Author: Gareth

Here’s a link to add to your daily-check list: Fantastica Daily, a news site for SF and Fantasy.

Don’t blame me for this one: New Character Added to Return of the King. Courtesy of the Dastardly Best Friend ™.

Every time I see a story like this one, I always wonder: what if he was right?

The Vatican: a wretched hive of scum and villainy. I always suspected that Opus Dei was up to something.

Not much else to add today. I went back to work, although I’m still not 100%. I’ll add more this weekend, including my overdue “Best of 2002” list.

Yeah, I know. You can hardly wait.

GMS

A New Look

Home sick today. Still haven’t kicked this throat-and-ear thing. Taking one last day of rest before soldiering on tomorrow.

I decided to go with a new design for the weblog. I’m not the world’s most brilliant HTML-jockey, so I picked another of the pre-designed templates from Blogger. I like it. Oddly enough, it’s given me the same sort of rejuvanative feeling that one gets from Spring Cleaning. New year, new start, and all that.

Interesting article on AICN, giving a teaser look at the script for the Sci-fi Channel’s forthcoming re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. I loved the old series…but more for its potential than its actual execution. The show could have been much cooler than it was, but instead got bogged down in corny re-hashes of old Western plots, for example. I admit that I was hoping that they’d pull a “Next Gen” on this project, and continue in the same fictitious universe, but I can understand the reasons for wanting a clean slate. Starbuck as a woman, though?

GMS

Best email received today

From an email sent to me regarding the apparently still-burning brushfire at RPGnet:

“There is nothing wrong with RPGnet that couldn’t be solved by simply getting rid of the Tangency forum.”

I actually agree with that…it would focus things a bit more, I think.

Anyway–no more posts from me on the subject, aside from this general announcement: although I do appreciate the kind words of support, please do not email me about RPGnet any more. I’m not interested in what’s going on over there or what anyone there is saying about me. It’s hard enough to quit a site cold-turkey that I’ve been regularly visiting for the past 8 years, without having people asking me to come back, or telling me that I should go over there and bust heads. Respect my decision, please.

That’s all for now.

GMS