Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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4:42 pm - No luck for 9 crab.
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Results are finally in, and sadly Mr. Acker didn't pick my crab as one of the winners. Oh, well. At least my favorite out of the other entries actually won first.
current mood:  disappointed
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
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5:23 pm - Top 25!
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
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6:56 am - art - 9 Hermit Crab
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
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4:59 pm - fiction - brigits_flame - gear
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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11:59 pm - 9
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Earlier this evening, my favourite companion and I attended a nearby cinema so that we could view the new photoplay, 9. We had a delightful time in spite of the shocking disarray in which we found the theatre. Our showing was sparsely attended, though perhaps that was inevitable considering the lateness of the hour.
...so, yeah, during the credits, in the place that I'm used to seeing a movie referred to as a "motion picture," 9 is called a "photoplay." I found this greatly amusing. Also amusing to me is that someone who worked on the movie is named Zebulon Pike. I can only assume it's not the original Zebulon Pike, since he died in 1813. Unless they reanimated famous explorers as zombies to work on the film. Which seems cool but impractical.
current mood:  amused
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
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6:01 am - fiction - brigits_flame - parasite
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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4:43 am - brigits_flame - Win for August
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After ten attempts and seven times making it to week 4, I have finally managed a win for a month on brigits_flame. Woot!
It amuses me that the only time I had won for a week was for "demon" week, and my entry that won me week 4 for August was also about demons. Clearly I need to write about demons more often.
current mood: demonic
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
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4:30 pm - fiction - brigits_flame - forever and a day
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
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8:18 am - fiction - brigits_flame - something old and something new
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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6:09 am - Mecha-Gorghadra! Krakenoctus! Giant Crabs!
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I'm sure that I missed many awesome things because I didn't make it Gen Con this year. I was extra sad when I learned that one of the things that I missed was a giant display featuring some previews of the next Monsterpocalypse set.
I have sort of mixed feelings about Krakenoctus, but I will cast aside all of my reservations if it means I get to field him with a support force of giant crabs. I should also mention that in this setup he's partly submerged, but his actual figure will include his feet and whatnot. I can only assume the fish-monster is the other monster from the Triton faction in the new base set. I'm still not giving up that a later set from the block will give us a shark monster.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/432769
edit! - ye gods, this post is full of fail. I negected to point out that interested parties should scroll down past all of the links to videos and just look at the pictures further down in the thread. I blame the awesomeness of the giant crabs for clouding my brain functions.
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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8:07 am - fiction - brigits_flame - brave and crazy
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
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6:47 pm - Infrequent Access
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The phone is out at home right now, and might not be back up until Friday. Since I still live in the Dark Ages of the Internet, this means I don't have internet access from home right now either. So for the next couple of days I'll pretty much be checking my email once a day in the late afternoon from the library. = P
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Saturday, August 8th, 2009
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1:26 pm - fiction - brigits_flame - smoke and mirrors
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
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6:54 am - Kongregate contest results
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Dangit, I really wish I'd found out about the contest sooner. I came really close to making the top 5 (which got you $100 and a shot at the grand prize). My sinister cavern got an average of 3.6, the lurking horror got 3.57, and the lowest-ranked of the top 5 was 3.8, so I really wasn't that far away from making it. Oh, well. Maybe they'll have something similar again and I'll hear about it earlier.
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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1:00 am - art - Lurking Horror
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
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7:14 am - art - Cavern of Doooom
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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1:25 am - fiction - brigits_flame - wings
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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9:34 am - fiction - brigits_flame - thousand island
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Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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8:01 am - fiction - brigits_flame - Caesar
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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5:09 am - Digital TV = Epic Fail
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I've been annoyed by the mandatory transition for a while now, mostly because it turns a weak signal from irritating static or snow into unwatchable pixellated garbage. That has never seemed like a trade up. I discovered a new wrinkle to the suck when I learned that we'd always have to set the channel on the converter box, which means I can't set up the VCR to tape something ahead of time unless I preset the box to the right channel...which rules out setting up things on different channels for the same night that I'm away, and means that if someone watches TV in between me setting it and the show being on they have to turn it back or I don't get what I wanted.
Well, it's worse than I thought, because apparently the converter box SHUTS OFF IF YOU LEAVE IT ALONE FOR A WHILE. Which means that even the single show that I set up to record didn't tape properly. I foolishly believed that the whole point of a converter box was to allow those of us with old tech to maintain our previous functionality. Turns out it's still a massive downgrade.
Here I had been upset because most of the few shows I watched had been canceled. I guess there wasn't any point to getting upset about that - I wouldn't have been able to watch them anyway.
Screw you, DTV.
current mood:  Full of Murderous Rage
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