#6304 - Is it December already? Ancient dice, Name Gen, misc

Vivid, but surreal dreams last night. no real rhyme or reason at all.. more like a series of different scenes events than anything else. I remember blocking a punch and the other person's arm wrapping around mine like a wet towel, grappling me... and another different part where it was raining a sort of light.. you wouldn't get wet, just a flicker of brightness on your body like being hit with a laser pointer. The ground was brightly lit, and the air was filled with little firefly flashes... folks didn't seem to notice as I watched them walking, flickers and shards of light flying off of every surface.

Heh... the word "sheeple" for tourists in a group gave me a good giggle, last night.

I hear Island Boy is back to FMM... Nordis laid a bunch of people off. They have some bad practices over there.. hire 11 people, fire 8 within four or five months. not too cool. I'm glad he was able to bounce back to his old gig rather than being unemployed. (Though I think he could probably find a better gig elsewhere, pay-wise, unless they gave him a good raise when he returned.)

Kev had to put Tippy down on Friday... I'm glad he's got the zoo there to keep his cheer up. So there's Emma-puppy, who is about 50 lbs now... Felix and Jinx, the kitties, and Dexter who's a full sized dog, and Ripley who's a medium pooch, but getting up there in age, too. That's a lot of love (and a lot of poop in the yard) remaining.

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Ancient 20-sided die. (where's the ancient Roman D&D Monster Manual?)

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Fun Name Generators -

Barrow Downs Name Gen and Yet more name doodiddies

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#6305 -Latest pic 'o Newt

The little furball is extra fuzzy and soft in this non-humid weather.

#6306 - Some seasonal goodness, and population issues

I added a teeny holly-icon to my blogroll for the moment (until I can work out a better one...maybe a candle, or candy-cane?)

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Drag your mouse, make a snowflake.

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If you're on the lookout for wild, wacky Christmas music, head on over to Basic Hip's Digital Oddio and quick. He's got the Three Suns' 1959 album A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas available for download, but only for the next few days. If you must do only one song, check out their weird "White Christmas" or the rockin' "Russian Sleigh Song".

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1,000 Times Too Many Humans? ( Read more... )

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Neat toy: the National Priorities Project's Federal Budget Tradeoff calculator, which which shows in plain terms what several federal funding boondoggles could otherwise be paying for if the monies were used for other government functions.

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Regarding World AIDS day -

"I don't have the words to describe what's really happening. It's Dickensian: children who are under five dying without one dose of medications that we could give them for free. You send the drugs for free and they don't get distributed. Frustrating would be the mild word for it."

For 40¢ 100 African newborns can have their risk of contracting HIV reduced by 90%. However, it's a generic drug, so the governments have been scared away from it by the pharmaceutical companies.

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