Yesterday’s Day Without Weblogs really drove home the message for me. It was like driving through a ghost town. My own participation was pretty lame. Most people had links to educational resources or personal stories. As usual, these things come up on me so fast, I usually just have time to put in the bare minimum of effort. But bravo, Brad, for putting together a really effective awareness campaign. Next year, I promise to do better!
Press Nothing To Hear Nothing
Jason K. has posted a new episode of Osil8, entitled, Press Nothing to Continue. It sounds fascinating, except that anyone outside the US can’t hear it. That includes me. And Tom. And Rik. And billions of others. If anyone has that rare combination of techie skillz and kindness, would they be willing to put together an MP3 of the audio? Please?
Frenzy Of Anticipation
I’m caught up in a frenzy of SXSW anticipation. I’ve gone looking for photos and reminisces from v.2.000. Take a look at the following stuff from:
- Heather Champ
- Derek Powazek
- Ben Brown
- John Halcyon Styn (words)
- John Halcyon Styn (photos)
- Brad Graham
- Michelle Kinsey-Clinton
- Evan Williams
- Christine Castro
- Denise Czaja
- Cameron Barrett
- Jake Hamer
Are you going this year? Did I miss linking to your photos and/or stories? Let me know…
Institute of Official Cheer
The Institute of Official Cheer is brilliant. I especially enjoyed the paintings of the women with their underwear around their ankles. (via Dinah)
Six wants to know what happened to the coup I was promising. Well, it’s already started, with our election going off without a hitch. Soon, we will send election advisers to your country to determine whether your electoral process is free and fair. Then, we will keep those advisers there for many years slowly changing your political system from within. And before you know it, you’ll have a Queen! That’s when we’ll start attacking with turkey basters…
Dungeons And Dragons
I was thinking back today to my early adolescence, with that mixture of wistfulness and crushing embarrassment that might be familiar to some of you. I was thinking about my “Dungeons and Dragons” years. The coolest thing about this period was how I discovered the game. I believe it was 1977 or 1978 (I was 12 or 13 at the time) and I read an article about this new “role-playing game” in Psychology Today. Yup, just one of a few brainy mags I read at the time, including Omni, Popular Science, and Popular Mechanics. I even tried to read Scientific American for a while, but that just went over my head. Brooke was a little embarrassed when I told her about the D&D years (or, more correctly, the AD&D years), even though (or perhaps because) I protested that “I was always the Dungeon Master!!” Another aspect of those years is that since I couldn’t always convince many of my friends to play, I found a sort of club that met Sunday mornings in Toronto’s Eaton Centre. There must have been 40 or 50 of us there, and meeting those people was sort of a precursor to the kind of relationships I’ve formed online, relationships formed around common interests and not where you lived or went to school. Those were great times…
Anyone else have a geeky RPG past (or present!)?