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a surprise visit from my brother and his wife over the weekend. Now I have this awesome stone tiki monster in my yard. Let the neighbor's dog chew on that!
Finally, I am posting the last of my Gorey Legacy pictures. Alas, they are all gone. ALAS! Nothing could be saved when my previous hard drive crashed and burned. But here, enjoy some images from the past of Sims that will never be seen again!
Embley and Breanna, calmly discussing whether they should maybe woohoo or not. Stick two lesbian Knowledge Sims together and they aren't really going to light the world on fire with their passion, know what I'm sayin'?
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And that's all that's left. It's still kind of sad that they're all gone.
I've been playing a bit with my new founder, Epitwee Gorey (Friedrich's long lost cousin, I've decided) and she's been fun so far. I also started a Rainbow Legacy challenge, with Alizarin Polychrome. (Unlike most Rainbow Challenges, I'm actually doing the rainbow in correct ROY G. BIV order, so I am starting with red.) I still have to track down my Photoshop install disk though, I can't do any editing on my screenshots yet at all. Which is frustrating. But hey, eventually I'll be able to update those legacies? One hopes?
Anyway, here's a couple of completely un-Photoshopped preview pictures of my two new founders for the new challenges I'm doing. In a cut again, because they might be big.
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Anyway, they're both pretty fun so far. I'm looking forward to getting the pictures ready and doing new updates. I miss talking about my Sims.
Embley and Breanna, calmly discussing whether they should maybe woohoo or not. Stick two lesbian Knowledge Sims together and they aren't really going to light the world on fire with their passion, know what I'm sayin'?
( Read more... )
And that's all that's left. It's still kind of sad that they're all gone.
I've been playing a bit with my new founder, Epitwee Gorey (Friedrich's long lost cousin, I've decided) and she's been fun so far. I also started a Rainbow Legacy challenge, with Alizarin Polychrome. (Unlike most Rainbow Challenges, I'm actually doing the rainbow in correct ROY G. BIV order, so I am starting with red.) I still have to track down my Photoshop install disk though, I can't do any editing on my screenshots yet at all. Which is frustrating. But hey, eventually I'll be able to update those legacies? One hopes?
Anyway, here's a couple of completely un-Photoshopped preview pictures of my two new founders for the new challenges I'm doing. In a cut again, because they might be big.
( Read more... )
Anyway, they're both pretty fun so far. I'm looking forward to getting the pictures ready and doing new updates. I miss talking about my Sims.
- Location:Casa de Suarez
- Mood:
cold
Picture A Day - December 28, 2009
Water Line in the Caverns of Sonora
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An interesting difference in limestone formations, very clearly delineated in a single shot. Inside the Caverns of Sonora, water flowed freely through the caves, forming underground pools. Speleothems continued to form both above and below the water line, but the difference between the two is striking.
Picture A Day - December 27, 2009
A New State Park Is Planned For This Site
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A New State Park Is Planned For This Site
Area Closed Pending Development
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
An old, faded sign lies hidden in the weeds along the banks of the Colorado River, around the bend from Gorman Falls. Colorado Bend State Park was opened in 1987, so for over two decades this sign remains forgotten, telling visitors of a pending event that occurred a generation ago.
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I always like to get a day of recovery after travel. This past Sunday was exactly that.
Our morning started with a trip to Mayorga Coffee down in south Silver Spring. Christie had gone there a few times as part of one of her moms’ groups, and had nothing but good things to say about it.
Hm, make that almost nothing but good things. The bad thing was that it’s shutting down at the end of the year.
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Hope everyone had a happy holidays.
Went to go see Sherlock Holmes on Saturday and somehow managed to avoid most of the crowds.
Sherlock Holmes was interesting. I've read a few of the books and was fan of the Jeremy Brett Holmes on PBS. Guy Ritchie had an interesting take on it all and I'm glad in hindsight it was a Brit and not a American who directed the movie. Judging the difference in wardrobe of the loverly Rachel McAdams between the first trailer and the final movie, I'm going to assume there were some reshoots to make her character less slutty and more on Holmes level.
A new Inception trailer was in front of Holmes. I'm guessing WB is holding off on premiering it on-line until Monday.
The annual official watching of Who on Christmas continued with The End of Time Part 1 and everyone came away with the same reaction: Meh. Too much Davies, too much creepy subplot Naismith loving his daughter a little too much. Wilf and Simms saved an otherwise boring outing. Comment was made about what felt like the ten minute manical laughter will probably end up as Youtube smashup.
Then we watched half of Inglorious Bastards and found it quite enjoyable.
Got a nice Christmas Present from my bro. He found it at either one of farmer's markets, creator has an etsy account.
Officially got the paperwork from school stating I made Dean's List. Yay. Just waiting for the paperwork for the re-inbursement.
Still plotting out Draft Zero, think I found a nice framing device to begin to the draft, finally.
- Location:work
- Mood:
amused
Picture A Day December 26, 2009
Old Baldy at Garner State Park
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Garner State Park is one of the most popular parks in the system, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Located in the middle of the western Texas Hill Country north of Uvalde, Garner contains hundreds of camping grounds and miles of hiking trails near the banks of the Frio River. One of the iconic monuments of the park, unofficially known as 'Old Baldy', rises a couple hundred feet on the southern edge of the park, a bend in the river slowly cutting a nearly-sheer cliff face into the side of the small mountain. However, one of the tallest points in the park (at 1857 feet, almost 500 feet above the floodplain) is a peak identified as Painted Rock, a couple miles to the northwest, which is traversed by the Bridge Trail. Increasingly scenic views emerge as you climb towards this panoramic overlook, with Old Baldy and the Foshee Trail climbing along its ridge on the right; the lazy Frio River snakes through the camping grounds at Mager's Crossing to the left.
I also chose this photo as my June 2010 photo for my year-end calendar.
Picture A Day - December 25, 2009
Desert Christmas Cactus
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During the winter months all of the vegetation of south Texas begins to turn a dull, featureless brown or grey, except for the rare splashes of color such as seen in the Desert Christmas Cactus, or Pencil Cholla (Opuntia leptocaulis). In the winter months, small green berry-like 'fruits' grow along the stems, that turn a bright shade of red around December. This cactus is found in the desert washes of the western Chihuahuan Desert and the eastern Sonoran Desert; this example was found along the fenceline off the remote Silver Lake Road in the West Nueces River canyon in northern Kinney County.
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So, common gaming question: if we had superheroes in the actual world, what government agency would regulate them? If you’re from the United States like me, your first answer is probably The Department of Homeland Security. But that’s too pat and too boring of an answer for me.
So I’m looking to head in another direction, one based on something that I think Rob Donoghue cooked up for a supers game once (though it might have been Matt Gandy). I don’t remember much about it, other than the idea that the folks with superpowers were regulated by (and in several cases, employed by) the Food & Drug Administration. Now that’s something that has legs, because the FDA is a weird choice, and it forces you to sit and think about what that choice means for the nature and origin of superpowers in your setting as well as the politics of regulation and oversight that got things stashed there in the first place.
So let’s go back to my original question, and turn it on its ear: starting with a particular government agency as the body of regulation, what’s the reason superpowers exist in the world, and what form do they take?
Joyeux Noël a tous!
Merry Christmas to all!
Have a Christmasy Tex Avery cartoon! Muahahahahahahahaha!
(Don't be fooled by the Tom & Jerry title card at the beginning, this one is pure Tex!)
(Also, I don't know why the start has French subtitles. Comme c'est bizarre!)
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:Scott Bradley - "One Ham's Family"
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Happily ensconced in Santa Rosa, surrounded by scraing kids mul.tiple dogs and cats, and tapping away occasionally on a Lappy, while Dad and the older Aunts watch the Bowl games on the flat screen, all noshing on Christmas cookies and finger food. Once again another Christmas in America. All the best to you and Yours, Merry Christmas.
Scott
Scott
- Location:home
- Mood:
geeky
Picture A Day - December 24, 2009
Forty Acre Lake at Brazos Bend State Park
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A small viewing pier juts out into the middle of Forty Acre Lake at Brazos Bend State Park. Located an hour southwest of Houston on the edge of the Brazos River, this marsh-filled park is one of the premier locations in Texas to view migratory birds and other wildlife. The park also contains a few hundred native American Alligators, so don't dangle those toes in the water!
This photo was also the February 2010 photo on my year-end calendar.
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