Hey, that's not batrachian at all

Categories: Gaming

Check out this [beautiful shot of a Child of Light](http://web.archive.org/web/20210609195135/http://web.archive.org/web/20250325044542/http://www.flyinglab.com/deltagreen/ (original)potw.htm) (original) from the Delta Green CRPG (original). Wow, that’s batrachian. (Picture changes weekly, so if you look at it and say “Hey, that’s not batrachian at all,” it’s not my fault.)

August 16, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

Fear of flying

Categories: Politics

Wired does an admirable job of covering the laws regarding air travel and government ID. In short, it appears to be the case that the airlines must request a valid form of ID, but it is not the case that the airlines must turn away a passenger who does not present a valid form of ID. Airlines can, of course, refuse to allow passengers to board for any reason.

August 15, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

It matters

Categories: Politics

The kind of person who browses weblogs has already heard about Lawrence Lessig’s brilliant copyright presentation, but sometimes you want to make really sure the meme has spread widely. This is important. It’s an eight gigabyte Flash animation and it will take half an hour of your day but it actually contains information and concepts you want to hear about. Cure for the common complacency, you know?

August 13, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

Part two, or so it calls itself

Categories: General

Part one, if you happen to have come over from “…inexplicably fancy trash.” (Oddly, I was just reading some of Patrick Farley’s comics as well.) So. Grant Morrison has been meditating on identity in his own chaotic way for quite some time now; those of us fortunate enough to have read Flex Mentallo have seen the deepest expression of this. I don’t take Morrison literally when he talks about fiction suits, although I know he may mean it literally. What I find interesting is the result. Whether you think King Mob is walking among us, or whether you think Morrison has deliberately taken on aspects of King Mob, the outcome is the same. Morrison edited his own sense of identity. ...

August 12, 2002 · 3 min · Bryant

More Biden, more Feinstein

Categories: Politics

Delaware Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden; Wisconsin Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner; Virginia Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott; Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers; North Carolina Republican Rep. Howard Coble; and California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. What do they have in common? Those are the Congressmen who signed a letter asking the Justice Department to aggressively prosecute people who download copyrighted music files. Cause jail time for MP3 downloading is so very appropriate.

August 10, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

Very cool blog covering appellate

Categories: Politics

Very cool blog covering appellate litigation. Quite informative. Covers all kinds of interesting legal cases so much better than I ever could.

August 9, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

On a jet plane

Categories: General

Well. Verbal confirmation of employment today, and an offer on Monday or Tuesday. I would be very surprised if I didn’t accept the offer. Oh; it’s back in Boston. There will be moving in my future.

August 9, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

Tinkering with hosts

Categories: Navel Gazing

Tried moving the SQL database over to my G4, which is somewhat more powerful than the piddly little Performa that runs www.innocence.com. No real speed increase. I conclude that MovableType is slow cause of the perl. Not a dig on MT, there; I mean, this is a Performa. Might try mod_perl, though.

August 8, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

Out of town

Categories: Navel Gazing

I’m off to Boston for a few days — back Wednesday.

August 5, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant

There's a star man

Categories: Gaming

The roleplaying industry is so damned quirky. A glam science fiction RPG about the transformative power of rock and roll? Why not?

August 4, 2002 · 1 min · Bryant