mundane name variant: DavidSeaward
email: ancient.mariner@gmail.com
cell: 084 MARINER (+27 (84) 627 4637)
blog: DefyInscription
work (direct): +27 (21) 700 6467 (09h00-17h00)
msn: thekwill@hotmail.com? 
favourite colour: cthfuchsia (see also fuchsia)
web: http://inkwell.za.net/ (yuck)
CalvinBall? status: alternate win condition
protocols: DefyCapitalisation, DefyDivagation (kinda outta date)
2005/08/23 - what the blerry hell? no time for blogging or nuffing; I've got a backlog on blog reading; now I don't even have a virtual life
just a link creation: SAWUonE
public service announcement
got your new gmail account and worried it's so shiny you'll forget to check your student mail? read how to set an autoforward on your UCT account, and you'll never need to check it again!
(note: uses UCT mail account management rather than regular UCT webmail)
(note: applies to non-gmail accounts too, I guess)
goddammit, I have the means but not the opportunity, in the meanwhile, link of the deadline is tomorrow, why don't I pay attention to my Google Alerts?: Disney Seeks Hitchhiker Fans
(and see amazon.com for the latest greatest trailer)
laugh of the moment: ("well, you could pick up a copy of CLAWmarks 32?...")
link of the century: (until the next h2g2 picture update) Vogon Pictures!!one!!gruntbuggly!!!!
"one day": clean page, fix the recent blog template, discover the recent blog comments box, and fix it so that minor changes don't appear in recent changes {angry} - but it's likely we'll change the wiki engine before that
one relatively unminor change: mage duel LARP
obligatory of the moment: Don't Stop Belieeeeeevin' how can LARPing and the White Stripes be on opposite ends of the cool spectrum? and who the hell are Journey anyway?
plans for 2005:
working at: Open Box Software
09h00 - 17h00 msn messenger: thekwill@hotmail.com? (until campey gets me onto jabber)
still gonna: plan Flower War and other funky roleplaying stuff
not gonna: be onna committee
vac work notice: I am connected to gmail and MSN from 09h00-17h00 every weekday, so expect almost-instant reply gratification (for short replies)
much minuting: done... highlights: submissions! (CLAWmarks32?) whine about the tiki! (via Suggestions or ancient.mariner@gmail.com) roleplaying and LARPing workshops! KAOS league! and, thanks to our CLAWthing, the rumours are true
damn the fold: Firefox versus Mozilla: a word of caution - admirably NPOV - although I luvs my Firefox
link of the moment: Daedalus Halloween it was dead, so now it must be undead!
research of the moment: it almost seemed that Man... or Astro-Man? didn't exist, but it turns out that the punctuationally pedantic wikipedians (I love them so), do list them in wikipedia:Surf_rock? but they are as yet undocumented - however, there is both documentation and a picture of a wikipedia:Shrunken_head?!
still to archive of the moment: TikiWiki docs (pity they're incomplete)
comment of the moment: yay Tiki! please allow for a period of assimilation (I don't know what the fuchsia a structure is but it sounds cool) before I determine the One True Way to use it ;-)
link of the previous moment: Google News Alerts (via N!kke's Index, happy birthday google!)
anything-but-peanut gallery
- d@vid Feb 18 2004: peanut is my kryptonite, peanut is henceforth banned, anything else may appear below
- ShadowsLight Feb 19 2004: If you want to play Munchkin, there is always my SaturdayGamesDay ...
- d@vid Feb 19 2004: muhahahahahaHAWHAWheeImeanHAW... excellent!
- Lara Aug 18th 2004: This is my comment. How post modern.
- d@vid Aug 18 2004: updated the comment protocol at DefyDivagation
- What, sir, is Divigation, precisely. Today, now, InfernalRabbi
- InfernalRabbi: After a small amount of investigation, I found that vid.org.za is unregistered. 2004-08-19 August
- I guess I am not-for-profit :D - I must admit I resorted to a thesaurus for "divagation", I ended up wandering there on a digression from synonyms for "link" (the lsa then ended up on the precipitation page after a pithy comment by Mark) - d@vid too early in the morning, probably still August
defy this
holy cow - half of this is now automatable by Tiki! defy that :P
- DefyTabulation - timetable + skeletons, I'm lost without it
- DefyPrecipitation - the back burner + link repository
- DefyDivagation - comment protocol
- DefyCapitalisation - in-exile blog (archive), also contains decapitalisation policy, enforced by the ministry of little things
- DavidSeaward - how not to capitalise my name
- MutantBookPowerz - I am one with the ISBN
roleplaying
My Life With Master
- My Life With Monday (Tuesday afternoons)
- Characters
complete!!!1! now's as good a time as any to post the sessions - after lunch today, probably
Unknown Armies
(what? everyone else is playing it)
- 33rd Precinct, beat-level game where I'm playing Jack O'Reilly, a worn-out cop who needs to start passing his Unnatural checks
- Obsession skill: Five degrees of separation, "Hey, don't I know you/your mother/your boss?" (very Universalis, as Mike puts it)
D&D
(gasp! after I swore off it forever)
- Untitled campaign, run by Geoff; 1st-level Druid; more to follow
^ games I'm actually playing
v games I could swear I'm playing, except I'm not
The Universalis Arena 3
The new wiki-based game of Universalis (not as much dedication required ;) * based on TWiki?, which has 733333+ powerz
Myriadith Campaigns
- mini-campaigns with various systems but a common (developing) setting
- only one session so far
Sorcerer
Inside Tropolis Sorcerer mini-campaign based on the Inside minisupplement (to be run in second semester - pfft! to be run next year is what I mean)
- Introduction
- Sorcerer system introduction
- Planning
- postponed to second semester
CLAWs events
- MidweekMayhem: if nothing's happening I can run Universalis, although I'd like to run Great Ork Gods (holy cow, like eventually when I don't have pracs to avoid)
LARPing
Flower War: ))Mini-Campaign(( LARP
- FlowerWarOverview
- 4 session LARP campaign for 2005
- minimal GM effort (GMs?: d@vid and Tim)
- lots of player input required (character creation, setting creation, faction creation)
- basic setting idea: Aztecs have conquered Europe, there is magic
The LARP Where You All Go To A Restaurant
- I was sitting at work and it just happened, now I've just got to write the character sheets
- not enough gender-bending to be SotB?
Mage Duel
- we started with "what are the characters going to DO?", and came up with underground mage duelling
- think Need For Speed Underground & Fight Club, except with modern day mages
Children of the New Moon
- reactivated
- just gotta find those notes
- has one bunny, who may or may not be happy
- seems to be leaching some character identity issues from...
Sunspots on the Brain
- got the title...
- the charlie kaufman LARP (being john malkovich, adaptation, eternal sunshine) + identity
- transgender player/characters
Comment: What changed, d@ve? (by OOPMan on 2005-08-24 09:04:15)
You know d@ve, I can never figure out what's been changed when you update your page...