They put me out cold, man.

Back in the day I would get 8-10 hours of sleep the night before a meeting. An hour or so before I'd down 4 Rock Stars. 4. Then "5 Hour Energy" came out and I'd hit one of those instead.

Didn't matter worth a damn. If the meeting was longer than 30 mins... zzzzzzzzzz.

I used to do that in Church, too. I can't sit anywhere for long. It just makes me restless or it finally just puts me to sleep. I didn't figure a way to get past that until I started my Series 7 study classes and brought a laptop with Starcraft and Elder Scrolls Morrowind on it. I'd play a windowed mode game in class, take sparse notes, keep my book open, respond to the instructor... it's a learned skill, trust me. One time someone got busted playing Quake on their laptop (wasn't me!), got kicked out*, and the jackass instructor started walking around looking at our laptop screens; so I got to writing instead, since he couldn't read our notes (and Textpad for Windows made it easy to...

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Why else on Earth would I be trying to get StarCraft II working in Linux?

*sigh*

In my ongoing quest to find a GOOD name for the fairy species, I realized I TOTALLY forgot my roots: my long-standing fascination with the Irish connection to the winged subset of the fairy species! The Tuatha de Danaan were also known as the Sidhe!

If Captain Obvious had come to the rescue with the YEARS of amateur research I'd done on Irish fairies, I'd have had this all worked out on Day One!

While most Sidhe weren't the winged fairy type, the name 'Sidhe' seems a more accurately comprehensive trinomial suffix. Homo Sapiens Sidhe. Sidhe means either "the mounds" or "the people who reside in the mounds". In any case, the Sidhe are greatly feared in Irish legend. The Sidhe were an eldritch species - a supernatural, deadly race that you were wise not to piss...

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StarCraft 2 is out and guess which countries it is most popular in?

Soon as I finish playing ancient old System Shock, I'm abandoning the wife & kids tfor Sarah Kerrigan!

(Just kidding, dear.)

NOT.

You can go to Japan and find animation studios and manga publishers producing every manner of fracking perversion known to man, including probably a hundred genres and subgenres that I wouldn't touch with a 39 and a half foot pole.

You come back to the States and you get censorship up the wazoo - and I'm not talking about the jackbooted thugs that would absolutely LOVE to see every last poster at this site in irons (you know, the ones you often see being busted for pedophilia). I'm talking about the culture itself. You'll never see an American made version of "Crying Freeman" (and that's on the light side, folks) much less Bible Black.

I'm ranting like this because I just met with a guy who came back from Japan loaded with imported goodies. ARGH. I just love the fact that they have so many CHOICES over there.


I shoulda taken a trip to Japan before I had kids...