The Ball of the Century

Shane Warne has retired from cricket. He managed to take a wicket in his final over. He was one of my favourite players, and I'll go so far as to say he was the best spin of the modern era. Murali obviously has to come into that discussion, but I always felt that of the two, Muralitharan's statistics were somewhat inflated by playing so much cricket on the sub-continent's spin-friendly pitches. Warne was a match-winning leg spinner on any wicket.

It's tempting to commemorate this with a video of 'The Ball of the Century' (if you don't know what that is, look it up on YouTube). Instead, I'm bringing you a song about that very delivery: 'Jiggery Pokery' by The Duckworth-Lewis Method.

Epic D&D eBay purchase thread

I've bought a lot of old and cheap D&D stuff on eBay recently.

A HELL of a lot of old and cheap D&D stuff. Most of it arrived this week while I was in Switzerland. There was so much piled up in the porch, I could barely get through the front door. Mostly for my own amusement, here's some thoughts on what I've acquired...

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