| meme time! |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|08:13 pm] |
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Five Questions meme courtesy of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bibliothekara:
Come in and say "Resistance is futile" and I will give you 5 questions. Make an entry in your journal with your answers.
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| Shadowrun awesomeness! |
[Oct. 4th, 2009|07:32 pm] |
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First Shadowrun game was this afternoon.
We broke the module.
(SPOILERS for the module follow, although I don't know the name of the module so it won't be much help.)
The job was to get a crate out of a truck and make it look like an inside job. We had some pretty bad rolls early on- we got almost no information about the truck, and the troll character fell off it while carrying my hacker character (luckily both were unharmed) and the gun nut slid all the way down the side of the truck when the technomancer finally got it to stop- abruptly. We got the crate, setting off a ton of alarms, and got out before security could show up, and then the technomancer and my hacker got a 12 on a combined check to pin it on this random dockworker, which was not in the plans at all.
(END MODULE SPOILERS)
Everyone had their character sheets half-finished the whole time, and we were trading around the books to work on them, and someone brought this huge bag of pixie sticks. I had so much fun, I can't wait until the next time I get to play. |
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| Wonderland DRM |
[Aug. 5th, 2009|03:08 pm] |
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I need Adobe Reader to register for classes.
By downloading Adobe Reader, I agree to the License Agreement.
Which is a PDF.
Which I cannot read without Adobe Reader.
Either the bureaucrats are being idiots, or I will find out, once I download Adobe Reader, that I just agreed to give them anything I make, forever.
Edit: Yup, it's bureaucrats. (Or bearcats, as the case may be. :) ) |
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| College Essays |
[Dec. 14th, 2008|11:00 am] |
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I only have two full-size college essays to write, because most of the schools I'm applying to use the Common App. You'd think it would be easy to finish them, but it seems lately like the less I have left to do, the harder it is to get anything done. This morning I stared at my essay for Favorite Techie School until my screensaver came on, and so far I've written eight words. It asks me to talk about my dreams and aspirations, and I've discovered I don't really have any, which worries me a little.
On the bright side, we're getting our Christmas tree today, and I made marshmallow dormice on Thursday, which turned out really well. (A girl I know brought them to our Latin party in school back in November, and I was really happy because I hadn't expected there to be any dessert I could eat. You make them by covering marshmallows in melted chocolate and then coconut, and she drew little mouse faces on hers with frosting, but I didn't have time to give mine faces. They taste just the same without.) |
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| More baking |
[Oct. 3rd, 2008|08:43 pm] |
I made lemon meringue pie on Tuesday for the first time.
( Cut for rambling and excessive detail )
I've recently found a lot of blogs about cake, and I enjoy reading them, so I was thinking I'd try to post more here about my adventures in gluten-free baking. If I'm on your friends list and you don't want to be bothered with lots of posts about cooking, please comment on this entry and I'll figure out a way to filter them for you.
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| Pirate cookies! |
[Sep. 19th, 2008|08:30 pm] |
So, I saw this post on Cake Wrecks today, and I was getting hungry looking at all the cake, so I made some cookies of my own, and decorated them with chocolate frowny faces, smiley faces, and a couple of pirate faces, because I messed up the eyes and had to fix it somehow, so why not an eyepatch in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day. Yarr. I'll post some pictures in an edit as soon as I figure out how to get them off my phone. Which might be a couple days. Avast there!
( Edit: Pictures under the cut )
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 11th, 2008|08:59 pm] |
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is an internet mini-series musical about a supervillain. How much cooler can you get? (Sample Answer: add ninjas and pirates, and make it longer.) It's being produced by Joss Whedon, the same guy as Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Nathan Fillion, who was also in Firefly, plays Captain Hammer.
The official site is here: drhorrible.com
It's going to be free for a few days, and then available to buy as a download, and later as a DVD.
From the Master Plan: We have big dreams, people, and one of them is paying our crew.
Which, come to think of it, could also be the motto for Firefly, in-verse. |
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| The Big Read List |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|01:12 pm] |
Meme from jesspallas . The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
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| Language fun (and an advertisement) |
[Jun. 2nd, 2008|05:25 pm] |
A new English verb: to loo.
Definition: to sing backup on the word "loo," especially in a multi-part choral piece.
Examples of use: "Ooh, we get to loo in this piece!"*
"Wow, we loo really low there."*
"So the altos have the melody while the sopranos loo?"
*Actually said in class, subject to the vagaries of memory.
And the advertisement, as promised:
I've mentioned Alexandra Erin's work here before. I've finally broken my addiction to Tales of MU, but now she's restarted Star Harbor Nights, which I found through ToMU and read through the archives. But some of her other projects are not getting as much attention as they deserve, especially Tribe: Fantasy in Miniature. It's a dark, urban fantasy written entirely in 333-word chapters. The plot is thickly interwoven and really fascinating. |
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| Because it is very late, and I am very tired |
[May. 18th, 2008|11:53 pm] |
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I have written a very silly Firefly haiku. Actually, it's only loosely based on Serenity, and comes more directly from a conversation my Firefly HSSP class (H1188 here) had. Tiny Serenity spoilers, so I'm putting it under a cut. That, and I want to practice HTML.
(Okay, neither HTML or Rich text is working, and I'm too tired to find the problem right now. It'll just have to be a spoiler. Not like anyone reads my journal anyway. )
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| Letters we don't send |
[Mar. 6th, 2008|10:38 pm] |
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Dear English Teacher,
When the name of the quiz is a "Reading Check," it is the generally accepted practice to use questions whose answers were actually in the reading, rather than the explanatory notes or your own personal interpretation.
(Meagan, I don't know whether you know who I mean, but please don't say anything about this in real life. Same goes for anyone else from my school who finds this.) |
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| Fun with Hamlet, because I should be writing an essay in French right now |
[Feb. 22nd, 2008|09:58 pm] |
So, I'm in a high school Honors Brit Lit class, and we're reading Hamlet right now. (Actually, right now we're on vacation, but you know what I mean.) On Friday, we read Act I scene 5 out loud in class. Normally, with plays in English class, you get most of the class just reading the words on the page one after another with no expression or even regard for punctuation at all, which kind of annoys me, being the drama person I am. In this case, however, the ghost was played by a boy who's also really into the drama club, and he went crazy-in-a-good-way with the expression-spooky voices, shouting, and he even ducked down behind his chair when the ghost exited. (They were at the front of the room.) Meanwhile, the kid playing Hamlet was of the monotone 'school'. Everyone kept cracking up, but I bet that's not a scene we forget in a hurry.
The funny thing was, it actually worked. Just not the kind of 'work' I had envisioned reading the scene the night before.
Especially where Hamlet had monosyllabic answers to dramatic proclamations, like here:
HAMLET
Speak; I am bound to hear.
Ghost
So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
HAMLET
What?
or here:
[Ghost]
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
HAMLET
O God!
it seemed like Hamlet was just in way over his head with all this crime and revenge and supernaturalism and just wanted to go back to Wittenberg and study Aristotle or whatever princes studied at Wittenberg back then. |
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| The Chaucerfic that never was |
[Dec. 11th, 2007|11:09 pm] |
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| | If I Can't Love Her-Beauty and the Beast | ] |
I was trying to write a sequel to The Knight's Tale, but it kept coming out wrong no matter how much I tried to fix it. It was kind of a one-idea fic, anyway. Basically, Emily and Palamon were setting up house together when Emily makes a joke about "the two prisoners of war together," and Palamon says "Wait, what?" or some such, and they tell each other stories about their past, and end up realizing they have more in common than living next to each other without realizing it for years. (I was going to put the synopsis under a cut, but I can't figure out how.) As a side note, I thought Emily was a very odd name for an ancient Greek, (well, Amazon, I guess) particularly one with a sister named Hippolyta. The first time I saw it, it reminded me of a Mary Sue. |
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| More advertising |
[Oct. 24th, 2007|10:40 pm] |
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I know no one will probably read this, but I would like to take this opportunity to announce that Alexandra Erin, one of my favorite online authors, has decided to quit her day job and write full-time. She writes several serial works at the moment, Tales of Mu, (which I've described already in my second-last post, so I won't try to paraphrase it;, Tribe: Fantasy in Minature, which is "low, dark, urban fantasy," and which is written in chapters 333 words long; and Void Dogs, which I don't know how to describe except as "space fantasy" and very funny. All the links can be found in the sidebar of her website, www.alexandraerin.com. |
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| Meme by way of got_stalker: |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|10:06 pm] |
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If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. |
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| Advertising |
[Aug. 16th, 2007|04:17 pm] |
Attention anyone who might be reading:
I follow a really awesome original fiction serial on livejournal called Tales of MU. The MU stands for Magisterius University, and the story is about a half-human girl starting her freshman year there. (You have to read the story to find out what her other half is, MUAHAHAHAHA! Ha. Ha. Um. Or, you could just check the end of chapter 12, if you really want to find out that badly.) The university is set in a world (vaguely inspired by Dungeons & Dragons) where there was an equivalent to our Industrial Revolution, but fueled by magic instead of science. It superficially appears to be like our world, but the differences become ever more pronounced as you get deeper into the story, and discovering them is one of my favorite things. (To give a rather tame example, televisions and refrigerators still have the same names because their names describe what they do- seeing at a distance and cooling things, respectively. However, their equivalent of a microwave is called a "food warmer" because the name "microwave" describes how it works, and there is no such thing as microwaves in that universe.)The characters are wonderfully drawn, and the author is incredible: since June 5, she's written the equivalent of two short novels, not to mention her other projects. It does get a little graphic at times, but it is uniformly well-written and generally awesome. So, if anyone ever reads this, the link is here: http://mutales.livejournal.com/ |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 18th, 2007|08:28 pm] |
If you see this, post some Shakespeare.
It's been almost a year since my last update, and the post I read this on was from 2005, but since it was from A. T. Rain, my favorite fan author, I felt guilty about ignoring it. So, without further ado:
My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lip's red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun,
If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
In some perfumes there is more delight
Than the breath with which my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,
Music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare. |
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