Unqualified Offerings

Because I have become the Firefly/Serenity obsessive people warned me against. What can I say in my defense? Mrs Offering is worse! Anyway, first with the links:
Nate reviews the movie with spoilers toward the end. Gary Farber starts with Neil Gaiman and ends with Joss Whedon and Roger Ebert. From him I find the Firefly [...]

An author named Katherine Ellison has discovered splatter-animation site Happy Tree Friends and informs the readers of the Washington Post today. Perversely, her goal does not seem to be to bring the site tens of thousands of new visitors – the likely outcome of her article – but to warn that it’s a Very Bad [...]

Who got the idea that “Rupture” would be a good name for a kids’ bicycle? Did they get paid that day?

The Pentagon’s version of the Ramadi bombing defies belief on its face. I pass over a lot of civilian casualty stories because, while I’m sure there are civilian casualties, there are going to be times when interested parties claim that fighters were really innocent, and the issue from our distance is undecideable. But . . [...]

Trying to go not just wireless but MIMO at Unqualified HQ. Alas, while I can log into my new NetgearWPN802 over an ethernet cable, it times out on me when I try to set it to use DHCP. After that I can only log in with a hard reset.
So blogging was light last night. Over [...]

Looks like the Iraqi Constitution is going to pass. Hopefully people will be able to read it soon too. After that the Iraqi Hamilton, Madison and Jay can write pithy essays about why people should (have) vote(d) for it. At the very end of the process the first colonist touches ground on the shores of [...]

No, not by me – by the background players of the show. Deadwood Blog is the new group blog of the show’s background players.
We hope to post about what’s happening around Melody Ranch, players’ talents, additional gigs, character games, etc… As well, if you have a question that we can help find an answer [...]

For consideration, a recent passage by Norman Spinrad. I found it when I went looking for an online version of his “rubber science” essay. (This guy refers to it but seems like a real jerk.) Anyway . . .
Deeper even than the scientific method is the conviction that reality has a knowable nature, that [...]

I’ll be hanging around CapClave this weekend in Silver Spring. Give me a holler if you will be too.

But Mrs. O broke out our new Firefly DVD boxed set. I figured I’d watch two hours worth. Instead I sat through the whole first disk. Cool! It’s like, among other things, the best Traveller campaign ever. I would even swear there’s a blatant and conscious allusion to the game early in the first episode, [...]