I only relatively recently started with the ME series (yay, humble bundles), but I’m already surprised at the replay value. I didn’t think such a highly structured story based game would be so entertaining on subsequent runs, but I keep going back, too.

Lords of Magic: Special Edition. Released by Sierra in ‘98, this thing just has tons of character, interesting artwork, and really entertaining gameplay. It’s top-down(is) turn based strategy, but combat is real time (similar to some other Sierra titles, like Lords of the Realm). It’s also a pretty deep game for a…

I was put off from the start of her campaign with the whole vibe of “look, I’m one of the people, just like you!” She’s essentially American royalty at this point, and that is the only way she could’ve run a campaign that wasn’t wholly disingenuous. “I’ve been in the halls of power most of my adult life, and I know…

Really good info, but I will say that the whey from making paneer does very well for bread, too! I picked up my recipe here (there’s some other good whey info/recipes there too):

This is what I was thinking. If it could actually be managed with a normal-ish low carb diet most of the time, grab yo self a loaf of rye bread and some sugar cookies and just enjoy your weekend.

I should check this out. I was considering going to my parents house and converting our old VHS set to DVD, just so I could make sure my kid sees the actual movies.

I just sent a strongly worded but calm, and reasonable (it was a struggle) message to my own governor. I asked questions, I avoided profanity, and I even quoted the bible as my governor does things like make speeches at the dedication of 110 foot, 20 odd ton metal crosses in our state. I urge everyone to do the same.…

I live in Oxford, Mississippi. During most elections there are two blue dots in the state, one for us and one for Hinds county. We have great voting machines, actually. But Lafayette is a wealthy, very white county.

Closest family: 2 hour drive. Closest Black Box Pinot Grigio: top shelf of the fridge, next to the local organic milk that nourishes the tiny demon.

I had several reasons. Number one I guess was the expense. They always manage to bundle it so that the few channels I really wanted (scyfy and bbc america, ftw) were never in the basic package. This leads to my other issues, with all those channels there was basically nothing I wanted to watch. Then issue number…

Well dagnabit, I just signed up for one drive because all my promotional dropbox space (48 gb, I was using like 30 something gb) was running out. Now what, like...a third cloud service to store my overages? I’m actually considering setting up a smallish server at my house and running owncloud at this point. And yes, I…

Yeah, I was popping in here to offer “Hey y’all, watch this” as a theory.

Step 1a: Move house, to a place you can get a natural gas line and/or have a propane tank installed, neither of which can you do in my neighborhood :). I would absolutely love to have a gas range, I have cooked on them and they are wonderful, heat evenly and consistently, etc. but not really an option for me.

In case anyone needs a reference:

This is where I learned about “chemical cauterization”. Just as fun as it sounds.

I’m wondering if this would be bright enough to make a light table (for tracing, etc). I have a few old laptops around. I’m also wondering if it won’t work at all with ccfl backlights, or if the guy just prefers the leds for some reason.

Dentist in a box!

There is that. I always forget Bailey’s, most of the bars here just do Guinness and Jameson’s. There was a bartender when I in college who did a version with Jim Beam and Natty lite that he dubbed the “whole fried chicken” for whatever reason

The original cocktail of beer and whiskey is a boiler maker, when done with Guinness and Irish whiskey, it obtains the dubious name. So I guess you could order a boiler maker and specify the components?

You know, as much as I know how awful people can be on multiplayer games, I always am surprised for some reason to see it in HotS. The whole game just feels so chill, and slightly silly, I can’t fathom people getting so upset about it, especially in unranked little pick up matches. It’s like, winning is nice, but…