David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

D&D Podcasts D&D FOR THE HOLIDAYS By Bart Carroll, Shelly Mazzanoble, Trevor Kidd – 15/12/2014

This is likely the best episode yet–actually helpful design tips, laugh out loud moments, and just a great playful episode. Most importantly we get an update on Shelly‘s Mom playing Card’s Against Humanity–this game needs to be live streamed next time! The only complaint I have here is that the theme song intro seems to…
Massimo Vignelli

To fight and oppose trivia, kitsch and all forms of subculture which are visually polluting our world.
Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow

So Kate Bush is doing very well in the Performance of the Year (Decade?) category, so I decided to go back and give her last record a listen. The fact that she has returned to the stage after 35 years is obviously a huge big deal, but the question to me is does she have…
Gamer to Gamer – Jeremy Crawford

James Introcaso continues his amazing work on the Tome Show with this fantastic interview with Jeremy Crawford as part of his Gamer to Gamer series, but unlike the others in that series this is more of a review of the DMG. It is very well produced, amazingly easy to listen to, and very informative. My favorite part is…
Gygax Memorial Update

Brian is home for the holidays & found the following articlewhich includes a picture of the proposed memorial
Infusion Day

Jack & I went to CHOC for his penultimate infusion, but he had the flu so we had to reschedule.
Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies

The Battle of Five Armies was a battle waged between the Goblins and the Wargs against Men of Dale, Elves, Dwarves, Eagles and a Shape-shifter on and near the Lonely Mountain. I love the above quote taken from the OneRing wiki because it identifies so much of the confusion around the current film. In the…
Abazan For Life
Tuesday Before Winter Break

Another great Tuesday morning of Magic! Team Schwarm was exhausted after a long night at Disneyland–but were stoked that Preston, Andrew, Matt, & Derek came to enjoy donuts & sling some spells. Jack was playing very well–he is started to bore of magic & we may need to hit a tournament some time soon. Preston…
Freeman Dyson, physicist (b. 1923)

I believe that life can go on forever. It takes a million years to evolve a new species, ten million for a new genus, one hundred million for a class, a billion for a phylum — and that’s usually as far as your imagination goes. In a billion years, it seems, intelligent life might be…