Archive for March, 2009

So, you may or may not have noticed from my recent comments that I was mentioned recently on the Cannon Puncture podcast, for which I have Judd Karlman to thank (thanks, Judd). Specifically, my post about the Reputation Economy was briefly discussed with a little agreement and disagreement, though the discussion itself wasn’t all that… »

Spring Break was so nice last week that I’m sorta regretting being back in class this week. It doesn’t help that I can’t seem to properly wrap my head around cost curves. We’ve been having some unseasonably warm weather for the last few days which have settled back down into a normal springtime range today…. »

This week is spring break at the college which makes it a little weird. It means that I don’t have class this week so I’m working fewer days and studying less. Which actually means I’m spending a fair amount of time goofing off. Monday, I finished reading Old Man’s War by John Scalzi which was… »

In the not too distant future the Reputation Economy will take a greater hold in the production of intellectual property and, when that happens, patronage will return in a big way. So, what the hell am I talking about? File sharing, intellectual property, creative ownership, the internet, and patronage are the topics currently entangled in… »

Today I ran the third session of Brave New World, my current M&M campaign. Things went a little off the rails today. We started out nice and slow with the wrap-up from last session and the players taking the lead on things. They wanted to deal with the repercussions of Blackguard being back in the… »

Yesterday I ran the second session of Brave New World, my Mutants & Masterminds game set in Rockford, IL after something ‘very bad’ has happened to Chicago. The basic upshot of the session was: I need to keep working on my ability to judge how difficult super-villain threats will be for the team. Two weeks… »