There’s a moment where a dice game aboard the haunted Flying Dutchman determines the fate of one of the characters in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest as well as advancing the schemes of one of the other characters.
Liar’s Dice is a real game, and Disney has put up their Pirate’s Dice variation online.
Here’s an irony, or maybe just a simple reason:
One of the things that readers and critics consistently say the press needs to do a better job discussing are the nitty-gritty of finances and other numerical issues. “Dig in there and make sense of that budget! Tell us what the reports on school scores actually mean!”
There’s not a lot of accountants writing in the nation’s newsrooms. My math education ended with Algebra II, because my brain just melted when it came time to try trigonometry, much less calculus. (I did take statistics in college, along with everyone on the Virginia Tech basketball and football teams.)
But I agree with the critics and readers. Someone does need to dig into this stuff, if only because we can catch (the more obvious) hanky panky and let readers know how their tax dollars are being spent in general. In the absence of a crusading accountant bursting into the newsroom — Do accountants burst into rooms? I can’t imagine that they do. — it falls to us and our algebra-level math educations.
But, wow, I need an Aleve.
These sorts of things are always pretty subjective based on always incomplete criteria — the fact that they rank working for Electronic Arts as a great job is a howler to everyone I know in that industry — but Money Magazine has listed the best 50 jobs in America.
The top 10 include:
- Software engineer
- College professor
- Financial advisor
- Human resource manager
- Physicians’ assistant
- Market research analyst
- Computer/IT analyst
- Real estate appraiser
- Pharmacist
- Psychologist
Coming in at #195 are journalists, just below librarians and just ahead of sociologists.
For those of you who just can’t wait for kobold goodness (and if you know what kobolds are, odds are, you can’t wait), you can get a jump on the print version of the Koboldnomicon (including spells and the kobold wizard Wikanby by yours truly) and even the PDF version by pre-ordering the PDF version at the ENWorld Game Store.
Woo hoo! Only a few short days or weeks (I’m not 100 percent sure) before the print version shows up at Amazon.com and my nerdiness is enshrined in a hard copy version for posterity.
It’s probably because you got your computer infested with spyware, which then turned it into a remote bot to deluge innocent blogs, like mine, with spam. (You also probably live in Australia, the Netherlands or Urugay, which makes me wonder if this was a trojan on a World Cup site or something.) So, I’ve specifically banned access from your computer to this Web page to stop the spam, which was clogging the filter at the rate of several a minute for the past 24 hours. Enjoy getting 403 errored over to a hamster dance page.
Have a nice day.
If you could read this post.
Which you can’t.
- In an effort to cut down on my need to clean 700+ spams out of the filter at a go, folks posting will not be able to post anonymously. E-mail addresses are only visible to me, but until I approve you once, your posts will be held in moderation limbo until I can give them the thumbs-up. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- WordPress admins: I don’t know why I’ve never done it before, but I’ve been moving appropriate words that automatically flag something for moderation into the blacklist (typically these are phrases relating to refinancing, gambling or prescription drugs) and WordPress is now eating almost all of the spam on its own, since for the most part, it comes in certain themes.
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