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Nov. 7th, 2005 @ 06:18 am ...
Work work work work.

Had fun involved in a recent collaboration. My key issues were bad timing and a few structural areas of blindness due to the former. But in some ways the existance of a harsh deadline ended up getting better results than otherwise (i.e. some as opposed to none).

Michael's birthday today. =) Played Roborally & Civilization with him on Saturday, and it was fun indeed. Wayne kicked our collective butts at RR, and I was the suprised final frontrunner in Civilization, due in no small part to my warlike tendencies.

I have had so many projects on, and have done that thing where I swamped them under to avoid thinking about the problems with them all and the amount of time it will take to finish them all. I am hovering now, waiting to determine my next course of action. I have a lot of things I committed to, now am doubting the value of some and my own impetus to complete them for others.

Finished a big report at work on Friday. Liza has a bucket of work to go this week before she gets a chance to detox her brain.

So what better time than now to start something else entirely!!! Argh.

Anyhow.

I came up with two other concepts for collaboration, that I will have to run past the guys when we finally get around to having the end of Grey's spectrum celebrations. Spectrum... spectre... there is something in that word too, as a follow on.

so silly.
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Oct. 8th, 2005 @ 06:00 pm back again back again, jiggity jig
We are back from our first holiday in a long time.

I am tired. But experienced.

One thought: Can you ever really see the Great Wall of China? Isn't it kind of like trying to see Great Britain?
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Aug. 21st, 2005 @ 09:46 pm Portmanteaus, Pospurlative, Lexigenisis, and autobraingasmic asphinxia
Portmanteau: see the Jabberwocky explanation to Alice by Humpty Dumpty.

Pospurlative: indicating a failure when attempting to repeat an excellent success, usually due to complacency. "I went from superlative success to pospurlative failure with one roll of the dice."

Lexigenisis: Making up words. Punny fun. What I am doing right now.

Autobraingasmic: Having a little bit too much fun in your own head...

Asphinxia: the act of making up riddles that you think are really clever, that others end up being able to solve so fast that you almost choke.
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Aug. 12th, 2005 @ 10:42 pm Nothing is ever finished
only abandoned at some point.
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Aug. 12th, 2005 @ 06:53 pm Barring disaster, I shall have a new job soon
verbal offer accepted. Verbal resignation given. Soon comes the flurry of paperwork...

I am relieved yet strangely regretful.

4.5 years given to online stockbroking... too many conflicted emotions and thoughts to make them coherant. I shall instead ride the wave and hopefully rise above it to simple relief.
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Aug. 1st, 2005 @ 07:28 am 35
Been quiet on the LJ front. Stress, need to take a break etc all aparant.

At home today (birthday day off) and am usuing this holiday that I halped to negotiate with my current employer for all emplyees to look for another job. There is irony in that.

Have an interview in a couple of hours, for a job that totally matches my profile. Slightly nervous because I don't know if some extra factor over which I have no control will come into the mix and stuff this for me.

Note: totally matches my profile is still a very long way from 'writing for a living' but an extra bunch of money never goes astray when attempting to find time to write.

My writing endeavours have taken a side route for a month. Been working on a charity product, and it has done some time suckage. I also note that the game chef thingy kinda sucked out my brain for a bit. Winner announced yesterday, and Myrmidon didn't make the short list. Not a surprise, It is far too rough to be playable... still one or more very good games hang in the balance there I am sure. when I have time to write them, of course...

Alright. time to get up. Luck or something is on order.
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Jul. 25th, 2005 @ 05:59 am Think Outside the Box
Was the episode 8 title. Didn't declare it on Friday for obvious reasons.
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Jul. 25th, 2005 @ 05:54 am Roll Credits
Watched Lemony Snickett's yesterday. Quite liked it. Was about to turn it off, then the end credits ... were brilliant.


Favourite end credits: Any film with a gag reel at the end is good. The animated gag reels from the Pixar are brilliant. Jackie chan movies also rock in this regards. Until now, ultimate favourite was definately Se7en, with the reverse credits and artwork reminding me of Arkam Asylum.

So:

(1) Lemony Nickets
(2) Se7en
(3) Monster's Inc

Would be my top 3 now.
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Jul. 22nd, 2005 @ 08:16 pm stuff
I have been trying to give my head some space... so much on at the moment.

I diverted myself by writing some more gaming stuff, different than the last gaming stuff. I will need to real my head back in and start finishing some stuff that I started soon. I have left myself out and gotten stretched too thin.

Stupid stupid stupid.

Am looking into moving job. I think E*Trade is giving me burn out on top of the other stressors.

Applying for & Moving jobs is stressful.

Kobayashi Moru....

I have gotten art back for the Chrome Races. Now I am only 12 projects behind on the chrome stuff. *sigh*. But let me tell you, seeing some stuff that has only existed in my head in art form totally rocks. Jason is SO COOL.
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Jun. 30th, 2005 @ 11:59 pm head down, bum up, writing stuff
have decided to try to make it to 20,000 words with the charity thing. am up to 6500. have five artists and an editor volunteering to do the other bits. coming along, but long way to go yet.

it is raining so much but it penetrates not into the heart. We can be damp here and a scant 100 kms away be in drought. If they can pump oil across the ocean why can't we pump water over the mountains? And they are talking of water shortages in Sydney. Madness. It is just economics. we have the technology, we just don't have the logic and forward planning.

Applying for other jobs at the moment... have been stuck in a rut for a while and it may be time to get out of my comfort zone.
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Jun. 26th, 2005 @ 09:43 am M.I.T. its easy as Do Re Mi
Take the MIT Weblog Survey
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Jun. 26th, 2005 @ 09:27 am it's the little things...
http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~rah56/handy.html

Lots of cats. :)

And Darth Vader. :)
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Jun. 23rd, 2005 @ 10:49 pm one
the last nail

Stigmata holes drip martyr's ink.
Now buy indulgences and put
all your wieght on
a paper crutch.
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Jun. 23rd, 2005 @ 10:24 pm how it goes...
Current Mood: anxious
Had a rather crap tuesday at work, and now the rest of the week is suffering the consequences.

On the plus side, have determined to put out another charity project. More writing to do... and me in a bad zone of mind. *sigh*

Think the cold and dark have crept up on me. I have the only chair in the whole company that has 12 minutes of sun at 12:05 in between the buildings. But the sun was hidden today.

Need to find a way to calm, sleep is not enough at the moment. It will come to me. I feel it coming. But not yet.
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Jun. 20th, 2005 @ 11:43 pm another
Current Mood: rushed

did another one. Will probably run out of steam soon enough. but is  good learning excercise...

red...

whee!

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Jun. 19th, 2005 @ 03:59 pm Playing with the GIMP

Here is what I started. I don't know if I can finish it, but it was fun to do...

Awake?

Questions, comments, abuse?

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Jun. 19th, 2005 @ 03:33 pm A Priori and Blame
Current Mood: Ponderous
I have learned

(a) Nerd still bad, Geek now good.

(b) Gender is still hot. Which makes me very glad. Too few people that I personally know feel any fire over it.

(c) There is a fake thing that is done with responsibility and A Priori or A Posteriori traits. In the modern world of genetic engineering and science over nature, the relationship between Blame and Origin is not as clear as people might think.

Hmm.
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Jun. 18th, 2005 @ 11:36 am I'm 51! Woot! 51st state! 16 years ahead of my time! or something...
RPGnow have just put out 6 monthly earning list, and Plot Device comes in as number 51. This is an improvement of over 65 places since December.

All in all the RPG stuff has earned around $1300 US dollars to date from the first release date in September last year till now. Most of that has gone back in to pay for the art used, but still, it is growing.

Not exactly something to leave my day job for, though... but a nice hobby for a frustrated author. :)
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Jun. 15th, 2005 @ 09:30 pm excellent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/4090676.stm
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Jun. 15th, 2005 @ 02:49 am gendered fandom and the geek male
so kate has written about gendered fandom, and I grok it but think it is like putting blue clothes on boy babies and pink on girls: imposed by social foolishness and self reinforcing categorisation.

So are geeks inherently male, by virtue of the type of intelectual activity they engage in? Is it only in opposition to say LARP or Cosplay that the the gamergeek becomes masculine? Or is the concept of geek genderless? What about nerd? Does being socially inept remove gender and make a person sexless, or is there only emasculation here?
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