Frannie! I need to stop reading your replies to my replies and so on and so forth - they're all giving me thinky thoughts ( Read more... )

Well...that was just silly.

But now I get to use this quote!

Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want ( Read more... )

Last night at CABS I finally had the opportunity to play the Discworld: Ankh-Morpork board game. This is basically an area control game, with the complication that not all of the players have the same goal. You play as one of seven Ankh-Morpork luminaries, but keep this identity secret from everyone else, because it defines your win condition. ( Read more... )

EDIT: AAAARGH I just deleted half my post and had to start over! I hate you somedays, livejournal ( Read more... )

We finished Portal 2 last night. Awesome. One of the best Chekhov's Guns I've ever seen. Several, in fact. Still working on the co-op campaign though. And vaguely wondering if there's Doctor Who crossover fic ( Read more... )

Like Sam Vimes, I can read the street through the soles of my boots.

Unlike Sam Vimes, I have over 50 mosquito bites on my body.

I need new boots.

( 4th of July )

Last night we went to go see The King and I. I had never seen it before, nor the stage play, nor either of the two non-musical movies based on the story. Therefore the ending came as something of an unpleasant shock. Basically, it's the story of a prim and proper English woman who goes to an exotic country and ruins it. It's one heck of a ( Read more... )

So, why does a girl with 300 books still to unwrap and untold more (well, 93) on the unwrapped but unread (and to-read) list, need a new book? Particularly, a book that is actually NEW (and therefore fairly money-costing)?

Making Money by Terry Pratchett, 32nd in the Discworld series, starring Ankh-Morpork's very own Moist von Lipwig, now in ( Read more... )

With the power out, the only thing in our house that works is Joel-Henry's cell phone with its impressively long battery life.

We use it as our alarm clock in the morning. It goes bingly bingly BEEP!Just like Sam Vimes' pocket disorganizer ( Read more... )