Robin D. Laws

Robin D. Laws writes insightful stuff about RPG. He also does cartoons and blogs. Bah! Click on the cartoon to see the punchline.

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest:

You have to invent the caption for the cartoon.

Why do I always get stuck next to the guy who wants to talk about his new Prius?

Highlight the text above to see my entry (sorry feed readers, you can probably see it already).

Animal Battle

Read about it at the beeb.

Barry Bonds #756

Amateur video from the bleachers as Barry beats the record. It is very loud so watch out. You only need to watch the first 45 seconds or so. Yeah, he is a cheat, but he's, er, our cheat, or something.

"Set I.T. Managers Free" an Intel rock video

Directed by Christopher Guest. There's another one here.

Harry Potter Amazon.com packaging

A good web comic

There are lots of comics on the web, but mostly they are crap. Apart from Dilbert and Doonesbury the only comic I read is xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. It is clever, but unlike a lot of web stuff it is also funny.

Bah! the image doesn't fit, you'll just have to click to see the punchline.

How to build a Cathedral, part 6

The wood structure is now complete. Some glass panels have arrived at the site, so soon there will be glass as well as wood.

The workers are spending a lot of time at the top of the building. They are working on the metal rails that run along the outside of the top of the cathedral. They clip themselves to a line which runs parallel to the plank, and walk fearlessly across.

Here we can see the wood laminate skin that covers the structural support for the organ pipes. The skin provides structural support, so this is a monocoque structure.

White Stripes beat the Fire Engines

In the post punk era there were a bunch of good bands from Scotland. I liked the Fire Engines a lot and once bonded over them with a cute girl from St Albans. They were famous for playing 15 minute sets. In general I think short sets are a great idea. When I rule the world, support acts will be limited to 20 minutes each.

On their tour of Canada the White Stripes are playing secret short shows in places like youth clubs. You can watch the shows on YouTube but they are all being filmed for a dvd so you could just wait. With time running out they wanted to play in every province and territory in Canada and the result was this short set that they played in St Johns, Newfoundland. The crowd knew what was happening which is why they aren't throwing things.