I know a couple guys at work, Belshazar and Bob, who adamantly refuse to watch any good movies.  Both Belshazar and Bob go to the movies often and have large DVD collections. They are both intelligent and Belshazar even claims to enjoy movies that make him think. They’re an interesting case study in the film rennesiance; I have tried repeatedly to get them to like what I like and they always have some excuse as to why they don't.  What’s really confusing to me is that I have had reasonably good success converting people to the movie appreciation hobby...

I have a headache. I stayed up too late last night playing games. Now I'm trying to work, but just can't concentrate. All the tiny numbers keep blurring together. About a week ago, this gal at work, the one that I went to the organic farm with where I got poison ivy, she says to me that she saw a Battlestar Galactica game at Barnes and Nobel, and was thinking about getting it for her husband for Valentines Day, because he's totally into Battlestar Galactica. So I told her, in an off hand way, that I had...

'nother travel update, mostly a couple funny pictures....  http://www.flickr.com/photos/thaadd/sets/72157613657215058/ (Scotland set, from Flickr) So I went to the local bar where they have the weekly boardgame thing, and saw their closet of games. Their older version of Talisman amused me because of this:  http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/3272488418_22c03eb368.jpg (I was going to just insert it, but the stupid browser I am using seems to not like the adding image interface) I ended up dying 3 times. Balance issues? Yah. Also, I am going to try to smuggle the people some clippy bases, not only was...

We were watching Red Dwarf last night. Rimmer gets all his anger sucked out by a polymorph and turns into this guy pictured on the left.  The Spawn turns to me and says, "Look! Rimmer got turned into a Game Club guy!"

I've mentioned it a few times that I think the Supremacy Mushroom cloud is one of if not the coolest gaming piece ever.  Here are some others that I think are pretty cool.  The criteria is that they have to be a piece in a boardgame (minis don't count).  Anyways....  10.  The Monopoly Battleship.  This has been an on and off piece in Monopoly games for a long time.  Everytime I was playing a Monopoly game that had this piece, I wanted it.  Nothing says power like a battleship although this looks like a stylized version of a...