Internal Monologue

According to the betters on Intrade (as of this post), Biden is most likely to be Obama's pick: Biden 78.8% Hillary Clinton 11.3% Chet Edwards (who is that?) 6.5% Evan Bayh 2.1% Tim Kaine 1.3% Wesley Clark 6.1% [bunch of others] Fluctuations have been quite dramatic. On the Republican side, top contenders include: Romney 56.0% Pawlenty 22.7% It's been a wild ride. Word is that Obama will announce tomorrow morning .

McCain deserves to be walloped for other things more. But I'll do my part to propagate this gaffe: McCain couldn't recall how many houses he and his wife own . The Democrats have chosen this blunder to pounce on. I'm glad they're attacking him, but it's sad that this is the sort of thing that seems to work. I think his confusion of Shia and Sunni is a lot more disqualifying. How can he brag about foreign policy cred when such a distinction was lost on him until Joe Lieberman whispered in his ear, multiple times? But I suppose a lot of Americans don't know the difference between Shia and Sunni, so perhaps they don't mind that McCain doesn't either. Though I don't see how that enters into it: There are a lot of things I don't know that I would expect a candidate for president to know. But most Americans do know how many homes they own. I, for example, am an American, and I am quite confident that I own zero homes. So the fact that McCain was una

Soon I will be doing a demo on this stage. Emotiv's podium is second from the right. Funny to be blogging pre-show jitters. What was once an intensely private experience can now be shared in almost real time. Here comes the future.

Just like the death of Momofuku Ando (the inventor of instant ramen), Michael Goldfarb's gratuitous and weirdly out-of-place disparagement of the " Dungeons & Dragons crowd " has become a much bigger story than I thought it would. Sullivan links to Ta-Nehisi Coates : It's amazing to me that this dude [Goldfarb] didn't know that a lot of military cats play D&D. I would estimate my old guild in WOW (Gnomeland Security for the win!) was about ten percent military. On another note,you like that Tucker's Kobolds reference, don't you. Once again to quote Ghostface--My remarkable armor is supreme. Who links to Hilzoy and Robert Mackey at The Huffington Post : Well, as anyone with half a brain should know, not all D&D players live in their parents' basement. Some live upstairs. And others, the vast majority of them, became doctors, lawyers, excelled in business, the arts, and even politics. And a more than a few of them put on the uniform

Anyone who's read people arguing about the merits of a gaming system on an Internet message board will get a kick out of this : Posted: 12:15 a.m. by LordOrcus I'm so mad that there's a new edition of The Better Joy Cookbook out. Thanks for making my old copy obsolete, you greedy hacks! For five years now, my friends have been coming over for my eggplant Parmesan, and now I'm never going to be able serve it again unless I shell out 35 bucks for the latest version. Posted: 12:42 a.m. by Kathraxis Hey, I have a question! When you preheat the oven, can you start it before you measure out the ingredients, or do you have to do it afterward? Please answer quickly, my friends and I have been arguing about it for four hours and we're getting pretty hungry. Posted: 12:48 a.m. by Goku1440 I found an awesome loophole ! On page 242 it says "Add oregano to taste!" It doesn't say how much oregano, or what sort of taste! You can add as much oregano as you w

For those of you curious about the True Dungeon event at GenCon, here's a Wired article about it.

A big "fuck you" to from Internal Monologue to the McCain campaign: Michael Goldfarb, posting on McCain's website , has decided that "Dungeons & Dragons" is a fair term of abuse to use against Obama supporters: It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others. John McCain has often said he witnessed a thousand acts of bravery while he was imprisoned, and though not every one has been submitted into the public record, they are remembered by the men who were there (one such only recently reported by Karl Rove though it escaped mention in any of Senator McCain's books). But as Swindle said, this is a "desperate group of people trying to make something out of nothing." Emphasis added. What an insult. The day aft