Which Great Old One is the best skateboarder?
Gnarly-hotep.
What do they drink on Jupiter?
Gany-mead.
Monday afternoon I went to Old Town Bike Shop for repairs. My bike needed a new chain and cassette. Sixty bucks later my bike is fixed and the mechanic says I really ought to take a bike ride. "So do you want my driver's license or something as collateral?"
"Nah, you look honest." Struck me as amusing considering the fact most folks in the straightlaced Colorado Springs community would not trust a fat guy with long hair and a beard. Anyway I took my bike for a spin around the block, took me all of two minutes and upon returning hailed the mechanic as an exemplar of his craft. If you need repairs go to Old Town Bike Shop on South Tejon and ask for Brian in the back.
While I was paying for the parts and labor I saw a sign saying photo ID was necessary for all bicycle test rides. In light of the thread I followed on LambdaMOO's *chatter list I was really amused by that fact.
Yes, this little essay was meant to go nowhere.
Okay I won't.
Today Sourpuss called everyone into a meeting to let us know that there's been a reshuffling in upper management which is why we are slow. She said it had nothing to do with the current economic crisis. Anyway after the meeting I stayed behind and asked about the reshuffling and I knew, KNEW she was lying through her teeth.
How? Her lips were moving. No, just kidding. When she gave her answer she didn't make eye contact. To me that's a hallmark of lying.
Either the ship's going down, like I've been saying for a year, or they're trying to sell the ship and see if someone will take over and make it profitable once again.
Beyond that I'm not going to talk about work because it's only going to stress me and raise my anxiety level which is entirely unproductive but I am going to be cycling a lot more during the week.
Funny thing is that I've been trying to think of stuff to do with the new World of Darkness books and maybe a superhero story whenever 2nd Edition Wild Talents is released but I'm stuck playing around with elves and gnomes and dwarves.
One aspect of the two current campaigns running through my head is that the player characters (PCs) are all humans. No one plays demihumans or celestials or furries. Regular, vanilla humans. Right now I'm trying to think of a game system to run the game that will be simple but comprehensive without resorting to Wizards of the Coast's (WotC) Dungeons and Dragons. 3.5 is too complicated and neckbeardy. I haven't played 4.0 nor have I read anything about it plus I'm sure if any players have read 4.0 they'll be grumpy because they want to play dragonborn or warforged or a humble yet reliable and time-tested dwarf. Humans just aren't sexy enough.
I know my friend Cassius expressed interest in a humans-only campaign but I don't know how the other players would feel about it. Plus I do dislike the fantasy setting even though I think have have one or two good ideas which may be better than run-of-the-mill sword and sorcery.
To Hannes Alfvén, the Big Bang was a fable - a fable devised to explain creation. "I was there when Abbé Georges Lemaitre first proposed this theory," he recalled. Lemaitre was, at the time, both a member of the Catholic hierarchy and an accomplished scientist. He said in private that this theory was a way to reconcile science with St. Thomas Aquinas' theological dictum of creatio ex nihilo or creation out of nothing.
— Anthony L. Peratt, 'Dean of the Plasma Dissidents', The World & I, May 1988, pp. 190-197.
