Exploring other worlds, one Monday at a time.

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In an effort to avoid boredom that would require too much of a technical explanation, I walked over to Cavalier Computers a few minutes ago to get a Macbook-to-component video adapter.
Wandering from where they used to be long ago to where they were last, I noticed where they are now just as I heard the front desk guy say something over the phone about a Wii--at the very moment that I notice a new-in-box Wii sitting with the video adapters.

Forty-five seconds before I could pick it up myself, the guy on the phone got the last one in stock! Arrrgh! Now I'm first on the list for the next one in, but that could be three weeks. The one I saw today was part of a "surprise" shipment. I didn't even know they carried Nintendo stuff at Cavalier, which I think of as the place to go for work-related computer stuff. They handle 90% of our computer purchases for the lab.

And no, they didn't have the video adapter I needed either.

In other news, Thjora just called to say that we got our building permits and she has just spent $6000+ on three glass doors for the great room and the kitchen.
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Large picture below the break.

One for Speth: RPG Motivational Posters/diplomacy
Can I augment with.... RPG Motivational Posters/buffup
One for Kirk: RPG Motivational Posters/acceptance
One for Brad: RPG Motivational Posters/hope
RPG Motivational Posters/curiosity
One for everyone: RPG Motivational Posters/commonsense

The ending is better.

You can tell they're not Praxian Bison because at the end of the video, the lions are still alive.

Luckily, in our world, most of these are smaller than we are.

Animals in the depths of the sea.

Somehow yesterday I managed to get a lot of work done and make it to a matinee of 300. Along with a mess of SCA work I made barbecue for tomorrow's game.

I thought I had read the whole Frank Miller graphic novel years ago when it sat on Aradd's coffee table, but either I'd forgotten most of it or the movie was very different from the original.

Still, I quite enjoyed it. If you like that sort of thing, you'll like this one. It's especially good inspiration for my HeroQuest game.

From an SCA standpoint, I just kept thinking "See, this is why you never want to use two sword in a melee."

If you liked 300 in either version, go read Gates of Fire I kept thinking of that extraordinary book of historical fiction while watching the movie. Colin introduced me to the book and I've recommended it to many people since then. It still amazes me that the author, Steven Pressman, went from Bagger Vance to Gates of Fire.

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Stellarcon seemed small to me, but maybe that was just the overtaxed elevators.

Downtown High Point is not a great place for a con. No good dinner restaurants in walking distance and Elm Street Café, the only good lunch place, closed on Sunday. I completely failed to find a place to buy wine, which meant at one point Saturday night I actually drank a Miller lite. I had forgotten how it doesn't taste even a little like beer.

Food at the Raddison restaurant was just OK, and as is typical for a hotel restaurant, was overpriced for what you got. Joys of a captive market.