A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

Picked out new glasses yesterday. My insurance gave me a good discount, so I opted for an expensive and tiny pair of jet-black titanium wire-frames. When we went last week dictator555 had me right on the verge of picking up a phat black geek-chic number, but a chorus of alternate fashion consultants I had since sought drowned her out. (This started when the dictator took a cellphone picture of me with the phat frames in the opt shop and sent it to classicaljunkie, who then called me from the airplane to ask if it was a joke.)

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On rikchik's advice I also visited the local Brooks' crafts aisle to buy 100 leetle zip-lock bags for a dollar and change, perfect for storing loose game bits. I immediately deployed a couple dozen to reorganize my BattleLore legions, storing between one and three complete multi-figure units in each baggie (one unit type per bag), and then dumping all of them back into the box. With those ridiculous plastic trays out of the way, the box now closes completely. Whee

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Almost definitely not going to Gen Con, since I just missed the pre-reg window, making securing hotel space much harder and more expensive. It's too bad, because it didn't occur to me until way late to ask gamer-fiend classicaljunkie if she might want to go, and when she said yes, my answer is like "Well... ya can't." Feh.

Still, my mumbling about weird timing WRT the web client is still all true. When it's in beta you better bloody well believe I'll be tromping all over the convention circuit, OK?

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Last night's HoRGN was fun, though the only game I played was Toppo (which I won once, woo). Delighted to meet jaq, who has just relocated from way out yonder to the Boston area.

Also got to play with an iPhone, and was excited to see that its version of Safari can run the DHTML Testbench demo just fine (I didn't think to check out the SVG version that daerr just posted, though). The iPhone will surely be my next phone, but I cannot say when that will be. Almost certainly not the device's first generation.

Another reason to my geekier male friends not to wear a trenchcoat year-round (besides the fact that it's just not a good look on you): You are now in danger of being summarily executed by law enforcement. (Though I guess you're safer if you're a white guy. But still.)

Wasn't this a mechanic of the Shadowrun game for Sega Genesis? I do believe so. Trenchcoats or full suits of powered armor would make cops harrass you. So leave your powered armor at home, too. I don't care what night it is at Man Ray.