Mark Rosewater on creativity.

I've been reading Magic: the Gathering articles, particularly Monday's design column and Friday's development column, for a couple years now. The process of creating Magic fascinates me.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mr273

Today, Mark Rosewater posted a column that isn't about Magic: the Gathering at all (or at least not any more about Magic than it is about throwing baby showers.) It's about the concept "creative" and what it means to be creative. It's an interesting read.

Rabbit Agility

My mother sent me a video link this morning of... rabbit agility!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9OXATfF0o

On a more impressive level (but admittedly not rabbits) I offer a link to a canine agility video below. It has a few great blooper moments -- particularly the Pomeranian who isn't heavy enough to make the teeter totter go down and doesn't know what to do about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hHx_D2TIWQ

In order to find the video above, I did in fact surf YouTube, and I can never again use that for "I Never Ever." As the shrimp says in Finding Nemo, "I am ashamed." (sniff)

Finally interested in things.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present... a profile with actual user interests.

I make no promises of keeping it up to date, but there it is.

ToME -- Narthanc!

For anyone who appreciates this....

I'm running a death mold mimic on ToME. (See http://www.t-o-m-e.net for more information.) I found a giant freakin' maze vault with undiggable walls in Mirkwood 21. Being a death mold mimic, I dropped my mimicry and teleported right in.

Thus far, I've pulled three artifacts out of this vault. Two of them are random two-handed swords (Alagdrog, Egrothel) and one is... Narthanc. I'm also hauling something like 8 excellent items, and, since I worship Eru Ilvatar, I have a book of Listen to the Music, and I'm IDing everything in sight. (Since I worship Eru Ilvatar, I also can't use Narthanc very well, but... it's Narthanc!)

I have one point in Mindcraft, so I can see Saruman of Many Colors from here, and I'm staying away from him. It's getting really dangerous in here, and I'm going to break and run with the loot soon.

Squee! Narthanc!
http://wiki.t-o-m-e.net/Spoilers_2fArtifacts_2fDagger_20_27Narthanc_27

ToME and overconfidence.

( Yup. But it was worth it. )