Copying and pasting this from a comment I made on baxil's journal rather than linking to it, as I realise he doesn't want the slew of flames I'll likely get being spammed on his journal. I woke up this morning to see practically the entirety of my friendslist bathed in what appear to be pre-emptive "don't hate us for hating him" entries-- and I want to ( Read more... )

Shiny things: ...that was a wonderful egg sandwich. Actual real sliced egg as opposed to mayogunk, mmmm. *flickers tongue at Nalldragon ( Read more... )

So a few fun little musings happened today... Nall and I were sitting outside eating our lunch, because it's been blazingly sunny lately, and there was a little kid running around chasing the pigeons away with shouts of exultation. I was thinking about how, while normally we'd think that that showed cruelty to the pigeons, they probably weren't all ( Read more... )

So, today I bought a Kinder Egg. For those who aren't appropriately localised, a Kinder Egg is a small chocolate egg, about three inches long, that's hollow and has a plastic capsule inside. The chocolate is really yummy, and when you've eaten it (or broken it open), you get to the capsule, which contains inside it a small toy (that usually ( Read more... )

I was about to post a comment to someone's journal along the lines of "I've always felt that...." when I realised that I couldn't remember whether the thing in question was something I'd always felt or whether I acquired the notion from somebody else, even though it now seems to be something I do feel strongly about, myself. Since the somebody else ( Read more... )

Bonus Brief Suikoden Thought: what is the role of conscientious objectors in the Suikoden 'verse? Since Rhett and Wilder mention being so, and Sgt. Joe acts as if it's unthinkable. We know Mathiu in 1 is an objector and prefers not to fight, but he ends up getting conscripted anyway. There seems to be dissonance between the concepts of "war is a ( Read more... )

Yay, I am somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean! And unable to sleep on a plane, despite having the wonderful luxury of a couple of empty seats next to me to sprawl out on, so I am journalling ( Read more... )

Okay, so I don't know if I'm going to be able to get this down several hours and a night's sleep after the initial thought -- I should have wrote it up when I thought of it -- but last night, I was browsing some comment threads on the Dwindling in Unbelief blog, and came across someone posing the old "free will vs. past, present and future already ( Read more... )

Somehow, Nall and I going for a celebratory meal and drinks at the tavern local Wetherspoon's has become tied in with winning major army battles in Suikoden. I love when the realities of other worlds become entwined with my life like this, when it feels just and fitting and more serious and real to be talking about the, to other people, fictional ( Read more... )

The most bizarre thing about this, to my mind, is that there would be any opposition to it at all in a rational human society. The answer to that one, of course, is that humans as a species aren't rational, no matter how much we like to think we are. Our choices are made with a heavy dose of emotional influence; my desire to talk about this concept ( Read more... )