Apropos of nothing

Tales of the Beanworld has been out of print for so long (what... 13 years now?) that it doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry.

I still have printouts -- on greenbar paper -- of the very first mailing list I ever joined, a TotB fanlist, circa 1991.

(Proffy might be more my style, icon-wise, but ahkond already nabbed her.)

Small question about "A Clash of Kings"

( nerp nerp nerp )

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Two more things I like about the Mach 3 razor, vs. the disposables I started with:

* The blades are physically separate, and have no material behind them. So you can rinse the razor after each pass simply by blasting it with your faucet, and the junk washes off cleanly every time.

* I like the look and feel of the metal handle. It seems to be the same sort of metal and coloring used on Matchbox car models circa 1980. (I am told they are all cheapo plastic these days, alas.) This makes me strangely happy.

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I posted the 10-minute proto-episode I made in June as my certification tape, and which aired in July. Also crappy, but apparently interesting enough that strangers recognized me and were asking me about it when mrmorse and I were last visiting the studio.

Also, if you're a Mac user, I can recommend a better way of watching the show than futzing with BitTorrent: give DTV a whirl. Once you have it running (which, unlike BM, is very easy), click the "Add Channel" button and then give it this URL: http://www.jmac.org/gameshelf/bm/rss.php?i=1 (That's the same link you get from the wee orange RSS buttons throughout the existing Gameshelf site.)

DTV uses BitTorrent and RSS transparently to fetch show information and download episodes, and a TiVo-like keep-until-it-gets-old syetem to manage the resulting files. Here is a screenshot of it in action. Pretty slick. They say a Windows version is coming out soon.

Again, if you try it, please let me know if it works or not. I'm new to being on the serving end of all this and appreciate the feedback. DTV makes a lot of things transparent but it isn't perfect; feedback I've received so far suggests that some firewall configurations can cause problems.

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I feel I was a little too harsh on the BM/DTV people yesterday. Their projects have the potential to be pretty revolutionary, and I can't fault them for not having all the kinks worked out just yet. Some of the BM programming is kind of insane (magic numbers abound) but I still appreciate what they're doing, and look forward to its future development.