xkcd's tribute to Gary Gygax.

Yeah, I can smell the smoke from inside my apartment now - there is so much of it. That house is surely a goner.

Now, my butt is thawing out (it's cold sitting on the stoop!) and the adrenalin is wearing off - I may be able to actually get to sleep. (I think in the back of my building - where my bedroom is I shouldn't be able to see all the sirens and those v. bright lights they're shining on the burning house.)

I am loving the Gygax tributes.

Stephen Colbert's comment was adorable. "Gary Gygax, we're going to miss you. How much are we going to miss you?" t roll die "Twenty."

Yep. Still up. I'm going to hop in the shower in about 10 minutes.

sumi, I sure hope you get the sleep I'm not getting tonight.

Sean, you are not thoughtless. Thoughtless would be trashing every hotel room you've ever been in without a care.

Suzi, that does sound good. I've yet to see Chicago on stage.

I am loving the Gygax tributes.

The OOTS tribute was awesome. I actually rolled 3d6 in order, as a tribute, and got some pretty decent stats. Lowest was a 7, and I think highest was a 17. I'll have to actually make a character from it now. If I can dig up my old rule books, I'll make it in 1st Edition.

Sean, you are not thoughtless. Thoughtless would be trashing every hotel room you've ever been in without a care.

The other stuff still stands though, huh?

::smooch::

Skipped 170 messages. ~ma to as needed.

Had to share this. You know you have an unusual job when your doing a video dub for work. Whats the video dub of? Lets see. The play we are about to put up looks at unusual aspects/people of ordinary Americans. Apparently Orange County, CA has quite the swingers/wife swappers sub culture. So the troup interviewed a couple that run a club. Quite interesting. Its a couples only club. Rather pricey. But interesting. Crazy job, I tell ya. Don't get this working at the ford plant I tell ya.

How did we miss Live Like a Cat Day? [link] It was in January.

My pup is in the Million Dog Mosaic at Sassafras1.

Today I have to spend the morning working on drafting a policy statement. Oh, joy.

I did, however, make magic bars for the good of the library staff last night so they will be in a good mood this afternoon when I put said policy statement in front of them for comment.

Sweet weeping swine of Circe.

I tend not to open any of the generic chain letters/terribly amusing jokes that my mum forwards to me, but the subject line on this one dragged me in with an incredulous sense of dread:

Holocaust.

God bless her. She forwarded me a crock of shit chainletter thing claiming that the Holocaust was no longer being taught in UK schools because it offends British Muslims.

Which - er, no, not terribly convinced by that. And indeed a quick nip over to the Times Educational Supplement, the UK's source of all school-related info, confirms that this is indeed a bullshit urban legend. A particularly malicious one trying to stir up hatred against Muslims, and one which states up front that it's trying to reach 40 million people.

Nice.

So I have now created my own little chainletter, and sent it to everyone my Mum emailed, explaining that the Holocaust is still very much part of the UK curriculum, linking them up to the appropriate TES article, pointing out the irony of the original email containing the following quotation:

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' Edmund Burke

and entreating them to forward the truth on to anyone else they may have inadvertently misled. And also suggesting they check out Snopes.com to verify any rumours they get emailed in the future.

headdesk