So what would a month-long blogging marathon be without a complete redesign of the site? I’m thinking of moving to one of the minimalist themes from plaintxt.org but haven’t decided which one I like best yet. I will have to try not to spend too much time deliberating so I can get back to the writing.
Ok I have some catching up to do on the whole month-long project. I’m going to start by at least partially abandoning the lists theme. I have some ideas for something a little easier next month.
So even if I don’t finish the project (have I failed already? Not sure on the exact rules really) I have found a couple of really interesting new blogs to follow as a result of it. One of my favorites is the Daily Library, a picture a day from a library employee. Not sure which library, probably by design, but it looks like a high quality research library from the archives.
The image included here is from todays entry, a book of illustrated alphabets. Fantastic stuff.
Eep, I forgot to make a post yesterday, so I will make two today.
This first one has to do with the announcement today that Gary Gygax, creator of D&D and Role Playing Games as we know them, has passed on.
This has incited a large number of semi-tasteless jokes about failed saving throws and the Outer Planes. I won’t go there myself, but here is a list of them compiled by The Ferrett, allowing me to keep on topic with the Lists in March thing. I’m sure Gygax himself would have had a cheery guffaw.
His games brought me much entertainment, even the ones no one else liked. I can’t tell you how many awesome Star Frontiers games I played. Why that never took off I’ll… well I know it was a horrible game system, but I was a teenager and had fun anyways.
I was once warned about the dangers of Role Playing by a therapist, who told me a scaaaary story about college kids getting lost in steam tunnels. Thank the gawds I had the good sense to see that as total nonsense and continue playing in a friends basement.
Here, there’s an hour left in the day so I have to make a list quick. This is not so much a list as it is a link to a list, found on Boing Boing. And actually the title is kind of misleading, since many of these skills are not so much obsolete as they are simply archaic. Or is that the same thing sort of?
Anyway, contained in the Obsolete Skills list are such things as:
The whole thing is a wiki, so it’s been getting edited and corrected and what not. But yeah, lots of skills I would like to have, just in case there is in fact a Zombie Apocalypse.
Tomorrow’s list: how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Well I’ve decided to give this contest thingy a shot again to get mysel
f writing in here again. I may not have the stamina to take on the NanoWrimo as of yet, but I think I can do 31 posts in a month on a blog.
There are themes to these contests now, and starting this month a new theme for each month, and every month is National Blog Posting Month, so that makes it easy to play a pick up game, as it were.
All right, with that out of the way, the theme for this month is lists. Todays is a list of books I plan to read or finish in the near future:
And there are oh so many more than that, but perhaps that will be for another list.