[NON BLOG] Five Items, in Brief
Jul. 26th, 2004 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonald1. Thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
talktooloose, I attended games night, hosted by snowmit and redrunner and with the additional presence of their non-livejournal friend C. I was surprised to realize, once I learned of snowmit's background in university-level debating in Atlantic Canada around the turn of the century, that I recognized him. C. did something very nice with sliced potatoes baked in some sort of cream and snowmit improvised dip, while talktooloose brought a nice green apple soda. Following C.'s departure, a game of Fist of Dragonstones ensued. It's an interesting game, and I'd like to believe that I understood its rules. (snowmit won, incidentally.) redrunner and I then stalked talktooloose as he walked his cute-if unrecognizable from the perspective of May-dog Klondike. She's a cartoonist incidentally, responsible for the excellent comic Bird and Moon; Mike Mignola, artist behind Hellboy, likes her work, as do I, so go see.
2. Walking south past Harbord, I saw a very nice chair--straw-seated, made solidly of black-painted wood-placed on the side of the road with the garbage. It's apparently quite common to appropriate abandoned materials on the street in Toronto; I myself, last April, rescued some books, including lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel's The Indelible Alison Bechdel, of the comic Dykes to Watch Out For, and a collection of articles written by an Islamist journalist praising the Iranian Islamic Revolution dating from the early 1980s. (I think there's some level of irony operating there.) Since I needed a chair for my room, I took it. Only once did I succumb to the temptation to mimic Dave Gahan in the video for "Enjoy the Silence". Now all I need is another bookshelf and a computer table. If you're in the GTA and you see anything in decent shape, please let me know.
3. The First Meeting of the Counterfactual Threats Assessment Group (Toronto) met Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with myself, James Bodi, andschizmatic in attendance. The conference began at the Starbucks on the corner of Yonge and Wellesley over assorted caffeinated beverages and soon shifting to Volo Italian café further up Yonge for drinks and a light late-afternoon lunch. Very little actual counterfactual history was discussed, apart from parenthetical references to L. Sprague de Camp via the Ostrogoths. Instead, dialogue covered territories as various as preferred/mocked science-fiction novels and writers, the joys and tribulations of Toronto's urban character, intranational and international cultural differences, and the really, really nice weather. (This fault shall be corrected, somewhat at least, at future meetings.)
4. Dance Dance Revolution is a game requiring far more physical coordination than I possess. I envy people who possess that coordination.
5. Just taking a look at my Livejournal friends page,mikedavsi got married, taem has a very interesting idea for a computer game, and schizmatic has an excellent post on GNXP about the differences between anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism in the Islamic world.
talktooloose, I attended games night, hosted by snowmit and redrunner and with the additional presence of their non-livejournal friend C. I was surprised to realize, once I learned of snowmit's background in university-level debating in Atlantic Canada around the turn of the century, that I recognized him. C. did something very nice with sliced potatoes baked in some sort of cream and snowmit improvised dip, while talktooloose brought a nice green apple soda. Following C.'s departure, a game of Fist of Dragonstones ensued. It's an interesting game, and I'd like to believe that I understood its rules. (snowmit won, incidentally.) redrunner and I then stalked talktooloose as he walked his cute-if unrecognizable from the perspective of May-dog Klondike. She's a cartoonist incidentally, responsible for the excellent comic Bird and Moon; Mike Mignola, artist behind Hellboy, likes her work, as do I, so go see.2. Walking south past Harbord, I saw a very nice chair--straw-seated, made solidly of black-painted wood-placed on the side of the road with the garbage. It's apparently quite common to appropriate abandoned materials on the street in Toronto; I myself, last April, rescued some books, including lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel's The Indelible Alison Bechdel, of the comic Dykes to Watch Out For, and a collection of articles written by an Islamist journalist praising the Iranian Islamic Revolution dating from the early 1980s. (I think there's some level of irony operating there.) Since I needed a chair for my room, I took it. Only once did I succumb to the temptation to mimic Dave Gahan in the video for "Enjoy the Silence". Now all I need is another bookshelf and a computer table. If you're in the GTA and you see anything in decent shape, please let me know.
3. The First Meeting of the Counterfactual Threats Assessment Group (Toronto) met Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with myself, James Bodi, and
schizmatic in attendance. The conference began at the Starbucks on the corner of Yonge and Wellesley over assorted caffeinated beverages and soon shifting to Volo Italian café further up Yonge for drinks and a light late-afternoon lunch. Very little actual counterfactual history was discussed, apart from parenthetical references to L. Sprague de Camp via the Ostrogoths. Instead, dialogue covered territories as various as preferred/mocked science-fiction novels and writers, the joys and tribulations of Toronto's urban character, intranational and international cultural differences, and the really, really nice weather. (This fault shall be corrected, somewhat at least, at future meetings.)4. Dance Dance Revolution is a game requiring far more physical coordination than I possess. I envy people who possess that coordination.
5. Just taking a look at my Livejournal friends page,
mikedavsi got married, taem has a very interesting idea for a computer game, and schizmatic has an excellent post on GNXP about the differences between anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism in the Islamic world.
