“Baby, it’s cold outside…”
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Midweek is upon us.
Snow is on the ground.
That’s right. Snow. It started last night. And, following tradition, I called my father to share the wonderful news with him. (He already knew – he watches The Weather Channel. A lot.) By the time I got to
With this in mind, I reiterate the Council for Better Driving Rule #1:
Don’t be a fucker.
Given the way that some people were driving, I think that I will consider making Rule #2:
You might be immortal, but the rest of us on the road aren’t:
Slow down and let us get where we’re going in one piece.
Last night was game night. We started our new game – Scion: Hero. Our characters are the offspring of gods. Rather than try a build based on Hand of Nefer-Tem, I went with a character whose pantheon are the Loa. That’s right: Voodoo. The game was interesting – and fun – and would have been even more fun had I not left my character sheet… somewhere. I had thought that it was in my backpack (which I had), but it wasn’t. *sigh* I was able to wing it for some things, but others… no clue. Oh, well. I found the sheet when I got home. I shall be importing the data into a pdf character sheet.
Last night, I tried installing City of Crack Heroes on Defiant, under Parallels. When the installer finished, I tried to log in. I had forgotten one thing. One kind of critical thing: Patches. There were 1.7 gigabytes worth of patches. I wasn’t going to sit there, just to watch the bar crawl across the screen, so I left it and went to bed. When I woke up this morning, it was done. I tried logging into my usual server. No go. Server maintenance. *BAH*
Later, I was finally able to connect… but the graphics were not 100%. (Parallels doesn’t support DirectX 9 yet, so I’m not getting the full 3-D acceleration.) Basically, if I tried to play CoX on Defiant, it would look roughly the same as things would to Superman walking/flying around all day with his X-ray vision on: He could see shapes, forms and structures, but no details. Oh, well… I may look into setting up a Win partition in Boot Camp.
Stray Toasters
- I am trying to decide what I want for dinner. I do know that it’s not sushi, I fed that craving last night. Maybe I’ll hit up Jitterbug.
- Jitterati. *amused*
- Joysticks to the World: A Video Game Gift Guide
- G.I. Joe may have dominated the boy’s toy market of the 80s, but in the 70’s it was all about Fisher-Price “The Adventure People.” I couldn’t get enough of those. Or Micronauts.
- By way of
: Precocious Kids Mess with Tracks of an Oncoming Train - The entire run of Southern Knights is available at DriveThruComics, for 99 cents an issue. Hm…
- I’ve Got Billions, but I Don’t Like to Spend It
- There is a key chain on this page that I should get. (Go to the page and search for “Gordon” It should be easy to see why it amuses me so much.) This site also sells The Adventure People!
- Apple iMac Display Problems Reported and Some MacBook hard drives contain fatal defect
- Grape juice.
- Rock Band Leads to Eviction: Know Your Rocking Limitations
- “The Uncanny Valley”
- The Known World(s) – The List of DC Universes (definitive) and Wikipedia’s List of DC Multiverse Worlds
Quote of the Day
Today’s nugget of pure golden joy came from last night’s gaming session. One of the first things that I had my character do when he arrived in town was to acquire accommodations at a local hotel. After our group had gathered and we had finished the first of our tasks, we (meaning “they”) were deciding where to bunk up for the night. John chimed in with, “We can all sleep with you.”
I should note here that our group, at this point, consists of
John, after a moment’s thought, quipped back with:
“I party with the lotion.”
And much laughter ensued.
Namaste.