Leif
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Post by Leif on Aug 21, 2014 5:54:17 GMT -8
We had a sandbox until I was in about 5th grade. It ate GI Joes.
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Post by DementedDuck on Aug 22, 2014 1:40:54 GMT -8
I had one of those plastic animal-shaped ones (it was a turtle c: ) when I was a kid, and I loved it. We had to leave it behind when we moved house because "it wouldn't fit down the alleyway and it'd get the house all sandy". I later found out the real reason for leaving it behind was that there was a gigantic spider inside and the men moving all our stuff were too afraid to pick it up. <.< Selfish bastards.
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Post by Jolyma on Aug 22, 2014 15:13:37 GMT -8
We had a sand box with wooden sides for a long time, then the sides sort of rotted away and the grass took over. The neighbor man had a wonderful sand pile right on the edge of his property and ours that we would dig in, and he never minded. I don't even know why he had it, to be honest. My mom babysat some kids, and the girl was digging with a hoe head and it hit my kneecap. I could see bone. I thought that was cool. Mom, not so much. Ended our digging in the sandpile We don't have a sandbox for the kids. We do have a creek nearby and they would spend a LOT of time playing in it, and on the rocky shore. That's the real way to weed out the weak children. Rocky creeks.
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Post by AhoyLindsay on Aug 22, 2014 20:49:58 GMT -8
Wow Joly, I was going to tell you all about how I lost my first tooth while playing in a sandbox and then proceeded to ACTUALLY lose it in the sandbox, thereby no doubt traumatizing some future child, but your story just about tops that...
Creeks are fun.
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Post by DementedDuck on Aug 22, 2014 21:53:21 GMT -8
I lost my first tooth because it came off while I was eating a pear and I swallowed it without noticing. c: Didn't realise until I got home from school and my mum pointed it out.
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Post by Jolyma on Aug 24, 2014 18:54:51 GMT -8
Sometimes, the problem with being a girl on the internet is that one asshat that has to be an asshat. Then, all the guys you're friends with have to jump in to prove they aren't like that. It's nice that they care, really. I have taken care of myself for a long time on the internet though. It's hard to be treated like I need rescued.
ETA: Basically, I don't think just because one man is rude, crude and socially unacceptable, then all men are. What was said crossed a line that a blind man could see. I don't think the guy realized he was speaking to a girl though, and I was willing to give him a warning that he was, and he was inappropriate. The fellows...not so much.
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Post by AhoyLindsay on Sept 7, 2014 7:05:32 GMT -8
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Post by Furare on Sept 8, 2014 2:39:05 GMT -8
"Daylight saving? Why would we want more of the bloody stuff?" - Antarctica.
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Post by wrecker15 on Sept 8, 2014 6:09:15 GMT -8
So I totally forgot about that thread... I went back, steeled my nerves, and tried one of them. Lol. The result: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2S5BNeK6MYIt's a pretty rough work. Sorry for the static, too. My room's just airy and I'm not sure how to get rid of that. And no bridge. I can't do the bridge for nuts =P
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Leif
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Post by Leif on Sept 8, 2014 6:10:00 GMT -8
I feel like I could be the king of Antarctica if I could come up with a good daylight wasting scheme.
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Post by Crazy Mg on Sept 21, 2014 3:47:30 GMT -8
Lately doing my lab reports for a certain class wastes my daylight.
I write a bad introduction and get an excepted not so great mark for it, then the next one I write a much better one and I get a scuppering 0. I follow the instructions on the lab handout on what we're meant to do and then write up my methods based on that and apparently my my methods aren't freaking repeatable, they were the scuppering methods in the handout! I'm ready to start tearing my hair out. Other people are having similar problems though, one person in my class had 13 references and was told they didn't have enough when others had like 5 and weren't told that. The marking is just not making sense. I'm really over that class. I have an ear infection but I would be unable to get my antibiotics for a couple days except for during one of the lab times. They let someone else leave before with no problems when they had refused to pay the uni parking fees and got their car clamped. When I ask however I get "You know this is the lab time! That's very bad organisation!". Yeah, totally planned to have earache and hearing loss.
To add to my obvious enjoyment of life lately, antibiotics are making me nauseous, every time I eat I feel sick, every time I take a tablet I feel sick, I've tried taking them with food, after food, before food. Nothing is helping, not even Antinaus. I need a holiday.
On the bright side, I quite enjoy Kraken hunting and thanks to it's very nice pay (and finding 500k) I was able to finally afford a coloured Octo and then I won a Krakling on my birthday. Also frogs are really cool and interesting. Wow, I haven't heard that song in years AL.
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Post by Aethera on Sept 25, 2014 6:11:01 GMT -8
I've been working on a play for the last couple of months, and it opens tomorrow. And yet, as of midnight last night, the lighting and the sets were a mess. At least the sound cues and the acting seem to be ok. I'm freaking out a bit. I'm the stage manager, and this will be my first time calling all the cues on a show, even though I've done a ton of stage managing and lighting and sound before, it's just always been in a small setting where I could just do it myself. Having to say "Lights Go" and relying on someone (who by the way, hasn't even seen to show) to actually DO it is terrifying, especially as I still don't have a list of light cues and hey, right, tomorrow.
Also, I think my keyboard is going. It was fine yesterday, and now today it's not getting close to capturing every letter I type. I love this keyboard. Please keep working! I cleaned you out on Friday!
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Post by Crazy Mg on Sept 25, 2014 19:05:08 GMT -8
So one of my other papers has the awesome staff. In our lab the other day on bird skeletons, a few of us ended up looking up sites to buy dinosaur skeleton replicas. The paper co-ordinator who also usually runs the labs really wants STAN.I also have a masquerade formal dinner soon, so i went looking for ideas for a mask with a google image search and found these! So tempting !Aside from all the last minute-ness that sounds exciting Aeth! Hope it goes well for you.
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Post by Leif on Sept 26, 2014 14:22:36 GMT -8
If I'm ever a billionaire, I'm totally getting a lot of those. It'd be awesome.
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Post by AhoyLindsay on Oct 3, 2014 10:23:36 GMT -8
Nimona, a short webcomic about superheroes, medieval knights, and science. I recommend it! Also in webcomics, I forget if I've ever mentioned this here before, but if you're not reading Stand Still Stay Silent you should be. It's a gorgeously illustrated and surprisingly funny story set in post-apocalyptic Scandinavia. Cats feature prominently and it updates 5 days a week.
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Post by Aethera on Oct 7, 2014 10:30:30 GMT -8
OK Nimona is adorable and hilarious. Must...not...waste...whole....afternoon.
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Post by Crazy Mg on Oct 7, 2014 16:51:16 GMT -8
Nimona seems awesome and I'm probably going to spend too much time reading it.
Also Pro tip: if you must trip over your own foot, don't do it at the top of stairs or you will fall down them.
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Post by Taelac on Oct 17, 2014 20:45:15 GMT -8
I hope you're okay, MG. Also, I am loving Nimona way more than I should. And the thing I popped into to say was that I've been beta-ing a collaborative story-writing game with a couple of folks, which you can see at storium.com/I don't have another story ready to start, but I've set up a dummy story as an entry point if anyone wants to get in and poke about and read some of the things that have been done so far. The test bed is expected to undergo an entire engine overhaul soon, and I'm not sure whether that'll affect the ability to create accounts, but I don't expect it to. If enough people look it over and find themselves interested, I'll try to work up a story to play, or you can join open games. It's free to play, but setting up stories requires a paid membership. On the other hand, kicking into the crowdsource fund now gets you access to run games between now and the official launch plus a full year afterward, so there's a bit of a bargain to join early if you turn out to enjoy it. If you want an invitation, send me an email from the address you want me to use at taelac on the gmail with the dot com saying you want to check out Storium.
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Post by AhoyLindsay on Oct 17, 2014 21:37:14 GMT -8
Yeah, I knew you guys would love Nimona! I may have read it all over a few days and then immediately read it all again... Tae, that sounds intriguing, I'm going to check it out.
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Post by wrecker15 on Oct 23, 2014 23:58:53 GMT -8
Storium is fantastic. I'm hooked. As evidenced from the fact that I'm playing about a billion games right now... I did just pop in to say that I think playing more than the game you're invited for requires you to be a paying customer. It wasn't like that when Tae first sent me an invite, but it seems to have changed. The investment is well worth it for anyone who enjoys writing, though. I do have a world set up for a story to run, but it's fantasy. The previous three games I've tried to set up in that world have all flopped, so I'm absolutely open to letting any interested parties have a playground to acquaint themselves with the game.
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Post by lassie on Oct 24, 2014 11:59:39 GMT -8
Hello. That is all
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Post by Jolyma on Oct 24, 2014 15:32:43 GMT -8
Fancy seeing you here!
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Post by lassie on Oct 24, 2014 18:50:17 GMT -8
Hello Thank you for the link.
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Post by Jolyma on Oct 25, 2014 15:26:06 GMT -8
Sure thing darling. Now, where are the cute baby pics, so we can properly ooh and ahh!
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Post by lassie on Oct 25, 2014 15:28:32 GMT -8
I'll see what I can find. He just recently had his one year pictures taken. As soon as I remember how to add a picture to a forum :S
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Post by Taelac on Oct 29, 2014 19:59:00 GMT -8
Hi, Lassie!
Re:Storium. Hm. I didn't see a note that they were changing it, but that doesn't mean they didn't. I'm pretty sure they were planning to allow a limited number of games (at a time? per year?) to be played for free, reserving unlimited play and narration to paid members in the original description, but I can't find what I remember reading now, either.
In any case, I haven't gotten any emails indicating interest, so it may not be all that relevant, anyway.
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Post by Leif on Nov 24, 2014 12:34:19 GMT -8
So last night I had a dream where I was in a gas station. I saw President Obama buying beef jerky. Then Tae gave him a briefing, but it didn't go well. So we went and played video poker. You may not know it, but Taelac is apparently super important.
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Post by Taelac on Nov 24, 2014 21:26:53 GMT -8
How funny!
A different friend of mine dreamed about me last night, too. He dreamed that he and I went through a time portal back to Pearl Harbor in 1945, where there was inexplicably an exit portal. He couldn't remember what our mission was supposed to have been, but there was apparently some risk that it was a one-way trip, so we agreed that if we got stuck, we'd stay in Hawaii, since neither of our families had ever been there.
No wonder I'm tired, if I'm out trying to sort out the country and save Time all in the same night!
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Post by Leif on Nov 25, 2014 6:41:00 GMT -8
Like Fight Club, except you're some sort of super hero and or spy.
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Taelac
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Post by Taelac on Nov 25, 2014 14:35:57 GMT -8
Hm. What would be my spy theme song?
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