Pagga Log

The Weekend Grind

In work on a Sunday *sigh* at least I'm not in till 10pm I suppose. Get to meet the replacement Ed in the house tonight hopefully, not too worried as I'm out of there by the 24th anyway, which reminds me must look for houses today so I can go and look at them on my days off next week.

Random linkage....

Check out the preview for Planetary 19 by Warren Ellis, should be out next week in the shops. Hmmm also need to pick up Alan Moore's Smax #5 which is out now apparently.

Has anyone noticed how everyone has familiars these days?

Also one of the things I like about the internet is that even now, hoary old verteran of it that I am, it still has the capacity to surprise and delight me with things like The Giving Tree. Blather is one of those sites that's a labyrinth, mysterious and easy to get lost in, but then why do all websites have to be easy to understand?

"Why would I be scared of a hat?"

Everyone say hi to: Sean, who's just started an LJ. He's another one of those lovely Everichon people, and well as one of the mysterious Witan.

Currently pootling round the web looking for uplifting news. Feeling vaguely anxious, no idea why, so I'll blame the brain slugs.

Instead I found something freaky, something that made me angry, accidental porn and squid. Yes, more squid. I'd blame the sinister mind control powers of others, if I firmly believed I had a mind to control at the moment.

Dog bites man, and grossly enough, this is news. It seems where you bite is as important as what you bite, in order to make headlines these days.

Still Tennesse is still full of bigots also seems to be news at moment.

In cheerier news, people are still having sex. Even worse, some people have minds made entirely of smut. For example, where I see a simple, classic video game, others see full on hentai action, courtesy of the The Accidental Video Game Porn Archive

And finally, News of the Cephalpod.

Time Machine Go!

I've always been fascinated by time travel, in both directions. My psyche, as well as my diaries and music collections, are littered with little notes from the Ed of the Past checking up on the Ed of the future.

Seems I'm not the only one, as Future me lets you send an email into the future. You can also set it to display messages publicly (the default is private) and it's an interesting dive into someone elses pysche.

What would you do if you could take a one way trip in time?

That name meme in full.

And finally, welcome, everybody, to the simply lovely and frankly brilliant Wise Rabbit. LRP freaks out there may know her as Cassandra Deja, Verity The Sherrif or one of the creative powerhouses behind Everichon. But most of us know her as Abbi.

Anyway Abbi, This one is for you...

If you know me as Edward Fortune I probably owe you money, or you're my Bank Manager.

If you know me as Nyl, then you've played Omega. If you know me as Franz you played Grand Design, Faid was my LT name, and If you knew me as Adamus (who?) Griy, Dr Ketch, Morgan Weis or Mick McKai, then you've played Andy's Vampire. Frankly, I've too many LRP and Roleplay pseudonyms to list them all, so I won't.

If you know me as anything else, then I'm very curious as to how, why and what. No reason.

Fucking hell, that was a bit personal.

Back to the top.

Feel the love

Bit late off the mark with this meme that's lifted from just about everywhere under the sun, but stick a comment down and I will reply with something I like about you.

Comments on Everichon to come later after I've got my mind, body and spirt back together after abusing them for 36 hours over the weekend. I suspect 24hr time in is something that should only be done once a year or I could just be getting old :).

Who ate all the Pi?

Happy Pi Day.

Pi Day (also Albert Einstein's Birthday) is celebrated on the March the 14th, or as barbaric colonials write it, 3/14.

It's not all self important smart-arsing though, as today is also the date of Daniel Tammet's PI recital. They hope to raise a tonne of money for Epilepsy research, and I must admit, I find Tammet's condition fascinating (he's a non-austistic Savant. There's only about 25 people like that in the world.)

Many people have already frothed about Everichon. Suffice to say that it rocked, and despite a lot of 'things beyond their control' going wrong, the refs dealt with it with huge amounts of professionalism and everybody had buckets of fun. Roll on Artificer...

And finally:
Leave a comment and I will reply with one thing I like about you.

Live Journal users can use this LJ link to leave their comments, if they prefer. Otherwise, use the comments box below.

"What do you get for the man who has everything?"

"'Consumer Recreation Services.' Well, I do have golf clubs...."
"Call that number."
"Why?"
"Make your life...fun."

You might have heard about a game that they used to promote Speilberg and Kubrick's AI film. A game where if you were one of the lucky few the game rang you up on your phone, a game which was played out over almost a hundred different 'alternate reality' websites set in the near future. I caught the edges of it as it was happening and it sounded fascinating, afterwards there was a buzz of something really new happening, but it soon died down after some of the early follow-up efforts crashed and burned.

However someone is trying is again with www.projectsyzygy.com and guess what? They're looking for "puzzle architects, web designers, programmers, marketing gurus, dreamers, writers, graphic designers, puppet masters, illustrators and all the rest". Wait I haven't mentioned the best bit,

Roleplaying experience: desired, not necessarily necessary.
Other skills: multidisciplinary lateral thinkers who can grasp concepts like *that*, not averse to being creative and won't get annoyed with having to adapt quickly to a constantly changing situation. Being passionate and knowledgeable about the genre will help.

Now who does that remind you of, hmmm?

Also while I'm wittering away on the topic, I've probably mentioned Blast Theory before and their Can You See Me Now game played out with runners chasing players through a city using laptops, GPS systems and mobile internet connections. The twist being the players were only on the internet, in a cyberspace grid laid over the map of the city.

Well now anyone can play this sort of thing, Mogi Item Hunt uses the GPS systems in the newer japanese mobile phones to let you hunt and collect items by wandering through Tokyo and interacting with an unreal version of the city that only exists on the internet. Players race each other to collect rare items and can also trade to complete their collections.

According to one player he "Can sense a long road map behind it slowly pushing towards a RPG of sorts. New features being introduced include cameras to enable you to take pictures of creatures that roam the virtual world and you may even be able to adopt them in the future.

Take a look at the english interface (login: test, password: test) and think about the possibilities when GPS on phones becomes standard over here. Just think about the fun that could be had, having a whole city to play with, running through an unreal city.

[via http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work]

Rage

As someone who is quite aware of their own temper you'd have thought I'd have a better time dealing with someone who has trouble dealing with theirs. But no the only solution I can come up with is to retreat from the situation, I think it might be because visible boiling rage came up so rarely at home when I was growing up it still scares me to my bones. That and the fact that when I go beserk I have on occasion woken up to find myself hitting someone round the head with an oar.

Someone quite wise recently said that I have a lot of anger in me, then she corrected herself and said something like that I have this well of energy that only turns into anger if I have to bottle it up or have no way of expressing my passions. She is a wise owl.

I think doing two peoples jobs for one persons pay and helping manage a team of 11 people, having no experience what so ever with management, let alone having to do my jobs with a tool that is still in beta and takes three times as long as it should to do anything, may have something to do with my current mood.

I really don't know how to handle this situation, every conversation I try planning in my head with them ends up in a blazing row. Well I'm well out of there now, made my decision and thank god I have Sarah's to retreat to if things go very pear shaped. Heh at least I've got nothing to loose by having a conversation now, but I really could do without this you know.

Oh this animation may be germaine to the situation as it stands.

Pelican Chorus

The Divine Bob comes to London. Last chance to give him all your money until the next one.

If I was still in the city, I'd go, because I've never seen Bob inspired theatre. Big fan of the visual style though.

The good people of Pagga are being shockingly civil at the moment. I have no idea why, so I haven't had a chance to trot this little ditty out in a while (Thanks to John for the link.)

Memes can be found past the link below:

Assorted meme-age. A waste of your time and mine.

12 things that I have to shoot into space so alien civilisations won't confuse me for the last son of Krpyton. Or something.

1. A large stuffed lizard toy
   
2. A tattered note book covered in shorthand
   
3. A photograph of the city of Cadiz, with the glorious buildings in the background and an elderly lady in the foreground.
   
4. A picture of Newcastle's Demented Hare with a tall thin pale girl pointing at it.
   
5. A dog-eared copy of Alex Robinson's Box Office Poison
   
6. A copy of the Tao of Pooh.
   
7. The version of the Principia Discordia I made when I was 19.
   
8. A tattered copy of 1984 by George Orwell
   
9. A didgeridoo made of oak
   
10. A folder full of Random LRP rules, event flyers and peoples contact details.
    
11. A compilation CD of music. Probably my most recent.
    
12. A VCD with Amile' on it.
    

Of course, I am Season 7, as I too lack any sweeps weak episodes.

Season Seven - You're about looking at the world as
a whole, looking at the grand design of things,
the way good balances evil. You are Buffy
philosophy, and your best episode is
"Conversations with Dead People."


Which Season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Are You?
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Personally, the only thing wrong with Season 7 was the crow-barring in of a secret Feminist Conspiracy. Oh, and no Riley.

LJ's use of the word 'Friend' as always been an odd one to me. Is it me, or is it kind of school playground?

Who are your most trusted non-friends?

• ed_fortune (36)


• blue_room (25)


• kneeshooter (24)


• oldnick (18)


• harryh (18)


• mrcook (16)


• littleonions (16)


• ashenkat (16)


• quondam (15)


• pauln (14)


• binidj (14)


• forbinproject (12)


• curlwomble (12)


• pkgem (12)


• maleghast (12)


• stsquad (11)


• mfl (11)


• robcee (11)


• agentinfinity (11)


• 8w_gremlin (11)


• myki (11)

Who are your most trusted non-friends?

And apparently, I have Anime boobs. Which is not that remarkable, given that I'm quite fat at the moment.

MEDIUM


(results contain pictures) What kind of ANIME BOOBS do you have?
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And finally, a pack of amusing lies:

Your Sexual Profile (you sexual deviant you...) by sparkledee
Name
Your Secret Kink Thing	You put food in other holes.
Your Sexual Strength	You are amazing at oral sex!
Your Sexual Weakness	You won't try new things.
Your Likely STD	You're clean! Hurray for you!
How Many Partners in Crime?	Ha! You're a SLUT!
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