It's cold
today. Inside I mean. When it's really hot outside it seems that our
building air conditioners work full-time and make it colder than
normal. I think it's because some temperature thermometers are more
affected by the heat, so while we're freezing here the thermometers are
actually at their normal temperatures.
We hired a new person who started at the beginning of the month. Her
name is Imju Byon and she's working under Sonali. Imju is from another
Oracle group and I guess that's why we hired her as a Senior Developer.
I didn't interview her so I don't know much about her other than her
résumé. When Sonali introduced Imju to me, she was very
quiet.
Back at home the neighbor's kid is really loud. Screams all the time.
Actually I get the feeling he only screams when he wants something,
which is pretty much all the time. They're these short high-pitched
screams at cut off as soon as his demands are met. I get the feeling
that kid is going to grow up quite spoiled. Even worse than RJ.
I decided that I should try to attend more ebMUG meetings. Haven't gone
in a few months because of basketball. But the meetings are only once a
month so I can skip basketball to go to a meeting. It turns out that I
need to drop off the gaming stuff at Donald's place so it's a good
thing I'm going to Berkeley Thursday night. Of course if I was playing
basketball with Woo I could just give him the gaming stuff.
So I'm not gaming this weekend because I'm going home this weekend due
to scheduling conflicts. Apparently we're not supposed to celebrate
Mom's birthday early. It's bad luck -- so says Dad. Hmm, I don't
remember this Chinese tradition but I guess it hasn't ever come up.
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I mentioned
this a couple of days ago, but I still want to run another GURPS
campaign. It's probably because I haven't run much BattleTech. I think
a Deadlands campaign would be good. It has lots of support and lots of
premade adventures so it would theoretically be less work for me.
Although in practice it can be a lot of work. Still, if I'm willing to
run multi-session adventures it wouldn't be that much extra work,
especially if I alternate with Eric.
Got a few more pages of the GURPS rules read. I still have almost 200
pages left to read. With the new edition of GURPS I'm going to try to
read each release as it comes out. Exceptions will be supplements to
older lines, like Traveller and Transhuman Space, though I think
Traveller is the only major line still active. Transhuman Space and
World War II are done except maybe as e23 PDF releases.
Speaking of PDFs, e23 might change my stance on PDFs and I might start
buying GURPS related PDFs. I don't know yet since I haven't seen the
quality of e23 materials. My general stance has always been "if a
company doesn't want to put the money and resources into actually
printing books then it's not worth buying." That will increasingly come
under fire because of Print on Demand and really quality official PDFs.
There's Pyramid Online which has a lot of material. Hero Systems also
has a bunch of stuff on PDF (mostly their Digital Hero magazine and an
adventure or two). Definitely if it's print vs PDF I'll get the print
version. For PDFs it should depend on quality. If a company puts in
resources even though no printing costs, perhaps that is a good enough
indication.
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