Confessions of a Game-Mistress

All right. I’ve been on the web a long time. I’ve seen lots of spam. Usenet spam, email spam, popup spam, even blog comment spam (and boy do I have to keep an eye on that one). But the latest round of BS I’m fighting is really aggravating me.

I’m talking about wiki spam. I woke up this morning to a ton of gibberish links plastered all over my wiki pages.

Do people really think anyone clicks on these things?!?

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I’m applying for a new tech-support supervisor position. Wish me luck.

Ah, the joys of a new edition of D&D. I now have to convert all my work on my campaign world into yet another new system. The crew voted to try 4e for the game since we’d all gotten early copies of the rules.

I’m trying for a ‘lower-drama’ version of my usual style. I usually wind up with world-shattering drama, this time, I’m trying for less of angst and more humor. Wish me luck, humor and the light touch are things that I need work on.

Aargh! Once again the internet puzzle game the Stone is eating my brain. My first infatuation began years ago, when the Stone was a puzzle game you purchased access to by buying a necklace at the Museum Company. I remember getting it not expecting much and being thrilled at the intellectual challenges the Stone puzzles were.

I lost my logon then, and for a while drifted away, coming back a few years ago for a while, before losing touch again.

This time when I went back, the Stone was no longer in the hands of its creators. Abject Modernity, the company behind the Stone, had shut down the site for good, but another had taken up the reins. It meant though, that all my progress was gone. Most of these puzzles I’d solved almost a decade ago. I had to refind the answers. THis is not as much of a hardship as you might think - they’re joys to solve and it was fun revisiting.

I still haven’t caught up to where I was in the Stone’s 216 puzzles, I’m only at 45, and I’d topped 100, I think. Still, it’s a welcome return to mental challenge. I’ve never found anything like the Stone, before or since. 

Now that the Stone’s no longer with Abject Modernity, there is no money required to play. Simply head to The Stone Unturned and sign up for an account and leap in. Once you’ve solved your first puzzle, you will receive a VIP code to allow you access to the member forums. The Stone’s devoted following has somewhat followed to the new site, and there are always people about ready to give a desperate Stoner a nudge in the right direction for the puzzles.