On the importance of being human in Tunnels & Trolls.

Posted on March 26, 2012 by capheind

Stolen Shamelessly from my Gopherspace.

On the importance of being human in Tunnels & Trolls.
-Troy Truchon

Being a member of the Trollhalla elite (may you cower in my wake) I’ve been following the discussion regarding the viability of Humans as a kin in Tunnels and Trolls. Most of this discussion orbits the question, what can be done, short of attribute multipliers, to make humans more attractive than the other kindred. The implied reason for this discussion is that, as written, the rules allow members of other kindred to start out with at least a few particularly high abilities. I would argue that the practical upshots of being a human being in a world dominated by human beings are far greater than even the highest of ability scores.

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Running the AD&D Core Rules multi-media CD-Rom under Wine.

Posted on March 1, 2012 by capheind

Stolen Shamelessly from my Gopherspace. I’ll add images someday.

Running the AD&D Core Rules multi-media CD-Rom under Wine.
by. Troy Truchon

NOTE: For copyright reasons, and my own inability to pay for any lawsuits arising from such action I won’t be posting copies of anything actually contained on the disk here, or anywhere. Sorry. A little searching though would show that these files are readily available from those less concerned with copyright than I.

After finding my old copies of the AD&D windows 3.1 Core Rules CD-Rom, and having quite a bit of free time, I decided it wouldn’t hurt anything to start fiddling with it. After a rather large investment of time these are my findings, hopefully they will entertain or prove useful to someone other than myself.

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On the Wearing of a Fez in Decent Society.

Posted on March 1, 2012 by capheind

Copied without mercy from my gopherspace

On the Wearing of a Fez in Decent Society.
-Troy Truchon

Despite its lack of popularity outside of certain respectable fraternal orders, the Fez is a valid and vibrant piece of mens apparel. Though the Fez has taken on an image of orientalism, it deserves the same respect and popularity as other items of western head-ware. It is in the interest of encouraging the use of this garment, and the development of an industry to provide it that I will attempt to clear up some misconceptions about the fez.

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BookLog 2011.05.29 — Botany For Gardeners: Third Edition — Introduction to California Plant Life, Revised Edition

Posted on May 29, 2011 by capheind

Been a bit since I’ve posted anything here, luckily I can’t imagine I’d have “regulars” so I’m not in any way, shape, or form, worried about it. I’d imagine the only readers of this blog are those brought in by the occasional Google result. As my career/educational goals have moved from the technical to the botanical, so to has my preference in casual reading moved to more botanical horizons.

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BookLog 2010.04.14 — Bonk by Mary Roach — Hackmaster Basic from Kenzer and Co — Pathfinder by Paizo

Posted on April 14, 2010 by capheind

I’m simulcasting, so to speak, in HTML[1] and Gopher[2], when I find an elegant way to migrate over my old posts they will be available in my gopher servers archive [3].

I’ve always been very text oriented, in an era where people say “I don’t read.” as if silly pig-ignorance were a virtue it seems a task of herculean proportions just to get my text fix. Books are great, Commandline computer interfaces are efficient, and gopher is a clean way to deliver text in the style of books, as apposed to the more Magazine like format of the World Wide Web. Not that I have an inherent problem in the glitzy glamor of the WWW, just that I find the best format for the written word is, quite simply, the written word.

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BookLog 2010.03.29 — Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Posted on March 30, 2010 by capheind

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Well I finally finished this one, and I have to say I was still loving it to the very last word. Living in a nation that, more often than not, has seemed to turn its back on the sciences and any semblance of progress it’s quite the breath of fresh air to read a best-selling popular science text. Your Inner fish presents human evolution from fish to man in vivid, exciting, and down right alluring detail. This book really gets to the heart of what makes us so wonderfully, or sometimes woefully, complex. In fact in the course of reading this book I found out the convoluted reasons behind several medical issues in my own personal history.

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Stories of Yvonne

Posted on March 9, 2010 by capheind

After I’ve filled out all the applications I can usefully fill out, and I’ve uploaded all the resumes the internet seems willing to hold, and I’ve attended any interviews I managed to score, my brain needs a sanity pressure release. So far I’ve managed five unique, interesting, and all together buckwild paths to screaming lunacy prevention. As you can see in a previous post I’ve been reading, reading alot, and I’ll continue to post periodic book logs to spurn literary discussions with friends, I’ve also taken to the, hopefully surmountable, task of teaching myself the French Language, as well as getting a gym membership, both of which will lead towards the ultimate path of a killer resume and interview presence. The other two are just for giggles, and take the brunt of my frustrations far far away. Firstly I’ve nabbed a Retro Duo, which is letting me relive my childhood glory days vis-a-vis 8 bit and 16 bit Super Mario heroics, and the last is my acquaintance with old school role-playing.

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Flapjack Wiki Harbor

Posted on February 17, 2010 by capheind

Flapjack Wiki Harbor.

I don’t know why I love flapjack, but I do. possibly from the way he seems to go into orgasmic fits when someone says Adventure.

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BookLog 2010.02.17 — And another Thing… by Eoin Colfer — Red Land Black Land — Your Inner Fish

Posted on February 17, 2010 by capheind

And Another Thing… – Eoin Colfer –
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: 6of3.

I finally finished Eoin Colfers addition to Douglas Noah Adams semminal trilogy in three parts, and I have to say, I really liked it.

This text has received alot of harsh critisizm, and much of it seems to be not of the “I read this book and it was a pile of fetid dingo’s kidneys” type, but rather more the “I will never read this book, a Hitchhikers book by another author is a SIN AGAINST NATURE” type.

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Starting with Open Solaris

Posted on May 31, 2009 by capheind

(You can view a walk-through @ http://ttyshare.com/rec/capheind/71946042/)

Introduction

I met John Plocher at work quite a while ago. I genuinely liked the guy, and I was enamoured with his passionate dedication to what he did. John Plocher, if you didn’t know, is one of the software engineers at Sun behind OpenSolaris. He plays a major architectural role in guiding the overall vision, and system structure, behind OpenSolaris.

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