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Saturday, 19th June, 2004, 02:52 AM #161
Alea Iacta VII: Lux et Veritas Post 10: Inspecting the Buildings
Metellus, Llyr, and Marcus are woken from their peaceful sleep in Metellus' father's house by yells of pain and odd crashing noises coming from Heilyn's room. Darting through the door, Llyr is the first to see that the elegantly crafted stone blocks of the ceiling above Heilyn appear to be somehow punching themselves out of the mortar and landing on the blinking, confused smith. Other stone blocks are falling from the wall. By the time Metellus reaches the room, however, the chaos has momentarily stopped, leaving a bruised and battered Heilyn and a rather more...airy chamber
Heilyn realizes, in his fog of pain and tiredness, that there are precisely 11 stones now lying on his bed, the same number which he punched out of the Temple of Mercury wall with the skills he learned from the earth spirit he made a bargain with back on the Druids' Isle. He's no longer so certain that casually reshaping stone walls is such a good idea, but manages to hide his confusion behind a calm facade as he heals himself, apologizes to Metellus for the commotion, and offers to help repair the room in the morning. Metellus, sleepy and startled, offers him another room for the night, but Heilyn decides that he'd rather sleep out on the safe ground of the courtyard. The rest of the night passes uneventfully.
Some of the group shares their dreams with each other; Marcus is confused by his. Clearly, his Eagle is still in trouble, but he has no idea of how to help It, and this only further upsets him. However, it is morning, and both he and Llyr decide to accompany Metellus on his trip to spend a day seeing what the life of a Roman Inspector of Buildings is like. Sure, it doesn't sound exciting, but you never know. Besides, after the recent spate of attacks against group members when traveling alone or without fighters, they've decided to stick together for the most part. [The GM is highly grateful for this.]
Metellus is shown into the office of one of the current building inspectors, who explains that his duties this morning consist of approving building leases and new building projects. He also goes on at length about the bribe possibilities in this job, and Metellus tries to steer a fine line between offending the greedy official and maintaining his own strict sense of honor. Llyr, meanwhile, out in the waiting room, notices someone familiar come into the waiting room - one of the Celts who was conspiring at the party a few nights earlier. The Celt recognizes him and turns and dashes out of the waiting room, closely followed by Llyr. After a short chase, Llyr, followed by the confused Marcus, manages to tackle the fleeing Celt and wrestle him to the ground. However, interrogation is quickly frustrated by the Celt's immediate response of biting his own tongue off, and swallowing it. In disgust, both at himself and his captive, Llyr lets the vigiles take the man away, and they return to the building office.
Inside the building office, Llyr and Marcus interrupt Metellus' conversation with the inspector to ask about who the Celt was, and why he was here. The inspector, surprised, responds that he was a man who had bought several properties in the last few weeks, paid for with good sestertii, and always reliably. Metellus asks to see some of the sestertii and discovers, to no one's surprise, that they're the same type of newly minted coins that our group discovered back in the Gallic village. The soldiers ask for a list of the properties this man has purchased, and plot out, after several hours spent going through documents and the inspector's records, the following map:
(This is a basic map of Rome. Unfortunately, the correct map isn't loading at the moment. But it showed about 17 dots indicating the purchased properties.)
Gathering together with the rest of us, we realized after much pondering that nearly all of the recently purchased properties were located near either granaries or baths, and that they formed a giant spiral which had as its center point...the House of the Vestal Virgins in the Forum Romanum.
Last edited by Orichalcum; Saturday, 19th June, 2004 at 02:58 AM."You know, Roman emperors have plotted against each other without the help of random Celtic people." --Metellus
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Sunday, 20th June, 2004, 03:45 AM #162
Alea VII: Lux et Veritas Post 10: The Plot Thickens
We put the map together with the prophecy that evening, and my clever partner Meloch, working together with Cornelia and Centurion Marcus, who is unsurprisingly good with maps. After some time, we come to the conclusion that the Druidic Resistance Movement is plotting something, most likely fires, against the Roman granaries and possibly the temple of the Vestal Virgins on the night of the summer solstice, two days hence. The granaries are full, as they always need to be in Rome, and thus highly explosive, just as the granary that we exploded back in Caledonia was.
We consult Lucretius, the friendly Praetorian Decurion who was our liasion on the Triumph, for his advice and suggestions regarding this. He notes that two days hence, the annual Praetorian-Vigiles mock battle game is taking place during the afternoon. Consequently, 4/5ths of the Praetorians and 2/3rds of the Vigiles (the watch which draws the short straw still has to stand guard and not play) will likely be tired, wounded, and very drunk that night, and therefore unlikely to present a good defense if unprepared to people attacking the granaries. He agrees that this is a serious problem, and suggests taking it directly to Cimbrus in the morning, as well as perhaps consulting the Vestals.
The next morning, we go and tell most of the story to Cimbrus, leaving out the entire damnatio memoriae aspect, which no one is certain how it relates anyway, and placing all the blame on the Druidic Resistance Movement. Cimbrus seems genuinely worried and authorizes us to investigate more, as well as gving us a letter of introduction to the Chief Vestal, and saying that he'll instruct the vigiles who are on duty that night, under the command, as it turns out, of Cornelia's ex-stepfather Q. Ennius Candidus, to pay special attention to the locations on the map, and raid them if necessary.
He notes that the vigiles will not have enough resources to both raid all 17 locations and fully protect the House of the Vestals, about which there is much less evidence in any case, and suggests that we focus on that particular threat. Hadriana is notably absent from this meeting.
Metellus and the soldier boys, together with Meloch, go off to Metellus' appointment at the Imperial Mint, both for him to try out that potential job prospect for a day and find out more about the origin of the newly minted coins. Llyr comments that while the housing bureau was run by L. Faenius Merops, the most bored man in Roma, the Mint seems to be run by the most boring man in Roma, one M. Saufeius Constans, a middle-aged Roman patrician who apparently took many years to get successfully elected. After poking and prodding into the sources of the new coins, they eventually successfully establish that Saufeius was the only person with the right access and times, and confront him, with the help of a carefully cast Charm spell. With the promise of protection, Saufeius finally tearfully confesses that he's been funneling money to the Druids in exchange for promised fertility spells, as he's been unable to produce an heir on his own or even copulate successfully. He's supplied a man that Llyr identifies as Sycorax, the red-headed leader of the DRM, with substantial amounts of sestertii, and much more in recent weeks. They decide to have him quietly resign from the mint, and report it to Lucretius, who can make the final decision about whether or not to prosecute.
"You know, Roman emperors have plotted against each other without the help of random Celtic people." --Metellus
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Friday, 2nd July, 2004, 04:07 AM #163
Alea Iacta VII: Lux et Veritas Post 12: A Short, Nasty, Brutish Fight
It is now the evening before the summer solstice. Much against my own wise monkey advice, the group decides to go and stake out one of the supposed Druidic resistance hideouts and see what they can learn. They pick one in the north-center of the city, near one of the major baths. For a long time, there is no sense of movement, and finally they send me into investigate. I tell them that there do appear to be a few people inside the building, down some stairs in some sort of wine cellar which smells bad. When Meloch asks me how bad, I tell him the truth - like bad eggs. You should never eat a bad egg, my mother said in the days before I was sold into slavery. It will make your stomach hurt.
Meloch apparently felt this answer wasn't satisfactory and turned himself invisible to investigate and came in himself. Well, he couldn't make it any farther down the creaky stairs into the wine cellar than I could without being noticed, so he mostly just noticed that one of the humans was the Bull Chieftain who had escaped from the Triumph, and still bore bloody gashes on his arms where he had excised the cold iron. There was then a whispered huddle as to whether to attack the room itself, and potentially risk being exploded (apparently bad eggs are dangerous for humans externally as well as internally) or wait for them to come out. Eventually, they decided to wait, and to hide.
Of course, have you ever tried to hide a Roman Centurion? Marcus' armor gleamed in the moonlight like Artemis' mirror; he'd probably polished the darn breastplate that very morning. Meloch and I, now, we could hide, and even Cornelia and that stupid owl Cato weren't so bad, or, surprisingly, the Praetorian Lucretius. But it was pretty clear that as soon as someone came out, they'd see Marcus.
Luckily enough for us, the first person to come out was the Bull Chieftain, slightly drunk and wanting to relieve himself against the wall. Before he realized what was going on, Llyr had already hit him with a custom-blessed bolt, and Heilyn and the others were whaling on him as he called for help.
At this point, Cornelia decided she wanted to be helpful, and cast some sort of spell for Cato to deliver by swooping down and biting the red-haired barbarian's neck or something. Of course, Cato's pretty incompetent at even the easiest of jobs, and the barbarian was pretty skilled with his greataxe, so the obvious result happened - Cato lost most of a wing to the greataxe and failed to deliver the spell. Cornelia, in shock, sent him up to the roof top where I was hiding to wait out the rest of the fight.
Aha, I thought, here's my chance. At last I can get rid of this blasted useless owl and do everyone a world of good, especially myself, as then Cornelia will give me all the treats and petting that she gives the owl now. And the owl won't ever be able to grow any bigger and potentially eat me. So I crept forward, as the fight raged on below, getting closer and closer to being able to push the owl off the rooftiles onto the cobblestones below. I was only a few seconds away from the undetectable elimination of my rival when Meloch noticed the directions of my thoughts and sternly forbade me. We wrestled for a bit mentally, but I finally decided that having the approval of my partner was more important than dealing with Cato, at least for now.
Just about then, Wena managed to stun the barbarian and he was knocked out. Proceeding inside, the group discovered that any other Celts had fled at the noise of a fight, and found many many barrels of sulphur and Greek fire stacked up neatly in the wine cellar.
"You know, Roman emperors have plotted against each other without the help of random Celtic people." --Metellus
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Thursday, 8th July, 2004, 10:24 PM #164
Alea Iacta IX: Lux et Veritas Post 13: Teatime
At this point, Metellus and Cornelia had to dash off for a rescheduled late dinner with Lupina Silvana, the Emperor's mistress, unbeknownst to Cornelia's mother. Metellus' father, on the other hand, had spoken highly when asked about Lupina Silvana. Apparently, she had been the wife of an old senatorial friend of his, and had come on the Emperor's campaign in Dacia along with her husband many years ago. Metellus Major confessed to having had a slight unrequited passion for Lupina - back before he met Metellus' mother, of course. While there was some gossip that the Emperor had deliberately sent Lupina's husband out on a suicide mission at the front of the lines, Metellus Major strongly discouraged his son from entertaining that thought, saying it was disrespectful both to the Emperor and to a charming, well-bred noblewoman.
Since the rest of the group was busy dealing with the prisoner, they decided to invite along Llyr's cousin Kynton the charioteer, on the grounds that he was polite and good at telling stories, and also, like Llyr, a Prince of the Brigantes.
Lupina Silvana, as it turned out, lived in a lovely villa on the Aventine Hill. She was not quite what either Cornelia or Metellus had expected, at all. Lupina Silvana is a woman in her late 60s, with carefully coiffed white hair wearing an elegant blue stola and palla of light linen, and only a few strings of malachite necklaces. She waved her guests into a comfortable dining room, and then asked if they would mind if her grandchildren joined them. "They do like hearing stories of faraway places, especially Britannia."
"Of course," Cornelia replied. Lupina sent a slave off to fetch them, and a few minutes later, a young boy of 11 or 12 carrying a ball came rushing in, followed quickly by a girl of 15 or 16, in whom the older refined beauty of Lupina could be seen in youthful, if still awkward, form.
"These are my grandchildren. I call them Silvanus and Silvanilla." Lupina said calmly, gesturing at them to recline on the remaining couch.
"Did you fight in the battle against the Druids and Caledonii? Did you kill lots of evil naked barbarians? Did you?" Silvanus says excitedly.
"Well, I helped kill the Chief Druid of all Britannia....<looks at Cornelia glaring> and Cornelia was there in that fight too, actually..."
"Oh, please, tell us what happened, Tribune, and I want to know how you were there, Cornelia Crispa," the pretty Silvanilla says with a smile.
"Well, we were on a diplomatic mission to the Iceni at the time..." Cornelia begins, "and then the lightning bolt came down...." and the grandchildren both gasp in horror, "and then she transformed into a giant tiger through her foul Druidic magics!...." and the entire battle is recounted.
Kynton, who has been fidgeting impatiently during this whole time, bursts in, "But that was nothing! At the beginning of the battle, I was about to be sacrificed by the Druids to fuel their evil magics! But I managed to escape and rejoin Metellus and Cornelia just in the nick of time, nearly severing both my wrists and ankles in the process and fighting off enormous guards!"
Cornelia responds tartly, "I thought Llyr untied you and you ran."
"From the enormous guards, and only to find help and save Llyr and all the rest of you. Besides, it would have been dreadful for my career if my wrists had been hurt. I'm a charioteer!" Kynton announces proudly.
Silvanus is instantly rapt, much more excited than he was even about the battles. "Really? What color do you race for? I like the Blues. My dad used to own several Blue chariot teams, and once he took he to the stables when I was little."
Silvanus and Kynton dive into an arcane conversation about the current chariot teams of this season.
Meanwhile, Lupina Silvana skillfully directs the rest of the talk back to Britannia.
"I had heard that you earlier went north in search of the Ninth Legion? Did you ever find any trace of their fate?"
Metellus explains that they found the Eagle, and signs that the Ninth had been betrayed internally by Tribunes and Centurions in collusion with the Druids. Lupina pales and then flushes visibly with anger for a moment at this news, before controlling herself. "What a disgrace to Rome and her loyal officers!" she exclaims.
Cornelia has a sudden flash of intuition, and decides to pursue a hunch. "Lupina, your grandchildren are very well brought up. Are their parents in the countryside?"
"Their parents are dead," Lupina answers abruptly. "I have raised them for the past eight years. Thank you - I have tried to teach them to be good Romans, although Silvanus does not get as much fighting training as I would wish."
"The Emperor showed me how to throw a javelin before he left last month," Silvanus interrupts briefly to say with pride.
"Are you good with it?" Metellus asks.
"I can hit the column at the end of the porch almost every time!" Silvanus tells him.
Looking at the 3-foot wide column, Metellus smiles and says, "I hope you keep practicing!"
Some conversation about military training ensues. Silvanilla seems highly intrigued by Kynton's descriptions of daring chariot races through deep forests, and Lupina Silvana is clearly a little less pleased about Silvanilla's fascination with the charioteer.
Shortly afterwards, the children retire to bed, and Metellus and Cornelia make their excuses, anxious to get back to the prisoner interrogation. As they are walking away from the villa, Cornelia whispers, "Did you figure out why she summoned us?"
"Um, no, although she seems very interested in the Ninth and Britannia."
"I think those are the children of Gallus, the Emperor's dead brother who got damnatio memoriae-ed after committing suicide due to the shame of losing the Ninth! That's why she's so interested - she wants to redeem the memory of Gallus!" Cornelia explains.
"Do you have any evidence for this theory at all?" Metellus asks skeptically.
"Well, the two kids are named after her, Silvana, when they should be named after their father, which means that they're either illegitimate or something strange is going on. And she wanted them to hear the stories about Britannia. And their parents died 8 years ago, just when Gallus died. And Silvanus mentioned that his father really liked chariot racing, and remember, one of the slaves that Gallus freed at his death, the first one we found, was a charioteer!"
"Well, when you put it that way, it's almost convincing. But we need to go back and talk to her. But for now, we need to avert the burning of Roma!"
Last edited by Orichalcum; Friday, 9th July, 2004 at 05:04 AM.
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Thursday, 22nd July, 2004, 06:08 AM #165
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You know, I'll wager that Cato the Owl has a lot of really interesting perspectives on our recent adventures.
I think I'll go have a word with Domina Cornelia and see if she wouldn't mind dictating her familiar's recollections, since my own familiar seems to be off in a month-long sulk somewhere...
And right before the burning of Roma, as well! How cruel a cliff-hanger...
Thursday, 22nd July, 2004, 03:05 PM #166
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Cato's a sweet owl, but not very articulate - he tends to communicate mostly in pictures, not words. The way he recounted that last battle to me, for instance, was: "Flying...flying...OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! whimper whimper."Originally Posted by Meloch the Pygmy
He did manage to send me some images of what Shast tried to do, though. You really must have a talk with your familiar - we can't afford to have them squabbling like this. Not when we're about to face a challenge like saving the city...
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Thursday, 22nd July, 2004, 03:11 PM #167
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Cato's a sweet owl, but not very articulate - he tends to communicate mostly in pictures, not words. The way he recounted that last battle to me, for instance, was: "Flying...flying...OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! whimper whimper."Originally Posted by Meloch the Pygmy
He did manage to send me some images of what Shast tried to do, though. You really must have a talk with your familiar - we can't afford to have them squabbling like this. Not when we're about to face a challenge like saving the city...
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Thursday, 22nd July, 2004, 06:23 PM #168
Alea Iacta VII: Lux et Veritas Chp. 12: Oh, you mean _that_ scry sensor!
Shast apologizes for the delay in publishing the serial of his pulp reminiscences, but Shast has been working on his great analysis of Roman social mores, based on his own recollections of the international brothel scene in the Empire, and feels that this is a much more important work for his career.
Brief GM Sidebar Explaining why Cato is less eloquent than Shast:
Each of the
familiarspartners in Alea Iacta has his or her own special talent, above and beyond the normal D&D restrictions. Cato can maintain contact with Cornelia - and deliver touch spells - at indefinitely long range. Shast can read and write, neither of which are talents that Meloch possesses, and is also extraordinarily intelligent, and has a tail. Sapientia, Lucretius' elephant, who has so far only appeared in dreams, is, well, an elephant. This is balanced by my refusal to Poke-Paladin her and by my altering the Detect Evil power of Lucretius to Detect Pantheon (i.e. Celtic/Olympian/Hecate etc...).
Also, there were at that point 8 PCs in the game, and only one GM. Shast is much more eloquent in the SH than he usually was in game time, simply due to necessity.
Returning to the adventure....
My disappointment at failing to eliminate my rival, the filthy owl, was not helped by the angry glares of my partner Meloch. Everyone except Metellus and Cornelia, who arrive dlater, adjourned to a local vigiles post to interrogate the Bull Chieftain. We had barely begun the interrogation, which was its usual mixture of Marcus and Meloch threatening torture at every opportunity and Metellus and Cornelia, once they came back from Lupina Silvana's, resolutely ignoring these suggestions. The Bull Chieftain kept looking anxiously around for some reason while refusing to talk, and finally, Wena followed the direction of his gaze, watching closely, and noticed a small floating shadowy eyeball, surrounded by a thin halo of black chains.
"We're being watched," she whispered to the rest of us.
"What?" said Metellus. "The Black Chain Philosopher can spy on us from a distance psionically? Why didn't you tell us before?"
"I didn't notice it before!"
"Well, were you looking?"
Silence falls as the humans all realize that they have been being watched for perhaps a very long time. Metellus blushes briefly, as does Cornelia. I decide not to mention that I've seen Cato happily munching on shadowy eyeballs once or twice, as I'm already currently in enough trouble.
"Well, what can we do about this? This is totally unacceptable," Marcus proclaims.
"Well, there are stories that lead can block psionic powers somehow," Wena offers, searching through her memories.
"The sewers!" Llyr, who has been exploring Roma assiduously, suggests gleefully.
"The sewers?" everyone else echoes with a mixture of horror and resignation.
"They're entirely lined with lead. Quite a feat of engineering, actually." Llyr points out.
So, together with our bound barbarian Bull Chieftain, we all troop down the nearest marble-covered manhole to the Cloaca Maxima, Roma's largest - and therefore smelliest - sewer.
Once here, the sophisticated Romano-Britannian interrogation techniques quickly yield useful information.
"What was all the Greek fire for?"
"To set fire to things!"
"What kinds of things?"
"The big cylindrical buildings. Sycorax said they'd go boom, like the village back home, and we'd avenge all the Ouenikones."
"When was this supposed to happen?"
"Tomorrow night."
"What were you supposed to do tomorrow?"
"Go play in the theater."
"What do you mean, go play in the theater?"
"They're going to be having kids' play-fights in the theater, Sycorax said. But we won't be playing like kids," the Bull Chieftain smiles and guffaws, now thoroughly charmed by Cornelia.
Marcus thinks for a second, then exclaims, "The Praetorians-Vigiles mock battle tomorrow!"
"Oh no," Cornelia says, "the Celts are planning to infiltrate the battle and actually kill people!"
"Well, to be fair," Llyr points out, "Some of us had been talking out sneaking into the mock battle to have fun beating up on Vigiles too."
Metellus glares. Llyr and Marcus look a bit crestfallen. Lucretius, ever practical, says, "I'll tell my Centurion about this. We can at least try and search all the combatants to make sure the weapons are properly blunted."
"Were you planning on doing anything else tomorrow," Cornelia asks.
"Protect the little girls," the Bull Chieftain answers, surprisingly.
"What? Why do you need to protect the little girls?"
"They'll be running, and little girls aren't very good at protecting themselves."
"Where will they be running to?"
"Inside, to put out the flame. I can't go inside, though. I have to protect them outside," he confesses.
Our skilled minds quickly put this together with the prophecy and realize that the Temple of Vesta, with its ever-burning flame that protects the city of Roma and maintains the sacred barrier of the pomerium, is in grave danger.
Meloch puts this together with the reports he's been hearing of a lot of Celtic families of slaves disappearing, and soberly explains,
"Only female virgins can enter the Temple of Vesta, where the sacred flame is. They must have recruited a bunch of young Celtic girls to run in with water tomorrow night and put out the fire." He resolves to go against his principles and expose some of the known runaway slave safehouses he's discovered tomorrow to the vigiles, on the grounds that the girls will be safer as slaves anyway than as Celtic Liberation Front puppets.
"Well, we'll just have to stop them and kill them before they get there," Lucretius responds. "We cannot let the flame of Vesta die."
"But," Heilyn remonstrates, "They're just innocent little girls, tricked into this. They don't know what they're doing."
"They're a threat to Roma," Marcus says, and Metellus nods in agreement.
At this point, Wena remembers her young friend "Boadicea," the librarian's slave, and resolves to visit her tomorrow morning and get her out of this situation if necessary.
The others decide to visit Cimbrus and the Vestals in the morning and inform them of the dire situation and in the meantime, begin making plans to defend the outside of the Temple of Vesta, which only one among them, Cornelia, can actually enter. Some of these plans, depending on who is designing them, are more lethal than others.
*Battle coming soon. Really! And if not, you can blame Meloch's player, because he's visiting us this weekend.*
Last edited by Orichalcum; Thursday, 22nd July, 2004 at 06:48 PM.
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Friday, 23rd July, 2004, 05:54 AM #169
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Well, I just discovered this pearl yesterday...and now that I'm all caught up I have to post. This is an awesome SH. I love the authentic feel of the setting and the way they characters interact.
The plot is juicy and the characters/players seem pretty quick witted. I'm excited to keep up with y'alls adventures!
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Friday, 23rd July, 2004, 03:19 PM #170
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Exactly. Much preferable to Shast's tiresome editorializing.Originally Posted by Ladybird
A little friendly squabbling never hurt anyone. Heilyn and I came out all right, after all, right? I'll keep the two of them from getting carried away.Originally Posted by Ladybird


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of 1,000 feet; this ski resort has 7 good ski lifts, and 7 feet of beautiful snow annually covering its 29 slopes. Not far from Fox Hill Camping Area you can enjoy the trees of Beebe Hill State Forest; what would winter be without
some skiing at Catamount. If you want to get out on the water, Swamp Bottom Aquarium is in close proximity, and a splendid scene to bowl next to Fox Hill Camping Area is Cove Bowling Lanes. This campground is always a bliss. Play a bit of mini golf at Pitch N Putt & Thunder Alley near Fox Hill Camping Area, and a game of bowling is enjoyable at nearby Chatham Bowl.
Inn At Richmond, Richmond
8 miles away
Stockbridge Country Inn, Stockbridge
10 miles away
The Inn at Sweet Water Farm, Great Barrington
10 miles away
Other campgrounds near Fox Hill Camping Area, New York:
Woodland Hills Campground, Austerlitz
, 3 miles away
Taconic State Park Copake Falls, Copake Falls
, 10 miles away
Camp Waubeeka, Copake
, 11 miles away
Copake KOA, Copake
, 13 miles away
Dingman's Campgrounds, Nassau
, 13 miles away
Alps Family Campground, Averill Park
, 14 miles away
Camp Pontiac, Copake
, 14 miles away
Privacy Campground, Lanesboro
, 17 miles away
Maple Glade Campground, Lee
, 17 miles away
Taconic State Park Rudd Pond, Millerton
, 18 miles away
Paddling Rivers Near Fox Hill Camping Area, New York:
Bash Bish Brook, Columbia / Berkshire County
, 10 miles away
Class IV-V+ - 0.6 miles long (Below Bash Bish Falls to Copake Falls)
Esopus Creek, Ulster County
, 12 miles away
Class II(III) - 5 miles long (Big Indian to Allaben)
Kinderhook Creek, Columbia County
, 15 miles away
Class I-V - 11 miles long (Valatie to Stockport)
Roeliff Jansen Kill River, Columbia/ Dutchess County
, 17 miles away
Class I-III - 14 miles long (Ancram to Elizaville)
Housatonic River, Litchfield County
, 20 miles away
Class III-IV - 0.5 miles long (below Falls Village Hydro Plant)
Public Lands near Fox Hill Camping Area, New York:
Mt. Washington State Forest, Massachusetts
, 12 miles away
Pittsfield State Forest, Massachusetts
, 15 miles away
Cherry Plain State Park, New York
, 18 miles away
Lake Taghkanic State Park, New York
, 18 miles away
October Mountain State Forest, Massachusetts
, 20 miles away
Trails near Fox Hill Camping Area, New York:
Northrop Trail, Berkshire County
, 10 miles away
Indian Trail, Berkshire County
, 11 miles away
Elbow Trail, Berkshire County
, 11 miles away
Taconic Skyline Trail, Berkshire County
, 12 miles away
Wild Cat Trail, Berkshire County
, 14 miles away
Brickhouse Mountain Trail, Berkshire County
, 14 miles away
Turner Trail, Berkshire County
, 15 miles away
Golf Courses Near Fox Hill Camping Area, New York:
Egremont Country Club, Great Barrington
, 8 miles away
Stockbridge Golf Club, Stockbridge
, 12 miles away
Undermountain Golf Course, Copake
, 13 miles away
Winding Brook Country Club, Valatie
, 13 miles away
Copake Country Club, Craryville
, 14 miles away
Lakes Near Fox Hill Camping Area, New York:
Queechy Lake, Columbia County
, 7 miles away
Copake Lake, Columbia County
, 12 miles away
Onota Lake, Berkshire County
, 17 miles away
Pontoosuc Lake, Berkshire County
, 18 miles away
Racquet Lake, Rensselaer County
, 19 miles away
Current weather conditions at Fox Hill Camping Area, New York
Local climate location: ALCOVE DAM 5 miles away
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Outdoors recreation in the vicinity of Hudson, New York, the metro area neareast to Fox Hill Camping Area. Find info on campgrounds, marinas, hiking trails, ski resorts, lakes, beaches, parks, whitewater, golf courses and more.
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Offshore oil and gas helicopter company CHC is selling its training operations to Montreal-based CAE for an undisclosed price. The deal includes the transfer of 32 employees, four simulators and two training facilities to CAE as well as the ongoing training of 1,000 CHC pilots and another 1,000 maintenance personnel. The acquired training facilities–in Aberdeen, Scotland and Stavanger, Norway–will also be used to train non-CHC customers. In addition, Vancouver-based CHC will gain access to training at other CAE facilities.
CHC CEO William Amelio said the deal would help the company "focus on our core business" while providing the ability to scale training to demand. He called the move "the way of the future for the helicopter industry."
Simulators covered under the agreement include a Eurocopter AS332/L1 Super Puma and a Sikorsky S-61 in Stavanger, an AS332L2 in Aberdeen and a Sikorsky S-76 in Vancouver. CAE's existing helicopter training network includes Bell 412 training in Dubai; AW109 and AW139 training as part of the Rotorsim joint venture with AgustaWestland in Sesto Calende, Italy; and S-76C+, S-76B and AW139 training (via Rotorsim) in Morristown, N.J. CAE also is planning to offer 412 training in Mexico and India. The company operates military helicopter training centers in the UK and Germany and offers military helicopter training in Italy and India.
CAE employs 7,000 at more than 100 sites in 20 countries and operates 29 civil and military training centers. The company trains more than 75,000 crewmembers annually and last year revenues topped $1.4 billion.
CHC operates 270 aircraft in 30 countries and is the parent company of global maintenance provider Heli-One. It was acquired by private equity firm First Reserve for $3.7 billion in 2008.
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I took a lot of screenshots from the Good People Die Trailer. There are so many images there for less than a second. Anyways, I don't know how o make fancy image posts so here's a bunch of what I found. I also think this trailer tells us some things about the game. I noticed a few things. I'll write about them later lol
Welp. At least his butt would probably look nicer in my suspender shorts than mine does ( ´,_ゝ`)
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I wear stupid things at home
I just like loose clothes
One of the rare occasions I am not wearing a baggy t-shirt and shorts. Is this a sign.
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Are You Roommates or Lovers?
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013
We were in the tenth year of our marriage, with 5- and 2-year old daughters, and we were in trouble. We weren't arguing, fighting, or disagreeing. In fact, we were united in mind and purpose in the direction of our work, home, and family. We had just begun homeschooling our eldest, I was working very minimally outside the home, and we were engaged in ministry at our church.
But the spark was gone from our marriage.
We were living more like roommates than lovers. We were planets orbiting the same sun, yet seldom intersecting. We were busy living out our callings, content to come together for exchanges that were more like business meetings than family time.
We seldom thought of each other during the day, and when we tried to make conversation, we struggled to find something to talk about. We were emotionally distant, and our marriage was starving.
Is this all there is? we wondered. Maybe this is just the way it is after 10 years of marriage...
That's when I decided to shake things up.
My husband and I struggled for years to have a consistent quiet time together. Every marriage book we owned said we should read the Bible and pray together if we wanted to have a godly, successful marriage. So every Christmas I'd buy a new couple's devotional, and we'd make a commitment to read it daily.
And we would. For about 3 days.
Then one day we'd forget, or get busy. Before we knew it, it was bedtime, and we hadn't cracked the cover. And then a week would go by, and before long, the commitment to have a daily quiet time together would fall by the wayside once again.
Until I decided to do something drastic.
I instinctively knew that the key to reviving our marriage was somehow connected with spending time together in God's word and prayer. But finding the right time, a time when we were most likely to be consistent, had thus far eluded us. Our good intentions were consistently shipwrecked on the rocks of daily life.
I knew the key was finding a time when there would be few distractions. And a time when it would be as easy as possible for my husband to participate.
On a typical workday, my husband would rise early and begin his day. He'd shower, grab the lunch I'd made for him the night before, and leave for work. After years of rising at all hours of the night with babies, I'd sleep in as long as I could before one of the girls awakened.
Well, our girls were no longer infants, and the time of frequent night awakenings had passed. There was no excuse for sleeping in except that I enjoyed it. Not a bad thing, in light of the physical demands of 24-hour motherhood, but it was now a luxury, not a necessity.
"Honey," I said, "if I get up with you in the morning and fix you breakfast (I knew this would be a draw, what husband wouldn't accept the offer of breakfast?), do you think it would be OK if I read from one of our couples devotionals while you ate? And then when you're done, maybe you can share one thing I can pray for you about during the day, and I can do the same?"
He agreed.
Five o'clock came awfully early that next morning, but I was determined to do everything in my power to make this attempt succeed. I don't remember what I fixed for breakfast. Perhaps I just poured cereal in a bowl and set out a banana, but as he ate, I read. I deliberately chose a devotional with brief selections. When I finished, I asked him how I could pray for him that day. He did the same.
After a week or so of consistently implementing this new plan, a strange thing began to happen. First, instead of just reading the devotions, we began to talk about them. We'd share ideas, ruminate on the topic during the day, and sometimes pick up the conversation when he got home.
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Today on 'Max hasn't drawn in nearly a year', I pick up a pencil and try to do some roughs on character design.
First up a certain Gaul/Roman Mongrel from BCE, who looks too anime for my taste but I haven't drawn people faces in too long so they all look pretty anime. I want him to have that real kind of 'mixed lineage' brown color, but I'm not sure I can really justify it since he's a Gaul. (Pre Celtic people). I may be able to fudge it with his half roman heritage, but I'll have to do more research. I think no one was probably as pale as the standard modern european color in like 200 BCE… just not as survivable given far more increased exposure to the elements. I'm not an expert though. Anyone have any info that'd be helpful?
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Purdue is one of the finest schools in the nation. It was great to see them get that recognition this evening.
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Can you say 1995-1996 basketball program, serious NCAA violatons, followed by sanctions, two year probation, all in the same breath?
Andrew did though do a very good job tonight!
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My week got off to rocky start.
This time last week, I wrote about maintaining my weight through the month of December. And how I saw that as Good News. http://goo.gl/eiBv2
But since I'm still a long ways from my weight goal, maintaining my weight would not be Good News for much longer. After a high calorie day last Sunday followed by a super-high calorie day on Monday, and the predictable consequences of seeing the scale numbers go UP not down, I knew I needed to do more than blog about my intentions. I needed to take Action.
Here's what I did last week:
* A Conscious and Deliberate Decision
Starting Tuesday, I made a conscious and deliberate decision every morning to eat within my calorie range that day. On that first day, my decision took the form of tracking my meals in advance. I needed to do that to reset my mindset. It all came back to me so quickly, I didn't need to track my meals in advance. I have enough of a food routine, that once I returned to my eating patterns, I knew what I could plan my meals without calculating them in advance.
* Tracking Everything. No excuses.
I tracked what I ate Every. Single. Day. Most days this was easy. As I noted, I have certain food habits, foods and meals I eat frequently enough, with some variation to avoid the boredom of routine. So I used the Groupings and Favorites feature on the SparkPeople tracker to find my favorite foods quickly and easily.
On Friday, my tracking ran into a bit of a snag. First, I met a friend for lunch. I'm not one to skimp when I eat out. I still need to work on viewing eating out as an excuse to overindulge. As if eating out is a special occasion. Which it is when I'm meeting a friend I haven't seen in a year. But meeting a friend is not an excuse to overeat. I still need to learn to enjoy the company more than I do the food.
The other thing that's wrong with how I think about eating out is that because it's so hard/impossible to track accurately what I ate, I almost immediately think, "What the heck. Since I can't track it accurately, why track it all? And if I'm not going to track it, why bother worrying about the calories?" I can't believe that at my age, I still buy into the childish logic of my inner 5-hr-old. But there you go.
It so happened on Friday that I was also attending an all-day business seminar. At one point, the seminar leader talked about what he calls his "1 Demandment": Track your numbers properly. He also said, "The truth is the truth. Even if you answer No to your daily intentions, tell the truth. A No is not a negative. Life happens. But if you consistently see Nos at the end of the day, you'll be able to see at a glance why you aren't meeting your goals."
I immediately connected his "demandment" with tracking my calories and fitness minutes.
Lucky for me, this part of the seminar occurred right before lunch. So I had this ringing in my ears as I entered the restaurant to meet my friend. I ordered a Cobb salad, the one item on the menu that I knew I would enjoy AND was within the range of healthy, made note of the ingredients, and ate the whole thing while turning 100% of my attention over to my long-distance friend. When I got home, I did my best to estimate what I'd eaten and considered whether to eat dinner.
Second, my book club was meeting that same evening, where I knew there would be wine and small nibbles. I always feel left out when I can't enjoy what others are having, so I skipped dinner and saved my calories for the evening. Here, I looked at everything that was offered, made my choices and mental notes about what and how much I was eating and drinking. When I was finished and wanted more, I asked the hostess for a large glass of water. And then turned my full attention to the discussion and the company of friends. Later, I searched for comparable items in the food tracker, and tracked everything to the best of my ability.
By tracking everything, and I mean everything, to the best of my ability and with utmost honesty, my calories eaten for the week averaged out to a few calories over my range.
* Drinking Water
Another thing I did this week was recommit to drinking 6-10 glasses of water every day. I'm now on day 8 of that SparkStreak.
This week, I'll be adding a new Streak: 10 minutes of exercise every day. I wear a Fitbit, but since I'm having problems with my left knee that even walking aggravates, I don't really count my Fitbit steps as exercise. And I certainly don't get anywhere near 10000 steps. So I need to do Something Else. My rebounder, SparkPeople videos, kettle bells, Jillian Michaels (God Help Me).
* Reading a SparkPeople Member Blog
Finally, I read a blog post by SparkPeople member, CATS_MEOW_0911. http://goo.gl/JZ9B1 Back in June, she wrote, "Getting Ready to Stay the Same: Considering Maintenance While Losing." This is probably the most articulate article I've ever read about when to be planning for maintenance: DURING weight loss. I'm beginning to view all my other weight loss efforts from this perspective. They were all practice runs for weight loss. I was doomed to regain because I never once considered maintenance. I fell into the trap of thinking that weight loss was its own reward. Well, I'm done with that thinking. Thanks to CATS_MEOW_0911 for helping me see the light.
Although my week got off to a rocky start on the scale, by taking the actions I've detailed here, I'm happy to report that the results showed up on my scale. Even without exercise, even with a couple of high days early in the week. Deciding, tracking, drinking water, and reading were the actions that made the difference for me and turned the corner from maintaining to losing.
The secret to breaking through my plateau is that there is no secret. I had to return to doing what works. After all, the truth is the truth.
Here's to a new week!
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Today I weigh exactly the same as I did on December 1, 2012.
That's both bad news and good news, depending on how you look at it.
To see no overall change in my weight in 5 weeks could be bad news. And any other time, I would see no weight change as very discouraging.
But I'm choosing to see it as good news. More than that, I'm declaring it a victory.
I don't know about you, but for me, the period from Thanksgiving to New Year's is the most challenging time of year. Not only are those weeks a nonstop food feast, but there's also the depressing combination of colder temps and shorter days. All I want to do is cuddle up in my blankie and wait for spring. Making it worse this year is a knee that seems to be rebelling after a season of running.
Most years, the holiday season is when I fall off the wagon in a major way and have to spend the first 2 months of the year re-losing weight. If I'm not so discouraged and disgusted that I bother at all.
This year, I decided to do something different. I decided to be realistic about the holiday season. I set a goal to maintain my weight. To weigh no more at the end of the holiday season than I did at the beginning. I let myself off the hook tracking every bite or even every day. I gave myself and my knee a break from exercise. I didn't weigh myself as often.
I approached the season as an opportunity to practice my maintenance skills.
And maintain I did.
Now, after a few weeks of relaxed behaviors, I'm ready to go again. I spent the morning creating a new weight journal spreadsheet for 2013. I have a pantry and freezer full of healthy food. My water bottle is at my side. My rebounder is set up in front of the TV and DVD. I did a 20-minute cardio workout on it with no knee pain. I switched my SparkCoach program to plateau-busting to remind me of the basics and jumpstart my January.
Happy New Year!
I like to think of myself as a flexible person who easily adapts to change.
I also know that I'm a pretty decent liar. The person I lie to most often is myself. About all kinds of things. For instance, the lie that I'm a flexible person who easily adapts to change.
The truth is that I resist change. Even when I know that change is good for me (maybe ESPECIALLY when I know that change is good for me), I resist it. My internal committee loses no opportunity to inform me that we like things just the way we are.
So what do I do to overcome my resistance to change? I try to bully my committee into silence. I throw myself headfirst into the challenge. I go all-out with everything I've got. I dive into the deep end of the pool, sink or swim. And it's because I approach making change in that gung-ho way that I've convinced myself that I'm flexible and adaptable.
What happens when I dive into the deep end, sink or swim, is that I usually do start by being a success at swimming. Swimming hard. Swimming fast. Swimming as hard and as fast as I can. I make really good progress. Wow, look at me go!
Eventually, though, whether it's a week or two weeks, a month or two months, I start to get tired. Or something interrupts my hard and fast swimming for a day or a week. Maybe it's a vacation that causes the interruption. Or a health emergency with a family member. Or a work deadline. In the downtime of that interruption, I realize how exhausted I am. When the interruption passes, the energy required to jump back into that deep end is more than I can muster. So I quit. And my internal committee is right there letting me know I'm a failure.
What I forget each and every time is that such attempts at change always fail, without fail. I forget that for change to last, it must be incremental. Whether it's shining my sink every night for a month as the first baby step to having a clean house. Or learning to crawl before I stand up. Or practicing standing before I attempt my first step. It's in our human DNA that all change, all learning, happens in steps, and is the result of the accumulation of practice and knowledge, not by leaping tall buildings in a single bound.
The reason I've failed to reach or maintain my goal weight each and every time over the last 4 decades is that I keep diving into the deep end. I keep thinking that this time, my single leaps over tall buildings will get me and keep me where I want to go.
It isn't the diets I've chosen that have failed me. It's my own thinking, the lies I tell myself, that have failed me.
This time, my journey to weight loss and my determination to maintain has to be more about changing my thinking than changing my habits. Sure, my habits have to change. No question. But I already know how to make healthy choices. I've had years and years of practice making healthy choices about what I eat and how I exercise. What I don't have any practice or experience with is taking baby steps, of fitting these healthy choices into the way I live, or of knowing that the only way to make lasting change is one day at a time, one meal at a time, five minutes at a time.
Diving deep isn't required. Nor is do or die thinking. What is required is letting go of all or nothing thinking.
Changing my thinking is actually a lot harder than losing weight. The first step is to stop lying to myself about how flexible and adaptable I am when the opposite is closer to the truth.
In an effort to change my thinking, to learn to let go of the stinkin' thinkin' of sink or swim, all or nothing, I've reset my weight loss goals. Instead of racing to lose 2 lbs a week, I'll work on being content to lose a lb or less every week. I'll enjoy eating with friends instead of missing out on their companionship because they don't eat what I eat. I'll enjoy slow, leisurely walks in the woods in addition to my timed runs.
If it takes me a year to lose 40 lbs, maybe I'll even find out just how flexible and adaptable I can be.
Last weekend, after a mini-vacation to my favorite spot in the whole world, followed by my 59th birthday, I fell into a deep funk. If I'd taken a depression assessment, I'd be on Zoloft right now. But with the support and encouragement of dear friends in an online group, on Monday I got myself up and out of bed and resumed my running.
I've taken another look at my goals and realized that I've been focusing too much on the numbers. As much as I'd like to think otherwise, I'm wired to think in all or nothing terms.
Then yesterday, in SparkCoach, SparkGuy Chris Downie talked about being stuck in the diet mentality. He said: "A diet is all about NUMBERS--the number on the scale and the number of calories you eat and burn. Success is defined in terms of how well you stick to your numbers. Sure, these things do matter and need to be tracked for weight loss, but a true lifestyle change goes beyond the numbers. It's about YOU. It's about lining up your eating and physical activity with your real goals and desires. Success is defined in terms of how these changes make you feel about yourself and help you achieve even more things in life."
Here's the truth: I give lip-service to this being a lifestyle change. Deep down, I know that my all or nothing thinking keeps me in diet mode.
Today in SparkCoach, Dr. Birdie Varnedore continued the message by talking about people who approach weight loss from a position of pain, nagging and berating themselves, and expecting nothing less than perfection. "Guilt, doubt, shame, and self-punishment are tools of the trade." Bingo! Then she delivers a challenge: to think about goals not from a position of pain but from a position of possibility.
Both of these messages from SparkCoach dovetail with a book I'm reading now by Brene Brown, "The Gift of Imperfection." (Check out her TED talk videos.) She's done a decade of research on shame and vulnerability. You can tell from her book title that she considers imperfection to be a gift. A gift?!
How can I apply that to my weight loss? How can I stop with the guilt, doubt, shame, and self-punishment? For starters, I'm going back to what SparkGuy said about defining success. Not success for it's own sake, but for how it makes me feel about myself. If success puffs me up, and makes me feel important, that's not success in my book. That's insanity. But if success means that I'm upright and moving forward, connecting with others, living a life of purpose and meaning, then that's the kind of success I want.
So I've reset my weight loss goals to a much slower rate. I've reduced my fitness goals to a level that will still be a stretch but not out of reach. I plan to enjoy eating, instead of viewing food as the enemy. (Except for sugary foods. The years of sugar abuse have taken their toll.) I plan to enjoy discovering the things my body can do in this phase of my life, instead of viewing exercise as a form of torture as in "no pain no gain."
Streaks are fine. But for me, they seem to set me up for all or nothing thinking. I have days when I pass the test for zoloft. Days when "do it anyway" isn't enough to get me going. Rather than wallow in shame, thinking myself unworthy, I want to continue to turn these occasions into opportunities for connection, as I did when I reached out to my friends and said, "help." My vulnerability didn't scare them away. They reached back and lifted me up.
That, to me, is success.
Today I completed Week 12 of Jeff Galloway's Running: Getting Started. That book, and Galloway's run-walk-run method of running, has transformed my life.
Here's why. In the Galloway Running Journal, there's a quote whose wisdom applies to much more than running, as I'm finding out: "The momentum of one step leading to another is more important than the pace."
It doesn't matter how fast I lose weight. The momentum of one good eating decision leading to another, one pound lost leading to another, one day on track leading to another is more important than how fast I lose.
It doesn't matter that I didn't find out I want to be outrageous 3 weeks before my 59th birthday. The steps I take to discovering what that means for me, of having the courage to live a life true to myself, is more important than how long it took me to get here.
The air temp was chilly this first morning of autumn, and felt even colder with the brisk 19mph wind at my back. My body took a whole mile to get warmed up. So my running time was slower than it's been, my mileage a shorter distance.
None of that matters. I burned more than 400 calories. I ran-walked-ran for 60 minutes.
In two weeks, I'm participating in my very first running event, the TC 10K as part of the Twin Cities Marathon Weekend. On event day, my pace won't matter. What will matter more than anything is the momentum of one step leading to another, one week leading to another, and crossing the finish line as a runner for the very first time in my life.


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Posts tagged video games
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If I can pick it up, I need it.
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DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS – lonely protagonist runs errands while babysitting group of poorly socialized murderers in order to kill dragon and save country.
DRAGON AGE 2 – lonely protagonist runs errands while babysitting group of poorly socialized murderers in order to get money and blow up city.
MASS EFFECT – lonely protagonist runs errands while babysitting group of poorly socialized alien murderers in order to stop bad guys and save galaxy.
MASS EFFECT 2 – lonely protagonist dies, still has to run errands while babysitting group of poorly socialized alien murderers, working with bad guys to save galaxy.
MASS EFFECT 3 – lonely protagonist mostly cracks under pressure of running errands while babysitting group of poorly socialized alien murderers, some of whom die, not knowing who the bad guys are, still trying to save galaxy.
so if you thought babysitting wasn't awesome, then you're probably not doing it the bioware way.
#bioware #my life is bioware #dragon age #mass effect #omg i can't wait until dragon age 3 A NEW GROUP OF POORLY SOCIALIZED MURDERERS TO BABYSIT#and make out with #yay
Omg truth.
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when you choose the wrong dialogue option
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Caldwell Tanner from College Humour did some great Travel Posters for lazy people, including a Skyrim one
Wynne: Have you changed your mind yet? Are you willing to speak seriously?
Zevran: Of your bosom? As you wish.
Wynne: No, I do not wish to speak of my bosom.
Zevran: But it is a marvelous bosom. I have seen women half your age who have not held up half so well. Perhaps it is a magical bosom?
Wynne: Stop talking about my bosom.
Zevran: But I thought you wished to speak seriously?
Wynne: I do. I thought, however foolishly, that you might be willing to speak of your past.
Zevran: We could do that. There have been many bosoms in my past, though only few as fine as yours.
Wynne: Enough. I am ending this conversation.
I think the idea was to see how many times they could fit the word "bosom" into a single conversation. My favorite conversation in the game. EVER.
Reblogging because reasons—several of those reasons for Gilligan, perhaps ;p
I must find the person that originated this.
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Just attaching another pair of flyers you can use to spread the word about #Arkh. For more information, please see this post!
In addition, you'll note some of the wording was changed to be more clear as to what Arkh is, namely, a project featuring queer people and PoC, by queer people and PoC, that anyone will be able to understand and play. People who aren't either queer, PoC, or both are highly encouraged to watch and play.B/W pdf: http://cl.ly/160Q3L3h0E3b0036463MColor pdf: http://cl.ly/3c0f3K1v2R0u2T0q0y3ACredit to these goes to Re at mimicre.
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Click the link to donate!
We are looking for experienced fundraisers, especially in metropolitan areas around the world, to help us raise the necessary funds to create this game in extremely high quality.
This looked like it could be really, really cool.
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David presented several valid concerns about bugs still present in the release of Netscape 6.0. And it is true, Netscape 6.0 did release with several unfixed bugs, many of which will have an impact on support for W3C specifications.
Our reaction to the release, however, was somewhat different. Along with other application developers, we've been waiting for the public release of an application that uses Mozilla's XPToolkit, a set of software components from which Netscape 6.0 and the upcoming Mozilla 1.0 were built. Now that Netscape 6.0, which uses this framework, has been publicly released, we're delighted: testing of XPToolkit may begin in earnest.
While many are focused on the release of Netscape 6.0, some of us aren't. We're more interested in the application environment created by the Mozilla team to support the implementation of browsers in general. To us, this framework is more important than the release of a new browser will ever be.
The reason for this is the changing face of the Internet, itself.
This architecture has become so popular that you can't pick up a magazine or a newspaper without hearing about Web servers or the new business models based on them. Although this architecture is based around universally located resources, most application-level resources are centralized and many other resources are hard to find. Some Web sites help you find other Web sites or "resources." Others go so far as to offer completely centralized applications, as Application Services Providers (ASPs).
New technologies will soon force us to rethink the way we use the Internet. Distributed systems, mobile agents, and peer-to-peer (P2P) applications may completely undermine the need for browser-based Internet access.
P2P applications are already stepping around the browser. The next step will be around the Web server.
To learn more about this young and potentially explosive industry, don't miss The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference, the first global gathering of those forging P2P as a technology and a business opportunity.
Consider this: a P2P application that locates and downloads a new function. The simplest example here may be provided by a P2P execution framework that uses XML-based remote procedure calls between peers to marshal XML-encoded functions. Instead of hitting Web pages, each peer locates and accesses both data and functions among a network of peers. No Web servers.
This scenario is not going to be best served by the traditional browser. Why?
The browser was built to render files stored on Internet sites so we didn't have to muck about with FTP. As soon as content became more visible, people started publishing yet more content, so browsers rendered HTML, then XML, formatted with CSS or XSLT. However, the browser itself has a very limited interface, even with new advances in W3C specifications. Sophisticated browser pages mean using either complicated object models--leading to cross-platform and cross-browser idiosyncrasies that are usually the result of standards initiatives--or using page-embedded applications, such as Java applets and plug-ins.
Even when the browser follows standard specifications, working within a browser page to create a sophisticated interface isn't a simple or uncomplicated task.
In addition to the browser becoming increasingly complex as the nature of content becomes so, use of it implies that applications ought to be served from one location, and in one manner. To do something such as make a remote procedure call, you would need to use a digitally signed Java applet or some other browser-specific and limited technique. This is something that won't bother newer P2P applications.
Finally, browsers were designed to be safe, and operate in a protective sandbox. Web-based applications served via a browser have difficulty getting at the user's machine. Though safe, this restriction also prevents behaviors that would have the application modify its user interface. And this dynamism is going to be necessary in an environment where new services require new application interfaces that can be downloaded as data.
With this application environment in place, the team then proceeded to build a sophisticated browser. They threw in Internet Chat, a Web page composer, and other complex things, all of which were released recently as Netscape 6.0. Often forgotten is that a powerful application environment came with it. This environment is now usable by developers of other Internet applications.
What types of applications? Well, ActiveState, the company that provides popular implementations of Perl and Python for various operating systems, used Mozilla to create its Komodo product, a visual IDE for working with Python and Perl code. The user interface provides, among other things, colored syntax, syntax checking, and source-level debugging.
So, we have a browser and an application that can be used to create and test Perl and Python applications, all built from the same application architecture.
This is exciting stuff! Much has been written about reusable code and component-based design, and now we have an open source application environment we can all use to build our own applications.
Even more exciting is the extensible user-interface language from Mozilla called XUL (pronounced "zool"). It's based on XML, which means you can use XML to create a user interface. Combine this with the ability to make remote procedure calls, and you have a perfect place from which to commence building a bunch of P2P applications, based on the scenario mentioned above.
Now, instead of opening a browser, you can open an application built on the same framework as your browser, but with a sophisticated interface of dropdown menus and tabbed pages--all created using XML. You can access remote procedure calls at the touch of a button and when you're ready to access a new service, click another button, and in a couple of minutes restart your application. New entries will be added to new or existing menus providing access to the new service. All this is accomplished without Java bytecode, a new plug-in, or a DLL.
You've just downloaded XML.
When you explore the possibilities of the XPToolkit from Mozilla maybe you'll agree that Netscape 6.0 is more than just a standards-based, better-than-Navigator-4.x-browser. It's the start of a new new way of doing things on the Internet.
Copyright © 2009 O'Reilly Media, Inc.


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a completely fabricated pairing of a young star with his slut of a costar from High School Musical, created solely for the financial gain that will accompany the extra publicity.
zanessa? you mean zac efron and vanessa whats her face?
by 007princess April 01, 2008
A word made up by the people/fans/paparazzi to call Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron with just one name since they're a super super famous celebrity couple dating both in the movie High School Musical Disney movies and in real world.
OMGOSH! They published a Zanessa magazine! Zac and V looks so cute in this cover.
by Zanessa fan December 02, 2007
The celeb couple of Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron.
You may also hear them referred to as Zan, ZV, or Mr. and Mrs. Hotness
You may also hear them referred to as Zan, ZV, or Mr. and Mrs. Hotness
There were new candids of Zanessa the other day, both looks amazing. They're so made for each other.
by PipsqueakDots April 17, 2009


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"PIX will not send traffic out the same interface it came in on"
Applies to all versions of PIX IOS less than v7
-----Original Message-----
From: firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com
[mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf Of Juan
Pablo Feria Gomez
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 8:57 AM
To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Ping between PIX remote peers
192.168.51.0 -|router|--/dsl/--| |
- |PIx|---172.16.10.0(lan behind
192.168.50.0 -|router|--/dsl/--| |
I Tried to add static routes announcing the remote network reachable
through the 172.16.10.x ip on the router with no luck, the trace to
the remote network always get * * * on the first hop.
in my vpn setup routers knows the vpn networks by access lists, Are
there a way to setup a virtual interface & IP to the vpn peers?
Ralph: A friend told me that his vpn peers can have communication, but
he has pix as tunnel endponints on the 2 sites, (i have routers), does
apply here what you said? "PIX will not send traffic out the same
interface it came in on" or using pix as endpoint is different?
Thanks in advance
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