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Daily Illuminator Archive for May 2008
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May 1, 2008:
With eloquent hoots and authorative banging on the ground with a stick, an eminent ape banishes once and for all the ridiculous concept of trans-simianism . . .
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May 2, 2008:
Like making stuff? Can you turn a handful of paperclips and a rubber band into a deadly weapon? . . .
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May 3, 2008:
If you've been with us long, you have probably figured out that life at a game company is not all Game Days and menacing each other with huge foam chainsaws. Sometimes it gets pretty real . . .
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May 4, 2008:
A spork, if you've ever been to a greasy fast-food joint for lunch, is a combination fork and spoon. Not just useful for eating fried meals, the revolutionary Battlespork helps with dental hygiene . . .
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May 5, 2008:
An interesting argument by Clay Shirky: the free time of Internet-connected individuals might be the defining asset of the next phase of history.
-- Steve Jackson
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May 6, 2008:
The Warehouse 23 and e23 websites and stores will be closed this Thursday, May 8th for site maintenance. The stores will reopen on Friday, May 9th . . .
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May 7, 2008:
Since every other news source on the planet has covered it, we're obligated to point out that, although Grand Theft Auto 4 was released last week, we haven't picked it up yet. Fox has played it, and enjoyed it . . .
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May 8, 2008:
Just a reminder, the Warehouse 23 and e23 websites and stores will be closed today for site maintenance. The stores will reopen tomorrow . . .
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May 9, 2008:
It's not enough the world has things keeping you awake at night and a plethora of items to plague your dreams, now they're getting you in that space between waking and sleeping. The Sleep Invaders are, according to this site, malevolent entities that want . . . uh, well the site isn't really clear on what they want . . .
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May 10, 2008:
Okay, kids, it's time for another Good News/Bad News situation. Allow me to hit you with the Bad vibe first . . .
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May 11, 2008:
Rickrolled
To post a link with a on-topic subject which actually directs the viewer to a video for Rick Astley's debut single, "Never Gonna Give You Up".
Now you know . . . and have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Hey, if I'm going to be humming it, then I might as well share the pain*, right? . . .
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May 12, 2008:
GURPS Spaceships 2: Traders, Liners, and Transports is now available from e23. Building from the simple design system found in Spaceships 1, David Pulver has created nearly three dozen sample ships to fill the role of "moving stuff." From tramp freighters and heavy lift boosters, from passenger liners to yachts, this release has ships you need for any interstellar merchant campaign.
Spaceships 2 also covers the financial aspects of finding a ship, booking cargo and passengers, and making a profit . . .
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May 14, 2008:
We really like Google around here, and love the logo changes they do on special occasions. (We even copied the trick, for Warehouse 23's logo on the holidays!) . . .
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May 15, 2008:
I didn't know that volcanoes came with lightning. Now I do . . .
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May 16, 2008:
The storms that shook Austin Wednesday night dumped hail on cars, uprooted trees, and dropped broken power lines onto the fiber optics that link our part of Austin to the rest of the world. Fzzzzzzt . . .
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May 17, 2008:
There has to be a go-to guy for the worldwide conspiracy, someone the regular Joes can talk to without all that initiation and chanting, right? It's probably Trevor Paglen, though that's all you're gettin' out of him or us . . .
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May 18, 2008:
I have only talked face-to-face with Ken St. Andre a few times in my 30 years in the hobby, but he is important to me, all the same . . .
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May 19, 2008:
An oft-requested upload has been the Cardboard Heroes series. The reasoning is obvious: print one sheet or hundreds, to create mass battles or because your cat loves the taste of sword-wielding barbarians . . .
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May 20, 2008:
Friday's Game Day was my last day at work until mid-June. (This time for sure, Rocky!) . . .
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May 21, 2008:
Randy will once again be roaming Austin this weekend, stopping in at Rogue's Gallery Comics and Games on Friday night (8pm until close), and at Great Hall Games on Saturday afternoon, from 4pm to 8pm during their Afternoon Boardgame series. This week, nary a Munchkin will be in sight . . . well, except for the players . . .
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May 22, 2008:
This year, Steve Jackson Games will be attending BoardGameGeekCon. Be sure to stop by our booth, and pick up our newest releases . . .
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May 23, 2008:
We just posted an ad in the Austin paper:
Part-time bookkeeper for A/P, payroll and cash receipts. Possible full time position . . .
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May 24, 2008:
Robert Lynn Asprin, author of the Myth Adventures series - and creator, with Lynn Abbey, of Thieves' World - died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack. He was 61 . . .
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May 25, 2008:
Munchkin Booty
Sail the Seven Seas. Plunder the treasure . . .
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May 26, 2008:
Here in the States, it's Memorial Day, the day dedicated to the memory of the men and women who have fallen defending their country. As a result, we're not in the office . . .
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May 27, 2008:
The Perpetual Motion Generator is not to be toyed with, just built in your garage. Treat the technology with kid gloves - the author has generously decided to reconstruct his device, having destroyed the original when he considered the effect on the economy of the Middle East . . .
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May 28, 2008:
We need to enlarge our creative team here. Problem is, there are several ways we could do it . . . . .
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May 29, 2008:
Kenneth Hite" appears on a good number of "written by" credits in this industry. Yet the one I nearly* always think of is GURPS Cabal, his world book of a multi-world-spanning conspiracy/trade union of mages and magical creatures . . .
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May 30, 2008:
Freedom Ship - the City at Sea is like something out of a movie. It promises a chance to live life on a floating town (kind of like Waterworld), with all the amenities in a self-contained community (kind of like Shivers), headed to exotic ports of call (like Titanic) . . .
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May 31, 2008:
We've all been so busy around here that we nearly missed the Phoenix Lander arriving on Mars. Luckily, NASA has been blogging and documenting the mission on the Mars Exploration Program site . . .
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