Professional Dodgeball at least requires some athletic ability but Professional Rock, Paper, Scissors? I am at a loss for words.
July 2006 Archives
Not only do I get all the normal spam for watches and anatomy enlargement but I also seem to attract more than a few about witchcraft and magic spells. This has be the best one one latley though.
"Your professional affiliation qualifies you for a complimentary subscription to WaterWorld.
WaterWorld magazine reports timely product, project, regulatory and business news in a non-technical format, specifically targeted at the municipal drinking water and wastewater markets in the US and Canada."
WTF?
Today I am seraching for new Home Owners Insurence. I got a letter from my insurance agent yesterday informing me that my insurance company has gone bankrupt and I have until Aug 24th to get a new Home Owners Policy . I guess that basically means that I'm uninsured right now, since I could technically make a claim between now and August 24th but I doubt it would get paid since they are in bankruptcy. They are pretty much useless. Home Owners Insurance is required by law. If you do make a claim the companys goal is to pay you the least amount possible.
The Eisner Awards , which are the Acadmey Awards for comics, were given out at the San Diego Comicon this weekend. (I swear I'm going to go some year.) This year an award was added for best Digital Comic and it was won by PVP! I've been reading PVP for years and it's really cool that Scott Kurtz , a Dallas Local won. Zeus Comics which is also located right here in Dallas won the Spirit of Retailing award, or in other words Best Comic Book Store.
The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
~~Winston Churchill
This is from Order of the Stick. It's a great webcomic by Rich Berlew. It about D&D if you can't tell.
I went to Fort Lauderdale this week to meet with one of our customers,but otherwise not much going on at work. Works always slows down in the summer since everyone takes vacation.
I did go see A Scanner Darkly with the crew last Friday. I liked it, but it's definitley not for everyone. Richard Linklater did a good job of lightening up PK Dick's story with some drug addled humor, but I would still summurize the movie as "good but weird." The animation was interesting, sort of an americanized anime look.
The Origins awards were announced this weekend. They are the Academy awards for Games. You can check out the full list here. Unless you are really into Games probably the most interesting is Best RPG of the year and Best Boardgame of the year.
Best RPG went to Artesia, which is a fantasy game based off a comic. I'd never heard of it before now, but since it beat out Exalted, which is pretty cool, I may have to check it out.
Best Board game went to Parthenon: Rise of the Aegean . It sounds like playing Civ, if everyone played the Greeks. Oh well a Settlers of Catan game can't win every year.
Well my birthday has come and gone yet again. Friday the crew went to the Bavarian Grill for fantastic German Food and Beer. Demigoblin now swears he is closer than ever to the vaunted memebership in the "stien" club. I, myself, have 17 beers to go before my own personal Stien. That's at least 4 more trips to the Bavarian unless I pull some kind of Marathon Beer session. (Now that sounds like a good idea/bad idea waiting to happen.)
Saturday was the big birthday bash. It must have been good because I don't remember much after about 9PM and I think I went to bed about 11.
Sunday was a recovery and clean-up day. Monday Elanna and I drove out to her families residence outside hot springs. We had a lot of fun. We got to do the traditional 4th of July Firewoks and cookout, which, living here in the Big City, is something that I haven't done in years.
Back at work now, but only for a day. Tomorrow I go in for my pre-6 month checkup CTScan to make sure nothing's growing. I'm doubt it, I know how to recognize the symptoms of tumor growth now, so I'll know long before anything shows up on a CT.
