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The Christmas break has been great rest wise but lead to some fun and sometimes odd socialization.

Christmas itself was great, spent it at a friends house with other friends. That whole "family of choice" thing is so the way to go.

Christmas Eve was a bit strange. We've been getting to know some new friends who have been great but they came by with some of their other friends too. Friends of friends are always strange and it was stranger still to be in our own house and not know the majority of folks there. For the most part they were great but there were a few who were pretentious enough to cause a bit of eye rolling on my part. Unfortunately I found out early with a few of them that there was little insight in their conversation and talking was little more than an opportunity to correct people where they though they could take the opportunity to inject some of their own intelligence. I don't mean adding points or even differing views, I mean trying to correct vocabulary or some other quote they picked up in a book somewhere. Worse yet is they were sometimes wrong in their correction.

Very early in the evening I used the term pseudo-morals on a conversation and got a lecture on the difference between pseudo and quasi. Actually understanding the difference between the words and actually meaning pseudo and not quasi I just shrugged and continued rather than argue. Five minutes later I made the mistake of saying metaphysics instead of modern metaphysics and received another lecture. I pretty much tuned out past that point and just find it hard to take people like that seriously from then on.

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Spit-take!!!! 

SQUEEEE!!!!

PETER JACKSON AND NEW LINE CINEMA JOIN WITH MGM TO PRODUCE “THE HOBBIT”

Los Angeles, CA (Tuesday, December 18, 2007) Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson; Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM); Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of New Line Cinema have jointly announced today that they have entered into the following series of agreements

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And so Vern "mini me" Troyer enters the fray with his own WOW commercial.

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SWAMPED with work, worked all weekend and will be working most nights this week. Needless to say I don't have much time to post so instead I ganked this from lectroid, thanks!

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard/Sorcerer (3rd/3rd Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-15
Dexterity-12
Constitution-15
Intelligence-16
Wisdom-18
Charisma-18

Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Primary Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves ...

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I think depression has to be a very frightening thing. For most people it's easy to imagine not only how deep into sadness you can get but the added fear that there might still be a deeper level still where life might drag you anyway. Conversely I think it's difficult to imagine ourselves with a similar depth of happiness and ironically if we're able to imagine it that chasing it can be a source of sadness still.

Today these are funny, tomorrow we will see.

Stealing this from all over my friends list, I've filled out so many I feel obligated to repost, plus it's fun. All comments screened, friends locked post.

1. Your Name:
2. Age:
3. Favorite position:
4. Do you think I'm cute?
5. Would you have sex with me?
6. lights on or off?
7. Would you have to be drunk?
8. Would you take a shower with me?
9. Have you ever thought about having sex with me?
10. Would you leave after or stay the night?
11. Do you like cuddling afterwards?
12. Condom or skin?
13. Have sex on the first date?
14. Would you kiss me during sex?
15. Do you think I would be good in bed?
16. Would you use me as a booty call?
17. Can I use you as a booty call?
18. Can we take pictures of the act?
19. How long would we have sex?
20. Would you tell your friends about me?
21. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?
22. Can I un-screen your entry if it's cute/funny?

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Rachel Kramer just published an interesting piece titled The Case for an Open Relationship .  I had some random thoughts but it's not the kind of thing I normally post about.  The article is worth reading though.

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There was an email circulating last week in our Library about the PR folks wanting to get snapshots of students coming to the library in their pajamas. Apparently they consider this cute and for some reason every year act like it's a completely new idea, which is incredibly annoying itself but I digress. In this day and age is there really anything more pathetic than showing up to the library in your pajamas?

Fulltext online research material is almost ubiquitous these days and it's a miracle if anyone really needs to step into the library at all. People just aren't forced to come to our building anymore and gone are the lovable old days were people pulled an "all nighter" in the stacks forcing them to be up so late or early that they had to show up in their PJs. It just seems so sad and pathetic when someone strolls through in their robe and slippers and like such a cry for attention. Want attention, then do what the rest of us do and get a blog you loser!

Still sick and grumpy in case you're wondering. Bah!

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It makes sense at the end so hang around for the funny and cute.

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Windows into other ways of thinking about things most of us do every day are always fun.   I spent several months in a wheelchair once and it gave me a whole new way of looking at how buildings are arranged.  Now that I'm biking I'm getting a whole new view of how people drive.   For the most part people are pretty good about bikers, at least on my short experience.  They're polite and give you a good amount of room.  Occassionally though you run into what I'll call a compensator, someone who tries to significantly modify their driving thinking they are being more polite when all they are really doing is making it harder for everyone.  These are people who wont seem to pass you on an empty road, they kind of slow down and keep just off your left rear thinking maybe they don't want to crowd you.  I'd rather have a car breeze by me and get it over with than linger behind me distracting me and backing up traffic.

Really though in general people are great.  My only real complaint is about drivers floating into bike lanes.  Biking lanes are few and far between but we have a few on campus and I don't know how many times I've had an SUV sitting in half the biking lane and for no apparent reason which makes me crazy.  So instead of being able to use the lane I have to stop and kind of kick the bike down the 12 inch slot they seem to have between their car and the curb.

Boring post of the day over. 

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Watching the horrible Sci-Fi show "Tin Man" someone threw out the statement that "The World is your Oyster" and it chaffed at me how immature and silly that statement is.

The truth is the world is not anyone's oyster. The world doesn't open up for anyone like that, the world doesn't just give you things, the world doesn't owe you a thing.

If anything the world is an Ocean; Cold, dark and deeper than any of us can really imagine. The metaphor isn't a complete wash though because I think it's fair to say that we are the Oysters. We can't take riches from the world but we can make pearls of our own. Pearls are created when some irritation gets into an oyster and it takes it and turns it into this incredibly beautiful and valuable thing. That's us, that's the metaphor we should be using and not some pie in the sky metaphor that teaches us that we'll just be given things someday.

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I assure you this will be the best 9 minutes of your day.