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HardBoiledYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. <strong>Sometime historian and on-off member of CLAW since 1992. Always up for a game of VIRUS. Lives nowhere. With no-one. Do not try and find him, or it will go ill with you.</strong> Tuesday 30 March: Hey, the Wiki works again! Bizarre. Monday 15 March: Soldat is kinda like Worms meets Counter-Strike. So, if you like your violence bitmapped and avatar-based, perhaps a download is in order! Friday 12 March: Got myself a Flash stick this morning - Rhodes IT is selling them at a discount, R300 for a 128M unit, so... well, I've got no real use for the damn thing, but the plan is to chuck it in the general direction of my dad, who has a serious taste for gadgetry - I'm still digesting the Palm Zire 71 I got for Christmas, thankyewverymuch. Serious fun weekend up ahead: planning on getting down to some canoodling and/or Playstation this evening, then a braai/digs party tomorrow, then D&D on Sunday. I have a fey'ri wizard called Stendril all genned up for the occasion, p|-|33r my |_33+ min-maxing skills o evil DM! Tuesday 9 March: OkCupid is pretty cool. 'Manchild', eh? Well, it's a lot more plausible than that whole astrology thing, SunChaser's insistences notwithstanding. :-) (why thankyou for remembering ;) - SunChaser) What surprises me, though, is that there are people who are compatible with this archetype. Bizarre. Anyway, what else is up? Oh, the TB-ridden thing in my last post turned out to be quite prescient: I now have frigging flu. For those of you that remember how rarely I get sick, you can imagine how much this pisses me off. Oh well. And: my 10th-level barbarian/Holy Liberator character got chopped in half at our last game. In half. Two hits totalling 105 HP damage, from a mounted Blackguard. Cue dramatic funeral scene! In retrospect, we should have chopped his horse out first - Spirited Charge now, n00b! Thursday 4 March: Heh heh heh. Allow me to cackle like a TB-ridden old man at the bedraggled spectacle of... ah, no, wait, Mandy might actually be reading this so... never mind. Hey Mands! ;-) And hey, I don't know about you all, but I practically kacked myself laughing at LothrielPixie's Flash page. W... T... F!!!! This could be the new 'All your base'. Wednesday 3 March: Oops. One of my digsmates found her way to this page, and I had some pointed questions to answer when I got home. ;-) So all the stuff about death, traps, and elven crime bosses has been snipped. Move along, y'all. Went to see Delicatessen last night - superb. A must-see, if you like the absurd. And, rooty toot toot, my new Tom Waits CD arrived today. :-D Monday 23 February: Spent the weekend in Kenton-on-Sea with housemates and assorted degenerates. Back in time for our 'paint and play' D&D session on Sunday - 11 hours including lunch break (damn fine) with my character facing down and defeating a dire bear single-handed. In other news, there's a pretty cool web resource up on the Wizards' site today: a gallery of gun images. Might make for a super-froody download. Thursday 19 February: Mmmm, at work and - gasp - CENSORED (hey, someone at work might read this)! Lawdy me! Somebody call HR! I must be stopped! Actually, given that this is G-town, the HR manager is probably CENSORED too. Ho, ho. In other news, I only got 11/20 on WhorDoeuvre?'s fake smile test. This feels quite low to me, but the blurb at the end says that most people are pretty crap at telling fake from real. Luckily I have a good way of determining when one of my students is lying: their mouth is moving. ;-) Wednesday 18 February: OK, The Last Samurai is officially, 'not crap'. Although it veered pretty close to the edge during that throne room scene at the end, non? But the gatling guns were k3wL, and I have to say the 'totally unexpected flag through the throat' sent me off with many good thoughts about getting an edge over tough opponents in D&D. Our DM uses a crit expansion called Torn Asunder, which has very detailed called shot rules, so feigned unconsciousness (foe loses Dex bonus) coupled with a readied action and a strike against the unarmoured throat would probably work pretty well. Seeing as my character has been 1/5 of a round away from death twice in the last two sessions, I need all the help I can get - darn that pesky 'rage ends, lose all those temp HPs?' rule, grr. Tuesday 17 February: So, New Model Army are coming to South Africa. They were one of my favourite bands back in the day, but after some deliberation I've decided not to go up to JHB to see them. Four reasons, really: firstly, it's quite a trip, and that's a teaching week. I'll be too busy. Secondly, based on the MP3s? you can download from their website, their live sound is nowhere near as good as their studio sound. This doesn't make them a crap band - hey, apparently the Cranberries sounds terrible live too - but it does make travelling to go see them live a bit of a setup for a disappointment. Thirdly, with the exceptions of my housemate Genevieve and Roz's boyfriend Pat, I've never met a self-professed punk I liked. In fact, most of them are Nazi wannabees who need their heads staved in. And unfortunately, based on where the NMA tour is being hyped, it seems like watching them will mean sharing a mosh pit with fucking punks. Fourthly, and least practically, NMA's stance has become a little dated. The war is over, boys, and the Whitecoats won; the only people who might take your pagan/blue-collar iconoclasm seriously these days are the dregs of the Buffy generation and a few assorted wack-jobs and wrinklies. NMA have become about as 'relevant' as Country Joe and the Fish, or Janis Joplin. It's a shame, really, but nothing lasts forever, eh? Still, I've been enjoying listening to all my old NMA tapes this week and sifting a few good late-90s memories from among the bad. So it's all good. Plus, excellent electrical storm up here last night. God must have been hung over. Thursday 12 February: The last few days have involved lots of beer. Also Kill Bill twice (which I thought was damn fine, but I think that's because I did a lot of reading around the movie before I saw it so I think I 'get' most of what Tarantino's trying to do). And increased daily jog distance to 8km. Argh. In the Grahamstown heat that's like taking a shower in your clothes. Saturday 24 January: Lost in Translation is a fine, fine movie. Go see it. Thursday 15 January: Aargh. Three words: 'flexible drill bit'. Two words: 'root canal'. I would really rather have a tent peg through my foot again like that time in '91 (ah, the memories) than have to relive the last two days. Granted, my dentist is a wizard at keeping me calm under the drill, but I'm still, like, going to have to be all 'up against the wall, bitch!' when the revolution comes. It's the only way to be sure. Tuesday 6 January: After watching <strong>Once Upon a Time in Mexico</strong> the other day, I'm considering forgiving Rodriguez for that vampire crap he did that one time. It's that good. Wednesday 31 December: Minis for sale/trade: Eldar Fire Dragons Unwanted Christmas gift, blister pack, contains four unpainted metal miniatures. Pack has been opened. Would gladly exchange for more generic minis (plastic or metal) or other gaming ephemera. Inquiries and offers to wytchfynder@hotmail.com Friday 12 December: Watched The Ring this afternoon. Brrr. Now THAT's scary. Tuesday 18 November: Otaku, Wapanese, Fanboy Japanese, courtesy of the Urban Dictionary. You may go now. Friday 10 October: Jesus Kills by Scott Kurtz. Always suspected it. Friday 03 October: Autodecapitation. Unknown Armies GMs? take note. |