"And you feel hopeless, and homeless, and lost in the haze of the wine..."

[greygirlbeast]

First off, let me direct your attention to the auction that is being held to benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards. Appropriately, it is being called a "lottery." A lot of great stuff, and I've donated a complete, signed set of my novels: Silk, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, and Daughter of Hounds. Tickets are only one dollar each, and the

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[unknownbinaries]

I've been meaning to ask. What kind of camera do you have? You get lovely pictures out of it, and it seems to be a lot quicker on the uptake than mine.

[greygirlbeast]

I've been meaning to ask. What kind of camera do you have?

Sort of the crappy old kind. Well, in terms of digital cameras. It's a Canon Powershot A75 (a measly 3.2 megapixels).

[unknownbinaries]

Wow. It takes some nice pictures, especially for being somewhat old.

I've got one of the newer Vivitars, supposed to be 8 or 9 MP, but it takes so long to think about what it's doing before it actually snaps the photo that most surprise shooting is Right Out.

[humglum]

This one can be frustratingly slow sometimes, but once it's "ready and waiting" for a shot it's pretty quick.
I really want the Canon SX10 IS. 10 MP, and really good zoom range (20x optical, plus another 4x digital). I generally hate digital zoom because of the breakdown in picture quality, so having that much optical is a bonus. Plus the fact that it can shoot at the equivalent of ISO 1600 and has image stabilization.

I'll need to test out a few cameras to see how slow they are before making a decision.

About WoW

[muneraven]

Totally agree with you about the stupid forced socialization in WoW. Why not have all instances scale enemies, boss levels, and loot to the number of players going in? many of us do not want to group with a bunch of random adolescent boys to play this game. That is the worst thing about WoW, the way they limit your ways to succeed in the game. One should not have to join a group OR do PVP in order to achieve at the highest level.

Re: About WoW

[greygirlbeast]

Why not have all instances scale enemies, boss levels, and loot to the number of players going in?

It seems like a simple question to me.

many of us do not want to group with a bunch of random adolescent boys to play this game. That is the worst thing about WoW, the way they limit your ways to succeed in the game. One should not have to join a group OR do PVP in order to achieve at the highest level.

Yes, exactly. Though, it's not that you can't, in theory, solo to Level 80, just that you miss a lot of the game if you do so.

This is why our friend Byron quit playing, back before we started.

Re: About WoW

[maetrics]

It is an mmorpg, with the emphasis on mmo. The whole point is to provide a social environment. If you wish a soloable game, might I suggest Neverwinter Nights? A nice aspect of that game is that you can build your own dungeon encounter and host it for your friends. Sort of a hybrid, with the performance of WoW and the creativity of SL. Sadly, I don't have much experience as I can't find people to run a table top D&D game, let alone something like this.

Your gripe about not being able to group with friends do to levels, is sadly one that Blizzard could remove. Their competition, Everquest have a mentor system, where a higher level person can choose to scale down to one level higher than their friend.

They would never allow for cross-server instances because server economy is serious business.

That all said, you're 61 and my rogue is 71. So he would be within appropriate range to help. Course, he's a troll, but the offer is always there.

[blu_muse]

I want to snuggle in those camel's fur.

Heads up on a new RP in SL - Golgothica: http://blog.golgothica.com/ It's very pretty, I've taken alot of pictures in it so the evironment is A+. They did something interesting and closed the sim to all but serious RPers. You have to get their game hud and buy a weapon to have access to it (a cost of 500L). It will be interesting to see if it makes the RP better. If you want to go down as a guest, you have to have a player sign you in... let me know if you want to run around it some day.

[greygirlbeast]

let me know if you want to run around it some day.

Oh, you know I do! I'll talk to you inworld about this soon.

A, B and 5 of cups

[nd_scot]

I'm looking forward to receiving A and B. Amazon is selling your Five of Cups for $124/copy - it would be nice to have a case of those left over, no?

Re: A, B and 5 of cups

[greygirlbeast]

Indeed. Sadly, I only have two or three, and I'm not likely to part with them.

Re: A, B and 5 of cups

[humglum]

Actually... I think we still have more than just a few copies of 5 of Cups left. I'll have to recheck next time we go to the storage unit, but I seem to recall a good quantity of them.

Re: A, B and 5 of cups

[greygirlbeast]

See. What the frell do I know?

[txtriffidranch]

And don't forget: the best way to pay tribute to Darwin's serious passions is to give love to carnivorous plants and orchids and worms. (As for the Shirley Jackson Awards lottery, I find it incredibly funny that I'm in the same ranking as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and you as far as the entries. I keep telling Ellen Datlow that she needs to list all of the other contributors as "noted writers" in one list, and my name as "completely deluded twit" in another.)

[greygirlbeast]

I keep telling Ellen Datlow that she needs to list all of the other contributors as "noted writers" in one list, and my name as "completely deluded twit" in another.)

*snork*

I plan to bid on your offering, by the way.

[txtriffidranch]

Feel free, but you know that I'd gleefully make a custom one for you if you ask. If you don't win, just let me know: most of my temperate carnivores will be coming out of dormancy in March, so I can set you up one way or another.