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[My partner to a guy on the street in New York...]

Paul: You know, I have to say, you bear a striking resemblance to Tom York [lead singer of Radiohead].

Tom York: There is a reason for that...

Probably nothing, but hit up a doc to be on the safe side.*

*Yes I am a hypocrite.

Ah you old softie you.

You are getting soft on us aren't you Moorluck pretty soon you will be knitting and stuff.

Knitting needles are on the list of things the Docs told Solnes I wasn't allowed to have.

Ha! They cannot brain, they has the dumb!

Oh my f~$&ing god... So I'm taking an ancient history class--Babylon up through Egypt, Greece, Rome, and early Islam. The professor's great, a laid-back and sardonic fellow named, I s#~@ you not, Craig C. Champion. On the other hand, my fellow students (I use the term loosely) are a bunch of baboons. Some of the great comments from JUST TODAY:

"Nazis were in Germany, right?"

"Does Chinese come from Proto-Indo-European?"

"Are 'Turkians' Arabs or Asians? I mean, what box do they check for 'race' on the census form?"

"You shouldn't call [early Semitic tribes] Hebrews. That's racist."

"Greece isn't in Europe! It's in Greece!"

And so on and so forth. Idiots.

Celestial Healer wrote:

Freehold, you must be in your glory right now. The Facebook IPO was a debacle, their latest figures show that their growth in North America has stagnated, and you have f-mail to rub in their face every time they get cocky. I guess sacrificing those chickens worked.

I was going to run it in everyone's faces actually, but I've lived in ny for a long time and I know a bad start for a new stock is just that- a bad start. I was going to start crowing about it next week or so.

I wouldn't touch that stock, myself. If people think they got hit on the IPO, just wait until Facebook's customers move on to the NextBestThing{TM}. It's only a matter of time.

[/does not constitute investment advice]

I have one planned story set in a postapocalyptic version of earth where Albuquerque is a nexus point for ley lines that results in a natural psychologically-imposed maze. It's impossible to pass near it without suddenly finding yourself lost and/or going the wrong way.

Good morning all - I am off to work, in my role as a minion for an exceedingly evil financial institution. I wish I had a fun job... all I do is make sure the software works.....

We had a fun lunch with Mothman and family on Sunday... Mrs 8D wasn't too happy with her blue cheese and tomato soup it didn't taste as nice as she expected it to. But the roast lamb and veggies as well as Mrs Mothmans chocolate cake more than made up for it.

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I miss ole Wod and Stiggy.

I want zombies to kill!

[Shat]KREULAIIIIIIIIID!!!!![/Shat]

Well my promotion to IT Manager became official today, on my birthday. How cool is that? Also IT Manager is misleading as I am also now the IT department.

IEP meeting actually went well for a change. Everyone agrees that Bryce is doing really well and it was just focused on how to keep up this progress next year. :)

I can’t be bothered with reading the entire thread, so just assume I made some arrogant statements which some people agreed with and which ticked off a bunch of other people.

Feel free to take me out of context too.

I'm a militant atheist, believe that anyone with a faith is irredeemably stupid

I'm an atheist myself, but... really?

Does that include whoever came up with "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?"

I may not believe in a god, or that we are all going to keep being reborn until we can achieve oneness with the Brahma, but to claim that anyone with a faith is "irredeemably stupid" is just, to borrow a phrase, irredeemably stupid.

Throughout human existence, as far as we know, the majority of us have had some sort of religious faith, and you'll have to excuse me if I disagree with the notion that Isaac Newton was stupid because he dabbled in magic and thought of the universe as a clock created by God.

If you want more people to turn away from religion, I suspect that a good start would be to not insult their intelligence.

And some weeks I really dislike going to work on Saturdays. GRRR!

If you've purchased a hardcover PDF of a Pathfinder product, you may have gotten an email about a new download option. As of today, the PDFs for Paizo's Pathfinder Roleplaying Game hardcovers and the Inner Sea World Guide have been updated to include a more screen friendly Lite download option.

What are the differences?

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The following products now have this download option available:

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Please use this thread to report any issues or ask questions about the Lite PDFs.

Well, I have big news. I've been holding off on posting anything because this is my name and all, but I have officially resigned my current position in order to join a new company in two weeks' time.

It's been a stressful week and a half, but all in all I am pleased. I like the new position, I think I have more room to move up in the new place, and the dress code is JEANS EVERY DAY (a client's not there, anyway...).

A week and a half is a quick job search - though it's been crazy hectic.

So I wanted to post a little celebration, and I wanted to wish all my fellow FAWTLIES who are in the job market good luck in finding something fawesome!

Just got in after spending an afternoon in Manhattan with none other than CELESTIAL FREAKING HEALER!! He really exists as something other than words on a screen! We got bubble tea and fried chicken and comics and everything!! It was FAWSOME!!

Well isn't that a little ironic... *quickly re-dresses*

Freehold DM wrote:

Moorluck wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Moorluck wrote:

I absolutely DESPISE anything with Adam Sandler, any Wayon, Chris Farley, Brad Pitt, or Mike Myers in it. Yes I am aware that rules out 90% of all movies from the late 90's.

I'm not alone!!!

Finally, someone else with good taste!

I do not care for Adam Sandler -I hold him responsible for the death of snl as we knew it. Chris Farley is more of a tragedy than anything else, I like brad Pitt when he is coupled with a good director (he has my respect for learning a jamaican accent for meet Joe black), and Mike myers needs to either stay in the directors chair or in front of the camera, not both. The wayans belong on the small screen and behind the camera, although in living color remains one of the greatest sketch comedies ever made.

Now I did like ILC, to me at least it was better SNL than SNL was. Although I hold it to blame for Jim Carrey's brand of dumb ass comedy flooding the industry.

Everybody thinks that SNL was at it best whenever they were 20 years old. It doesn't matter when that was: if you were 20 in 1978, you think it was best with Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray; if you were 20 in 1988, you say it was best when it had Dana Carvey et al; if you were 20 in 1995, you say it was best in the Chris Farley era; if you were 20 in 2001, like me, you think it was best with Will Farrell and co. That's my theory.

I just discovered the hide thread option. I approve of this new addition.

Callous Jack wrote:

What about the morlocks? (Have they already infiltrated Customer Service?)

Only if there isn't enough coffee.

WE REQUIRE MORE COFFEE MATERIALS

Got a job. That is all.

Take that, Breivik!

I handed my job resignation this morning. Feels like a load of stress is off my shoulders.

and I have now lost over 20% of my body weight. whoo! Still have work to do, but it's encouraging!

Morning!! Had fun babysitting last night with the wife... Neighborhood kids came over to help and eat all our food. There was one moment where my wife and I looked at each other as all the kids were eating at the table and we shared a moment. We may be starting a family of our own soon.

"TOZu. My name is TOZu." he points at Dok; "he's not an oni?"

...Whippersnappers. >.>

What would be even cooler would be a dwarven witch with the prehensile hair hex.

Punching villains with the beard!

Sabine just changed her town in facebook. It is offical now. Tomorrow we move her furniture

I hope that everyone in the Dallas-Fort Worth / any other tornado affected areas are all safe! Thinking of all you Texans, stay safe.

Commiserations to the other three, especially Tom - it was really close between you and Mike for me, but I'm sure there will be lots of opportunities for you to do other stuff for Paizo

It wasn't just tough for you. This was the closest RPG Superstar contest to date, and less than 2% of total votes broke a neck-and-neck tie in the final counting. So while Mike may have come out on top for writing this module, what that means is that we know folks are interested in all four of these authors, and you'll likely see all their names on other products, including Tom's.

I know this is Mike's moment, but I also know he is a magnanimous badger...

Big congrats go out to Tom, Steve, and James too!!! We also eagerly await your Pathfinder Society scenarios and more freelancing projects from you all (Paizo and/or 3pp)!

Meh. Wife paid $35K for a year at culinary school. With interest it will end up costing us $60K. She got an $11/hr job for being top in her class. She hated it and quit after six months The story of modern education :/

Not that I'll have anything to do with culinary education, but you hit the nail on the head concerning my cynicism of going back to school to incur debt and the wages you get out of it doesn't even make it worthwhile.

Except that those who are hiring demands that 'paper' from you before they even give you a chance. And then lowball you. While ignoring the fact that I already have over a decade in-the-field experience versus in-the-classroom.

Oy vey. /rant

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First in Tom's class in PF Society
Got skills, Tom a Champion of D&D
MC WAR that's Tom's favorite MC
Keep your Magic cards
Tom'll just roll crits on D20

Tom's dice never spin to the contrary
None of Tom's rulings are arbitrary
All of Tom's painted minis are cherry
Got SKR chained up in Tom's library

Tom's PBP page is totally pimped out
Tom's a SupaStah! in the Top 4 spaces
Yo Tom knows RAW to a thousand places
Tom'll have Burbles eat your faces

Tom zaps cheaters with Power Word: Mayonnaise
At PaizoCon, Tom's awake for all three days
Once you see Tom's mad GM skillz you're gonna stay amazed,
TPKs comin' so fast players slump in a daze

There's no killer module Tom hasn't run
At roleplaying, Tom's number 1
Do munchkin builds just for fun
Tom ain't been equaled by anyone

"Thriller" is Tom's favorite zombie song
Tom can sure kick Rovagug's butt and King Kong
Tom'll drink all the Mountain Dew you bring on
Tom's fluent in Elvish, Aklo, and Klingon
Here's the part Wolfie sing on:

See Tom... roll another... T-P-K!
Tom know in Tom's heart they think Tom's... lich n' nerdy!
Think Tom just too lich n' nerdy
Think Tom just too lich n' nerdy
Can't you see Tom's lich n' nerdy
Look at Tom, just lich n' nerdy

Urizen still awaits the sighting of Mr. Fishy. Urizen is concerned that Mr. Fishy is eating bon-bons with Aroden.

I got beat to the punch by Treppa; anyone with the capitol to run a magic item shop that carries +6 bracers should be able to afford a permanent dimensional anchor / lock on the place. His vault would also be lead-lined. Woe to anyone that thinks he can jack that much gold at one time without repercussions.

I was hoping for good news, and I got it.

My job agreed to transfer me back East!

We switched our internet back to the old connection for the time being and everything seems to be back to normal. We are still going to need to switch over to the new, faster, connection at some point but hopefully our ISP will have figured out what the problem was before making that switchover happen.

When are you actually leaving?

This past Friday. Now I'm sitting in my apartment at my newly set up desk on my newly set up network enjoying a cold beer before my first day of work.

I ended up going from Texas to Albuquerque, then switched over to I-40 to cross New Mexico and Arizona, then bounced through the Mojave to Bakersfield where I got on the I-5 and headed north for a couple days. It went pretty well, all in all, but I hope to never have to do something like this again.

I keep reading this thread title as "Inner Seahorse Breeds."

Taig needs to get his priorities straight. PbPs first, RPG Superstar second. Duh.

Sutter (while trying out my awesome Captain's chair): "Is this thing heated?!?"

Me: ...

Sutter: "Or is this... just... you?"

Me: ...

Sutter: *hastily scrambles out of my chair*

Today ended up being a good day. I got a call from the insurance company and they are going to cover the vehicle. Now i just hope to get a good price for the wreck.

I am taking today completely off. No projects. No homework. Just painting. It's nice to see some progress on the artwork that's been sitting around waiting for color for weeks. :)

Resume writing is suck. I miss the days of a chat and a handshake.

Well, everything but the chat is up. That's an improvement over before!

There was a period of ~5 minutes where both Paizo.com and the chat were down. It was one of the scariest moments of my life.

I think after the second or third month on the island I would have killed Gilligan.