So yeah I was pulling an all nighter over at my friend Max's house as we are apt to doing, and we decided that this would be a good time for me to learn how to play the Shadowrun Tabletop system. The character creation system was a bit hard but once we got past that it was really fun. I may actually start playing Shadowrun as my main tabletop system.

I thought while I was setting up the twitter and identi.ca stuff I might as well add a facebook account for SU. You can follow it at facebook.com/sublogs

EcoFluxx was another game sent to me by Looney Labs. I quite enjoyed this nature themed version of Fluxx and am glad they sent it. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to play the first version of this game so I will not be able to point out the differences between the two.

One thing I quite enjoyed was that Looney Labs sent with it a promo postcard for the card "Recycling." Recycling is a new rule card that says "Once per turn you may discard a Keeper you have on the table and Draw 3 extra cards."

What's really nice is that Looney Labs is using a new system for their postcards that uses a peel off sheet that holds the card to the post card. This means the cards don't have those punch out edges any more and can actually be used in the game. Allison from Looney Labs recommended that you peel from the side and not the corner with the new postcards to prevent possible splitting.

So yeah twitterfeed wasn't working well so I switched to a new system. The good news is that the feeds are updated now whenever there is a new post without having to wait 30 minutes. Also under "My Account" and "Twitter Accounts" you will see an account called sublogs. Don't mess with it!

So apparently a school in Mississippi issued a memorandum stating that all couples at the prom must be of opposite gender. When a lesbian student spoke with the school's superintend to allow her to bring her girlfriend to the prom she was told she could be ejected from the prom.The ACLU and the student attempted to informally convince the school to change their stance. The school instead decided to cancel the prom.

I have always been a huge Aquarius fan so when I heard that Looney Labs was coming out with an updated version I was giddy with happiness. Looney Labs sent me a review copy of Aquarius but it got lost in the mail so they sent me another one. Luckily this time I received it.

For those who don't know Aquarius is a neat game that's sort like a hippie version of dominoes. Basically you have a secret goal that you try to keep people from knowing. This goal is one of five elements. Then you use the element cards that connect in various ways like dominoes to connect seven element cards together. The first person to get seven panels connected via their element wins. Some nice added fun and complexity is the action cards mixed in like "Zap a Card" that allows you to pick any element card off the table and put it into your hand. Or cards like shuffle goals that allow you to change someones goal. Let me tell you it really stinks when you get one turn away from making your seventh connection and someone plays "Trade Goals" on you.

Moving on to what makes this version better then the original version. The game is still pretty much the same basic premise, that have just added a couple of things that make it interesting. One great addition to the game is diagonal cards. In these cards the elements are split on the card in triangles instead of in squares. This adds new way to grow your connections.

I am happily listening to my DVD/CD from Serj Takian's Elect the Dead Symphony. For those that don't know Serj Tankian (singer for System of A Down) teamed up with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to do a concert. They also released a DVD/CD combo which I pre-ordered. I just received it and I freaking love it. I would highly recommend any Serj Tankian fans or just general music lovers to check it out.

I have added Identi.ca and Twitter accounts that people can follow. All blog entries will be posted to these accounts. The system updates the accounts every 30 minutes so it isn't instantaneous but within a half hour of your post being published it should be in the accounts.

I was having some issues with the new Drupal theme so I dropped into the Linux Outlaws IRC channel on Freenode. A user named mtah gave me a lot of help so I would like to give him thanks and also recommend his pretty cool looking site called Free as in Beard.

So yeah I decided to try out a new theme. I think this theme looks a bit cleaner and easier on the eyes. I have also removed the blogs list block for now. I may bring it back I'm just seeing how I like just having the tag cloud on the left.