parelle / Dianna

Wife, Mother to two, tea drinker, bread baker, board gamer, Librarian in Waiting. Reader of many things, collector of more.

Most of my huffduffer-ing is lectures and board games, and the rare bit of fiction.

There is one person in parelle’s collective.

Huffduffed (26) activity chart

  1. Detective Fiction, March 14

    Prof. David McNutt, adjunct professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, led noontime and evening sessions exploring detective fiction works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, and Dorothy L. Sayers that feature their respective detective characters: Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and Lord Peter Wimsey. Classes were held March-April 2011 (syllabus). To download, right-click on a file and select "Save As" to save the file to your computer.

    http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/News-and-Events/Audio-Downloads

    —Huffduffed by parelle 3 months ago

  2. Guns, Dice, Butter Episodes X

    Welcome to Episode X of Guns, Dice, Butter.

    0:01 Intro

    0:06 Conversation with Mercury Games: Richard Diosi (Doc Stryder) and Kevin Nesbitt

    0:32 Panel discussion with Mark Herman, Brian Train and Volko Ruhnke regarding insurgencies and wargames: Wide ranging discussion examining wargames that model insurgencies (see website for link to games on insurgencies and national/strategic will games), political dynamics of insurgencies and insurgency games in the pipeline from this group of designers (A Distant Plan {Afghanistan}, Fire on the Lake {Vietnam}, etc).

    2:18 Wrap up

    http://gunsdicebutter.libsyn.com/guns-dice-butter-episode-x-dec-7-2012

    —Huffduffed by parelle 5 months ago

  3. How to Play Mage Knight

    http://howtoplaypodcast.com/episodes/episodes-41-50/episode-41-mage-knight/

    —Huffduffed by parelle 6 months ago

  4. How to Play Le Havre

    How to Play Podcast with Ryan Sturm For Le Havre

    http://howtoplaypodcast.com/episodes/episodes-11-20/episode-17-le-havre/

    —Huffduffed by parelle 6 months ago

  5. One Cool Person to Meet at Gen Con: Geoff Engelstein

    Tonight’s cool person is Geoff Engelstein, game designer and contributor to the Dice Tower and Ludology podcasts!  We talk about the following:

    Geoff will be demoing his new game Space Cadets, which he created in collaboration with his kids.  (It will be seeing official release at the Essen Game Fair.) Geoff’s previous game, the Ares Project was co-created with his son. Geoff really wants to try the Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator at Gen Con this year. Geoff is also really excited about the D6 Generation Podcast’s Play by Mob event, which will be running a version of  Space Cadets this year! ! One Cool Person to Meet at Gen Con: Geoff Engelstein

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    —Huffduffed by parelle 9 months ago

  6. Kentucky Shakespeare

    Jane Page, who directs Much Ado About Nothing, the opening production by Kentucky Shakespeare, describes it as  “Gunsmoke meets Shakespeare”.  Classical 90.5’s Alan Brandt talks to Page and Producing Artistic Director and CEO Brantley Dunaway about the show.

    —Huffduffed by parelle 10 months ago

  7. Dice Steeple

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    —Huffduffed by parelle one year ago

  8. Chamber Music Society of Louisville - WUOL

    The Chamber Music Society of Louisville presents the Emerson String Quartet in a performance Sunday, February 5, at 3 pm. CMS member and violinist Peter McHugh talks to Classical 90.5’s Alan Brandt about the program and the long history of the music group.

    —Huffduffed by parelle one year ago

  9. Download

    Huffduffed from http://www.criticalwitpodcast.com/podcast/critical-wit-38-%E2%80%93-what-can-sherlock-holmes-teach-us-about-human-thinking/

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    —Huffduffed by parelle one year ago

  10. Radio Lab

    http://www.radiolab.org/2011/aug/23/

    A good game—whether it’s a pro football playoff, or a family showdown on the kitchen table—can make you feel, at least for a little while, like your whole life hangs in the balance. This hour of Radiolab, Jad and Robert wonder why we get so invested in something so trivial. What is it about games that make them feel so pivotal?

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    —Huffduffed by parelle one year ago

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