Acer Aspire One [25/07/2008 @ 21:36] iced_hivje [ music | A New Dawn - Living Lie ] Vandaag een Acer Aspire One besteld. 120GB HDD, 1GB RAM en Linux erop. 13/8 komt hij of bij de leverancier binnen of bij ons Ideaal voor op vakantie en een beetje internetten en office gebruik enzo Dit is hem dus :

dragons adventures [25/07/2008 @ 10:42] selmaika [ mood | good ] [ music | genesis- in too deep ] woke up with nerves twisting my stomach... aah.. it was really happening now.. got up, sorted my looks (what to wear? WHAT TO WEAR???!!) i didn't want to look like i dressed myself especially for the occacion but i didn;t want to step in there wearing my baggy pants and black layers.. ahh... finally chose for a normal pair of black pants, a black shirt with long sleeves and a white shirt over it ... not to formal, still me but not to un-formal either.. ugh. quickly went to the post office to sort out my exam (i had to send it to the people judging it) and took the planned train to first utrecht and then deventer. i ate something in the trai, knowing myself i would rather skip it because of nervousness but really needing to eat (otherwhise the would have a fainting dragon in te house.. not something i like to do at the first meeting) i got out perfectly on timeat deventer station, 10 minutes before 12. richard picked me up, sensing my anxyity immidiatly (DUH it was so easy to see) and trying to calm me down.. i hate these kinds of things, knowing i just need to be myself but can't help trying to be polite, charming and not to much of a know-it-all. darn those nerves! richard warned me that i was probably going to be jumped by two dogs, and that there where two cousins in the house as well (as his mom watches them for her sister)  but just to be myself..   be myself? aah.. i don't know how to pose myself, i don't know how to act.. how to try and hide my failing knees, my twitching hands and my not-trying-to-look-directly-into-someones-eyes trick.. we reached his house way to soon for my feeling, numer 24.. here we come. (the only good thing about it is that i now know his adress) so we walked in to the hallway, and then to the livingroom.. indeed being checked out immidatly by to dogs while muttering my first word.. 'hello' i let the dogs sniff my hands and make contact with them, giving the family a little second to look at me without me actually noticing.. but i couldn't cling to the dogs to long so i got up and shaked hands. (even with the cousins) his mom immidatly gave me her seat, and richard poored me a drink. while i looked around and chatted a little.. nerves where still there but slowly starting to sink. the rest of the day was spend chatting, doing some dnd stuff, having lunch, chatting some more, watching a part of the movie serenity, eatig pizza and chatting some more. by the end of the day his mom and me got along fine, she's the chatty kind and very keen in knowing things and talk about all kinds of stuff.. it clicked and i didn't feel nervous anymore.. i left deventer with a good feeling and teasing richard with the words: i think your mom likes me. *grin* so, thát bit is over now, with me now knowing his parents.... that really means it's official now.. (i only see it as official for real if the parents know) but i am still due to take richard to my mom soon.. then the meetinground is done and we can take it along from there. -J4

... and the winner is... [25/07/2008 @ 10:16] sna [ mood | bitchy ] [ music | AoC Soundtrack - Nighttime Journey Through the Eiglophian Mountains ] Stress-fractures. Joy. It is a sharp, internal pain, very easy to forget when I am resting but very present in any type of movement. Only cure: keep it steady and three weeks of good rest, plus a further two of low activity. Driving a car is very painful, and that limits my movements to pretty much my own house. So no wacking Germans for me, at least, not in a Drachenfest capacity. Julian has bravely volunteered to stand in for the Orcs if frustration becomes too much. In retrospect, my left foot has been giving me problems as far back as Sonsbeek, so I fear that despite the fact that I am ready to shout rude things and kick people sulk the signs were there. Mostly. Even seen a Sna sitting still in his vacation? No, me neither. So the score after three days: - Myriad plot: done. - Lextalionis rulebook: rebuilt and sent off to testread. - Lextalionis site: major update in progress. - Lextalionis siege: building characters. - Myriad site: main redesign done, filling in the particulars. - Computer of brother repaired. - Age of Conan levelled till 50, Destiny Quest done, all gathering quests on Tier 2b except Cottonwisp and Brindled Leather. - Guide to the Camarilla, Complete Divine, Making Money & the Sabbat Worlds Crusade read and reread. - Out of DVD's. - Supreme Commander & Expansion: played out the main campaigns with all factions and the add-on campaign with all but one. - Laptop cleaned, tweaked, upgraded and backupped. - Close to 50 articles saved, cleaned, re-built and readied for Leviathan Wiki. I hardly sleep, brimming with energy. And since I now need Lies to drive me where-ever I need to go, I'll likely have chewed my own left leg off by the time these five weeks end. Ugh.

[25/07/2008 @ 06:50] yaoipimp WHY do people bid like mad on things that have JUST opened. THAT'S how you end up paying MORE you idiots! >:/

A classic from grammar whores [22/07/2008 @ 03:17] mock_the_stupid [judith_s] Posted here in the grammar_whores community. Edited to change the icon, to something more appropriate.

A horce is a horce of cource... [21/07/2008 @ 15:25] mock_the_stupid [victrola58] My daughter sent this email to a local college and couldn't figure out why they never got back to her. Hello, Do you need to apply to the college and get accepted to the college where the cource is bieng offered in order to take the cource? Well dear perhaps if you had spelled course properly they would have gotten back to you...

Won't anyone think of the animals? [21/07/2008 @ 15:08] mock_the_stupid [robertr4836] This was kind of sweet but still stupid. I was with my wife, parents, sister and sister’s boyfriend. Somehow the subject of pets and the amount of money people will pay to keep their pets alive a few more years came up. My Dad took the macho, un-feeling stance..."The only reason people spend thousands of dollars on vet bills is because they forget that they're just animals. Just let them die and get another one I say." My Mother cocks her head looking at my Dad, "And just how much money did you spend keeping our 20 year old cat alive just one more year?" Dad (sputtering), "Well...that's different...we had her for twenty years...she was part of the family!" (Uhmm, yeah Dad, everyone else spends thousands of dollars on animals they just picked up off the side of the road.)

I've been having an interesting summer... [20/07/2008 @ 15:39] mock_the_stupid [gorthead] [ mood | amused ] [ music | Moving To New York - The Wombats ] Oh my god. I've heard this joke before, but never thought I'd actually run into someone like this. ( I still can't believe this really happened. ) Now that I'm here, I'll share a couple of retail mocks with you as well. ( Gotta love the general public! )

My coworker acts slow sometimes [20/07/2008 @ 02:51] mock_the_stupid [piccchickduckie] [ mood | amused ] We clean the floors every night by pouring water on them, scrubbing them down, and then using the wet-dry vac to vacuum the water up. Tonight was no exception to this and my one coworker swept the floor, I poured the water, she scrubbed, and then I asked my other coworker to vacuum the floors (everyone HATES doing that part). I then went to finish up what I was doing when the coworker I asked to vacuum came up to me and asked me this very stupid "i-can't-believe-he-just-asked-me-that" question. "Do I have to plug the vacuum in to use it?" It was all I had to not burst out laughing in front of him and calmly say, "yes, you have to plug it in or it won't work." The worst part, he was totally serious about plugging it in.

[20/07/2008 @ 03:27] mock_the_stupid [quarries] I work at a restaurant as a hostess and we get a lot of stupid there. Incident One A lady walks up to the hostess desk. Her: Exuse me. Me: Yes? How can I help you? Her: My omelette has eggs in it. Me: And...? Her: I don't eat eggs. Me: You can order something else when your waitress comes back to your table. Her: No, I just want someone to fix my omelette. Me: Fix it? Her: Take out the eggs. Me: -grabs waitress and makes her handle it- Incident Two The city that I work in is organized as follows. It's basically one long, straight road, divided into streets. The streets go in order from 1st street to 100-something street. There is only one main road and to get anywhere, you just have to go up and down that road. I work on 70th street. A man walks in the door. Me: Hi, how many? Him: Oh, I was just wondering if this was the Dough Roller on 41st street. Me: No, it's not. Him: Oh. Which one is it? Me: The Dough Roller on 70th street. Him: How do I get to the Dough Roller on 41st street? Me: Er. Go twenty-nine streets that way. -points- Him: And what street is it on? Me: 41st.

[18/07/2008 @ 20:51] mock_the_stupid [yoursforever_me] a few months ago my father went to some convention thing or something and in the evening they had a quiz (as, apparently, people do at these things) and the quiz masters' assistant (QMA) was writing the team names on a board and the conversation was, so i hear, as follows: QMA: what are you called? team: we are not steve QMA: right, so what are you called? team: we are not steve QMA: i know that, what's your team name? team: we are not steve  QMA: so what are you called? all the teams: we are not steve! QMA: i know that! but what's your name? my dad: *gets up, takes pen off QMA and writes 'we are not steve' on the board* seriously, how dense?

Ummm....please proofread! [17/07/2008 @ 21:21] mock_the_stupid [badisgood85]  This sign was in my city last winter, a few blocks away from my apartment.  It's fairly juvenile humor, but really, I don't understand how anyone who works for the city never noticed, as it was up for at least a month that I know of.  It has since been removed, but the first time I saw it I literally facepalmed. ( *teehee* )

[17/07/2008 @ 19:30] mock_the_stupid [amasnotright] This brilliant little conversation occurred after I got snarky with my brother for cleaning cereal and milk off the floor...with tissues. (Paraphrasing) Brother: I hope you know your mind isn't as simple as mine. Me: ....uh....you just called yourself stupid. Brother: No, that's good. I'm-- Me: Simple-minded is stupid. Brother: No it's not. Me: ... I wish I could remember the definition of simple-minded that he tried to throw at me. Whatever it was, he apparently though it meant something like he was a genius.

Brilliant Moments In Naamah's Life [24/07/2008 @ 16:37] naamah_darling [ mood | still a little revolted ] Yeah, okay, not the best idea ever. Just now, bat_cheva arrived to pick up some artwork for the convention. I opened the door and she presented me with the day's mail. "You can has box!" "I can has box!" I said. "I wonder what's in it! I don't remember buying anything!" Because my brain is like a sieve that way. So I ripped into the package, pulled out a mess of newsprint and a plastic bag, and scowled. "What is this?" Being me, instead of just opening it, I stuck my nose into the middle of it and inhaled. When the mail regularly brings you dead things, this is a bad idea. Bones that are clean but still fairly new often have a noticeable smell, especially if they've been sitting in the Oklahoma heat for hours on end. That was the smell that whacked me in the sinuses. Silly me, I'd forgotten that my shipment of deformed coyote bones was due to come in this week! The smell is . . . pretty indescribable. Not a foul, rotting reek like flyblown meat, but a musty, throaty, yet high-pitched smell. Imagine . . . imagine the hot, chemical burn of hydrogen peroxide as it breaks down the proteins in blood. Layer that with a good dose of mineral dust, a touch of the bleachy twang of semen, a hint of gummy old rawhide, and just a little something extra, an indescribable je ne sais quois that says dead thing. And it's a clinging, persistent smell, too. I wonder if any of the great European ossuaries smell like that. If one of you has been to someplace like Sedlec or Santa Maria della Concezione et cetera, or any of the great catacombs like the ones in Paris, Rome, could you indulge me and tell me what they smelled like? And can someone with a better understanding of chemistry than I explain to me why certain smells linger in the back of your nose and mouth, even if you are well removed from the source of the smell itself? I once handled a very dead crow, and the stench lingered in my throat well into the next day, even though I had showered twice and the smell was not coming from my clothes or anything I had touched. It was definitely up in my sinuses, because I could smell it even on the exhale. So I've now taken out six bags of garbage, including the snake room trash and cat litter scoop bin, both of which I forgot to take out this morning and were revolting in their own right, and I've overdosed myself with the most potent BPAL blend I've yet found (The Devil, which I suspect contains civet and black musk, both incrdeibly persistent odors). I can still smell the bones, faintly, if I try. They are outside in a closed bin now, and I will shortly go out and put them in the side yard where they can lay in the sun, the greatest of all deodorizers. I am never sniffing my mail again.

Can't Sleep, Links Will Eat Me [24/07/2008 @ 01:15] naamah_darling [ mood | listless ] [ music | Tyr -- The Wild Rover ] I post not only to inflict my nifty new House Wulfenbach icon on you lot, but to close out a bunch of tabs! Lucky youall. First, because if I put it last, you will never sleep again: the creepiest tower ever. Some of the comments are really entertaining. Steampunk Wallpaper is a daily . . . uhh . . . Steampunk wallpaper site that's just getting going, but it's already got some fabulous stuff up for grabs. These are currently dueling it out for control of my desktop: Graphic artists, consider contributing! I would love to see this site do well. The maintainer's blog is Geekery Abounds. Mouse is a woman of many talents and in addition to wallpapers and geekery, offers such gems as an Instructable on how to make dung beetle truffles. Eat them up, yum! And here. Something to read while you eat. Jesse Hajicek's The God Eaters is available for free in its entirety online, though I recommend you buy a copy if you like it. The fact that it's an amateur novel (with a prologue, even) shouldn't put you off. I was drawn in very quickly, and I often find myself hoping that Hajicek writes something else set in that world. Hajicek's late 1800s Wild West analog fantasy world is grim and believable, the "magic" angle is handled interestingly and well, and the characterization is superb. A good chunk of it is set in a prison, which doesn't exactly make it the most cuddly and pleasant book in the world, but it's done well and Hajicek keeps things interesting throughout the incarceration by still providing the characters with things to do and problems to solve. Adept. About the only complaint I have is that I thought that some of the names were Elaborate Fantasy Novel Pronounish, which jarred with the Wild West vibe. As you can see, that's a really minor quibble. Imprisioned for 'inflammatory writings' by the totalitarian Theocracy, shy intellectual Ashleigh Trine figures his story's over. But when he meets Kieran Trevarde, a hard-hearted gunslinger with a dark magic lurking in his blood, Ash finds that necessity makes strange heroes... and love can change the world. The above summary at Lulu.com is okay (all right, "love can change the world" is a little much, but it is partly a romance), but I really enjoyed Hajicek's warning: This novel, like just about everything else I do, is full of sex, violence, and foul language. If you don't want to see sex, violence, and foul language, don't read it. Traditionally, I should also include an additional warning about the fact that it contains GAY HOMOS OMG!!! But you know what? If you can't handle gay characters, I don't actually care whether you get your prejudices stepped on. Right on. So, there you have it. Don't read it if you aren't interested in gay romance. Your loss, really, since it's a really good romance . . . for once, a "bad boy" character who isn't just a good guy with some moral scrapes and dings and a scenically rugged past. Kieran is genuinely dangerous and, yeah, scary. Probably crazy, too, though it could be argued that his problem is that he is too sane. And Ash is a complete dork -- utterly disarming and, at the beginning, very vulnerable. It's very hard to pull that off without making the character insufferable or annoying. Ash changes a lot during the narrative, which is gratifying to watch. Thanks, phyrbyrd, for linking me to it. Moving on, TV Tropes is a website devoted to cataloging the many conventions and devices used by writers in constructing an engaging narrative. It started with TV, but also includes other media as well. It states on the front page that not all tropes are a bad thing, and they are not, but the individual sections are so filled with snark and bad examples that the whole site more or less serves as an example of how not to do it. Wonderful, amusing reading, and potentially useful. Helpful in categorizing exactly which tropes annoy you, and why. And, finally, cadhla does it again with Wolf-children Howling Honey. All the wolf-children are howling honey That falls down like light from the moon; All the coyote girls think that it's funny, And hope you'll come dance with them soon. All the fox-maidens with bows in their hair Would like to invite you to play, And no one will question, and no one will care, If you should decide that you'll stay. All the wolf-children are sinners and saviors And poets and sweet sacred fools; All the coyote girls base their behaviors On what breaks the most beautiful rules. All the fox-maidens with stories to share Would like to invite you to hear, And no one will question, and no one will care, If you should remain for a year. I link this specifically for apocalypticbob who, I believe, has the pendant that prompted this song. And with that, I leave you so much the richer, and am going to take some melatonin and try to get some sleep. I am not going to think about that fucking tower.

"Why didn't they just use DNA?" [17/07/2008 @ 21:02] mock_the_stupid [coldlikedeath] This mock happened 2 or 3 years ago, when I was in GCSE (5th year) English class.   We were studying Macbeth (fantastic play) and had reached the part where a sword is used to kill a character (forgive me, I've forgotten some of it). Anyhow, we were discussing who we thought had killed the character (I think it might have been King Duncan); we had put forward our various theories when the class idiot piped up, “Why didn't they just use DNA testing to find out who did it?”   3 seconds of silence ensued before the class burst into uproarious laughter. It seemed to have escaped her knowledge that Macbeth was written between 1603-6, something that had been stressed when we began studying it…

Self mock... [17/07/2008 @ 00:37] mock_the_stupid [charlies_hoodie] I moved to an apartment a few months ago. I had everything set up fairly soon, but I was still getting used to everything and wasn't very sure where anything was. I was looking for a book. Couldn't find it anywhere. I was at a loss. And everyone knows what to do when you can't find something, right? Use a search engine! Maybe I was tired. I don't know. But I Googled my book, somehow thinking that Google would tell me where it was. Of course, it didn't. The post about someone who said a restaurant didn't "load fast enough" reminded me of this story.

A stupid where someone thankfully stepped in [16/07/2008 @ 21:21] mock_the_stupid [iamdamanda] My friend's sister-in-law gave birth last week and had to share a room with a 19-year-old girl who clearly hadn't planned this pregnancy and was not thrilled with the whole thing.  But she's planning on raising him and she filled out the birth certificate and everything, naming him Jeremy.  Except she spelled it Jermy.  I don't know about you, but on first glance, I would not pronounce that "Jeremy." I could leave it at that because that's the stupid part, but thankfully, a nurse intervened to help this poor child with at least one hurdle in his life.  I figured you'd all like to know that there are people trying to curtail stupidity, plus this amusing conversation ensued: Nurse: So what name did you choose for your baby? New Mom: Jeremy. N: I think you may have spelled it wrong. NM: (indignant about the whole thing) There are lots of different ways to spell Jeremy. N: (pauses briefly) Well, honey, this isn't one of them. The nurse was able to get her to change it.

Evil Film-Loving Kitten Dream [23/07/2008 @ 20:31] naamah_darling [ mood | confused ] I mummified myself in blankets and took a nap. I dreamed that I was in an awesome house filled with awesome people, but it wasn't my house. It belonged to a superintelligent tabby kitten who had implanted a control chip in my brain so that I did its evil bidding. It had me carrying it around on my back (bent over, like a human coffee table), and every time we entered a room, I had to announce its presence with a movie quote. I couldn't disobey, but I could choose quotes and alter them appropriately. I eventually settled on a version of a line from Big Trouble in Little China: "Masters! I bring flesh!" I still had to use the accent, though. I woke up with Tazendra reaching into the hole in the blankets through which I was breathing. She pawed at my nose and mouth with one hairy black pseudopod, bleating insistently, until I let her under the blanket. I for one welcome our furry overlords.

Who needs geography? [16/07/2008 @ 20:04] mock_the_stupid [angel_crazy] The first stupid is when I walked into a conversation a coworker was having with a guy, who obviously works for corporate McDonald's (we get them in our store a lot.) He was telling her how he had opened the first McDonald's in Africa, which I don't know if he was stupid for not knowing there were already a lot of McDs in Africa (seeing that he worked for them and was obviously from somewhere in Africa) or if he was boosting. But that led to the next stupid from my coworker. Me: Wasn't there already a McDonald's in Egypt*. Coworker: You need to get map! Me: YOU NEED TO GET A MAP! Where do you thing Egypt is!?! Coworker: Uuhhh... Then the guy said he actually had opened the first McDonald's in the southern part Africa, and I wanted to say there was already one in the southern part (because I was pretty damn sure there are McDs in South Africa) but I just walked away. *I actually just looked it up now, the first Mcdonald's in Africa opened in Morocco.

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