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How To Start a Graduate School Essay?

?Do you commence with a story? ?Do you begin with a reflection on the focus of your forthcoming graduate studies? ?Do you start at the beginning? And where exactly is that? If you want your graduate essay to grab the attention of the graduate admission representative, then keep reading this article… The graduate admissions committee is looking for a snapshot of you – ?Where you've been, ?Where you want to go, and ?what you w… Continue

Added by Maria Pittman on November 19, 2009 at 10:37pm — 1 Comment

Riff trax anyone?

I've been on an MST3K kick lately as they just added a bunch of them onto Netflix instant play. Saw online that Michael J Nelson does "riff trax" for movies through some website now. Look like there is a small charge per movie to download. has anyone heard any of these? thoughts? Continue

Added by mrmontie on October 14, 2009 at 8:49pm — 3 Comments

Back from RinCon, alive

Much to write about, but not right now. Just touching base. Continue

Added by Berin Kinsman on October 12, 2009 at 7:52pm — 9 Comments

Once more, I do crime

Last Saturday I started in a Hollow Earth Expedition campaign, that really isn't a HEX campaign but is more of a spy game using the Ubiquity system. It's set in Greece in 1945. The player characters are smugglers turned partisans turned spies, still smuggling but now working against the Communist ex-partisans organizing in Albania looking to take out the Greek monarchy and establish Greece as a Socialist state. It helps that the GM is a PhD candidate in History. I did not create this character… Continue

Added by Berin Kinsman on September 30, 2009 at 10:21am — 1 Comment

Projects...

Ok... so I'm bogged down a bit with Hallucinating Sunshine (the next story I've planned for Silver Agents:2112), the WIP is at a momentary standstill and have started just moving some flash fiction around (pieces of 1000 words) in my head just to keep the juices flowing, so to speak. As I'm writing these pieces of flash, they seem to be taking on a life of their own and have created a sense of something greater in these glimpses. Let me know what you think. http://geweller-fiction.blogspot.c… Continue

Added by Gary Weller on September 27, 2009 at 10:58pm — No Comments

State of Berin -update

Short version, for those not in the loop: As of this writing, leaving for Albuquerque in the morning. Will be crashing with Cameron. Thanks, bro! Will update Twitter and Facebook via phone to let everyone know I arrived okay. Ning's post-by-phone still doesn't work for me for whatever reason. Will probably not be online much in the coming week as I focus on new plan for work domination. Best way to reach me is via text, or a Twitter direct message which goes to my phone as a text. I've got… Continue

Added by Berin Kinsman on September 20, 2009 at 12:47am — 14 Comments

robot chip for advertising

We need some sort of advanced advertising protocols in place. Pandora isnt working on my laptop with firefox all of the sudden. probably something to do with a recent update. So I'm using the terrible and evil Internet Explorer. Evidently they have some sort of annoying popup banners that flank both sides of the song thats currently playing. I know they have to pay for their license and whatnot. But I does rankle me when I get bombarded with ads for services I already subscribe to, like Netflix… Continue

Added by mrmontie on September 18, 2009 at 1:04am — 2 Comments

for you Losties...

I've met 3 cast members so far this year. Two of them in the last two days. Makes me vaguely wish I watched the show. Jeff Fahey was the first. At the time I didn't even know he was on the show since I stopped watching at the end of season 2. Yesterday was Naveen Andrews and today was Michael Emerson. All three very nice guys. Continue

Added by mrmontie on September 10, 2009 at 9:22pm — 2 Comments

damn shoes

So after what, a month? I finally got a pair of shoes that might work. Two returns to zappos and what do I do? Go back to the very first store at the mall that I tried. Just had to lower my standards quite a bit and now I'm the proud owner of something that could use way less fashion bullshit. We'll see how this goes. No more shoe shopping online unless I'm familiar with the style. Continue

Added by mrmontie on September 10, 2009 at 8:56pm — No Comments

Rolpunk

The uncensored version. Contains bad words. rolpunk.pdf Continue

Added by Berin Kinsman on September 9, 2009 at 11:50am — 5 Comments

Hell's Kitchen: the Animated Series

Wrote about this at UncleBear.com, will be running it at RinCon. Player characters are cartoon characters, competing in Ramsay's kitchen. Other cartoon characters are dining there. Mayhem and swearing ensues. The character sheet/cheat sheet I put together is attached. The Primetime Adventures system absolutely rocks for stuff like this. hk_tas_s… Continue

Added by Berin Kinsman on September 7, 2009 at 12:13am — No Comments

I'm back

I have been told that there are people that have been asking where I have been so here is a little something to say I have gotten on. I have been strugling to get on the internet frequently and when I do get on my time can be somewhat limitted so if anything just send word through to dad and it'll get to me. Continue

Added by Black Spartan on September 5, 2009 at 8:39am — 3 Comments

I will be AFK 2PP for half of September.

Don't send out a search party. I'm not lost, just visiting in-laws. Should be back around Sep 21. Continue

Added by Deidzoeb on September 4, 2009 at 6:45am — No Comments

Rule Zero, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Board Game

A while back, I was commiserating with one of the other denizens around here about how the daily grind can get pretty tiresome. The Dire King provided some sage words of advice, of which, I'm paraphrasing. "Have something fun to look forward to at the end of the day. That's why Friday's are great since most people have something fun to look forward to during the evening or weekend." Now I've applied this pearl of wisdom to ward off the enervating effects of working at the salt mines. I get to d… Continue

Added by Bill V on September 4, 2009 at 1:25am — 1 Comment

Sand-Rail Continuum

A sandbox setting can be described as one where the player-characters can go and do whatever pleases them--or at least attempt to do so--rather than following a plot. A railroad campaign can be described as one where the player-characters follow the dictates of the plot, and have freedom only within its confines. We can thus place Railroad (all story, no roaming) on one end of a scale, and place Sandbox (all roaming, no story) on the opposite side. I posit that these are not binary opposites,… Continue

Added by Sir Golgotha, KEoPS on August 28, 2009 at 11:49am — 4 Comments

the life

I really shouldnt complain. so for once I wont. Rough cut pipe tobacco, local brewed beer, a balcony with a nice breeze from the tradewinds on a tropical island. Music. being left the hell alone by the womenfolk since she has a buddy in town. No work tomorrow. Not a bad night all things considered. Continue

Added by mrmontie on August 28, 2009 at 3:04am — No Comments

Don't panic.

BerinKinsman.com / direking.wordpress.com is getting a co-host. Do not read anything into it. Viri Cordova is a friend of similar age and experience to me, going through similar things and pursuing similar goals. She runs an RPG blog, and was talking to me about doing a non-rpg blog about food and life and such, similar to what I'm doing in that space. So I invited her in as co-host. She's Kelly to my Regis. Continue

Added by Berin Kinsman on August 24, 2009 at 10:35pm — 4 Comments

US retail... obviously not designed for me.

potentially long and fairly pointless rant to follow: I finally sold my SUV thats been sitting with family in Phoenix after a year of living in Hawaii. This is great, though as I'm sure all of you can relate, the jubilation is limited as all of the money has already been spoken for. One item on the list, Daddy actually does need a new pair of shoes. Daddy has needed them for at least 6 months now but couldn't afford them. My mom bought me a pair of Sketchers back when I lived in Tucson (must b… Continue

Added by mrmontie on August 19, 2009 at 8:21pm — 2 Comments

Plans, schemes, woolgathering

Since I can rely on my Dire Paladins to just let me ramble while I gather my thoughts, and y'all will give me honest feedback. UncleBear.com isn't meeting my needs, but I don't want to give up the brand equity. I'm starting a small press publishing company, to publish my own stuff. I don't want to use UncleBear as the brand, because there is a stigma to bloggers selling stuff for money. It's a perception thing. Starting a new company, with a new website, rebrands. One of many reasons I took To… Continue

Added by Berin Kinsman on August 15, 2009 at 11:18pm — 8 Comments

easily fascinated by agriculture

Let it be noted that I grew up in a desert. I was born on what used to be a tobacco farm in NC, but I was quickly transported to Saudi Arabia where I spent my formative years. things didn't grow unless you had "sweet sand" and even then it was only the gruffer stuff. (sweet sand was some sort of chemically treated sand that I'm sure had no side effects whatsoever.) A new farmers market opened here in Honolulu last month and the gf went to see how it was. For some reason she is into mint these… Continue

Added by mrmontie on August 15, 2009 at 9:15pm — 2 Comments