Top ten things I hate about Star Trek

I found this linked from Will Wheaton's blog, and just had to share, once I stopped laughing so hard:

http://www.happyfunpundit.com/hfp/archives/000514.html#000514

And, by the way, I agree with the early comments about Firefly. Wish it could have stuck around longer, and I hope it comes back.

San Francisco

Sitting on my couch, reading a book. Fog is settling in over the city. I have all my windows open and a warm wind is howling through my apartment.No rain yet, but clouds are dense overhead, merging with the fog. Perfect afternoon. I love San Francisco weather.

Neverwinter Nights

The smartest thing any computer game company ever did was to release their design toolkit, so people could build their own modules. This assures Bioware (the makers of NeverWinter Nights) an endless supply of fan-created adventures, without them having to do much of anything. The game comes with a huge storyline of its own, but once you've finished that, rather than wait for the sequel like most computer adventure games, there are literally hundreds more you can now download and play, many of them surprisingly good.

So I spent the last couple of hours working on my own city adventure. Testing as I go is actually pretty fun itself. Walking around in the city as it's under development, talking to the town guards, getting in bar fights, killing the orcs so I can get the key to the temple of Olidammara (gonna have to remember cut back on their numbers, though, they nearly killed my 15th-level monk, and I'm designing the first adventure for a first-level rogue). Noting all the bugs as I go along (gotta figure out how factions work, I think. The entire city shouldn't suddenly be out to kill you because you robbed one house). And then there's just the walking around figuring out where to put things. "Oh, yeah, this island here would be a perfect spot for the Temple of St. Cuthbert." now, if I could just figure out why my bridge out of the Northgate district absolutely refuses to also be a bridge into Northgate...

But before that, dinner.

Goddamit

I went shopping earlier today. Got everything I needed to make my favorite chicken dish.

Except the chicken.

Goddamit.

Oh my god...the horror...the horror....

Many years ago, I heard Leonard Nimoy's tape on which he sings, among other things that I've forgotten, the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. In later years, I've made no attempt to track down this song, and in fact have not thought much about it at all, except upon occasion when someone brings up William Shatner's attempts at a singing career.

However, recently I learned that not only is there a song, there is actually a music video to go with it. Since I was just subjected to it, I will share it with you: http://www.ussjoshua.org/bbaggins.mov

You can blame Bill Amend, creator of Foxtrot, for this information.