On 13 March 1996 at a school in Dunblane, Scotland, a man shot sixteen children and a teacher. The people of the country said never again, handgun ownership was banned, and there has not been another school shooting in the UK since.
It can be done.
Are you kidding, man? You'd sell a tungsten-carbide-load on DriveThru.
No better person for the job.
Dave Wright's master-list shows nothing on 1st August, but Norwich Games Con and Shadowcon (small, RPGs) in London on the 22nd
(docs.google.com/spreadsheets...)
Any chance you could share that?
Either that or my bifocals are on upside down
(glances across the room at his single copy)
(signed to him by the author)
(in 1984)
My source was Jolly Blackburn on FB but he didn't say where he heard it. Lou apparently died on the 16th.
Col. Lou Zocchi at a 2008 convention talking for 20 minutes straight about why his dice are better dice:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-A...
in the 1970s Hillary Clinton made a hundred grand trading cattle futures and 15 years later the news media made a decade-long scandal out of it
Very sad to hear of the death of the great Lou Zocchi, who spent much of his life advocating for higher standards in dice manufacturing. He and his infectious enthusiasm will be sadly missed.
On a more pedestrian level, I now have a hook to hang my next column for Wyrd Science on.
Chrome is my secondary browser, I mostly use it for things that also use Google, but it's still frustrating as hell.
A great start to the day: turning on the laptop after an update and discovering that Chrome has lost all my open tabs again.
Tweet from Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn): Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares; / Aleister Crowley is falling down stairs.
...or just this, which is shorter, and surely unimprovable
Leibniz: But let us set our differences on the matter of calculus aside for a minute. Perhaps you would care for a biscuit? I have some delicious chocolate-backed confections, far superior to those fig-based monstrosities that have become so popular recently.
Newton: now hang on just a minute…
Bridport does love its charity shops. I didn't find anything of interest this time--no crocheted chess sets in sight--and didn't drop anything off, I'm afraid. Will shout out the next time we're heading down your way.
I stumbled across a games show in Kensington, and this game called THE MAGIC OF INVENTORYING (think Marie Kondo in a Dungeon) delighted me.
The gameplay is delightful, the art is unique and perfect, and yes, I backed the (incredibly reasonably priced) Kickstarter.
Guess who was in Bridport earlier this week.
Good tab management
Coming back shortly--been at the Wes Anderson exhibit at the Design Museum, which is fantastic.
Of to Dragonmeet: Call to Adventure at Kensington Town Hall, where big #Dragonmeet was based from 2001. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and maybe even getting a game in.
See you later!
It's legalese, there's not much room for rewriting.
Would take too long, would probably introduce errors
Work today:
1. Frankensteining a document together from segments of about ten different PDFs.
1.1 Discovering that every single one of those PDFs is not actually text but images of text, not selctable/copyable, and therefore I'm going to have to retype the entire thing.
I believe that card was new for the Stronghold edition but global warming and climate change were definitely known and talked about in the 70s.
I see there's a copy on eBay right now for a fiver, though missing a couple of bits.
That's fascinating, thank you. The backgammon boom of the late 60s and early 70s was partly driven by Omar Sharif--not sure who was putting up the money for the tournaments, but I should probably find out because it's relevant to a current project.
Sounds interesting. I'll have to do some more research. Many thanks for the information.