2003-04-15

featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 09:27 am

Yeah. I'm a geek. Love me.

It has only now dawned on me what a geek I have become. I saw [livejournal.com profile] rougewench had made herself a D&D character and had to do it.

My stats would be:
Str: 5
Int: 12
Wis: 17
Dex: 11
Con: 8
Chr: 18

So I'm thinking maybe I should be a priest. ;-)
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 09:27 am

Yeah. I'm a geek. Love me.

It has only now dawned on me what a geek I have become. I saw [livejournal.com profile] rougewench had made herself a D&D character and had to do it.

My stats would be:
Str: 5
Int: 12
Wis: 17
Dex: 11
Con: 8
Chr: 18

So I'm thinking maybe I should be a priest. ;-)
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 09:34 am

Stupid car games

This morning I was driving down 435 near the I-70 interchange where the left and middle lanes are closed for construction. I was zipping along in the middle lane at the mind-blowing pace of 15 mph, attempting to merge into the right lane, where all must tread eventually, and a blue volvo 240 with an autobot logo sticker on the back seemed poised to let me in. So I edged ahead of it, preparing to change lanes, at which point, the driver pointed at the back end of my car, where the decepticon logo is prominently displayed, flipped me the bird and sped up to block me. And they're supposed to be the good guys.
So I fell in behind her, passed the interchange, and jumped in the left lane as soon as possible, to pass my autobot rival. She did not take kindly to this and sped up along side me, as if to race. We carried on in this manner for a while until one of Kansas City's finest showed up and pulled over my speeding enemy. Meanwhile, my shadow vehicle sailed on into the morning. So long, do-gooder. Should have joined the dark side when you had a chance.
Autobots 0, Decepticons 1.
Ah. Feel the melodrama. :-P
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 09:34 am

Stupid car games

This morning I was driving down 435 near the I-70 interchange where the left and middle lanes are closed for construction. I was zipping along in the middle lane at the mind-blowing pace of 15 mph, attempting to merge into the right lane, where all must tread eventually, and a blue volvo 240 with an autobot logo sticker on the back seemed poised to let me in. So I edged ahead of it, preparing to change lanes, at which point, the driver pointed at the back end of my car, where the decepticon logo is prominently displayed, flipped me the bird and sped up to block me. And they're supposed to be the good guys.
So I fell in behind her, passed the interchange, and jumped in the left lane as soon as possible, to pass my autobot rival. She did not take kindly to this and sped up along side me, as if to race. We carried on in this manner for a while until one of Kansas City's finest showed up and pulled over my speeding enemy. Meanwhile, my shadow vehicle sailed on into the morning. So long, do-gooder. Should have joined the dark side when you had a chance.
Autobots 0, Decepticons 1.
Ah. Feel the melodrama. :-P
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 11:59 am

Lemmings

I read somewhere that lemmings don't really commit mass suicide by banding together and hurling themselves from cliffs, and that the whole thing was made up by Disney cinematographers trying to liven up the story of the life of the lemming for a tv show.
So they banded together a bunch of lemmings and herded them together from place to place, before finally driving them over a cliff, all for the entertainment of the audience back home.

Now that may or may not be true, but if it is, that's just one more reason to turn your television into a fish tank.

**Edit: This story does seem to be true. Also, it's amazing how many hits you turn up googling for "Disney lemmings"**
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 11:59 am

Lemmings

I read somewhere that lemmings don't really commit mass suicide by banding together and hurling themselves from cliffs, and that the whole thing was made up by Disney cinematographers trying to liven up the story of the life of the lemming for a tv show.
So they banded together a bunch of lemmings and herded them together from place to place, before finally driving them over a cliff, all for the entertainment of the audience back home.

Now that may or may not be true, but if it is, that's just one more reason to turn your television into a fish tank.

**Edit: This story does seem to be true. Also, it's amazing how many hits you turn up googling for "Disney lemmings"**
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 03:00 pm

The Revolution will be catalogued

Ah, these are the finds that make life worth living.

Found this in [livejournal.com profile] bitterlawngnome's journal and thought I'd spread the joy.

Anarchist Librarians. 'Nuff said.
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2003-04-15 03:00 pm

The Revolution will be catalogued

Ah, these are the finds that make life worth living.

Found this in [livejournal.com profile] bitterlawngnome's journal and thought I'd spread the joy.

Anarchist Librarians. 'Nuff said.