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When I wrote my application letter, I said that I intended to do the impossible: I want to kill an idea. Late last night, I figured out exactly how to do that. Not only can I do it, but I can do it without ever becoming rich, attaining any political office, harming anyone or even uttering an unkind word. I require a reliable laptop, a writing software suite, and universal high-speed Internet access because making this work requires a lot of writing in a lot of media (because I'm doing fiction on one hand and non-fiction on the other) and the use of online networks (social and otherwise) for distribution and communication.

It is no longer necessary to clasp the knees of various institutional doorkeepers and other guardians, begging like supplicants for the opportunity to prove ourselves compatible with the desires of those same figures (or their masters). It is no longer necessary to climb a pyramid-like hierarchy of dominance and submission to be heeded, let alone seen or heard. It is now possible to utterly and absolutely flatten all such obstacles and instead communicate directly, one ordinary individual to another, one community of common people to another, and make the power of the bastards that corrupt and exploit our institutions of government and economic order totally irrelevant.

I now have both the goal and the path firmly fixed in my mind. Now it is time to get the tools and get going, and that is what I am doing now; all of my blogging to date will become the foundation for the next step in the plan, one that stands a very good chance of compelling me to quit World of Warcraft and hang up my dice bag for good because it will become That Damned Important to see it through.

 Ok so I just installed Boot camp on my Macbook (My operative System is Tiger) and yes I did trick Boot camp into running by changing the date setup (Not proud really). My problem starts after I installed rEFit and tried to install Backtrack 3.

I´ve got a tutorial (very detailed one) but I have no idea if I should install Linux first. Anyone knows if I should? Because the Backtrack cd won´t boot and I did not install windows or Linux .

Any help would be welcomed fellow mac users :)

Have the Snow Leopard + CS3 problems been resolved? (If not, I'm guessing they're not going to be.) I'm on 10.4 still, so to get to Snow Leopard I have to upgrade to 10.5 first ($?) and then I'm planning to buy the $129 (Amazon price) box set, and then I won't really have money left to throw at Adobe, even for the educational version.

The startup disk on my MBP filled up completely over the last day or so. It was getting up there, but on Wednesday *the last time I checked* there was 14 GB free. When I woke the old boy up this morning, I was greeted with the "Startup disk is almost full" message.

Poked around but I must confess I am not really sure what I should be looking for. Or how to, really.

But I looked around found a few redundant files, moved them to the trash, emptied it. The disk size briefly fluctuated and almost immediately went to zero KB available.

I haven't got a clue what is going on here.

What should I be looking at or for?


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(Yeah, I posted this at Facebook previously. Livejournal is better for more lengthy conversations, hence the repost.)

I am thinking of a Spycraft campaign scenario that merges Stand-Alone Complex theory with police procedural structure, akin to Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, 2nd GIG, but instead could be done with what we have here and now. It involves the manipulation of serial killers as deniable assets used to target and kill load-bearing (or mission-critical, if you prefer) targets in a national infrastructure, all in pursuit of a False Flag campaign intent on creating a bloodless coup.

If you've run Spycraft before, then you know that the first thing that a Game Control (GM) needs to do is to figure out the villain's plan, and that means figuring out the guy moving it along- the Mastermind. This game is very much a game that relies upon Villain-Driven Plots, so if the Mastermind isn't both believable and interesting as a character then the entire scenario will fall flat.

That's where I'm at with this idea right now. It's one of the things I think about when more pressing matters aren't taking up my attention. Adapting a gameplay structure originating from the James Bond movie series to an entirely different form of organization makes things very interesting for me due to the stimulation involved in thinking through the matter, and I expect that it will make playing through it initially frustrating due to the fact that each case truly is independent from one another. Making this idea work is just delicious fun.

The Wiccan Church of Minnesota is holding its annual Psychic Faire November 14th, 2009.

It will be at the Sacred Paths Center at 777 Raymond Ave. in St. Paul from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

There will be:

Live music
Violinist Robin "Catgut" McDowell 1:00 - 2:00
Dunn County Clerics 4:00 - 6:00

Presentations
Hastings Paranormal Team 11:00 - 12:00
Dr. Murphy Pizza, Anthropologist 2:00 - 3:00

And of course readers and vendors.
Tarot
Runes
Astrologers
Kirlian Photography
Psychic Readings

At 7:00 P.M. there will be an elders' recognition Ritual and a community potluck to follow.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the lovelyeiregirl!

Anyone know of a place that still sells Polaroid 600 film in the cities?
I've heard they still sell it at the Wal-Mart in Hudson, WI... but hoping to find something a bit closer than that.
Thanks y'all.

Anyone know of a place that still sells Polaroid 600 film in the cities?
I've heard they still sell it at the Wal-Mart in Hudson, WI... but hoping to find something a bit closer than that.
Thanks y'all.

Someone screwed around with my printer yesterday while I wasn't here, and now it doesn't work. I've been waiting for over an hour and a half for someone to fix it, and no one has bothered. I'm afraid if I just leave on account of having nothing to do, I'll get yelled at.

I wish I could just walk out of this hellhole and never come back.

We have open decks tonight - the first 4 people ready to DJ get in.

SQUEE!



...that is all.

• 22:00 @vjimw absolutely. #
• 22:19 @gmcalpin you're just jealous of those awesome, comic book-esque sideburns. #
• 23:32 watching commercial for Jewel, just read "2 Pie Shells" as "2 Pie Shakes". #
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• 12:15 restless with so many things #
• 12:24 @gmcalpin yeah. I like Sly's version too. #
• 15:43 \is-ˈkā-ˌpi-zəm\: habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine #
• 16:10 @sfrazer I prefer comics, I'm bad at video games #

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I still felt awful when I woke up this morning. My head was stuffy and it felt like my entire body was heavy and moving in slow motion, and I was starting to feel feverish so I called in. I slept a couple more hours, then slept most of the afternoon, and I find that I'm feeling a little better but not 100% yet. If I'm feeling better tomorrow I'll go in to work, but if not, I'm staying home again to try to beat this crap.

well, we had to scrap new pussy fades. funny idea, but its hard to line the tempos up.

I feel like this should be a really easy fix, alas, I cannot solve it and I'm not sure how to phrase it on Google to get the results I need. Somehow, now when I plug in my USB flash drive, iPhoto opens automatically and sees it as a device (camera).  This is annoying. Any advice on a simple fix? I'm on Leopard if it matters.

Thanks in advance!