Canned Blog: januar 2016

onsdag 6. januar 2016

D&D: DawnforgedCast: «Be a Better Game Master - Non-Linear Adventure Creation»

Denne filmen forklarer på glimrende vis hvordan en kan gjøre lineære eventyr spennende, både for spiller og spilleder. Jeg ble for øvrig oppmerksom på filmen via GameMaster’s Journey 82: To XP or Not to XP, Random Encounters & Should the Players Always Win?.

tirsdag 5. januar 2016

RHD: Dagens spennende personlighet Ⅰ

Geline Angelli: Possitivspiller

Informasjonen som er å lese om Geline Angelli i folketellinga fra 1875. For øvrig er alt materiale fra 1875-tellinga nå åpent tilgjengelig for alle (100-årsgrensa er for lengst passert).

Den unge Geline Angelli – antatt uttale /dʒeˈli(ː)ne anˈdʒelːi/ – var tilreisende fra Italien sannsynligvis på julebesøk. Stedet var plassen Stor-Svendstuen i Storelvdalen, og den ugifte herren var 18 år (f. 1857 i Italien). Han var nok ingen hvemsomhelst, for som livsstilling (yrke) står oppført Possitivspiller. Et positiv er, hvis det her er snakk om det jeg assosierer med det, et lite, bærbart orgel til bruk i små orkester.

Hva slektskapet eller koblinga mellom denne unge herr Angelli og familien til Oline Olsdatter eller Arne Hansen var, sier lista ingen ting om, men det må ha vært spennende for bygda å få besøk av en italiensk, romersk-katolsk musiker til jul!

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Elvis Aron Presley: Did You Know?

In Wright City, Missouri (about 40 miles west of St. Louis) there is a roadside attraction called the "Elvis Is Alive Museum.". Their theory is that Elvis faked his own death and has lived in obscurity ever since. They're serious. (www.artistfacts.com)
Elvis' televised concert Aloha From Hawaii was the first global satellite broadcast devoted to a single entertainer. It was seen by 51% of US viewers, more households than watched the first moon landing. In many countries it captured 70-90+% of the television audience. Ultimately, nearly 1.5 billion people in 40 countries saw this performance. (www.artistfacts.com)
In 1955, Sam Phillips sold Elvis' contract to RCA records for $35,000. According to music journalist Robert Fontenot, this was not as big a blunder as it sounds, as the music business in 1955 was a quick-cash game; no label owner, certainly not a small, regional one like Phillips, could have possibly asked for a percentage of an artists' future royalties once he was signed away. $35,000 was by far the largest amount ever paid for any artist by a major label, and no one in the business considered Rock music more than a passing fad; if anything, RCA was thought to have wildly overpaid for Elvis. Phillips proved he was indeed a shrewd businessman by investing that $35,000 in a small upstart hotel chain in Memphis. The name of that chain was the Holiday Hotel; you may know it better as the Holiday Inn. (www.artistfacts.com)
In 1959 Elvis became the first artist to release an album without an artist name on the cover, front or back, with the album For LP Fans Only. (www.artistfacts.com)
Elvis is the only artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Hall of Fame, and the Gospel Hall of Fame. (www.artistfacts.com)