-The Gneech
- Location:work
- Mood:
confused
Me being me, I couldn't resist following it up by ( sending a picture of my organ. )
- Location:42 Winter Street, Bangor, Maine
I got a 140 back to where I originally got on it and caught the Central Line. I got off at Hanger Lane, forgetting that Park Royal would also be suspended. I remembered that it would and got back on the Central Line to White City where I hopped across to the new Wood Lane station (shiney new station) and went up the Hammersmith and City Line to Hammersmith. At some point I phoned a colleague to say I would be late, not realising she was on holiday. I feel very guilty about that, though she was sweet about it. Very sweet considering it was 07:30 ish at the time.
I ended up being no worse than 10 minutes late, but I was very cross... Not just with the over-running work but with myself for not having looked it up. And for not doing the most rational things once I realised my initial mistake.
So that was work.
I guess it's too late to blog about the weekend, blogs being the ephemera that they are. We pottered and cleaned the flat whilst
On Saturday we played Hammer of the Scots. We didn't play it through. We stopped when we both realised the English were in a position where they could not possibly win. That was me playing the English. I don't think either of us really understood the game when we started. I doubt if we really understand it now but, sometimes, the only way to get to grips with a game like that is to play it through once or twice. We'll definitely be playing it again and, until I get to grips with it, I shall reserve judgement.
Poll #1429765 War...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
...What is it good for?
World War II![]()
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3 (25.0%)
World War I![]()
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2 (16.7%)
Crimean War![]()
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0 (0.0%)
Franco-Prussian War![]()
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2 (16.7%)
The Winter War and The Continuation War![]()
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1 (8.3%)
The Seven Years War![]()
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1 (8.3%)
The Boer Wars![]()
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0 (0.0%)
The Hundred Years War![]()
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1 (8.3%)
The Peloponnesian War![]()
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1 (8.3%)
The Warring States Period![]()
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1 (8.3%)
Once again, I wish more options were available. But hey, that's okay! Just pick which one of those you dig the best and then talk about your favorite war to read about in the comments. Or even break down your choice. For instance, many would consider the Soviet-Finnish wars to be a part of WWII, while The Hundred Years War and The Warring States Period are comprised of many individual wars and conflicts.
And sure, bring on some fictional wars, too!
- Music:Slayer - "War Ensemble"
The first license covers the creation and publication of CALL OF CTHULHU adventures and supplements. The first of these is CTHULHU BRITANNICA which is released in August. This new collection of horror scenarios features five tales of horror and the weird, set within the green and pleasant land of England. Each scenario focuses upon a different time period, from the streets of Victorian London to the far future when End is almost nigh. Although each scenario can be played as part of an existing campaign, they also come with a set of pre-generated player characters, allowing all to be played and run with the minimum of effort. Our CTHULHU BRITANNICA series then continues with FOLKLORE in November. This sourcebook gives life to strange tales and strange places where myth meets mythos in Britain's darkest corners.
Cubicle 7 have also signed a license for the BASIC ROLEPLAYING system which is being used to developed a brand new game based upon the works of a popular award-winning author which we will announcing later in the year.
“We’re delighted to be publishing material for Call of Cthulhu. One of our long-held ambitions is to contribute to this fantastic game,” said Dominic McDowall-Thomas of Cubicle 7. “We’re also very excited to be able to use the Basic Roleplaying system for our upcoming unannounced licensed game – it’s a perfect fit.”
"We've known Angus Abranson for well over a decade and long desired to work together with him on something. Now he's teamed up with Dominic, and formed Cubicle 7 Entertainment, it gives Chaosium great pleasure to award them licenses to publish supplements for Call of Cthulhu as well as BRP books. We're looking forward to a long and successful relationship and many swell Chaosium licensed books to come!" added Dustin Wright of Chaosium.
About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series), 7th Circle’s Chinese fantasy Qin and is releasing Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space, under licensed from the BBC, in October . In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group. You can find out more at www.cubicle7.co.uk
About Chaosium Inc
Chaosium Inc. is a California based publishing company best know for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game which utilizes the Basic Roleplaying System. You can find out more at www.chaosium.com
With that in mind I am re-posting the 'Picard Song' video that Wil Wheaton put up on his blog:
Happy Birthday Mr Stewart
To read the rest of Wil Wheaton's entry go here.
The full list can be found on http://www.ennie-awards.com/nominations/n
Team UK features the below:
BEST COVER ART
* 3:16 Carnage Amongst The Stars by BoxNinja
BEST INTERIOR ART
* Dark Heresy Core Rulebook by Fantasy Flight Games/Black Industries (originally Black Industries with Mike Mason et al - so I'm including it in Team UK)
BEST WRITING
* The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Magnum Opus Press
* Hot War by Contested Ground Studios
BEST PRODUCTION VALUES
* Dark Heresy Core Rulebook by Fantasy Flight Games/Black Industries
BEST RULES
* Dark Heresy Core Rulebook by Fantasy Flight Games/Black Industries
* Starblazer Adventures by Cubicle 7 Entertainment
BEST ADVENTURE
* Dark Heresy: Purge The Unclean by Fantasy Flight Games/Black Industries
BEST MONSTER OR ADVERSARY
* Dark Heresy: Creature Anathema by Fantasy Flight Games
BEST SETTING
* Hot War by Contested Ground Studios
* Slipstream by Triple Ace Games/Studio 2 Publishing
BEST SUPPLEMENT
* Dark Heresy: Disciples of the Dark Gods by Fantasy Flight Games
BEST GAME
* Dark Heresy Core Rulebook by Fantasy Flight Games/Black Industries
* Starblazer Adventures by Cubicle 7 Entertainment
PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
* Dark Heresy: Disciples of the Dark Gods by Fantasy Flight Games
* Starblazer Adventures by Cubicle 7 Entertainment
The Fan Nominations for Best Publisher are currently open until the end of the week but a number of UK Publishers have already been nominated.
Congrats to all and fingers crossed for a number of Team UK Wins!
This was my first Mallards game and it was a lot of fun. It was great to see a local team with a lot of fans and community support. I'm pretty we will be back to the park soon enough.
( Air Force Blog Assessment )
I really liked it, so I printed it out and hung it in my office at work. And I have to tell you, this thing has saved my ass more times than I can count anymore. It has really helped me to prioritize Internet responses.
See, last night we had an impromptu (but very nice) evening hanging out with an old friend of mine, Lisa. (Like, one of the few people who has known me for more than a decade that I still talk to.) She was lamenting about how she keeps getting dragged into stupid Internet fights because, like me, it's sometimes hard to not respond to utterly stupid comments and allegations. As my job has increased my exposure on the Internet, I was finding it hard to stay productive and focus on fans who had legitimate questions over fans who just wanted to throw a fit and make a scene.
And that chart has worked for me, every time.
As I start to compose a response and I'm finding that I'm getting angry, I look at the chart. Is this a troll dedicated to bashing others, or a rager who is just ranting and angry? Then don't engage. Is this person misguided? Then fix the facts. Is this person an unhappy customer (which could also be an unhappy reader or an unhappy friend)? Then rectify the situation, or explain what you can do if the situation can't be fixed.
While I can get into an Internet scrap with the best of them (and I've certainly been in my fair share), I'm really at a point in my life where I'd rather dedicate my time to talking to awesome people instead of fighting with lame people.
So, a much-delayed new entry to the Eddy Owner's Manual: I'm okay with arguing, and I'm okay with disagreeing, but being an asshole is the best way to end the conversation.
(Caveat: If I'm being an asshole, obviously the argument will continue until I stop being an asshole. Yeah, it's not fair, and I'm trying to be better about not being an asshole at all, but sometimes I get angry and stubborn. Usually I feel like shit afterwards and will apologize a lot, though. I will be the first to admit that I am a flawed and angry creature.)
- Mood:
busy
Yesterday, the blogo-twittersphere was buzzing with the news that Dr Denis Walsh, associate professor in midwifery at Nottingham University, had written a piece in Evidence Based Midwifery in which he stated his belief that pain in childbirth is a good thing, and something that women should not attempt to avoid through such pain-killing methods as epidurals.
A large number of women want to avoid pain. Some just don’t fancy the pain [of childbirth]. More women should be prepared to withstand pain. Pain in labour is a purposeful, useful thing, which has quite a number of benefits, such as preparing a mother for the responsibility of nurturing a newborn baby.
Over recent decades there has been a loss of ‘rites of passage’ meaning to childbirth, so that pain and stress are viewed negatively.
As you can imagine, this caused something of a stir among many people, many of whom - unlike the rather male Mister Walsh actually had some experience in doing something which was like, as one of them put it, “Sh*tting a melon”. (That latter quote came from a comment to Marie Phillips’s excellent post on the subject, Strictly Come Birthing. I’ve read other commentators wonder if perhaps Doctor Walsh believes that husbands should be repeatedly kicked in the nuts while their wife is in labour, in order that they too might be prepared for the responsibility of nurturing a child.
And it was in another comment on that same post that I found a link to a brilliant comeback article by The Daily Mash, entitled: “WOMEN TO FORCE HAT-STAND INTO ANUS OF MALE MIDWIFE”
THE senior male midwife who criticised child-birth painkillers will today have a hat-stand forced into his anus, women have promised.
Dr Denis Walsh will be dragged from his office and taken to a paddling pool in the car park where three strong women will hold him down while another two take a seven-foot, solid pine hat-stand with six large curved coat hooks and put it in him.
Emma Bradford, a pregnant lady from Peterborough, said: “No painkillers, no epidurals, we want him to be able to bond with the hat-stand.”
Somewhere in his piece, I think Doctor Walsh might have half a point. But I think he chose the wrong words with which to express it, and frankly, I think he’s the wrong gender to be the messenger.
Now that we have our first confirmed cases of swine flu on campus, the Major Incident Team has been mobilised. It is however important that we all follow Government and NHS advice during the coming weeks and months.
The Major Incident Team has been mobilised! That sounds so doomy! :D :D But perhaps slightly more worryingly, the swine flu is in a building only about 300 hundred yards from where I am right now! :O
Perhaps I should try to catch it now before it mutates into something super wonky :)
- Location:bournemouth university
- Mood:
slightly concerned - Music:Hawkwind - The War I Survived
4Paws was very cute last night. It was one of those moments that I guess makes owning a dog so special.
She’s always pretty happy to see me when I arrive home, but when I arrived home last night she’d apparently been having a nap, and was thus even more excited and energetic than usual. (Border Collies, seven-month old puppies especially, have a lot of energy - this was after being walked for a good few hours that day). After bouncing into me, into Jules, back into me, and then spending several seconds running round in circles on the sofa, she suddenly sprinted across the lounge, out the door and into the passageway, out of sight.
Jules (who was sitting at one end of the sofa) and I (who was sitting in front of the sofa) looked at each other, each thinking, “Where’s she off to?” Then, from the far end of the passage, we heard the sound of scrabbling paws on carpet as she presumably executed a one-eighty at high speed. There was another second or so of silence before she burst back through the open doorway and launched herself at us with a manic look on her face. I think Jules ducked one way and I certainly ducked the other, allowing her to sail through the space between us and crash into the back of the sofa. She bounced off, made a couple more manic laps of the sofa, then sprinted back out the doorway again.
She repeated that five or six times, with us throwing ourselves clear each time; on about the fourth time she hit the back of the sofa so hard and high that she nearly bounced over the back into the gap behind.
I think she was pleased to see me.
- Location:at home in computer room
- Mood:
bored - Music:none
Bah! I'm going to go and blow some stuff up instead :D
- Location:at home in computer room
- Mood:
frustrated - Music:Europe - The Final Countdown
( The first is )
- Mood:
creative
