Spellsword 51% Combativeness, 40% Sneakiness, 79% Intellect, 41% Spirituality Aggressive, but with the brains to back it up: You are a Spellsword! Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you’ve fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you're an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn't. Spellswords combine arcane might with combat know-how. They're much tougher than mages, like to wear armor, and can cast spells throug...

I guess I haven't been inspired to blog recently. This didn't start out as a life-blog, rather, as a political safety valve. But with Bush's victory, I'm not getting nearly as inspired to post; I can rant in comments on other people's blogs (and I don't even do that much any more). Also, I haven't had as much time. When I started this blog, I was unemployed, and was to remain so for several more months. It turned out to be providential that I was unemployed for that period of time. It mean...

Well, no, not really. I just haven't been inspired and in front of my keyboard at the same time. While I like my job, the schedule kinda sucks a little. Also, almost all my free time has been taken up by Puzzle Pirates , a nifty little MMOArrrrPG. It's got some paradigm differences from most games in the genre, and it has a system where I pay for what I use, rather than per month. So I don't feel as guilty when I can only play once or twice a week; I'm not paying per month for it. And when ...

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I've been shanghai'd by Puzzle Pirates. Link . I've been hearing about it from random sources - including Evil Stevie himself - for a while. Finally a couple of friends of mine sucked us into it. The company that makes it just recently added a micropayments model to their previous (quite reasonable) $10/mo subscription model. Since I might go for a while without playing, this is a good idea (I basically only pay for the time I play, and basic gameplay is FREE Anyway, that's why I haven'...

This started out as a comment on Citizen Smash's blog; his wife was asking for advice on picking out a new verison phone. The advice is based on that company's offerings Step 1 of cell phone purchasing; figure out how much you want to pay, what you need to do with it, what you want to do with it, what would be nice to have; in that order. Verizon is a CDMA carrier - the main thing this means is that none of their phones will work in europe or most other countries AT ALL. (they'll work i...

Well, the first day of con was survived. We met up with a couple who lives in the area; DW met the wife of the couple via the needlework list she runs, but they are also gamers, and knew of some of my gaming friends. The end of the day was the Voltaire concert. 10,000 screaming goths, it seemed like. But it was fun, though a little low-key... We'll see how the rest of the weekend goes - it turns out that I managed to find stuff I was interested in to occupy me from 10 am to 5 pm tomorro...

So here I am at Icon again, and I remembered the necessary to get online from the con. (Forgot almost everything else but that - including my entire laptop bag - at home, but luckily my laptop, the power adapter for it, and the necessary to connect my laptop to my phone (no EVDO card for me) came with me. Once again, I preregistered, and once again was glad of it. Only had a 25 minute wait in line, and was able to pick up my badge. I'm currently waiting for a Dungeon Delve session to start...

Razorblogging is apparently the theme du jour over at the laconic , peripatetic , Instapundit; and I've been kicking around the idea of razorblogging for a while myself (generally in the shower. Now there's a topic for another day... Showerblogging. Or maybe not). Anyway, I'm a safety-blade man myself. (Mach 3 turbo, in the shower, no shaving cream, if you must know. If you didn't, the bleach to wipe out that mental image is in the kitchen cabinet). I started out with a really cheap electric ...

We're hosting easter dinner this weekend, and it has inspired us to get some of the clean-up that we''ve been putting off for a while done finally. I finally got the Ivar shelving that I've been wanting since we moved in here 4 years ago, and our computer room is a much neater place. This before I've even sorted out stuff! Easter dinner is going ot be small. Just my in-laws, my sister-in-law's current boyfriend, and us. My father, my brother, and his fiance can't make it for a variety of g...

Anyone out there got advice on a place to host some images to link to from here? I don't want to use personal webspace from my ISP for a variety of reasons. Requirements. Must be free. Must not sell my contact info or spam me (I don't care all that much about ads on the host itself.) Doesn't have to have a large amount of space.

The top 10 blog sites link over in the nave bar shows me at #6, behind skinning the frog, and in front of Life as an Air Force Wife. And I have 2 posts in the last 2 months! Is that right? Or has a databse glitched? I know I got a couple of highly-ranked posts, but still... Also, another thing I've noticed - my Top Articles list on the right is much different for me when I'm logged in than if I'm not. If I'm not, it draws off the articles on my front page, but if I am, it shows the all-...

I haven't been blogging much recently. There's a couple of reasons for that, but the main one is that I haven't been insriped to. With that in mind, I decided to do a little post on what I don't, won't, or haven't blogged on in the past year: Firstly, my blogiversary. Feb 20th 2004 was my first post, if I remember my logs aright. I just forgot it until recently. Personal things I haven't blogged about include myself, my family, and my firends. The main reason for this is that this blog ...

In the spirit of James Taranto's (Of the Wall Street Journal) successful attempt to bring the word Kerfuffle back into more general use, I would like to bring the terms laconic and peripatetic back into daily use. (Definitions here and here ). As you can see by following my word links, I'm particularly trying to attach them to one of the leading lights of blogdom (a word which I much prefer to blogosphere, myself). Can we get a google-bomb going for this?

I don't read the New York Times much any more (i'd say I don't read them at all unless someone else links to them, but I do occasionally read them via AvantGo on my handheld, without anyone linking to them). And I did come across this article (login required, bugmenot has it) because Jim Miller linked to it. But it is an interesting article nonetheless. It tells of a small town in Alaska that currently gets their power from a diesel-fired plant, having to barge in the fuel to run it ever...