deathpixie: (dance my puppets!)
From this week's episode...

Caz: I just... You as a psychic hitman. It just doesn't go with...

Karl: What?

Caz: ...well, that tin hat you wear, for one thing.

Karl: You think I couldn't be a cool psychic hitman? What about me says that my mind is not a lethal weapon?

Caz: ...Well, that tin hat you wear, for one thing.
deathpixie: (dance my puppets!)
Here, care of [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com].
deathpixie: (drama llama alert)
Found via [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], here.

Okay, so, Fred Phelps and his family of hateful bigots are getting a lot of press for their planned appearance at (or near?) the San Diego Comic Con. The man lives for attention and confrontation. If you see him there, don’t sneer, don’t scream, don’t confront, don’t point and laugh–DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE. Ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore…

EXCEPT! We need some help in the form of a time-keeper or two, letting us know exactly how long the patron saint of backwards thinking and his family manage to stand and scream in the California sun. Then, by all means, do stare–at your watch! Make a note of what time it is and alert the internet that they’re there/still there. (But do it quietly and from a polite distance, will you?) Go get yourself a cold drink and check back every now and then until we have an approximate time count. Like… here would be good. Or on Twitter, with the hashtag #godlovesbatman

Why? Because in the spirit of love, we are pledging to donate $50 to amfAR if Phelps and his crew actually show up (often they don’t) and $10 an hour additional to amfAR for every hour they stay. And we’ll make our donation in Fred’s name.

We’d love you to join us.

(And we’d really love to be able to post a tally of how much we’ve raised.)

Repost far and wide, my pretties.

EDITED TO ADD:

We’ll be donating to amfAR, but Sam and Ginny have both suggested the Human Rights Campaign. Either seems appropriate.

Looks like the WBC is only scheduled for 45 minutes. (Lightweights!) If that’s the case, we’ll round up to $100–but times are tough and you shouldn’t feel like you have to do the same or not participate. $7.50 is better than nothing. $57.50 is peachy and cute.

There seems to be some confusion–you don’t need to be at SDCC to pledge. We’re doing an online donation via this link.



This is Warren again. It’s just been mentioned to me that “lots of LGBT folks are anti-HRC,” in which case interested parties might like to donate to NCLR or EQCA instead.


deathpixie: (pissed off)
For those, like me, who feel that if they'd wanted [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] spam they'd have joined the community, there is a solution. And if you don't use Firefox (like my work computer) and can't use the adblock app, never fear, you can do the Cyrillic part and just render it incomprehensible! (if it wasn't already with the amount of L33T speak they use any way /curmudgeonly old person).

And for what it's worth, the change irritated me, but what really annoys me is the behaviour of the comm's owners and members on [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. They've shown exactly how childish and self-entitled they are and have succeeded in making me determined to never go near the site. Way to make LJ look like utter morons for choosing your site as the homepage feature, idiots.

Edit: Trying out the repost feature, which I found via [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] buried under all the crap.

deathpixie: (drug of the nation)
From the delightfully wacky @AnnLarimer's Twitter feed:

* Phone scam: robowoman from 'interest adjustment department' for 'your credit card' wants credit info, implies govt backing. Hang up.

* The robowoman is called Janey, BTW. I sense a pseudonym. That's not a common robo-American name.

* And before you give me shit for stereotyping robots, I'll have you know that two robots work in my building and we get along fine.

* I just don't like it when robolity gets shoved in my face. I don't care who lubes you in your own workshed.

* Um...sorry if any of your kids read that.

* And the thing is, I'm sure the robots feel the same. They've got to be much more comfortable with their own kind over in Little Aibo.

* Though sometimes their obvious clannishness is off-putting.

* But if you go to Little Aibo on Saturday mornings, you can get really quaint stuff at bargain prices! And it's so colorful!

* Is it racist to say I don't like robot music at all? I mean, it's really not music, is it? IMHO anyway. Just how I feel.

* I'm sure one day robots will learn to fit in as real Americans. And speak English. I hate that my tax money pays for Binary documents.

* No offense.

Wow.

May. 21st, 2010 10:06 am
deathpixie: (gap in the clouds)
I know I pimp [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] a lot, and I know he's not always everyone's cup of tea. But seriously, read today's story. It's just wonderful and heartwarming and lovely.
deathpixie: (Default)
Today's [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] short story really is something you'd like. :)

Lighting the Fuse on this Legendary Thread.
deathpixie: (writing part two)
Something from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], posted today:

Someone just wrote to me with the following question:

The problem I encounter every single time I try to write something is that I have a brilliant idea, but I have absolutely no clue as to how to make a proper story out of it. Bits and pieces will come to mind, but finding the whole story is typically a feat… do you know of a way to overcome this issue?

And this was my very quick response, which it occurs to me might be worth sharing, as one avenue (of many) that can be taken to solve this:

Identify a character in your idea.

1) What does that character WANT?

2) What does that character need to do to GET what they want?

3) What are they prepared to DO to get what they want?

Superman wants to save the world, will go through a quest to save the world, and will, if need be, sacrifice himself to save the world. (Crap example, but you see where I’m going.)

Hannibal Lector wants to be free to live in the way he wants, needs to arrange people and incidents in such a way that he can escape his current circumstances, and will kill and eat anybody he feels like in order to be free. (The difference between a "hero" and a "villain" is often the ruthlessness and extremity they’re prepared to go to in order to achieve what they want.)

(Also, the villain is rarely the villain in their own mind. Norman Osborn from THUNDERBOLTS/SIEGE is a good example of a villain who is plainly the hero of his own story. Another good example is one of my favourite villains, the deluded, vicious Janetty from Steven Grant & Vince Giarrano’s BADLANDS)

It’s a really simple way to discover a rough one-two-three structure that you can start to build on. You build on it by asking yourself what you can do to make 2) as difficult as possible for the characters.

Hope that helps someone.



It really, really does. Reposted in the hopes it helps others as well. :)
deathpixie: (plateaus of sanity)
New webcomic from Nicholas BrendonVery Bad Koalas

A Cracked Fairy Tale from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]

Jim Henson to make a Dark Crystal sequel
deathpixie: (not all there)
This time from Felicia Day (@feliciaday) and Wil Weaton (@wilw)

feliciaday Dark Horse asked me: Top 3 ppl for my apocalypse shelter. My answer: @donttrythis, @marthastewart and Jet Li. http://bit.ly/bng1at

wilw @feliciaday Dude. I can totally hear you, and I'm standing right here. [::wipes single tear::]

feliciaday @wilw Oh crap. Ok, will re-evaluate Apocalypse shelter. I will renovate to accommodate one more if I have to!

feliciaday @wilw Ok, re-evaluated. I will dump @marthastewart for you, but you must be able to grow heirloom tomatoes and make a mean marinara sauce.

wilw @feliciaday Not only can I make a mean marinara sauce, I can grow multiple tomatoes, and DM every edition of D&D from 1st to 4th!

feliciaday @wilw heck if we are doing D&D in the shelter we should keep Martha and make her roll a Barbarian. Just because. #bestapocalypseever

wilw @feliciaday Well, okay ... but only if she promises that she won't metagame.
deathpixie: (unexpected)
I do so love this webcomic...

Kait: "Who does that? Who forgets how doors work? If any of you try to build anything for me I will shoot you."

*

Karl: "Did I tell you I stopped the rain?"

Kait: "You never did."

Kurt: "I really did."

Kait: "So you're saying you're Rain Man."

Kurt: "You're not going to ruin this for me. I pushed weather, Kait. It was fuckin' brilliant."

*

Ah, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. You rock.

In other news - just spent three hours in a course on FoI and privacy legislation. It was actually not as boring as it could have been.
deathpixie: (grease in the wheels of justice)
For those who might be upset or uncomfortable with the idea of seeing him online, Matt is using his gmail addy again. If this will upset you, I recommend taking him off your Contacts list if you haven't done so.

This is not a lynch mob or any kind of movement to ostracise him. But he has done a number of things which have deeply hurt people and if you're one of them, the warning is probably a good idea.

Comments off because I'm not interested in starting the debate again. If you can't handle seeing Matt online, take him off your Contacts. If you have no beef with him, then don't. Simple as that. Email me if you must.
deathpixie: (question your reality)
It's quiet today, so I thought I'd share some things that amuse/interest me online:

Jet Bike Steve is a character Simon Pegg made up while bored on Twitter one day. If you have Twitter, look for the #jbs tags, or the @RealJBS account for added giggles.

Also on Twitter: Ben Templesmith. I really enjoy his tweets, be they political, funny or just plain weird. :)

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] writes short stories. Awesome, awesome short stories. Today's was especially good, if you're into a) science and b) jokes.

Two webcomics by Ramon Perez: Kukuburi, which is a crazy trip into a fantasy world on the other side of a white picket gate and Butternut Squash, which is a sort-of biographical strip set in Toronto that reminds me of the Reality Strikes RRs of yore sometimes. Warning - it's very blokey. ;)
deathpixie: (you can't take the sky from me)
This is already posted in [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s LJ, but I wanted to repeat it. Ten years ago tonight, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] registered #subcafe on the IRC channel DALnet. He's finally letting it go tonight. So, old school comic ficcers, indulge in a bit of nostalgia and drop by for a bit.

Even if, like me, you have to download a chat client. ;)

For Mac users, Snak.com is a freeware program that works quite well.

Channel: irc://irc.dal.net/subcafe
Room: #subcafe
deathpixie: (not all there)
Best cartoon ever.

Also, this from Twitter. I love my geeky boys.

simonpegg I'm calling you out @NathanFillion. Your spaceship vs my spaceship. Last one to the crab nebula gets the beers in. Spacedock, 1 hour.

NathanFillion @simonpegg, be reasonable! My ship was a filming set, while the Enterprise is obviously real. Perhaps a drinking contest?

simonpegg @NathanFillion You're on. To be honest, somebody keyed my nacelles so the old lady's in the shop. I'll get the first round in. Romulan ale?

simonpegg Off to bed. Day started slow, went strange but ended with me and @NathanFillion getting smashed on Mars. Not bad really. Night all.

NathanFillion Let's talk about the genius of @simonpegg for a moment, shall we?
deathpixie: (honesty the best policy)
Apologies to those who read my LJ who are not involved in any of this, but I thought it was fair to make this post as accessible as possible, given secrecy and rumour-mongering have created a lot of the RP drama recently. For those not involved, these aren't the droids you're looking for, move along. ;)

For those who are involved, I have received permission from Sarah, otherwise known as [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], to post the following excerpt from a conversation we've been having following her departure from XP. I do so in the interest of having the facts, instead of the half-truths and exaggerations that I've personally heard, and in the interest of trying to clear the air a bit.

If you have any questions about this, I will direct you to Sarah, since she is one of the modteam from Stronghold and a co-founder.

I emailed Sarah, since we've always been friends, and asked about the infamous "List of the Blackbanned" of Stronghold, given that I've heard from a number of sources that there is one and varying degrees of who is on it. This was her response:

As for the list... I really don't want people to think that we have a googledoc tucked away somewhere named 'people we hate' or somesuch with a list of banned players. As far as I know, there is no actual, maintained list of banned players, and if there is, I've never seen it. Fairly early on in the game (right after the mass XP exodus,) there was a discussion of players we'd like to invite into the game which also included mentions of people that SH players would prefer not to have invited because they had an issue of some sort with them. I hate to say that both you and Dex were included in the group of folks that they would prefer not to invite, but looking back at the discussion Nichole and IJ aren't mentioned at all. I would really like to stress that this isn't a universal 'everybody hates them' list. Not everyone in the game has problems with people who were discussed (I mean, hell, I like pretty much everybody,) but we're currently working under a model where invites are issued only when the entire group is okay with the potential player. One or two people who have problems with the proposed player are enough to nix an invite.

I'm going to screen comments, mostly since I'm on vacation and I don't want to have a flame war erupt in my LJ, especially since I haven't had the chance to go get booze yet. ;) If you want to know more about Stronghold, its invitation process, or the metaphorical list, Sarah would like to stress that she's happy to respond to questions and that she's not scary or threatening at all. ;) If you don't have her addy, leave a comment and I'll send it to you.

Similarly, if you have questions about XP, feel free to ping me, or any other of the XP mods, being Jen, Nichole and Dex.

To end... I'm in Quebec! It's pretty! They have snow!
deathpixie: (kitty)
New Simon's Cat! I shall have to wait until I get home since You Tube is verboten, but still, Simon's Cat! *flails*
deathpixie: (not all there)
So, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] linked to Wired's 100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know. If you go through them and the comments, you'll notice some glaring ommisions (and some really lame inclusions, imo). So, geek-folks, what are your favourite geek-type quotes?

Mine are (with a concerted effort to make sure they weren't all Firefly quotes):

"Fire bad, tree pretty." - Buffy, "Graduation", B:TVS

"We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty." - Mal, "Serenity", Firefly (and Joss on the clip at the start of Serenity DVD)

"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die." - Inigo, The Princess Bride

"RESISTANCE IS USELESS!!!" - Vogon guard, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing." - Zoe, "The Train Job Firefly (and pretty much anything Zoe says, ever)

"Beer good. Foamy." - Buffy, "Beer Bad" - B:TVS

"Mrs. Krobopple (sp?), I glued my head to my shoulder." - Ralph Wiggum, The Simpsons

"It doesn't matter which lizard you vote for, the Lizard will always get in." - Douglas Adams again.

"Everybody. Is dead. Dave." - Holly, Red Dwarf

[singsong] "I'm gonna eat you little chicky..." "Oops, too slow, Chicken Marengo, you've gotta be faster than that to beat this cat!" - Cat, Red Dwarf

"I've been fished to death!" - Cat, Red Dwarf

"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam, Mythbusters

"The world is a mess and I just need to... rule it." - Dr Horrible, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

And the whole Jackal sequence with CJ in West Wing. There would be more WW quotes, only my brain isn't giving me any. :P

And I'll stop there for now so I leave room for other people. ;)

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