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If you find your beautiful consort, who happens to have access to your fortress, has been associating with the hero, have her executed immediately.
It’s regrettable, but new consorts are easier to get than new fortresses and maybe the next one will pay attention at the orientation meeting. |
Month: February 2004
When piggies fly . . .
Neat … Looks like the open-source vector art program Sodipodi has been ported over to the Microsoft Windows platform. Now I can use it to make random artwork on both my WinXP and Linux workstations.
Paranoia XP
Looks like the old pencil and paper role-playing game Paranoia is in the process of being updated for the new millenium.
According to co-creator Costikyan: “Paranoia XP is not an attempt to bring back an old RPG for the nostalgic. Its basic themes — totalitarianism, fear of technology, mistrust, and loathing–are, if anything, more relevant than they were in 1984. Spammers. Identify thieves. Blackhat hackers. The RIAA. Weapons of mass destruction. Totally dysfunctional government. Just as it did lo these many years ago, so shall the new Paranoia encapsulate and make funny the terrors we live with every day… or remind us to be afraid of things that we currently think are merely funny.”
More information can be found at the Paranoia XP Blog.
Let’s get physical …
I do have to say, the $30 per month that it costs to be a member of the local YMCA is actually worth it merely for the use of their Healthy Living Center. I can get a nice little workout using their “technokey” system, which uses a smartkey to autoprogram the machines for each individual part of my total workout as soon as I insert the key, and the wireless heartrate monitor keeps tabs on how well I’m doing. Plus the system stores your workouts so you can see your overall progress as the days go by.
If anything, the biggest problem with the whole deal is what I like to call “personal inertia“, that odd self-destructive mode that keeps one from starting (or stopping) something no matter how much it may improve your life. In my case, the actual working out isn’t the problem, as I have no trouble doing the excercises. It’s the small battle of will that goes on making myself get out of the house and driving over to the gym every day.
I don’t know what it is, but it seems like some part of me is always looking for ways to drag me down into a total state of doing flat out nothing.
Fruitilicious …
It seems I’ve not been properly keeping up with the wild world of extreme health these days, as I had never even knew there was such a thing as Fruitarian.
I have to wonder, do fruitarians make fun of vegans for their obviously inferior and unhealthy food choices?