It is so simple, I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me. You can use greenstuff to make molds for shaping greenstuff.

GREEN STUFF CASTING, SECRET OF THE PROS

Ahhh, Drunk Dwarves are funny.

Saint Demiana, the chaste and fighter virgin. If that doesn’t qualify as a Sister of Battle inspiration link, then I don’t know what.

God, I’m such a geek.

Mayne Thiele, a professional miniature painter (it’s amazing to me that this exists, but cool) has a nice tips & tricks page on his website.

Games Workshop has a really nice Working With Green Stuff tutorial.

Green stuff, by the way, is actually Kneadatite, which is also known as Sculptors Epoxy Putty. It’s the standard material for doing “conversions” of miniatures. Which is cool. I think my favorite tip in the GW tutorial is the making purity seals page.

What Makes People Gay?

I know it matters, I guess. If we really know the answer, then a lot of people on one side or another will have to shut up, largely. And probably it will be nice to have the little extra peace and quiet.

But on the other hand, isn’t the real question whether or not people are allowed to do what they want to do, no matter the root cause? I mean, I want to be married to my wife, not because I feel like I have to be married, but because I want to be with her at the exclusion of any other possible options.

I don’t even really care about being married, per se. I mean, it’s nice and all. The small celebration we had for family and friends was lovely, and it was a nice ceremony. But being married is really secondary–even tertiary–to being able to live with her the way that makes us happy.

Which ends up being the point for me with any “gay” issue. The real issue is whether or not in the 21st Century people really have the freedom to do what they want to do (assuming an ethic of social responsibility, i.e. that your actions don’t do some sort of measurable harm to others).

spelling mistakes cost lives.

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For my Warhammer Army, total fluff. Utterly geeky. Move along, lest ye be blinded by my proclivities.

From: Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and Totalitarianism

“This he compares to the Latin motto noted by Goethe in Dichtung und Wahrheit, “nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse”—only a god can oppose a god.”

Tertullian: De praescriptione haereticorum (On the prescription of heretics).

Heresy has the following characteristics:

* Heresy, he proclaimed, like persecution, tests men’s faith.(2.8,3.6,4.5)
* It was predicted by Christ, and condemned by Paul, who uttered a warning against philosophy and vain deceits.(4.1ff, 6.1ff)
* It is caused by boundless and unfettered curiosity.(8.1ff)
* The heretic, therefore, can be easily discovered: since he seeks endlessly without ever finding, he must always try to doubt the ‘regula fidei’ which genuine Christians believe without question.(12.5f)

Tertullian’s argument relies on two texts and a definition: ’seek and you will find’ (Mt. 7.7), ‘Your faith has saved you’ (Lk. 18.42) and that ‘faith’ by definition means ‘faith in something’, and hence involves assent to a credal formula. Since the heretic still seeks, he cannot have found; since he has not found, he cannot believe; and if he does not believe, he is no Christian.(14.10)

From Latin Quotes, Latin Phrases, Latin Mottos and Latin Quotations at Yuni.com:

Auribus teneo lupum - I hold a wolf by the ears. (I am in a dangerous situation and dare not let go.) (Terence)

Aut vincere aut mori - Either conquer or die
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Dragon Forge Design has a decent tutorial called Welcome to Base Work 101 which explains how to make high quality figure bases

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

Congratulations! If your mission in life
is not already to preserve the English tongue,
it should be. You can smell a grammatical
inaccuracy from fifty yards. Your speech is
revered by the underlings, though some may
blaspheme and call you a snob. They’re just
jealous. Go out there and change the world.

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Masami Teraoka’s Art Theatre is totally gorgeous, terrifying and hilarious. The work references well known paintings (Botticelli’s Venus) or styles (Medieval Tryptichs) and incorporates modern body horror/splatter/S&M characters.

Apple released Java 1.5/5.0 (whatever) a while ago, but curiously if you install it you’ll find that java & javac are still the 1.4.2 versions.

huh. It turns out that you need to read the Java 5.0 - The Missing Installation Instructions over at the JavaRanch Big Moose Saloon.

Silly Apple!

If you can decipher Gieskes.nl, does it mean you can understand it? He has the craziest blog software in the world, either that or he spends a lot of time assembling posts made up of gifs of individual letters.

Judging from the
music instruments he invents, maybe he does just sit around making posts of individual pictures of letters.

Yikes!

CraftRobo is, if I understand this right, an inkjet that also has a paper cutter in it, so it cuts out the shape of what you print.

That is so money. Unfortunately, the currency is Yen only at the moment.

Brushthralls.com has a proverbial boatload of miniature gaming tutorials, from using basic tools and techniques (like priming, pinning, glazes, washes, etc.), in depth specific tutorials (e.g. how to shade a cape, or paint realistic metals), to modeling tips and very in-depth articles on how to paint specific miniatures (geared towards Warmachine, I think).

Tons of photos, very clear explanations. Fantastic. They use Vallejo paints tho, so… well, I don’t really know what difference that makes anyway.

stephane.info’s Wargaming section has a number of articles about the Warhammer hobby that seem to be pretty fair (but critical) looks at games workshop.