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Ragnarok
Ragnarok (also known as Goterdammerung in Norse mythology, the end of times) is all about geeky boys role playing in the basement, taking up their nerfish (nerdish) swords for Live Action Role Play (LARP). They develop a website and get new people to play with them. The first ones are sisters with Elf identities. One's tongue had been cut out so ( Read more... ) -
As one thinks . . . John Allen said that
But John Ruskin was more interesting. He was a book critic and writer I admire from the 19th century:
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900) -
Strange dream
I had a cell phone that expanded in my purse. When I took it out, it had started to bulge like a battery that got wet. Quite a curiosity to everyone who saw it. How is this possible? they all asked, (including me). On TV, I had watched Ringer where the protagonist tries to open a phone to look for a serial number, with no success (seriously? What a ( Read more... ) -
Sci-Fi Guy
A quote, again, that got me thinkin ( Read more... ) -
A British PM
At the turn of the 19th Century to the 20th, Cecil defined a free country. Somehow, I wasn't able to copy it here, but it said that people should be able to do, without hurting their neighbour, pretty much what they like, and not one person getting five others to do just as he likes. We're getting ready to do some work across the street and ( Read more... ) -
Thought for the day from AWAD:
I'd like to widen people's awareness of the tremendous timespan lying ahead -- for our planet, and for life itself. Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4bn years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. Six billion ( Read more... ) -
Another quote
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. -William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939 ( Read more... ) -
Another quote
A friend found this quote on good intentions: If you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. I answered that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Wonder who said that. Action has to follow thought. And that's in the Bible (Faith without works is dead, being alone ( Read more... ) -
chickens and other yard birds
Our chicks are full-time yard birds now. They spend their day in the chicken run. Yesterday I watered and they freaked out. The drop-down door is open all the time so they could come out and wander the yard if they wanted. Well, last night as it was getting dark, they were right outside the chicken house even though the old biddies were roosting. I ( Read more... )