NOTE: Although I have done my very best to avoid all spoilers, I cannot guarantee that there aren't things in this article that some would consider minor spoilers for the story of Horizon: Zero Dawn. So consider this a MINOR SPOILER WARNING.

My sweetie got me a copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn a couple of weeks ago, and I have been enthralled with it ( Read more... )

I had one of the most kick-ass dreams in recent memory last night. This might take a while to transcribe, so bear with me.

Unlike a lot of my dreams I wasn't a participant, but just an observer, like I was watching a movie. The setting was a fantasy world something like a cross between that of The Elder Scrolls and Dragon Age. I was following a ( Read more... )

Yesterday went somewhat differently than I expected it would. And not badly. In fact, it was quite a positive experience all around.

First, as I was getting ready for a movie day with my dear friends caprine, chorale, and whswhs, I got a text from another dear friend who is undergoing radiation therapy for cancer and needed help acquiring food for the month. So I ( Read more... )

This morning, I got up and started noodling around with an arrangement for Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4", and I liked it, so I fired up GarageBand and started to record parts of it. I ended up finishing it about 8 o'clock this evening. Then I went and recorded a second song, "Grinning Joker", which went much more quickly-I finished around 10:30 ( Read more... )

It's not official, but scientists at JPL and NASA have taken to calling one of the major features on the surface of Pluto . . . Cthulhu.


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I realized yesterday that, two weeks ago, the Evil Ex turned 40. I almost literally can't imagine it. To me, she will always be mid-20s, with all that that implies.

On the other hand, I've been out of that relationship almost twice as long as I was in it. And I've been in my current relationship longer than I was in that one. So ... yay! :)

The final Water Margin campaign session was yesterday, and it was a hoot! Bill, the GM, wrote up the final episode here for anyone who wants to know all the details ( Read more... )

I've always known this, but I found myself recently thinking about morphological diversity in canid and feline species and saying to myself, "Huh. I wonder why that is."

Canid species in the wild have a certain amount of mass a shape diversity, ranging from the fennec fox (massing between 2/3 and 1.6 kg) up to the gray wolf (massing between 36 and ( Read more... )

I didn't post about it on Sunday like I should have, but the H.P Lovecraft Film Festival Kickstarter reached its goal of $8,000 on Sunday morning with four days to spare!

Yay! I'm so very happy! :D Thank you to everyone who contributed! You are wonderful, wonderful people.