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Things to do on a rainy day
- Listen
- Cup of tea
- Explore Wikipedia
- Try to read and end up reading 10 pages of a dozen different books
- Have a normal day
- Realize it’s June and that’s just how the Valley in Oregon can be
- Pull out all my Magic cards and make a fucking mess while I build silly decks
Movies (and TV)
- Little Man Tate
- Secret of Kells (the best piece of animation since the Thief and the Cobbler)
- Nausicaa (with Mononoke-hime as a close second of Ghibli’s films)
- Dead Man
- The Prestiege
- Sleeper
- Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation
- Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
- Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
- Dr. Katz
- Arrested Development
- Pushing Daises
- Extreme Couponing
Books (and authors)
- Little Nemo, Winsor McCay is a God
- Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi
- Marvin Minsky
- Richard Feynman
- Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore (Fluke was great too!)
- Mark Twain
Games
- Chrono Trigger
- Pokemon
- Mario Kart
- Starcraft
- Bit-Trip
- Soul Calibur 2
- Star Wars: Episode 1 Pod Racer
- Mario 3, Super Mario World, Yoshi’s Island, Super Mario Galaxy
Albums
- Anything by the Black Keys
- Vrioon and Insen by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai
- The Moon and Antactica by Modest Mouse
- Moondagger by Deastro
- Live at Sin-é by Jeff Buckley
Fetish
My new fetish is Saudi women eating spaghetti.
Link Dump Thursday
Gamer’s Mom talks about Day[9]’s heartfelt biographical daily 100
Esquire Magazine’s federal balance article
Article on the use of tabernanthe iboga in drug addiction
Tainted Kiln Strobe
Forgive the obvious deck name but I haven’t had a cool idea to name it yet. My brother showed me a combo that I couldn’t pass up, especially because I love playing peasant/ pauper. Also the mana curve is quite nice because there are only 12-14 cards with >1 casting costing!!, and only 2 are not creatures. So if you haven’t figured out from the deck name this is how it works.
Turn 1: Land + Panic Spellbomb
Turn 2: Land + Kiln Fiend (or Plated Geopede)
Turn 3: Land (if it’s Smoldering Spire ignore the creature contain) + Assault Strobe + Tainted Strike + (Vendetta, Stabbing Pain) + activate Panic Spellbomb
If all goes according to plan and then have >3 creatures you can tie up or kill them and have a 7/2 kiln fiend (or 5/3 plated geopede) with double striking + infect. And even if your combo doesn’t go off the mere speed of the deck should win. Obviously blue gives us the most trouble, and I still don’t have a good answer to it. Combos are fun but mostly what I love is how cheap this deck is. The most expensive cards in the deck are B/R dual lands then Exsanguinate.
Eric Joisel died on October 10th. The art world has been enlightened and saddened by the living and passing of this man.
US Decides Genes Aren't Patentable
First case of gene patenting (in the US?) was after Exxon-Valdez for a microbe that aiding with bioremediation.
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The Black Keys - Act Nice and Gentle
Some of my favourite signs from the Rally to Restore Sanity. Mostly from Flickr.
