Holy Crap Friday

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Feb 192010
 

So, it’s Friday, and I don’t have a food post for you. Once I do, it’ll be about The Banana Bread I Grew Up On. Promise.

Today, I’ve taken some painkillers, so I have very little to say that doesn’t dissolve into a suffusion of yellow.

I’ve got some interesting things to say about how a distributor totally backed me up earlier this week — without me being a client (at least not yet).  That, maybe Monday.

But it’s Friday, so I’ll just leave you with this:

Steve Kenson.

Fate-inspired supers.

On preorder.

Holy crap!

ICONS.

Kenson talking about ICONS.

The preorder.

The forum thread.

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Phat Tuesday

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Feb 172010
 

Yesterday was Fat Tuesday, so naturally we dove into a pancake dinner. Good times.  We aren’t much for plain pancakes around here — I’m all about the chocolate chip, my wife’s into the banana and/or chocolate chip variety.

Naturally we are right-thinking people and build this around Alton Brown’s Buttermilk Pancake recipe, found over yonder at the Food TV site.  I grew up on the Bisquick variety, so the conversion to this one is extra-welcome, and definitely worth the very minor extra steps (composing your own mix, acquiring buttermilk, separating the eggs).

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Chicken Lazone

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Feb 152010
 

I’m going to try to talk food three times this week.  It’s going to be light on words, unless there’s a recipe for me to offer in-post, but hey, you’ve got some eating to do.

First up is my new favorite dinner. It is not healthy, but it is good: Chicken Lazone.

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It’s Game Theory

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Feb 122010
 

What it all comes down to is what Russell Crowe as John Nash was on about in A Beautiful Mind.  Watch this clip — it’ll only take a few minutes — then come back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ywiYboCLk

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This Time It’s Personal

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Feb 102010
 

This is nominally the next part in my rambling about the elements of community building.  This time I’d like to talk about the value of the personal connection.

The good news here is that I’m not suggesting that you, the community “organizer”, are obligated to make a personal and direct connection with each and every member of your community.  In fact, if your community is active and thriving, you can’t.  (Not strictly true — in some circumstances, you could, but it would be a full-time activity and that’s all you’d be doing. So for our discussion’s purposes, we’ll call that close enough to “can’t” for the assertion to stand.)

The trick, inasmuch as there’s a trick, is to engage in behaviors that makes it seem like you’re making that personal connection anyway.

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