Category: In the life
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Painting Mice and Mystics Miniatures — Part 1
It’s been about 20 years since I last painted anything remotely similar to these miniature game figures for Mice and Mystics. I have a lot of re-learning to do. Paint is now mostly acrylic, not enamel. New techniques like Dipping make the work easier. And the differing plastics used on different minis makes each attempt interesting.…
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Team Tracy Mod — A Thunderbirds House Rules Modification
We felt that these modifications allowed the entire Tracy family to participate in the game, as they usually do in the TV show. And by allowing the turn order to be flexible and responsive to the current situation, we felt it better reflected the TV show's theme of teamwork -- hence the name, the Team…
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I will vote Oct. 19. Will you?
Every so often we have the ability to influence the future. Oct. 19th, Canadians will have that opportunity, if they choose to. I will be voting for a change of government. This one has failed repeatedly and has not earned my trust for another term. So yes, I will be voting on October 19th. Will you?
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Found my boarding pass. Next stop, Mars.
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Have your friends pay you back directly with PayPal.Me
Do you lend friends money, and they never have cash to pay you back? Well PayPal has created a tool that will help your friend pay you back through PayPal; it’s called PayPal.Me Basically you get a custom URL at PayPal (Mine’s paypal.me/BradGrier if anyone feels like testing this) , that anyone with a PayPal…
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Google
Love today’s Google Doodle. Source: Google
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Kerbal Space Program leaving Beta. Version 1.0 arrives tomorrow
New version of Kerbal Space Program arrives tomorrow, the first full non-beta release. Yes, all sorts of new stuff and features — here’s some promo videos:
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Needed to share this on my blog, so I know where to find it regularly 😀 xkcd: Up Goer Five
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/up_goer_five.png via xkcd: Up Goer Five.
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When the Stars Align
Today was a pretty normal day for the most part. Took Selena in for a quick checkup vet visit. Went to work and audited an advanced Excel class (that I’ll be teaching soon). Regular, normal stuff. Except when you apply a ‘space’ layer to the day. Driving home from the clinic with Selena, I heard Go! — a very…
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In less than 24 hours I’ll be gaming for 24 hours to support CaliCan Rescue — Cheer me on!
Tomorrow night, Friday night, I’ll be starting a 24hr marathon gaming session to support my friends at CaliCan Rescue. I’m one of the folk who’ve accepted the Play4Paws2 challenge, so yeah, I’ll be gaming, catching up on my gaming deficit over the last few months 😉 It’s been years Yeah, years since I stayed up ’round the…
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A Classic Dungeon Crawling Silent Auction — for charity!
Thanks to the kind friends at Beamdog I’m able to up the ante for incentives to my sponsors of my 24hr game-a-thon participation in Play4Paws2 — supporting CaliCan Rescue Foundation. Butt Kicking, for Goodness! Baldur’s Gate. Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Icewind Dale. These games hold a special place in my heart. I was at…