| A sign of what, exactly? |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|09:44 am] |
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| | Jimmy Buffett - The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful | ] |
I just purchased a Jimmy Buffet album on the iTunes store. I blame my mother for exposing me to this stuff when I was little.
Jimmy Buffet, that is, not iTunes. |
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| Trouble at school! |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|01:06 pm] |
Read this story about how terrible it is: Story
Except...that's my senior year they appear to be talking about...and I don't remember that at all. |
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| Not again! |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|11:19 am] |
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I didn't get paid today. I should have been paid today... |
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| Ongoing matters of politics... |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|08:38 am] |
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| | Draconian Crackdown - Rasputina | ] |
No, I'm not here to talk about a missing governor. Nor is this post about the current clownish antics in my state, whose Republican governor is to the left of the President on some matters.
I'm here to talk about Iran. Things there seem to have moved to the "arrest them all" stage. If they follow the standard script, they will get around to trying to arrest the opposition leader soon.
I'm not sure what would happen at that point. I'd imagine there would be at least one rather large rally, which might be an occasion for doing a lot more arresting and headbusting. Would things escalate from there, or die off?
It's uncertain. My sympathies go out to anyone who thinks their presidential election was stolen. I guess having the Supreme Leader say everything is okay isn't quite as soothing as a real investigation.
So...I don't know what's going to happen. I can't really predict anything. But I am concerned for the people there. Not a light sort of concern that they might continue to be oppressed in a general way, but a direct sort of concern that a lot of people might get hurt. |
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| Birthday Party! (again) |
[May. 22nd, 2009|07:08 pm] |
Just a reminder, I need to know if you'll be coming to my party if I haven't heard from you. I want to start doing up the plot and the characters as soon as possible because I've never done the genre or used the system this game will have.
Fun!
So let me know. |
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| BlizzCon tickets, part 1 |
[May. 16th, 2009|10:32 am] |
I was in the queue within the first 30 seconds, at least.
They sold out when I was #941 or so on line.
<sigh> |
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| Also, it plays games... |
[May. 14th, 2009|11:01 pm] |
With my new, faster Internet connection, I decided to try the Netflix->Xbox 360 setup. I already had the 360 and the Netflix subscription, so why not?
It looked great and it performed amazingly. We watched an episode of Weeds, one of Dr. Who and have the entire run of Fawlty Towers queued up as well.
This has promise! |
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| Now THAT was way more than I expected. |
[May. 12th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
Sometimes, when all the pieces fall into place, there are a LOT of pieces.
I imagine even the non-WoW-players out there(the majority of readers, I think) can appreciate that it's pretty funny that doing one thing lead to so many achievements at the same time. |
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| Success! |
[May. 1st, 2009|01:55 am] |
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| | Bog An Lachan Steps (Live) -- Natalie MacMaster | ] |
I got some neat stuff going at work today. It was a long day, but I actually accomplished a lot. That's always a good feeling.
On a WoW note, I somehow managed to capture a flag in EotS on my mage. How I managed to be the first to click on it(after a few explosions) and how I managed to get back to the FRR with it...I'm not sure. But it happened. I was chased by someone angrily demanding I produce my orphan. I did, but he kept yelling. After I captured the flag I showed him my achievement progress...see? I really did have the orphan out. Honest. |
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| The more things change... |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|02:45 pm] |
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...the more they are changed.
Final Score, a restaurant I have a long history with, is just gone now. They were taking down signs and so on when I got there. The phone number is disconnected.
My doctor's office now has a copy of Shonen Jump in addition to all the bad health and parenting magazines. |
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| Audible? |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|11:08 am] |
Has anyone here used the audible.com service?
If so, what is your opinion on their quality, selection and value?
As my commute is often 3-4 hours per day, I've got a lot of time to listen.
$14.95 a month for one audio book per month seems like a lot to me. Mind you, I buy all my books in book form, which I expect to cost quite a bit in hardback(added value for pressing flowers, keeping doors open, throwing at people and so on) but not that much in paperback(easier to read in bed, less dangerous to toes when dropped).
I think the first and last book I bought in non-book form was Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on tape. I already had the book, if I recall correctly, but it was entertaining. It was also pretty cheap...I think. This was a long time ago!
In closing, yes, I know I could easily just pirate all the audio books I want. That's not what I'm interested in. :) |
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| RPG Plot: It's not just us... |
[Apr. 7th, 2009|05:59 am] |
You may have read my story about "Go to the store and get milk." as a plot. Or, you may have been there when ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cikevin came up with it.
(Or, just possibly, you might BE cikevin. Hi.)
But it's not just us. I suggest you look at the outcome of this game of Broken Picture Telephone that I started. It took a long time to complete...unlike the ones I didn't start, which all seemed to end the same day.
But maybe that just makes it more like one of my games. |
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| Call me old-fashioned... |
[Mar. 30th, 2009|11:35 am] |
I have never felt it's appropriate to set up your April Fool's Day jokes in advance.
Let me clarify that. I don't mean you shouldn't plan them in advance. I don't mean you shouldn't start building your 20' paper mache sculpture of your boss in advance either.
What I mean is that you don't start springing jokes on people ahead of time. It's outside the parameters of the event. You don't tell everyone a week ahead of time that Microsoft has forced you to shut down your web comic, for example, and then say "April Fool's!" on the 1st.
Start the joke on the first of April. Reveal the joke no later than noon, in most cases.
That's my belief, anyway. |
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| That's a deal. |
[Mar. 26th, 2009|04:48 am] |
Steam is a neat delivery system. Being able to register some store-bought games with it so you can download them again if you lose the media is nice. It also has possible drawbacks...so this isn't in favor of or opposed to using it.
But I was in a Best Buy today when anghouedd wanted to get something. I saw Empire: Total War and I couldn't remember if it was good or not. But it looked neat...yet it was expensive... Oh, but the gold version of Rome: Total War(gold=w/expansion) was just $19.99.
But it mentioned Steam integration. So I whipped out my phone and checked online and I could buy the game from Steam for $9.99. Games on Steam are usually full price or nearly so, but this was clearly cheap. Sorry, Best Buy!
Then I got home and discovered that in addition to selling Rome: Total War Gold for $9.99, they have a package called Rome: Total War Complete or something along those lines that contains Rome: Total War Gold and Rome: Total War Alexander, which is another expansion. All for just $9.99.
That was good enough to get me to buy it. |
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| RPGs |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|01:38 pm] |
If you're thinking anti-tank weapons, you are entirely wrong. Why are you even reading this? Who ARE you?
For the rest...
I haven't had a reliable game going in quite some time. One of the members of my D&D group had a series of escalating events that kept him away and game is largely dead.
So! I want to start a new game. But I know that getting people together will be really hard because of the distances involved. So I propose...an online game. I ran one before. Actually, that game was both in person and online(for different groups in the same setting) but the online part ran a lot longer. It was on a MUSH. Getting a room on a MUSH to run a game in is not a big deal...there are several options.
I suppose since this is my idea, I should volunteer to run(at least at first). So, I volunteer. I also volunteer to code up some dice if needed. Maybe a little OOC talk code object or something. (It's just handy to be able to distinguish when it's Game On.)
I've been reading quite a few graphic novels lately. For this and other reasons, I was thinking of a super hero game. Those who hang around me know I've been talking about this for a few years now, really.
Would anyone be interested in this? I was thinking the schedule would depend on who was playing, but it would be a regularly scheduled thing. Just like a real game, except you need to provide your own drinks. I'm not going to expect people to show up every time, but I think we can get together more regularly with no drive time.
I know that a lot of you are familiar with MUSH. If you aren't, don't worry. It's dead simple. |
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| Work, work, work... |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|02:32 pm] |
Even when I'm at home, I seem to be spending most of my time on work lately.
I knew the job was dangerous when I took it. |
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| Pandora |
[Feb. 28th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
I posted a screenshot earlier from the Pandora streaming music service. Now I'd like to talk about it.
Pandora lets you pick a song or an artist and create a web radio station out of it that only you can listen to(unless you share it). That's the simplest explanation.
In more detail, each artist or song has traits which identify it. If you pick an artist, it selects a song that it thinks is a good example of that artist's style and plays it. Then it plays songs that it thinks are similar. If you select a song, it doesn't play that song and jumps straight into playing similar songs. I think it will eventually play the song you requested...I'm not sure, I primarily work from artists.
For each song you, you can give it a thumbs-up, which means more songs like that will be played on that station, or a thumbs-down, which means that station will never play it again. There are other options, of course... It's fun. You don't need an account to try it out but accounts seem to be free and painless. I gather it does ask you to create one eventually. As should be expected, it can't just store all this stuff in cookies.
An example of a station I just created, picking Jonathan Coulton:
Skullcrusher Mountain by Johnathan Coulton->Bank Job by Barenaked Ladies->Hovering Sombrero by They Might Be Giants |
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| Helpful hint! |
[Feb. 6th, 2009|02:14 pm] |
Has some idiot with a journal full of MLM spam friended you recently?
Maybe you should ban them from your journal, which also helpfully removes them from your list of friends.
I highly recommend it. |
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