Asymptomatic

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Qibla Direction
July 12, 2004

The book I’m reading now (last of the the triolgy that Jen got me for my birthday, Kushiel’s Avatar) has a lot of religion in it. Actually, the whole trilogy was steeped in ficticious religions of different kinds.

The book takes place in a world sort of like ours - an alternate Renaissance. In place of France is Terre D’Ange, the homeland of the main character. She travels all over the place, mainly in what we would call Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A good portion of this third book takes place in Africa.

Letter of Reasonable Expectation
July 09, 2004

I thought it might be nice to make a few things clear before we continue.

There have been some issues with commenters of late, and I’m inclined to let them slide temporarily while I sort out some permanent measures. Nonetheless, I provide you with this explanation of what you can expect to find here, what warranty I offer, and what I expect from you.

Weekend Plans
July 09, 2004

I’m not sure what we’re going to do yet tonight. It’s a gaping hole of entertainment opportunity that I will probably squander. Although I really feel like a nice hamburger grilled at home. Maybe I can convince Dave to pack up his fight sticks and come over to play DOA3. We could even use the gift card Dan gave me for my birthday to get some badly needed controller extension cords. Finally, something worthy of the gift card.

Tomorrow is another thing. I’m running D&D tomorrow, assuming the Earth doesn’t end. I’m optimistic for the Earth not ending and so I should probably finish writing up the story for tomorrow’s game. This game has been interesting in the planning stages because in spite of not having each night’s events planned out in advance, each step of the adventure has long before been scripted.

BitZipper
July 08, 2004

t might surprise you to learn that among the few software packages I pay for you will find a zip utility. This could be surprising because there are so many free zip utilities out there. The thing is, I really like this one.

BitZipper 4.1 is one fo the better tools for zipping I’ve used. It lets you combine many files into a single file that takes up less space than the total of all the files combined. Zip files are useful for transmitting a set of files (especially text, which compresses down to very small sizes) all at once.