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Our party:
An as yet unnamed Elven Mesmerist that is "a totally legitimate business woman and not a pirate" as my wife put it, uses her powers to help unlock her (and her friend's) full potential, also to stare. When she gets touch healing she's only using it by slapping people.
Pomeroy Franchot, Elven Medium, tries to channel The Brightness but mostly gets dead people, calls everyone "friends" and whenever confronted with hard decisions asks "would The Brightness want this?" Likes to hold hands and group seance.
Eleanor Nightingale, Vampire Hunter Inquisitor of Shelyn
Casparo Sarini, Vampire Hunter Inquisitor of Sarenrae
Sibling vampire hunters that came home to a different city, Eleanor changed her name cause her grandmother is an evil b!@@~.
I will be calling the last two the Frog Siblings.
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But where do we put our weapons!
At least we all have high charisma scores.
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Hello there!
Wow, I don't recognize most of the people in here... have I been gone that long? O.o
Well... If you ask...
Yes.
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What's the current count of "official" FAWTLy members?Depends... nekkid or non-nekkid? And how do we get "official" status? I did get Freehold to throw a bike at me. Does that make me "official"?
I guesw that would be for an old-timer (like Freehold) to decide.
I'd say maybe those that have made it for at least a couple years with a healthy FAWTLy status (which means beign tolerated an FAWTLy threads and beign personally hated by Gary).
:D
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A few years? Pfft...
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hehehe, trying to keep it simple :D
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What's the current count of "official" FAWTLy members?
Let's see...
Captain, Nobody, FHDM, Sharoth, Treppa, Lynora, myself, Scint, Anius, Icy, Limey, Drejk, David, CH, Aeglos, Tacticslion, Amby, Aranna, Gran Rey, Ivan, TFY, Rosita, TOZ, and I'm sure I'm missing two or three more.
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LOL. If it's a couple of years, then I'm definitely NOT official.
My first Paizo post was February 14, 2012 (aw! Valentine's Day post!).
My first FAWTL post was on December 12, 2013 (to praise Frozen: The Cannibal Disney Musical). So "a couple of years" would be in... a couple of months.
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Captain...
Labeling the Captain as "official" invalidates the entire list, you know. He's just that annoying guy who hangs around your house until you finally realize he's never paid any rent, he eats all your food, and...
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It's a bit looser than that =) basically if you're a recognized frequent face, that's official enough for most of us ;)
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Captain...Labeling the Captain as "official" invalidates the entire list, you know. He's just that annoying guy who hangs around your house until you finally realize he's never paid any rent, he eats all your food, and...
...wait a minute? Where the heck does he SLEEP!?!?!?!
*snerk*
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Wow, I don't recognize most of the people in here... have I been gone that long? O.o
Welcome back Froggie!
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What's the current count of "official" FAWTLy members?Let's see...
Captain, Nobody, FHDM, Sharoth, Treppa, Lynora, myself, Scint, Anius, Icy, Limey, Drejk, David, CH, Aeglos, Tacticslion, Amby, Aranna, Gran Rey, Ivan, TFY, Rosita, TOZ, and I'm sure I'm missing two or three more.
ebon_fyre...
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Captain...Labeling the Captain as "official" invalidates the entire list, you know. He's just that annoying guy who hangs around your house until you finally realize he's never paid any rent, he eats all your food, and...
...wait a minute? Where the heck does he SLEEP!?!?!?!
you wouldn't believe the places I fit into, I'm like a Hamster, or Tom Cruise.
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Totally changing the subject here (because... why not), but WHY do teachers think that turning assignments into art projects in any way, shape, or form makes them "fun"?
True story: In 6th grade, our teacher told us to draw an aerial map of our block. And this was before Google Earth, Google, or even the (publicly-accessible) internet.
So I got out my graph paper, my ruler, my colored pencils, and I eagerly spent HOURS doing the best job I possibly could. I am not an artist. In fact, I have always had a shake in my hands that makes it nearly impossible for me to draw anything recognizable. (A running joke when I was a math teacher was, "OK, we're going to call that a circle," and then letting the kids run with what THEY thought it looked like.)
After a good 15-20 hours of work, I proudly turned it in and got a... D+, with a comment that, "I've seen kindergartners do better drawings."
To say I was devastated would be an understatement.
Unfortunately, Impus Major inherited my artistic ability. And all of a sudden, EVERY class wants to turn every other assignment into an art project, because art is "fun", right?
Do a poster of the biological hierarchy (kingdom, phyla, etc.). Make a mural of important events in Mexico in the 19th century. Create a shadow box depicting a critical scene from, "The Giver".
Impus Major can type at 60 wpm. He can use any computer program you ask him to, and do a tiny bit of coding. But he can't do art, and forcing him to do so over and over and over again is just misery for us both.
Do we really need to be expert artists to pass Biology?
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you wouldn't believe the places I fit into, I'm like a Hamster, or Tom Cruise.Captain...Labeling the Captain as "official" invalidates the entire list, you know. He's just that annoying guy who hangs around your house until you finally realize he's never paid any rent, he eats all your food, and...
...wait a minute? Where the heck does he SLEEP!?!?!?!
...or a hamster IN Tom Cruise...
Ew! Ew! Skeeving myself out now! Going away! Ew!
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Yeah it's best to not explore the darkness that is the insides of Tom Cruise. That should be left to the aliens, or the suits in Washington.
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hehehe, trying to keep it simple :D
:O
HOO DAT!?
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Well, I'll inquire into the FAWTLer's list later on, gotta sort some stuff out to make the this group even more awesome :D
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Totally changing the subject here (because... why not), but WHY do teachers think that turning assignments into art projects in any way, shape, or form makes them "fun"?
True story: In 6th grade, our teacher told us to draw an aerial map of our block. And this was before Google Earth, Google, or even the (publicly-accessible) internet.
So I got out my graph paper, my ruler, my colored pencils, and I eagerly spent HOURS doing the best job I possibly could. I am not an artist. In fact, I have always had a shake in my hands that makes it nearly impossible for me to draw anything recognizable. (A running joke when I was a math teacher was, "OK, we're going to call that a circle," and then letting the kids run with what THEY thought it looked like.)
After a good 15-20 hours of work, I proudly turned it in and got a... D+, with a comment that, "I've seen kindergartners do better drawings."
To say I was devastated would be an understatement.
Unfortunately, Impus Major inherited my artistic ability. And all of a sudden, EVERY class wants to turn every other assignment into an art project, because art is "fun", right?
Do a poster of the biological hierarchy (kingdom, phyla, etc.). Make a mural of important events in Mexico in the 19th century. Create a shadow box depicting a critical scene from, "The Giver".
Impus Major can type at 60 wpm. He can use any computer program you ask him to, and do a tiny bit of coding. But he can't do art, and forcing him to do so over and over and over again is just misery for us both.
Do we really need to be expert artists to pass Biology?
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Do you have "music" as one of the regular school subjects in USA? We have. It involved a terrible process of learning songs by heart. You had to sing it to get 4 or 5 grade (roughly A or B), if you were only able to recite it without singing you got 3 (passable). Our music teacher, who also happened to be a school principal at the time bumped everyone by one degree in our last year on the final grading, well knowing that the grading system was BS, as not everyone has even a basic ability to sing, and didn't wanted lots of otherwise good students have 3 when applying for a high school.
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Do you have "music" as one of the regular school subjects in USA? We have. It involved a terrible process of learning songs by heart. You had to sing it to get 4 or 5 grade (roughly A or B), if you were only able to recite it without singing you got 3 (passable). Our music teacher, who also happened to be a school principal at the time bumped everyone by one degree in our last year...
Music and art were mandatory classes through elementary school and junior high (meeting on alternate days). In high school, we had the option of choosing between music, art, or shop (though you could theoretically take all three), along with a few other little classes that counted as one of the three. I believe our choices other than the regular classes were chorus, band, music appreciation, photography, auto mechanics, boat repair, and, for some reason, film criticism.
I had really good art teachers and really s*$~ty music teachers up until high school, when the positions switched. Even so, I still can't read music-- I have to memorize everything by ear.
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Wow, I don't recognize most of the people in here... have I been gone that long? O.o
Hugo!!! It's been too long! Glad to see you back again. :)
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I'm here to stay, promise.
(I hope that's a good thing for the gang! :D)
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I dont think I was around when you left, but welcome back!
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Totally changing the subject here (because... why not), but WHY do teachers think that turning assignments into art projects in any way, shape, or form makes them "fun"?
True story: In 6th grade, our teacher told us to draw an aerial map of our block. And this was before Google Earth, Google, or even the (publicly-accessible) internet.
So I got out my graph paper, my ruler, my colored pencils, and I eagerly spent HOURS doing the best job I possibly could. I am not an artist. In fact, I have always had a shake in my hands that makes it nearly impossible for me to draw anything recognizable. (A running joke when I was a math teacher was, "OK, we're going to call that a circle," and then letting the kids run with what THEY thought it looked like.)
After a good 15-20 hours of work, I proudly turned it in and got a... D+, with a comment that, "I've seen kindergartners do better drawings."
To say I was devastated would be an understatement.
Unfortunately, Impus Major inherited my artistic ability. And all of a sudden, EVERY class wants to turn every other assignment into an art project, because art is "fun", right?
Do a poster of the biological hierarchy (kingdom, phyla, etc.). Make a mural of important events in Mexico in the 19th century. Create a shadow box depicting a critical scene from, "The Giver".
Impus Major can type at 60 wpm. He can use any computer program you ask him to, and do a tiny bit of coding. But he can't do art, and forcing him to do so over and over and over again is just misery for us both.
Do we really need to be expert artists to pass Biology?
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Can't speak to others, but sometimes we'll offer these just to give the kids a break from constant writing. It also throws a bone to the more artistically-inclined kids to give them a chance to shine. I'm appalled at that D+ comment, though - unless I've watched a kid toss something together in two minutes, I just check that the requirements were hit rather than for artistic skill.
There's also standards of being able to read alternative "texts" such as images and audio/video, so the art projects tie in with that. Doing them for every project is rather overboard, but there is some reasoning behind it once in a while.
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I'm here to stay, promise.
(I hope that's a good thing for the gang! :D)
The more the merrier :-)
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Totally changing the subject here (because... why not), but WHY do teachers think that turning assignments into art projects in any way, shape, or form makes them "fun"?
True story: In 6th grade, our teacher told us to draw an aerial map of our block. And this was before Google Earth, Google, or even the (publicly-accessible) internet.
So I got out my graph paper, my ruler, my colored pencils, and I eagerly spent HOURS doing the best job I possibly could. I am not an artist. In fact, I have always had a shake in my hands that makes it nearly impossible for me to draw anything recognizable. (A running joke when I was a math teacher was, "OK, we're going to call that a circle," and then letting the kids run with what THEY thought it looked like.)
After a good 15-20 hours of work, I proudly turned it in and got a... D+, with a comment that, "I've seen kindergartners do better drawings."
To say I was devastated would be an understatement.
Unfortunately, Impus Major inherited my artistic ability. And all of a sudden, EVERY class wants to turn every other assignment into an art project, because art is "fun", right?
Do a poster of the biological hierarchy (kingdom, phyla, etc.). Make a mural of important events in Mexico in the 19th century. Create a shadow box depicting a critical scene from, "The Giver".
Impus Major can type at 60 wpm. He can use any computer program you ask him to, and do a tiny bit of coding. But he can't do art, and forcing him to do so over and over and over again is just misery for us both.
Do we really need to be expert artists to pass Biology?
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I am so with you on this one. Never bothered me growing up because I'm artistic and have a very steady hand. (I made paper architectural models for fun....yes,I was a weird kid. Goes without saying.) But the kidlet has severe dysgraphia. Of all the language problems to have, that has got to be the easiest to deal with long term. And it's not uncommon for a kid with high functioning autism. He has a school district issued laptop so that he can actually do his school work since handwriting is out of the question. The school OT who had been working with him for years basically said on the record, sorry guys this is as good as it's ever gonna get, and we are wasting our time trying to work on this. And now all of his classes want to have them work on posters and diagrams. *facepalm* So now I have to teach the kidlet how to use PowerPoint and make posters using Word so he can actually complete these crazy assignments. It's not that it's hard. Theyre easy enough programs to use. It's just that suddenly there are so many of these draw a poster assignments. Like they all got together and decided it was poster week or something.
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I am so with you on this one. Never bothered me growing up because I'm artistic and have a very steady hand. (I made paper architectural models for fun....yes,I was a weird kid. Goes without saying.) But the kidlet has severe dysgraphia. Of all the language problems to have, that has got to be the easiest to deal with long term. And it's not uncommon for a kid with high functioning...Totally changing the subject here (because... why not), but WHY do teachers think that turning assignments into art projects in any way, shape, or form makes them "fun"?
True story: In 6th grade, our teacher told us to draw an aerial map of our block. And this was before Google Earth, Google, or even the (publicly-accessible) internet.
So I got out my graph paper, my ruler, my colored pencils, and I eagerly spent HOURS doing the best job I possibly could. I am not an artist. In fact, I have always had a shake in my hands that makes it nearly impossible for me to draw anything recognizable. (A running joke when I was a math teacher was, "OK, we're going to call that a circle," and then letting the kids run with what THEY thought it looked like.)
After a good 15-20 hours of work, I proudly turned it in and got a... D+, with a comment that, "I've seen kindergartners do better drawings."
To say I was devastated would be an understatement.
Unfortunately, Impus Major inherited my artistic ability. And all of a sudden, EVERY class wants to turn every other assignment into an art project, because art is "fun", right?
Do a poster of the biological hierarchy (kingdom, phyla, etc.). Make a mural of important events in Mexico in the 19th century. Create a shadow box depicting a critical scene from, "The Giver".
Impus Major can type at 60 wpm. He can use any computer program you ask him to, and do a tiny bit of coding. But he can't do art, and forcing him to do so over and over and over again is just misery for us both.
Do we really need to be expert artists to pass Biology?
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what about a diorama? Would that be a good idea?
I can't draw. I loved dioramas as a kid. With 3D modeling stuff so readily available nowadays, it might be fun to make a picture box or whatever.
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Hmm, perhaps it's time to finish that time freezing device I've been building... We just started middle school...
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Of course that would mean shelving the Gerbil Stunt Double Driving School, just as I've perfected the Matt Damon Hair matrix... decisions, decisions...
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Where I normally agree with the art stuff, drawing biological samples actually helps the student understand the structure and memorize the names. It's more useful to engage kinetic memory in this case than simply try to memorize from the book. Of course, simple coloring works too, which is why there are all these science coloring books - no art skill required, only stay within the lines, select good colors, and use the coloring/memorization techniques given in the beginning.
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Totally changing the subject here (because... why not), but WHY do teachers think that turning assignments into art projects in any way, shape, or form makes them "fun"?
True story: In 6th grade, our teacher told us to draw an aerial map of our block. And this was before Google Earth, Google, or even the (publicly-accessible) internet.
So I got out my graph paper, my ruler, my colored pencils, and I eagerly spent HOURS doing the best job I possibly could. I am not an artist. In fact, I have always had a shake in my hands that makes it nearly impossible for me to draw anything recognizable. (A running joke when I was a math teacher was, "OK, we're going to call that a circle," and then letting the kids run with what THEY thought it looked like.)
After a good 15-20 hours of work, I proudly turned it in and got a... D+, with a comment that, "I've seen kindergartners do better drawings."
To say I was devastated would be an understatement.
Unfortunately, Impus Major inherited my artistic ability. And all of a sudden, EVERY class wants to turn every other assignment into an art project, because art is "fun", right?
Do a poster of the biological hierarchy (kingdom, phyla, etc.). Make a mural of important events in Mexico in the 19th century. Create a shadow box depicting a critical scene from, "The Giver".
Impus Major can type at 60 wpm. He can use any computer program you ask him to, and do a tiny bit of coding. But he can't do art, and forcing him to do so over and over and over again is just misery for us both.
Do we really need to be expert artists to pass Biology?
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Sounds like my one year younger brother who had difficulty drawing a stick man. I have natural art talent, winning first place with a drawing of some random junk including a softball and a shoe, and a published piece depicting a school bus buried in snow. But my funniest art story was one of those silly school art projects you are talking about. So I break out my grand mothers art stuff and do a portrait of the White House. After turning it in I get called to the principals office for cheating. They were furious and convinced I couldn't have done such work at such a young age, someone must have done it for me. My parents were called in and they were prepared to fail me. But I insisted I did the work myself, and my mother confirmed that it was my own work. They still didn't believe, I literally had to draw a picture in the principals office with everyone watching before they admitted I had talent and gave me an A+. Teachers can be pretty silly.
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So, a few pages back we were discussing the Olive Garden, and it happens I went there this evening. Food was decent.
Anyway, they now have these touch screens at every table where you can order drinks, pay your bill, or play games. They are not subtle - they are bulky devices that take up serious real estate on the table.
And really, nothing says "elegant dining experience" like TVs at every table. I just can't fathom the thought process there.
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Answering many questions/comments at once:
Now to go back and see whether I've missed answering anybody... Hmmm. I *think* I'm good. Go ahead and yell at me if I missed anything...
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So, a few pages back we were discussing the Olive Garden, and it happens I went there this evening. Food was decent.
Anyway, they now have these touch screens at every table where you can order drinks, pay your bill, or play games. They are not subtle - they are bulky devices that take up serious real estate on the table.
And really, nothing says "elegant dining experience" like TVs at every table. I just can't fathom the thought process there.
Spill your iced tea on it. Frequently.
Does wonders.
So, a few pages back we were discussing the Olive Garden, and it happens I went there this evening. Food was decent.
Anyway, they now have these touch screens at every table where you can order drinks, pay your bill, or play games. They are not subtle - they are bulky devices that take up serious real estate on the table.
And really, nothing says "elegant dining experience" like TVs at every table. I just can't fathom the thought process there.
I suspect the TVs are for watching the Sports
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Do you have "music" as one of the regular school subjects in USA? We have. It involved a terrible process of learning songs by heart. You had to sing it to get 4 or 5 grade (roughly A or B), if you were only able to recite it without singing you got 3 (passable). Our music teacher, who also happened to be a school principal at the time bumped everyone by one degree in our last year...Music and art were mandatory classes through elementary school and junior high (meeting on alternate days). In high school, we had the option of choosing between music, art, or shop (though you could theoretically take all three), along with a few other little classes that counted as one of the three. I believe our choices other than the regular classes were chorus, band, music appreciation, photography, auto mechanics, boat repair, and, for some reason, film criticism.
I had really good art teachers and really s$*@ty music teachers up until high school, when the positions switched. Even so, I still can't read music-- I have to memorize everything by ear.
Ah, reading musical notes was part of "curriculum". I was terrible at it as well.
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So, a few pages back we were discussing the Olive Garden, and it happens I went there this evening. Food was decent.
Anyway, they now have these touch screens at every table where you can order drinks, pay your bill, or play games. They are not subtle - they are bulky devices that take up serious real estate on the table.
And really, nothing says "elegant dining experience" like TVs at every table. I just can't fathom the thought process there.
Spill your iced tea on it. Frequently.
Does wonders.
Hmm, alas I was drinking wine. Even though it was cheap chianti, I still wouldn't spill it on purpose.
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Ah, reading musical notes was part of "curriculum". I was terrible at it as well.Do you have "music" as one of the regular school subjects in USA? We have. It involved a terrible process of learning songs by heart. You had to sing it to get 4 or 5 grade (roughly A or B), if you were only able to recite it without singing you got 3 (passable). Our music teacher, who also happened to be a school principal at the time bumped everyone by one degree in our last year...Music and art were mandatory classes through elementary school and junior high (meeting on alternate days). In high school, we had the option of choosing between music, art, or shop (though you could theoretically take all three), along with a few other little classes that counted as one of the three. I believe our choices other than the regular classes were chorus, band, music appreciation, photography, auto mechanics, boat repair, and, for some reason, film criticism.
I had really good art teachers and really s$*@ty music teachers up until high school, when the positions switched. Even so, I still can't read music-- I have to memorize everything by ear.
Nobody ever seems to like that. Except me. I wound up getting a bachelors degree in music theory and history. I was an odd bird.
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Today's work quote:
"I always give this job 100% every week. I give 10% on Monday and Friday, 20% on Tuesday and Thursday, and 40% on Wednesday. That adds up, right?"
- electrical foreman
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Nobody ever seems to like that. Except me. I wound up getting a bachelors degree in music theory and history. I was an odd bird.Even so, I still can't read music-- I have to memorize everything by ear.Ah, reading musical notes was part of "curriculum". I was terrible at it as well.
It wasn't that I didn't like it, I just didn't have a head for it in the slightest. I'm the same way with foreign languages too.
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Anyway, they now have these touch screens at every table where you can order drinks, pay your bill, or play games. They are not subtle - they are bulky devices that take up serious real estate on the table.
And really, nothing says "elegant dining experience" like TVs at every table. I just can't fathom the thought process there.
They had those at Chili's the last time I was there. The last time I was there.
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I guess reading music is like reading words: start early enough, and it's no problem. Chords, on the other hand, are beyond me.
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I'm here to stay, promise.
(I hope that's a good thing for the gang! :D)
I just wanted to say Cities of Golarion was the first pathfinder book I ever got and Serpent's Skull was my first time GMing an adventure path. My hat's off to you good sir, those are some good maps (I know Lazzeretti did the final, still great job!)
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I guess reading music is like reading words: start early enough, and it's no problem. Chords, on the other hand, are beyond me.
Have you tried power chords.
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I don't read music so much as I painstakingly convert it note by note to piano keys.
I understand piano keys.
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I don't read music so much as I painstakingly convert it note by note to piano keys.
I understand piano keys.
I can usually play something that sounds OK on piano, but I wouldn't be able to tell you how or why it sounded like that.
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I can usually play something that sounds OK on piano, but I wouldn't be able to tell you how or why it sounded like that.I don't read music so much as I painstakingly convert it note by note to piano keys.
I understand piano keys.
Me too! I know diddlysquat about music theory but I can occasionally compose tunes anyway. I can only tell you that it's in like D major or whatever because that's the keys I play it on.
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This is Bēowulf.
He is doing the same thing Odin does
Or should I say Wōden since my story strickly uses OE