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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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8:03 pm - For once in my life I have someone who needs me...
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It's such a lovely feeling to have met someone who seems absolutely crazy about me! Knowing my luck I'll probably go sour, but right now I'm just plunging headlong into the whole thing. I might as well enjoy the ride while it lasts.
current mood: elated
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| Monday, December 17th, 2007
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11:09 am
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I Am A: True Neutral Elf Sorcerer (3rd Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-10
Dexterity-10
Constitution-13
Intelligence-14
Wisdom-12
Charisma-12
Alignment:
True Neutral A true neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. He doesn't feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos. Most true neutral characters exhibit a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character thinks of good as better than evil after all, he would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, he's not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way. Some true neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run. True neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you act naturally, without prejudice or compulsion. However, true neutral can be a dangerous alignment because it represents apathy, indifference, and a lack of conviction.
Race:
Elves are known for their poetry, song, and magical arts, but when danger threatens they show great skill with weapons and strategy. Elves can live to be over 700 years old and, by human standards, are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. Elves are slim and stand 4.5 to 5.5 feet tall. They have no facial or body hair, prefer comfortable clothes, and possess unearthly grace. Many others races find them hauntingly beautiful.
Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus</a></b> (e-mail)
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| Sunday, December 16th, 2007
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1:13 am - Lyrics quiz, just 'cause.
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Pretty standard; these are first lines from random songs in my iTunes library, see if you can guess the song and artist.
1) There's no mistake, I smell that smell, it's that time of year again.
2) Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate.
3) My sister and I had an act that couldn't flop, my sister and I were headed straight for the top.
4) I don't care what songs you sing or how you think of all those pointless things.
5) Well she was just 17 if you know what I mean and the way she looked was way beyond compare.
6) You and me, we used to be together, every day together, always.
7) Alcoholic kind of mood, lose my clothes, lose my lube. Cruising for a piece of fun, looking out for number one.
8) Oh, well I'm the type of guy who will never settle down. Where pretty girls are, well you know that I'm around.
9) Living without you. I know all about you. I have run you down into the ground. Spread disease about you over town.
10) At home darling pictures of mountain tops with him on top. Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a V, and the dead lay in pools of maroon below.
11) Like anyone would be I am flattered by your fascination with me.
12) Kissing like a bandit stealing time underneath a sycamore tree. Cupid by the hour sends Valentines to my sweet lover and me.
13) You told me you loved me, I know where and when. Come sunrise surprise, surprise, the joke's on me again.
14) There's a certain sound always follows me around; when you're close to me you will hear it.
15) How many times do I have to tell you that I'm sorry for the things I've done?
16) Alien identities don't hide your pretty face from me. You awoke to the riddle of your life like no-one was there for you.
17) No-one on Earth could feel like this, I'm thrown and overblown with bliss.
18) I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner. I am waiting at the counter for the man to pour the coffee.
19) Gotta get me some, gotta get me instant gratification. Give me new kicks, won't you show me new tricks, without the ramifications?
20) I broke in to your house last night and left a note at your bedside. I'm far too shy to speak to you at school. You leave me numb and I'm not sure why.
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| Thursday, September 13th, 2007
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8:39 pm - General update
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I've had a bit of a head-screwing day, today.
So I've been pottering about on Facebook. I found the guy I was speaking to on Friday and who I've developed a major crush on. It turns out that he has the guy I fell for in Manchester on his Friends list. Now, I have no idea how well he knows him, and I don't like to ask. But this makes me anxious for a reason I can't quite put my finger on.
On a related note, this guy is very good friends with his ex - they still live together. Now, i'm pretty sure this ex wants to sleep with me. It's not a great situation when you want to say "You're a nice guy, but I don't like you like that. But the guy you broke up with and are still in love with? Sure, I'll do him."
Anyway, careers meme thing:
1. Director of Photography
2. Director
3. Special Effects Technician
4. Actor
5. Computer Network Specialist
6. Recording Engineer
7. Set Designer
8. Costume Designer
9. Driving Instructor
10. Comedian
current mood:  blah
current music: Julie London - "The End of the World"
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| Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
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2:16 pm
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| Friday, August 3rd, 2007
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12:27 pm
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Your Score: 12", Holly, DragonYou scored 42 wisdom, 33 bravery, 15 emotional, and 22 martyrdom!Holly is a powerful protective wood that good for use against evil, but it also represents dreams and fertility. Your dragon's heartstring core makes your wand very effective in hexes. |
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11:50 am - Weirdness
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I've been browsing for a 2008 calendar today. I never realised some of the completely random calendars it's possible to buy. Here's some of the weirder ones I've seen (and they're all genuine)
- Outhouses
- Cowboy Boots
- The Grain Elevators of North America
- Extraordinary Chickens
Edit: For those of you requesting "Extraordinary chickens"... here.
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| Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
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7:16 am
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| Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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8:27 pm - And number 2...
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8:26 pm
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| Saturday, July 21st, 2007
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10:05 am
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| Thursday, July 19th, 2007
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4:33 pm - AIM Transcript.
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Blueberry Cowboy (15:49:21): ...And last night I had an awesome Harry Potter dream!
swankiness (15:49:39): Heh. Smutty? ;P
Blueberry Cowboy (15:50:20): No, just incredibly cool. I can't quite remember whether we were supposed to be "acting" the part or whether we were actual Hogwarts students, but it was fun.
swankiness (15:50:35): Cool.
Blueberry Cowboy (15:52:35): I was, indeed, a Hufflepuff. I'm going to sound like a little kid, but I was so much louder and into it than everyone else. I got a good Stupefy and a Reducto off.
swankiness (15:53:13): *Laughs.*
Blueberry Cowboy (15:59:49): I swear, nobody else in the dream was trying at all.
swankiness (16:00:41): Probably because it was your dream.
Blueberry Cowboy (16:01:04): Duh. :P
swankiness (16:02:06): Who was teaching you or whatnot?
Blueberry Cowboy (16:03:01): Don't think it came up. All I remember is being in the Great Hall. Someone kept poking their head out through the door which was a corridor in the dream, but in "reality" is actually the door to the trophy room. That's who I was trying to hit.
Blueberry Cowboy (16:03:19): In hindsight, it might have been a tad cruel to try and hit someone in the face with Reducto.
swankiness (16:03:20): Heh.
swankiness (16:03:29): Indeed.
Blueberry Cowboy (16:03:47): But hey, that's just how I roll. Maybe I should have been in Slytherin after all.
Blueberry Cowboy (16:05:31): Now I think about it, the guy looked quite old, too. That's troubling.
swankiness (16:05:56): You prat.
Blueberry Cowboy (16:10:51): Well, at least when I make international headlines, you can at least be on the news saying "It started when he was dreaming about exploding pensioner's heads."
current mood: nerdy
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| Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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8:00 pm
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Harry Potter opens tomorrow - since the latest screening closest to clocking off time is 4:30, I feel a doctor's appointment coming on.
current mood:  silly
current music: Annie Lennox - Little Bird
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| Thursday, July 5th, 2007
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10:50 pm
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Your Score: Prometheus0% Extroversion, 80% Intuition, 27% Emotiveness, 23% Perceptiveness You are most like Prometheus, and you probably knew that before you even took this test. You probably aren't deliberately altruistic, but you still tend to do things that benefit everyone, even at great expense to your health and personal relationships. You aren't ruled by your emotions, but you still have a strong sense of justice. You make good descisions, but they can sometimes backfire (and this isn't due to a flaw in your reasoning, but due to faulty premises instead).
You are very reasonable, you understand systems, you can quickly pinpoint flaws and you know how to correct them. You pride understanding and knowledge above everything else, and your greatest fear is to appear to be incompetent. You tend to be contemptuous of authority, but you don't accept leadership roles yourself until everyone else has demonstrated their own incompetence.
You've built a very specific skill set. You know exactly where your strengths and weaknesses are, and you pride yourself on this kind of self-knowledge. You distrust tradition, which you see as arbitrary, and you rely instead on your own judgements. You also pride yourself on your pragmatism. You're also a very private person.
Most of all, people think you're arrogant, but screw them! They're the ones who benefit from your ideas and discoveries, and if they took the time to understand why it is that you say and think the things you do, they'd realize that you only appear arrogant because you are exactingly precise when it comes to your area of specification, and most of all because, when you don't know something, you don't have an opinion about it (unlike most of the loudmouths that you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis).
Relationships are your kryptonite. It isn't that you don't want them -- in fact, you would very much like a very close relationship with someone who understands you. They're just the one thing in the world that you're naturally bad at.
Famous people like you: Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, Issac Newton, John Maynard Keynes, Erwin Schrodinger
Stay Clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite
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| Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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3:58 pm - Childish, but it made me smile.
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I've been reading an article on BBC News concerning the Waste Electrical and Elecronic Equipment Directive. It's quite funny to read when they use phrases like "WEEE is the fastest growing stream of waste" and "It is an industrial-scale operaton that receives WEEE from all over Europe."
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| Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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6:32 am
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Before I cancel my WoW Subscription, is there anybody out there with a high 20s early 30s Hordie that wouldn't mind me playing with them? I'm thinking of transferring my character so at least I'll be able to play with someone some time.
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| Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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5:57 pm
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| Monday, May 14th, 2007
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11:53 am
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It's troubling that apparently Stain, Bin Laden and Darth Vader occupy the same quarter that I'm in...
current music: Richie Valens - La Bamba
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| Thursday, May 10th, 2007
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8:07 pm - My first BPAL Review
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Okay, here goes with Antony:
The site says:The embodiment of Classic masculinity. A warrior's scent: the green hills and grasses of the battlefields, the resinous incense from the prayers to his Gods, and a touch of the musky leather of his armor. Ambergris and frankincense with sage, and basil.
In the bottle:Hmm, to my amateur nose, I can smell talc, something stronger like camphor.
On the wrist: The talc is still there, the strong camphorated smell has gone. Something more herbal coming through a little later, with the essence of what I can only describe as "soap". Sharper citrus starts to come through.
One hour later:Still quite sweet and talcy but still remaining masculine enough to wear. I can't really smell the leather that I was promised, which is a pity.
Final verdict I'd give it an 8/10. Very nice smell, but didn't quite live up to expectations.
current music: Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar
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| Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
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4:20 pm
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Just found this quote from Bill Bryson. It describes how, as a boy he entered his parents' bedroom at just the wrong moment:
"To my surprise, the shades were drawn and my parents were in bed wrestling under the sheets. More astonishingly still, my mother was winning. My father was obviously in some distress. He was making a noise like a small trapped animal.
"'What are you doing?' I asked. 'Ah, Billy, your mother is just checking my teeth,' my father replied. I believe you are supposed to be traumatised by these things. I can't remember being troubled at all, though it was some years before I let my mother look in my mouth again."
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