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The rumors of my death...
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Refugees, Reason, Risk, and Right (or, "Fear is the Mind-Killer")
This, in response to lots of fearful bellowing about how refugees from Syria are disguised terrorists & how right-thinking people should refuse to permit their entry into the US. I have ALL the disagreement with this ( Read more... ) -
"Doc the Level 1 Flitzbe," or "'Mental' Is My Dump Stat"
The Amazing Jaguar haikujaguar was kind enough to share some thoughts on RPG-style stats for Pelted characters in her LJ today:
http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/1509019.html#t30693275 As usual I thoroughly enjoyed her work and then went bounding off in a totally different direction. Rather than hijack her excellent post and thread, I've moved my ( Read more... ) -
Running!
Brace yourself:
I went for a run. The significance of this is immense (for me, anyway). It might suggest that some little run-positive knurl on my reptilian brain is re-energizing after a very long hibernation. I don't recall the last time I have WANTED to go running. The last absolutely clear and unambiguous event in this category was ( Read more... ) -
"What has it got in its pocketses?"
I thoroughly enjoyed Blair MacGregor's recent LJ post about camping, weapons, and mindfulness. (It's really good! You should read it ( Read more... ) -
Outskirts of Theads, early January, Year of {illegible}
Here's the text description of the action depicted in a fifteen-second pirate video, shot at about the one-hour mark in the fourth movie. According to the notes that I saw pencilled in the margin of a copy of the script (before that pesky house fire), the setting is "outskirts of Theads, early January". A lot of the names are spelled phonetically ( Read more... ) -
Ulysses
During my first pass through college (we won't mention the year), a very dear friend gave me a little booklet of selected poems by Tennyson. She double-starred the poem "Ulysses" because she felt that it had particular relevance to my situation at the time. The irony is that while I didn't see much applicability at the time, it has become more ( Read more... ) -
Mantis Shrimp -- Bring it on!
Brought to popularity by Matthew ("The Oatmeal") Inman's fascinating and darkly comic expose',
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimpthe Mantis Shrimp has a devoted following across the Interwebs. Accordingly, I metamorphosed into Shrimpform for the final day of classes in my first year of law school, and found the life of a Mantis Shrimp ( Read more... ) -
Crab du Jour
In keeping with my current Twitter policy of changing avatars on a daily basis, and adapting my online behavior to match, I have spent the day as a moderately-sized fiddler crab:
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the day of the Flitzbe
*relative-size chart of Pelted races*
*fuzzy-cantaloupe silhouette of Flitzbe*
*inquisitive/maroon/humming*
*day of images, sounds, smells, textures, tastes*
*purring!*