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November 10th, 2009
08:42 am sirriamnis [Link]	Up, here, dressed. What more do you people want? Bleah. Not awake yet. The Boy took today off, so he's in a coffee shop writing somewhere. I should have taken the day off. I do have tomorrow off. Could not find my sweatshirt, so I had to wear my black velvet cavalry coat. I love it, except it has NO POCKETS. If I were more talented I could fix that myself. Sigh. The cats were glad to see us. The Boods is doing ok. He still wants to snuggle and be on mom and dad so that's good. But I don't foresee him being with us much longer. I could be wrong, but... He is 14. I'll post about the games I played in later. ACNW was a wonderful, wonderful time as always. LOVED IT. (Leave a comment)
09:47 am warren_ellis [Link]	At Whitechapel This Afternoon At my shithole today: * The MATT FRACTION Interrogation 2009 - comics writer Matt Fraction kindly taking questions from the proletariat * REMAKE/REMODEL: Zero * Whitechapel Radio Is On * Warren’s Ancient Jukebox - fear * Warren’s Work FAQ (Revised Nov 2009) * Eliza Gauger’s SWEATSHOP (Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) (Leave a comment)
07:25 am kashma [Link]	Ambercon NW report Some notes from Ambercon NW - and I had a blast. Thanks to everyone, not only those stalwart hearts that put it together each year, but also all the attendees (110 this year!) whose presence and warmth and laughter makes this con what it really is. And makes me sad to leave each time. Slot 1 was a_bellatrist's run of what originally was an Erick Wujcik game - "GM Egomaniacal", which was an interesting experiement in shared, negotiated reality. What we came up with was something rather cyberpunk, in a cinematic sense. We were diving through wires and fighting virus' that were threatening our meat bodies. It was fun, and reminded me that when you have a con where something like a third of all the attendees if not more are in IT or Infosec, cyberpunk games get complex, fast. Slot 2, I ran. Overall, I'm reasonably satisfied by how it went, and the players seemed to have a good time. Highlights were having two of the characters help out some other folks by pushing a large tower down onto a bunch of enemies, and struggling (by everyone) to not say "pattern", and refer to what they were dealing with as a "rectilinear labyrinthine inset design". I love words. Slot 3 was Objects of Obsession: Bookworms, a continuation of one of the threads from last years "Objects of Obsession". This was the first time I'd played in a continuing game, and while there wasn't a huge amount of stuff for me to do, the character I was playing did come to some pretty heavy conclusions about the objects and stepped into a protector role for another character, which gave us some good off to the side character interaction. It was satisfying. The GM was Stephen Acton. Slot 4 was Strange Moon Rising, GM'ed by John Nienart. I loved the setting and the setup, and the players were all awesome. So awesome, in fact, that we were so in character that we ended up spending most of the time just interacting with each other, but didn't reveal what we knew, which I think kind of messed up John's timeline for the game. But, that's John's problem, not mine, since I was having such a good time, I didn't really notice or care. Slot 5 was Amber Shadows by Lee Short, another sort of make it up as you go game, but this time, with a rather ingenious Tarot card based resolution system, that not only was used for determining how conflicts turned out, but also who got to narrate what. We were also all GM's for other characters. I enjoyed it, and especially liked doing a little scenario with another player that had her portraying my lover, who I was rather crassly manipulating to try to destabilize the government of Kashfa. She betrayed me, at least once, and yet, somehow, I ended up trying to save her at the end. Slot 6 was simonepdx's Nightwatch game, which was really good. I played a researcher, and spent the majority of the time just sitting there and trying to figure out what was really going on - and got it about 60% right. Quite interestingly, I found myself being turned to by the rest of the Night Watch characters, and them saying "Edward? What do you think?" quite often, which was gratifying. Simone's games, at least for me, are just what I like, and I woke up from dreaming about it the following day. Slot 7 was the steampunk thing that dendacien and I put together, which was fun, and while there was one rather major mess up that unfortunately cratered one characters main motivation, I think that everyone had a good time. There were some calls for us to continue to run this next year. Between all that, I managed to hang out with many folks, have good talks with many more, and unfortunately not get to spend as much time with some of my friends there as I would have liked. Which is pretty standard for ACNW - there are far too many cool people to manage. carpe_noir got dinner reservations for 6 on Friday, and that was lovely, and a good idea. Some conclusions - I think I need to seriously consider taking a slot or two off in the future, and arranging times to either sleep or hang out with other con attendees. I have also concluded that the "make it up as you go along" games, that really start from a blank slate, are not quite my cup of tea. They're enjoyable, but I find myself not having enough hooks to hang my ideas from, where even just having a little bit of setting is useful for this. Also, resolution systems aren't really my cup of tea, although I enjoy the work that goes into them - I'm much more comfortable with just a GM and character, or character to character, interaction, and allowing the story to tell me how things end up. I got home, spent a lot of quality time with S, and now I'm dreading going back to work. Such is life, I suppose. Thanks again, everyone. I think I'll leave this open, and tagged, in case anyone I met this year is on LJ. Drop me a comment and I'll friend you. Tags: acnw, ambercon, gaming (Leave a comment)
10:14 am zoethe [Link]	The end of an epoch The Bride and her Beast returned from Russia yesterday. Cat and Dmitri flew back in last night and, anxious to get home and wishing to take advantage of their jet lag, packed up and hit the road at about 1am. Mindful of their time crunch and their compact car (and, to be honest, desirous of making sure that they managed to get out of here with ALL their stuff), I spent some time yesterday evening packing up their things, removing unneeded packing material and boxes and compacting everything down to the essentials as effectively as possible. I figured that would help them get all their stuff into their car. What I hadn't figured on was them arriving with their car quite full already. Foolishly, I hadn't thought about the wedding gifts and other things that had gone home with D's parents. So when we looked at their car and then looked at the large pile of stuff on my front porch, it was with some dismay. D suggested leaving behind some of the wedding things, like the bouquet. Cat protested because she wanted them at home. I protested because - AUGH!! No more boxes in my house!!! I suggested that they leave behind the suitcase with the wedding togs - after all, it's just one suitcase, and they are going to be back at Christmas. That was a reasonable compromise, and we got to work. I really wish we'd taken pictures, because mere words cannot convey the special Tetris/Tardis combination required to get everything into a vehicle that clearly must be bigger on the inside. It's kind of amazing how many extra things can fit into the interstitial spaces between and around the large and bulky items. Misha and Babymonkey, if you can, take the time to appreciate their unpacking. It's going to look like a clown car. Just make sure they get all the wine out from behind the passenger's seat before they open the back door or there will be sad. And if they have to stop suddenly on the freeway, the shifting load will likely kill them. Other than that, no problems! So now they are gone, which means The Wedding of Bard and Beast is truly at an end. I walked back into the cleaned out guest room to savor its return to our possession. And by the gods if I wasn't just a little bit sad and lonely. Of course, Ferrett being gone for this week doesn't help that, but the wedding was such fun and so wonderful that having it all gone leaves me a bit nostalgic. Oh, well, I can always go down to my sewing room and revel in the mess left by the seamstress. That's still there for me. (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:24 am sittingduck1313 [Link]	Here's something to give Harry Turtledove a brain cramp http://www.theonion.com/content/news/alternate_universe_sci_fi_channel Current Music: Starship Operators opening theme Tags: onion (Leave a comment)
09:20 am robin_d_laws [Link]	Sources and Methods In a late-breaking comment it took me a while to spot, Sergio M asks: What are the sources for your model of story analysis? Is it your personal creation? Where you inspired by any books or whatever? Which? None of the major concepts are original to me, although I find myself wanting to change their frame of reference as I look further into these issues. It’s an evolving process. Provenance of story terminology is tough to pin down sometimes.This is particularly an issue with procedural/adventure/serial/adventure fiction, which we are mostly emulating in RPGs. Most writing texts and workshops skew toward the standalone and literary side of things.Terms and concepts of use to working creators percolate out from writer’s rooms into DVD commentaries and out into the blogosphere. Perhaps someday an intrepid scholar will track the origins of such bedrock terms as “laying pipe” for exposition or “backstory” for a character’s past. Like roleplaying practice, it is in large degree an oral tradition which is codified haphazardly and in retrospect, and is subject to ongoing innovation and revision. The movie and TV industries have a several generation head start on us in the generation of useful story-making techniques and the jargon to go with them. The pass/fail cycle is a well established term for adventure plotting, and not unique to me. I’m now leaning toward hope/fear as more useful for RPG-focused story analysis; that is my variation. Inconveniently, it’s used in other fields as well, and if you Google the term, you get one of my blog posts. For scene analysis, I draw on a work written for actors, Michael Shurtleff’s Audition. Its analytical techniques were then broken out by acting teachers to be more broadly applicable than its original remit suggested. The book itself focuses on how you break a scene for a dynamic, killer audition. A mutated Shurtleff approach was all the rage in the York University (Toronto) theater department when I was taking a Fine Arts Studies degree there in the mid-80s. The terms petitioner and granter, for the participants in a dramatic scene, are used by the legendary film editor Walter Murch, as interviewed by Michael Ondaatje in The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. He doesn’t claim them as unique to himself, but for all I know they're his variation on a familiar concept. Tags: beat analysis, gaming hut, turning points (Leave a comment)
06:12 am naturalliving [sceneablexcunt] [Link]	litter box alternatives u know like natural litter box alternatives? i mean i have a cat that poops a crapload everyday. i mean this honkin cat he poops lot. but see i am moving and i need to have a new place to have his poops. and i dont want to get litterboxes because well, they track ALL THE DAMN DAY ALL OVER. in and out in and out. i know some of u that have cnatural cats can relate and know what im sayin here. but well whenever my at takes a shadoobie he gets the litter all over. and you pet owners should know how hard it is to find a LITTERBOX ALTERNATIVE OOUT THERR but see, how about a natural litterbox alternative? anyone got anything? thnkas in advance and if u dont mind if i do id like u to message me if u reply to this because i dont know if it will get deleted or not or if like noone will reply. so it will notify me if i get a new message in my inbox. so go ahead and msg me after to reply to this post to notify me. u see i cant turn my reply notification on because i will get a heck load of mails on posts i dont care who replied to im a state and run kind of girl. so please if u have any info on natural litterbox alternatives for cats hit it up with a reply and go ahead and send me a inbox message on livejournla saying that u did so. also. i d like to ask to all the people in knowledge of this or who have dogs(or bnoth) what baout natural dog poopers? like instead of just lettin the dogs take dumps all over the house when u cant let them outside. what is an inside alternatives. see cats have litterboxes my dogs wont go in um. except the new dog kinda ate some litter or something or looked like he was going to g(getting curios) of what the litterbox was or something i immediately got him away from it multiple times but im just saying how about shitters for my cats or dogs? instead of the ool outside grpoopout. anyone knows of anything to get to get the dogs to crap in it while they have to take a poopie (or pisser) when they are inside? along with cats. k thx. Tags: odor removal (15 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:06 am theferrett [Link]	Clarionniversary, October Wrap-Up Stories Published This Month: "In the Land of the Deaf," by Electric Spec Teaser: I really wish you'd get yourself deafened, Geoff's wife Angie signed. It's just too dangerous out there. The irony was, of course, that Geoff barely heard anything anymore; years of firing his gun in the line of duty had permanently damaged his eardrums. But he was on his way out the door to give the annual recruitment talk, which meant there was no time to argue Angie out of her damn fool ideas again... Comments on Publication: This is actually one of my favorite stories that I wrote in the first six months after Clarion, and I'm glad to see it find a home. I should also note that Electric Spec has an interesting blog that often critiques the first pages of submitted stories from an editor's perspective. Also, on an unrelated note, Diabolical Plots listed my story "Suicide Notes, Written By An Alien Mind" on his Best of Pseudopod Top 10 List. Neat! Stories Worked On This Month: "Shoebox Heaven" (first draft). My Godson Andy's cat died, and so I wrote a story about him flying up to Heaven to find his kitty. It wound up being a horror story - though not, perhaps, from his perspective. Like any afterlife story, it runs into tricky bits with the mechanisms of Heaven, and preliminary critique from the fine folks at Viable Paradise suggest I need to be more explicit about my views of mankind, but I think it'll be quite nice shortfic when it's done. "Season to Taste" (fourth draft). My infamous "gay cannibal rhino" story. Much ripped out upon revision thanks to the helpful feedback from The Cajun Sushi Hamsters, wherein I really looked at the character motivations and made them all line up cleanly. Not sure if that made the story better, though I'll keep revising. There's something here. About glorious, beautiful cannibalism. "The Insecure Cyborg" (fourth draft). This one's a little weird, because I have an offer for it, but I have to revise out a controversial scene and replace it with something else. Difficult, but doable. A couple of minor starts and dribbles on stories with preliminary titles like "Love Shack" and "Cootie Quarantine." October Acceptances: One. Being a superstitious man, I don't mention a sale before the contract is signed. That damn near killed me with the Asimov's sale, and it damn near killed me to wait five months before I could say that GUD Magazine picked up "In the Garden of Rust and Salt." Alas, it's in issue #6, and my friends funwithrage and ken_schneyer are in #5, so as wonderful as it is to be in GUD, I won't be next to my pals. Alas! And yay! October Rejections: A whopping eight. One of them, for "What Killed Tyra Herschel?" after saying the same things that everyone else did, convinced me to scrap the story and start over - nobody likes newscasts, apparently. One was for a reprint, so I don't feel too bad. One, from Ideomancer, had very kind, personal feedback; another, from Strange Horizons, told me that they just didn't buy the premise. The rest were generic rejections. Also, I've got one in a very long wait from F&SF, but I'm pretty sure it's lost in the mail. It's happened before. But you have to wait a while before following up. Currently In Circulation: "The Backdated Romance," "The Insecure Cyborg,""...At The End Of All Prophecy," "iTime," "Under the Thumb of the Brain Patrol," "Home Despot," "Amanda Rose's Travelling, Earth-Destroying Circus," "A Window, Clear As A Mirror," "Unreal Estate," "Slaves of Hollywood," "At The End Of The Chain" Overall: I just ran dry this month; nothing really seemed exciting to work on, though I had some great ideas. So I took off a week. I'm still on that break, and I feel the tugs of little stories aching at me, but I'm not sure whether the break is from laziness or just that the muse needs some time to recover from 1.3 years of writing constant stories. I dunno; I feel guilty either way. (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:57 am curgoth [Link]	Steampunk Steampunk photoroam. There may have been a little photoshop in a couple pics. Tags: pics, steampunk (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:42 am alessar [Link]	Unusually ... Normally when I try to go to bed early to make up for a bad night's sleep I just lay there or whatever. Not last night! It did take a little while but I conked out around 9:30 I think and slept through until 7 am. Current Mood: refreshed Current Music: Cream - White Room (Leave a comment)
07:32 am naturalliving [eyelikerancid] [Link]	Natural Dishwasher Detergent? Any suggestions for a good, natural-type dishwasher detergent that actually works?? I currently have Seventh Generation and it's AWFUL. I rinse my dishes really well, and it won't even clean my rinsed coffee mugs properly. Being that it's more expensive than the regular stuff, I'm pretty disappointed. I'm also open to suggestions for less-natural brands that don't test on animals. Thanks!! (my dishes thank you, too. And my water bill, since now I have to run the dishwasher on longer settings to get stuff cleanish!) Tags: soap (14 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:17 am theferrett [Link]	A Little Rawer And More Self-Revelatory Than Usual: My Addiction I had to destroy several friendships before I realized I had an addiction. And like any addiction, even now I have to constantly guard against it, because the minute I let down my guard I stop existing and the addiction takes over. It’s not that my addiction is some separate entity, a Tyler Durden waiting to be unleashed; rather, it’s that an addiction is a habit so strong that, unless you consciously work against it, it will drag you down the same paths again and again. Time can teach you that those paths will destroy the most precious parts of your life. Experience can make resisting a near-involuntary effort, like putting your glasses on the same counter before you go to bed. Yet relax for a moment, and that desire will take the wheel. You will break promises, break people, shatter all the goodness in your life, simply because some portion of you is broken. You have an inherent desire, and Lord knows where it came from, but it wants to be satisfied all the damn time. It will wriggle inside you, subtly changing your behavior to make sure its goals are met. My addiction? NRE. I think about this now because two weeks ago, I had a very good week. Two lovely women were flirting with me, it felt like some connection was being created, and every time I opened my inbox there was something new and friendshippy. The next week, that stopped. The people in question didn’t abandon me, but real life took over as they had other deadlines, and the emails stopped coming. And I crashed. I felt ludicrously depressed and unloved, even though things were stupidly good around me. I had a wife who loved me deeply, I had a house literally filled with good friends, I had two intelligent and beautiful girlfriends, and a load of people complaining that we never had time to spend together. Yet because last week two relationships had been flourishing, and this week had no new relationships, I felt like I was sliding backwards. I had two people last week, so this week should be three people, and the fact that I didn’t have that meant that I wasn’t any good and everyone hated me, and my God what the hell was wrong with me? That’s my addiction: New Relationship Energy. That addiction isn’t necessarily sexual, though it often is. I just like that charge of having a new friendship blossom out. I love falling into somebody new, and I love that thrill of knowing that someone really wants to talk to me so badly they’re thinking of me when I’m not there. I love that initial back-and-forth of OMG, HOW ARE YOU, LET’S TALK SOME MORE. That charge led me down some pretty dark paths when I was younger, because usually the quick fix for that was sex. That made me an absolute bastard when I was younger; if there was someone who I could be attracted to, why, I would be, because I loved having that connection. And if someone wanted me, well, I wanted to be wanted. And wham, sex. If those people who wanted me happened to be dating someone else, well… I’d like to say that I couldn’t resist, but that’d be a lie. I could have. But then my desires wouldn’t have been met, and I’d have felt terrible, and to avoid that feeling of isolation I did things I am distinctly not proud of. I tried to tell myself that the fact of the attraction should be enough - but in the depths of my stupidity, I couldn’t feel that. If there was a potential and it went by, I felt like it must have been an illusion. How could I know that they really liked me if we didn’t go all the way and explore that intimacy? Not the sex, though that almost invariably followed, but the intimacy of spending hours together talking and needing to know and finding out every nook and cranny of the other person. I couldn’t, wouldn’t, let it go, so I formed unhealthy connections. That hurt people. Sometimes I’d find myself getting into relationships with people who I knew were bad for me just because they, too, wanted that closeness. That hurt me. And then the NRE wore off and I’d need someone new to bond with, and so I’d spend all my time with someone else. I called it Tarzan-swinging. Just grasping from friend to friend. And if they dropped off the NRE train first (or just had the normal vagaries of life distract them), then I’d get panicky wondering what happened to our friendship. It sent my mind into tiny little spirals. And I’d do silly things in stupid efforts to make them “prove” we were still friends, performing embarrassing psychodramatic displays that I’m still ashamed of. As time went by, and my friends found it increasingly hard to defend me, I realized I wanted to be a better person, but didn’t know how. Thankfully, as usual, God provided. While stuck in a lonely town, I met a guy who was phenomenal, and he became my best and only friend. We hung out for hours, which was brilliant. Then, three months later, I met his girlfriend. Who was very cute, and we clicked, but I realized that I would ruin both this new friendship and my old friendship by trying to press for full-on closeness in the way I usually did. It would have interfered with their relationship, and I liked my pal so much that I didn’t want to ever do that. So I became friends with her, and close friends, but not the friendship that squeezed someone dry for that NRE fix. And that, thankfully, was my first step away from my stupidity. I’ve learned how to cope since then. Now, though I do have close friendships, I can stop at the edge and go, “All right, this doesn’t need to be a 24/7 lovefest where we constantly bare our souls. This can just be cool.” And in many ways, that’s better. I get to keep my wife (who I do constantly have that lovefest with), and have a variety of good friends, and I don’t cause upheaval when the honeymoon period ends and we slide into hey, howya doin’. Yet I still sense it there, lurking. I still backslide occasionally. And even now, I could do stupid harm. Those people I spent the two weeks talking to? I could do dumb stuff, like sending dumb emails that are a variant on DO YOU LIKE ME? I could try to force a relationship prematurely, which would lead to ruin as this force-grown friendship blossomed in cramped and awful ways. I could try to reach out to new people in attempts to get that charge. These days, I know. I know that it’s time to step away from the keyboard, and let it go. It’s unhealthy. And so I go back to bed, and I tell Gini what a doof I am, and she hugs me and I realize that this is what’s important. And it’s good. That tug, though, is always there. It’s been two decades learning my way around it, and it’s still twisting me in unseen ways. It could be argued, and I wouldn’t debate it too heavily, that to a large extent this very journal is a variant on reaching out for NRE. I ask for secrets and post comment-whore threads because, hey, it’s a connection. I like connections. Maybe too much. It’s not quite on the destructive level of an addiction like alcohol, thankfully, but it’s as insidious. You have to monitor. Some people think that I think things over too carefully, and perhaps I do, but that’s because I have to analyze my own behavior. If I’m not careful in my actions, I’ll look back and find that hey, it’s in the driver’s seat again. And for that, I must be vigilant in a way that people who don’t have this internal tugging can’t really understand. 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06:28 am naturalliving [zenturbo] [Link]	Vessel Hey Folks, I was at my co-op this morning and I noticed some real cool bottles from Vessel. The buyer told me he stopped carrying SIGGS due to the company's erratic deliveries and they were having a lot of problems with leaking. Some of their designs are real cool and according to another employee, these things are the Cadillac of water bottles and insulated drink ware. He went on to tell me that he would fill it up with scalding hot coffee, throw it in his backpack and bike home...his coffee is still hot and no drips to be found. I need to retire my Sbux travel mug (which is going to my BF's work), and I was wondering if anyone here has one of these and if they are worth the hype. I have a SIGG insulated bottle, but it is a pain in the @#$&^% to clean. Current Mood: curious (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
02:23 am karjack [Link]	ACNW: the bits I can remember. It's not that the con isn't memorable. It's that it's located in the Land of a Thousand Bars and I did my best to avail myself of most of them. ( Mission successful. ) ETA: Here are some pictures of the venue, taken by cyranocyrano. I would love to do a writer's workshop there some weekend. You could use the paintings for story inspiration. Current Mood: sleepy (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:39 pm morinon [Link]	Just something that annoys me. Who out there thinks that being an only child automatically makes you more mature? I have known a number of only children. Some are indeed mature. Some are not. I find a higher incidence of immaturity among single children than among those who grew up with siblings. I assume this is because such children had to learn to deal with someone else of a similar age sharing their space, both physically and conceptually. This is not a hard and fast rule, I can think of some only children more mature than most people I know, but saying "IMA ONLY CHILD SO IM MORE MATURE" is really just saying "I HAVE NO REAL SELF-AWARENESS". If you are more mature, it probably has less to do with being a single child and more to do with having had experiences with people that forced you to grow. /rant Current Mood: annoyed (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
11:17 pm evilandi [Link]	Yeah, there was a Con. ACNW! Good times had by all. Quotes! "He has a theme..." "Oh, that Prince..." "No. Nononooo. I know everyone in this building. This is NOT happening..." "I'm glad we finally remembered where the Pokemon reference came from about your dead grandmother..." AND the one that nearly made me spit out my drink, "...and he'll be having an Astroglide and Coke." (Leave a comment)
02:09 am jer_ [Link]	From Twitter 11-09-2009 10:57:27: Ugh, so much to do. Need to catch up on grading, do homework, write a bit, finish the XML parser of infinite looping, and go to work. 12:42:36: Topless housecleaning? This exists? I need a topless housekeeper, stat! Ladies, don't fail me here... 14:51:48: To hell with this Monday. Not shaping up well, and I doubt it'll improve. sigh 16:04:10: Jesus, I'd be delighted to deal with just a tiny bit less incompetence today. 16:11:32: Finally finished dropping a class for the first time ever...after completing a series of quest steps Sierra Games would be proud of. 16:18:16: It is always fun, by the way, explaining why you are dropping a class in which you have a high A. 16:31:31: ♺ @NakedComedy: This wkend we'll be doing a live "radio drama" of #girlgenius Revenge of the Weasel Queen w/Space Time Theater at #windycon! 18:22:00: I am warming to this "nude housecleaning thing"...I think I'll start a business... Tweets copied by twittinesis.com (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
11:01 pm sons_of_krypton [evilgrins] [Link]	cheesy special effects and one canon flaw Current Mood: grateful Tags: superman, thor, youtube.com (Leave a comment)
01:47 am comicbook_icons [stacyx] [Link]	1037 New Icons Samples: ( The list ) http://www.zereldax.com/marvelicons.html (Leave a comment)
12:06 am bzero [Link]	LoudTwitter In the last 24 hours: 16:45 Just brought an entire cartload of recycling down from my apartment. Thanks for the help, @icespark # (Automatically shipped at midnight by LoudTwitter) (Leave a comment)
November 9th, 2009
08:50 pm sirriamnis [Link]	Kittens do not like Wasabi peas. Considering everything else she eats, we were a little surprised. (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:36 pm ogremarco [Link]	Ambercon NW 2 As an overall report the con was a lot of fun. It was great taking Ben down with us and hanging out with Jules and Yi Mei a lot. The hotel, as always was a great place to be, and I drank more than I ever do, especially over multiple days. If I had to pick a bad thing it was the main restaraunt. I'm really sick of the criminal practice of slicing up a steak for "presentation." Thanks for the dry, bled out steak. Also, seared ahi should be seared, not cooked through, and that was an uninspired sauce and some bland rice. I should have just eaten in the pubwhere the food is better and not rushed. In fact, what I had in the pub was excellent, especially the pepperoni and mozzarella stuffed buger, and the chowder I had on friday. As always their liqor selection is astounding. I poured a whole hell of a lot of Woodfor reverve down my neck for sure. Their new special drink the Bourbon furnace is quite tasty as well, although too sugary for more than a sip for me. Oh, and their new IPA is quite good and has a good flavor as opposed to most IPAs, which have no flavor. (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
07:37 pm ogremarco [Link]	Ambercon NW First up was Bliss Stage as run by Ben Bernard. It was just as harsh and emotional as I was hoping. The system worked well for us for the most part, and since Ben Lehman's other game finished early he got a chance to come and observe and take what he says were some really great notes. Everybody was really amazing roleplaying-wise and we all got to be totally heartbreaking in a really rockstar way. Friday morninng I ran Nine Pieces of Flair. The players took the Amberite personalities and overlaid them onto the employees of Amberjack's restaraunt, one of those hellish places with shit all over the walls. It was a little daunting to try to do comedy in the morning, but once everyone decided that the key to the comedy was to stymie their character's ambitions. Then I played in James Craig's Paranoia in Amber. It was artful. Hats off to Craig for running a classic Paranoia game and a classic save-the-universe Amber game and having them linked together. it was really fun. That night was Sea Dracula, hosted by Pol Jackson, which was ridiculous and fun and definitely biased towards the lovely female players and their ability to actually dance. we played two games a murder mystery and a case of theft. In the first the jury decided that that, indeed, was an ugly lamp, and in the second we decided that, yes, Ms. Pouissonne Pouissoffe was prettier than Mr. Rogers. Nuff said. I spent the long slot on Saturday playing Drew Wood's Dreadwood, a western horror rife with horrible things under the mines, ghosts, zombies, and unsettling feng shui. Definintely and old school mysterie game, and Drew kept us moving along at a brisk pace. The characters were seeded with secrets that preloaded action and clues. Nicely done. That night I ran The Ruikei Project, an Amber/Akira mashup. Basically I gave psychic teens in Neo Tokyo hard choices that boiled down to have escalatingly awful things happen, or win by using your powers. Using powers set the story cclock forward and made things more intense for everyone. Unfortunately midnight snuck up on us and our actual ending was more contrived than intense. I am my own worst critic. Actually this was a really fun game, and I think I would play it every week. We all had a lot of fun being unabashed fans of the genre and framing scenes down to camera angles. The last slot on Sunday was Scientific Progress Goes BOOM! a Girl Genius scenario run with Spirit Of The Century light by Jules Morley. It was a huge chaotic fun romp and everything I needed out of a final slot. Oh, and My Traveller boxer character (ala Mickey from Snatch) got to punch Othar Trygvasson in the balls. (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
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08:31 pm djinnthespazz [Link]	Okay, we have a tentative renter situation, and we need to figure out what this means to us. I know that the place will need some work to make it habitable. Is there a service (just a basic house inspection, maybe?) that will go over the place and let us know what will take to bring it up to standards? Is there a source for the legal on becoming a landlord? Boilerplate leases? Etc, etc. We need to take a crash course in this stuff. And of course, we'd like to minimize the money we spend in getting the place available to make money for us. (4 comments \| Leave a comment)

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