I hijacked this from John Kovalic's blog (you can reach it through the ever funny dorktower.com). A slightly modified version below:
To celebrate (and promote) Green Ronin's Hobby Games: The Best 100 book, lots of people have been playing the Best 100 meme game, where the 100 best hobby games (as listed in the abovementioned book, just released and available at a game store near you) are rolled out and the blogger's personal experience with them is detailed.
Asterisk if "I own this game."
Italics is "I have played this game."
Bruce C. Shelley on Acquire*
Nicole Lindroos on Amber Diceless
Ian Livingstone on Amun-Re
Stewart Wieck on Ars Magica
Thomas M. Reid on Axis & Allies* (technically I own Axis & Allies Pacific, but not the original)
Tracy Hickman on Battle Cry
Philip Reed on BattleTech
Justin Achilli on Blood Bowl
Mike Selinker on Bohnanza
Tom Dalgliesh on Britannia
Greg Stolze on Button Men
Monte Cook on Call of Cthulhu
Steven E. Schend on Carcassonne*
Jeff Tidball on Car Wars
Bill Bridges on Champions
Stan! on Circus Maximus
Tom Jolly on Citadels
Steven Savile on Civilization* (I assume this means the computer game)
Bruno Faidutti on Cosmic Encounter
Andrew Looney on Cosmic Wimpout
Skip Williams on Dawn Patrol
Alan R. Moon on Descent
Larry Harris on Diplomacy
Richard Garfield on Dungeons & Dragons*
William W. Connors on Dynasty League Baseball
Christian T. Petersen on El Grande
Alessio Cavatore on Empires in Arms
Timothy Brown on Empires of the Middle Ages
Allen Varney on The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Phil Yates on Fire and Fury
William Jones on Flames of War
Rick Loomis on Fluxx*
John Kovalic on Formula Dé
Anthony J. Gallela on The Fury of Dracula
Jesse Scoble on A Game of Thrones
Lou Zocchi on Gettysburg
James Wallis on Ghostbusters
James M. Ward on The Great Khan Game
Gav Thorpe on Hammer of the Scots
Uli Blennemann on Here I Stand
S. Craig Taylor, Jr. on A House Divided
Scott Haring on Illuminati
Dana Lombardy on Johnny Reb
Darren Watts on Junta
Greg Stafford on Kingmaker
Lester Smith on Kremlin
Wolfgang Baur on Legend of the Five Rings CCG
Marc W. Miller on Lensman
Ted S. Raicer on London's Burning
Teeuwynn Woodruff on Lord of the Rings (boardgame)
Mike Breault on Machiavelli
Jordan Weisman on Magic: The Gathering
Steve Kenson on Marvel Super Heroes (Jeff Grubb version)
Gary Gygax on Metamorphosis Alpha
Greg Costikyan on My Life with Master
John D. Rateliff on Mythos
Chris "Gerry" Klug on Napoleon's Last Battles
John Scott Tynes on Naval War
Erick Wujcik on Ogre
Marc Gascoigne on Once Upon a Time
Mike Bennighof on PanzerBlitz
Steve Jackson on Paranoia
Shannon Appelcline on Pendragon
JD Wiker on Pirate's Cove
Richard H. Berg on Plague!
Martin Wallace on Power Grid
Tom Wham on Puerto Rico
Joseph Miranda on Renaissance of Infantry
James Ernest on RoboRally
Paul Jaquays on RuneQuest
Richard Dansky on The Settlers of Catan
Ken St. Andre on Shadowfist
Steven S. Long on Shadowrun
Peter Corless on Shadows over Camelot*
Dale Donovan on Silent Death: The Next Millennium
Matt Forbeck on Space Hulk
Ray Winninger on Squad Leader
Lewis Pulsipher on Stalingrad
Bruce Nesmith on Star Fleet Battles (I played the original Starfleet Command, does that count?)
Steve Winter on The Sword and the Flame
Jeff Grubb on Tales of the Arabian Nights
Shane Lacy Hensley on Talisman
Douglas Niles on Terrible Swift Sword
Ed Greenwood on Thurn and Taxis
Mike Fitzgerald on Ticket to Ride*
Thomas Lehmann on Tigris & Euphrates
Warren Spector on Tikal
David "Zeb" Cook on Toon
Mike Pondsmith on Traveller
Zev Shlasinger on Twilight Struggle
Kenneth Hite on Unknown Armies
Sandy Petersen on Up Front
R. Hyrum Savage on Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
George Vasilakos on Vampire: The Masquerade
Kevin Wilson on Vinci
R.A. Salvatore on War and Peace
Jack Emmert on Warhammer 40,000
Chris Pramas on The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Steve Jackson on The Warlord
John Wick on Wiz-War
9.11.2007
8.24.2007
Final Flight of the Defiant
Updates? What updates? I'm not supposed to do this from work, so I haven't been updating as much as I used to. My bad. Not like anything has been going on.
Baby is healthy. Off the charts in size and weight, which we love. Looks like she's managing to hang on to her dad's blue eyes. Her hair is starting to come in, and it's starting to look like her mom's dark hair. Oh yeah, Kim's healed nicely.
We bought a house.
So what would cause me to post if these things didn't. Well, I'm afraid a sad day has come. A good friend of mine is about to pass into the great beyond. Yes, my friends, a certain 1995 Plymouth Neon (alternatively referred to as the Defiant) has seen better days.
It all started with my brother taking the car to Texas. Maybe I should blame the state. Regardless, it came back with the driver's side front tire in not so great shape. Not unexpected. So when it blew out on me driving to work (I'm fine, thanks for asking). I figured I'd pop the spare on and get it really fixed this weekend. Imagine my surprise when my massive strength broke the studs on the wheel, thus making it completely undrivable.
Allow me to sum up my feelings at this point. "Screw this."
So we bought a new car. Not exactly my first choice, but it had to be done. To be honest, I didn't trust carrying around my daughter in the Defiant (too much of a high profile target for rogue Jem'Hadar... bonus points if you laughed at that reference). I had simple requirements. Four wheels, engine, and air conditioning. Not that I couldn't live without air, but I wouldn't force my daughter.
So now I have a Rio, which I realized is appropriate since the only ship to actually survive all 7 seasons of Deep Space Nine was the Rio Grande. I thought about getting plates that said "Grande," but I figure people are either going to think I love my latte, or am compensating for something.
So it is with great sadness that I commit the "blue beast," as Dad called it, to the scrapyard. I know it will frolic with the other rust-ridden monsters and hope that its engine finds a new home. Lots of memories in that car, considering it was the car I learned to drive in. In a perfect world I'd love to have restored it, but alas.
So, for know the Defiant remains as Jean-Luc Picard said, "Adrift, but salvagable."
Baby is healthy. Off the charts in size and weight, which we love. Looks like she's managing to hang on to her dad's blue eyes. Her hair is starting to come in, and it's starting to look like her mom's dark hair. Oh yeah, Kim's healed nicely.
We bought a house.
So what would cause me to post if these things didn't. Well, I'm afraid a sad day has come. A good friend of mine is about to pass into the great beyond. Yes, my friends, a certain 1995 Plymouth Neon (alternatively referred to as the Defiant) has seen better days.
It all started with my brother taking the car to Texas. Maybe I should blame the state. Regardless, it came back with the driver's side front tire in not so great shape. Not unexpected. So when it blew out on me driving to work (I'm fine, thanks for asking). I figured I'd pop the spare on and get it really fixed this weekend. Imagine my surprise when my massive strength broke the studs on the wheel, thus making it completely undrivable.
Allow me to sum up my feelings at this point. "Screw this."
So we bought a new car. Not exactly my first choice, but it had to be done. To be honest, I didn't trust carrying around my daughter in the Defiant (too much of a high profile target for rogue Jem'Hadar... bonus points if you laughed at that reference). I had simple requirements. Four wheels, engine, and air conditioning. Not that I couldn't live without air, but I wouldn't force my daughter.
So now I have a Rio, which I realized is appropriate since the only ship to actually survive all 7 seasons of Deep Space Nine was the Rio Grande. I thought about getting plates that said "Grande," but I figure people are either going to think I love my latte, or am compensating for something.
So it is with great sadness that I commit the "blue beast," as Dad called it, to the scrapyard. I know it will frolic with the other rust-ridden monsters and hope that its engine finds a new home. Lots of memories in that car, considering it was the car I learned to drive in. In a perfect world I'd love to have restored it, but alas.
So, for know the Defiant remains as Jean-Luc Picard said, "Adrift, but salvagable."
2.16.2007
Free time?
To those of you who have been wondering what I've been doing with my free time, allow me to subject you to the horror of one of my short films.
http://films.thelot.com/films/21454
http://films.thelot.com/films/21454
1.24.2007
Did I say monthly? I meant trimesterly.
So, someone, who will remain nameless has been razzing me for not updating this shameful excuse for a blog lately. What can I say? I've been busy, and more importantly I refuse to give work the satisfaction of "owning" content I create there. So, I blog at home, and you can see how often that is.
For those who are unaware, I survived my bout with the stomach flu. It was tons of fun, and I spent the better part of the day in the ER. Ah well, at least some of the people will know us by name when Kim and I show up there, right?
Speaking of the wife, and baby, things are gestating nicely. Kim is now nicely rotund, and baby likes to stretch to get some more room. Can't say I envy that one. Unfortunately, beyond that there's not much excitement to speak of here in my undisclosed location. It's probably more the calm before the storm, namely the impending arrival of baby.
(p.s. go check out Justin's blog for a picture of him in front of my, I mean his, car)
For those who are unaware, I survived my bout with the stomach flu. It was tons of fun, and I spent the better part of the day in the ER. Ah well, at least some of the people will know us by name when Kim and I show up there, right?
Speaking of the wife, and baby, things are gestating nicely. Kim is now nicely rotund, and baby likes to stretch to get some more room. Can't say I envy that one. Unfortunately, beyond that there's not much excitement to speak of here in my undisclosed location. It's probably more the calm before the storm, namely the impending arrival of baby.
(p.s. go check out Justin's blog for a picture of him in front of my, I mean his, car)
