You're already a cyborg. Deal with it.

He is a cruel god.

The Google Public DNS IP addresses are as follows:

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

Finally, I can talk about this. It's an alternative to the old 4.2.2.X caching DNS servers. Check 'em out.

In the theatre watching Lord of The Rings. The scene with the march of the Ents. Some guy shouts, "run, forest, run."

Nobody wants to go to their computer and read about what you had for breakfast and how it called to mind your boyhood, which morphed into a meditation on the relationship between life and art and, by extension, a metaphor for all social interaction.

Good DMs take opportunities to create adventures around a single character. And this is awesome.

I'm going to have to recommend this to some of my groups, once we get back into the habit of long campaigns again.

I guess the Monday game started with Tim's character (and the wreckage of his old workplace), but it didn't really stay with him beyond a couple of encounters.

I've heard good things about Win7. Perhaps I'll have to check it out.

I have a couple of friends who are great, funny, socially awesome people whom I enjoy hanging around with, but if I’m matched against them at a PTQ, their presence suggests they want me to lose in fiery, horrific fashion that shatters my very soul. That’s fine.

Like any good geek hobby, board games give you an excellent chance to feel superior to the unwashed masses without actually having to wash.

In one interview, a lucky volunteer arrived with his leg in a plaster cast and described how he had fallen down a flight of stairs. I asked him whether he still felt lucky and he cheerfully explained that he felt luckier than before. As he pointed out, he could have broken his neck.