User:	agoodwinsmith
	Date:	2009-11-15 14:17
	Subject:	Star Gate Universe - ep 8
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	Mood:	meh, with a grrrr

Lather rinse repeat. There's way too much high octane emotional scenery chewing for way too little payoff.

I realized last week that at the end of the episode, after I've spent 8 hours (ish, never forget the commercials) with these people, that when someone was injured to the point we don't know whether they are going to live or die - I didn't know who they were. They could have been male or female, but I just didn't know based on the name alone.

C'mon people who are writing/filming/etc-ing the show - if you want me to invest in the show, you need to spend enough time on a character that may be sacrificed that I will care whether they live or die - or at least notice they are missing. I'm sure something very erudite is going on with examining narrative assumptions and questioning storytelling tropes, but - c'mon.

And why, for frickin' sake can't they just ( SPOILER )

	User:	alchemist
	Date:	2009-11-15 15:34
	Subject:	It’s been a long time coming
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I could go on and on about the Disney vacation, or how great the D&D 4th Edition game is going, but really, Ursula did it all already. And anyway, my Twitter stream is a much better way of seeing what I do every day. (Although I refuse to cross-post every day’s twitter here. I find that kinda obnoxious. Nothing personal to the people who do do that, but really I can read your twitter, and figure each “environment” should, in general, have it’s own unique content).

That being said, something that has been in progress for a while, and looks great is my new/old office. For the last few weeks, we’ve been cooking on a remodel. And it’s freakin’ AMAZING now that it’s getting close to done.

When my ex-wife and I bought this house, it was just the two of us and our (at the time only) son. The third bedroom was going to be my computer room/home office. And it was, right up until we found out she was pregnant, and we’d need the room for the baby. So my office moved to the (then unused) dining room. And stayed there until she decided we needed a formal dining room. At which point it moved into the master bedroom walk-in closet (it’s a bloody big closet). And eventually I switched to laptop only and the closet became storage space again. And then the whole divorce thing and I said “to hell with it, That room will be my office again” because the boys could share the room over the garage.

Except it didn’t work out so well. I mean, it was briefly an office, but then it became the cat rescue space, and slowly degraded into mostly the cats and junk, and then…let’s just say that by the time Ursula moved in, this room was nasty. And all things being equal, I DID want an office again, but didn’t have the motivation to deal with it until recently, when it became apparent that I couldn’t work or run a D&D game from a chair in the bedroom or the kitchen table every week..

So we cleaned it out. And discovered that the carpet was done. Destroyed. Dead. So I ripped it out, and had wood laminate put in (and the guy from the local Lowes Home Improvement did a fantastic job - 12×10 room in something like 5 hours). And there has been painting and building shelves and a desk and chair and moving books and hanging some art, and…well, it’s not done, but I’m sitting in my new chair, at my new desk, writing this, and it’s all kinds of awesome.

And I have to thank Ursula for all the help, and really putting me up to it, because god knows, it’d be another year before I got off my ass and did anything about the former cat room.

Did I mention she’s awesome?

Originally published at sonney.com. You can comment here or there.

	User:	agoodwinsmith
	Date:	2009-11-15 09:35
	Subject:	FarmVille update.
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	Mood:	I wonder what it's doing now

Turtles give eggs. Hmmm, I don't like this much. I don't know what they could give instead - documentaries? - but if kitties can give yarn, there's got to be something silly that a turtle can give.

	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-15 10:55
	Subject:	Lousy Tidings
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	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-14 20:46
	Subject:	More art!
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	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-14 20:07
	Subject:	Someday, My Prints Will Come
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	User:	agoodwinsmith
	Date:	2009-11-14 14:58
	Subject:	Goodbye flickr images.
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	Mood:	bad housekeeping

I have repurposed my flickr account, and so any previous links that pointed to flickr will now be broken. Sorry about that. I would go back and mark the two posts where this is an issue, but if Livejournal pages were loading any more slowly today I would be a fossil by the time I found them. Dat's da way she goes some days, yup.

	User:	agoodwinsmith
	Date:	2009-11-13 23:53
	Subject:	I am a slave to FarmVille
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	Mood:	truffles? I mean: c'mon :)

I sucumbed to a waif cat, and started Farmville. Oh dear. There is just enough pay off that you want to go back and do some more. And it is completely sentimental twaddle-land: animals do not leave big piles of poo around the yard, and nobody gets killed when it is time to harvest from an animal. Piggies give truffles, did you know? At first I thought cats gave yams - but it turns out to be yarn. :) The baby elephant gives circus peanuts (I just don't want to know from where), the brown cow gives chocolate milk, and the pink cow give strawberry milk (anybody remember the boxes of strawberry Quik?). I'm waiting to see what the turtles give. :)

Well, I'd better go see what's going on over there.

	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-13 12:03
	Subject:	See, this is how it starts...
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	User:	silly_swordsman
	Date:	2009-11-13 14:25
	Subject:	I love the smell of smells in the morning...
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	Mood:	tired

... it smells like my whole nose/sinus system isn't completely snotted up.

All I'm saying is that it's a good thing that unlike linseed oil in rags, snot in paper tissues doesn't have a noticeable risk of spontaneous combustion, for otherwise the trashcan next to my desk would be a health hazard.

Come to think of it, it probably is anyway.

	User:	shriker_tam
	Date:	2009-11-13 08:53
	Subject:	Piglet flu *
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	Mood:	tired

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	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-12 22:41
	Subject:	Walrus And Radish: Together At Last
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	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-12 11:21
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	User:	ciciaye
	Date:	2009-11-11 11:51
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Yesterday my computer thought it might be jolly good fun to hide, move or otherwise mess about with quite a lot of my iTunes downloads, so that when I tried to play them a 'Not found, would you like to locate it?' message came up.

A search of my computer showed that said files were not coming out to play. Thankfully I was able to transfer them from my iPod.

It did the same with some non-iTunes tracks too, thankfully mostly ones I have on CD.

	User:	ciciaye
	Date:	2009-11-10 21:39
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Another Lolcat
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	User:	ciciaye
	Date:	2009-11-10 21:38
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see more Lolcats and funny pictures

	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-10 10:16
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	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-09 13:47
	Subject:	Batbreath, finally!
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	User:	ciciaye
	Date:	2009-11-09 12:01
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The Daily Mail getting themselves all steamed up about True Blood. Yet another 'unintentionally humourous in its stupidity' article from that particular paper.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1225388/True-Blood-vampires-explicit-TV-sucking-innocence-children.html

Couldn't find any way to comment on the actual article, so I'll do so here...

Point one: True Blood is not for kids. It's an adult show, on at 10 pm.

Point two: Thanks Daily Mail for the huge spoiler about Sam!

	User:	ursulav
	Date:	2009-11-08 17:06
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