How To Change A Diaper by Kennedy Smith (reprise)

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* Editor’s Note:

In light of the recent editorial takeover, I have chosen to repost this classic from waaay back in aught-six. Take away what you will.

                      - Teague

I have been changing diapers for just over nine months. And like so many, I’m sure in the years to come I will have achieved an unappreciated master status, of sorts, in the day-to-day battles against the devious dirty diaper. I remember those carefree days with so much free time to sit around with video games, D+D, WoW, EVE, and the like. Now, at least for the mean time, those days are diminished.

However, for those of you in my storm battered boat, I’ve come to impart my accumulated knowledge and strategy for dealing with the beastie little diapers. I must begin by saying, know your enemy! Diapers, in fact , have a deadly attack if unheeded, but are quite low in hit points and can be mastered with proper resources and planning. Here is a picture of a particularly nasty, snarling creature I recently dispatched

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be on the lookout for those thieves at SFSignal.com, by Ada C. Morris

Filed Under Edward Norton, Dwarves, Elves, Earl B Morris, Ender, Escape, F. Paul Wilson, Ellie, Enterprise, Dunkin' Donuts, Dunkin', engrish, Dungeons & Dragons | 3 Comments

Hello and I know many of you are wondering what has happened to your beloved Earl whom you love so much and who is so smart and beautiful and I am, sad to tell you that Earl has unfortunately become extremely sick, although the doctor says that even though he hasn’t seen a case of scurvy in so many years (since school!!) he expects to be able to treat my Earl without to much difficulties.

So while my Earl is in the hospice fending off the advances of women who wear white dresses and are no better than they ought to be, I promised Earl that I would speak with all of you. I am Ada Morris, Earl’s great Aunt, although you can call me Grannu.

Although Earl says he speaks about me often to you nice people out there on your computer-machines, hooked up to small televisions and talking to each other with typing over phone lines, Earl says that he does not often tell you any details about me, which I think I will do now since we cannot be friends until we have made bonds.

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A Foray Into The Seedy Underbelly Of Second Life by Earl B Morris

Filed Under BBT Magazine, WoW, Geeks, Filk, Filking, Earl B Morris, Web 2.0, Throwing Screwy Pills In The Bathtub, Zombies, Nerds, Tron, second life, mmorpg, Dungeons & Dragons, From The Desk Of Earl B Morris | 4 Comments

 

After reading Ariesgeeks latest web-blogger of futuristic ponderings about world of the computer attached to the WWW (World Wide Internet), specifically the use of graphic representations of the self called “avatars,” with which one may communicate to other people in US and Canada, I found myself inspired to give it a go. The software he was promoting was called Second Life, by Mattel I believe, and has proven very popular among the In Crowd for the past several months.

I’m no stranger to the WWW myself, so after drawing my great aunt a sitz bath, and putting Frederick, our little Cairn Terrier in the garage to urinate, I sat down and began to research the Second Life. I found a large community of people had web-bloggers of their own regarding this phenomenon, and one in particular attracted my interest – a review of Houses of Ill Repute that are available in the virtual arena. It seems that even here we are not immune to the influence of the seedy underbelly of humanity.

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The Deconstructionist: Welcome to Geekworld

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  Please keep your overly-pronounced opinions about 4th edition inside the car at all times

Earlier this week I posted a link in the forums that led to an article in the Tampa Bay Herald about grown men who play Dungeons and Dragons. I found the link on the enworld.org discussion boards where the comments revealed two attitudes: one, relief that the article wasn’t wholly damning of gaming culture, and two, that gaming culture is even newsworthy anymore. 

Most of the folks who registered surprise at the fair treatment of gamers in the press are probably older. I remember a day when all it took as someone to murder a cat and leave it where the police to find it and the newspapers would be ablaze with the terms ‘gaming cult’ and ‘Satanist-linked game, ‘Dungeons and Dragons’—even if the guy who killed the cat had been playing GURPS, or Paranoia, or Apple Panic when the idea to murder a cat came to him.

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