Saturday, May 06, 2006
Doctor Who, the 2005 series, new best show ever! SO GOOD! Downloaded all 13 episodes, and just fell in love with it. It's a weird mix of humor and scifi/drama and I dunno how these british do it, but it works SO well! Got the 1st 4 eps of Season 2 downloaded, and its already a new actor playing the doctor. This past one was totally awesome, so dunno how this other guys gonna do, but we'll see.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Myke/Enron, I have a large living room and you are welcome to sleep in it. Mit blankets! I'll be around this weekend. Probably doing some OT, but other than that, we can rock. In fact, after I bailed last time you were around, I would say that I have a contractual obligation: we MUST rock.
Oh yeah, and the original cut of Star Wars will FINALLY be comiing out on DVD! Of course the sons of bitches are advertising it as a limited edition thing, but we've heard that before. Anyway, I'm glad I held out!
Oh yeah, and the original cut of Star Wars will FINALLY be comiing out on DVD! Of course the sons of bitches are advertising it as a limited edition thing, but we've heard that before. Anyway, I'm glad I held out!
Dude, my arms!
(Yay for the home stretch of the semester)
Working on my CG animation term project that's due in about 10 days.. it's brutal how long it takes to render such a short animated sequence. Essentially, I'm going to be ending up with six 10 second long rendered sequences that I'm going to edit down and stitch together in Premiere.. nevermind that it takes hours upon hours just to set up the damn scene and to get it to do what you want it to with all the particle systems and whatnot.. but it takes upwards of an hour and a half to render a 10 second compressed AVI! So, typically, you do short test sequences of 25-100 frames here and there to see if the effects are sort of looking right.. but you never quite know what it's going to come out like until you do the whole enchilada. Right now I'm working on the most complex camera sequence (it's probably taken me upwards of 20-40 hours of hands on labor to set it up). Once that's done, the remaining two camera shots should be pretty simple as there aren't any special effects involved.. then the editing which hopefully should go pretty well.
When it's all said and done, I'll see if I can host a copy of it for you foo's to download and enjoy. Or mock. LOL.
Technical question: If I have some flash movies I wanted to share with folks on the web, is there a way to do that other than just linking to the hosted file for them to download and view on their own? (Not sure if that made sense) Basically, if I have a flash movie and I want to post it.. kind of like we would for an animated gif.. is it the same thing, is it even possible, and if so.. how?
Wheeee!
~O.
(Yay for the home stretch of the semester)
Working on my CG animation term project that's due in about 10 days.. it's brutal how long it takes to render such a short animated sequence. Essentially, I'm going to be ending up with six 10 second long rendered sequences that I'm going to edit down and stitch together in Premiere.. nevermind that it takes hours upon hours just to set up the damn scene and to get it to do what you want it to with all the particle systems and whatnot.. but it takes upwards of an hour and a half to render a 10 second compressed AVI! So, typically, you do short test sequences of 25-100 frames here and there to see if the effects are sort of looking right.. but you never quite know what it's going to come out like until you do the whole enchilada. Right now I'm working on the most complex camera sequence (it's probably taken me upwards of 20-40 hours of hands on labor to set it up). Once that's done, the remaining two camera shots should be pretty simple as there aren't any special effects involved.. then the editing which hopefully should go pretty well.
When it's all said and done, I'll see if I can host a copy of it for you foo's to download and enjoy. Or mock. LOL.
Technical question: If I have some flash movies I wanted to share with folks on the web, is there a way to do that other than just linking to the hosted file for them to download and view on their own? (Not sure if that made sense) Basically, if I have a flash movie and I want to post it.. kind of like we would for an animated gif.. is it the same thing, is it even possible, and if so.. how?
Wheeee!
~O.
Seriously.
If I could get a job working for the Raiders, I'd be happy as hell. I can't imagine a better job this side of "pool guy" at the Heffner estate. LOL. Who knows. I'm most likely going to be attending Wharton in the bay area, but there's a chance I may go back East as well to the original Wharton campus.
If I could get a job working for the Raiders, I'd be happy as hell. I can't imagine a better job this side of "pool guy" at the Heffner estate. LOL. Who knows. I'm most likely going to be attending Wharton in the bay area, but there's a chance I may go back East as well to the original Wharton campus.
The dirty tRaiders
Only the O Rugs man can somehow work the Raiders into a discussion about his colligate advancement. That would be sweet tits though if you did end up here for a bit.
Elzar: Well the wallet loss wasn’t so much a matter of forgetfulness. It just plain fell out of my pocket. I put it in my pocket just before sitting down, but I think it was not deep enough in the pocket and plopped out as I stood up. However, the whole forgetfulness thing certainly did take hold on my key fiasco. I think that will be the last time Aimey depends on me to bring the only set of keys. She had a habit of not bring her keys when we were going out together. I had been telling her for months that it was only a matter of time before I forgot my keys. And so an ass was bitten.
Mykail: Hotels... There are a good number of hotels in the Union square area that are reasonable. But it has been four years since I stayed at a hotel in SF, so I can not really advise so much on price. The places that I do know are descent are The Pickwick, Hotel Diva, Sir Francis Drake, St. Francis, Hotel Triton, and the hotel you stayed at. However all these are probably expensive this time of year since tourist season is rolling. When I stayed at them, well things were grim tourist wise in this city. Also these hotels are a bit away from the sunset. ~30 minutes via Muni. There are really no hotels out in this neck of the woods. No one comes to SF to stay in a hotel not in the core interest of the city. On the other hand you are more than welcome to stay at my joint. In fact, Aimey and I just had a couple people stay two weeks ago. It does not cause issue with us and I know hotels can be kind of brutal on the pocket book. Last time ELzar and O Rugs came up they were guests of my fine establishment of the Bates-Killen Motel. Oh yes I am the Master too. Even Johnny stayed at Hotel California Beach where he met a fine Korean woman? Or was that the gift giving Japanese woman? Anyway, I have not spoken to jr0n, so I do not what his weekend schedule is and if he is working or not. WhatevAr way you decide give me a heads up.
D>M>
Only the O Rugs man can somehow work the Raiders into a discussion about his colligate advancement. That would be sweet tits though if you did end up here for a bit.
Elzar: Well the wallet loss wasn’t so much a matter of forgetfulness. It just plain fell out of my pocket. I put it in my pocket just before sitting down, but I think it was not deep enough in the pocket and plopped out as I stood up. However, the whole forgetfulness thing certainly did take hold on my key fiasco. I think that will be the last time Aimey depends on me to bring the only set of keys. She had a habit of not bring her keys when we were going out together. I had been telling her for months that it was only a matter of time before I forgot my keys. And so an ass was bitten.
Mykail: Hotels... There are a good number of hotels in the Union square area that are reasonable. But it has been four years since I stayed at a hotel in SF, so I can not really advise so much on price. The places that I do know are descent are The Pickwick, Hotel Diva, Sir Francis Drake, St. Francis, Hotel Triton, and the hotel you stayed at. However all these are probably expensive this time of year since tourist season is rolling. When I stayed at them, well things were grim tourist wise in this city. Also these hotels are a bit away from the sunset. ~30 minutes via Muni. There are really no hotels out in this neck of the woods. No one comes to SF to stay in a hotel not in the core interest of the city. On the other hand you are more than welcome to stay at my joint. In fact, Aimey and I just had a couple people stay two weeks ago. It does not cause issue with us and I know hotels can be kind of brutal on the pocket book. Last time ELzar and O Rugs came up they were guests of my fine establishment of the Bates-Killen Motel. Oh yes I am the Master too. Even Johnny stayed at Hotel California Beach where he met a fine Korean woman? Or was that the gift giving Japanese woman? Anyway, I have not spoken to jr0n, so I do not what his weekend schedule is and if he is working or not. WhatevAr way you decide give me a heads up.
D>M>
To Blave!
/comes up for air
Aaaaaron: Man, I hate those moments of panic-attackness. I had one of those a few weeks ago when I forgot my flash drive plugged into the back of a computer in the college rendering lab.. GAAAAAAH! My whole academic life is on that damned thing. It was fine and right where I left it, but the panicky sick feeling was the suck.
Elrockenstein: Hehe.. it's no joke! Me and Haylee usually spend the first hour or so after waking up just relaxing, snacking a little bit and trying to muster the courage and energy for a new day. OK, so maybe that's mostly me. She's usually at full speed within 20 minutes of her eyes opening. Hehe. I totally get you on the braindead feeling though. Trying to be Dad all day long and then be Mr. Student at night and off and on through the day trying to study has been much harder than I thought it was going to be. Your brain just turns to oatmeal when you're consumed with the well being of another person 24 hours a day.
Regarding the milk/food statement (too much information ahead) .. it's a common problem. The problem is that only Wylie is able to get nearly all of mom's milk out. The pump just doesn't have the nature factor going for it. And, the cycle gets worse because when there is less milk removed from the boobage, then the body produces less milk in the future to replenish that unused milk.. the only way for it to really work is for mom to be a 24 hour a day food machine, which can be really rough. Michelle did it for the first 6-8 weeks straight and I was more or less on support duty for everything else around the house. Once Wylie starts getting into eating rice cereal and other supplemental foods does it let up a little bit, but that's not for a little while yet I think (my brain IS oatmeal, though.. so I may be recollecting wrongly). Anyhow. It ain't fair, no. But there's just no other way to increase or maintain a full milk supply for a baby in the first few months without 24hr/day of mom-baby pipeline happening. One of the funny (and not so funny) lines in Michelle's great book called the first 12 months (or something like that) had to do with just this issue. In a section of Q & A, it was asked "Why didn't anyone tell me I'd be breastfeeding 24 hours a day?" And the answer was "Because then you wouldn't have done it (or believed us)!" Or, something to that effect. Sucks to be a woman. I feel for the womenfolk.. they have to bear the brunt of a lot of nature's not-so-fun life-shit.
Oblivion: The Xbox version is cool because it does HDR *AND* Anti Aliasing at the same time.. but the major suck part is you can't get your hands on the community made patches and modifications for the game. I really really hated the levelling paradigm used in "vanilla" Oblivion. Basically, everything levels along with you, as do the loot tables (stuff that you find in the world, stuff that baddies are armed/armored with.. etc) ... so you will never be able to go explore a remote section of the universe and find yourself in a world of shit because you're WAY in over your head. Likewise, you'll never find yourself in a position where you fight enemies that once kicked your ass but are now relatively easy. Don't get me wrong, it's still an amazingly immersive and interesting game, but after having installed some of the overhauling patches/modifications that fix not just the aforementioned level/loot idiocy.. but add everything from significant visual improvements (water shaders, environments/weather additions, textures, etc) to additional character classes, quest lines, tweaks to the various questlines to make them more playable/challenging.. so on and so forth.. I just couldn't imagine going back to vanilla Oblivion.
School: LOL.. if anyone hasn't given up on the length of this post and is still reading.. it looks like I'm scheduled to graduate from UNLV either Fall '07 or Spring '08 at the latest. After that is MBA school.. and I'm actually leaning towards the San Francisco Wharton School of Business campus. So, who knows. I may be living in the bay area in a year or two. Maybe I can figure out how to snake an internship with the Raiders. Man, wouldn't that just be unbelievable. Heh.
/O.
/comes up for air
Aaaaaron: Man, I hate those moments of panic-attackness. I had one of those a few weeks ago when I forgot my flash drive plugged into the back of a computer in the college rendering lab.. GAAAAAAH! My whole academic life is on that damned thing. It was fine and right where I left it, but the panicky sick feeling was the suck.
Elrockenstein: Hehe.. it's no joke! Me and Haylee usually spend the first hour or so after waking up just relaxing, snacking a little bit and trying to muster the courage and energy for a new day. OK, so maybe that's mostly me. She's usually at full speed within 20 minutes of her eyes opening. Hehe. I totally get you on the braindead feeling though. Trying to be Dad all day long and then be Mr. Student at night and off and on through the day trying to study has been much harder than I thought it was going to be. Your brain just turns to oatmeal when you're consumed with the well being of another person 24 hours a day.
Regarding the milk/food statement (too much information ahead) .. it's a common problem. The problem is that only Wylie is able to get nearly all of mom's milk out. The pump just doesn't have the nature factor going for it. And, the cycle gets worse because when there is less milk removed from the boobage, then the body produces less milk in the future to replenish that unused milk.. the only way for it to really work is for mom to be a 24 hour a day food machine, which can be really rough. Michelle did it for the first 6-8 weeks straight and I was more or less on support duty for everything else around the house. Once Wylie starts getting into eating rice cereal and other supplemental foods does it let up a little bit, but that's not for a little while yet I think (my brain IS oatmeal, though.. so I may be recollecting wrongly). Anyhow. It ain't fair, no. But there's just no other way to increase or maintain a full milk supply for a baby in the first few months without 24hr/day of mom-baby pipeline happening. One of the funny (and not so funny) lines in Michelle's great book called the first 12 months (or something like that) had to do with just this issue. In a section of Q & A, it was asked "Why didn't anyone tell me I'd be breastfeeding 24 hours a day?" And the answer was "Because then you wouldn't have done it (or believed us)!" Or, something to that effect. Sucks to be a woman. I feel for the womenfolk.. they have to bear the brunt of a lot of nature's not-so-fun life-shit.
Oblivion: The Xbox version is cool because it does HDR *AND* Anti Aliasing at the same time.. but the major suck part is you can't get your hands on the community made patches and modifications for the game. I really really hated the levelling paradigm used in "vanilla" Oblivion. Basically, everything levels along with you, as do the loot tables (stuff that you find in the world, stuff that baddies are armed/armored with.. etc) ... so you will never be able to go explore a remote section of the universe and find yourself in a world of shit because you're WAY in over your head. Likewise, you'll never find yourself in a position where you fight enemies that once kicked your ass but are now relatively easy. Don't get me wrong, it's still an amazingly immersive and interesting game, but after having installed some of the overhauling patches/modifications that fix not just the aforementioned level/loot idiocy.. but add everything from significant visual improvements (water shaders, environments/weather additions, textures, etc) to additional character classes, quest lines, tweaks to the various questlines to make them more playable/challenging.. so on and so forth.. I just couldn't imagine going back to vanilla Oblivion.
School: LOL.. if anyone hasn't given up on the length of this post and is still reading.. it looks like I'm scheduled to graduate from UNLV either Fall '07 or Spring '08 at the latest. After that is MBA school.. and I'm actually leaning towards the San Francisco Wharton School of Business campus. So, who knows. I may be living in the bay area in a year or two. Maybe I can figure out how to snake an internship with the Raiders. Man, wouldn't that just be unbelievable. Heh.
/O.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Coolio
I'll be visiting places up and down Lincoln and Irving so I'll probably have some time to kill, and maybe Sunday all day - depends on whether I get anything or not as I'm staying up there until I do!
I haven't arranged a hotel yet, but do you have any recommendations? I don't want to impose on you and Aimee! Awesome, it'll be great to see you!
I'll be visiting places up and down Lincoln and Irving so I'll probably have some time to kill, and maybe Sunday all day - depends on whether I get anything or not as I'm staying up there until I do!
I haven't arranged a hotel yet, but do you have any recommendations? I don't want to impose on you and Aimee! Awesome, it'll be great to see you!
If I didn't know better
...I would say either you were a) pregnant, or b) just had a kid. I say this because of the stupidity hormone that is released into one's system that causes such lapses to become rather common when dealing with pre or post-child. I swear, I feel dumber every minute. That probably has much to do with lack of sleep, lack of proper nourishment, and stress related to keeping a child alive.
When we were in the hospital, to pass the time in a completely inane way, I picked up one of those Magic Invisible Ink activity books. You know, the ones that you can do slot machines, mazes, baseball, trivia, etc. Anyway, when we returned home I found myself still fiddling around with the book, because that was all I could really handle mentally, not to mention physically. I thought to myself in a moment of clarity, "Ah, how far I have come. Before we went to hospital, I was reading ASL rules, and now, I am trying to figure out which two clowns are the same out of six clowns, and still having trouble."
It's all good though, it's all good. You're probably not pregnant.
- Side note, Denis gave us the coolest handmade card ever! It's a rad popup card and includes the phrase "Rolled a natural 20 with a +5 Vorpal Baby". Does it get any cooler than that? I think not. I will try and post some pictures of it.
- One of our business properties closed escrow today, and the other should close before the 19th this month. Those of you that know our situation understand that I am relieved and pleased as punch with the situation. As a "reward" I picked up an xbox 360 and Oblivion. It is much better when the graphics are up to snuff, so I have been enjoying playing that for about an hour so far. New consoles are cool cause you can save at any point during the game. No more silly save points! My only opportunity to play will be when Wylie is asleep on my chest at night, so I'm not really planning on getting to far in the near future!
- My PBI holes are now filled with the missing models, so I am ready to never assemble, nor paint, nor play the game! Not to mention that Denis looked over the rules and looked interested! Hooray!
- Wylie is a few days short of a month old, 10lbs (up from 7lbs8oz at birth), eating faster than Leslie can make milk for him, SORT OF smiling, and adorable. That is all.
...I would say either you were a) pregnant, or b) just had a kid. I say this because of the stupidity hormone that is released into one's system that causes such lapses to become rather common when dealing with pre or post-child. I swear, I feel dumber every minute. That probably has much to do with lack of sleep, lack of proper nourishment, and stress related to keeping a child alive.
When we were in the hospital, to pass the time in a completely inane way, I picked up one of those Magic Invisible Ink activity books. You know, the ones that you can do slot machines, mazes, baseball, trivia, etc. Anyway, when we returned home I found myself still fiddling around with the book, because that was all I could really handle mentally, not to mention physically. I thought to myself in a moment of clarity, "Ah, how far I have come. Before we went to hospital, I was reading ASL rules, and now, I am trying to figure out which two clowns are the same out of six clowns, and still having trouble."
It's all good though, it's all good. You're probably not pregnant.
- Side note, Denis gave us the coolest handmade card ever! It's a rad popup card and includes the phrase "Rolled a natural 20 with a +5 Vorpal Baby". Does it get any cooler than that? I think not. I will try and post some pictures of it.
- One of our business properties closed escrow today, and the other should close before the 19th this month. Those of you that know our situation understand that I am relieved and pleased as punch with the situation. As a "reward" I picked up an xbox 360 and Oblivion. It is much better when the graphics are up to snuff, so I have been enjoying playing that for about an hour so far. New consoles are cool cause you can save at any point during the game. No more silly save points! My only opportunity to play will be when Wylie is asleep on my chest at night, so I'm not really planning on getting to far in the near future!
- My PBI holes are now filled with the missing models, so I am ready to never assemble, nor paint, nor play the game! Not to mention that Denis looked over the rules and looked interested! Hooray!
- Wylie is a few days short of a month old, 10lbs (up from 7lbs8oz at birth), eating faster than Leslie can make milk for him, SORT OF smiling, and adorable. That is all.
Toot de Sweet
I think I am available all weekend. Give me a heads up when you will be available and about.
I had one of those gut wrenching experiences two days ago. I was on a crowded-ass double-length bus in which I had to squirm vigorously through a sardine of humanity to exit at my stop. After I got of the bus I double checked my pockets for stock, as is my usual routine. One, two, three, four lumps… Huh. Wait shouldn't I have five. Well six if you include my package. Okay let’s count again: One, Two, Three, Four, Ummmm... Try one more time. Maybe the fifth lump is in another pocket I had forgotten about in my jacket. Let me browse again. Okay at this point I must have looked like some pervert feeling himself up in public. Like the bum that masturbates to women walking by him. Not that any one in the grittier part of SF would notice this. Everyone else is crazy, why should they care what just another nut is doing. Anyway: Dig in my pockets for a full inventory check. Key set 1: Check. Key set 2: Check. Cell phone 1: Check. Cell Phone 2: Check. Wallet: Uh oh. D'oh! And so a mad sprint out run the bus before it departs the next bus stop, two long blocks away. Oh my god, I thought I was going to blow a lung gasket. I just barely got my self stuffed in the front door, into the front of the most ridiculously packed rush hour bus eVar. It took me two stops to get to wiggle my way to the back of the bus where I was sitting. My god, there my wallet was resting between to women sitting where I had just been not two minutes ago. I have never done that before. What an ass feeling. After locking my self out of my apartment the other night, all I could think of was how ass it was to have two events like this happen in such quick succession.
Deef
I think I am available all weekend. Give me a heads up when you will be available and about.
I had one of those gut wrenching experiences two days ago. I was on a crowded-ass double-length bus in which I had to squirm vigorously through a sardine of humanity to exit at my stop. After I got of the bus I double checked my pockets for stock, as is my usual routine. One, two, three, four lumps… Huh. Wait shouldn't I have five. Well six if you include my package. Okay let’s count again: One, Two, Three, Four, Ummmm... Try one more time. Maybe the fifth lump is in another pocket I had forgotten about in my jacket. Let me browse again. Okay at this point I must have looked like some pervert feeling himself up in public. Like the bum that masturbates to women walking by him. Not that any one in the grittier part of SF would notice this. Everyone else is crazy, why should they care what just another nut is doing. Anyway: Dig in my pockets for a full inventory check. Key set 1: Check. Key set 2: Check. Cell phone 1: Check. Cell Phone 2: Check. Wallet: Uh oh. D'oh! And so a mad sprint out run the bus before it departs the next bus stop, two long blocks away. Oh my god, I thought I was going to blow a lung gasket. I just barely got my self stuffed in the front door, into the front of the most ridiculously packed rush hour bus eVar. It took me two stops to get to wiggle my way to the back of the bus where I was sitting. My god, there my wallet was resting between to women sitting where I had just been not two minutes ago. I have never done that before. What an ass feeling. After locking my self out of my apartment the other night, all I could think of was how ass it was to have two events like this happen in such quick succession.
Deef
Apt. Search Begins!
Hey Nron and J0rn, I'll be heading up to sunny ole' SF, probably on Friday to start looking for places to live! I've got a little list already - will probably be somewhere in the Sunset/Parkside areas, which would be supAR-cool as we'll not be too far from each other. Hopefully, you guys will have time to meet up for a bit - but if not, no sweat, there will be other times.
Hope to see you soon!
Hey the rest of y'all. Hope all is good with you.
Hey Nron and J0rn, I'll be heading up to sunny ole' SF, probably on Friday to start looking for places to live! I've got a little list already - will probably be somewhere in the Sunset/Parkside areas, which would be supAR-cool as we'll not be too far from each other. Hopefully, you guys will have time to meet up for a bit - but if not, no sweat, there will be other times.
Hope to see you soon!
Hey the rest of y'all. Hope all is good with you.
Monday, May 01, 2006
Ry: This ones for you. I ran across it on Slashdot.
Even non-baseball fans must concede that the re-creation of the bottom half of the 10th inning of Game Six of the 1986 World Series, using the original broadcast audio and a replay with Nintendo's RBI Baseball, took enormous dedication. 'Something like the Keith Hernandez at-bat, where he flies out to center, took like 200 attempts,' Creator Conor Lastowka told WSJ.com. Though it wasn't quite as hard as it looks: 'Thanks to the emulator software, each time Mr. Hernandez's at-bat strayed from history's script, Mr. Lastowka was able to replay from the previous at-bat. Using a computer rather than an actual game console like a PlayStation allowed Mr. Lastowka to save his progress along the way. He built his precise Game-Six replica bit by bit -- not in one flawless, improbable take.' Before he made the viral video, Lastowka was jobless; three days after its release, he had a job with a classic-films company.
Even non-baseball fans must concede that the re-creation of the bottom half of the 10th inning of Game Six of the 1986 World Series, using the original broadcast audio and a replay with Nintendo's RBI Baseball, took enormous dedication. 'Something like the Keith Hernandez at-bat, where he flies out to center, took like 200 attempts,' Creator Conor Lastowka told WSJ.com. Though it wasn't quite as hard as it looks: 'Thanks to the emulator software, each time Mr. Hernandez's at-bat strayed from history's script, Mr. Lastowka was able to replay from the previous at-bat. Using a computer rather than an actual game console like a PlayStation allowed Mr. Lastowka to save his progress along the way. He built his precise Game-Six replica bit by bit -- not in one flawless, improbable take.' Before he made the viral video, Lastowka was jobless; three days after its release, he had a job with a classic-films company.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Enron I must admit I was quite surprised to get a call from you at 11:00 pm. Actually my first thought was that this was some drunken dialing and you were going to tell me how much you loved me or something. Not that I don't have a few late night calls coming after the whole kicking down your door incident.
Today I was checking out random Warhammer Quest links. There are several sites containing new warrior types. So far my favorite is the Christian Missionary.
Besides his sword and armour, the Christian Missionary has a Holy Bible to help him stay on the proper path of spiritual development. If his Bible is ever lost or stolen, he may get another one for free when he finds a Christian Mentor, but he may not gain a battle level until he gets a replacement Bible. If at all possible, it would be best if he never loses his Bible. As long as he has the Bible with him, it is assumed that he reads it every chance he gets to ensure his spiritual development and increased usefulness in the service of God.
There are also extensive rules for converting heathen monsters, potentially including Chaos Warriors, possibly including minotaurs, but definitely not including Chaos Dragons. A Dragon is an interesting being, but I am afraid it cannot be converted (Aw!), because it is so devastatingly evil, it appears to be all animal, and most importantly, it is used in God’s Word, the Bible to represent the Devil himself, Satan, the Old Serpent. The Christian Missionary, even if he is mistaken about this matter, just wouldn’t hold out any hope for such a being as the dragon.
So that's nice.
I have been extremely stressed out at work lately. Not because of the work itself. About a month ago my boss let me know that she was trying to get me pulled in as a full time employee. Naturally this would lead to all kinds of goodness like benefits and a 401k. The rub is that she must convince her boss who seems to change his mind on a weekly basis about whether or not she can add me to the department. Everything seemed to be going well but then a few days ago I was told that once again she is going to have to lay out a case for hiring me. His problem is that the company is increasingly focusing on a multilanguage plan and he goes vacillates about only allowing future hires that are fluent in foreign languages. As damn good as I am at my job, I do not speak any foreign languages fluently (not that I'm not willing to learn, which I've told her).
Actually this has been keeping me so stressed that I think my attitude at work is suffering. Thus probably creating a vicious cycle which will lead to my not being hired. Hooray! Anyway there's not much I can do besides hassling my boss, possibly hassling her boss, and sweating it out. The not knowing is the worst part.
Today I was checking out random Warhammer Quest links. There are several sites containing new warrior types. So far my favorite is the Christian Missionary.
Besides his sword and armour, the Christian Missionary has a Holy Bible to help him stay on the proper path of spiritual development. If his Bible is ever lost or stolen, he may get another one for free when he finds a Christian Mentor, but he may not gain a battle level until he gets a replacement Bible. If at all possible, it would be best if he never loses his Bible. As long as he has the Bible with him, it is assumed that he reads it every chance he gets to ensure his spiritual development and increased usefulness in the service of God.
There are also extensive rules for converting heathen monsters, potentially including Chaos Warriors, possibly including minotaurs, but definitely not including Chaos Dragons. A Dragon is an interesting being, but I am afraid it cannot be converted (Aw!), because it is so devastatingly evil, it appears to be all animal, and most importantly, it is used in God’s Word, the Bible to represent the Devil himself, Satan, the Old Serpent. The Christian Missionary, even if he is mistaken about this matter, just wouldn’t hold out any hope for such a being as the dragon.
So that's nice.
I have been extremely stressed out at work lately. Not because of the work itself. About a month ago my boss let me know that she was trying to get me pulled in as a full time employee. Naturally this would lead to all kinds of goodness like benefits and a 401k. The rub is that she must convince her boss who seems to change his mind on a weekly basis about whether or not she can add me to the department. Everything seemed to be going well but then a few days ago I was told that once again she is going to have to lay out a case for hiring me. His problem is that the company is increasingly focusing on a multilanguage plan and he goes vacillates about only allowing future hires that are fluent in foreign languages. As damn good as I am at my job, I do not speak any foreign languages fluently (not that I'm not willing to learn, which I've told her).
Actually this has been keeping me so stressed that I think my attitude at work is suffering. Thus probably creating a vicious cycle which will lead to my not being hired. Hooray! Anyway there's not much I can do besides hassling my boss, possibly hassling her boss, and sweating it out. The not knowing is the worst part.
D'oh
Okay this is old, but man is it funny. Check it out. Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
Perfect recipe to forget last night. Aimey and I managed to lock ourselves out of the house at 11:3o pm. Ass ass ass. That was $16o dollars down the toilet. Fuck. $16o bucks wait 3o minutes for some guy to show up and spend 1 minute to shoving a couple pieces of metal in a door knob. It took him three times as long to write up the ticket and take my payment than to pick the lock. Uggggg. So agro when I finally got back in our apartment...
D>M>
Okay this is old, but man is it funny. Check it out. Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
Perfect recipe to forget last night. Aimey and I managed to lock ourselves out of the house at 11:3o pm. Ass ass ass. That was $16o dollars down the toilet. Fuck. $16o bucks wait 3o minutes for some guy to show up and spend 1 minute to shoving a couple pieces of metal in a door knob. It took him three times as long to write up the ticket and take my payment than to pick the lock. Uggggg. So agro when I finally got back in our apartment...
D>M>
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