Ramblings of General Geekery

Played a game of Gloom with the younger kid, and some of the characters had so many life events on them that you could barely see the portrait anymore… anyway, Gloom is fun! Play some Gloom!

Like it, says, some Gloom cards

Surprisingly, sometime in the last few months Marvel Comics seems to have joined the list of publishers who do allow downloading (DRM-free?) PDFs of your purchases on Neon Ichiban… huh. I might buy a few digital Marvel comics after all.

Issue #1 of the excellent "Alias" comicbook from Marvel, on Neon Ichiban. It is tagged as "Downloadable".

Recent releases also are tagged as Downloadable, so it's not just old titles like this.

This talk about Supergirl’s box office failings, and the competing cuts with different songs and so on, reminds me that I dislike “unchecked James Gunn” movies that look like a loose series of partial music videos edited for viral potential and badly cut into a 5-bullet-point story.


I’ve been doing a lot of research on Rasputin lately and wow, apparently his eyes were a flaming glow, and he was very nice to Muscovite poultry. He preached the bible like a preacher, was a lover of the Russian Queen, plus something about a cat. So interesting. Still lots more to learn about him.

Bobby Farrell, of Boney M, dancing on stage while disguised as what can only be best described as "black disco Rasputin".

By the way, in case you didn't know, Farrell never contributed any vocals to Boney M's recordings, and never actually sang on stage. He was just a dancer.

GURPS turned 40 years old a couple days ago! I don’t have a complete GURPS collection, because that would be crazy, but I definitely have way more than anybody should reasonably have. Which sounds great if you ask me.

A picture of my "nerdy RPGs" shelves, with mostly GURPS book, plus a few Harnworld books in the lower-right.

The GURPS collection includes a fairly complete set of 4e books, a quite lengthy collection of 3e/2e books (including a few obscure ones), a partial GURPS Traveller collection, and a complete GURPS Transhuman Space collection.

VanCAF haul! Great little comicbook convention once again. Thank you to all the artists who came.

A funny T-shirt by Sam Logan (go read Sam & Fuzzy!)
One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks (go read The Nameless City!)
Griz Grobus, Habitat, and A Star Called The Sun by Simon Roy (go play Six Ages!)
Camp Fire by Richard Fairgray (no idea what to recommend, it’s the first time I see this guy!)

In addition to being a rhubarb addict and chocolate zealot, I’m also a honey snob. It’s hard to find anything else than shitty liquid or creamed honey that just tastes like sugar. If I can’t taste what flower the honey was made from, I’m sorry but it’s crap.

Three jars of "Jane's Honey Bees", made here in BC. I haven't tasted it yet but different labels for different fields of flowers is, at least, encouraging!

In this case, it's wildflower, cranberry, and clover fields.

While throwing away old CDs, I found a couple of very old cassettes from when I was a kid and didn’t have a CD burner to copy stuff! Here’s my copy of the soundtrack to the cult 1994 movie “The Crow”! Can’t do this shit with MP3 files.

A cassette case with the list of songs from the soundtrack to The Crow, and a shitty drawing (by teenage-me) of the titular character.