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| Monday, December 1st, 2008 | ||
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dragovianknight |
5:53p | Doomtown: Official Fiction Putting this here because my tags are more organized than my bookmarks: http://gamesmeister.com/doomtown/viewfo ::uses Tonto icon to have something vaguely Western themed:: ::thinks this icon should have a "bitch, please" variant:: Current Mood:  tired |
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akuma_river |
5:24p | news Today I went shopping, for food and neccesary items. My family doesn't do the Black Friday or Cyber Monday shopping sprees. One, you have to wake up at ungodly hours stay outside for hours on end to get into the store and fight with people to get what you want. Two, we don't have a lot of money. Three, none of us have X-Mas gift lists let alone bought the gifts yet. I've been working off and on on my paper. I put in a few more lines. I'm not sure how I'm going to finish 10 more pages of this. *sighs* I don't hate the subject...but I'm just not feeling it in me to write this. Too much is going on in my life. It's cold, I have other school work, my mom's arm is really bothering her - we think she broke it/tore a tendon a few months ago when she fell - Adam is bitching about his job, the whole John factor, money, India, the economy, me having no income and being too busy to work, my brother having surgery in two weeks, the holidays, war, etc... I'm just not focused on this stupid paper. And it's due Friday. In fact today I mailed off 70+ pages of paper which was my six sources for my paper to my professor. John, Adam's brother, and my step-uncle? got his results back from all the exams he took. He still hasn't taken any chemo yet. The cancer that was in his back has now spread to his shoulders. He's absolutely terrified about the chemo and being sick and dying. *sighs* Oh and it's confirmed Madam Sectretary Clinton. I think she will be really good at that. Also, did any of ya'll know that the U.S. warned India of possible terrorist attacks by sea on hotels and specifically mentioned the Taj Hotel, back in October of this year?! ...heads are going to roll on this one. In other news. I officially give up the search for rares. I can't get them. I tried for like 10+ hours to get a damn Autumn dragon egg. Nothing, nada. Not even a split or dino. I'm competing with too many people and I have too slow a connection and I don't know what to do. So I'm giving up.                 P.S. This is where you go to sign up for X-Mas/Holiday Cards. I got a bunch of cards. So just go ahead and sign up already. ;d |
| rusty_halo | 8:13p | Random Media Stuff  http://rusty-halo.com/wordpress/?p=2742 I’ve been hibernating. Or, avoiding the internet, anyway. Moving servers turned out to be a huge pain in the ass and it still seems like a total crapshoot as to whether my websites will actually work on any given day. Kind of pointless to post an entry when I’m not sure if anyone will be able to see it or respond. I’m pissed at the server company, but sick of wasting time dealing with it. So, here’s a post, which may or may not work. :P A summary of my life in media over the past two weeks: * I saw Twilight. My god. That’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back. ( spoilers for Twilight )* I'm thinking about seeing Milk. It looks really good and historically interesting, but Sean Penn's gigantic hulking ego makes me cringe. I'm not sure I can take it. * I'm thinking about seeing Valkyrie. It looks historically interesting and I'm very fond of Bryan Singer (X2 is still my favorite superhero movie ever, with Iron Man a close second), but Tom Cruise's ego and presumptuousness offend me even more than Sean Penn's. * I went to see the Cruxshadows on Thanksgiving Eve. I got there at 11:45pm and they didn't go on for another hour. Damn Pyramid Club. Luckily my new phone has internet so I read marzipan until they came on. The Cruxshadows may be ridiculously cheesy and overly sincere, but they sure put on a hell of a show. I was crying at the end. How often do you see a band playing to a packed crowd who invites their fans onstage at the end and stays up there afterward hugging every single person who wants a hug? * I started listening to a bunch of old David Bowie albums while I was cooking for Thanksgiving, and, oh my god, you guys, why didn't anyone tell me that David Bowie used to be this awesome??? I've had The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars on repeat all weekend. I mean, I was vaguely aware that Bowie had once been good, but all I knew was the guy with the bulge from Labyrinth and the skinny old guy who toured with NIN in the 90s. I didn't realize he'd done something this passionate and creative and amazing. I can't even articulate my response; I just want to listen to it again and again. Although, one of the really interesting things is to pick out all the Bowie influences on the bands I grew up listening to. I can see Nirvana, and Alice in Chains, and, dude, Marilyn Manson should be paying this guy royalties. And it's fascinating how it seems to straddle this boundary between 60s and 70s music and culture, idealism and disillusionment... Anyway. Must listen more. * I re-read The Disorderly Knights, the third book in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. I think it's my second favorite, after the first, A Game of Kings. ( spoilers for The Lymond Chronicles ) Originally published at rusty-halo.com. Please click here to comment. |
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maureenlycaon |
1:16p | Quote of the week A prospective new player to Shaiya innocently asked which of the game's two sides he should join, the Alliance of Light or the Union of Fury. To which Redde replied: "If you like everything looking green and pretty and running around wearing girly clothes, go Alliance of Light. If you like everything looking like a frat house after a year end party, broken and dirty, and wearing Heavy Metal Hairband clothes, go Union of Fury." Current Mood: amused |
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twiceuponatime |
8:11a | December 01- Chapter 4 and 5 of Immortally Bound posted. Warning, chapter 5 is violent and could be disturbing. Artwork for Wild at Heart 'Moonbeam Rainbow' and Trystin and Kerr from Immortally Bound on artsite New story (actually a repost of an old story) The X-Gift - prologue and first chapter posted November 5- Chapters 2 and 3 of Immortally Bound New fan art merman and friend on art site ( Past Updates here ) |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | ||
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dragovianknight |
8:15p | We done it, Guv! We only went an' bleedin' done it! The internets saved a family's home! Current Mood:  jubilant |
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dragovianknight |
5:03p | This won't make sense to anyone but... ...hmm, on second thought, this might be too obscure to make sense to anyone but me. Is it wrong that I want to find a way to connect Sosai Z[ed] (and how much do I love that if you google "Sosai Z", Google asks you if you meant "Sosai X"?) with Lord Zedd? Y'all can blame this on Power Rangers Take Flight, which is Joe Rovang's "Jetman into Power Rangers" virtual series. There are condors and swallows and swans, oh my! :D And this screen cap, which is an entrance the Gatchaman team used plenty of times (it was in their credits, even). Current Mood:  weird |
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chichirinoda |
6:16p | Now that NaNoWriMo is dealt with... ...I have a bit of room in my brain to deal with other things. Which isn't to say that I'm DONE, but I can at least write about writing a bit, and work some things out :P ...man, I haven't updated my To Do list in a billion years. Go me. ANYWAY, here's the state of things. My Live Long and Marry story is getting close to the 30,000 word mark, but it's slowly moving forward. CHRIST. My Novel is a further 42,000 words (I split my time between these two for NaNo, and only wrote about 10,000 words of the LLnM in the month, so it's fair, I think). It's not at all close to being done, maybe a third of the way through? I'm going to keep motoring along with it, and I love it, so yay. I started my Yuletide story yesterday and I'm reasonably happy with what I've decided to do with it. I had a small panic over it yesterday, before I started writing, for reasons I can't go into until after the reveal, but after flailing I got started and I think I've made the right decision. For No True Pair, I submitted 6 lists, which was extremely overwhelming when I got the results and prompts. There was so much I was interested in, but it kinda made me flee as well, lol. Anyway, I've taken a second look at it, and I've decided what I'm going to do. ( Cut for Discussion and Prompts Probably No One Cares About XD ) |
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akuma_river |
4:50p | *pissed* F*CKING BCS RANKINGS I'm so pissed right now. TEXAS is out of the Big 12 Title game because Okalahoma beat them out by 1 f*cking point that was decided by a goddamn computer and the Coach's polls! The Sooners (11-1), who lost to Texas 45-35 in October, barely edged the Longhorns. Oklahoma has a .9351 BCS average. Texas’ BCS average is .9223. How many f*cking years are we going to have this problem? A tie being decided by polls and a f*cking computer to decide the championship games?!! TEXAS beat both Oklahoma and Missouri and yet it's not the team that's going to the Big 12 Championship Game. Oh no, Oklahoma, whom Texas beat 45-35 - smirks in joy at the rememberance of her mother's screams, whom is an OU fan, during the game - is going to play MISSOURI for the Big 12 Title Game!! Missouri is a pissant team compared to Texas and Oklahoma. This is practically guaranteeing Oklahoma to play Alabama for the BCS Championship Game!!!! That's not fair!!!! Texas beat Oklahoma fair and square!!! Texas was the better team! And the only reason Oklahoma is going to the damn Title game is because they ran up the score on Texas Tech and OSU!!! They just had to put that f*cking touchdown against OSU last night in the last 20 seconds of the game when they were already up 2 f*cking touchdowns!!! Those goddamn Sooner bastards!! Why can't we just have a playoffs system?! All the other NCAA sports have one. IT'S NOT F*CKING FAIR!!!! ...you know if the Sooners lose to Missouri then it's TEXAS that goes to the BCS Championship Game. Do any of you know some good luck charms, curses, voodoo dolls or something? You know...just for my own amusement. If Oklahoma had beaten TEXAS or the it's wasn't such a close 3-way tie...I would be happy for OU since I root for them too. But this? F*ck 'em. Here's me dragons. I haven't got an Autumn Dragon Egg yet but I did get me a water one. P.S. This is where you go to sign up for X-Mas/Holiday Cards. I got a bunch of cards. So just go ahead and sign up already. ;d |
| Monday, December 1st, 2008 | ||
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keieeeye |
10:27a | Whee For anyone who is actually interested I renamed ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nanokei to lifeanddeath which I can't believe no one already had. But yeah, it's not exactly a NaNo anymore, it's just... the slow exploration of NextGen-canon Pepper's history and I just put up angsty Catholicism so people who've been reading it have to read it somewhere else now ok cool. Current Music: Ludivine Sagnier Jean-Marie Winling Alice Butaud Chiara Mastrioani Brigitte Rouan: La Bastille |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | ||
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dragovianknight |
11:50a | This morning, I realized... ...that I didn't pick up the mail yesterday. So, I did that. What should be in the mailbox but two boxes from Amazon that I didn't order? ^___^ So now I have It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas, which is the best Christmas movie ever, and one of the YA novels (about horsies!) from my wish list, courtesy of princess_kessie ::hugs her Kessie very tight::, and also Chrono Cross (!), thanks to a very naughty holiday elf who disguised their identity so I can't properly thank them. ::hugs the Mysterious Holiday Elf anyway:: So now I can battle my emo with Muppets, and if that doesn't work I can go save the world. Yaaaaaaayyyyyy! /Kermit arm flail Current Mood:  happy |
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maureenlycaon |
7:41a | Ethical question of the day A lot of people imagine they're in a real-life Truman Show, or victims of mind control, mental torture, etc. -- so many that it's a standing joke on Usenet, where they often post their incoherent screeds. With the Net, they've got a whole new audience to broadcast their delusions to. Now it's reached out and touched PZ Myers at Pharyngula. The particular guy involved is repeatedly emailing him and several others, at an increasing rate. PZ has posted one of the emails. My first thought was that this was to mock him, but in the comments Myers states that he knows the guy needs help, badly, and he just doesn't know how else to help him; he's hoping someone out there will recognize him and can inform the authorities or whatever is needed to intervene and get him the professional help he needs. Very laudable, of course, but is it really the best thing to do? Should he have done it? Now I'm turning the question over in my head, and idly tossing it out on a Sunday morning for anyone else to weigh in. Gods know I'm not a Net celebrity and am never likely to be in this situation myself, but as an ethical question it's bothering me. Pro: yes, someone who's in a position to helpmay see this, realize the guy is schizophrenic and is escalating with more and more emails and must be thoroughly miserable, and call the authorities or whomever. This may have already happened. Con: as one commenter pointed out: "I would argue that giving him publicity is more likely to feed his problem and that the feedback you're unintentionally giving may encourage him to seek more." Plus, isn't this kind of an invasion of his privacy? And what if it becomes associated with his real name, and he does recover? This gets preserved as a permanent record anyone can see, to embarrass and humiliate him. The public's really still in the nineteenth century when it comes to mental illness. The man isn't being willfully stupid, like a religious fundie, so he doesn't deserve a slap upside the head. He's mentally sick and needs care. Delusions like these are probably hell to live with, and they don't necessarily issue from narcissism gone berserk; they could just as easily be due to a form of schizophrenia, which is a clinical illness that needs medical treatment to manage. (This commenter describes very well what it's like to be a schizophrenic with these delusions.) Current Mood: worried |
| Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | ||
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dragovianknight |
7:52p | That was...weird ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} holiday_wishes, but semagic did something...weird. The asylum is moderated, I think, so until the post goes through moderation I can't tell if it arrived successfully. Umm, if you happen to see a stray wishlist wandering around somewhere it shouldn't be, you'll tell me, right?Happy: Still missin'. Headache: firmly in position. Eyes: dry and itchy. Ears: sore. Current Mood:  confused |
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tigresslilly |
7:14p | Meh Gaia Quickie Pagan Guild upate I left the guild of annoyance today. I thought about saying something first and then I looked around a bit and thought some more on it. There's one possibly two people I respect there. Everyone else is very much like the guild leader or worse. I don't think the guild leader is the person who doesn't fit, I think I'm the person who doesn't fit. In the end it wasn't worth the hassle and the inevitable banning, pms, and random hate thread. I just moved on to greener pastures. |
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akuma_river |
7:35p | My step-brother got arrested, again. He ran a red light and the cops ran his license and discovered, shock all shocks, that he has warrants out for his arrest. So he's in jail. And, since we only paid one year in his surcharge to keep his license by paying the fines, we have to add another $300/3 years to that. Because the damn dumbass didn't go for this whole freaking year to sit out his fine for 3 1/2 to 4 days in JAIL!!! And Adam, my step-dad and the breadwinner for this family, will have to pay it. AGAIN! I hope they leave his ass in there. All of this is because he won't pay the fine that he got for driving without state inspection stickers and insurance. So he has warrants out for his arrest. I'm guessing his girlfriend and mother of his child wasn't with him since she would be in jail with his ass. She has more warrants out for her arrest than he does. Are they ever going to get their act together? They already lost custody of their kids. *sighs* In good news, saw Four Christmases today, me and mom liked it. Btw, did you know that Dwight Yoakum and Tim McGraw are in the film? Can you spot them without being told who they were? Oh and in interesting news. In the first quarter of the OU/OSU game one of the announcers made a very slashy comment. He was talking about how the qb was looking to throw his pass, noticed there was no one and tried to run it, only to get his ass blitzed and pushed back like five or so yards. "His drunk buddies left him and he was naked out there." Okay it's not slashy, but it was certainly a wtf?! moment. ;d P.S. This is where you go to sign up for X-Mas/Holiday Cards. I got a bunch of cards. So just go ahead and sign up already. ;d |
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dragovianknight |
4:57p | HappyCat's happy... ...still missin'. :( Current Mood:  depressed |
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tigresslilly |
12:52p | Rainbow meme Your rainbow is shaded green. What is says about you: You are an intelligent person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality. Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com. |
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dragovianknight |
10:53a | You know that LOL Cat... The one that says, "HappyCat has lost his happy?" That is how I feel today. :( Current Mood: depressed |
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maureenlycaon |
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| Friday, November 28th, 2008 | ||
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akuma_river |
10:28p | something witty I hate making subject titles...I'm just horrible at it. Okay, so since Pushing Daisies is being canceled but coming back in comic book form. I'm thinking that if we, the fans, make the comic book series a success they might bring them back for a movie. Kinda like how Firefly came back as Serenity. ;d In the meantime, the People's Choice Awards are up for voting, and if we, the fans, join the site and vote, we might be able to vote PD as a winner. And how badly will that look to ABC to cancel a PCA winning show? Btw, Dirty Sexy Money is the only ABC show that did not get renewed that has not released its cast. So they might be able to bring back that show. My paper is going really slow. It's stuck at 7 pages and that last is just a bunch of sentence starters and concluding paragraph starters for me to fill out. I'm thinking of doing a couple of block quotes...but I already have two and I'm worried about weakening my paper by doing that so often... But then again I need to make the 15 page quota. Typically, I'm good at writing papers...but this semester...it's just been hell. I think three classes a semester is a bit much. Grad school is just so much harder than undergrad. ( family update ) Here's me dragons. I got four new eggs. P.S. This is where you go to sign up for X-Mas/Holiday Cards. I got a bunch of cards. So just go ahead and sign up already. ;d Just check the post and it seems it got unscreened, I re-screened it, so everything should show up commentless. P.S. 2, anyone know where you can get some christmas/wintery themes at? |
| Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | ||
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keieeeye |
4:35p | Reprise.  Current Music: Mika: Grace Kelly |
| Friday, November 28th, 2008 | ||
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chichirinoda |
9:28p | GIP Booyah! |
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bleedingsand |
9:16p | Youtube - Kerli - Walking on Air There's a little creepy house In a little creepy place. Little creepy town In a little creepy world. Little creepy girl with Her little creepy face, Saying funny things that you've never heard. Do you know what it's all about? Are you brave enough to figure out? Know that you could set your world on fire, If you're strong enough to leave your doubts. Feel it, breathe it, believe it and You'll be walking on air. Go try, go fly so high and You'll be walking on air. You feel this, unless you kill it Go on and you're forgiven. I knew, that I could feel that I feel like I'm walking on air. ( Kerli - Walking on Air ) Current Mood:  bored |
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dragovianknight |
6:09p | Autumn eggs! queenoftheskies clued me in that you can get autumn eggs by breeding the summer dragons. (But don't breed summer to summer, they refuse; I tried that already.) This is the offspring of my second summer female and Guardian Bob.  Current Mood: happy |
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tigresslilly |
2:13p | Wyoming Really Isn't At All Like MA List of Things Different that I've noticed: |