I finally have a purpose. Well, I have a purpose for my Vox/LJ journal/blog/things, anyway. Well, another purpose for one or the other or both, that is, beyond the purposes to which they're already being used, namely iconlove (LJ) and phonecam pics (Vox).
I can link to things I find amusing but I don't necessarily want my kids looking at! Yes, my kids read my regular journal. I don't mind. In fact, I think it's amusing and somewhat useful.
Anyway. I found what may be my favorite individual webcomic of all time, at least until I find my next favorite of all time, yadda yadda. Check out Schrodinger's Comic. (Warning: Contains a bad word.)
Stay tuned next time, as I go in search of something even more offensive entertaining!
You are The Devil
Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession
The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.
Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.
Wait, is that "of all time" or "of the moment"? Grr. Oh, and "video games"? I'll assume I can throw "computer games" in, right? Right? Of course, 'cause I'm the one doing all the heavy lifting, here.
Alrighty. Of All Time, In No Particular Order So Please Don't Get Nitpicky About Ranking:
- City Of Heroes/Villains (It would take a phenomenal MMO to drag me away from this one. It ain't perfect or "for everybody" but two years and counting and I still love playing.)
- Heroes of Might And Magic II/III (I can't decide between the two, but that's pretty much the golden age for the franchise.)
- Diablo II (Years. Years, I spent playing this game, mostly in local network multiplayer with my wife, my kids and some friends. I may never go back, but I'll always remember it fondly.)
- Joust (The only arcade game I was ever good at. I was the top-score champion at Lindsey's in Brewster, Washington, back when I was a young'un.)
- Unreal Tournament (I've loved me some first-person shooters in my time, and picking only one was difficult, but this is the one I've had the most just-plain-fun with. Well, if you don't count all the time I spent playing Doom on a clunky, flaky LAN back in the day. I like my gun-toting violence nice and cartoony and improbable, thanks!)
Show us the first thing you see in the morning.
Submitted by The Gaping MAW.
What you see above is the HP 620Lx "palmtop computer," a relic of the days when Microsoft thought people wanted really, really small (yet still bulky) computers instead of true handheld convergence devices. It's the first nifty toy Entercom bought for me when I took the job as the "computer guy," back in the old Kelly building. It runs Windows CE 2.0, doesn't work with any current software because of the horizontal aspect, and it barely supports a few models of PCMCIA modem not to mention only a couple of network cards. (Wireless is right out.) With an $800 original price tag and another couple hundred bucks' worth of upgrades (ROM upgrade for the OS and the extended-life battery) it made for a somewhat valuable piece of equipment.
Nowadays I use its five possible alarm settings to get me out of bed at the appropriate time for whatever the day's plans entail. Oh, and sometimes I get to use the Pocket Excel spreadsheet I created to keep score in a game of Scrabble. Isn't that neat?
And yes: That's my fuzzy reflection you see in that fuzzy cameraphone image. It's not exactly Mirror Project, is it?
Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
Submitted by ramblingsbymark.
Windows is for gaming and for managing Microsoft products at work. Linux is for all of the non-gaming fun stuff, like running my own web & email & what-not server.
I'd like a Mac laptop, but I can't afford one by any stretch of the budget imagination...
How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something?
Submitted by LeendaDLL.
And I quote (from my own bio page, no less):
In my teens, I picked up the annoying habit of abusing catch-phrases. One in particular would haunt me to this day: “Not this little grey duck!” I said it often enough that eventually my family and friends took to calling me “Duckie.” Naturally, I stopped saying that phrase soon afterward. (Never underestimate a teenager’s sense of offended dignity.) I simply moved on to another annoying phrase which has escaped my memory, as has the source of the “little grey duck” line.
Fast-forward a few years to the dawning of the Internet Age. I used to use “Rael” as my nickname on various BBS and electronic chat systems, but there turned out to be too many Genesis fans in the world for me to successfully transfer that moniker to the larger venue. After burning through a few other short-lived options, it occurred to me that the “little grey duck” thing could be useful. Thus was the GreyDuck nickname born.
And there you have it.
What food or drink do you love when it's cold out? (Recipes and recommendations, please!)
Drink: Hot cocoa. As long as it's not too cheap, I really don't care how it's made. Mmmm, hot cocoa...
Food: When I think "comfort food on a cold morning," I think Malt-o-Meal. With brown sugar and milk. Yes, I'm a weirdo.
What's your favorite thing to shop for?
Submitted by JadedButterfly.
Music. Books. Computer parts (or games). In about that order.
(Sentence fragments. Are. Fun.)
What are your weekend plans?
Today (Saturday) we're having my kids over, while my roomie has his daughter over, so it'll be an oddly child-filled home for a while. It should be fun, though. We also did some grocery shopping, and I imagine there'll be gaming later on.
Tomorrow, Kyla and I are going to see The Imperial Princess of Cute for lunch, and in the evening there'll be... er, more gaming. (What? Don't look at us like that...)
