But for the e23 reprint of GURPS IOU? You bet I'm breaking out this icon!

Tags: gaming, gurps: iou

Here is the latest verse, continuing the third section of "The Sky-Eyes and the Earth-Hearts." I am really pleased to see ongoing interest in this xeno-entomology poem. The original post is here.

( Ooo! Butterflies!! )

Tags: cyberfunded creativity, networking, poem, poetry, reading, science fiction, writing
Current Mood: busy

And it's supposed to sile it down tomorrow - which is good news for the English batsmen but rather less for the rest of us who have to battle to the dentists at the crack of early dawn.

Or, ten am as we call it.

And a bit of the ceiling just fell in. Squee. Why squee, you ask? If the roof falls in, I can LEAVE. Bye bye bed bugs.

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre. Ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Flying Dogs. Or at least dogs in midair, generally looking goofy.

Ten books that could be booted from the literary canon. As evaluated by someone who, from the sound of it, is actually a fan of literary fiction. I must say, the quoted bits make me agree with their evaluation.

Tags: linkage

feste_sylvain returned from his way-too-long work trip yesterday, and he came over today. Yay! Had missed him terribly.

Being as he was gone through my entire withdrawal process (yes, Adam deserves a medal for dealing with my withdrawal alone), he was surprised and conflicted to find that, in his words, "There's less of you!"

And I realized I'd forgotten to mention it here. So yes. The silver lining of severe nausea: I lost 10 pounds, and I'm down a jeans size. And I realize that with my body weirdness (new kids, I dropped 50 pounds with catastrophic suddenness on my first anti-seizure med, then gained it all back and then some on my fifth; neither extreme was good), people don't automatically know if this is A Good Thing.

So. I tell you that it is.

Not the nausea. That sucks. (And it's mostly back to pre-withdrawal levels... I don't say gone, because I've had nausea on every anti-seizure med. Six years. That's about as fun as you think it is. Remind me to post about the months where I'd lost my ability to read.)

But the weight loss itself is good, because I'd been carrying too much for my frame, which was exacerbating the pain and making it more difficult to get exercise. But this and the increased energy are eabling me to go out for walks again. I look forward to being more in shape.

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Tags: dungeons and dragons

Today I came across some interesting resources ...

The Temas Blog discusses "Musings about the Evolution of Consumer, Environmental & Health Policy in Latin America & the Caribbean." Much of the content is in English but there is some Spanish also.

BlogBlogs is a blog directory/network in Spanish. It offers a tracking widget you can put on your blog, which is how I found it.

DIHITT looks like a networking/news service, also in Spanish. It includes a friends tracker widget for blogs, which is how I found it.

Tags: linguistics, networking
Current Mood: busy

So has Card given up on Civilization Watch or is he just not updating its links to his site?

Tags: memetic prophylactic recommended

I really try not to discount all "old white men" in government. I think a lot of them have something unique to offer; I just think there needs to be a much broader variety of ethnic/racial [oops, forgot gender!] types to represent society, and that Congress is severely overstocked with OWM. And not all of them are-- to coin a phrase "wise white men."

Cases in point. Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor, a self made woman who grew up in the projects, self described "affirmative action baby" who went on to graduate summa cum laude from an ivy league school, was asked the following questions:

Senator Sessions (AL): Did she think she could live on a judge's salary?

Sen. Cornin (TX): Questioned her on Dr. Martin Luther King, and did she understand discrimination (umm--a Latina from the projects)?

Sen. Coburn (OK): Quoted Desi Arnez from the old Lucille Ball show, telling Sotomayor she had some "'splainin' to do," a tv series in which women were very much second class citizens subservient to their husbands, answerable to them at the end of the day, hence the 'splainin', and occasionally spanked on camera. Not to mention an old white guy putting on a Cuban accent. Yeah.

Seriously. Time for some new blood.

Tags: political rant

Some muskrats will wait until a human is within about half a foot of its hiding place to run.

We have coyotes in the area now (And, I am told, opossums).

Farms get garbage pick-up now. I can't express what a pain in the ass dealing with garbage was for us, mostly because my father hit on what had to be the least efficient way of managing it. We had a little enclosed lot where the garbage bags got stored and once or twice year we kids would gather it up (the bags having long since rotted) and it would be dragged off to the dump.

I still have a scar on my foot from stepping on a cat food tin lid.

Why didn't we rent a dumpster? Why didn't we use a front-end loader - which lots of our neighbors had - to load the garbage onto a trailer? Why didn't we do weekly trips to the dump, given that my dad drove by it as often as twice per day? Well, that was Bill. He had a solution and since he wasn't there picking up the garbage, there wasn't a lot of incentive to find a different solution.

Don't get me started on our pump house.