Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, answer these questions. Pass it on. You can't use the artist I used. Try not to repeat a song title. Repost as "My Life According to (ARTIST NAME)".
Are you a male or female? Use The Man
Describe yourself: Family Tree
How do you feel? Addicted to Chaos
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Washington is Next!
Your favorite form of transportation: Moto Psycho
Your best friend is: Mechanix
Your favorite color is: Blood of Heroes
What's the weather like? Elysian Fields
Favorite time of day: In My Darkest Hour
If your life was a tv show, what would it be called? Chosen Ones
What is life to you? Never Walk Alone...A Call to Arms
What are you looking for? Almost Honest
Have: Insomnia
Wouldn't mind: Five Magics
Your fear: Losing My Senses
What is the best advice you have to give? Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
If you could change your name, you would change it to: The Doctor is Calling
Thought for the Day: I Thought I Knew It All
My motto: Skin O' My Teeth
- Music:Megadeth - The Killing Road (2004 Digital Remaster) | Powered by Last.fm
Played a metric hectare of games this weekend, with a bunch of friends both old and new(ly met). I've got several new things in my "wishlist" for buying if/when I get tired of my current favorites, including Pandemic, Small Worlds, and Tsuro. Perhaps my favorite new game was the recently-published Battlestar Galactica, not least because I'd been trying to design a game recently that would have been extremely similar, but now it's been done and I don't have to! It's also done very well, at least from that one play. I'm definitely going to pick that one up if I have funds. Oh, and we (by 'we' I mean Pooky) seem to have invented a 3-player version of Mafia, which plays a bit more like Conspiracy.
And the tiger is torched. More on that later, including pictures (and perhaps video, if it came out worth a damn), but for now I'll leave you with the information that just because junk mail, cardboard, flour, and paint each burn easily, does not mean they'll burn easily together. :)
And the tiger is torched. More on that later, including pictures (and perhaps video, if it came out worth a damn), but for now I'll leave you with the information that just because junk mail, cardboard, flour, and paint each burn easily, does not mean they'll burn easily together. :)
- Mood:
geeky
- Music:"Train, Magic Train", not at all by The Who
Question for the Vast Unpaid Research Department: Does anyone know where to borrow a copy of "Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years" by Richard Corson? I really would like to get a look at their plate on the English square-cut beard, which is amazingly hard to locate by the usual means (i.e. Google and the public library).
I suspect it is this, but I'd like to know for sure.
http://homersworld.blogspot.com/uploade d_images/chingoateesurv-776024.jpg
::edit:: Got to see Rockhurst's copy. Pictures soon.
http://homersworld.blogspot.com/uploade
::edit:: Got to see Rockhurst's copy. Pictures soon.
- Location:Pioneer College
- Mood:
bored
No time to participate in BLITEOTW today, so I thought instead I'd post the horrific little monster
featherynscale and I came up with for last night's game.
Literally, the genesis of this thing was the following conversation earlier in the week:
( And this was the result... )
Literally, the genesis of this thing was the following conversation earlier in the week:
K: We need to decide what to have (our players) fight on Friday. They didn't get to last time.
D: We also need to sort out how to disable (the character whose player was leaving the game). Maybe something snuck up on him in the night...
K: They shouldn't really be able to fix it on their own, we may have to make up a monster.
D: What about an Oogiel?
K: What's an Oogiel?
D: Based on O-G-L, the Open Gaming License?
K: Hmmm... so it would relentlessly work to steal your content and make a copy of you?
D: We also need to sort out how to disable (the character whose player was leaving the game). Maybe something snuck up on him in the night...
K: They shouldn't really be able to fix it on their own, we may have to make up a monster.
D: What about an Oogiel?
K: What's an Oogiel?
D: Based on O-G-L, the Open Gaming License?
K: Hmmm... so it would relentlessly work to steal your content and make a copy of you?
( And this was the result... )
- Mood:
devious
C, E-flat and G go into a bar. The bartender says, "I'm sorry, but we
don't serve minors." So E-flat leaves, and C and G have an open fifth
between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished, and G is out
flat. F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp
enough.
D comes in and heads for the bathroom saying, "Excuse me. I'll just be a
second." Then A comes in, but the bartender is not convinced that this
relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices B-flat hiding at
the end of the bar and says, "Get out! You're the seventh minor I've
found in this bar tonight."
E-Flat comes back the next night in a three-piece suit with nicely shined
shoes. The bartender says, "You're looking sharp tonight. Come on in, this
could be a major development." Sure enough, E-flat soon takes off his suit
and everything else, and is au natural.
Eventually, C sobers up and realizes in horror that he's under a rest. C
is brought to trial, found guilty of contributing to the diminution of a
minor, and is sentenced to 10 years of DS without Coda at an upscale
correctional facility. On appeal, however, C is found innocent of any
wrongdoing, even accidental. The judge rules that all contrary motions are
bassless.
(from pianoworld.com by way ofixzist)
- Mood:
full of Vitamin D
- Music:Juice Newton - Queen of Hearts | Powered by Last.fm
We're home; trip was great, and even though my internal clock (and the laptop) say it's only 10PM, I'm going to bed because tomorrow morning is going to come two hours earlier than my body thinks is reasonable or wise. Me and my first-world problems. :P
G'night!
G'night!
- Location:64131
- Mood:
good
- Music:Megadeth, "The Killing Road"
Apparently drinking scotch and talking philosophy before bed results in having philosophical discussions with yourself.
I was dreaming about some sort of international conclave, mostly Brits and Europeans but some Americans (enough that I was there, anyway). There was a fair lot of sociopolitical theory flying about, but the biggest point that made me wake up and want to write about it was this:
What do you think? Seemed fitting for this Friday, albeit awfully content-filled (potentially)...
I was dreaming about some sort of international conclave, mostly Brits and Europeans but some Americans (enough that I was there, anyway). There was a fair lot of sociopolitical theory flying about, but the biggest point that made me wake up and want to write about it was this:
"Civic holidays like "Memorial Day" are a surcease, designed to provide an outlet for the masses to prevent them from building up enough steam to revolt or riot."
What do you think? Seemed fitting for this Friday, albeit awfully content-filled (potentially)...
- Location:Hotel Deca, Seattle, WA
- Mood:
confused
- Music:David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans | Powered by Last.fm
Bit spotty, though I'll get to add two more in a week:

visited 30 states (60%)
Create your own Visited Map of the United States.
visited 30 states (60%)
Create your own Visited Map of the United States.
- Location:64106
- Mood:
ditzy
Setting: Six-lane divided highway, at normal speeds (assume 65mph/105kph, to minimize regional bias). Protagonist is driving a taxicab in the middle lane. Antagonist is driving a smaller (30-seat or so) school bus in the right-hand lane. Any other occupancy of the bus is up to you to determine.
Requirements: Protagonist must stop or disable the bus, but may only use the taxicab or themselves as a weapon (no firearms for shooting out tires, no swords/adamantium claws to remove the rear axle). Property damage, shooting/SFX budget, and collateral civilian injury are NOT restricted.
For the movie version: Who is your director? Who is your protagonist actor? Does the choice of actor directly influence the effectiveness of the method you chose (i.e. Bruce Willis/Chuck Norris)?
GO!
Requirements: Protagonist must stop or disable the bus, but may only use the taxicab or themselves as a weapon (no firearms for shooting out tires, no swords/adamantium claws to remove the rear axle). Property damage, shooting/SFX budget, and collateral civilian injury are NOT restricted.
For the movie version: Who is your director? Who is your protagonist actor? Does the choice of actor directly influence the effectiveness of the method you chose (i.e. Bruce Willis/Chuck Norris)?
GO!