OK so, this is hardly specific to gaming, but it's where I figured it out. A few weeks ago my Castle Age guild had a guild battle with a certain other guild, and I remarked in battle chat that I'd bounced many a time in festival duels with one of their members, and she responded that she remembered me. ("In a good way", she added, after a brief pause.) Then she sent a friend request so we struck up an ongoing casual dialogue. And it turned out she was dissatisfied with her guild, although she'd been there ... (...more)

Front 242 - Pulse: Not the goldmine that Evil Off was, but still quite listenable Yes - 9012Live: still worthit Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards: disappointing Serj Tankian's Imperfect Harmonies: ditto "When the rain washes all the mitochondria Try to steer your intentions into love" ...mitochondria? Mitochondria...? I know what a mitochondrion is. That isn't the issue.... (...more)

The Bible tells us when a fetus becomes a person.
Hint: not at conception

TCL's article would be yawnworthy, as it merely reaffirms what I already knew - but the linked articles on historical perspective are interesting.

A good day ain't got no rain A bad day's when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been Went to bed late, didn't sleep all that great. Coffee, vitamins, scramble dog wrap, quick-soaking and cooking up a bag of great northern beans for my next bean cake project. A set of intermediate pushups... I WILL has pushups also tricep dips, crunches, swung dumbbells around a little backups laundry... (...more)

Slept poorly, wasn't feeling churchy, coffee and vitamins and relaxed most of the day. After years of not being able to find a tolerable combination of underwear style and color in my size, not at *mart or Target or even Amazon or Freshpair, I got a 5-pack of FotL "low-rise fashion collection" briefs, not thrilled with the colors but I can live with them; and a 6-pack of Hanes "premium tagless", at Target while I was getting belated graduation cards. Their non-premium "tagless" are not tagless at all; t... (...more)