The BayCon membership...

[gridlore]

...goes to murphymom. Thanks for the great ideas, everyone, but I was subtly reminded by my lovely and heavily armed wife that the MiL hasn't been to a con in years, and could use the break.

Here's my new bio:

Douglas Berry is many things, some of which are actually legal. A veteran of the US Army, cancer survivor, and proud member of the blue-collar end of the professional world, Doug is perhaps best known for his fairly disturbing obsession with penguins. After getting his start in SF by stealing books from his brother, Doug was introduced to role-playing games in 1977 with Traveller. He's never looked back. He is the author of At Close Quarters (with James Lindsay) and GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces. Over the years, Doug has contributed to many other books, most recently GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars. Currently, Doug is working on The Concordat, a hard science setting for GURPS.

When not writing or scrambling to put food on the table, Doug lives in San Jose with Kirsten, his wife of 15 years, and horde of stuffed animals. He lists "baseball" as his religious preference and enjoys impersonating Pope Innocent III. He can be recognized by the battered SF Giants cap and ever-present can of Coke. It is recommend that you do not mention Game 6 of the 2002 World Series around him.

Critiques welcome.

Comments

[kshandra]

Two minor edits, noted in italics:

When not writing or scrambling to put food on the table, Doug lives in San Jose with Kirsten, his wife of 15 years, and their horde of stuffed animals.

It is recommended that you do not mention Game 6 of the 2002 World Series around him.

I love my mother.

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

And she loves you - both of you, actually.

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

I love it

[thingunderthest.livejournal.com]

What is wrong with Game 6 of the 2002 World Series ?

[kshandra]

I'm SO glad you asked that while I wasn't home to deal with the fallout....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_World_Series

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

What, you don't like me stumbling around with a bottle of JD, cursing Dusty Baker's gonads and occasionally screaming "eight freaking outs!" I think I'm charming when I get that way. :)

I'll switch things up. "Why couldn't McCovey hit the ball a foot higher?!?" "Why couldn't Cruz catch the damn ball?" "Start Reuter, not BFI!"

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

At the start of the 7th Inning, the Giants had a 5-0 lead.

The final was Angels 6, Giants 5.

http://gridlore.livejournal.com/144715.html

All because Dusty Baker pulled Russ Ortiz. Let Ortiz pitch out of the jam, and we win the Series.

[thingunderthest.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, my bad.

I don't follow football.

;)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Please step to the left of the icon, and hold this:



up to your chest.

Thank your for you cooperation. Please accept our complimentary gift of 5.56mm ball ammo which will be delivered at 910 meters/second.

[thingunderthest.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I have been told I should try and keep down my intake of high velocity metals.

Oh, do you like hot peppers?
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/pepper_component_hot_enough_to_trigger_suicide_in_prostate_cancer_cells_10215.html

And,

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/search_and_destroy_molecule_targets_cancer_10214.html

They had an article in yesterday that was good too
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/blind_mice_no_more_10210.html

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I'd read about ARC and the nano nerve repair, but that capsican article was new to me. Very interesting, and a good excuse to eat more salsa!

[thingunderthest.livejournal.com]

A round of medicinal nachos!