Today, Paramount re-releases the Star Trek: The Next Generation Series on DVD as part of TNG’s 20th anniversary. While I’ve considered buying the series in the past, this (plus the price coming down) is what finally convinced me to order it. Depending on how quick Amazon’s free shipping option is, it should arrive sometime over the next couple weeks.

Would anybody be interested in a weekly viewing of TNG at our house? I guess this would be the first step in my goal of at some point running a complete (and I mean complete) Star Trek TUB.

For those of you interested in learning more about the rules of Magic, I wrote today’s Ask the Judge: Feature Friday column at Star City Games.

class Child : public Pete, public Jessi {};<br /> Child* baby = new(jessi.womb) Child(); //TODO: rename

I just needed to link to this.

Star Trek: the Next Generation, the 4 minute version.

It’s amazing how fast technology progresses, that now it’s just assumed by everybody that everybody has a cell phone.

Today I finally got a chance to check out the completely-redone Charlton Public Library. It’s quite impressive. One interesting note is that due to their snazzy new computer system (they finally have a web-based catalog), they no longer accepted my library card that I got when I was 8. The card has a little metal plate in it that they would stamp onto a due-date card somehow, back in the day. It feels like it’s some sort of rare collector’s item now or something.

GCS d s:+ a– C+++$ U P L+ E+(++) W++$ N++ o+ K w+++$ !O M@ !V PS– PE++ Y PGP t+ 5+ !X R@ tv– b DI+ D G e+++ h— r+++ y+++

Successfully made it to Baltimore. Will be judging Nationals this weekend. There will be coverage at http://www.magicthegathering.com if you want to see all the goings on here.

(posted via PDA)

Jessi is officially on the Dreamblade Championship invitation list with 1177 points and being ranked #321 in the world.

Wizards will in fact be flying me out there to judge, and will be paying for my half of our hotel room. I’ll be working on Thursday (Aug. 16) at the Last Chance Qualifiers, and Saturday and Sunday (Aug. 18–20) on the main event. I have Friday (Aug. 17) free to go see Gen Con. I’m not quite sure what to do that day, since there seem to be a bazillion things going on there.

So I went to check my stats for Refuse Your Mail and yesterday instead of my usual 1–5 visits I got 84. (I’ve also received quite a bit today so far.) It looks like somebody linked to me from somewhere else and I got a ton of traffic.

The movement is growing…