B plus 34 years and counting…
Forgot my lunch this morning, so since it’s my birthday, my boss ordered me a sub from the deli nearby.
So far, this has been one of the more pleasant Fridays 🙂 I’ll have to share my good mood with my sweetie later today *wink*
For the webcomic fans
Checked out a new online comic this morning – Freefall, at http://freefall.purrsia.com/ . It’s the story of a rougish “captain” never seen out of his space suit, a rather addled robot, and their newly-hired anthopomorphic engineer, as they try to make an old salvaged spaceship space-worthy. Another bit of online fun that had me snickering frequently.
Paging Ensign Rorschach
Couldn’t resist, I took the online inkblot test. I do feel that a lot of what the results say is pertinent… which I wasn’t really expecting, being suspicious about online tests and answer forcing. (I’m a practiced Tarot reader, so I know about getting people to answer their own questions for you) And the results are…
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Michael, your unconscious mind is driven most by Curiosity.
This means you are full of questions about life, people, and the potential of your future. You spend more time than others envisioning the possibilities of your life — things that others are too afraid to consider.
Your curiosity burns with an almost physical need to know and do more. It’s only through new experiences that you feel a greater understanding of yourself or the world — which ultimately is the greatest way for you to feel satisfied.
It is possible that the underlying reason for your drive towards curiosity is a deeply rooted fear of boredom. That means that you are probably more susceptible than others to feel like you’re falling into a rut when life slows down into a comfortable routine.
You need to make sure you have stimulation in your life — that makes you feel like you’re innovating or being exposed to the ideas and experiences that truly inspire you.
With such a strong orientation towards curiosity, you’re also prone to a rebellious quality that shows up when you feel you are just going through the motions, and are unable to really influence the world around you. But interestingly enough, your drive towards novel experiences also indicates an openness others don’t have, but wish they did.
Unconsciously, your curiosity presses you to learn more, experience more, and get the most out of life.
The Matrix Has You
From the useless-but-cool department…
You can now watch your movie files in ASCII in the Terminal application of MacOS 10.2!
Here’s some shots from a certain video – each image links to a larger version:
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| Space Rogues logo | Brion (Me) |
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| Extra (ypawtows) and Kat (snidegrrl) |
So I don’t bore everyone: if you want to know how to do this, leave a comment and I’ll reply.
My dreaming has been way over-active these last two weeks. among other things, I dreamed last night that I went to see a movie and caught the trailer for a new Buckaroo Banzai movie… also, that someone saw me in the lobby and shouted, “Hey, I know you, you’re ‘Ambercritter’!” And I seemed to agree with them. I wonder if this is a premonition that I’m going to be playing in a furry Amber RPG where I use my Jet Car to Hellride?
Or not.
A major Thank You
I plan to post about Rising Star shortly, I really do. One of the first things I’ve noticed is that rubinpdf thinks raininva is much more photogenic than I am. Guess I can’t fault him for that. 🙂
In the mean time, the purpose of this post is to thank tzel for the absolutely incredible Masquerade prize she made for us, and on very little notice, as well. I can confirm that it was already being put to good use before the evening was done – rainbowsaber was using it to take of her Zannah makeup in the staff suite! Thank you tnhank you so much, wonderful job! Now we just have to get some money to you!
The Distributed Proofreading project aims to speed up the proofreading of Project Gutenberg E-texts by having computer users all over the world proof a page each. Good idea, contributes to the literary legacy of the world.
A reader on macslash.org suggested that the next sensible evolution of this idea would be for “Enterprise” writers to post parts of unfilmed scripts, and then we could all point out the glaring holes and inconsistencies.
Actually… I sorta like that last idea.
“The Mighty Stephen Hawking is a Freaking’ Quake Master!”
Got my snickering in for the evening:
“So many people know of Stephen Hawking’s contributions to science, but so few of his career as a rap artist and his l33t skillz as a Quake player. Now, we can learn the truth, at E=MC Hawking’s music site!”
Actually, a decent tune… not for the tender of ear. Probably says something about my sense of humor that I find that track so funny.
Must… control… fist of death…
“I know that was supposed to be camera-ready, but I don’t know how to do that right, so I sent you something you could fix. Oh, I didn’t tell you that before you went to press? Well from now on, just fix all my ‘camera-ready’ ads before you print them, and it’ll be fine. And call me if you have any other graphics problems, I have years of experience in this field.”
Uuuurgh
Finally woke up about 10:30 this morning… bad enough, except I’d already been at work for 2 hours by that time. I slept very badly Saturday and Sunday nights; considering that I was very busy both days, that means that by yesterday afternoon, I was pretty dead. The dreams have been many and interesting, as well; one of Sunday’s involved, myself, raininva, jdunson, and other local fen being chased from Hogwarts by bad guys. Eventually, when they couldn’t find us in the room in which we’d holed up, they just stole the whole room.
One good thing happened to me on Sunday; I reluctantly entered November’s first MechWarrior: Dark Age sanctioned scenario, and walked off with second prize. (Rain and I were supposed to compete for first and second, but I got hit with a clue round, and offered her first place before we began, thus saving a lot of useless bloodshed. *grin*)
Rising Star 11 starts in three days. Am I ready? (Insert maniacal laughter here…)
