I have no free time, so here, have a Star Wars lolcat.
I’m so sorry.
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In the Armory
Category Archives: Just For Fun
Your New Word for the Day
January 27, 2010 – 2:24 pm
It is: backpfeifengesicht.
It is pronounced: back-FIFE-en-guh-zeekst.
It means: a face badly in need of a punching (roughly).
Usage: Did you hear what Pat Robertson said about Haiti? Man, has he got a backpfeifengesicht.
Trust the Germans to come up with a single word that perfectly sums up a more complex concept.
(And thanks to Mike G. for teaching me [...]
My First Snowdrift
January 7, 2010 – 3:27 pm
We’re having a snow day here in Northern Alabama, which means drivers panicking and people buying up all of the bread and toilet paper while people from, say, Boston just shake their heads and laugh. In honor of the snow day, here’s my first ever experience with a snowdrift ten years ago.
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When I woke up [...]
How to Choose Board Games in Many Easy Steps
December 9, 2009 – 8:59 pm
Since I have the bad habit of collecting board games in much the same way that the Collyer brothers collected newspapers, people sometimes ask me to recommend board games. Often they want a recommendation of something to buy for their non-board-game-playing friend. That’s a hard question to answer. It’s like saying, “My friend doesn’t really [...]
Should We Really Be Fighting a Three-Front War?
October 21, 2009 – 12:20 pm
First, we de-planeted Pluto.
Then we bombed the moon.
Yesterday, one of the space scientists who helped find water on the moon was arrested for espionage.
This can only mean one thing: SPACE WAR. Now we can try to guess what our next target will be. Mars? That annoyingly smug Mercury? Europa?
Running Man
October 10, 2009 – 9:40 pm
I’m working on a post comparing the TV show FlashForward to the Left Behind series, but it’s taking a while. To keep you entertained in the meantime, I give you Canabalt. It’s a minimalist game created for the Experimental Gameplay Project, whose theme in August was “Bare Minimum”. You play a man running to escape [...]
The Most Widespread Internet Memes
October 9, 2009 – 6:53 pm
What do you think are the most widespread Internet memes? Bonus points if you explain why.
Go Play Some Text Adventures!
October 1, 2009 – 11:35 pm
It’s that time again: the annual Interactive Fiction Competition is underway. That means you can download 24 free text adventures and play them. If you want, you can even score them on a scale from 1 to 10. So go play some fresh new text adventures, why don’t you?
Hobbit 419
September 24, 2009 – 1:50 pm
Dear MR BAGGINS, Fellow Conspirator,
I am Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of Thrain the Old and grandson of Thror who was King under the Mountain. I am writing you to discuss our plans, our ways, means, policy and devices for rescuing our treasure from the dragon Smaug.
During the reign of Thror our kingdom was a prosperous one. [...]
Regencies and Revenants
September 23, 2009 – 8:27 am
For a Dragon*ConTV bumper this year, I made up names of books that might follow “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”. I had “Beowerewolf”, “Grave Expectations”, “Vampire Fair”, “Jude the Undead”, and “Northanger Abbey But This Time Catherine Starts Fires With Her Mind”, among others. I’d thought I’d covered the waterfront.
Then I saw the announcement from [...]