By Its Cover

I have often admired narcissime's method of organizing his bookshelves not by subject or title or author, but by color, a system that renders his bookshelves beautiful yet largely useless.


What if you organized a whole bookstore that way?

(McSweeney's explains.)

My Mom Says I'm Cool

Fun planning session tonight for Dungeon Majesty with bryant, peaseblossom, jeffwik, and mgrasso. Planning sessions are always fun with this group, actually. (By "this group" I mean the whole extended group—you know who you are—not just the five of us that happened to be there.) Maybe we should hang out more without necessarily gaming. Or without gaming but with a point-form agenda. And double strength Canadian beer. No no no, I'm actually really looking forward to the game.

I should say, tonight was fun until Bryant made Jeff cry by calling him a spotlight hog and then made me cry by saying I didn't post to The 20' By 20' Room enough. Actually, I said that I didn't post to 20'x20' enough, but Bryant agreed really quickly and vehemently. He's a big meanie. :) And then we had the Forge pro/con discussion that, Jeff helpfully pointed out, we've had a hundred times before.

So I did a quick scan of 20'x20's one year history to see how badly I suck. The answer is: pretty badly, though not more than anyone other than Bryant and Ginger by any great orders of magnitude. I've posted ten times to the Room. My rough count says Bryant has done about 85 posts, and Ginger about 40. (nb: Bryant is crazy.) Neel and Jim are each around 20, Emily and Jere 14 or 15, the three new guys and somebody named "the Ghoul" have 2 or 3, Ryan has 1, and there are four or five members who have never posted. But I give myself extra points for naming the room, for making long meaty posts, for commenting all the time, for the really long post about Mountain Witch on the Forge, and for the six or seven unfinished posts I have on my hard drive. They're awesome.

Edit: Make that eleven times. Shame is a great motivator.