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    Friday, August 19th, 2011
    5:57 pm
    I want to play a game that I don't know the ending to!!
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    7:13 pm
    Names for Scarecrows
     * Mommet (Somerset)
    * Murmet (Devon)
    * Hodmedod (Berkshire)
    * Tattie bogle [3](Scotland), Bodach-rocais (lit. "old man of the rooks")
    * Bwbach (Wales)

    Alternative names for scarecrows also include these localized versions:

    * Tao-tao (Philippines)
    * Bogle
    * Flay-crow
    * Mawpin
    * Mawkin
    * Bird-scarer
    * Moggy
    * Shay
    * Guy
    * Bogeyman
    * Shuft
    * Rook-scarer
    * Kelson
    * Espantapájaros (Spanish)
    * Nuffara (Maltese)
    * Espantalho (Portuguese)
    * Epouvantail (French)
    * Spaventapasseri (Italian)
    Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
    8:41 am
    Portmanteau? Sort of?
     Action Pact: A promise or oath that creates the set up for a thrilling or exciting series of events, ie, "Mr. Prime Minister, I swear that no harm will come to your daughter" "Ronaldo! I'll get you for this if it's the last thing I do!"
    Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
    1:21 pm
    Condescendant (n)
     Condescendant: noun

    A person who looks down on their ancestors, often unfairly.

    Usage: "Bill just spent two hours condemning the slave trade in America, and then totally ignored my point about white abolitionists. What a condescendant!"
    Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
    11:46 am
    Free Write
     Hey! Trying to write more, doing free writing every morning to get the juices flowing! I'll post the ones that are at all coherent, but one of my rules is no editing, just start and keep going!

    ( Of Turtles & Snails )
    Saturday, January 9th, 2010
    3:50 pm
    MEME!
     If I were a summonable creature, what kind of ritual would you craft to summon me?
    Thursday, April 9th, 2009
    12:32 pm
    Another Portmanteau
     Anthrapology

    The study of the few occasions when Humanity has said they were sorry to the rest of the world.
    Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
    8:53 pm
    List of Opposing Virtues
     Faith vs. Reason
    Justice vs. Mercy
    Wisdom vs. Courage
    Prudence vs. Loyalty
    Duty vs. Freedom
    Love vs. Honor
    Judgment vs. Tolerance
    Thursday, February 19th, 2009
    12:17 pm
    Monday, February 16th, 2009
    7:59 am
    Portmanteaux
     Apocallipses: The awkward pause right after the world ends.
    Sunday, January 18th, 2009
    10:06 pm
    Best idea I've had in a long time.

    Private Tears

    A Soap Opera about Pirates



    C'MON!! That should win "best idea of the century!"
    Friday, October 3rd, 2008
    4:39 pm
    RIP
     Professor Tom Davis passed away. He was one of the most brilliant, inspirational, encouraging and wonderful men I have ever met. I couldn't write enough words on an endless number of pages to express how good a person he was.

    In the course of a lifetime, an innumerable number of events affect the nature of a person's character. Tom Davis' influences on my life were countless and universally positive. An unabating love for philosophy, an appreciation for wisdom and the truth, and a resolve to always learn more, are gifts that he gave to me and to those I cared for.

    When you lose a teacher like I had in Tom Davis, it's hard to stomach. Not only because of all the opportunities I missed to speak with him. In four years since graduating from SUNY Ulster, I did not sit down to lunch with a man who greatly and fundamentally changed my life. I guess I was perhaps too busy, or maybe assumed there would be time after all my plans had been executed and my goals achieved. Foolish assumption, in hindsight. Regardless, I always imagined that after a long journey, I would be able to brag about what I had learned to a man I so deeply respected and regarded as a mentor.

    What is harder to stomach, perhaps, is that this man is irreplaceable. Losing someone to talk to, someone to admire, is passable. He taught me so much, and in a sense, I can still talk to him in memory. His hands, though invisible, continue to guide my life. What shocks and hurts more than I could have expected is that now those hands will be absent from the lives of generations of students and pupils that could have followed. This man defines the word irreplaceable. He was like Merlin, Bugs Bunny and Buddha all rolled up into one. A unique individual.

    I love Tom Davis, present-tense intended. Anyone who met him loves him too. The tragedy here, for me, is only partially in losing a loved one, but moreso in the missed chances for so many others to know and love him as well.

    Tom Davis, I already miss you. I'm sorry I didn't get to say goodbye.
    Monday, May 19th, 2008
    9:23 pm
    Thursday, May 15th, 2008
    3:37 pm
    Haven't updated in a while!

    So let me tell you a story about how dumb I am.

    Recently, I traveled upstate with my vital laundry, (vital laundry being, in my humble opinion, a pair of jeans, 5 button-down shirts and every sock I can find) whereupon I laundered them at Jack's grandmother's house.

    Upon getting home, I stupidly left my clean socks on the floor for days, saying to myself, "Self, this is a good idea. Things on the floor tend to stay clean."

    By now, I'm sure many of you are wondering where this story is going. Seeing as most stories concerning socks and laundering are rather boring (Though most stories with grandmothers and Jacks are awesome). However, the crux of my tale is that my floor is ALSO where I store my dirty socks, primarily after I take them off and throw them on it. It referring to the floor.

    So for the past hour, I have been traipsing around my absurdly dusty room, smelling every sock in my apartment to see if it's clean or not. Not only is this an odious task, both literallly and figuratively, but the dust that has built up in my footwear is now lodged by the ton in my nose. I have been sneezing and weeping and smelling dirty socks for forty-five god-damned minutes.

    On a separate note, I rescind what I said earlier. It is possible to own too many socks.
    Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
    9:35 pm
    Remembering a Great Man
     Here's to a man who brought a lot of joy to the world. Wayfinder would not exist without him, certainly. I haven't been this sad in a long while.




    Dungeons & Dragons co-creator dies at 69
    By EMILY FREDRIX, Associated Press Writer


    MILWAUKEE - Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

    He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.

    Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.

    Gygax always enjoyed hearing from the game's legion of devoted fans, many of whom would stop by the family's home in Lake Geneva, about 55 miles southwest of Milwaukee, his wife said. Despite his declining health, he hosted weekly games of Dungeons & Dragons as recently as January, she said.

    "It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them," Gail Gygax said. "He really enjoyed that."

    Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures with the help of complicated rules. The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned a wealth of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that's still growing in popularity.

    Born Ernest Gary Gygax, he grew up in Chicago and moved to Lake Geneva at the age of 8. Gygax's father, a Swiss immigrant who played violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, read fantasy books to his only son and hooked him on the genre, Gail Gygax said.

    Gygax dropped out of high school but took anthropology classes at the University of Chicago for a while, she said. He was working as an insurance underwriter in the 1960s, when he began playing war-themed board games.

    But Gygax wanted to create a game that involved more fantasy. To free up time to work on that, he left the insurance business and became a shoe repairman, she said.

    Gygax also was a prolific writer and wrote dozens of fantasy books, including the Greyhawk series of adventure novels.

    Gary Sandelin, 32, a Manhattan attorney, said his weekly Dungeons & Dragons game will be a bit sadder on Wednesday night because of Gygax's passing. The beauty of the game is that it's never quite the same, he said.

    Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.
    Monday, January 21st, 2008
    8:27 pm
    Sunday, January 6th, 2008
    2:55 pm
    Friday, December 21st, 2007
    6:10 pm
    Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
    9:27 pm
    http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus65.html

    Kind of who I want to be when I grow up.

    Moreover, read this comic from beginning to end. Trust me.
    Monday, November 12th, 2007
    9:03 am
    Links to the better parts of the Internet!!
     Am I correct in the assumption that two exclamation points has an appropriately distinct meaning from a single exclamation mark?

    Firstly, another person who can''t help but unknowingly steal the ideas of myself and my friends.
    http://ursulav.deviantart.com/art/Society-Quail-57386252

    Second, CONOR and FLYNN. This is Corporate Zane. I gave Flynn a much better description of... Conor never checks his LJ. FLYNN! Next you see that rascal, explain to him what the deal with this is, and if you don't feel like doing that, call me and I'll do it instead.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhPrzjyUiZE

    Third, this is a twenty minute explanation of a great idea.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YOIImOoYM

    Fourth, Flynn showed me my anthem. Thanks, Flynn.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7EONScLrHg

    And last, but not least, I watch this video AT LEAST five times a day, if not more. Why do I like this so much? Obviously because it's great, but why, of all the great things out there, do I like THIS so much?
    http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/augustrush/filmclip/
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