Fantasy Art & Writing: Vintagefan’s Blog

I decided to look around the blogosphere a bit before going to bed… still waiting on that disk restore (long time to go yet). While doing so, I found the blog of another aspiring fantasy writer/artist, Vintagefan (on wordpress). I really liked this image on her blog and thought I’d share it with you. Go check out her other stuff if you’re so inclined.

 Good night, All,

~Adaen

Struggling with Computer Crash

Greetings,

 For those of you  who are wondering as to the scarcity of posts, etc. over the last couple of weeks, I have recently suffered a computer failure. Yes, my beloved, high-end Dell XPS for which I paid way too much has failed me…..resulting in some data-loss. I am now in the painful process of attempting to restore data from my 2nd internal drive to an external drive.  This is a slow process.

At this point, I’d like to thank the Dell Corporation for all the hours I’ve spent on HOLD for Technical Support….only to be told to bring it to Best Buy for a half-assed backup. Thanks Michael….your guys really shined that day. I spent a lot of money for an XPS because I like to be on hold. If anyone reads the customer surveys, they’ll hear all about it….hell, I may wait on hold again just to tell a Manager (not a supervisor….a manager).

 I had given the Geek Squad at Best Buy a chance at it, but they’ve dropped the ball. Though they were able to restore a bunch of stuff….mostly unimportant, replaceable stuff, they did not seem to restore the “shared files” section of the drive very well (including many family pics). I’m a bit pissed about the crap job they did (considering that they had the drive for like 10 days)….I will be complaining LOUDLY tomorrow on my lunch break. I had paid them to give me the dump of everything so that I could sort it out at my leisure, but it seems I have to do it all anyway. 

I’ve procured a program called Handy Restore…..it seems to be working well. I’ll update this post as to the results. Wish me luck…..oh, and if anyone has any insight into any of this, I’d love to hear. AND, I promise to bring you all back to your regularly scheduled gaming blog ASAP…..mmmm, yeah…..I’ll go ahead and do that.

 Best,

~Adaen of Bridgewater, High Adventure Games

High Adventure Games: The HAG’s Blog Anniversary Passeth

Greetings All,

Though High Adventure Games has been on the web in some form or other for many years, for most of that time, its been pretty half-assed (I’ve got to be honest here). That being said, I feel that the current site is coming along nicely.

Back in Jan 2006, I remarked that I wasn’t sure I’d like this whole Blogging thing. I’m happy to report that I do enjoy it, though I still stuggle to devote as much time to it as I would like. 2007 is gearing up to be an exciting year for HAG:

• More Website/Blog Developments – Artwork, Reviews, etc.
• HAGIS is coming – I’m working on the reference document for publication on the site
• Aega Mythea development (using HAGIS as a base) continues…Updates will be more frequent….Look for some play test results before too long
• Shadows of Reality – well, Shadows has really been coming into its own. Doc Pazzazzu has been slaving over it and play tests have been very productive in refining the game. You’re likely to read more buzz on SoR very soon.

Thanks for reading. Be sure to drop us a line.

~Adaen of Bridgewater, High Adventure Games.

Bad News…for Battlestar Galactica

Tricia Helfer is in February’s Playboy (and looks mighty nice).

This means BSG will be cancelled for sure…

Reportedly, if they renew for Season 4, the studio is willing to make a for-DVD movie about the Pegasus after the fall of the Colonies. Gotta love Caine!

-Elric

I sit on Acid

Playing at the Cleveland Cinematheque this weekend…

From the Tsars to the Stars
THE AMPHIBIAN MAN
CHELOVEK-AMFIBIYA
USSR, 1962, Gennadi Kazansky, Vladimir Chebotarev
This hugely popular Soviet fantasy film (65 million admissions in 1962; the equivalent of 520 million 2006 U.S. boxoffice dollars) is an enchanting hybrid of The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Little Mermaid. It tells of a mutant with gills who rescues a beautiful fisherman’s daughter from sharks, falls in love with her, then desires to live on land. Shot in color in Cuba, the movie offers the disorienting spectacle of Russian actors in brownface amid lush tropical greenery and Latin songs and dances. Subtitles. 35mm. 95 min. www.seagullfilms.com

~Elric the Damned, HAG