the tomorrow entry

[solarbird]

1283 words today. I know, you don't usually see me talking about writing - that's usually annathepiper's topic - but there you go. I occasionally write technical articles for magazines. Sadly, that puts me at right about 71% over target, and extra isn't better.

Oops. Oh well, that's what second drafts are for.

Sunday's estimated miles error correction: +0.5 from previous tally
Monday's miles: 1.5
Tuesday's token: 0.1
Wednesday's miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 301.25
Miles to Rivendell: 157.05

In other news, I think I figured out one of the things they do to the colour in the Battlestar Galactica scenes on Kobol. Then I did some other stuff too and came up with this. The funny part is that the red flower things in the tree? Those are pretty much exactly as the camera caught them. Neat, huh?


Sunrise on Kobol

You scored 18 Intelligence, 13 Wisdom, and 11 Charisma!

All stats are based on the original D&D system of 3-18. 3 being tragically weak and 18 being olympic level ability. Odds are you will be more towards the middle for most things (the middle being 10-11), as that is where most people should be. If you scored above 18 in any skill, I highly suggest you go back and read the directions closer. Especially if you scored above an 18 intelligence, you need to take the test over and only answer ONCE on the first page. Taken properly, it is not possible to get above an 18 on any stat, unless you' over 70 years old. Get the other half of your stats at this companion test. I am open to suggestions for improving this test. Please message me if you think I am not taking something into account, or have any questions for how I calculated scores.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 87% on Intelligence You scored higher than 37% on Wisdom You scored higher than 44% on Charisma

Link: The D&D stats - Mental Test written by mojograham on OkCupid Free Online Dating

You scored 11 Strength, 12 Constitution, and 16 Dexterity!

All stats are based on the original D&D system of 3-18. 3 being tragically weak and 18 being olympic level ability. Odds are you will be more towards the middle for most things (the middle being 10-11), as that is where most people should be. If you scored above 18 in any skill, I highly suggest you go back and read the directions closer. Especially if you scored above an 18 strength, you need to take the test over and only answer ONCE on the first page. Taken properly, it is not possible to get above an 18 on any stat. Get the other half of your stats at this companion test. I am open to suggestions for improving this test. Please message me if you think I am not taking something into account, or have any questions for how I calculated scores.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 45% on Strength You scored higher than 28% on Constitution You scored higher than 91% on Dexterity

Link: The D&D stats - Physical Test written by mojograham on OkCupid Free Online Dating

Comments

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

you should friend my lj... i get lots of nifty quizzes

[partywhipple.livejournal.com]

I love Battlestar. Starbuck is the bomb.

[solarbird]

She is t3h h0tness. annathepiper and I both agree. ^_^

[partywhipple.livejournal.com]

I like all the characters but she is by far the best. New Episode Friday!! WOOOOO

[solarbird]

For the premiere of Season 2 we had an OMGBSGBBQ. ^_^

Now if we can only get the new, UK-only-so-far Captain Scarlet. ^_^

[partywhipple.livejournal.com]

Captain Scarlet?? I've never heard of it.

[solarbird]

Gerry Anderson's brutally cool 1968 follow-up to Thunderbirds, it's basically about aliens waging a terrorism war of revenge against Earth. The good guys screw up in the pilot setting the whole thing off (an understandable but very unfortunate panic reaction during a first-encounter situation, like in Babylon 5's Earth-Minbari War) and the Mysterons freak the fuck out. Every episode is a new Mysteron threat and an attempt to prevent the attack they've promised from succeeding.

Most of the time, SPECTRUM (the organisation primarily responsible for defending against the Mysterons) succeeds - but not all the time. There are several episodes where they, um, fail. And people die. It has an inherently high body count, because the way the Mysterons "recruit" agents is kill somebody, then scan and replace them with a nearly-indestructable duplicate.

The title character, Captain Scarlet - all the top level ground agents have colour code names, his real name is Paul Metcalfe - is actually killed by the Mysterons ten minutes in to the pilot. And yes, he's dead. The Captain Scarlet in the rest of the series is the Mysteron replacement; he's the only case where the copied personality matrix overcame the Mysteron agent programming overlay. So - and this is mostly off-screen backstory, but you get hints of it on-screen - he's utterly invaluable, since he can't be killed, and he's clearly on Earth's side - but they don't entirely trust him.

It's so fucked up and so cool. I love it.

Anyway, it's back - this time as a CGI series, running in the UK right now.

[solarbird]

Oh, I forgot; go here:

http://www.captainscarlet.com/

It has a trailer for the new show.

[kitchengrrl.livejournal.com]

Looks like Sumac. You can take the pollen from those red things (put a plastic bag around the seed head and shake-shake-shake) and stir it into water for a lemonadey drink. :)