David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

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Hordes, Hoards, Herders, and Whores

Recap This week at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, the Game Show continues to battle down the hall to rescue kidnapped villagers. He encounters a behir that mostly wrecks the party (which had been split in half–we added a third table this week). Garner the Wheelchair-bound was paralyzed and killed, by some crazed psychic grell–horrible.…
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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality Jaron Lanier

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier My rating: 1 of 5 stars This was a tough read for me. Lanier is a personal hero–my 2024 resolutions (code, film, jazz) were taken from his talks. This book is trash. He is self-serving, name-dropping, and sees himself as the…
Two of Pentacles

On the Two of Pentacles tarot card, a man standing by the waves of the sea, deftly juggling two pentacles that represent juggling different situations in life (for example, work and home). It is about choices and priorities. You might feel as if you don’t have the heart to choose one thing over the other. You might…
Phish @ Sphere

Part of the agenda was to find the best Del Taco between Woodbridge and Las Vegas. We tried Baker (closed), Barstow (closed), and Hesperia. The answer is the Woodbridge Del Taco!
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Hypallage, Handicaps, and Happy Birthdays

Recap This week at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, the Game Show celebrates Glenn’s birthday with pizza, cake, and killing–we continue the slaughter of an evil undead dwarven cult in the Crypt of Talhund. Defeating a mummy and collecting a shield guardian. We return to Phandelver to learn the shard’s evil corruption has spread &…