Things heard at the gaming table:
"Speaking of John Deere, here's something funny..."
"So. They're kind of like scaly Oompa-Loompas?"
Phrases you never want to hear:"Let's go with Lizard's idea. It seems the most practical."
This is a phrase on the same line as "Let's follow Groo's plan!"
To Randomlinenoise: It was posted to a mailing list I'm on. Demographic
trends are interesting -- such as how the name 'Bart' dropped off the
list right about the time the Simpsons took off.
Fascinating.
(And totally worksafe and non-san-loss-inducing.)
(Until you think about how many kids were named 'Dakota'...)
This is just sooooo wrong.
Not worksafe. Not homesafe. The mere concept alone is enough to make
one pour bleach in one's ears to remove the image from one's mind. I
have always believed in the ancient dictum "Share so…
Still hot. Hotter than Death Valley, in fact.
On a mailing list I'm on, the subject somehow veered to Favorite
Childhood Books. It seemed like something worth reposting here,
especially since I'm a lazy sot.
My o…
Frack, it's HOT.
It's so hot I finally deicded to do my writing in the bedroom, the one
room with really decent AC. Let's hear it for laptops! Yay!
Unfortunately, I need to come out here to blog.
The lawn has tur…
the Prankster (34% dark, 39% spontaneous, 27% vulgar) your humor style:CLEAN | COMPLEX | LIGHTYour humor has an intellectual, even conceptual slant to it. You're notpretentious…
Shiny!
"I believe the children are our future. Our future is dark and hopeless." (Randy Milholland, www.somethingpositive.net)
I do believe I've found a new .sig quote...
This I have learned: Do not attempt to stir-fry while not wearing a shirt.
(Meanwhile, Katy has taken on the role of "Tiger at The Watering Hole".
She spends her day camped by the water dish, presumably waiting for a…
Grrr...OK, second try.
I hate, hate, hate, having to type things twice. It does
back to a deep-rooted childhood trauma. Unfortunately, I lost my nascent Harry
Potter 6 review this morning due to Microso…
Blech.
It is frackin' HOt here, and painfully humid -- so humid that the fans
barely work, as the air is too thick and heavy to move. The only
comfortable place is in the bedroom with the AC cranked, but that costs
…
be sorted @ nimbo.netYou know, I've taken zillions of these online quizzes, and I always end up here. Wonder why...
Hrrrm....Your connection with darkness is through yourmurderous ways/thoughts. You want to kill, getaway with it and do it again and again etc. Tobe in charge of peoples lives, to decide ifsomeone should live or die make…
Well, this is just plain cool.
And in other news...
We had a conversation today about why males save everything
in case they need it later. I had an epiphany (but i cleaned it up
later). It's all due to adventure…
Because I spent way too much time editing this...
There was a thread on rpg.net on the interminable topic of "Is Nobilis
Dead?". I posted this. Then the thread...uh...died. I think I made my
point.
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Grrr...
I hate driving in the dark, in the rain, when I don't know where I'm
going. Especially here, where nothing is labelled and nothing is lit
and nothing interconnects like you'd expect and roads turn randomly
…
Today, another entry in "Amusing MMORPG Update Notes"
Clarified the error message when no corpses are available for the Cannibalize ability.
You no longer spout profanity when talking about sitting while drunk.
…
I suppose it's a good sign that I'm not getting any naptime on
weekends. My weekends used to be: "Sleep until 10. Putter on net. Eat
bad-for-me lunch while watching TV. Nap until 5. Whine 'Where did the
day go?' Putte…
So I've been reading reviews of the new Fantastic Four movie. They are
as dismal as one would expect from the trailers, and not merely because
critics have been trained to sniff dismissiviely at 'comic book movies'
--…
Back to the pointless internet quizzes! You scored as Beast. Beast is an intelligent, politcal spokesman for the X-Men. He has a Ph.D in Genetics and is well versed in literature. He may look like a blue fuzzy monster,…
I suppose I should blog about something more meaningful than the
"Stupid Internet Viral Meme Of The Moment". Unfortunately, there's not
much going on. I've hit one of those little plateus of quasi-pleasant
mediocrity …
- You Are The Apt Mind"I know that. And that. And yes, thattoo."You have brains, and you are not afraid to show it.Your intellect and intelligence may have othersconstantly asking for your help with thingsthat take a lot…
Appropos of nothing, the place where I used to live in SF is charging
2100 to 2900 for the 814 sq. foot apartment I used to pay about 1650
for, back in 1998->2000 or so. Studios are 1100 to 1400, and they
are *smal…
You scored as Loner. Loner75%Goth56%Geek50%Drama nerd44%Punk/Rebel38%Stoner38%Prep/Jock/Cheerleader25%Ghetto gangsta25%What's Your High School Stereotype?created with QuizFarm.com
Unrelated to anything else I've posted: If Disney did Moby Dick.
I remember, at the nerd-B-Q yesterday, commenting that we Americans
celebrated our independance by consuming mass quantities of food and
then exploding things. In other words, America defined itself by
gluttony and vi…
Yesterday was busy. Got up, reattached all the wires in the computer
room following Friday's scrubbing, drove to Wally World, made sesame
noodles (I *still* haven't found the 'right' recipe, the one I liked
back in SF…
Things heard in a geek household:
Me:"I have no healing magic."
Jane:"I have cheese."
Begun, These Flea Wars Have
Or
Lizard Learns About Male And Female Ways of Cleaning
There's a lot of hooplah from the Usual Suspects about "women's ways of
knowing", which usually means "I cannot refute your ar…
O'Connor steps down.
Let the speculation begin! And the mud-slinging! Woo-hoo, folks, we're in for a show!
Hey, Ashcroft's not doing much these days. Mebbe Dubya will nominate
him. Should be good for some chuckle…
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