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Re: Super Bowl Recipe: Stuffed Mini Peppers

Daniel M Perez — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:19:37 -0000

Here's a simple hack for those little peppers:
Fill them with about a teaspoon of white miso paste each, and grill them to a nice charred/caramelized finish. They are amazingly delicious as a side dish. About 3 or 4 is enough, or the saltiness of the miso overwhelms your palate. Good cold the next day as part of your bento lunch.

Re: Poly And Religion: Poly And Jewish

Daniel M Perez — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:29:37 -0000

Very interesting post. I'm passing it around to some friends to open up a good conversation. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Kicking and Starting

Daniel M Perez — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:40:17 -0000

What constitutes a "group project?" Is that custom adventure? If so, you're potentially giving away too many at lower levels, meaning you'll have more work and make the higher levels less attractive.

The $5 level is fine. The $10 is ok too but if the above is correct I'd take out the group project. Start at 1 bonus scenario at $25 then add 1 per level above that.

Custom d6s are cheap only if you buy like 200 or so up front. Chessex does them the cheapest in terms of cost and they look nice. Email them, they reply quickly.

I would try to think of anything school related that you can brand/tie-in, cause that's what's gonna make this special. Like, how awesome would a School Daze TrapperKeeper be! Think along those lines.

Ultimately keep the scope of your project in mind. A thousand bucks can be reached in no time, and then what? I would look at the Kickstarters from Machine Age Productions for ideas on lower-end projects (forget about your Dos and Technoirs, they are anomalies).

Hope this helps.

Re: School Daze Near-Final Document

Daniel M Perez — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:29:52 -0000

Read through the playtest document. Pretty nifty! And simple, too, which I like. Good luck on this development. I'll be keeping an eye out as it moves along.

Re: WSVN-TV - Bus, Fed Ex truck collide, several injured

Daniel M Perez — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:26:11 -0000

I was on that bus, but thankfully I was uninjured. It was crazy. People literally flew inside the bus.

Re: Game Night Blog Carnival: Martian Dice

Daniel M Perez — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:48:27 -0000

I love Martian Dice. Definitely one of the best things I picked up at Gen Con.

The Michael Bay. Nice. I'm joinking that.

Re: Daniel Solis: Character Sheet for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

Daniel M Perez — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:23:39 -0000

It's both a promise and a map. ;-)
http://www.dmperez.com/2011...

Re: http://blog.untappd.com/post/3326733092

Daniel M Perez — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:46:51 -0000

Brew Traveler and Trappist Travesty sound like two badges I'm gonna enjoy unlocking! Thanks.

Re: University should take advantage of social media outlets

Daniel M Perez — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:07:04 -0000

Where are your labs?

Re: University should take advantage of social media outlets

Daniel M Perez — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:26:51 -0000

Too bad there's no written account of the lecture in any form. It is something that also needs to be considered and talked about.

Re: University should take advantage of social media outlets

Daniel M Perez — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:24:43 -0000

If someone says "FIU is a piece of shit university" I don't have a problem; it's an opinion, people have them, and hey, it's still a mention. If someone deliberately starts cursing with the hashtag attached, then yeah, that's an issue. I understand it's a problem, and it either keeps the idea from being used, or is ignored on the hopes that people will behave. I expect the former.

Even so, the idea could be implemented at times for special events. At some point we'll have to accept that people say shit and fuck all the time around us anyway, so we focus on the positive and the improvement and let the crap sink to the bottom naturally (pun, well, not sure if intended or not, but it works).

Re: University should take advantage of social media outlets

Daniel M Perez — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:04:27 -0000

I've seen this used also at conventions. Works great. Let's abscond one of the plethora of flatscreens at GC and have it continually show the #FIU Twitter hashtag.

Re: University should take advantage of social media outlets

Daniel M Perez — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:03:01 -0000

I see Jorge's point but I also see Betsy's.
Late last year, when I was getting ready to start again at FIU, there was just a tiny SM presence. I was astounded that @FIUconnection actually was manned and helped me in some ways (thanks @mherzber). Cut to today: We now have a full-time Social Media staff for the university, one that has been using the tools and knows them well. Let's give her some time; she is, after all, fighting that bugbear we call bureaucracy.

Do I want the FIU social media presence to be more than what it is right now? You betcha. But it takes time. I actually like what Betsy has been doing so far. Is it entirely to my liking? No, but I am one of thousands. There are those who do value that kind of "banal" engagement as valid interactions. Is there room for growth and development? Absolutely, and I think Betsy will be the first to state that.

There's a laundry list of things I want to see FIU do with social media (#1. Get every school an official Twitter channel for their students - hear that, FIU Nursing?). Betsy is one, but she's the one at the top of the food chain. Her job will get easier if we student users continue to promote and challenge our own use of social media. Which is precisely what we do, and this article is a good example of that as well.

Let's be fair and give Betsy a year, at least, to get settled in and implement ideas and practices. Let's also keep her and the university informed and accountable about what we want out of FIU's social media.

I guess my (long-winded) point is: this is just the start.

Re: Dwimmermount's Cover | None | Rogue Games

Daniel M Perez — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:57:37 -0000

Nice. Could you talk about the reasons why this cover in particular was chosen?

Re: Reimagining ourselves…

Daniel M Perez — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:09:54 -0000

Robert: Awesome. Keep rocking for 500 more!

Michael: But I like the original Buffy movie.

Re: http://betsy-pr.tumblr.com/post/1368626789

Daniel M Perez — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:08:54 -0000

Allow me to get a bit philosophical here:
I wonder if there's a generation disconnect. The game is being marketed to your age group (as evidenced by the people shown), but my impression has always been that one of the most numerous markets for this game is people my age, late 20s to mid-30s. Furthermore, while I think your generation is perfectly fine with mingling and mixing, I think you are more comfortable doing it in an online/non-physical way, whereas my generation is far more comfortable (perhaps a bit too much sometimes) with physical-based mingling.

It might also be that you, as a person as well as a part of your specific social cohort, do not respond well to that level of physical intimacy where there is a trespassing of boundaries, thus it is registered as uncomfortable by your brain.

Just yappin'.

Re: http://betsy-pr.tumblr.com/post/1368626789

Daniel M Perez — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:51:26 -0000

It's not spit, she's blowing her freckles onto the other girl. The campaign is Mix 2gether - the kids are shown mixing themselves up: the tattoo gets moved from his arm to her stomach; her bracers move to his teeth as they kiss; the earring becomes a lip ring; the girls exchange freckles - it's all about mixing things up, with the closing image being that of the two kids playing having mixed their bodies around.

I actually thought it was a very original ad. It took the slogan and made it a clever reality that still managed to transmit the message of the product, not *just* be memorable for the sake of being memorable.

Re: GenCon 2010: Sell Outs, Sickness and Overwhelmed | None | Rogue Games

Daniel M Perez — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:48:18 -0000

It was a great, great show. :-)

Re: A Dutchman In New York

Daniel M Perez — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:13:21 -0000

I'll keep that in mind. :-)

Re: #BikeAMS

Daniel M Perez — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:48:05 -0000

The wait was well worth it, those photos are amazing.
You know, I'm Jewish, so the whole Christmas thing is not for me, but having been to Paris in 05, and seeing your very first photo, I stand by my opinion that Europe does the Christmas decorations so beautifully. So understated yet uplifting. Over here we get large and gaudy.

Re: A Dutchman In New York

Daniel M Perez — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:44:35 -0000

Now we gotta get you to Miami. Maybe in May, when we (hopefully) bring Copenhagenize over. ;-)

Re: A Dutchman In New York

Daniel M Perez — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0000

Very neat; short and to the point. It's good to see the city from an outsider's point of view, especially one that comes from such a bike-friendly place. It helps to highlight both the good and the places where growth is still needed. Nice pics as well.

Re: Conference Of Eight

Daniel M Perez — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:38:30 -0000

It's all of a master plan to get me so melancholic I end up bicycling across the water up to Amsterdam, right? ;-)

Re: Conference Of Eight

Daniel M Perez — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:12:02 -0000

Wow, that looked like fun.
Now I am so wishing I could be in Amsterdam. Looking at the streets made me remember my time there and sigh. :-)

Re: The Search For Camilla

Daniel M Perez — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:44:14 -0000

The weight would be a deterrent here, where aluminum and carbon reign supreme. :-)
Maybe down the line I'll install a wheel lock on my bike (and get coat guards with holes for it).