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Magic Online 3
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Apr. 17th, 2008 @ 05:26 pm
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It's out!
...and it sucks.*
*That's the consensus opinion of 5/6ths of the people I've talked to about it. YMMV. |
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Time Cube
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Mar. 4th, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
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So, am I the last person on the planet to find out about this webpage?
(www.timecube.com)
This guy is like the Evil Anti-Dr. Bronner (that being the guy that wrote all the crazy quasi-religious stuff that covers the label of that one brand of soap that you were forced to use when you did that one outward-boundy camp thing you did (or didn't do, and so you have no idea what I'm talking about)). |
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Database Wisdom
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Feb. 29th, 2008 @ 01:56 am
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If you have one table, with two fields, AutoID and Username, and another table with three fields, say, AutoID, FavoriteColor, and (?), where (?) could be AutoID or Username but generally should refer to an entry from the first table, which do you use? Because the person who wrote the database I'm working on right now picked the opposite of what I would have, and as a result, in the immortal words of Hiroyuki Nishigaki, "made my life look like a hell."
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Two-week old uncovered refrigerated gelatinous chicken broth
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Feb. 22nd, 2008 @ 02:17 am
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During the course my never-ending search to discover the threshold between edible and poisonous, I have come to suspect that the titular food item leans away from the edible side of the line. |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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Feb. 15th, 2008 @ 12:02 am
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I changed my mind. It's good. |
| » How Not To Run A Check Cashing Scam |
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I would like to note that I had a pen pal from Hungary with the username annie231, which is what got this particular scammer past the ignore barrier.
( Chat log below the cut )
Feb. 14th, 2008 @ 11:00 am
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| » Reveillark |
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Interesting card. Where does the price on this one end up? I'm not going to pretend to have a good guess.
Feb. 10th, 2008 @ 04:31 pm
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| » Books! |
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Burned through the remainder of my Coinstar gift certificate with Amazon, to the tune of several of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) yuki_onna's books (Apocrypha , The Grass-Cutting Sword, and another copy of the first book of the Orphan's Tales, as I gave someone the sequel without the first book (the bookstore I was at carried only the sequel - lame).
Also bought yet another copy of Feersum Endjinn, as I told someone I would lend it to them. This person is currently reading Look to Windward and is not excited about the idea of reading another Banks book - how is that one?
Feb. 8th, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
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| » Feb events |
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So far so good. I finished up a friend's webpage, drove to LA with my mom on crazy short notice to see our friends from Cleveland, the Savranskys, and had a blast there. Hopefully will manage to stay in contact with them this time around.
Tonight, went to see Rambo. It was exactly what I was expecting, therefore awful and also fantastic.
Feb. 7th, 2008 @ 02:13 pm
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| » Morningtide Draft review |
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Draft one - Adam, ridiculous Merfolk deck. forty-one merfolk on board. He kills Mike from what, 70 life, which he got to off of triple Lys Alana Huntmaster and Rhys <-- good. I had ... what the heck did I have? I'm sure I'll figure it out when I go through the cards. [Update: I was playing Faeries/Rogues, after a second pick Faerie Harbinger that I may have overvalued... I do feel like the Harbingers went up in value, though, and I think that the Faerie Harbinger is one of the best (Flamekin, Elf, and Faerie are all pretty darn good)]
Second draft - Adam drafts Goblins, Mike drafts some sealed-like Elf / Treefolk / Giant build. I draft aggro kithkin, which are reduced to kithkin paste and used as adhesive to assemble furniture in a third world country. Also I got a bit tired as the night went on, and played the deck a bit impatiently. Joe drafted an excellent draft but lost to not knowing cards to protect and what cards to throw out there, essentially.
Lessons of the day:
If you draft Sunrise Sovereign, you lose. I thought it could be okay, but I was wrong. It will bring you only misery and shame. I'm sure it's fine, but it cursed Terry's first draft and my second draft quite handiliy.
I also felt like I should have splashed for enchantment removal. That might have been specific to this draft. Certainly any kind of removal at all would have been amazing - I got taken down from a good board position to nothing singlehandedly by a Flamekin Spitfire.
Festercreep appears to be extremely good. I also have a personal affection for Fertilid; I have yet to play one but it seems good as far as acceleration and possibly slight card advantage. As far as the card goes, basically it's: 2/2 for 3, pay 1G remove a counter: rampant growth.
Hunting Triad is THE NUTS. The reinforce instant (Pump team for +2/+2 or Reinforce X) is also great. I really like these cards! I won three in a row to start off the second draft, and then lost seven games straight. Consequently, I lost my ante rare - One with Nothing. Other prizes were Colfenor's Plans, Animate Wall, Jandor's Ring, and Leviathan. Adam won the lot with his undefeated red-black deck featuring Stenchskipper and a couple of the Hill Giant changelings.
Pleased to have gotten another Grimoire Thief. Think that will see high value. Probably completely wrong. (Whee)
Jan. 27th, 2008 @ 02:01 am
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| » Reading List |
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Perdido Street Station - finished. Excellent book. Found it a bit difficult to get a good mental image of his alien races, but fortunately their names all reference something concrete, so I could look them up (which I just did. especially helpful for Khepri). Thought Isaac got off easy, but felt sorry for Lin. All pseudoscientific handwaving was within forgivable parameters.
Started: Little, Big.
Jan. 22nd, 2008 @ 05:47 pm
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| » Funeral explanation |
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Sorry for the earlier cryptic entry - the funeral was Larry Rosenberg's; he was a friend of the family and passed away at the age of 85. My mother asked me to accompany her to the service. The social tension remark will have to remain cryptic, but everything went well, so happily there isn't too much of substance to say anyway.
When it comes to funerals, I have no particular belief in an afterlife. Therefore I regard the services as for the living rather than for the dead (though I guess that's true for many faiths as well). That said, they tend to make me feel infinitely worse rather than better, so I feel that it misses the point for me to attend. In this case, my mother did benefit from my company, so it was worthwhile, but still very difficult for me.
I'm guessing some of the negative effect that funerals have on me is related to my grandmother's passing, which was a very difficult time for me. ...actually this is less a guess than a statement.
Jan. 15th, 2008 @ 11:27 pm
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| » Origa (singer) |
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Anybody familiar with this singer and her work? She does the intro to Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex and it's really grown on me.
Jan. 11th, 2008 @ 02:30 am
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| » DustMARE, etc |
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So, how's the old DustMARE nowadays?
I've been occupying my D&D mindspace with the adventure a few friends of mine have been running out here, and have not been inspired to work on Dust (Plus my arms still hurt, which hinders my enthusiasm for anything which involves typing. Wtf, that was supposed to stop after I took a break from typing, yes? No.)
There is that Temple of Horrors game, but I am experiencing a current aversion to flying that I'm hoping will pass quickly. Perhaps I should roll a character just in case.
Also, if George R.R. Martin ever finishes Song of Ice and Fire, someone let me know: I'll have lost a bet.
Jan. 11th, 2008 @ 02:20 am
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| » Tradition |
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Win or lose, one thing at The Ohio State University stays the same: the way to party after a big game. (Arson!)
Jan. 9th, 2008 @ 08:00 pm
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| » Adult Swim |
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So, things I have done with my time off include watching a bunch of anime on Cartoon Network. Also some American cartoons. Plus one that airs on Nickelodeon (as they say, even blind squirrels sometimes find nuts). Ranked as follows, basically by the order in which I view them on the DVR if they're there: Avatar, Blood+, Futurama, Eureka Seven (despite being terrible and painfully clichéd), InuYasha (see previous), Cowboy Bebop (they stopped airing this a while back), Death Note, Samurai Champloo, Family Guy, Bleach, Shin Chan (couldn't finish watching an episode), Dragon Ball Z (I hate this show so much, but it is absolutely amazing how little action they can pack into a half-hour show. The secret is to show people with constipated expressions, and then do a slow pan over a crowd of people for reaction shots to the constipated expression (which is, for each of them, a constipated expression - repeat recursively until commercial break)).
Jan. 5th, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
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| » Reading list - Diamond Age, Cry of Justice |
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I took quite a chunk out of my reading list over the past few weeks, in addition to consuming a number of books that were NOT on my list and frankly are a disgrace to the word "book."
By this, I refer to Cry of Justice, which is the worst book I have ever read. This was another freebie from the WFC bag, and I feel that I was ripped off. It reads something like a thirteen-year-old running a campaign with a group of emotionally stunted teenagers, only worse. The ideas in the book had some potential, but ... the characters and the names are just stunningly bad. If you have a character called Pooralay, you already lose, but when you have other characters refer to him as "Poo," it should become legal to suplex you, preferably onto brick or pavement. I would give a more in depth review, but my full appreciation of the book was addled somewhat by my left hand, which kept reaching up and trying to gouge out my eyes of its own accord whenever I spent more than two minutes reading.
Also read: Diamond Age. This is the first Stephenson book that didn't leave me totally cold. It actually has an ending! Unspectacular, but it was good enough. I guess I won't bother saying any more - everybody seems to already like this book, and I agree.
To be continued.
Jan. 4th, 2008 @ 03:57 pm
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Toyota Tacoma Pre Runner Sr5, 2002, with 27,000 miles on it - $12,500.
Regarding the price, is this good, bad, mediocre, etc?
Dec. 14th, 2007 @ 04:53 am
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| » Kimagure Orange Road |
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So, I bought the entire series of Kimagure Orange Road on DVD from AnimEigo (directly, at Comic-Con) a couple years ago, and I'm finally sitting down to watch more than the first episode. I saw the end of the series at Animania at Michigan a long time ago, and thought it was pretty great, or so I recall... not well versed enough with the beginning of the series to be recommending that Belle watch it (or arm-twisting her into doing so), which is a bit unfortunate.
Dec. 5th, 2007 @ 04:37 am
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| » Thanksgiving |
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Off to somewhere around LA and then Palm Springs for Thanksgiving and post-Thanksgiving consumer whoring (Black Friday sales) - back on Saturday. Please do not ransack my house during this absence, but if you must, kindly turn off the lights when you are done.
Nov. 22nd, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
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