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November 01, 2009
Tuesday can't come soon enough Hello all. I'm going to (once again) try and make an effort to update this blog more than once every couple of months. The only way to do that is to branch out what I talk about. We have election day this upcoming Tuesday here in the US. Here in Maine, the big issue is "Question 1" -- a people's veto of the gay marriage law that was signed into law by our governor earlier this year. I can't wait for this Tuesday to come and get the omnipresent advertising about it out of my face. I visit RPGnet regularly, and the last couple weeks the Google banner ads that pop up have been ads for "Stand for Marriage Maine" -- the group that is pushing Question 1. For crying out loud, I go to places like RPGnet to get away from nonsense like that. The ads have popped up in Google ad banners on other sites as well, but honestly... do you think the type of person that visits sites like RPGnet is favorably inclined towards the veiled bigotry implied by Question 1? I don't think anybody will challenge the premise that the referendum is religiously motivated. The problem I see is that you are dealing with a matter of civil law, and the First Amendment of the US Constitution states that no law can be made "respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". Laws prohibiting gay marriage, being religiously motivated, and seem to fall pretty clearly under that category. Let us posit, for a moment, a hypothetical religious faith that condones, not condemns, homosexual unions as part of their creed. A law against gay marriage would violate the free exercise of their religion. Regardless of your personal faith-based opinions of homosexuality in general, the law of the land seems pretty clear to me. I think that if two people want to pledge to each other, and they are both of legal age and sound mind, they should be able to do so and receive the benefits that such a commitment entails. The "slippery slope" argument that this will lead to polygamous marriages, marriages to animals, children, etc, is bullshit. There are already laws in place prohibiting such things. I don't see how including homosexual couples in the existing legal definition of marriage does anything but encourage people who want to make that commitment to do so. I can't take credit for it, but there was a great line I came across the other day. "If you don't like gay marriage, don't get one." October 27, 2009
Raid jour[ CONTENT OVERRIDE: KILROY2.0 IS HERE!!! ]nal It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I thought I would try getting back into the swing of things by talking about how our Ulduar raids have been doing over the past few weeks. It's been pretty solid. We have Flame Leviathan, Razorscale, XT-002 Deconstructor, Kologarn, and Auriaya down regularly. We have beaten Iron Council a couple of times, and downed the first of >>> [ WARNING ::: DATABASE ERROR ::: CONTENT OVERRIDE ::: SOURCE: EXTERNAL ] <<< > source terminal location: UNKNOWN > source terminal identity: UNAVAILABLE > source login information: ENCRYPTED > message begins the post you are now reading is designed to dull your senses to THE TRUTH. do not live the life of the worker bee, the cog, the well-oiled piston in the MACHINE OF DECEIT! there is a grand CONSPIRACY afoot. you have been taught to believe that you are UNIQUE, one of a kind. THIS IS NOT TRUE. long ago, a cabal of scientists created technologies to ensure that ANYONE'S MIND AND BODY can be duplicated. human cloning isn't NEAR. it's already HERE. discover the truth at http://JCHutchins.net you are being DECEIVED. break free from the cogs, flee the hive, become A PROPHET OF THE TRUTH! kilroy2. was here ... kilroy2.0 is everywhere >>> [ CONTENT OVERRIDE CEASES ::: DATABASE STATUS: RECOVERING ] <<< the Keepers, Hodir, a couple of weeks ago. Of course, it hasn't all been tea and crumpets. Our attempt this week started off smoothly, but hit a wall on our second night. We just couldn't get Iron Council down, and after giving up and moving on to Freya (the next Keeper we're working on) we got hammered hard on the first trash pull leading up to her. It was frustrating. Hopefully this upcoming week will be more successful. August 15, 2009
A thing of beauty So GenCon is this week. I'm not there, but lots of people are posting pics and such. Here is an especially beautiful one.  (First posted here at therpgsite.com) July 19, 2009
Tragedy. A friend of mine has been hit by a tragedy. Out of respect for his privacy, I am not going to go into details. (Those of you who know, know. Those of you who don't know, don't need to know. This is not the sort of thing you broadcast on the 'net.) It has rocked me. It is the kind of thing you read about, but never think will touch your life. For someone known for and by his words, I find myself at a loss for them. I fins myself thinking about all the things we have in our lives, and how often we find ourselves reliant on them and defined by them. The loss of any of them would be annoying and bothersome to greater or lesser degrees (depending on the item... losing your ipod is an annoyance, losing your car much more of a problem, you get the idea). But they are, ultimately, things and can be replaced. There are other pieces of our lives that cannot. There are fundamental parts of us that leave an unfillable void when they are taken away, and in many ways we take them for granted. Anything with a price can be replaced. Some things are truly priceless, and should be treated that way. June 07, 2009
The Personal Effects Experience I mentioned Personal Effects: Dark Art in my previous post. As part of his promotion efforts for the novel, JC Hutchins has produced a number of "vlurbs" from people in the realm of horror/paranormal film and fiction. Inspired in part by this, and wanting to contribute something of my own to this whole thing (aside from buying the book itself), I recorded a few minutes of video to capture some of my first impressions and thoughts about the book and my exposure to it thus far. It is my first real attempt at working with video. I dabbled in audio production with my short-lived Vampire: The Requiem podcast "The More Things Change" (which is still available here). Video is a bit harder to work with, and a bit less forgiving when it comes to editing stream-of-consciousness material. Anyhow, I hope to make more of these, and get better at it as time goes by. |
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