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... Do a "Ninjas of Penzance" parody. Specifically, someone less lazy than I.

Gary Gygax now DMs in the Outer Planes.

Edit:So, now that he has ascended to Demigod-hood, we have to decide what his Clerical Domains are, and on what Plane his Realm is. I'm torn between Elysium and Ysgard; For domains, definitely Trickery and Knowledge, but what else? (Anyone claiming that Gary would be a First Edition Deity, let's just agree to disagree, and then gang up to pummel those who think he would be Second Edition.)

Further Edit: His Favored Weapon, of course, is caltrops, in the form of the humble D4.

1. One book that changed your life. The Misenchanted Sword, by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It was the first Fantasy/Science Fiction book I ever read. That I remember, anyway, I was only in kindergarten.

2. One book you have read more than once. Marooned in Realtime, by Vernor Vinge.

3. One book you would want on a desert island. U.S Army Field Manual 3-05.70 Survival (Answer blatantly stolen, but it was a good one)

4. One book that made you laugh. The Book of the SubGenius. It made me LAUGH with Enlightenment and Sheer POWER!!!!11!!

5. One book that made you cry. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card. It was SAD, dammit!

6. One book you wish had been written. An proper end to the Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov.

7. One book you wish had never been written. Most of the Elfquest books after Rogue's Challenge. Which doesn't stop me reading them, of course, while still mourning the fact that they don't come anywhere close to the earlier books in awesomeness.

8. One book you are currently reading. World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. Actually, I already finished it, but it deserves a shoutout.

I Am A: Lawful Good Human Wizard (5th Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-13

Dexterity-15

Constitution-13

Intelligence-16

Wisdom-10

Charisma-11


Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment because it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

Apparently, There's gonna be a Discworld movie out on DVD soon. Joy! Also on the Christmas front, learn The secret truth about Santa, get ready to vote for the Robot Overlords ("They'll know if you didn't"), learn that Candyland is racist, read Head Trip and watch The Midwest Teen Sex Show. It's edutaining!

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Well, OK, but I mean for this in particular: Like any decent and civilized person, when I find that someone has left their email logged in on a public computer, I close it for them. First, however, I send them a politely worded missive from their own account pointing out that they should get into the habit of closing their email, so as to not get snarky self-addressed emails (Or worse things, like deleted inboxes or having someone send obscene messages to their moms). It has occurred to me, however, that some of them might not take this to heart. Maybe if I started "deleting" their mail by putting it into a folder labeled "Oh noes! They be erasin my emailz!" they'd get the hint? Or would that be too mean?

Heh. That reminds me of a funny Army story. In a SCIF, you're not supposed to ever leave yourself logged into an unattended computer without at least locking the screen saver first. Failing to do so would lead to stern lectures on the importance of proper handling of classified materials, and/or many pushups. Some NCOs, though (not me, heaven forbid) would engage in more creative chastisements. For example, taking a screen shot of the desktop, setting that .gif as the wallpaper, and then moving all the desktop icons to a folder labeled "I am an idiot who should learn to log out properly" hidden somewhere on the hard drive, which would still be accessible from the start menu. Then try to avoid laughing out loud when the hapless individual couldn't figure out why they couldn't open anything. Ah, those were the days... :-)

... Should go to see Jonathan Coulton concerts. Well, everyone should really, but people there will have an easier time of it seeing as how there are show going on there this week.

Not the Cap'n of the fell ship Fashion Industry. They be pushin' the scurvy dogs in Congress to make Fashion Piracy illegal. For more o' this "Intellectual property" (i.e, your intellect, their property) balderdash, the craven curs at the Harvard bookstore are even claimin' that they "own" the knowledge of their book prices, an' students who attempt to compare those prices with other merchants are "violatin' their rights". At times like this, the life of a freebooter seems the only sane option, though insanity of a different sort may also have it's good points, as exemplified by the fine buccaneers who came up with LOLThulhu.

... For all those people who went to DragonCon this weekend. They missed SO MUCH cool stuff. Of course, I won't tell them what, exactly, they missed, as they would be bound to lobotomize themselves out of pure grief. That's the sort of caring individual I am.

At last, summers over and classes have started again. Since I won't be able to work overtime every day any more, I feel like I can finally relax. I'm'a be so edjumacated, it's not even funny.