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[Thomas Edison]

Hit her with your pimpcane, Jens. Then she'll know she's yours.

[Liz]

Mixtape girl saw me and avoided me on purpose yesterday. What the hell lady

Oh noes! Are you absolutely positive? Maybe... maybe it wasn't... what it seemed. She totally did not avoid you at all!

[jhocking]

commit seppuku, you have been shamed

[Yayniall]

A book of curses I hope?

[nobo]

I am hoping I'll see her again soon.

I am hoping the next time you see her, you're going to ask for her info right away and tell her you'd like your meetings to rely less on chance.

[Caleb]

Note:

Pulling up obits from the 90s is SO EASY. I wish all my genealogy reference questions were this simple. The patron calling in from Georgia was really impressed.

[snalin]

Yesterday was a good day, we arranged the annual drama class boat trip for the younger drama people, and that was fun times. We dressed up as cowboys and indians, sang a hillbilly variant of Backstreet Boy's "Everybody", played games and had fun times.

Now we have to write a report to the teacher, and she's decided to dump a lot of big words on our head and believe that everyone is able to not only get them, but use them in a paper. I might be able to understand what "drama-pedagogic methods" implies, but I'm a top student. People who's vocabulary don't include words like "destructive" can't get shit of what you are saying, miss teacher. This will lead to much complaint, and a teacher vs. pupils fight, and the end result will be bad grades and lots'a hate. Woo woo.

[karl gambolputty...]

I tried to take my dog to Petsmart today to get his shots.  He took one look at the other dogs there and lost his damn mind.  I nearly dislocated a finger holding onto his collar.

Here he is lookin' all sheepish on the ride home:

[Johnny C]

I played my first game of D&D last night and now boy am I tired!!!

But seriously it ran from like 9 pm to about 5 am, next time we gotta start sooner and also know our shit a little better

[Caleb]

So a nice little story.

This woman called looking for a name and phone number to go with a partial address.  She had a last name but it was badly marred and she was only able to see the first letters of the name.

I was able to use Reference USA to find everyone with whose last name started with those letters and who lived on that street.

Only one person matched the partial address.

It turns out that this mystery person had found a wallet that the woman's son had lost and returned it with all the money in the mail.

So now the woman can call this person up and thank them.

She had a British accent and said I was a "Spectacular Person" or something to that effect.  It was a very nice compliment.

It feels good to be a librarian at times like this.



(on the other hand it could have been a rouge SIS agent or something who used me to track down a target.  But of course they probably wouldn't have had to use our meager resources.)

[Bastardous Bassist]

D&D is awesome!  I'm trying to run a campaign consisting entirely of players who have never done it before.  Luckily, they all seem to have fun, though we don't get much done each session.

Do you think D&D is something you will continue doing?

[Liz]

Did you have any experienced players along?

Also: did you enjoy it?

Jens and Kris played D&D with people from the internet. Ultimate Nerdery: Achieved.

[Caleb]

Actually during national library gaming day last year I signed up for free games from wizards of the coast and got a bunch of free starter kits for DnD and Magic the Gathering.

I really ought to break one of those out and try it out sometime.

[Lines]

Jens and Kris played D&D with people from the internet. Ultimate Nerdery: Achieved.

When?! I would have played...

Johnny, that is one long ass game. I mean, the campaign I have been playing this summer has one 4 hour session once a week and, not that I'm bored, I get tired of sitting after 2 hours. (We also play like right after a bunch of us get off work, so we get tired fast.) But it's fun when you have a good group!

[KvP]

I played my first game of D&D last night and now boy am I tired!!!

But seriously it ran from like 9 pm to about 5 am, next time we gotta start sooner and also know our shit a little better

Just for future reference, as a general rule this does never not happen.

Tonight I am starting up my Fallout (Van Buren) campaign once more. It's been a long time and the system's not exactly made for tabletop even as it's essentially adapted from tabletop rules, but I'll make do.

[Liz]

Linds they played back in Fort Wayne with some of Eed's friends. I would have joined too, but it was after Chicagocon and I was on the way home already. Oh well.

[De_El]

Man today I was all sad and lonely and shit and the the friend I was supposed to see today blew me off by not responding to any attempts at communication, but now I have eaten a delicious burger and I am gonna make a raid on Bongolia with Genghis Bong and then later I am gonna see Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind with the friend I have seen literally every day this week. Fuck you friend who won't return my calls, I am gonna have  good day without you.

[Slick]

I am going to blog.

Man so I have been at this job two years and this school for five years. This job has been pretty rad, but I kind of miss the beginning when everytime a pretty lady would flirt with me I would get a little exhilarated. I used to think sleeping with pretty ladies would solve all my problems but now I realize that isn't true. A couple of cynical experiences have me a little jaded. That isn't the case all the time, I still like people and want to meet people, I'm just no longer flattered when someone thinks I'm cute. Not that I'm conceited about my looks, I'm just aware that I'm just an OK guy and that I dress slightly hip and I do things which people like. There used to be so many people about that I would chat with, and all these people I might have had crushes on, now I just chat to so many people and I find myself missing that feeling of your heart lifting ever-so-slightly and smiling back at someone. I mean, there was a girl I was trying at for a little while recently, but I never felt light inside about her, just like she was a cool person and I thought it'd be fun to be with her.
I'm also a little sick of being in this school but that is such a weak thing to say. I am sick of being here, but goddamn if I shouldn't be able to get stuff done anyways. Are we not people? Are people not capable? What am I if not a capable human being? Challenges and difficulties should be risen to, not lain down beside.
Anyways, what is up with life? I have been treating the entirety of the world external to me as a big black box lately, just firing off signals and impulses based on vague theory. I think I need to re-evaluate my operational model.

[Christophe]

Dear Blog Thread,

As it turns out, the display on my lappy is borked. It does shit like this. The laptop still works, but only through an external monitor. My dad has okayed me using one of his laptops for my trip to Scotland but he ain't too happy about that.

I have gone through three laptops in three years--the first just being really outdated, the second got a fried motherboard, and the third has a busted display. Ahhh, C'mon fuck a computer.

[sean]

i really hate the fact that the music dempartment at my school fucking forces the music majors to do a year of marching band. today was the first football game, i dont know all of my parts yet because i still don't quite have playing the marimba down, and we have vocalists and their mics didn't work because we have shitty equipment and then all of us pit kids got chewed the fuck out because we didn't do enough to fix it even though there was practically nothing we could have done.

fkkkkk this shiiiiiiiiiiiiit november come faster damnit. i also forgot my key so i was locked out of my dorm for like an hour and a half once the game was over. i dont even like football

/bitchhhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry guys. :c

[StaedlerMars]

Hey guys, maybe not the right place, but I think everyone reads this, and it's definitely not worth starting a thread about.

Does anyone have a log in for ffffound! ?  Would they care to invite someone who's really interested in signing up? Is that even how it works?

If you don't know about ffffound! go check it out, it's awesome.

Also Blog: It's been summer, what else can I say?

[Bastardous Bassist]

i really hate the fact that the music dempartment at my school fucking forces the music majors to do a year of marching band.

...What?!  What do they do with the string players?  That's quite possibly the worst idea I've ever heard.  I'm so lucky my undergrad place didn't do that crap.  I feel for you, dude.  I hate marching band.

[sean]

i am a string player! we basically get fucked. im stuck on marimba which i have no idea how to play. i was gonna play electric bass (they have one in the pit)  but due to some really shitty misunderstanding people thought there wasn't an incoming electric bass player so they got somebody else to do it. theres another cellist in the pit and he's playing vibes.

shit fuckin sucks.

[Bastardous Bassist]

...
...
Fuck, dude.  I've never even heard of that shit before.  We didn't have a marching band (no football team), but we did have a pep band (for basketball) that was fully voluntary and ended up containing no music majors.

[tania]

there was almost a huge fight at my job today! one of my coworkers was helping out a customer with a return at the return desk and the customer was being real rude to him and they got into a yelling match and finally he turned around and left, but forgot that he still had the customer's receipt in his hand. the customer snatched the receipt out of his hand then called him a motherfucker and my coworker snapped and lunged at the guy and i had to actually grab his arm and stop him from punching the customer in the face. it was so surreal. afterwords i spoke to another associate all "holy shit, what the hell was that?!" but he just shrugged and told me it happens all the time. i guess when my own inevitable customer fistfight occurs i'll let you all know.

[KvP]

Now would be the time to fashion your personal shiv.

[JD]

Gots me a new cell phone today.

Also my ankle hurts and I don't know why.
Perplexing!

[iamiam]

dear blog thread

i have no game.  any ideas where i could purchase some?

[Reed]

Right here

[Slick]

Man fuck that guy and his stupid book.

I mean I have not read it and I am just rolling in the pussy.

By which I mean I slept with a woman once and cried afterwards.

Oh god what have I done.

[SirJuggles]

*whining about pit*

Whatever pit people are lazy bums anyways



...or so I thought until I had to do percussion ensemble and holy crap good marimba players can do things with mallets that literally frighten me.

[Hat]

I moved back in with my parents yesterday and already they're talking about how the furniture I have doesn't match their furniture and how they might have to buy me some new stuff, except the stuff I already have is the stuff they bought the last time I moved in with them for a few months, because my old furniture didn't match their old house. I can't possibly explain to my mother how stupid this is because she is insane

Also I made more money in tips cleaning toilets than I did serving customers this weekend. Considering becoming a wealthy janitor? Obviously I am much better at cleaning toilets than making drinks.

[SirJuggles]

Find a new terrible way to combine the two?

[Hat]

Well actually I also have a passion for brewing and distillery, so if I ever go to prison I'm going hold toilet sangria nights for gang affiliated patrons

Also here is a list of things I love about living with my parents to stop me from killing myself

- massive amounts of free food
- free
- access to a working washer and drier
- completely free
- amazing water pressure and actually has a temperature in the shower between "scaling hot" and "freezing cold"
- absolutely free except for some minor chores which would be about 1/10th of my workload in a normal house
- mustard yellow bed sheets that cause me to basically throw myself out of bed in a panic attack every morning like a kinetic alarm clock
- FREE
- A fucking awesome giant roman blind in my bedroom, (face fit so it covers the whole window), heavy dark sheets, facing a window against a very high fence, that faces west.

The last one is probably the biggest deal to be honest, I slept till five pm today I've never been able to get 12 hours like that during the day no matter how tired I am.

[Johnny C]

We had a couple experienced players along but most of us were total newbies and I gotta adapt myself to this kind of roleplaying which is way tough. I was originally going for Unaligned Jaded And Emotionally Distant Tiefling Warlord but now I'm going more for Unaligned Impetuous Idiot Tiefling Warlord Who Kinda Thinks He's A Big Deal Narrative-Wise And Isn't But At Least He Fights Good.

It was a blast though, we're gonna do it again.

[jodizzle]

Brett I miss you.  We should hang out again one day.

[Hat]

Jodie the record fair is in two and a half weeks, basically we should run a savage burn on that thing. You know there is no way I can sleep in or be cranky if massive stacks of wax are involved.

Also I cannot find the power cable for my mixer anywhere and now I am sad because I wanted to put on music while I unpacked.

[jodizzle]

Man I will see what I can do!

[Hat]

oh my god my parents actually go to bed at 8 oclock on the dot each night this is so weird. It sucks that is basically my prime time fo' choppin' and skrewin' I am going to have to learn to do things during the day whenever I can.

Also they have a living room and a lounge room but in this house the lounge is the fancy room with the books and the nice liquor nobody actually ever uses, not the living room. It was the other way around in their last house and I am just getting plum confused.

I am a grown man living with his parents what the fuck am I doing this for

[ViolentDove]

Hey guys, maybe not the right place, but I think everyone reads this, and it's definitely not worth starting a thread about.

Does anyone have a log in for ffffound! ?  Would they care to invite someone who's really interested in signing up? Is that even how it works?

If you don't know about ffffound! go check it out, it's awesome.

Also Blog: It's been summer, what else can I say?

Hey I remember my housemate showing me that site a while back. The impression I got from him was that you have to be some kind of mad design nerd to be invited (he is a design nerd).

[Jace]

nerdery about PnP RPGs

If you don't care about gaming or any of that, skip down because you really won't care about any of this text:
We decided to try out new combat for our Werewolf game, and I was all excited because the old combat boiled down to two things.

player: "I run up and claw him."
or
player: "I want to run, jump over the table, and claw him."
GM: "That'll be a leaping rake, difficulty is 8." (mind you, this is on a d10)
player: "nevermind, I'll just run around the table and claw him. At least then I can hit."

but the new combat ended up being more boring and restrictive because you actually had to buy the maneuvers and I didn't have enough points to buy any dodges other than the basic one, and I didn't have any throws or claws or anything. We decided not to use that system, but instead to blend together a system that allows us some more stunts, but doesn't give a level of sheer ridiculousness that the Exalted system uses. One of the players (the other one testing the system with us) didn't want the stunts because he felt it didn't fit the setting "werewolves don't do triple backflips" and I was trying to communicate that I did not want that level of ridiculous, I just wanted to be able to pick up a table throw it at a dude and claw at him through the table I just through without needing to make 4 dice rolls. He did not understand and still wanted the old system. I let the group know that I'd just go ahead and not play if we were going to use the "I claw him" rules.


This is no longer about gaming.

Friday night I went to this up all night thing at the art institute. I had been up about 30 hours when I did jumpstyle at a dance contest. I had been up 32 hours when I sang Take on Me for karaoke. I had been up about 33 hours when I got into the semifinals in dance contest II: Redemption. I ended up not winning the semi-finals against people who really weren't doing any moves or anything, and I was pulling off some crazy break dance-ish handstands and shit. Then I got the number of a pretty cute girl who I beat in the first round of part II. Then me and the gang went to Dennys and I had a motherfuckin ultimate omelet while I was trading texts with the girl.

I went to sleep at 5am saturday morning and slept to 5pm when I went and picked up this:


Pretty much the best book I own.

Today I might go kayaking.

[Slick]

oh god oh god oh god oh god
Look at the title guys!
BEYOND THUNDERDOME WAS MAD MAX III, NOT II!

[Tyler]

132 pages in, the realization that this thread is a lie.

I think its time

[sean]

*whining about pit*

Whatever pit people are lazy bums anyways



...or so I thought until I had to do percussion ensemble and holy crap good marimba players can do things with mallets that literally frighten me.

i feel like at its core marching band is a bitching contest between the band and the pit as to who has it the worst.

[squawk]

dude you don't have to fuckin walk around on a field for so many hours

[SirJuggles]

Yah srsly pit just pull their stuff around with wimpy golf carts. Lardos.

[Aimless]

Dear blög thread,

There are many things I would like to share with you, but I have decided to limit myself to only one item. Today it was a toss-up between the 77-y-o yogi/ayurvedic "healer" that stayed with us for half a week, and... well, this:

[subway, waiting for a train]

[girl comes up to Aimy]

"Excuse me... hello! Yes, hi. I've just gotten a nose-job. Does my nose look smaller??"

[Aimy peers at bandage]

We-e-eeelll... what did it look like before?






My last night in sthlm, not too bad after all

[Bastardous Bassist]

i feel like at its core marching band is a bitching contest between the band and the pit as to who has it the worst.

In my high school, nobody was forced to do marching band, and everyone who ended up going out for it loved it!  I avoided marching band, because it looked like the worst thing I could possibly do with my time.

[Hat]

So it turns out I have a full length mirror in the same room as my turntables are set up in and it turns out I look RIDICULOUS dancing ( I guess I should already know this) but I don't care because this is a fucking boss mashup (Fatman Scoop vs Stardust - Music Sounds Fatter With You) aw yeah

[Jimor]

Never did marching band, just pep band one year in high school. One time during a football game, it turned out that both the other pep band and us had "On Wisconsin" in our repertoire. We played it, they played it, we played it faster, they played it fastest. A nod and a cheer to them. Then we played it ridiculously slow, something like 30 beats per minute in the longest dirge in the history of pep bands. When we finally finished, the other band gave us a standing ovation.

Blogarundo:

Today was my first paid gig as crew for the access station. 7:30 am-6:30 pm to cover a boxing match featuring 12 bouts between local all stars and a team from Baja California. Was a lot of fun, I get a couple hours of overtime, but I am completely knackered as some of you are wont to say.