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roll for barbecue check
Apr. 1st, 2005 04:58 pmThe reading went quite well last night, even if it did run a bit short. People clapped enthusiastically, and I saw quite a few people there. There was not any banana bread this time but there were delicious cookies and sliced fruit.
I've got about ten copies of the "Review" here. After the reading, I went around collecting copies from people's empty seats. I did that the last time too, meaning to distribute copies to friends and relatives. Unfortunately, I forgot, and now there are eight or ten copies of old "Reviews" in my room at Mom's. If anyone would like a copy (not just my poem; you get a bunch of other nifty stories as a bonus! Plus possibly an old copy, once I get to Mom's), send me your address. I only have so many copies, but there are supposed to be a ton more scattered around campus.
The reading got out a little early, so I went back to the dorm to grab my D&D stuff and catch the last half of the game. Turns out my mage had spent the hour and a half getting some nifty new spells and a Bag of Tricks. Also, we'd run into another raven, but this one was evil (for those who don't remember, a mage named Dragus has been helping our group along, and he has a raven familar who caws helpfully). This raven is someone else's familiar, and whenver he shows up, bad things happen. Usually involving animals. For example, we got zerg-rushed by rats...then fought dinosaurs...then found some pigs. The pigs weren't really doing anything, just standing around being large and piglike until we attacked them. Our minds immediately went from "Kill it with fire" to "Barbecue." Josh and Matt, whose characters are extraordinarily virtuous, decided to kill the pigs and open up an orphanage so that they would have some orphans to feed the pigs to. They then spent a half hour discussing how much meat was on each pig, how much the meat would weigh, and how many orphans each pig would feed. They eventually determined that they could feed 8 orphans for 1.4 years on the pigs.
The fact that these orphans are hypothetical, in an imaginary game...does that make them double imaginary?
Am watching "Real Genius" on Comedy Central right now. Why does this movie remind me so much of "The Big U" by Neal Stephenson? The science club project, the insane college experiences, the profs...right now, I'm watching the bit where the antagonist student is talking with "Jesus" (actually the genius freshman with the hidden microphone). It's like the Big Wheel in the book, only without the whole thing about the bicameral mind.
'S a nifty movie though. Wish my college was like that.
It's come to my attention that today is April Fool's Day. Instead of typing out a prank or imaginary entry (see the January 27th "Rabbit Hole Day" entry for that), I'm going to give anybody who cares to take it an assignment. I've had two exams in the past two days, and am going to have more heavy assignments fairly soon, and I feel like dishing 'em out instead of taking 'em.
So:
Essay/story question! Pick one or answer both for extra credit. Fifty points, no cheating, you have until the end of class.
1. Inspired by a conversation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drworm: Your evil twin (good twin, for those of you who identify as evil; opposite, for those of you who could care less either way) has somehow come to life. How did this happen? What are they like? What does he or she do? How do you stop them?
2. There has been some kind of apocalypse. Nuclear bomb, aliens attack, zombie plague, rampaging anarchists running through the streets, anything you care to think up. The infrastructure of society has collapsed. What do you do? How do you survive?
I've got about ten copies of the "Review" here. After the reading, I went around collecting copies from people's empty seats. I did that the last time too, meaning to distribute copies to friends and relatives. Unfortunately, I forgot, and now there are eight or ten copies of old "Reviews" in my room at Mom's. If anyone would like a copy (not just my poem; you get a bunch of other nifty stories as a bonus! Plus possibly an old copy, once I get to Mom's), send me your address. I only have so many copies, but there are supposed to be a ton more scattered around campus.
The reading got out a little early, so I went back to the dorm to grab my D&D stuff and catch the last half of the game. Turns out my mage had spent the hour and a half getting some nifty new spells and a Bag of Tricks. Also, we'd run into another raven, but this one was evil (for those who don't remember, a mage named Dragus has been helping our group along, and he has a raven familar who caws helpfully). This raven is someone else's familiar, and whenver he shows up, bad things happen. Usually involving animals. For example, we got zerg-rushed by rats...then fought dinosaurs...then found some pigs. The pigs weren't really doing anything, just standing around being large and piglike until we attacked them. Our minds immediately went from "Kill it with fire" to "Barbecue." Josh and Matt, whose characters are extraordinarily virtuous, decided to kill the pigs and open up an orphanage so that they would have some orphans to feed the pigs to. They then spent a half hour discussing how much meat was on each pig, how much the meat would weigh, and how many orphans each pig would feed. They eventually determined that they could feed 8 orphans for 1.4 years on the pigs.
The fact that these orphans are hypothetical, in an imaginary game...does that make them double imaginary?
Am watching "Real Genius" on Comedy Central right now. Why does this movie remind me so much of "The Big U" by Neal Stephenson? The science club project, the insane college experiences, the profs...right now, I'm watching the bit where the antagonist student is talking with "Jesus" (actually the genius freshman with the hidden microphone). It's like the Big Wheel in the book, only without the whole thing about the bicameral mind.
'S a nifty movie though. Wish my college was like that.
It's come to my attention that today is April Fool's Day. Instead of typing out a prank or imaginary entry (see the January 27th "Rabbit Hole Day" entry for that), I'm going to give anybody who cares to take it an assignment. I've had two exams in the past two days, and am going to have more heavy assignments fairly soon, and I feel like dishing 'em out instead of taking 'em.
So:
Essay/story question! Pick one or answer both for extra credit. Fifty points, no cheating, you have until the end of class.
1. Inspired by a conversation with
drworm: Your evil twin (good twin, for those of you who identify as evil; opposite, for those of you who could care less either way) has somehow come to life. How did this happen? What are they like? What does he or she do? How do you stop them? 2. There has been some kind of apocalypse. Nuclear bomb, aliens attack, zombie plague, rampaging anarchists running through the streets, anything you care to think up. The infrastructure of society has collapsed. What do you do? How do you survive?
