View From the Bushes

Well, like many of you out there, tonight is game night for me. Yes, every other Friday is when we get together to play a little Dungeons and Dragons. I'm involved in two campaigns. The one is just about exactly what one pictures the average game of Dungeons and Dragons to be: a bunch of male computer programmers gathering in the office after hours to roll dice, eat pizza, drink Mountain Dew, and discuss the relative merits of Supply Side Economics. It's a pretty geeky group.

To give you an example of this "geekiness," allow me to relate a story. (First off we're playing D&D so the geek level is already pretty high). One of the characters was passing out healing potions, but he would only give them out one at a time. One of the players became frustrated and said, "We're not in combat any more! You don't have to act asynchronously!" When I pointed out that he was a big geek, initially he flipped me off, but later admitted that, yes that probably was pretty bad.

I was actually going to spend most of today's entry talking about the other campaign I'm involved in, the "family campaign", but I think I'll wait until tomorrow to do that. Meanwhile, for something completely different, I direct you to a great article in Slate I just read by Christopher Hitchens, for a different take on the whole Halliburton contract in Iraq.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero,
Ross