I couldn't stop watching. 2:07 had me cracking up so much I had to watch it multiple times.

I've always thought of it as the "Red October" (Which for accuracy's sake should be the Dallas, but then nobody would get the reference)

I have been devouring this series lately, just finished book 5. Fantastic.

This reminds me to get caught up posting on my dream blog. I've got several voice recorded that need posting. I haven't had any recurring dreams for a while, but most are certainly sufficiently weird. Next stop, lucid dreaming!

The first thing that popped into my mind after reading the title is sculpting my mashed potatoes or rice, or whatever into a ball on my dinner plate. What really proved "horrific" for my mother was when I mushed all my food flat to cover the whole plate. I still do it occasionally when I'm visiting, just to get an…

The nose, snout, whiskers, ears...

I'm with you, that will always be Smaug to me. I love the feline interpretation.

Game Over, man!

I love how "strokey-beard thinking" is so close to a term my friends and I use: "Now you're thinking with your beard!"

I'd be interesting in seeing just what the actual energy difference is between running a freezer compressor and treating the waste at a WWTP. I guess water conservation is the big thing here.

Good point.

Really? You think the map itself is the only end result of copying it down by hand? Because I don't.

Promote button seems to be broken, so I'll chime in with my enthusiastic agreement.

Absolutely worth the purchase. My group of friends, none of whom were real fans of Risk before, became instantly addicted. It's a superb fresh take on the genre.

I'm disappointed there's no mention of the latest iteration, Risk: Legacy, which is one of the most fun I've ever had with a board game. It could be a complete game changer for the industry with its take on player interaction/modification. I highly recommend it.

Genre mashup?

Being mauled by a polar bear and a regular bear in the same day: 8,237,000-to-1

Come on!

Eh, I was bored. Perhaps a little too bored.

Eh, I was bored. Perhaps a little too bored.