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I need a photo of myself for my CV. The question is, where I can get one cheapest suitable for applications... Digital only, I have no need for physical copy.

Rob a bank. Your digital photo will be all over.

Congratulations, Rags! You don't look a day over 150.

If I speak in one constant volume

In one constant pitch
In one constant rhythm
Right into your ear

You still won't hear

You're right about that. It's why I prefer learning from books over lectures. Thewordsallblurintoonesound.

My mom always asked why I had to sneeze so loud during allergy attacks. My thought is that if I'm miserable, everyone around me should be too.

There is a three legged dog sitting here outside the food coop my wife has joined. He looks like he has a story to tell.

It's Triskele!

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Haben Sie einen schönen Tag!

I've sold four books at 'buy me now' prices (which were pretty darned good). If it was one of you, thank you! I'll drop the package at the Post Office tomorrow.

It's only about $80 net (after all the eBay/PayPal fees), but it's something.

It's interesting that she switches direction morning and night, from what I've seen.

Not that I have the feed up in one corner of my wide screen all the time or anything.

It makes me wonder if she adjusts to face into the prevailing wind direction so her feathers don't get ruffled.

No, never!

What? Never!?

Well, hardly ever.

Sorry, I get excited about punctuation.

Who doesn't!?!?!?!?!

It's 67 and sunny here. Time to do some grass cutting!

Birds of prey know they're cool.

You said in another thread that the two have different colored beaks. Now that it's morning, I can see something besides the Big Ball of Fire, but s/he's only showing her/his tail!

Don't they know this is their chance to grab 15 minutes of fame? Birdbrains.

EDIT: What's so Chaotic Evil about these birds, anyway? ;)

On a scale from meh to meh, today gets a meh.

I will check FalconCam again in the morning. We should have a great shot of momma then.

Why are you testing me?

Handy hints for when your todo list becomes overwhelming:

Create a spreadsheet with all your different main tasks. Mine has 36 items on it, mostly because I've elided a few dozen.

Assign each task a 1–10 ranking.

Haha! There's not just a single ranking scale. Use several. I'm using six. ("how does this item affect customer service", "will this item directly impact sales", "was this item promised to anyone?", "does this item have a looming deadline?" etc.)

Give each item a 1–10 ranking for each of the six different scales. Be accurate!

For bonus points, create an application that presents two items and a ranking scale at random, allowing you to vote for which item should be ranked higher on that particular scale. This will only involve 36 factorial times six times mumble votes. Trust me: building this tool will be more fun than anything on your list. You should go do that now.

Assign each scale a scaling factor for the scale so the scores ranked on that scale can be properly compared to all the other scales for the rankings of the items for which you are attempting to scale the cliffs of and now I've lost the beginning of this sentence. Pretty sure it involved scales.

Sort the list by cumulative score.

Tada! You now know the precise relative importance of each and every item you are currently ignoring in favor of posting here.

What? No integration? No differentiation? No FFT's? No fun.

Ch! Ch! Ch! Ch! Ch!

♪♫ Chaaaangeees!♪♫ ♪♫ Turn and face the strange... ♫♪ ♪♫ ch-ch-changes... ♫♪

Salt on everything?

For maps, the Cartographer's Guild is a great place both to share and find resources.

Orthos wrote:

Okay that's slightly less scary now. (Though paralysis on-hit is still nasty! I don't take back the bit about being glad PCs shouldn't have to fight this guy.)

I think I'll put a few of these in Savage Tide somewhere when I run it again.

...I am SO glad we're gestalting for that.

... I thought you said gestating. >.<

Treppa wrote:

Hey Freehold, St. Louis has a Comic Con, too! I know you enjoy this sort of thing.

...is this.

Thank you treppa!

Which one is you? ;)

I didn't make the top 50, but here I am.

much

Hey Freehold, St. Louis has a Comic Con, too! I know you enjoy this sort of thing.

Treppa wrote:

They had to hire a hunter to thin the deer near my mom's house. Many had starved the previous winter and they didn't want to go through that again.

The guy shot a couple hundred. The carcasses were donated to shelters and pantries and the butchers kicked in their services for free.

Very cool thing to do. I have no issue with folks who do hunt them, especially in a case like you gave, and I love the fact that they used the occasion to do two good things. :)

Yeah. I think people, in general, are better than the news stories would have us believe. This didn't make it on to the media's radar.

They had to hire a hunter to thin the deer near my mom's house. Many had starved the previous winter and they didn't want to go through that again.

The guy shot a couple hundred. The carcasses were donated to shelters and pantries and the butchers kicked in their services for free.

The storms last night hippity-hoppitied all around the area but missed us. Our sirens went off three times and it did rather sound like a train once, but we stayed in the basement so don't know what was going on overhead. I was afraid my computer was a casualty of the sudden power outages but it seems to be better now.

The good news is that it's now in the 40's instead of the 80's - much better temp for the folks doing the cleanup of wreckage and trees.

I hadn't heard of USS THRESHER and just read about it on Wiki. Wow. Just wow. Makes me appreciate good engineering.

Congrats, first family!

I find the Fluffed Steroid Ferrets absolutely adorable.

Amazing. I've had this stomach virus for four days now. Am I going to die from emptying out my own organs?

I had that a few months ago. Oddly, I felt much better after being ill than I had before. I hope yours goes away quickly. I used homemade oral rehydration solution, 1 liter per day, to keep electrolytes balanced, and sipped water the rest of the time for hydration.

Today is the first day in weeks I've walked entirely without crutches. Granted, I didn't do much walking, but it was all crutch-free. So naturally, as I'm limping through the dark living room to turn on the light, I trip over the bundled pop-up tent, which has fallen off the pile waiting to go to storage. It was a complete surprise, so I took quite a hard fall, mostly on my good knee.

End result is... still not using crutches! In fact, the limp is now a bit more even. I'm immensely pleased that this knee is healing. The last time it blew out like this, it took a grand and three shots of Synvisc to fix. Now, with no insurance or money, I think time, NSAIDs, exercise, and glucosamine are going to do it for practically no cost. I'm so thrilled!

Sending positive vibes to BP and BT for their loved ones' health situations, and to anybody else who needs it.

We'll be packing and moving stuff to keep to storage today, and stuff we don't want to keep to one room for sales purposes.

Certainty is less stressful than ignorance.

E) All of the above.

Hope is clothing-optional.

Finally, some hope.

Moorluck wrote:

Orthos wrote:

taig wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Cool, I might contact you in the future for some =) What info do I need to send? (Format, etc.?)

Taig is the only person, so far, that I've done something for. He sent me some maps and I reworked them in CC3. You could send me a map, with any accompanying notes or details, or just a good verbal description, or a vague verbal description. It all depends on what you would want the end product to be.

Works for me. Thanks!

He took my crappy hand drawn maps and turned them into something a Paizo employee called "professional." :)

Best I can probably manage is mouse-drawn stuff in GIMP or Paint so this is definitely a plus.

There's an 8 hour course you can take that will turn you into a professional cartographer...

After you take it, though, you can never legally work professionally as a cartographer. Unless you can get a waiver from the Mapmasons.

But then you have to deal with... the Topographi!

Auf Deutsch, bitte.

I must be getting old. I watch those 'adorable' flashmob videos set at airports and train stations, and all I can think is 'get outta my way, I got a plane/train to catch!'

It would have been better if more of it had been spent unconscious. :D

That was a right hook, dear.

Wow! She listened to me once! All my other grievances are suddenly and irrationally dropped!

ಠ_ಠ srsly

Don't get too accustomed to the listening. :P

Perhaps I should run a 'Males Only' table at GenCon so there's a place that men can get introduced to RPG's without feeling threatened. It would also give those poor spouses that were dragged there by their wives something to do.

@Lochmonster: Where, um, might one find the venue for the Dr. Huxtable cosplay?

Just asking. No reason.

@Studpuffin: Well, what do you expect dressed like that?

Oh dear no, doctor wu. I don't want to make the game anti-male. I want it to be like the real world, where everyone is treated like an individual, with respect and consideration and appreciation for their own unique qualities.

Oh, hey...

I run a game with some of my friends and have managed to get my boyfriend interested in playing, but recently realized he may be feeling uncomfortable about gaming alone with so many women. That got me thinking.

Do males play RPG's? Sure, I see a lot of boys... er, males... er, men (What is politically correct? I don't want to be offensive) at Gamestop and the other video game stores, but it seems to be strictly ladies' night at the gaming table and VTT.

So, do males enjoy role play? You know, beyond hitting stuff and blowing it up? I want to make my game fun for everyone, not just for women. How do I get them engaged in the game when we're not killing things?

Is there anything special we should do at the table to make males feel comfortable? Obviously, the talk about 'Aunt Flo' needs to stop when men are present. Do the scantily-clad, sexy pictures of the characters we girls identify with make men feel uncomfortable? Maybe we should cover our gaming books?

And what about male characters? I realized that my male NPC's tend to be stereotypically aggressive, smelly jerks. What should I do to make them more human... you know, more like a woman?

I appreciate any advice. I want the games I run to be welcoming to the other 49% of the population.

After a quarter-hour's walk, the party has settled into a trudging cadence, and Nicea begins to sing to the beat of their steps.

The party goes marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah
The party goes marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah
The party goes marching one by one,
Silva stops to have some fun,
And we all go marching up to Thistletop,
Up to Thistle top...

The party goes marching six by six, hurrah, hurrah
The party goes marching six by six, hurrah, hurrah
The party goes marching six by six,
Davben stops to kick some Gricks,
And we all go marching up to Thistletop,
Up to Thistle top...

Clara sobs as Dan slumps to the floor and gives a cry of dismay at Jin's death. "Now what we gonna do, with no detective?"

She glares around defiantly. "Y'all may think ill of me, but Dan was a good friend ta me and Mama 'afore she died. He made sure we got bread every day, even if it was what he din't sell that day. Some days was all we had. He had a good heart. Guess I didn't know everythin' 'bout him, but he was a good guy in some ways." She sniffles. "I'll miss 'im."