January 2012
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Reaper's Very Assisted Suicide
Being fairly new to RPGs and having had every game before this fall apart in a matter of sessions, I have just now passed what I consider to be a milestone, my first PC death.
My GM, myself, and another player spent a good part of last night talking about why she died and the mistakes that each PC (including me) made that led them to that point. We’re a new group, so I really appreciate...
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A New Year
Here are my goals, out there so that I remember them…
Lose 30 pounds. Over the last two years I’ve puffed up from 149 to nearly 180. It’s distressing mostly because I see that big round 200 looming and I’d like to get back to the nicer 150. To help me with that I’ve got some smaller goals:
No soda at work (even diet soda).
Don’t take an elevator, take...
November 2011
2 posts
Maybe We Shouldn't Just Drive
I had an eye-opening experience this weekend. It was Friday night and date-night. We had decided to go get some pho at the Vietnamese Cajun place near me. I wanted to walk and my beau said he didn’t want to walk because the last time we went walking I had a hard time, I didn’t feel good and my back hurt a lot. Even after protesting that I was never going to get to the point where I...
“She didn’t say anything in return but tried to arrange her face and body to...”
September 2011
2 posts
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“Never quenched. Though I am doused in you, I burn. The motion of your turning...”
– Kvothe to Felurian in The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss page 634-635
After two nights back to back GMing where things didn’t go well my confidence has definitely taken a plunge.
First, Tuesday night, I ran a quick Gamma World one shot. I know it isn’t the best or most creative; it was more an exercise in putting something together. I’d run this once before and it was a lot of fun, but this time our usual GM was a player and he was on his cell...
August 2011
4 posts
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Character Frustrations
I always start the process with high aspirations:
I’m going to play a great-grandmother (by marriage since no Nova in the Aberrant world has had children) who falls in the pool and gets awesome water and healing powers. She feels young again. She feels clear-headed and hopeful for the first time in a very long time!
I’m going to play an artist, she just wants to create beauty. She...
“They took it as calmly as ever in spite of the fact that he accused them of...”
– The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss of 106
I have the best brother and the best beau
Mama: Yesterday was his 1st day as a latch key kid & he forgot to call Mom. When I got there he was chillin in the basement in his underwear watching tv.
Me: lol. He has clearly learned the first lesson of being awesome: remove pants whenever feasible.
Mama: He HATES wearing pants.. He would go to school in just his undies if they would let him
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Me: You do know that in my head, you are the IT guy who could fix anything, right? And that I am currently fantasizing about you fixing my Outlook and Impromptu.
Adam: I don't even know what impromptu is
Me: doesn't matter. In my head I'm trading sexual favors to you to fix it.
Adam: I can figure out what Impromptu is
Damon: Anal can take care of that. 12:11 PM
Me: can take care of the butterflies in my stomach? 12:15 PM
Damon: It will definitely take your mind off your stomach! 12:16 PM
Me: I don't think [he] is down for sticking it in my butt 12:17 PM
Damon: No you peg him! 12:18 PM
Me: I definitely don't want to go anywhere near his butt. He has digestive issues. 12:19 PM
Damon: Lol! I wish I knew how to capture my screen for this conversation. 12:21 PM
Me: home and shoulder button at the same time 12:21 PM
Me: wait... why the fuck did I just tell you that? You're going to capture this conversation now, aren't you? 12:22 PM
Damon: No. 12:22 PM
Damon: But it is nice to know. 12:22 PM
July 2011
1 post
“This little piggy went to Hades
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy...”
– Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett page 54
June 2011
7 posts
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“And his heart had done for him in the end. His surplus Russian heart, implanted...”
– Neuromancer by William Gibson pate 78
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“A pair of predatory Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young...”
– Neuromancer by William Gibson page 77
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Why Having a Geek Boyfriend is Awesome (part 2)
Me: Laser crossbows make me facepalm.
Adam: In starwars? Those arent actually lasers. They are crossbows that coat the bolts in plasma.
Me: They don't seem to actually have strings though.
Adam: They are magnetic. Like a railgun.
Me: Ok, and the magnetic whatsagizmo has to be shaped like a regular crossbow to get the right leverage?
Adam: Nah, it just looks cool. Wookies got style.
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Last night I dreamed...
That I was delivering pizzas again. It was raining and for some reason I was also hauling around my beau and my father. I was trying to find 1224 Periwinkle and I’d found Periwinkle St. but the part of the street that should have had that number was empty on the even side. I got out to try to find it and a woman started screaming. She found an unconscious cat in her garden and was raising...
“A Walk in the Rain” At first it’s going to seem cold; the drops indiscriminately touching skin used to purposeful but equally meaningless caresses. The sky will take away all of the dirt from the world, the blood from my wounds, the glitter of pathetic attempts to attract and disguise, and once I am laid bare I will take a walk as myself, by myself. At first it’s going to...
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
4 posts
How to set off my social anxiety:
Go to church in your bright yellow dress that you love but don’t wear often and don’t really have the perfect shoes for but you make do with what you have.
Come to the point in the service where there’s a song and the pastor asks you to find a partner to do actions with in the song. It involves facing them and singing about giving and receiving.
Be the only person in the...
Oh the blasphemy
Me: There's one for the shrink, every time I go into church of any sort I get the strong urge to cry.
Damon: That's just Jesus kicking you in the face. It happens to everyone at church.
Me: His toes are dirty :(
Damon: No they aren't he has bitches to clean his feet!!
Me: With their nasty unshampooed hair!
Damon: No with oil and water n shit. The only privilege of being the savior was bitches cleaning his feets!
“And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic...”
– Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 86
March 2011
7 posts
Yggdrasil
geekfights:
I’m starting off my exploration of the list for the upcoming “Best Spaceship” episode by bringing up two ships that are not on the list. They’re not on the list because I would be willing to bet that most of you didn’t even know they existed. Both ships are creations of Dan Simmons, the first in Hyperion (the first book in the Hyperion Cantos) and the second in Endymion (the third...
“The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him...”
– American Gods by Neil Gaiman, page 158-159
“But beyond all this he would remember the delirium as one of consumption, a...”
– Acacia by David Anthony Durham, page 369
“It was not so much thoughts of his mission or memories from the past that...”
– Acacia by David Anthony Durham, page 357
“That,” said Wednesday, driving off, “is the eternal folly of man. ...”
– American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Page 105
“Greeks,” said the Iceman in disgust. “And it ain’t true what...”
– American Gods by Neil Gaiman, page 6
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What I though of Moon...
The directing, acting, and visuals were all well done and you can pick up just about any glowing review and read all about them, but there were holes in the story that drove me bonkers.
Here’s a few of them (cut to hide spoilers)
…what the fuck was with the jamming towers? Seriously. Pretending that the lunar satellite is down is a simple matter that can be handled by software or...
February 2011
5 posts
“At once the realization of the Principle of Sufficient Irritation came to me. ...”
– From “The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford” by Philip K Dick
“There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the...”
– Speaker For the Dead by Ordon Scott Card page 91
Littlest: There's bad guys at the house and Iron Man will save us.
Oldest: Iron Man is fake.
Littlest: Hulk will save us!
Oldest: Fake!
Littlest: Spiderman will save us!
Oldest: FAKE! Only Wolverine is real.
The first Visitation
She’d had the nightmares for as long as she could remember. The progression was always the same. At first she was just dreaming her way through a place. She was walking or driving. It was almost always at night. That first dream was bearable, pleasant even. She was just walking through a neighborhood or biking through empty streets. She had many dreams like that and sometimes...
“I realize now that if I was found dead under strange circumstances, they would...”
– Damon, on discovering that he’d put his underwear on backwards.
January 2011
9 posts
“First the light in the sky was no bigger than the moon, then it seemed larger,...”
– Stardust by Neil Gaiman page 69
Last night’s dream was a variation of the usual zombie theme:
I was dying. My mother had a pouch of some sort of neon liquid. She said that if she injected all of it, I wouldn’t die, I would become a zombie. I was scared, but I let her put the IV in and start pushing it through my veins. It burned going in but I was curiously numb once it was absorbed. As she got to the last few...
“The book was a satirical dialogue in verse between two agnostics who were...”
– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, page 281
heystartrek:
This segment was contributed to...
'cause that's going to convince me...
Coworker: So, a bunch of us are going to wear our [company] bowling shirts tomorrow. You down?
Me: I'll think about it.
Coworker: ok, well there's an overwhelming positive response so far, so don't be left out ;)
Coworker: unless you've already donated your's to the homeless man on the corner [sic]
Coworker: LOL
“The thon’s gaze seemed to clamp calipers on the abbot’s cranium and...”
– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr page 182
“My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. “She...”
– Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling pg 109
“Hongan Os was essentially a just and kindly man. When he saw a party of his...”
– A Canticle For Leibowtz by Walter M Miller Jr, page 145
Myself: how the fuck do you burn coffee?
Charlie: well probably not coffee here i don't think they have the right equipment... but since you asked if you leave a coffee pot on with only a small portion of in the bottom after the water evaporates out it smells like burning anus
Myself: And you've made this scientific comparison?
Charlie: yes I have
Charlie: don't TEST ME
Charlie: god no
Charlie: leave me alone
December 2010
15 posts
“He redrew a mandala abstraction, titled “STATOR WNDG MOD 73-A 3-PH 6-P...”
– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr page 70
“The abbot’s frown, Brother Francis had come to observe, was the causative...”
– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr page 63
“His desire to profess his final and perpetual vows—was it akin to the...”
– A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr page 5
“An everyday doomsayer in sandwich-board abruptly walked away from what over the...”
– Kraken by China Miéville pg 3
“Of course,” Cheroki said sharply, “you could NOT POSSIBLY be trying...”
– A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr pg 33