Welcome back to Shadowrun Sundays! Playing games is fun. So is writing for them. I’m of the mind that if you want to write for RPGs, or games in general,...
So I’m basking the laurels of solving a performance issue, transforming a 2 day+ ETL process into a 15 minute process, when the next Big Thing comes down the pipes...
CNN calls John D. Sutter’s “Change the List” article an opinion piece. It reads more like an indictment of the current U.S. economic system. Opinion or not, “The Most Unequal...
This morning I just got news that an acquaintance died of liver cancer. I didn’t know him as well as I wanted to, so I’m surprised at how hard this...
Today I want to talk about my job, the day job. As a Jack-of-All-Trades DBA, I am responsible for backups, security, production releases, data fixes, architecture, schema approvals, development (both...
A few weeks ago, I announced a Shadowrun contest for winning one of two PDF copies of the Shadowrun Fifth Edition roleplaying game. And today, I am announcing the winners....
At SQL Saturday Orlando, another speaker and I got into a discussion about the transition from writing to publishing. He went to my blog looking for SQL Server stuff and...
Everyone loves a book review, especially good ones. Which is why I am so excited about this. I am a member of the Hivemind Collective, creators and authors of the...
I made pea squash soup tonight and it was NUMMY! Before I forget how to make it, I’m posting it here. Ingredients: 1 qt shelled white acre peas (rinsed) 3-4...
I started Shadowrun Sundays to talk about the basics of RPG writing, but today I’m going to discuss rewriting. Specifically (in case you haven’t heard) my upgrade of Sacrificial Limb...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
