Kennith Hite is a genius

I know, old news. But let me highlight this line from his Suppressed Transmission exploring the mythical nature of Johnny Appleseed:

"The true democratic fruit," as Henry Ward Beecher called the apple, is, if you look at it correctly, an organic, self-evolving von Neumann machine that makes the liquid-metal Terminator look like a Ken doll.

That's just a thing of beauty.

Mad Gamer Dad Moment

We've been reading Dr. Suess to the wee one, including The Zax. One night while reading it I stopped, looked at Rachel and said "if this were a LARP it would take about 5 minutes for South Going to tell North Going to kneel down for a minute so he could step over him and they'd both be on their way, neither moving an inch to the west or the east. They would reach the far walls of the room and then expect the GM to give them their next problem after they effortlessly solved the one that was supposed to keep them occupied all night." 

Obviously I GM too much, but it's true: players seldom invest so much pig headed stubbornness into a means of solving a problem as they do the need to actually solve the problem. 

Important safety tip

Nauseated babies are not fun. This is all.