As you may have noticed, we here at the Clan of the Gray Wolf have a fancy new HD video camera that we've begun using for our videos.  Unfortunately the camera, which is otherwise great, implements a fun new way to screw consumers - the mini shoe.  It seems Canon has had it with this "universal accessory" bullshit, and figured if they changed the attachment point so that only their accessories would fit, then that should increase sales of said items quite a bit.  There's a special place in hell for people who think like that.

Since I already have a shotgun mic I already like, thank you very much, I figured maybe I could get an adapter so I could still use it with the new camera.  Well, such things exist.  For a minimum of $30.  Let me repeat that as you pick yourself up off the floor from shock.  $30.  For a small bit of plastic and metal.  What is it about technological doodads that makes people think they can charge ridiculous prices for cheap, easily-made products?

Like a midget at a urinal, my thoughts wandered to Monster Cable.

I've been using my computer or laptop to aid my RPG efforts for many years now. In the last two years, I've ditched the DM screen for a laptop. (I love my MacBook Pro.) But I've recently replaced my old Motorola RAZR with the iPhone 3GS, and I love it. So I've been looking for ways to use it at the table as an aid.

I've found that computers and apps are not necessarily time savers at the table. For example, using initiative cards is at least as fast and convenient as iNit for tracking initiative, but I use iNit anyways. For one, there's less clutter on the table and less for me to clean up at the end of the night. 

I've found a handful of apps, written for the iPhone, that are a great start:

      Forty years ago today mankind took a “giant leap” forward with the Apollo 11 moon landing. With the technology that all of us know, use, and enjoy on a daily basis in 2009, it might be difficult for us to gain proper perspective on exactly what the moon landing meant in 1969. But today at Clan of the Gray Wolf we remember, and rightly so, the truly incredible human and technological achievement made in striving for, and successfully landing a human being on the moon and bringing them back safely to the earth.