I just put on my shorts that I've owned for a couple months now, and they actually felt a little tighter to button up than usual.

This is the first time I felt slightly bad about it....but not bad enough to n ot want a tasty lunch. :9 I'm hunnnngry!

http://ny1.com/9-staten-island-news-content/top_stories/108806/costumed-culprits-caught-on-tape

This isn't the way to promote your new game!!!!!

I can't stop laughing, Luigi's just standing there until Mario's like "Luigi, come-a help-a me!!! He told me our Princess is in another castle."

I haven't posted much lately cos I've been working on a big project. I can't talk about it yet so here's a few animations from the last game I worked on: Drawn to Life the Next Chapter by 5th Cell

This link is a collection of youtube vidoes of soldiers returning home to dogs that haven't seen them in a long time, so sweet.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324

I've decided not to bring the badge printer to MFF since I've not gotten any leads and I don't think most people carry soft copies of their art around. I will however bring printed badges for anyone who's buying! $5 each. There's a picture a while back in my LJ history.

Also, I've found out by lack of hearing back from the gaming guy, and then lack of it being in the MFF program, that there won't be a SSBB tourney at MFF this year. Which, given the lack of space, doesn't surprise me that much, and given how many years in a row I've done it and how much it disrupts my MFF, doesn't disappoint me that much either. I will bring my Wii though and maybe there can be some Wiiness in my room! Which, BTW, at this point seems filled but one person is still a "maybe" and this is for the slot sharing my bed (and can't be in the bed if I want to, ahem, "use" it) or if preferred, using the floor.

There's my quickie update. See y'all at MFF.

"Antipasto" is a traditional first course to Italian meals, composed of hard cheeses, cured meats, and some vegetables, which has properties similar to but opposite "pasta," or noodles. When combined, the two types of matter - pasta and antipasto - destroy each other, resulting in a powerful fusion reaction, which enables faster than light travel.

Today in the News: ( Obama wants progress, but won't fight for it; many neo-cons still can't tell that Colbert is satirical; there are 237 millionaires in congress; there is a difference between the DFL and the DCCC... )

Thanks to Kensan for the scanner use! Some recent stuff - skeletons, geeking out about D&D, that stuff.

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/wood-spirit-143255812

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/hammer-dwarven-thrower-143256026

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/investigator-mobile-143256486

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/rao-143257008

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/eastern-undead-143257515

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/sitting-centaur-143257734

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/variant-skeletons-and-zombie-143257966

http://pachycrocuta.deviantart.com/art/impisi-143258397

This IS indeed safe for work.

Click for the Full-View.

There is a part time position open at the Lemur Conservation Foundation.

Fuuuuuuuuck me I wish I lived in Florida D:

One day I will work with Lemurs. I was so close with Duke University..

Part of me wants to apply anyway.

The Catacomb Chase scenario;

The player characters learn that an infamous necromancer has arrived at a nearby system of catacombs and tombs, and they need to stop him. There's one catch to this archetypical scenario though; the characters need to go through the tombs smashing the skeletons of the honored dead, quickly, before the necromancer raises an army. And they can't dawdle to loot the place, because the longer they take to do their business, the more undead the necromancer can raise to throw against them.

tashabear, the wife of my friend who has been hospitalized with H1N1 has given me permission to elaborate on the situation. Here is the summary, in her own words:

You can talk about it, Spunky. Maybe his story will get others to pay attention to their health and get vaccinated when it comes available. I can't even express how frightening this experience has been, and believe me, none of you want to go through it.

The quick and dirty: My husband, darkwolfie, got sick a few days after we returned from a long weekend at Disney. I did too, but I just had a lousy cold. He called it, he knew he had H1N1, and he just got progressively worse till he had to go to the hospital. He was admitted to our local hospital on October 28, which was a Wednesday.

By Friday morning, he was having such difficulty breathing that he had to be put under sedation and intubated, and his breathing assisted by a ventilator. He fought the vent the entire time. His blood oxygen levels (aka "O2 sats") were never that great, and he would occasionally spike fevers. They were never able to drop the oxygen level he was breathing below 90% for any decent length of time.

They made the decision to take him from out local hospital to Massachusetts General on Saturday November 7th, and of course, that was a bit of a rigmarole, because the ambulance didn't have the ventilation support that he needed, so he had to be transported via LifeFlight. (I told them that he'd be disappointed to miss a chopper ride -- he's a real aviation buff.) Ten minutes after he arrived at the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at MGH, they administered paralytics and heavier sedation so he'd stop fighting the vent. In other words, they put him in a drug-induced coma.

Yesterday, they did an echocardiogram (ultrasound imaging of his heart) to make sure that his heart was not damaged due to the edema he's been experiencing and the stress of his illness. They didn't get an ideal picture, as he was not tolerating being turned on his side very well, but they think his heart is doing fine. They also administered nitric oxide to try to dilate his airways and improve his O2 sats, and that worked for a little while, and then... not so much.

At 9:00 this morning, they called me and said that they thought he should be placed on ECMO, and let the machine take over the job of oxygenating his blood, so that his lungs could rest and heal. (That article is sort of a downer; just read it for the technical bits.) They got me right out of bed, and I was there by 10:40. I got to visit with him for about an hour, and then they kicked me out so they could do the procedure. ECMO is often administered to neonates (preemies), so Wolfie's procedure was done by a pediatric surgeon -- I meant to ask him if it was a nice break for him to work on such large blood vessels after working on tiny babies all the time.

He tolerated the procedure well, and was okay when I left. The next 24 hours will be rugged as they get all the settings figured out, but I have faith in his medical team, and all the faith in the world in him, and more gratitude than I can express for all the love and support and prayers and good thoughts that are flowing to us from people who only vaguely know who we are.

I can't be choosy. Disseminate this as widely as you like to get more prayers and more good thoughts for him. He is my whole world, and a good friend to so many, and we just want him well and home.

Please keep praying for them; she updates their journals regularly with information regarding his condition. I really just want to see him get better and come home to her. They are truly wonderful people, and some of the first people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing in this community.

Holy crap, this dragon is so cute I almost pissed myself


Here's the trailer

THAT IS ALL, PEOPLE

Almost done with Road of the Patriarch, then I will continue with the latest series: Transitions (Orc King, Pirate King, Ghost King). After that, I will read Malazan and then Way of Shadows.

I'm very interested in Elminster now as there are books for him. Disappointed that there's nothing in terms of Gareth's party, even if it was a D&D module.

Anyone going to MFF? I might be going, but I kinda need a place to crash. :P HAZ $$$

You say you want an Inquisition, well, all right,
We all want to cleanse the world.
You say that it's a prohibition, well, all right,
You better cleanse yourself instead.
But if you go carrying icons of Rogal Dorn,
Believe me now buddy you just need better porn,
You know it's gonna be all right, you know it's gonna be all right.

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