Rhonda Jane Rainbow is ... Mortimer!

[tirinian]

Hah. I'm very pleased that I can still read my gms' minds. Tuesday night, I had a dream about my star wars run (except for some reason it was being run by the Oath gms), in which we fought our way through a battle station, and then at the end, we were being all triumphant, until someone blew up the clone vats. Lo-and-behold, wednesday night's run happens, and we fight our way through the enemy's base on the bad-guy-planet, and get to the end and are all triumphant, until someone blows up the clone vats. :-)

Other gaming news: I have a skeleton army in D&D, which is pretty sweet. It slowed the fight down a bit more than it should have on tuesday, but hopefully we'll get better at that. Oath run saturday was pretty good about revealing plots-for-the-season, or at least dropping leads to them. We'll see how that goes. No conflux for ages, sigh. And the Comet run friday went fairly well, I think, but I have to remember not to split them up quite so thoroughly in the future.

Other social news: Dinner with the instrumentologist's mob at Redbones on thursday, and stopped by to visit him at his hotel wednesday night after star wars, too. After the dinner, he came back and saw the new house, and then hung out for a bit. kelkyag came over later to try to catch him, and didn't quite, but made us cookies. Lunch with a friend from high school on Saturday, which made me a bit late to the Oath run, but not too much. Post-oath dinner plan was hanging out at Kye's place, which I found more pleasant than Uno's, really. And a phone call to jdbakermn after that, which was good, 'cause I hadn't talked to him in ages. Today was a massage for tenore this evening, but otherwise a failure to catch up on any of the three things (work/comet/vatican) I'm behind on and should have caught up on.

Review: Freakonomics, by Levitt and Dubner. I wasn't so impressed by this one. It's a fast read, and kind of fun. But for all it talks a lot about how it's relying on data-mining to figure out the answers to weird questions, a large portion of the answers it comes up with still seem either anecdotal, or randomly speculative given a percieved corrolation to me. It's clearly the watered-down-for-public-consumption version, so maybe if you go read the academic papers it's actually based on, there's more substance to it. But I'm unlikely to go do that, and the book itself only lives 6 days of game, before being killed by an unaborted-criminal.

I haven't started anything else yet, so I'll probably pick up Harry Potter tomorrow, and make that the next book I read. I wonder how long it'll take me. :-)

Comments

[mijven.livejournal.com]

Yeah! We didn't much like Freakonomics either. :S

But actually I was posting to ask why you didn't utilize your prognostication powers since well, you probably paid points for them and everything?