Elizabeth

Role-playing

2009-04-21T17:57:24Z

I know at least a few of the people who are on my friends list game in one respect or another and now I've got a question for you.

I've recently started playing on a RP-centric Neverwinter Nights 2 server, and, seeing as I was basically a RP-virgin 2 weeks ago when I first started on that server, I was hoping some of you had suggestions of how to develop characters, and tips and tricks for successful role playing. Do you have any favored readings? Hints for a newbie? Other pearls of wisdom for me?

Thanks!

Merry Solstice!

2008-12-22T00:05:27Z

Merry Solstice, everyone!

Stay warm, and enjoy this longest night of the year.

Happy Yule!

Snow dogs!

2008-12-21T23:07:35Z

New England's been plastered with 2 big snowstorms this weekend, dropping at least 24" of snow, and counting. We've got two Aussies, who absolutely adore the snow. They've been outside all day for hours at a time. When we've finally dragged them back in side, it's not even 5 minutes until they're begging to go back out!

Pippin says: I gots the Frisbee and you can't catch me! Nyah!

Then Nemo gets the frisbee and...

Nemo: Haha, I got the frisbee now, Pippin, whacha gunna do about it!?!

Nemo: Look, Mum, I gots it!

Pipping standing still for just a moment...

...but standing still doesn't last long before he's back off to the races!

Happy Birthday mistressbellona!

2008-12-14T21:24:34Z

Happy Birthday, mistressbellona!

Amazing.

2008-11-05T05:31:54Z

History in the making. 1 million people in Grant Park. Listening to President-Elect Barack Obama I'm filled with hope. So full of hope, he reminds me of FDR and Bobby Kennedy. He is going to be great. A great man, A great leader, a Great Man, the likes of which we haven't seen in this position in a very very long time.

It's over! Good job, President Obama!

2008-11-05T03:55:58Z

That's it, it's over folks. With OH being called, and CNN having 207 electoral votes for Obama, with out CA, OR, WA, or HI (another 77 votes), it's shored up. Obama has over 284 votes. He's won!

This is history in the making, folks! The first black man as president. Record turnout, the likes of which we haven't seen, percentage of eligible voters wise, since 1908 or before.

I see potential to be a great president, on the order of FDR, and I hope he's able to pull it off.

For now, I'm ecstatic. The champagne has been broken out and I am so relieved and excited!

It's Election Day!

2008-11-04T16:15:26Z

Everyone remember to vote today!

I voted this morning (For Obama/Biden). I was voter number 111 for my precinct at 8am, which considering it's TINY and usually has very few voters, is amazing.

I'm so excited, today is the cumulation of a very historic election, and I can't wait to see the results. I'm sure I'll be up terribly late tonight and hopefully celebrating. :D

baa baa Meme sheep...

2008-09-23T20:45:58Z

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) Favourite and least favourite food?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

Newb's range report.

2008-09-02T03:19:41Z

I went shooting with Bill and JayG on Sat and LOVED it. I posted a full report with pictures on the new blog: http://cai11ean.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/newbies-range-report/

Jay's got a write-up on his blog: http://stuckinmassachusetts.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-shooter-report.html

Just a taste of of the fun:

wow.

2008-08-29T03:50:29Z

I just watched Barak Obama’s acceptance speech. I’m impressed. Up til this point, he hasn’t impressed me, but after tonight, I’m beginning to think that maybe, just maybe, he can pull off the change he speaks of. Perhaps, just perhaps, if (no, when) Mr. Obama becomes president, there will be an administration in place who’s ideals are not completely foreign to my own, and who actually has the good of the common man and the country in mind. Perhaps, just perhaps, we aren’t completely fucked.

Up until tonight, my cynicism had thoroughly gotten the better of me; having spent the vast majority of my adult life in Massachusetts — one of the most corrupt states in the country — it’s hardly surprising. Until tonight, I was convinced Mr. Obama was just another pie-in-the-sky dreamer, spouting pretty words, hopes and dreams, with no realistic idea of how to make them reality nor any grasp of the work and struggle needed to do so. After tonight’s speech, I’m far more confident he understands how enormous a task it will be to accomplish even a fraction of the change he desires to bring to our country. Tonight, as he annihilated McCain with his own words, he finally seemed to have grown into the office he’ll be elected to in November. I finally felt like I was watching a great leader, the likes of which I’ve never seen (alive) in American politics.

I’m hopeful. I’m actually hopeful about the future of this country and our leadership. I haven’t been hopeful about either in a very very long time. I had given up. I was convinced there was no good fight left to fight. After tonight, I’m not quite so sure that’s true, and it feels good.

whee

2008-08-29T02:00:12Z

outlander dragged me contra dancing tonight, and it was fun! Exhausting, and hot, but fun. There's a contra dance every Thrusday night in Concord. I think I'm going back!

I'm glad the partners I had put up with my complete and utter clumsiness and inability to tell left from right. I had a lot of fun. It was also very dizzying.

Via AccordionGuy on twitter: Lies spread by Pissed off Clin

2008-08-26T18:34:34Z

Via AccordionGuy on twitter: Lies spread by Pissed off Clinton Supporters.

@youtube if my embed doesn't work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UxxhYa8K0s

Oh, will the RAMPANT dishonesty never end? Stupid bitch, just say you'd never vote for a black man and get it overwith. Scumsucking, toad-licking lowlife.

No, Obama's NOT Muslim. He didn't got to a madrassa, just take a quick peek at snopes, forget actually reading a credible news source!

[R]eporting by CNN in Jakarta, Indonesia and Washington, D.C., shows the allegations that Obama attended a madrassa to be false. CNN dispatched Senior International Correspondent John Vause to Jakarta to investigate.

He visited the Basuki school, which Obama attended from 1969 to 1971.

"This is a public school. We don't focus on religion," Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the Basuki school, told Vause. "In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don't give preferential treatment."

Amazing robotics.

2008-08-26T15:21:56Z

I didn't post this when I ran across it months ago, though I was definitely enthralled. JayG's post yesterday about the exoskeleton being developed in Haifa that's enabling paraplegics to walk with crutches spurred my memory.

BoingBoing had a post about the Neruobotics talk given at The New Yorker Conference this past May. Yoky Matsouka, who is the director of the neurorobotics lab @ UWashington, gives an amazing presentation about the fledgling field of neurobotics. Neurobotics is the intersection of robotics, neuroscience, and prosthetics. I'm completely fascinated. It's things like this that make me wish I'd been a bit more adventurous in college, cause I'd LOVE to get my fingers in it now.

Annnd.... Biden is Obama's pick for Veep!!

2008-08-23T11:57:07Z

I'm thrilled Obama picked Biden. Biden's going to add long experiance in national politics, strength in foreign relations and national security. He was my inital pick back at the beginning of the primaries. Also his son, who is a Captain in the National Guard is being delpoyed to Iraq in October.

I think Biden brings stability and experiance to a ticket I feared would be flighty and know to be inexperianced. I was thinking he'd get the Sec. State position, but VP I'm quite happy about.

Telegraph.co.uk article.

New York Times article announcing the choice.

New York Times Op-Ed pro-Biden from before the announcement.

BBC article. CNN article. MSNBC article.

Bill's got a blog!

2008-08-19T01:52:28Z

Bill just started a blog! I'm so excited for him. Go and take a look. It's a bit rough still, as he just set it up yesterday, but do check him out!

The Eclectic One

caillean @ 2008-08-06T23:56:00

2008-08-07T03:56:37Z

NTS: posting at midnight means you get burried in friendslists by morning.

New Blog

2008-08-07T03:48:34Z

I started a new blog, though I'll post entries in both places. It's on wordpress.
http://cai11ean.wordpress.com/

Yes, some fucker has caillean, as a username only, w/ no blog attached. and hasn't done anything with it. gah.

new story published today.

2008-08-07T03:46:59Z

One of my favorite authors had a new short story published on tor.com today. I've loved everything I've read of Cory Doctorow. Loved the latest novel, Little Brother. I'll go into that another time.

Today, The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away was published on Tor. Yet another interesting and geeky vignette. Hardcore geeks as monks, sequestered from the world. Interesting read, go give it a try.

memories

2008-08-07T03:46:13Z

I was talking in channel with some of the geek boys about movies and such and we got onto the unrealism of Hackers. Heh. Fake as it was, it did spark my geekiness into tech, at least somewhat. But what I love most is Angelina Jolie before she was big, as a dykeish, h4ck3r ch1xx0r. YUM. Plus the cyber industrial club-scene/fashion sense. Rar. Yum. heheh.

http://www.dreamagic.com/roger/hackers.gif

http://movies.infinitecoolness.com/01/hackers11.jpg

http://evoen.net/images/angelina.jpg

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030709/165215__06angie_l.jpg

baa baa Meme sheep...

2008-07-24T18:59:20Z

from dazi

1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4. IM:
5. What are you studying/What are you working as:
6. What makes you happy:
7. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
8. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ:
9. An interesting fact about you:
10. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
11. Favorite place to be:
12. Favorite lyric:
13. Best time of the year:
14. Weirdest food you like:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A song:
4. A band:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Will you put this in your LJ so I can tell you what I think of you?

Ohhhh, shiny!

2008-07-15T02:00:48Z

Ooohhhh, shiny! I just made an account on http://www.goodreads.com/ Book list/ratings/reviews. Whee!

http://www.goodreads.com/profile/caillean

The Boys!

2008-07-10T03:01:51Z

I finally activated picasa and have been uploading dog pics (and other things) like mad. See the boys:

(ignore the date on this one, the camera has a mind of it's own in terms of the date.)

My Gods, how Pippin's grown!

caillean @ 2008-07-09T21:58:00

2008-07-10T02:03:03Z

Pictures from MiniMeet 2008. Here's all the minis I mentioned in the last post.

Long overdue beginning to update again.

2008-07-08T19:54:35Z

Should do a real update, but I'll just start with a quick blurb. Bill & I (& the boys) went up to Maine this past weekend with my parents (& the girls). Talk about full house. 4 adults, 4 dogs in a small 1br condo. yeah. But anyway, had some real fun moments. Ate out Friday night at The Jolly Drayman (English pub) and had this GREAT ale. It's an apple Ephemere, and even though I'm usually not so much a beer fan (prefer wine, mead, hard liqueur to beer) this was AMAZING.

That's the bottle.

Also, there was a Mini-Cooper Meetup up there last weekend. Saw TONS of OLD and NEW Minis of all kinds. Including Mini-Woodies. Mini-Pannel Vans. Mini-Pick-up Trucks. Mini-AUstins, Mini-Coopers. (Mini-)Austin jeep-like-things. I'll post pics of that once I've uploaded from the camera.

Sunday we took the dogs swimming in the Ellis River under a covered bridge. It was much fun. We ACTUALLY tired them out. (This is completely unheard of, especially for Pippin.)

nom nom nom

2008-05-08T01:17:32Z

I just finished making a VAT of chicken noodle soup. From scratch. Lunch for the rest of the week! Yay!