medicmsh

"Why do you exist here?"

medicmsh Apr 20, 2015 12:23

M.C.A. Hogarth (callsign: Jaguar) put up an excellent post about the role of memory in the quality of existence at her LiveJournal today. Linked here ( Read more... )

deep space nine, forgiveness, persistence of memory, memory, experience, existence, jaguar, wormhole aliens

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"What we really need is a hot-air balloon..."

medicmsh Apr 20, 2015 01:58

Somewhere out there, I am confident that there exist small hive-mind collectives of tabletop role-playing gamers where there is a near-perfect synchronicity between the gamers and the game-master. In such collectives, I imagine that there is some slight similarity between the broad tableau of things which the GM imagines that the players might ( Read more... )

grimly, bill, doc, mayhem, musical theater, rosalind, larceny, bianca, legless, crumhorn, d&d, zombies

The Great Game Continues!

medicmsh Apr 19, 2015 01:42

So today was Corwin's first full session as DM for our intermittent gaming group ( Read more... )

parenting, corwin, happiness, new campaign, peregrine, d&d, zombie cat

Yay!!!

medicmsh Apr 17, 2015 23:27

Today's word: MINIONS!
I has them. They are Mine! And they are wondrous & awesome & I love them.
:-)

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Nineteen Days To Something-Or-Other!!

medicmsh Apr 16, 2015 15:45

YESSSS! For those who missed yesterday's updates, my vital organs have all grown back successfully, and since I didn't relapse to Slugform during the night, I'm declaring Victory. This is especially timely because there are only six more days left in the semester, followed by a brace of Reading Days, followed by Final Exams! (Cue "Emperor's ( Read more... )

the great downy stegosaurus, snailpox, bias, oxpecker, finals, awesomeness, schistosomiasis, law school, gouache, juke

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Ode to My Restored Pancreas

medicmsh Apr 15, 2015 10:16

For all my legions of LJ followers (BWAhaha), I note that today is an Extra Special Good Day! Not because it's Tax Day (hiss, boo, ignite torches, gather pitchforks), but because it marks the day AFTER finishing this year's Tax Gymnastics. The Tax Gymnastics are an annual event, for me, during which I devote all of my focus-able energies to ( Read more... )

pancreas, slug, tax, vertebrates

Poe's Law, Morgan's Maxim, and Outlawing Dinosaurs -- with Authority!

medicmsh Feb 13, 2015 17:16

So today's twitteruption involves the following Big Story, presented to me by a colleague with this link from an ABC News affiliate:

http://abc13.com/society/are-dinosaurs-a-65-million-year-old-lie/514514/

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morgan's maxim, aristotle, poe's law, my dad, cites

This Day in History (a toast to Clay Hunt)

medicmsh Feb 12, 2015 11:24

Fellow LifeForms, I'd like to propose a toast to Clay Hunt: friend, brother, son, humanitarian, U.S. Marine, and the man who was better at building homemade crutches than anybody else I've ever known ( Read more... )

options, veterans, clay hunt, jack nicholson, suicide

Ow!

medicmsh Feb 11, 2015 22:52

Left anterior headache. Most unusual. Presumably it will pass. *insert clever medical humor and/or Neitzsche quote here.*

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