Category Archives: BabaYaga DimSum

Zombies!

Got this from Jim Hay of ConDor Con fame. The creators of The Walking Dead will be giving you a chance to see how you would do in the zombie apocalypse this Judy 12 – 14. Petco Park, across from Comic-Con will be “infested with zombies where you will climb, crawl, hide and slide yourContinue reading “Zombies!”

Condorcon 2012 Delivers

Condorcon 2012 was awesome this year. Met a lot of great authors and artists, including the lovely Kat Rocha (wife of Josh Finney) of 01 Publishing; Alicia Hollinger, Liliana Atanasio, and Tom Kirkbride, creator of the Gamadin sagas. Played a little Dungeons & Dragons with @securesandiego (aka Ron Simmons) and his awesomely wild brood. WorkshoppedContinue reading “Condorcon 2012 Delivers”

A New (Old) Take on the Hobbit

With the Hobbit movie due to come out this summer, I received a link to a story about the original animated version from Gerry Williams, sci-fi movie enthusiast and proprietor of San Diego Vintage Sci-fi Films–and I don’t mean the 1977 cartoon with Orson Bean. The story is quite fascinating and the man named GeneContinue reading “A New (Old) Take on the Hobbit”

To Calculate the Edges of a Polyhedral

I’m sure this math is trivial to most statisticians, physicists and mathematicians, but some friends and I determined how to calculate the edges of any 3 dimensional polyhedral. We used my AD&D dice to verify. (E * F) /2 where E = the number of edges on a single face of the shape, and FContinue reading “To Calculate the Edges of a Polyhedral”

A Legend Makes His Way Beyond the Prime Material Plane

Gary Gygax passes away at 69: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html Gary Gygax was a major influence for why I learned to read. When I was in the 6th grade, I stood in a bookstore staring at a strange book entitled “Monster Manual”. I picked it up and the first monster I turned to was the Trapper, with aContinue reading “A Legend Makes His Way Beyond the Prime Material Plane”