9/12/07
Arcanum vs. NetHack Steampunk genre

was re: this link

Objects orbiting the Sun are divided into three classes: planets, dwarf planets, and small Solar System bodies.

A planet is any body in orbit around the Sun that a) has enough mass to form itself into a spherical shape and b) has cleaned up its room before dinner. There are nine known planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Pluto was discovered by measuring its parallaxicality in relation to Sirius, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eriadni. The definition of planet came about when a bunch of self-appointed Europeans decided that the United States of America did not deserve to have discovered a planet after the bumbling invasion of Iraq under the auspices of an alleged "War on Terror" which amounts to a cold war with Islam and oil-rich countries Also Wikipedia has strict guidelines which prevent pre-pubescent girls from editing articles because girls are dumb and they smell and give boys cooties.

On August 24, 2006 the International Astronomical Union defined the term "planet" for the first time, excluding Pluto and reclassifying it under the new category of dwarf planet along with Eris becoming an elf planet and Ceres into a gnome planet. It is now hotly contested among astronomers regarding the classification of Ceres. Some scientists delcare Ceres is more of a halfing or hobbit than a gnome.

While cleaning up a part of my bedroom, the desk beside my bed to be specific, I stumbled upon a post-it note from my job back around 2004. The advice was given to me by a former co-worker.

For better dreams one should sleep with one's body aligned along the north-south axis while facing eastwards. Currently I sleep east-west while facing north. When I was beset upon by the hum a few months back and I slept in the living room on the lovesac I was sleeping north-south while facing east. I believe that I dreamed less in that scenario.

By the way the former co-worker wasn't fired. She was able to escape and moved to another state. Funny thing is the one time where she gave me a ride home she explained that Colorado Springs has an effect on people. Either people stay for the rest of their lives or they're just passin' through.

I finally found my pamphlet from Foam Fest at the Colorado State Fair. The beer that I liked the most and ended up winning the gold medal at the fair was Shamrock Scotch Ale. Seriously the best stuff they had at the fair. I only had two glasses, forced part of the second glass on raddidge who just shrugged. Turns out that the Shamrock Brewing Company is a joint down in Pueblo so one can't get a six pack of their stuff in liquor stores.

The Yeti Imperial Stout from Great Divide Brewing was also really good but their Wild Raspberry Ale was too reminiscent of black cherry soda making me wait for some sweetness when all I got was the bitter beer taste. Actually looking through the pamphlet it looks like 80% of the entrants are restaurants-cum-breweries.