| This seems to be I don't get it day for me |
[May. 21st, 2012|09:03 pm] |
Yes, I'm sick with some sort of low-grade cold, but there are a couple of things in today's news I don't understand:
1) I'll Have Another is not the favorite at Belmont. Really, the horse he beat twice now is? In a longer race than the ones Bodemeister got caught in? Now that horse might well win the Belmont, but to say he's the favorite now really seems to be pig-headed arrogance to me.
2) The initial valuation of Facebook was somehow a catastrophe. Seems to me it was spot on. The idea of stock sales is to inject money into the company. The $38 price did that admirably, getting the max amount in. That it didn't make instant money for its backers is actually much better than the old scheme of underpricing the offering and having stock speculators make money as the price goes up to the detriment of the company.
Hopefully, I'll feel better tomorrow; I do have a class to teach.
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| interesting result |
[May. 16th, 2012|10:03 pm] |
So at fighting practice tonight, Federach basically had the upper hand against me using the techniques I've been teaching. I was quite proud of that, but in the reverie afterwards, it occurred to me that the way things may well turn out is that I am the person who both knows the most about how all the Mair techniques work, but am in the practice the worst practitioner of them. :)
I'm going to try to get faster on my feet. We'll see what I can manage.
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| shortstaff 4 |
[May. 16th, 2012|11:04 am] |
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Last night, another fighter and I, with Meredith's help, ended up redacting short staff 4 out of Mair. I'm not entirely pleased with the start, and there's an alternative that I think I'd still like to explore, but everything does seem to make logical sense.
One more play and I'll have enough for all my classes at Pennsic. I'd like to have one or two beyond that, just to have something extra for folks who are interested, but five is in fact enough. I do think I'm going to teach the fifth play, simply because it has an important principle in it - sometimes one ends up in awkward positions, and you have to deal with that when it happens.
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| I'm going to GM a Dresdenfiles game! |
[May. 9th, 2012|05:37 pm] |
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I'm putting together a plot outline for a few sessions, and am going to run a Dresden Files RPG, starting in July. My plan is to run it once or twice a month, either wholly or partially via Skype. My current plan is to set it in Boston, at least to begin with. :
This rules system uses FATE pretty heavily, and is geared towards cooperative story-telling. The idea is to construct characters that are interesting, and have hooks in them to get them into exciting stories. I suspect you should also be a fan of the Dresden Files books, as that will make the situations more or less familiar for you. You don't actually have to know the rules set to begin with - I'll be glad to help you enough for character generation, and we might make the first session or two one of the one-shot adventures on the web site.
I'm looking for somewhere between six and eight players total. I've got two signed on for sure (maybe three if Andy's dad is in :). I'm going to aim the first session for around 1 July, though we can discuss charater creation before then.
Fair warning: it's been a while since I've GM'd a game, and I've certainly never done it over the internet before. If that doesn't scare you, email me at vis@livingpaper.org
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| the Kentucky Derby |
[May. 1st, 2012|06:22 pm] |
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Meredith has expressed a desire to wear a hat, drink tea, perhaps eat a cucumber sandwich or two, and watch the Kentucky Derby. So, there's going to be gaming here this Saturday starting at 13:00, with a break around 17:00 for tea and horse-racing.
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| world's easiest workout |
[May. 1st, 2012|03:32 pm] |
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My golf fitness instructor has given me a workout routine to do. It's all flexibility, it doesn't have anything to do with strength. It's things like "arch your back, and then round out it" and "move your head back and forth". It does take about a half an hour to do the whole thing, but for those folks used to the "no pain, no gain" sort of workouts, it does feel a bit strange.
Maybe I'll throw in some pushups and situps at the end of it. :)
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| fitness assessment |
[Apr. 27th, 2012|03:09 pm] |
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| |  curious | ] |
I had a session with the fitness trainer at my golf school today, and he did a physical assessment aimed towards golf fitness. Here's what he concluded:
I'm very strong. I knew that. However, a lot of my strength was in my arms and legs, and not my core. While this is typical for guys who do martial arts, its sort of backwards for golfers.
I have terrible balance. I knew that too, though I didn't know that it was directly related to core strength.
My hips and arms are flexible. My neck, shoulders, and right leg are not. Not ideal for golf, but hopefully fixable.
My quads and hamstrings are very tight.
I always find these sorts of assessments, where you get treated as a machine being checked over to see how the moving parts are holding up, fascinating.
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| anime day! |
[Apr. 23rd, 2012|05:00 pm] |
... is this Saturday, at Melville Keep: we'll be showing the second half of Scrapped Princess. Start time is 13:00. Let me know if you might drop by.
Btw, I saw the first episode of The Legend Of Korra, and though it started a bit slowly, it was a promising sequel to Avatar.
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| mostly for my own memory |
[Apr. 20th, 2012|10:51 pm] |
I was at the game today. Too bad we lost, but it was great. Charley and I ended up next to Alan Embree and Keith Foulke, and just across from Mike Timlin. Friendly guys. Also, Carmen Fanzone, who played something like 10 games at Fenway, but came anyway.
Here's a complete list of the players who were on the field: http://www.masslive.com/redsox/index.ssf/2012/04/complete_list_former_red_sox_r.html
I gotta say, I was most taken when I finally got to see Oil Can Boyd again, and I missed seeing Bob Stanley. They were two of my favorite players, back in the day.
All in all, a blast.
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| golf school ho! |
[Apr. 19th, 2012|02:22 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | golf | ] |
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| |  embarrassed | ] |
Meredith and I had our first lessons at the golf school we joined. Our instructor is very good, to my estimation. This was basically Meredith's first experience with learning how to swing right. All indications are she did well.
When my lesson came, the guy just changed my grip, my stance, my grip pressure, swing thought, take away, and follow through. Other than that, he hardly did anything. :) At the start of the session, my shots were their usual weak shots to the right. By the end of the session they were all either straight or drawing slightly, going _much_ farther, and they felt good to hit. All in all, we had a blast.
Our next lessons are next Friday. Meredith is going to have a second lesson with the golf instructor, and I'm going to see the fitness instructor, to work on flexibility. There'll be some practice and a round or two of golf in there before then. We're both currently very psyched for this.
It was fun.
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