A Song, and A Death

Death first, then song.

Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died this week, and though I wasn’t as steeped in the D&D culture as my friends who grew up playing it, I’m terribly sad to see him go. Tributes abound, but my favorite are Rich Burlew’s Order of the Stick and Penny Arcade’s. There’s also an e-mail floating around that list a number of fairly tasteless-yet-somehow-appropriate phrases to refer to Gygax’s death.

But, the guy’s legacy is… immeasurable and I’ll remember him by playing again as soon as we can get the band back together (so to speak).

And speaking of music, and geekery, I offer you this, from the bowels of the internet:

A song. Using Windows XP and 98 sounds. Try not to explode in delight. (It is actually pretty awesome, and there’s a making-of thingy at the end, probably of interest only to people who like to edit sound.)

Crossposted with klech.net