2009/02/26

Die you four color monstrosity!

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Newsarama: Could Kindle Kill Comics?

God I hope so.
Dispite my love of the medium I rarely read a comic more than once. If I could spend half as much for the electronic version and spend nothing on storage? Yeah, that would be the poop. I think it’d take a really good full color e-reader to finally kill the monthly pamphlet.
Then I wouldn’t have to wait for the trade.

2009/02/23

Birthday Scavenger Hunt 2009

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The Rules

  • TM stands for Team Member, a member of your team, not one of the other teams.
  • “Stranger” is a non-player. You can’t use the same stranger more than once. Ex-boyfriends are not strangers.
  • The values of items listed {in curly brackets} will be judged by me.
  • For items listed “in quotes” I’m looking for that specific text, usually on a sign but not always.
  • One item per picture.
  • Teams can only get credit of items once per item and require a clear depiction of a TM in every shot.
  • The Boobies picture is an exception
  • The picture of another team taking a picture is also an exception
  • If another team takes a picture of you taking a picture you lose 30 points. Every team can get you once so you can lose hundreds of points if you’re not careful.
  • If you’re taking a picture inside a place of business, be discrete. The Cow is OK but The Black and Galactic Comics are not.
  • “the less appropriate the better” means the less sense the object makes in context the more points you’ll get. A lot of people have had problems with this concept.
  • If you’re the only teem to find an item it’s worth triple score.

The List


The Scores

  1. 665 – Red Jelly Green Jam
  2. 595 – Team Venture
  3. 580 – Chicken Heads
  4. 570 – Team Eye Trama
  5. 480 – Pterrribly Pterrifying Pterrorists
  6. 445 – Massage Fuckers
  7. 430 – Cable 57
  8. 410 – Team Go Fuck Yourself
  9. 210 – Smarmy Marmoset

Complete Set
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Congratulations April and Kirsten!

I’m taking Boobies out of the game. I have the power to get twelve women to lift their shirts and with great power comes great responsibility. Besides it doesn’t work for game play. Any team that didn’t get in on the Great Boob Picture of ’09 didn’t stand a chance of winning.

Great game everyone! I can’t wait to do it again next year!

2009/02/18

Serendipity in Reading

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tone @ 6:43 PM

Yesterday afternoon I read chapter two of The White Goddess about the The Battle of the Trees.
Yesterday evening I read chapter ten of The Drawing of the Dark which referenced The Battle of the Trees.
I love it when that happens.

2009/02/13

In these troubled economic times I put my money in Tajikistani goats.

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Kiva is a site that allows those of us in the first world to directly invest in business ventures in the third world. Because if we can take banks out of the process we’re all better off.

So far I’ve invested $200 in seven different enterprises all over the world. Poultry farms in Togo and Uganda, a wood crafter in Ukraine, a cafe in Azerbaijan, stuff like that.

It feels good, having a savings account that actually does some good. And it feels really, really good to play God with these people’s lives.

2009/02/08

I unleash the creative power of not being able to sleep!

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The 32 oz. of coffee I drank twelve hours ago are going to keep me up all night.
That’s some very tenacious coffee.
Well one night of insomnia is a small price to pay for finally finishing that new first chapter.

2009/02/04

Miscellaneous Stuff about Tone:

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  • After two doctors visits and a week of physical therapy my elbow almost feels usable. I still have an aggravated nerve that’s giving me problems. Not only do computers take up all my time but they’re ruining my body as well.
  • I’ve been playing too much Bioshock, my next door neighbor surprised me at the door and my first impulse was to hit him with an Electro Bolt 2 to stun him and then spray him with Anti-Personnel rounds.
  • I am one backed up mutha fucka. I got Time Machine for OS X, a second external hard drive for media files and Dropbox to keep my documents backed up and in sync between OS X and XP.
  • I really need to stop playing around with computers and get back to writing. I’m almost done after all.

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