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Re: Where Have All the Manly Journalists Gone?

waderockett — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:32:36 -0000

Of the journalists listed in the first sentence, Ernest Hemingway was a leftist; Jack London was a member of the Socialist Party of America, and ran twice for mayor of Oakland as a socialist; and Christopher Hitchens was a Marxist for most of his life.

Re: Magic: The Gathering creator to crowd-fund mobile game

waderockett — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:51:39 -0000

Thanks for writing about the project, Frank! A quick update: there’s been a flurry of activity over the past couple of days as Richard’s fans and collaboraters have come out of the woodwork to offer more rewards to backers in order to get the project over the top. Magic: the Gathering artists Mark Poole and Randy Gallegos are providing new art and autographed books, respectively; award-winning fantasy cartographer Jonathan Roberts will do custom fantasy maps top-tier patrons' own neighborhoods; and nerdcore hip hop artists MC Frontalot and Baddd Spellah are offering to do remixes of the game soundtrack. It’s pretty great, and we hope the project gets the funding to do all of these things.

Re: Magic the Gathering creator goes to Kickstarter for mobile game

waderockett — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:32:01 -0000

Thanks for writing about the project! Richard's actually sweetened the pot more as various fans and collaborators have come out of the woodwork to offer more rewards to backers. MtG artists Mark Poole and Randy Gallegos are providing new art and autographed books, respectively; fantasy cartographer Jonathan Roberts will do custom maps for top-tier patrons; and MC Frontalot and Baddd Spellah are offering to do hip hop remixes of the game soundtrack. It's pretty great, and we hope the project gets the funding to do all of these things.

Re: The Next Big Deal

waderockett — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:43:55 -0000

Excellent! I look forward to the book and the series.

Re: Gamerati User Accounts

waderockett — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:02:49 -0000

Agreed - much respect for thinking this through so thoroughly, and keeping user security front and center.

Re: Robin D. Laws: Vampire Disappoints Area Man

waderockett — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:31:53 -0000

Heh. I remember being shocked when Famous Monsters gave the 1976 King Kong a bad review, realizing only then that they _never_ said anything negative about a movie.

Re: Does Spotify sharing on Facebook change what you listen to?

waderockett — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:13:54 -0000

To set the bar up front I made sure that my first publicly shared song was Miley Cyrus' "Party In The USA". But as much as I'd like to think sharing won't affect what I listen to on Spotify, when I queued up the early Madness album One Step Beyond... this morning, I had the thought that it would look like a really cool choice on Facebook.

Re: SXSW: Perspectives on Social and Cooperative Games

waderockett — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:48:41 -0000

That's interesting! The first thing that pops into my head is a console RPG for the Xbox 360 with Kinect, or the Wii, that incorporates real exercise but provides the epic gameplay of, say, Dragon Age.

Re: Clearwire targets Internet addicted Gen Y with Rover 4G service

waderockett — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:22:46 -0000

The marketing reminds me of Virgin Mobile's pay-as-you-go service. My first cell phone was from Virgin, and it was pretty irritating to be talked to like a teenager in emails and on the website. But the service was right for my needs at the time.

I'm imagining an exhibitor going to an event like PAX or SXSW with their own mobile hotspot, spending $20 for a week of access and not having to rely on overloaded WiFi in convention centers. (Or overpriced WiFi in hotel rooms.) That'd be pretty neat.

Re: Microsoft's Xbox 360 'bribery' makes journalists squirm

waderockett — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:31:39 -0000

Hmm. So in that scenario, if you violate the code of ethics, your journalism license is revoked and you can't write about current events anymore? That would be a really interesting world.

Re: I'm about to delete my Facebook profile, but I have one important question and a rant - Blog - baratunde.com

waderockett — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:15:14 -0000

Yeah, surely there are a significant chunk of people you're connected with who will help you out by defriending you -- it might make your task easier. Crowdsource your defriending!

Re: Look at me!

waderockett — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:30:54 -0000

w00t!

Re: I'm quoted in the MSP Business Journal today

waderockett — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:00:04 -0000

I heard there was a guy in a Google t-shirt at Blog World Expo who asked the same question at every panel: is online interaction replacing face-to-face human relationships? My experience, and your example, suggest that social networks enable those real-life friendships -- maybe similar to the way fraternal organizations did for earlier generations? Not an exact parallel by any means, but maybe they serve similar functions.

Re: The Repetition of The Blogosphere

waderockett — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:08:32 -0000

I hear you. Using social media to talk about social media is beginning to feel like going to a party and spending all night talking about how parties work. Geez, tell a joke or dance or something!

Re: A Twiddiots Guide to the Bible

waderockett — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:22:07 -0000

Well done.

Re ChrisMtP's comment and your response, I read "fear" as "awe". Sometimes in life (if you're lucky) you find yourself confronted with something huge and magnificent and powerful and unknowable and completely outside of your sphere of influence. That experience causes you to feel a kind of healthy fear - a shock as you realize that your human perspective can't encompass everything.

One time I was at Sea World, watching the killer whales through a window set below the water line in their pool. Suddenly one of them swam right up to the window; and an animal that seconds before had looked like a toy became a *freaking giant whale* about six inches away from me. In that moment I feared it and loved it at the same time, for the same reasons.

Re: Some things to do and not do

waderockett — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:13:42 -0000

Hi Sean,

On the final Do, is "conversion" a typo for "conversation"? Or does "conversion" refer to organizational change?

Re: Too Much Nick

waderockett — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:40:40 -0000

Go, man, go!

Re: When not talking about Twitter, what do you do in life?

waderockett — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:36:06 -0000

I read books - my wife and I go to the library at least once a week. I watch television series through Netflix - we're currently following "Heroes" and "The Wire". I take pictures, and try to figure out how to become a better photographer - that is, how to create photos that do justice to the wonderful thing I'm seeing. I help out my wife with her career as an artist - this Saturday I'm helping her take some canvases downtown to hang in a new gallery. I worry about whether I'm a good friend, son, brother, and husband. I play with our cats.

Re: 10 Awesome Things About Dungeons & Dragons

waderockett — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:26:20 -0000

Coming home with a new book.

Blibdoolpoolp, naked lobster-headed goddess of the deep!

The Wand of Orcus.

Turning on one another halfway through the adventure.

(FYI, former Dragon magazine editor Wolfgang Baur recently started the Kobold Quarterly to fill the gap left by Dragon's passing.)

Re: Faith Under Fire

waderockett — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:38:38 -0000

Joel, whether that's problematic or not depends on what someone means by "the word of God." For example, the Psalms addressed to God, and the passages of Paul's that represent his thoughts and not official church teaching, could be viewed as the word of God in that they contain things that God wants us to know about Life, the Universe, and Everything. They aren't divine dictation, but they are a divine communication delivered to us through human agency. That's me own way of understanding the Bible as God's word, but there are many other ways of understanding it that run the gamut of belief and opinion.

Re: Temba, His Arms Wide

waderockett — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:54:37 -0000

"Tenser, Said The Tensor" is a commercial jingle from the science fiction novel The Demolished Man. The homicidal protagonist uses its insane catchiness as mental camouflage against telepathic police officers.