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Roleplaying

Lazyweb me a Lexicon (in Hebrew)

I promised Ziv I’d run a Lexicon game in Hebrew, which should open when his article on Lexicon games in the next issue of Aspamia shows up.

Now, I’m looking for good ideas for a subject/setting for the Lexicon. One thing very clear to me is that I want something that is uniquely Hebrew and Israeli; a Lexicon that couldn’t be played in English, because it reflects our culture rather than being translated in the participants heads to English/American and back. I’m striving for the level of cultural stickiness we had in the Navi Commission game, which basically outlined an occult secret history for modern Israel. Interestingly, it also avoided politics very consistently – there were entries on the army, and secret government operations, but because of the occult focus, the Arab-Israeli wars and the Palestinians were rarely mentioned, and if so it was in the background.

With the current situation, I think I want something even more escapist.

Categories
Blather

Friday Morning

This morning, I met a girl in a dream.

I was in a car-park, waiting or searching for someone else, but she was there, and we started talking (or maybe the dialogue was just taken as read) and it hurtled past friendly as wakefulness rushed upon me.

I knew before I woke up that I wouldn’t remember her face, if she even had one. But she was nice, and in that slice of dream in which she existed, she liked me.

Sleeping late on Friday morning. Recently, it’s becoming a new social highlight of my week.

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Comics short

Grant Morrison Video

Grant Morrison on Google Video, talking about magic and the rest; like the interviews, only with Scottish accent and beer.

Categories
Oddities

Your dad’s maiden name?

Israel sent me another web blooper, this time from the Bezeq site. This one is much better than the last one, which was just a typo. This one actually requires someone to have applied stupidity:
bezeq equality
When registering a user, the site asks you to choose a secret question to identify yourself (in case you forget your password), such as “in what country were you born?”, “what was the name of your high-school?”, and what was your father’s family name before he married?

I’ve never seen this, so I assume it’s part of a new user registration system implemented by Bezeq. I’m pretty fed up with how annoying things like mybills and the electric company’s site have become, so I’ve moved to paying all my utility bills by phone.

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Comics Science Fiction and Fantasy

Animated Film, Comic Interview

An interview in comic form with Richard Linklater, the director of A Scanner, darkly, a rotoscope “animated” film based on the Philip K. Dick novel.

I’ve recently been sticking my uncommented links in my antisocial bookmarking tool (it’s a social bookmarking tool, but with just one user!), but, well, no one reads that.