of Passage, so that counts in my favor. Still, I get a little jealous when I hear about some of the other continuing games out there at Cons that I have the bad luck or choice never to get into. Chris Kindred is one of the Gms that I need to experience, I think based on what i have heard from people like, say, Bridgette. I managed to get into a John Davies game this year at ACUS even if I didn't shine.

I just hope that someday people will want to actively get into my games based on my own reputation.

Thought I would share this photo from Astronomy Picture of the Day. It looks like the comet is "aimed" at the galaxy.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020412.html.

Oh, did a bunch of stuff on Bete Noire. Finally time and inspiration combined together! Hurrah.