Varia

[caramida]

Thanks all for the bindery suggestions. Looks like I'll be hitting Pettingell's on Bancroft shortly after payday with a copy of Dogs in the Vineyard in hand. We'll see how that goes, I'll keep those interested up to date.• • •Happy Birthday steluch, welcome to the dark side.• • •I've been meaning to write up my impressions of Kublacon, but I've not yet taken the time to do so. We'll see if I can get around to that before the memories fade too much.• • •Watched the new Battlestar Galactica episode "Flesh & Blood". I almost wish I'd seen the episode again before I played the Captain of the Geminon Traveler in dancingshaman's LARP, "Wandering Traveler". Not that I would have done a lot differently, I suppose, but it would have been a better fix of the character in my mind.• • •Ok... back to work. Looks like Drunken Fish for lunch today, yummy.• • •Oh... and secret project, about which I will not speak to y'all until it's done? Proceeding apace. ;-)• • •ETA: Today is the anniversary of that dark day when Genseric (and some friends) sacked Rome.

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[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

Have you played DitV? I picked it up, and I don't believe either of my regular groups is interested, and it looked like fun.

[dicedork.livejournal.com]

Secwet pwoject....

I can't believe it's you.

I never knew it was TwUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh secewet pwoject....

[name-redacted.livejournal.com]

Interesting factoids about the Vandal sack of Rome:

1. At that time, Rome was no longer the political capital of the empire (or of the Western Empire) - in the 3rd century, Theodosius I had moved the capital to Milan (closer to the frontiers, since his presence was required to command Rome's armies), and in AD402 Honorius moved it to Ravenna. Rome still, however, was the spiritual and cultural heart of the empire, not to mention full of fat loot.

2. The Vandals were Christians at the time they sacked Rome, having converted some 50 years earlier, albeit adherents of Arianism, rather than Roman Catholicism.