Polyhedron Dice Thursday, Mar 13 2008 

Daily and Game and Photoblog , , , , , , , , krmb 2:27 pm

10 March 2008
A man who helped shape my pre-teen world & defined my teen-angsty geekdom has recently passed away. Gary Gygax, co-creator (with Dave Arneson) of Dungeons & Dragons died in his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on 4 March. The man, while not necessarily visionary, took the mundane and with the help of his friend, Dave Arneson, re-wrote rules to create one of the greatest phenomenons in recent history. The Age of Role-Playing was born in the minds of those two men. While animosity & credit soon got in the way, the contribution of Gary Gygax cannot be overlooked or understated. These, now-ubiquitous polyhedral dice collections, were his brain-child and with this I salute the man, the husband, the father — Gary Gygax.
Polyhedron Dice
R.I.P. Gary

~KR (Written on 13 March 200 8)

Listening to:
Any Colour You Like It by Dark Side Voices
from Dark Side of the Moon A Capella

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

 

My TCU Girl Thursday, Mar 13 2008 

Daily and Photoblog and Work , , , , krmb 10:32 am

9 March 2008
I’m behind again, but the reason is valid…it’s not just laziness. :-)
A recent change to either Flickr or IE7 has rendered Flickr so slow, that it’s practically useless to me. I have now migrated my Flickr meanderings to Firefox (which I use from time to time, but don’t really care for overmuch). At least the pages load in Firefox and the images display. So, I can play catchup again.

My wife got a wild hair on the 9th after returning from a day at the Faire and decided that, by goodness, this was going to be the year that her website was updated. I wrote the code nearly 3 years ago, but one thing or another always prevented her (us|me) from actually getting it loaded. So, we went down to NFG for dinner and took advantage of their free Wi-Fi and got it done. Her website is now live, if not complete (she’s still got some content management to work on). This is her putting some finishing touches on a sentence or two:
My TCU Girl
Cheers.

~KR (Written on 13 March 200 8)

Listening to:
Congress by Slainte Mhath
from Slainte Mhath

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 250
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash fired, auto mode, red-eye reduction