Fantastic Interview with Mila Kunis

So if your like me, I get a little tired of the rote interviews that are churned out on the movie promotional tour. Following the Monte Python axiom of "and now for something completely different" this young UK reporter has a good chat with Mila Kunis.

Gary Con V

We are going to be at Gary Con V this year! From March 14-17, we will be gaming, exhibiting and generally having fun. Come join us at the table, stop by our exhibition booth, meet us for a drink. And if you can't come, never fear. We will be updating regularly, including live feeds, blog posts, videos, tweets, pictures, contests, you name it. The Troll Lord himself will be running a game Friday night.  And Crusaders, including John Appel, Gerry Buldak, John Wright, Mark Martin will be running games and there will even be a C&C tournament! So comment down here and let us know if you are coming. Trollzah!

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Doctors In the Dark

As is usual with most things we are taught about early man, our understanding of the medieval period changes yet again. Apparently they weren't as ignorant as we thought and studied human anatomy even as we do now. A specimen, highlighted over at Live Science, shows all the signs of preservation and experimentation that  you would see from a more modern era.

Between their fine art in miniatures, the foods, architecture . . .  and their ability to ride horse and wear bad ass suits of armor, I'm beginning to think they were more advanced than ever we though.

Winged Beast

Birds Shouldn't Smoke

Birds actually breath differently than mammals. In mammals we have a diaphragm that pulls air into the lungs, we then expel it. Birds do not have a diaphragm, in order to breath they expand their chest, opening their air sacs which in turn fill with air; they must push the air out as well. Nor do birds have alveoli (small sacs in our lungs that get clogged with tar), but rather tubes in the long walls that take in the oxygen must faster (meaning smoking is much harder on birds).

This whole system is much more efficient than the mammal approach and its probably what killed them (the dinosaurs that is, them being birds) off after the meteor hit...not the fire ball, but the pollution (that is my surmise by the by).

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Dragonstooth Miniatures

Mars Landing

Astronomers have discovered a comet that is headed to Mars, or at least near Mars. The chunk of space ice is set to pass near to or into Mars in October 2014. The beast is anywhere from 5-30 miles in diameter and heading to within 25000-70000 miles of Mars. Its recent discovery has not given astronomers enough time to calculate its course accurately.

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Meanwhile this guy in Russia reacts to the meteor crashing into his city . . .

He puts his visor down.

Word of the Day -- Hiatus

Because of a recent knee injury, that's exactly what has happened to the word of the day.  But I'm doing better and the wotd should become more regular once again.  --TB

Hiatus is a break in or as if in a material object or a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ

an interruption in time or continuity : break; especially : a period when something (as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted b : the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound.  Basically though, we tend to use it as a gap in time, such as when something is missing.  Case in point, the Word of the Day.  Because I blew out my knee, the usual publishing of the word was gone, i.e. on hiatus.  

"Hiatus" comes from "hiare," a Latin verb meaning "to gape" or "to yawn," and first appeared in English in the middle of the 16th century. Originally, the word referred to a gap or opening in something, such as a cave opening in a cliff. In the 18th century, Laurence Sterne used the word humorously in his novel Tristram Shandy, writing of "the hiatus in Phutatorius's breeches." But as mentioned before, these days "hiatus" is usually used in a temporal sense to refer to a pause or interruption (as in a song), or a period during which an activity is temporarily suspended (such as a hiatus from teaching).

The Last Watch

The fire has dwindled to embers as the sun creeps over the horizon. Your comrades rest quietly; warm, wrapped in their thick, wool blankets, and dry as they sleep, laying on oil cloths. Sundry gear lays about the camp. Rising you stretch the cold out of your tired muscles and watch the yellow gold curtain rise, burning off the morning mist. The wilderness unfolds before you . . . and the hunt continues.

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