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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Game Preview: Oakland at UMKC

Game 30: Oakland (20-9, 15-1) at UMKC (16-11, 9-7)
Thursday, February 24, 2011 | 8:05pm EST
Watch: RooVision ($) | Radio: WDFN (1130 AM)

Oakland heads to Kansas City for a game against a UMKC team that is much-improved since the two teams met back in early December. The Golden Grizzlies won that game by more than 30 points, but that looks more like an outlier for a Kangaroos squad that is currently 9-7 in league play. One of the reasons the Roos have been successful this season is their improved play at home. Prior to the start of the year, they moved from the Municipal Auditorium into the on-campus Swinney Recreation Center, a venue they are currently 11-2 in this season. If Oakland can channel its early December game, then even a favorable home court won't help UMKC in this one. However, recent trends would indicate this one will be much closer than the previous meeting, especially considering the Roos still stand to improve their seeding by ending the season with a couple of wins.

The Rouse Of The Roos Revisited
When these teams met almost three months ago in Rochester, UMKC was riding high on a winning record achieved through the early part of non-conference play. The Oakland game, at least at the time, looked to put UMKC back in its place, a sign that the team had simply benefited from a very fluffy schedule (UMKC's non-conference strength of schedule ranks 320 out of 345). However, UMKC bounced back in January with several inspired performances, many coming in overtime, that have helped the team climb in the conference standings. Even if the Roos lose out to finish the year, they'll still finish with at least a .500 league record for the first time in five seasons. It's also the most successful season headed by Coach Matt Brown, whose tenure has thus far been marked by plenty of losing and player defections. It's an interesting turn for Brown, a coach who might have been another losing season away from losing his job. However, the job he's done in leading the Roos to a winning record this season should be commended. He's done it with an extremely short bench that's been decimated by injuries, particularly in the frontcourt. Senior leader Spencer Johnson has stepped in to become a rebounding machine for the Roos, and had the team had a few more bodies available, some of those overtime losses could have very well been victories. Whatever happens to UMKC from here, Brown's performance this season should not be soon forgotten. For the first time, he has the Roos winning more games than they lose, which is a big step for a program that has struggled mightily in recent years.

Key Personnel Match-Up
Reggie Hamilton vs. Reggie Chamberlain
When Reggie Hamilton transferred from UMKC, the team was able to pick up another Reggie, Reggie Chamberlain, via the transfer wire. After sitting out last season due to the transfer, Chamberlain has emerged as a legitimate scoring threat for the Roos. Earlier in the season the junior guard wasn't necessarily a featured option for the team, but he has come on as of late and is averaging 16 points per game in February. If he has a weakness worth exploiting, it's his three-point shooting as he's making just 33.3% of his attempts in league play. Reggie Hamilton, meanwhile, has been shooting lights out for Oakland as the team's second-leading scorer, and he's also been the best distributor in The Summit League in conference games. While Hamilton and his backcourt pals will have to contest with both Chamberlain and Bakari Lewis, the Reggie vs. Reggie match-up figures to be interesting to monitor.

UMKC Player To Watch: Jay Cousinard
Jay Cousinard has been a stud for UMKC this season. He gives the team an athletic presence on the wing, someone who can create his own shot off the dribble and draw contact in the paint. While he's not a prolific three-point threat, he's shooting a serviceable 41.1% from beyond the arc in conference play. Most of his damage comes closer to the basket where he is making 61.5% of his two-point attempts, and when he doesn't get a shot off, it's most likely because he's been fouled as he's third in the league in free-throws attempted in league play, just behind WIU's Matt Lander and OU's Keith Benson. The senior also chips in 6.1 rebounds per league contest. The dude should be a First Teamer when this year is over, and he's got just two more games to show why.

Oakland Player To Watch: Drew Valentine
With the seniors playing their last two games at home last weekend, Valentine didn't play his typical amount of minutes which limited his production opportunities just a bit. Against UMKC, however, Oakland will need Valentine's rebounding as the opponents feature a few great rebounders at the forward spot. If Valentine can chip in a few points via offensive boards while helping to limit UMKC's second chance opportunities, the Golden Grizzlies will be more effective at making it tough for guys like Spencer Johnson and Jay Cousinard to rebound. Valentine will likely also spend some time guarding Cousinard, UMKC's featured scorer, so the sophomore will be in a position to have an impact on the game one way or another.

Oakland has won nine straight games over UMKC dating back to the 2006-2007 season. These teams always tend to have high scoring games, though those have more often come at the O'rena than in Kansas City. As noted earlier, this game will be held in UMKC's on-campus gym instead of the historic Municipal Auditorium. The team moved its home games to Swinney Recreation Center this year.

If you're interested in getting in on the conversation with other Oakland fans before, during, and after the game, we highly suggest checking out the Golden Grizzly Hoops forum.

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Kemp Gallineau

Kemp is an industry vet who worked his way up the ranks using his sales and managerial chops. As a general and hotel manager of three of the world’s largest hotels, he proved himself to be one of the strongest salespeople Gaylord Hotels had ever seen and quickly became their Chief Sales Officer. He believes in bringing a critical eye to data, and using it to become as efficient as possible. Data is only useful if translated properly, and Kemp’s history as a record-setting salesperson gives him the insight to help clients and hotel partners accurately make sense of the data they receive.

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Homemade Southwest Spicy Ranch Dressing

Did you know homemade dressings are one of the easiest condiments to make yourself? It’s true. I can easily whip up a batch of ranch dressing in just a couple of minutes! I don’t know why I spent so many years purchasing costly pre-made salad dressings that are filled with nasties and not nearly as flavorful.

Never mind, I do know why I did. It’s because we’ve been programmed as a culture, that is just one of those things you purchase. I’m here to tell you, you don’t need to!

Homemade Southwest Spicy Ranch Dressing #saladdressing #condiments

Scary Ingredients in a Popular Ranch Dressing

Check out the image below. I’ve hi-lighted some of the questionable ingredients by underlining them in red (some of the ingredients I don’t even know WHAT they are).

Ingredients in Ranch Dressing

Some of the biggest red flags: soybean and/or canola oil, more soy, monosodium glutamate, artificial flavors…and more. Yuck, yuck, yuck!

Southwest Spicy Ranch

One of my families favorite dressings is a Ranch style dressing, but one of my (and my oldest sons) fave dressings is this southwest spicy ranch. It makes our taste-buds tingle! If you like spicy, but not that spicy then you’ll probably want to go easy on the cayenne pepper.

This dressing goes particularly well on our favorite steak fajita salad, but we enjoy it on a side salad too. It also makes an awesome dip to go with veggies. If you enjoy spicy and you are a fan of ranch – this one is for you!

Not much for spicy dressings? Check out some of our other family favorites including this Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing or this Creamy Parmesan dressing.

  • 1 c. mayonnaise (be sure to make up a batch of homemade mayonnaise for the fridge and use it in all of your favorite dips and dressings)
  • 1/2 c. sour cream
  • 4 T. milk
  • 2 T. minced onion
  • 1 t. parsley
  • 1/2 t. hot sauce
  • 1/2 t. salt
  • 1/2 t. paprika
  • 1 t. dill weed
  • 1/4-1/2 t. cayenne pepper
  • 1 t. cumin
  • 1/2 garlic powder
  • 1/2 t. pepper

Mix all ingredients. If the dressing is too thick, use more milk to thin it out. Easy peasy! Enjoy on your favorite salad or use as a dip for your veggies!

Do you make your own ranch dressing?

Luke-TrishaTrisha is a happily married homeschooling mom to 4 rambunctious, lovable boys. She and her husband blog at where all of their interests on healthy living, faith, family, and homeschooling collide. Trisha founded and hopes that everyone who visits finds fantastic information and leaves feeling encouraged. You can check out Trisha’s personal blog and follow her on facebook, twitter, pinterest, and google +.

  1. How long is this salad dressing good for stored in the fridge?

    • Hey Joy! I typically note how fresh my milk/cream/mayo I’m using is and go from there. I use raw milk ingredients so there’s typically a longer fridge life. Usually at least a week. Hope that helps!

  2. Are there any healthy recipes that do not contain dairy?

  3. This dressing is FABulous! Now I’d like to save the recipe by printing it….I cannot get it to print without printing out the whole page…5 pages! Any tips? I’d just like the recipe, or the recipe and picture…not all the ads and such. Thanks SO much….this dressing was SO good!

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Master Chef

Last night, my husband paid me the best compliment in the world – at least to me.  He said I had turned into a Master Chef.  Evidently, he has been enjoying my cooking for a while now, and last night threw him over the edge.  He could barely speak through the groans of yummy pleasures he was uttering.

I had a huge grin on my face all through dinner, put there by the pride I could feel oozing from my husband’s pores.   Of course, the smile was quickly misplaced when I came down from Cloud 9 to see all the dishes waiting for me to clean.  But I enjoyed the moment while it lasted.

Some of you may need to hear something like this coming from your husbands and family, so I thought I’d share what I made.  It all started with a simple Christmas gift from my sister….

She gave me this….

And I’ve since been trying every dish in this thing!  Some are too Southwestern-inspired for me,which I’m not a huge fan of,  but a lot of what she makes is just good old fashioned comfort food.   (If you don’t know who the Pioneer Woman is, you haven’t been around blogs much, have you? It’s alright.  She’s fun to read – hope on over and check out her site sometime when you have OODLES of free time at your disposal – The Pioneer Woman

I made her Chicken Pot Pie last night, with her Perfect Pie Crust on top.  She has her pie crust online, so I’ll just share the link with you here Perfect Pie Crust Recipe.  But her Chicken Pot Pie recipe is not on her website, so I’ll type it out.  I must admit that I didn’t use white wine, because we never have it in the house, and I’m CLUELESS when it comes to picking out a wine to cook with (unless it says “cooking wine” but EVERYONE says never to use cooking wine in your cooking – Go figure!).  I also left out the chicken bouillon cube, because I didn’t have any left in my pantry.  Oops!  And finally, when it came to the seasonings, I pulled out an Herbes de Provence that I got as a wedding gift (5 years ago!) that hasn’t been used much.  I never know what to use it in, and this seemed like the right thing to do.

But I’ve made it before, and it is great as is.

The Pioneer Woman’s Chicken Pot Pie

3 celery stalks

3 medium carrots, peeled

1 large yellow onion

4 Tbs (1/2 stick) butter

½ cup frozen pees

2 cups cooked chicken

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 cups low sodium chicken broth

1 chicken bouillon cube

¼ cup white wine (optional)

1 cup heavy cream

1 tsp ground thyme

1 tsp kosher salt, or more to taste

Black pepper to taste

1 pie crust

Preheat oven to 400̊. Begin by finely dicing the vegetables. Slice the celery stalks into narrow strips, and then slice in the other direction to create a fine dice. Repeat this process with the carrots and the onion. Melt the butter in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onion, carrots, celery and peas. Sauté until vegetables start to turn translucent, a couple of minutes. Add the chicken and stir to combine. Sprinkle the flour evenly over the vegetables and chicken and stir to combine. Cook for a couple of minutes, stirring gently. Pour in the chicken broth, stirring constantly. Stir in the bouillon cube and wine, if using. The flour will combine with the chicken to create a delicious gravy. Pour in the cream and stir. Allow the mixture to cook over low heat, thickening gradually, about 4 minutes. Season with the thyme, salt and pepper. Remove from the heat. Taste and adjust the seasonings as needed. Be sure it’s adequately salted! Pour the chicken mixture into a deep pie pan or small casserole dish. Roll out the crust so that it’s 1 inch larger than the pan. Place the crust on top of the chicken mixture and cut small slits in the top. Press the crust gently into the sides of the dish to seal. Bake for 30 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving. Use a large spoon to serve.

Let me know if any of you try it! I’d love to hear what your family says.!

  1. Good job husband...what a great compliment!

  2. Bob decided I was amazingly awesome sent from God above last year when I made the Malbro Man sandwhich. I got that book for Christmas, I told him I was buying myself a Christmas present. He know says he doesn't know if the present was for me or him.

  3. I LOVE the Pioneer Woman! Her Hot Crash Potatoes are a favorite here!

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Tragic Hope

today i got to shoot some product shots for my friend Zach (of who i generally refer to  as Zach n Abby) for his new shop on Big Cartel. the shirts aren't available yet but here is the website:
we had good fun and i reallllllly like the designs.
i know, i said i was gonna post another installment of the weekly dose.
i'm working on it- PROMISE:)
happy day of football to all you football watching people.
i will be drawing
xox, rachel

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  1. My favorite is the tree t-shirt. Great pictures Rachel!


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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

What would you do with a Billion Dollars? (Addendum)

I typically don't like to edit my posts to provide additional information because it might be missed by those people who have already read my post.

After reading The Disney Blog and MouseExtra's posts about this news, I have to say that there is another major bit of contention that needs to be addressed if they want the expenditure of $1 Billion to make a bit of difference.

That bit of contention is the various ballot proposals that seem to be flying around Anaheim vying for the City Counsel's attention.

If I'm reading the various articles correctly, land developers want to build non-Disney housing, more specifically low-income housing, within a stone's throw of the Happiest Place on Earth.

I'm sure this housing would mostly be used by Disney Cast Members but I can see why Disney isn't happy about such requests.  They want as close to absolute control over the going's on in and around Anaheim as it will have a direct impact on their revenue stream.

The other thing that seems to be trying to capture the City Counsel's attention is that a very vocal minority of non-Disney dependant small businesses and locals are tired of the influence Disney exerts over the politics in Anaheim.  They are tired of the constant fireworks and disruptions to their life do to Disneyland being their neighbor.

To them, I say "boo hoo, cry me a river".  That would by like complaining to the Salt Lake City Council about the influence The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has on the politics and economy of the city and more importantly the State of Utah.  It would be like complaining that the Vatican's politics are too influenced by the Catholic Church.  Or, more secularly, that Bentonville, Arkansas is too influenced by Wal-Mart and Hollywood is too influenced by the wishes and desires of the Democratic Party.

In the case of Anaheim, Salt Lake City, and The Vatican City, these towns/cities were pretty much put on the map by the entity that is providing the "influence" on politics.

In the case of all the examples I gave, people moving into those areas should know what they are getting into.  If you don't:  A) you haven't done your research B) you live under a rock

I can probably safely say that there are very few people who call Anaheim home that were living there when it was just an orange grove.  They knew Disneyland was there.  They knew Disneyland is responsible for most of the action that goes on in that town and made it what it is today.

A couple people had the following to say on a thread started on Paul Barrie  & Patrick Hurd's Window to the Magic forum's (Anti-Disney Ballot Proposal in Anaheim)

Mouselounge said:

This is a case of the city biting the hand that feeds it.

Abovethefirehouse said:

those people that are complaining are punks. Disneyland was there before residential area was there and they need to shut up. they are the ones that moved next to Disneyland so they need to deal with it. 98% of the stuff out there is because Disneyland is there so people open a business or what ever. [Edited for spelling]

Mortis said:

I think Disney should forget doing a third park in CA and look elsewhere. Maybe Texas or mid West.

I myself commented that I wonder what will be the straw the breaks the camel's back and forces Disney to tell Anaheim to kiss off.

But, once $1 Billion is expended, that is not likely to happen.  It would just be stupid.

So, in addition to the Customer Service problem, Disney executives really need to settle this dispute with Anaheim and it's constituents.  The last thing people want to do is come and vacation inside a political war-zone.

John said...

Nice post.

Btw, the Low Income Housing thing is a red herring. For the development in question less than 15% of the housing would qualify as low income. And Low Income in SoCal has a whole 'nother meaning anyway. Trust me, the average Disneyland CM still can't afford to live there alone.

The developer is pissed because just the zoning change alone stands to triple the value of the property. The city council members are pissed because the developer won't contribute to their campaign coffers if he doesn't get this deal.

Grumpwurst (Ray) said...

I cannot remember where I read it but I swore that the rules required that the "low income" housing was extremely marked down. But even so, I can see your point. I'm sure the average CM doesn't make enough money to even afford a home that is $250-$300K

Chris Corley said...

I like your blog. Would you consider a link trade?


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New Gwen Stefani Album Coming Sooner Than Expected? [Video]

No Doubt leading woman and eclectic artist Gwen Stefani may be dropping some new material sooner than expected. With her recent role on NBC’s The Voice, Stefani is stepping back into the spotlight as a solo act. It has been some time since we heard any new material from the 45 year-old singer. Disregarding her reunion album and tour with No Doubt, solo-act Stefani has been exploring different avenues of entertainment, fashion, and motherhood. Now that she is off tour and back in the primetime public eye, Stefani is gearing up to take over the charts once again with a follow-up to her Sweet Escape project and dropping new material sooner than fans expected.

According to Stefani’s manager Irving Azoff, she has currently been back and forth from a studio in Miami working on some new tracks for her upcoming solo project with collaborator Pharrell Williams and Diplo. The project is expected for release in December with a surprise performance of her lead single during the latest season of NBC’s The Voice. Azoff let the figurative bomb drop during a panel at New York’s Advertising Week. The news comes as a sweet surprise for fanboys and girls as her manager also let it be known that the album was already in its final stages. Considering that Stefani reached monumental notoriety with her Pharrell-produced Hollaback Girl, this next album could be just what Stefani needs to reclaim her place on the charts as a dance and pop artist.

It has been over eight years since her sophomore solo album. Following the release of her multi-platinum solo debut Love.Angel.Music.Baby., the second project did not reach the same monumental success. Her first project spawned several chart-placing singles. The lead single What You Waiting For? was the first dose of a new sound and style from the blonde singer. The single was fast-paced, dance, and electronic-drastic difference from her reggae,rock, and grunge sound from No Doubt. The following singles Rich Girl (featuring Eve), Hollaback Girl, and Rich were the albums most recognizable and chart-placing singles. If it was not for the collaboration with Pharrell and the Neptunes on HollaBack Girl, it may not have been the success that it was. The single was the first digital single to reach platinum status and helped everyone correctly spell B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

Stefani’s success with Love.Angel.Music.Baby. was followed with a different sound and look for her 2006 sophomore project. Teaming with producers The Neptunes, Perry, Akon, Kanal, and Tim Rice, Stefani headed towards a more hardcore electro, dance floor sound that was a further change from her previous work. The lead single Wind It Up was a heavy-hitting, eardrum pounding single that demanded listeners to head to the dance floor or quickly press skip on their playlist. It was not well received by critics or listeners. The single was one of her least successful to place on the charts. The following title track was a sweet relief from the yodeling monotony of Wind It Up. Akon’s melody and the catchy hook made for a successful endeavor.

Following the success of her two projects, she continued to perform on a solo tour and explore other avenues of notoriety. Her fashion line L.A.M.B. is still a top-selling brand. In 2004, Stefani made an appearance in the Oscar-nominated movie The Aviator. In 2006, she also made an appearance as a mentor on American Idol and another appearance as a recurring judge on The Voice. Alongside Pharrell Williams, it was only a matter of time before Gwen Stefani made an earlier than expected debut of her next solo project. Hopefully with Pharrell’s guidance, Stefani will return to the sound that made her first solo endeavor such a success.

By Tyler Cole

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Police Use "Raid" To Gain Access Into Lily Pond

by Stanely Stuyvesant · August 7, 2008

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We told you about the pow-pow romping around through Lily Pond this weekend, but now we have these exclusive photos of the "bust":

During their several hour inspection, the officers issued many a parking ticket, confiscated countless cigarettes, and refused to lick P.Hil’s red patent-leather pumps. [GofG]

The best part of these photos is watching the expression on the faces of the party-goers and police alike.  The cops are clearly enjoying themselves.  Maybe they used this "surprise visit" as their way in?

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Prisoners eating lunch in Bamlag.

Karlag camp document, 1935: The document concludes that granting a meeting for a camp inmate is one of the highest types of award. However, there were cases when meeting was granted to an individual who had no right for it.

Karlag camp document, 1935: The document discusses how to organize meeting with relatives for camp inmates in order to avoid cases of inmates refusing to see their relatives who came to visit.

Drawing by A.A. Merekov created at Kolyma.

Sveshnikov sketch of "goners" digging through the trash heap for scraps. Some prisoners became so overwhelmed by continual hunger that they were driven to eating anything they could find, including trash. They were known as "goners" in camp slang, as they had only a slim chance of surviving the camps.

Color sketch from Evfrosiniia Kersnovskaia's self-illustrated memoir of goners waiting for camp cooks to dump out food trash. In the accompanying text, Kersnovskaia descibes an episode when "dokhodiagi" (or "goners" in camp slang) were waiting for leftovers from the camp's hospital. They ran to the trash bin and took bits of food including fish scales causing one former professor to regurgitate his meal.

Alla Vasileva's sketch of fellow prisoner Anna Skitmazur reading a book.

Sketch of a man sitting in barracks on bunk deep in contemplation, possibly praying. The barracks are notably well appointed with many personal items left out and unguarded from potential theft at the hands of fellow prisoners.

Sketch of a female prisoner sewing while sitting in a chair.

Black and white photograph of hospital patients in the sun parlor at the Central Hospital of the White Sea Canal forced labor project in 1932. They are receiving fresh-air therapy and surrounded by hospital staff.


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Wasn't Going To Do It

Blog that is. Until I finished BBD Beneath the Sunlit Sky but the urge to blog just hit so here I am.

BTSS is thisclose to being finished. Maybe tomorrow, maybe not. Such is the randomness of my stitching life.

Dinner tonight is chicken and noodles, the middle son said he doesn't like it, won't eat it. Why I don't know, what's not to like about Chicken Noodle Soup? I'll make chicken pot pie for him tomorrow night. I cooked plenty of chicken today so tomorrow is covered. He's at work tonight anyway and will probably eat Waffle House on his way home.

Would have made the pot pie tonight but didn't have pie crusts(no I don't make them from scratch, Pillsbury is my friend) or cream of potato soup and not a potato in the house to make my own. I know I suck majorly at keeping a pantry, icebox stocked these days.

All because of Missy, Deep Inside Missy » Embroidering I shall go…, I'm obsessing over this:

314 Zelda's Fancy Hat Crabapple Hill Studio and can I be happy with just that? No. So now I want to make this for next Halloween: 313 Hocuspocusville Crabapple Hill Studio

Lots of new music, Lucinda Williams, Little Honey, I love Lucinda Williams music. I think she's an acquired taste but Car Wheels on a Gravel Road remains one of my all time favorite CDs. There's Time the Conqueror: Jackson Browne: Jackson never gets old to me. Sure this album is one full of his politics but that's why I love him. He has never sold-out his beliefs. If you have never listened to The Pretender or Late for the Sky, two great albums. They both break my heart and I have loved them since I was ten years old. I'm not sure what it says about my childhood but I went to sleep every night listening to The Pretender from the time I was ten. Sleeps Dark and Silent Gate, The Pretender being the last songs I heard as I fell asleep. I only stopped when I got married and the spousal unit was so not down with going to sleep with Jackson on the stereo every night. Another CD getting lots of play around here is:
Consolers Of The Lonely: The Raconteurs. I love this CD. I can't stop listening to it. And
Evil Urges: My Morning Jacket is another CD I'm enjoying but the spousal unit doesn't care for it. I will also admit here and now that Kid Rock's most recent CD, Rock and Roll Jesus is getting a fair amount of play time too. I can't help it. I like the CD. New Motley Crue is also in the rotation, what am I, 16? But sometimes you just got to rock out you know? And for fun, Def Leppard's The Vault is also in rotation. Armageddon It, OK?

I officially signed up for NaNoWriMo this year. I know the story I want to write for the challenge and haven't made the time to write it. I see my characters, I live with them everyday but just don't make the time to write it down. I get these glimpses into their lives every day, I may or may not make a note at the time. How many wonderful moments of their lives have I dreamed about and not bothered to write down, what if I don't get those moments back? These characters are begging me to tell their story. So November 2008 is their time. Taking advice from Annie Lamott I've given myself permission to write a crappy first draft, it's all about getting the story down in whatever form and leave the editing for later.

It was 38 degrees this morning, I'm happy to report that I pulled out my tan capris that I haven't put on my body since some time last winter, maybe early spring and they are loose. Not falling off but trust me last winter they were stretched tight across my big old stomach. Now they aren't. I do believe the daily walking is actually working. I don't notice it on the scale(the Wii Fit will only admit to me losing about 5 lbs) but I don't care about poundage, I care about the way the fat girl clothes are starting to loosen their grip on my waist, my hips and my butt.

Years ago I read Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating: Gen by Geneen Roth. Food lost it's power over me. I've been portion controlling for almost three years. My only weakness is chips and salsa at the local Mexican restaurant. I do eat the occaisional sweet but it's not often and I don't live my life for chocolate. I like it, I enjoy it, and sometimes, hell yeah, I need a Lindt's Milk Chocolate Truffle, but no more than two, three tops and that is rare. I'm really proud that food no longer rules my life. Yes I spend a lot of time planning meals for the family and fretting over them but it's more because they are difficult, the family--they won't eat anything and they complain like you wouldn't believe, and the honest truth is, if not for them I don't know that I'd ever eat. That was a shocking realization for me. Food used to be my every thing. It was my dirty little secret. But the weight didn't come off. I cut tons of stuff out of my diet, I don't eat a lot of chips and intentionally buy ones that I don't care for so I'm not tempted, the only real sugar I get in my diet on a daily basis is the sugar in my coffee, but I'm not giving that up. I have to have something. I only drink coffee in the morning, unless I get a Starbucks or a Cafe Carmel at the Coffee Beanery but that is rare, like once a month.

So I had to cowboy up and accept the fact that I had to exercise. There was no way around it. I have to move. Remember Susan Powter, she preached the importance of getting your fat butt off the couch and moving(I still love the story when she's walking and notices that her thighs aren't rubbing together any more). So now that's what I'm doing. Every morning that I can, I get up and Polly Prissypants and I walk. Some mornings we make it two miles, other days just a mile but I'm moving. Some days I walk a second time with my friend Pam and her son John and other days I might walk a third time if Andrea, another friend, wants to walk at night. I rarely turn down an opportunity to walk(Pam, we will not mention Saturday night, there were other things to consider, LOL) but as a general rule if someone invites me walk, I walk even if I just got back. Polly and I walk between five and six a.m. Andrea stays on me about doing sprints and I don't like walking once the sun is up because do people driving along the highway really need to watch the fat girl and the little yellow dog run? It's not pretty. So we go before sunrise and walk, and sprint, and try not to throw up. Some days when I sprint I get all excited and run a little too much and I want to hurl. People aren't too happy when someone throws up on their lawn and people are even less thrilled when one throws up all over the brand spanking new sidewalks. So I try to stay out of the puke zone but I am trying to do some sprints. I am trying to keep the walking in perspective, it's meditation time for me, dream time. I take the whole visualization thing to a new level when walking. It's the only reason I can bring myself to do it every morning when I'd rather lay on the couch and drink coffee and watch AMC. Anyone catch the Frankenstein Marathon this weekend?

Every morning when I walk with Polly I work out my story, the one I want to write for NaNoWriMo, I tell parts of it, play out scenes of my characters. I'm walking, dreaming and writing, if only in my mind. It's why I can put my shoes on every day and walk. I don't take an iPod, it's just me and Polly, the quiet, the cars passing on the highway, other walkers/runners. It's dark and I'm making up a story.

I don't know why I feel the need to write this now, because even though I've been walking for months, I'm still fat, my stomach isn't looking any smaller in the mirror but I know something is happening because of my clothes and finally that is enough for me. I can live with small changes. I am doing this for me and for no other reason, not to fit in a certain pair of jeans, not for any other reason than it's the right thing for me right now. So I'm walking, I'm moving, and I'm wanting to do this and I don't beat myself up on days when I don't walk.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Vacation, Sorta, Kinda, Maybe

The Spousal Unit is on vacation this week. He's also comtemplating a major, change your life, job change. So with gas prices being crazy high we haven't really played tourist in our area. Today after reading an article in Garden & Gun magazine about the 100 Southern Foods One Should Eat Before Dying, the spousal unit and I opted to try the grouper at the Seagrove Village Market Cafe. He's worked out in this area a lot but never stopped in because he wasn't sure what it was, and since it's Seagrove you can count on it being expensive. Lunch cost us $29. I got the fried grouper basket with cole slaw($12.99), he got the fried grouper sandwich($10.99). We each got a tea. First of all, if you are ever in the Seagrove area, stop in. The food was great. We are picky about our grouper and this rates up there with the best. The BBQ Express where I used to work and which no longer exists, was our favorite but the Seagrove Village Market Cafe is pretty darn tasty. Worth the drive and Hartley the cat enjoyed a bit of my grouper. We also heard how he took out a squirrel the week before, apparently one group of diners thought that rocked, another didn't realize they were dining ala safari. The lady working there didn't know about the mention in Garden & Gun magazine and was confused when I mentioned the title of the magazine.

The Cozy Corner in Memphis is mentioned for their Cornish Hens. When I lived in Memphis and worked at UT I didn't know about the Cornish Hens, I always ordered the BBQ. Now I need to go back and try these. Great BBQ though.

The picture below is of the Seaside Post Office. If you have seen the movie, The Truman Show with Jim Carey, then you have already visited Seaside, FL. It's a pretty little town but too perfect in my opinion. I prefer Blue Mountian, Grayton and Seagrove. They are a little more lived in.
This is a picture of the water today in South Walton County. Forever the spousal unit has said our Gulf is their Gulf, but today he commented that the water really is prettier over in Destin.

He's a lonely bird, looking at the water, wondering which beachgoer might offer him up a potato chip, or a bit of a sandwich.

This is the beach from another angle. Condo chairs set up waiting to be occupied. I could have stayed here all day. We even saw a sea turtle.

Another picture of the water because can you really get too much of this?

There are a few more places on the Garden & Gun list I hope we can try this week while the spousal unit is off pondering his future. A few are in Alabama, one or two the other side of Panama City. Then again we may need to just hang around the house and take care of grown up business like painting, cleaning. laundry, nah, why would we do something like that when the picture above is a just a few minutes away?
Thanks for the props on Coffin Buzz! I loved stitching it and dyeing it.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Naughty Blogger

I haven't blogged a lot recently as it's come to my attention that I do in fact have a life. That was a shock to me because I'm a pretty boring, stay at home, antisocial kind of girl. To discover that my days are full(or maybe since my laptop is the only computer in the house I'm forced to fight for it when I want to use it and sometimes it's really just not worth the battle), my computer time has been limited. I have done some knitting on my Alien Illusion scarf from Stitch N Bitch. I started this scarf probably four years ago. It was whenever the first Stitch N Bitch book was released. I've restarted it many times because I would mess up and not know how to unravel stitches so I just unraveled the whole thing and start over, this happened at least four times over the years, maybe more. But I don't mind, with each unravel I become a better knitter. I now know and completely understand how important it is to know what side you are knitting on, DUH, and to make sure that you know right side from wrong side. I'm kind of slow. Below is my progress from maybe a week ago, I've started a third Alien face and am at the halfway mark on him already. Click to enlarge the picture Yesterday was my birthday. My friend Pam, gifted me with the Pistoulet coffee server. It matches my dishes and my addiction to coffee, and my love for all things that take up kitchen counter space. The top is for storing coffee, underneath there is a spot to store your coffee filters, the left side has a place for your spoon and the right side has slots for sugar packets and coffee creamer packets. To say I love it is an understatement.

To keep this in the theme of coffee, that wonderful elixir of the gods, here is my finished Coffin Buzz. The complimentary chart can be found here:
Paulette, thank you for such a great design!
I will preface this by saying my photography as usual sucks but I hope you get the idea of what I did to reach the framed finish.

I stitched the design on 28ct antique white monaco which I purchased on clearance at A.C. Moore for $1. The floss is DMC 3371. Which I got for maybe 35 cents at A.C. Moore or 29 cents at JoAnn. I wanted to dye my fabric after stitching because I am not an experienced fabric dyer. I am not, disciplined and would probably ended up with antiqued hands before I finished stitching my project. So once the stitching was done I wanted a blotchy, leaky attic look to the fabric. I wanted to try something other than just coffee dyeing so I started out blotching up the fabric in places with some RIT Golden Yellow dye. I want to stress that I have no idea what the effect of RIT dye will do to fabric over the next 50 or 100 years. I don't care. I'm not a conservationist. I'm someone who can't always afford to purchase hand-dyed linen but loves the affect so I, in some cases, decide to do it myself. If I'm able to enjoy the finished project for any length of time then it's served it's purpose for me anyway, any time after that that my needlework survives and others can enjoy it well that's gravy. When the youngest son saw the fabric as it appears in the picture below he commented that it looked like the cats peed on it. Obviously my cats need more water in their diet:

The top part of the fabric is a bit darker than the bottom because it sat draped over the bowl for 20 minutes or so while the bottom bit got a dunking in the dye. I let it dry in the sun. Then it took a bath in some two day old coffee with a few tablespoons of vinegar. Does anyone remember the Wife Swap episode where the Manhatten wife went to the home of the family in Mississippi(I think) and was grossed out that the morning coffee was still sitting around in the pot that afternoon? Uh it is not unusual for coffee to sit in my pot for a day or two. Especially if I'm wanting to use it for something and keep thinking I'll get to it that afternoon. So yes, this coffee sat in my pot for two days because I hated to pour it out and also I'm trying to cut back a bit on my coffee drinking and wasn't sure if I'd make a pot the next day and no way am I going to make coffee just for the purpose of dyeing some fabric. So call me gross. I can deal.

Then I once again let it dry in the sun. After that I put on some gloves, the vinyl food service kind that you can pick up at the Dollar Tree for $1. I poured some RIT Tan dye on my finger tips and started blotching up the fabric. I wasn't thrilled with the progress so I poured some in my palm and flung it at the fabric. Flinging dye onto fabric is a very technical and precise process, NOT! When I was finished this is what I had:

I let it dry for a bit in the sun. Then decided to "set" the dye job by tossing it in my dryer with an old kitchen towel. Over all I was pretty happy with the result.
Below you can see it framed. I found the frame at the Store Who Shall Not Be Named for $5.

Here's a detail of the frame:

Yes, I mounted it on sticky board, yes I used RIT Dye, No I did not follow any kind of conservationist tips for preserving needlework for future generations. I did this because it was fun, because when it comes right down to it I am a ghetto cross stitcher. I still use the evil aida at times and don't mind it one little bit.
As needleworkers we all try to use the best quality supplies we can but also as cross stitchers it's so easy to get stuck in the idea that we have to use this linen or that thread and we don't venture outside our comfort zones. Sometimes I wonder if this is why cross stitchers get absolutely no respect in the crafting world except from other cross stitchers. Knitters, crocheters, quilters, they all use patterns just like we do, but for some reason our little Xs don't seem to get the respect that a knit and a purl stitch have acquired and that breaks my heart.
The needlework that is created from the little X is profound and we cross stitchers need show the world that we rock the needle as well as any other crafters that take their needle of choice in hand. We are their equal. Let's step up, put the funk in those Piecemaker 26 needles and show the crafty world what we are made of!

Thursday, October 02, 2008

October Update

In September I finished Plum Street Sampler's Coffin Buzz freebie and I'll take a picture when I find my camera. I also still have to dye my fabric. I stitched it on 28 ct antique white monaco with DMC 3371 with the intention of dyeing it when the stitching was completed. Backwards I know, but I like playing around with the fabric after the stitching.

I also finished the second alien face on my Alien Illusion scarf from Stitch n Bitch. Only four more faces to go.

I really don't know what my October stitching plan is. Lots of things are calling out to me and the way things are going in the world, hunkering down with some crafty goodness is the best way to shut out all the negativity.

Pictures to come as soon as I find my camera. If you don't want to read the political rant, skip to the bottom and read the question at the end of the post.

Political Update:

The Senate, in their infinite wisdom(insert sarcarstic tone here)passed the bail-out, oh excuse me, the "rescue" bill last night. Oh did anyone notice that they added $150 billion of crap to this bill to encourage Senators to vote for this bill? I would try to read through the bill and give you all a heads up but while the House bill was 110 pages, the Senate version is something like 400 pages. Talk about a "crap sandwich". They don't even know that this bill will work. They won't listen to economists, they are following the advice of a treasury secretary who wants absolute power, a president who won't be in power in four months, and to quote Lou Dobbs, "What are they? A bunch of drunks?" in reference to the Senators who voted in this joke of a bill.

One bit of sweetner added to this bill is that insurance companies must cover mental illness like any other illness. I realize this is important but what the H-E-double hockey sticks with lipstick does this have to do with the current economic crisis? Before all is said and done we all are probably going to appreciate that extra coverage, where is my prozac?

*OK I should have waited to catch the early morning news, here are some things added to this bill and I hope I have these correct:

Tax breaks for people who make kids wooden arrows, hmmm, very important to our economy doncha think--this must have been an absolute necessity.

Tax breaks for the makers of rum in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Let's hope prices go down because before this is all over we'll need a few gallons to ease the pain.

Tax breaks for wool research. The spousal unit pointed out that's one that maybe I could get behind. Ok maybe I won't complain too loudly. This could be important for everyone's fiber future.

and one for the NASCAR vote:

Tax breaks for auto racing tracks or something like that.

Ok what does any of this have to do with what Warren Buffet refers to as an economic Pearl Harbor? Why in the world can't the collapse of our world as we know it be enough for these sell their souls to the highest bidder politicians?

Energy tax breaks are included which like the mental health issue is very important but not for this bill. This is an emergency bill, a bill to help ease a country wide financial crisis. Let's get real, keep it within the confines of the crisis at hand and really truly be bipartisan and make a decision for love of country not who donates the most money to your compaign.

If these people in power want to know why people are angry, why they are against this bill, they need only to read through the 400 pages of this bunch of bull and see why we have no faith, not one ounce of trust in the powers that be. Oh please I understand you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, that's how things are done to the tune of $850 billion dollars. But hey they'll just borrow it from China and it's all good. I mean we're just talking about Monopoly money aren't we, it's not like it's real money. I mean the American taxpayer is bottomless well of money.

Please people, get angry, not that phone calls and emails work, these people believe they know more than we do, that we, the rank and file citizen can't wrap our brains around the importance of the free flow of cash to businesses, YES WE DO. We support that, we don't support is a bunch a nonsense that should be saved for other legislation. Once again, nothing is about the crisis at hand, it's all about taking a crisis and twisting it to someone else's wants.

I can only hope the Congress is so PO'd that the Senate went on and voted that they will vote down this new version of the bill and spend time rewriting it, focus on the real issues of this economic crisis. Why can't they see that this is something that takes some time, that deserves some serious comtemplation? Oh wait, I'm sorry they all want to get home and campaign. Because we all know that campaigning is the most important thing, let's forget all about our day jobs and just rush through some substandard legislation that absolutely no one wants, (and aren't our Senators and Congressmen supposed to be our voice in Washington), sorry--legislation no one wants but a lame duck president and a treasury secretary that wants nothing less than absolute power. Oh yeah, I'm comforted.

BTW, if the government were to give you the money instead of Wall Street or the banks that are foreclosing on all these homes and threatening to cut off people's credit lines, what would you do with it? We'll go with the $90,000 figure that has been tossed around as a number that this bail-out will cost each American or I've also read that it will eventually cost each American household $450,000 so where would you start? What would you buy to stimulate the economy? Post your list in comments or better yet your blog, let us know in comments and let's have some fun.

**and for a little Armageddon fun, if the world as you know it would end tomorrow what five luxury items would you stock pile? Yes I know it's not really funny, probably too close to true, but I'm interested to see what things people find important in their lives that if it wasn't readily available, would bring a little joy in dark times. I'm not talking necessities, we can all agree that food is important, we're talking luxury items, like in my house coffee would be a luxury item because I'm the only one that drinks it. You know those things you just whip out the credit card to purchase or of course the super secret stash cash, without thinking twice about it. So think about what you would miss if you didn't have that credit card handy or couldn't just run out to the store to pick up _________________.

How long could you survive on your stash without purchasing anything new? I could stitch forever because I have some kitted up Teresa Wentzlers and Heaven and Earth Designs. The TWs alone would keep me busy for a few years

I'll post both my lists tomorrow. Oh I can do me some stimulating......and some stockpiling.


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Sunday, May 31, 2009

They Came; They Packed; They Marked My Boxes in Turkish

And then they left! All in one day. It was incredible and stressful and bizarre. Amazing to see your whole material life packed and wrapped and crated and gone.

It took half the neighborhood to watch the kids and keep an eye on the many movers to make sure they didn't get too creative with their packing. (I tell you Vicki D is the woman you want on your side--she watches movers like a hawk!)

Ten doener and pommes later, I was standing in my empty, filthy house surrounded by an exhausted family.

Today we cleaned, and then I was standing in my empty, clean house surrounded by an exhausted family.

This last week here in Germany is proceeding in an amazing manner. I can't bear to tell you about it all right now, but I am taking pictures and making memories and crying left and right. I really can't bear to be in my empty house because it is like a giant ghost. Today I cried uncontrollably for three or four minutes with my head and half my torso deep in the belly of a kitchen cabinet I was cleaning. I just couldn't stop thinking about the hours I spent in that kitchen in the company of incredible friends. Sometimes we solved the problems of the world sitting around the kitchen table, sometimes we just solved the problems of the moment.

More soon, friends, more soon. We four are now sharing a hotel room, and tomorrow we retrieve the dogs from the kennel and it will be "we six" sharing a hotel room for two more nights.

Mom said...

You are ausgeseichnet! (OK, I couldn't check that spelling.) ALL of you over there. I'm not sure I have assimilated the fact that we will not be with you all again in the same place at the same time. But incredible memories fill my heart and I am utterly grateful to have been a tiny part of what you all have known and done. I subscribe to the Heron Island in 2010 plan because I simply can't say good-bye to such wonderful people. Thank you for all that you have done and been. Bis bald!

JES said...

2010 it is as none of us can think of anything other than being together again! We love you too 'Mom' and rejoice in the friendship you have brought our way:)

Fizi said...

I am crying for you too. I, too, am sad that we will never sit around your kitchen table, drinking coffee, trying to actually finish a conversation or even just a sentence. It seems that so many things went unsaid.

Thank you for your wonderful community and company. It was a truly special place with truly special people.

Scottie Mom said...

You don't need to know what is in the boxes...when you get to KS just pretend it is Christmas (but you get used stuff). Seriously, your post reminds me how moving is the people you leave behind. Hang in there Margaret!


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Are nuts healthy?

Yesterday I talked about the benefits of quitting smoking, which most of you already know. What you probably didn’t know is the health benefits of eating nuts.

Studies show that people with the highest intake of nuts (5x or more a week) have a 35% lower risk of coronary heart disease. Nuts have also been shown to reduce the risk of cancer, respiratory disease and all-cause mortality. With these impressive benefits it’s a no-brainer to add more nuts to your diet.

Nuts make a great snack. Studies have shown that 1 oz. (about a handful) a day is optimal. You also could start adding nuts into recipes instead. You’ll likely live longer if you do!

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lunes, 25 de abril de 2016

Why I am passionate about education?

Let me start by apologizing. English is not my first language and I have to admit I speak english like a horse.
I never liked school. I am dyslexic and with ADD. I finished school and started my own business at the age of 19. Then you get into life and forget school until .... you go it, until you have kids.
 When I had my first kid 10 years ago I started questioning myself about the fact that we are not providing our kids with the right tools to face life. After working for 25 years with top executives around the world in over a dozen countries, I got to a simple conclusion: We need more happy people in our planet. Sounds naive? Maybe, but just think about it: A CEO with the power to influence thousands of people, with a big fat paycheck at the end of each month and living by antidepressants and anxiety drugs. It is non-sense. It will affect his family, his work environment and his community.... non-sense. And why? Probably because at the age of 13 to 16 he didn't got the chance to figure out what was his real passion in life, what does he really like to do, what brings him joy, happiness and satisfaction and how to get the right tools to turn that passion into his way of living.
 I don't know about you but every time I look at my kids I think that I want them to be happy, I want them to realize that 80% of their conscious life as an adult they will spend working and I can't help by wonder: If they spend this 80% doing what they like the most, do they have a better chance to be happy? If they do, is this going to positive affect their families and communities? Not sure but WHY NOT trying?
What I am doing today with my team is working hard to help as many teens we can to discover this simple fact and get the right skills to awake the potential and talents every kid have within. Why us? .... Well, why not?

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monoid-extras- Various extra monoid-related definitions and utilities
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Heterogeneous lists of monoids.

Heterogeneous monoidal lists

The idea of heterogeneous lists has been around for a long time. Here, we adopt heterogeneous lists where the element types are all monoids: this allows us to leave out identity values, so that a heterogeneous list containing only a single non-identity value can be created without incurring constraints due to all the other types, by leaving all the other values out.

type ::: a l = (Option a, l)Source

(*:) :: a -> l -> a ::: lSource

class MList l whereSource

Type class for heterogeneous monoidal lists, with a single method allowing construction of an empty list.

empty :: lSource

The empty heterogeneous list of type l. Of course, empty == mempty, but unlike mempty, empty does not require Monoid constraints on all the elements of l.

MList ()
MList l => MList (::: a l)

Accessing embedded values

class l :>: a whereSource

The relation l :>: a holds when a is the type of an element in l. For example, (Char ::: Int ::: Bool ::: Nil) :>: Int.

inj :: a -> lSource

Inject a value into an otherwise empty heterogeneous list.

get :: l -> Option aSource

Get the value of type a from a heterogeneous list, if there is one.

alt :: (Option a -> Option a) -> l -> lSource

Alter the value of type a by applying the given function to it.

:>: t a => (::: b t) :>: a
MList t => (::: a t) :>: a

Monoid actions of heterogeneous lists

Monoidal heterogeneous lists may act on one another as you would expect, with each element in the first list acting on each in the second. Unfortunately, coding this up in type class instances is a bit fiddly.

newtype SM m Source

SM, an abbreviation for "single monoid" (as opposed to a heterogeneous list of monoids), is only used internally to help guide instance selection when defining the action of heterogeneous monoidal lists on each other.

SM m

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repa-io- Read and write Repa arrays in various formats.

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Read and write matrices as ASCII text files.

The file format is like:

	MATRIX			-- header
	100 100			-- width and height
	1.23 1.56 1.23 ...	-- data, separated by whitespace

readMatrixFromTextFile :: (Num e, Read e, Unbox e) => FilePath -> IO (Array U DIM2 e)Source

Read a matrix from a text file.

  • WARNING: This is implemented fairly naively, just using Strings under the covers. It will be slow for large data files.
  • It also doesn't do graceful error handling. If the file has the wrong format you'll get a confusing error.

writeMatrixToTextFile :: (Show e, Source r e) => FilePath -> Array r DIM2 e -> IO ()Source

Write a matrix as a text file.


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Rename All Files At Once

Imagine you have transferred images from all your devices such as Digital Camera, Mobile, etc. etc. into the same folder!
Everything seems fine, except…the file names…the devices had given a separate name to your image files, and you want them to be one.
Its really simple to rename all files at once.

  1. Just select all the files (Ctrl + A) and right-click on the first file and select “Rename…
  2. Rename the first ile and you will notice that all the files have been renamed by that name, ie. mypix.jpg, mypix(1).jpg, mypix(3).jpg

Was that tough?
You can also use this to rename any other files other than images :)

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On Death and Dying in Dungeons & Dragons

These vultures surely do not represent players!
I'd be sure to tell them, you know?

I'm a fan of communicating information before-hand, because I never want to have a conversation that a player starts by saying "Well, my character would have known beforehand. . ." because they are likely right.

Who likes to lose an argument? Not this guy!

However, the players won't have the information about the below, they will have only information about the effects.

In addition, I'm not submitting the following article for perusal because I have any sort of moral platform against the desecration of the dead. I mean, if the players want to loot their dead companion and leave his body in the dungeon, that's ok!

I think it is a pretty fantastic fantasy world that we are imagining here, and that it might be made better if we stopped thinking so scientifically about it.

What happens at death?

At the moment of death, the soul of the player is immediately trapped within their body. They are trapped within their body, for the many, many, hours it takes their body to truly, fully, die. However, they are separated from all the influences that have made them who they were in life. They remain in their corpse in their most pure and ideal form, consisting of nothing but oceans of emotion and thought.

Of course they are exposed to the endless winds of the far realm.

No longer feeling the bond they once felt with their companions, they remain aware of all that transpires around them. If this activity is heinous enough, it will reinvigorate their bond with the prime, and they will not be able to pass on, eventually becoming undead. Certain awkward passions, such as hungering for human flesh, or the torture and molestations of innocents will also cause this bond to be strengthened. So will being forced ahead of the party at sword-point

The only way to insure the passage of the soul from the material, is to expose it to comfort. A funeral, wake, ceremony of some kind comforts the raw spirit, and it passes on, knowing that nothing is left for it to do.

What happens when we loot the body?

1. The body or spirit rises as an undead. The undead that is created has no relation to the hit die of the deceased. The abuser of more than one low level henchmen has been surprised by a vengeful specter.

2. The deceased opens a passage from the far realms into the prime. Those who have treated it poorly are blasted with this energy and lose 1-4 life levels.

3. A haunting occurs. The deceased becomes focused on a specific being and begins to affect their life. This can involve the character saying things he did not mean to say, randomly attacking the wrong person, or simply having a variable penalty on attack rolls.

4. You become a target of the dead. Undead rise up and hunt you no matter where you go for your offenses against the dead.

5. Curse of the bounty. Any loot or items taken from a dead person who has not bequeathed them to you, result in a curse. A stolen sword will strike a friend. A magical protection will fail. A wand will backfire.

6. The dead spirit possesses the body, producing sores, boils, and eventually killing the victim creating more undead horrors.

7. The clock curse. The items you stole and the corpse you left have had no downside so far as you can see. But it is not long till you will have to pay that debt with your life.

8. An undead will rise that will haunt the victim, harassing him, chasing him, getting him run out of town. However if this undead were slain, a doom would befall the victim.

Note that these curses affect those who loot the recently dead. The long dead have passed on, but they have other protections.

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  1. What if the deceased perished at the hands of enemy soldiers in a war? Hundreds or even thousands of people die in massed battle. Just as many (and more) die of wounds days or weeks later. Will a slain army rise from the dead if their bodies are looted without proper burial? Or will the site of a battle turn into a permanent haunt?

    Or is this meant to apply only to adventurers? If so, how are you not targeting a specific action as undesireable? The list above includes one item that does not have a well defined consequence. Bu all of them are bad. Do we assume that all who are slain and robbed before the spirit passes on (how long does that take, anyway?) invariably curse their tormentors?

    I love the idea of a rule concerning death, undeath and curses. But this is a seed. How might we help it grow into a tree?

    1. What if that happened? Will the slain army rise?

      Like, these are questions for the Dungeon Master, and his worldbuilding.

    2. In the Witcher 2 there is an awesome segment of the game where you have to fight your way through a battlefield of ghosts/specters. The dead don't know they are dead, and continue to fight an eternal battle. Could be a really cool way to handle battlefields and mass death in campaigns - especially if you have some high level PCs who's base gets attacked. If the enemy is defeated, but left to rot before their fortress, it might be fun to have the dead haunt around their castle/tower/whatever until they can preform some kind of ritual to turn them all.

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  3. I am not opposed to a version of this idea - perhaps this is what Clerics are for, to release the dead from thier earthly imprisonment. This has been proposed before, I think blog of holding had a good bit on it.

    I do worry a bit that this sounds like an artifical morl constraint on certain anti-social character behaviour. "You must not leave a man behind or loot the dead ir the ghosts will get you." Much more comfortable as a general fantasy concept "the unshriven dead return".

    1. The fact that it dictates appropriate character behavior is a completely fortuitous side effect!

  4. I always loved how a ghost gains an ethereal version of the equipment on their corpse in 3.5e/Pathfinder. This has some interesting implications.

    1) A ghost has a good reason to be angry if their corpse is looted, but might be more accepting if an ally takes something for a greater good.

    2) It influences culture. One of my NPCs comes from a ancestral oriented tribe where the living honors their ancesters while the spirits of their forefathers continue to serve the community beyond the grave. It's customary to bury the dead with their equipment to honor them and enable them to continue to help the tribe in the afterlife. At the same time, it's encouraged that people bestow their belongings to their kin in order to help future generations.

    3) Graverobbing becomes sensitive to time and the materialistic nature of the deceased. A person who died ages ago and passed fully into the afterlife won't care if someone loots their grave. Robbing the grave of an ancient materialistic king, however, may result in the king rising from the grave as an undead.

  5. It would be cool if you had to bribe and/or fight your way through the afterlife. So if you leave someone without a weapon in thier dead hands, or money, then they have to come back becasue they couldn't go through.

  6. Of maybe a cool set of clothes so they can CHA their way through. And if they can't then you see them in your dreams and have to help them.

  7. And if you have someone formally in your service then you are responsible for whatever happens to them after death becasue feudal culture, so thats why it effects some people and not others

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Monday, January 5, 2015

HISHE Batman v Superman Trailer

Happy 1/5/15, everyone! It's been a while since I've posted anything from the How It Should Have Ended crew. But I was scanning their YouTube page the other day and was pleasantly surprised to see that they made a new entry for the upcoming Batman v Superman clusteref--k that I'm sure Zack Snyder, the genius behind 300, will unload like a bodily function onto filmgoers everywhere.

Harsh? Yes, yet word of his last superhero film, Man of Steel, cemented my decision to stay away. The guy has no viable concept of story or character, his work is often offensive to woman (and/or feminists), nor is his photographic composition and visual style as good as Michael Bay's (for which, sigh, the guy genuinely has a gift and is known to work hard at). And Snyder's pictures, from a storytelling perspective, are actively bad to me, not merely bland or incompetent. (Feel free to call in, folks. That number again is 300!)

Snyder is thus worse than both Bay and Brett Ratner, and I think his taking the reins for both Superman and Batman and the Justice League and who gives a f--k anymore, Warner Bros/DC seems to have abandoned any concern for or dedication to quality filmmaking. They're just superhero films, I can find better things to do.

Not a hyperbolic stance at all, right?

So, apparently, a teaser trailer for BvS played at this year's Comic-Con, and the HISHE team responded in the way I've come to expect from them: with charm and cleverness. It helps that I'm a big fan of all their vids of Bruce and Clark chilling out. These guys keep the characters recognizable and reasonably-consistent, posing Kent and Wayne as the best of buddies. It's just that they both have big egos and time to d--K around with each other - two grown up kids living their dreams, without a care. Let's watch:

I was not going to post any more fan-made gems, but this one made me laugh hard enough to make it worthwhile for us all...If you look at that Super Cafe video I linked to above, you'll realize how long the HISHE people have been having fun with this material.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Sharing IntelliJ IDEA Project Files in Version Control

There are quite a few benefits to having IDE project files properly stored under version control:

  • most people want to use an IDE and will need to configure the project somehow
  • a shared environment reduces costs within a corporate workplace
  • a VCed project means that the project file branches with your codebase. Need to work on an old branch? No problem, the project file already exists.
  • casual contributors will have an easier time making patches for your project
  • an IDE can provide checkstyle and coding standards to your code
And when the files are stored improperly in version control, you create a nice changelist headache for yourself and turn away the casual contributor.

Here are three simple rules on how to properly share an IntelliJ IDEA project file in version control:

Rule #1 - Check-in the .ipr and .iml files
Rule #2 - Set an ignore flag for the .iws file (your workspace file). All proper VCSs allow you to do this.
Rule #3 - Make IDEA Project Variables for all the variables that vary (it's kinda the definition of variable, you know). Some common variables you'll probably need are "Tomcat Home", "Groovy Home", and "JDK Version".

Creating variables is really easy. Open the .ipr/.iml in a text editor and scan for hardcoded paths or values. When you find one just replace it with $variable_name$. Now when IDEA starts, it prompts you for those variables if they are not defined. These are IDEA variable stored in your HOME directory; they have nothing to do with your operating system environment variables. Here's what a prompt looks like:

See that red dialog? Clicking it opens a screen where you can add values to the variables:

Adding a value should be pretty self-explanatory.

The Gotchas - There are a few gotcha's to be aware of...

Using multiple versions of IDEA is not well supported. Most new versions, even minor releases, try to write some extra info to the project files. Not a problem in the corporate world, but more so in the OS one. You might try checking in a backup copy when the project lead upgrade.

Making the JDK Name variable can be somewhat confusing, as it is not a path on your disk. IDEA keeps track globally (for all projects) of your installed JDKs, and each one is given a name. It is easy to find the place in the .ipr where this is specified, but it is not easy to explain to users what their's should be set to. It needs to be the name of an entry from your SDKs in Settings:

Also, changing the inspection profiles can modify the project. The inspections are the codestyle to the project, so it may make sense to have them baked into the .ipr. However, this is an optional place to put them. An inspection profile can be shared or not. If it is shared then it is written to the .ipr, otherwise it is an external file. The Settings screen should be self-explanatory once you understand the Shared checkbox.

Lastly, adding words to the spell checker will add the word to the .ipr file, with a key of your username. I opened a bug for this, as I feel a user's name should never go in the project file, but the JetBrains guys feel that this is OK considering that switching to the ".idea" alternate project layout will separate the files out and avoid the issue. For now, I guess the best advice is to spell words correctly and, if you're not a committer, live with the fact that your project file may be checked out because of this issue.

Is all this worth it? I recently opened the GPars project files, defined an SDK and a Groovy 1.6.7 library, and ran the tests successfully. For me, it was great.

Rule #4 - Profit!

Jason said...

Even better, use the new Directory Based Format rather than a .ipr File. This splits the project configuration into many files under the .idea directory, and these are much easier to merge.

Hamlet D'Arcy said...

I haven't done this yet but it is on my list of things to do. I wanted to document what we did with the GPars project files first!

Or maybe you should make a blog post about the .idea format and send me a link :)

Elmo said...

Almost all the benefits you state are provided by using Maven as the build system. IDEA will import a Maven POM, often completely seamlessly and without intervention. Why duplicate that information in project files.

Netbeans also integrates seamlessly with the Maven POM.

The only IDE project files I ever see in VCS are for Eclipse. I think this speaks more of the failings of Eclipse than it does any merit in versioning IDE project files.


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Friday, 9 March 2012

9/03/12 Story Board for main idea

Here is the step by step story board for our main idea. Its a super hero film which is about a group of 3 goodies and 3 badies which try and beat each other in the struggle of school life.

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