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http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/22/monaco-prints1

Tycho: They’re all done, and they look great.  If you’ve enjoyed seeing my associate’s take on the individual characters, high quality prints are available either as a set, or individually.  Kiko’s new “Scorestreak” shirt just came back from our shirt printer, and we have it for the ladies and also for manz. (CW)TB  

http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/22/childs-play-tournament-results

Gabe: So before the tournament we let everyone place side bets on who among the PA staff would have the best score. All the money went right to Child’s Play and those who backed the right horse so to speak would get their names posted on the site. Well I am sad to say that Robert Khoo and his team took the honors with a score of -4. My team played hard but we only managed a -1. So here are the names of Robert’s supporters: Amber Armstrong Ben Wallis Brandi Murphy David Hanson Dwayne McDonald eric lee Jacob Rogers Jon Bankard Jonathan Serna Jordan Parker Kevin Dent Kyle Lichtenberg Liam…

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Obviously, I didn't make it back last night when I got home. *LOL*

A quickish update on me...

We took Nio back to the States for a visit at the end of March. Just in time for Easter.

This was planned...because I wanted to have a picture of Nio with the Easter Bunny. They don't Easter Bunny pics here. :( We ended up getting it and it was absolutely gorgeous! I'll post it later - I don't have it with me.

The day before we left Australia, Nio cut his first tooth. The day after we arrived at Mom's house (spent a night in LA to break up the trip), he cut his second. SO cute!

We spent 3 1/2 weeks there...spending time with family and catching up with a couple of friends. It was absolutely wonderful and the Wombat charmed the entire family.

We got home on 22 April, spent a day and a half at home, then we were at El's parents' house at 4am on the 24th to catch the shuttle to the airport - for a trip to Fiji. (El's cousin's wedding which turned into a family reunion of sorts :) )

Fiji was beautiful...and I'd seriously consider living there. It was very humid, which was the only thing I didn't like - but that's what they make air conditioning for. *LOL*

I'll write more about the trips later...this is just basically a 'what the hell's been going on' post. :)

Spent a week there, came back on 1 May. On 3 May, I had my tattoo for Nio done...and fell absolutely in love with it immediately. And then on 6 May, it was back to work for me. BOO!!!

I'm about 4 episodes behind on Doctor Who at the moment. I have them on on the computer and ready to watch -- I just haven't had time to actually watch them. Maybe this Friday night, the Wombat and I will watch a few of them while El is out with her mums group. :)

Of course there's been family drama -- but that's for another post too. It would take far too long to type it all out. *LOL* I will say that El's sister has FINALLY and FOR GOOD broken up with the dickhead and El's sister (J) is MUCH better off without him.

Nicholas (J and dickhead's son, our nephew) and Nio are great friends and give each other cuddles and kisses every time they're together. It's quite cute. We call them couslings...because they're not siblings, but more than mere cousins. :)

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So, I think that's all for now. It's taken me ages to make this post this morning. I'll do a post about the trips later. :)

Hope everyone's doing well! xx

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http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/22/ms-stuff

Gabe: I was at the Xbox One reveal yesterday morning and overall I found it pretty disappointing. I feel like I wasn’t the target demographic for the presentation. I like to watch TV but what I like more is playing video games. I don’t care about sports games and EA has taught me over the years not to believe any of their pre-release bullshot videos. I also hate the Kinect. Every time I try to use it for playing a game or navigating the Xbox, the result is unreliable and frustrating. I like Call of Duty but their high resolution, motion captured dog and hyper intelligent fish didn’t get…

http://penny-arcade.com/2013/05/22/interloper

Tycho: With Gabriel’s adoption of the Surface Pro (and thus, a gaming capable PC) as a lifestyle totem, we have penetrated so far into weirdo territory that I will hear beepboops of unknown provenance over there and wonder where they’re from.  We played Sanctum back in “the day,” liked it, and then interred it for some reason I don’t entirely recall.  I knew the sequel was coming out, and I was gonna say we should play it, but he beat me to it.  Get your head around that shit. We haven’t been able to play it for the last couple days because of…

started watching 'Invasion', the one that doesn't bother mentioning bodysnatchers in the title. it was so obviously awful I actually managed to skip chunks until it was being too creepy upsetting (violence to children, by the protagonists) and delete it without wasting those hours.
also some message about having to retune my recorder box got recorded where the subtitles should be, so, you know, not helpful.

Watched 'Daybreakers'. Very stylish. So stylish I didn't notice it was awful until I'd watched most of it.
really, there could have been a plot and characters and dialogue in there.
at one point it was like the script went 'screw it, lets just kill people messily' and that was the whole rest of the movie.
also it seemed to be going with a rich exploit/eat the poor thing for a while, with a side order of violence corrupts and making the military creepy, but then it turned into a lot of bad non-science and making a cure infectious and any kind of metaphor broke down and got drowned and blown up and spurted red all over the place.
There was the usual gender imbalance and dead black guy problems, but the whole movie fell apart so bad I basically don't care about individual badness ingredients.
But, like I said, very stylish. Visuals with a whole unified theme and color palette and some nasty yet appropriate architecture and a lot of worldbuilding going on. Interesting vampire makeup. Kind of a pity it didn't ... work.

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What better way to celebrate the 50th Anniversary than with some Classic fanfiction?

Title: Solonian Seasons
Author: betawho
Rating: G
Characters: 4th Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith (references to 3rd Doctor, Jo Grant)
Words: 2185

Summary: In the 3rd Doctor story "The Mutants" the natives of the planet Solos metamorphosized as their planet moved from its 500 year spring into summer. What happened at the other seasons?... (Read More...)

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New Comic: Interloper

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Ben Kuchera: The Xbox One is a console that’s likely to kill our idea of what a physical game purchase means. According to a story published on Wired, each game will be installed to your hard drive, and you can then play without the disc in the drive. What happens if you pass the disc to a friend? Well, that’s where things get interesting. “In other words, what happens to our traditional concept of a “used game”? This is a question for which Microsoft did not yet have an answer, and is surely something that game buyers (as well as renters and lenders) will want to…

Fandom Category: Doctor Who
Pairing: Clara Oswald/the Eleventh Doctor
Fic Title: now I'm off to dream
Author: divineglass
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/780419
Rating/Warning(s): PG, spoilers for JttCotT
Genre: Drama, Episode Tag
WIP?: no
Special Rec: 14/30

Why This Must Be Read: Because after watching the series finale a second time I was inundated by so many feels for Eleven/Clara that beware this is the first rec of a few to come...as soon as I can find more. But this fic in particular showcases the tremendous emotion between the two (LOVE their chemistry btw) and while it isn't completely romantic, it's like beginnings of one, which is always my fave kind of fic to read about.

The other day I watched The Man in the White Suit. It's about a man who invents a new sort of fabric, rumoured to last forever and never need cleaning. Only one person thinks it'll be a good thing, freeing people from the drudgery of laundry and repair; everyone could be clean and well dressed forever. Every level of society unites against him because such an invention would wreck the economy. They'd only need to sell one set of clothes once! Horrors! The funny all comes from stereotypes of the different classes reacting to the idea.

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Something has to change. The mess won't go away just by wishing there's work for everyone. The work went away, and there's a lot more of everyone than there used to be.

So I've been thinking all this, and I've been thinking about space colonies.

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If I figure out how to make that work then I've solved economics.

Slightly good trick.

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