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Re-Election

Posting this mostly for journaling purposes — I was looking at the 2008 and 2004 elections from my heavier-blogging days, and realized that I really should have something here on 2012. Rather than go through the time and trouble of saying things that other people have already said, or that I said myself on social media last night, I decided that I’d use the opportunity to instead just copy my twitter posts from election night, as it happened (tweets from others are, obviously, things that I re-tweeted):

https://twitter.com/bobbyfinger/status/266001246715015169

https://twitter.com/dizzyjosh/status/266008121619644417

https://twitter.com/Tepper/status/266027719085658113

https://twitter.com/chrisfholm/status/266040612967555074

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Video Killed The… Something Something

I’ve appeared in a couple of video projects recently, and so I figured that I’d share them here, for posterity’s sake.

In chronological order:

On Thursday, August 16th, 2012, T.S. Luikart and I had a seminar at GenCon (where we were both Guests of Honor), entitled “Far West: Western, Wuxia, Wild!”— an informational overview and Q&A on all aspects of the property — how it was developed, what’s been released, what’s still coming, and what is planned.

We recorded it so that it could be posted to the Far West website:
 
 


 
 

On August 27th, I participated in a Google Hangout with Chris Helton of the Dorkland!Roundtable. For those of you who aren’t already aware, A Hangout is a live video chat that is hosted on Google+, and then afterward is archived as a YouTube video. Pretty damned nifty — micro-broadcasting, really — and I plan on doing more of these in the future.
 
 




 
 

So there you have it. Two hours of rambling by yours truly. Enjoy!
 
 

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General Updatery

Just a general update today, no theme or point beyond what I’m up to.

The picture? Me on my 16th birthday in 1985. Archetypal geek: Indiana Jones fedora and Dune T-shirt. Apropos of nothing, aside from general holy-shit-what-a-nerd.

First things first: Voting is now open for the 2012 ENnie Awards, until the 29th. I’ve been nominated for Tales of the Far West, the short story collection for FAR WEST, for “Best RPG-Related Product”, and I’d very much appreciate your vote. The competition is especially formidable.

Second: Speaking of gaming, years of working in the business has given me an inordinate amount of Convention swag, printer samples, etc. I’m sitting on boxes of gaming material that I’ll never use, so I’m thinking of doing a major clearance. Putting it up on eBay would be a pain in the ass, so I’ll probably just do the social media thing — list it here and on Google+, point to it on Twitter and Facebook, etc. More of a “make me an offer and pay for the shipping” kinda thing, rather than any real attempt to price them. Keep your eyes peeled.

Third: As I mentioned over on Twitter, between now and the end of August, I’ve got a LOT to do. Finish up ICONS TEAM-UP and get it released, complete the FAR WEST Adventure Game manuscript and send it off to backers for a once-over, attend GenCon as a Guest of Honor, then afterward go over the backer’s commentary on the manuscript, then do the final layout and send the PDF to backers and the printer, and send the BUCKAROO BANZAI manuscript to the licensor for approvals by the end of the month.

So yeah. Pretty much 7-day weeks for me for a while. Too much stuff happening, too many things gone wrong, and so everything bottlenecks. High stress, but hopefully once we hit September/October, the major delays are over, and I can try my damnedest to not get into that sort of bind again.

…but let’s face it: I probably will. The problem with wanting to DO ALL THE THINGS comes down to there only being so many hours in a day, so many days in a week. I need to get that Threesday upgrade that puts an extra day between Tuesday and Wednesday.

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