First off GPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard , and is a open source implementation of PGP. So what can you do with GPG , and why should we care? One common use of is to sign your messages, this way the receiver can verify it did in fact come from you, and that it hasn’t been altered. —–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– Version: SKS 1.1.4 Comment: Hostname: keyserver.ubuntu.com mQENBFJgLEgBCADcYnqxjoWIUoaRQEdvyIKu0g2UkTRRUidpkLhqqLCMmP4EQgB9EosoTUVn NiLyXrqpSUvD5RkOtzj4rHIn2trSey9D7pu++5u1x0hGTIaCxcbQMK6l+MhqwLdPshyEvTv/ b+aNUZSiES4azzbTNX06O0uUT3qQqAgkZsFA1tBY4Fcw6GavvgifWL83XNJADpKV72tXraVE mHGeQltwMUT/klzTeamjiN/C/+/3POz8ogH7PQ2JAtd5us4bl/zVLPoi/tLIs+rizxP7EGnJ aILVTDxj14gDzSMPsxuLpOKwxZP08w4rdmIil9iBqDlc6YhSiGr48EIZP6qEIYQyuQmNABEB AAG0IEplZmZyZXkgTmVzcyA8ZmxpcDM4N0BnbWFpbC5jb20+iQE+BBMBAgAoBQJSYCycAhsD BQkHhM4ABgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRAVgZxb+A0sKJBJB/oCr8/1rIvD /b+trpmmMcStYAT+K/U41bWpCbE6yOIh+ab7Dgh3l3QRM48rUVYbR0gwWE9q8eE/NRaHDBDq 2jYaOv7kZMJ5KTiU3svnq0qDlbuA5MTvEis6rr+iNy1ne2kxOoukSiAfU6dIkQuSHU0Dz5Ns 2bAu0YBwoxtanDntqAjEOOr/VOYJKBP1fUhd413O3WOKRIUciGneDihUM+TGyG50wFmE7J7x j8ydkYZDvLrDNxOVqFm5SxugLke8jkaiiPSTk/mlckHupkJHtAPlxeq69N7HQVT+/aCKzIty Se4dQqJFV6VhlQVjLS3QYKUStja1bZJeE3rIKjOjBY0+tCVKZWZmcmV5IE5lc3MgPGpuZXNz QGZsaXAtZWRlc2lnbi5jb20+iQE+BBMBAgAoBQJSYCxIAhsDBQkHhM4ABgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJ CgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRAVgZxb+A0sKPbHB/4sSHuZvEdt3KIkIj5RRnNRXgJ0PnImp5Gk PY4vxuokWndmJUTF8JnGmmdJqBhpQ/bzWHdm9xYUd6QJ6IzSBCcYarBF7h7XcjY8nFheJsyF jfRcm90RsIMjDNhKtwB9aChCznVBnVujwRafVnyuerzexpsIrE6McN2s8redDlR0WBx+LZwm fwzZ+qX7PjCRlFsoNy0nUqI33EYP0QAbx6PCPcTiDcou5UFuOEK70uZh/k2l2hBOajWJN9x1 6UQVfGuOmERVsD6dXiCbNs1C7pce0Rj7WFwolpBBeYk9g5OHLmBdlf9pta3gJXExEJWJPLTS euQtKkTdj5Pu2HKX7qxyuQENBFJgLEgBCADY1aF23k3eLLGghn0xugEPKNaG6Ve1lozmCWK9 RgkQVhx070ktG5iVkT7Zx3VMMG0M2g/Aas/l5XC6Z3Gx3Fm3U5TQ43pNnR2vea1yhA1LrahN PwqQcNld+mtJca2go5hcX0pTqcYBNVkHtn+cMQJNPdyE1bWCh77BH/oScWNrwJVljPBsJju+ Wg5cFzHyujCaYd+RW7hG5nKC6Bz5ldXvUyeEAWyEjvXNM7gSmsXTBOOuFzyK2F50j7rLAyEI IyDN16zAyqiHOaq+4NJBRxLJmvR5bwOtTCSdtQPMxusG54Qc65VbJalGs90B4F+okP3FtNWs MaQzshuo8yaQJ9H5ABEBAAGJASUEGAECAA8FAlJgLEgCGwwFCQeEzgAACgkQFYGcW/gNLCjN yAgAoLtLiEuoq/NAkcXgrJtykicbXgeDDrXwlCEOeMuChsfAJeExN3GV1rGomq0AGySGuxgH +U61OAfeKcCWNCS3Sr7AVPbeqgomy4DDwkf60nks7/SKVEaOxMbdBaCBbYBi8gQWGc+3VTHM s4m9135nfQhhh5e8yAF0YiOv8+b7K+uLjrh6ggYXhvXWMvhqT5xN3NatAasfHIgbRVg26VxN GXWg6urEppXCeeNFosPSZrCHfMs+ncQR0+at7OAcbp8E8wGVLslYDbZSz/YGK+jVcfqzLKj7 DtK57lyAxrc+EY7385PPHhd0Lf5tRufsPce/Q2s/ItQTaYBKXWq0s5sFhg== =pePB —–END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– Using the above public key we can verify a signed message I wrote.

Found an old Android App I wrote about a year back, this was the first and last Android App I wrote. Android Installable Package for Dice Roller md5 => 49e138fc4b2cf8b83bc28e780ff2411b Source Code can be viewed at Github 4.0 Holo theme on the left and 2.1 default theme on the right

Today I learned Boardgamegeek.com provides a XML API which appears to be pretty well documented. For example if I wanted to list all the Board Games I own I could do something like this in python: In [1]: from urllib2 import urlopen In [2]: from lxml import etree In [3]: req = urlopen('http://www.boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi/collection/flip387') In [4]: xml = etree.parse(req) In [5]: sorted([ i.text for i in xml.xpath('//name') ]) Out[5]: ['Arkham Horror', 'Bears!

Found a awesome map of Middle Earth awhile back online, the map is printed on fabric and look amazing! The map is now framed, and hangs on our mantle along with Ichigo Kurosaki’s Zanpakutō .

Over the weekend I did something I haven’t done in a long time, draw. One of the drawings I ended up liking was a cartoon skeleton, now named Skelly . Below you can see a image of the original hand drawn art. And lastly we have it imported in Illustrator and traced, I rather like how he ended up.

I’ve been reading some of H. P. Lovecraft ’s work, and quickly realized the collection I had was not in chronological order. This lead me to do a little digging, and was happy to stumble upon a fantastic resource from http://cthulhuchick.com . The ePUB provided by cthulhuchick is fantastic, and in chronological order! I had to share this great resource, enjoy, and be sure to thank her @cthulhuchick

Last night the wife and I were able to give Arkham Horror our first attempt, and I have to say, this game lives up to it’s name. I love how each Location , Other World , and Mythos card all have a small story to add to the game. For example, one of the Mythos cards we drew was a Headline . This headline read much like a newspaper article and described how more murders by a particular killer ( I forgot the murders name ) have popped up in one of the city districts, until caught ( success die roll ) he murders one ally from our A lly deck until all allies have murdered.

After picking up our last board game Arkham Horror , We’ve decided to look a little deeper in to the genre by reading up on H.P. Lovecraft .An author during the 1920’s, Lovecraft created the Cthulhu Mythos an American Horror genre. This genre has became a hit among game developers, especially Fantasy Flight Games who has created a handful of Cthulhu based games. We have also looked ever so slightly into Call of Cthulhu, Quick Start Guide and role playing game based on the Cthulhu Mythos were you take on the role of an Investigator.

Arkham Horror a classic game of Lovecraft adventure arrived in the mail the other day, and I’ve been itching to try it out! This game looks amazing, and has gotten nothing but good reviews, check out Boardgame Geek for a few of them. I’ve wanted to play this game for a couple years, but have never had the chance. I’ve also been discouraged to buy it as many people say it doesn’t work well with only two players (my wife and I) , though at 33% off I decide to take a risk.

Having some friends over for game night! Decided to clean the shelf a bit.