| Eat your heart out, Arkh. ;) |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|06:01 pm] |
Apologies for the caps. ;D NWS loves them!
Issued by The National Weather Service
LaCrosse, WI
3:50 pm CST, Mon., Dec. 7, 2009
... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LA CROSSE HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
* SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN ACROSS THE AREA FROM LATE TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL SHOULD OCCUR TUESDAY NIGHT.
* TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 8 TO 12 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. A FOOT OR MORE OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN.
* NORTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.
* FALLING TEMPERATURES COMBINED WITH STRONG WINDS SHOULD PRODUCE WIND CHILL VALUES OF 15 TO 20 BELOW ZERO WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
* IMPACTS FROM THIS STORM INCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS... ROAD CLOSURES AND IMPOSSIBLE TRAVEL... ESPECIALLY ON THE RIDGE TOPS AND IN OPEN COUNTRY. |
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| Time to take it easy. |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|02:57 pm] |
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As I mentioned in my last journal, my back went out. I have a trouble spot on the top half of my spine, which I'm guessing is just from years of bending over at odd angles while painting/drawing. When it's out like this, any movement of my head or arms hurts, and triggers out a weird, painful muscle spasm ripples through my ribs from front to back. It's a weird feeling.
I take muscle relaxants, prescription strength, and just take it easy on the couch with a heating pad and usually it gets better over a few days.
However, I didn't take it easy as much as I should have. I had company over, went to an Xmas party, and did Xmas shopping this weekend. I even raided on WoW instead of drugging myself up - though raiding isn't physically challenging, it was just more time I spent not medicated and not relaxing. And so I really haven't gotten better.
Sooooo, it's time to knock it off and do nothing until I'm better. I don't think I can stop drawing though... because... just watching tv will make me crazy.
I do need to go grocery shopping though... D:
WoW talk - I finally won a friggin' trophy this weekend, and now have my t9 gloves (or whatever they are... 25 man ToC with the Anub'arak beetle guy... that thing). I've been rolling for one for so long, and I always roll low. I was starting to think I'd be going to Icecrown Citadel with no t9 (though I'll probably be going in my 25 man Naxx boots, since the boots I want won't drop for me). |
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[Dec. 7th, 2009|10:57 am] |
SPN 1.01-2.08
So uh. As mentioned previously, I recently picked up the first several seasons of Supernatural. Amazon was selling 1-3 for $12 a piece, and 4 for $14, so I went ahead and got them all without ever having seen a single episode. There have been so many of you who have either spoken highly of it or recommended it to me in the past that I felt confident that I'd like it.
( And I really do! )
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Original entry at http://ilyat.dreamwidth.org/305875.html with  comment(s). |
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| Today's the day! Also, Christmas plans? |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|10:22 am] |
No, not Pearl Harbor Day. Today's the day I take my last final in my news writing class. It's my last day at Lakeland, hopefully forever. (Also, it's Pearl Harbor Day.)
In light of my previous entry, I should clarify that I like to have things to bitch about. I'm bummed the semester's over. I'm always happier when I have things to do and deadlines to meet. The time between now and when I move is going to be tougher for me than any stress the semester's brought.
Also, is there anyone semi-local who wouldn't mind me joining them for Christmas/Yule/insert-December-holiday-here cheer? I don't want a repeat of Thanksgiving with my mother. :P |
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| Work post. |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|08:45 am] |
Today is going to be spent dragging skeletons into a big pit. Then we're going to burn them. I would say 'corpses', but, really, after they've been skinned and have had most of the muscle tissue removed, they're not exactly full corpses any longer.
Saturday, I came home after a 16 hour shift covered in blood and gore. My dog felt that this was very relevant to his interests.
( Sometimes I love my job. )
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Original entry at http://ilyat.dreamwidth.org/305559.html with  comment(s). |
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| Oh, and BTW |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|06:33 pm] |
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It's Uncle Wolf Shaman Now :) |
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| Defining warriors |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|02:04 pm] |
Post for the reference of someone else.
My opinion is that a warrior is not the same thing as a soldier. "Warrior" implies to me someone fighting in a far more individualistic style; there's a lot of emphasis on larger weapons swung widely, and breaking up to fight individually, where a soldier implies organization as the focus for how the person fights.
The Celts were definitely warriors; "Look! I'm a hero! I go out on my chariot and throw my spears and take my heads, and that's why I deserve the biggest hunk of boar at the table!" Whereas their Roman opponents were very much soldiers; "I march, then I help dig trenches to construct an organized fort, all at my centurion's instruction, and when the Celts or Germans come charging out of the woods at me, I crouch behind my shield with gladius at the ready, trusting that the guy next to me will also stay calm enough to crouch behind shield with his gladius." (This isn't perfect. Ancient writers talk about shield formations drifting naturally to the right as the guys at the left try to make sure they're protected.) Warrior tends to mean you develop an honor code more about being an individual where the soldier's honor code fits into fighting in a group.
There isn't a clear break in the definitions. In preindustrial societies nearly everyone needs to know how to swing an axe or brace a spear. There's inevitably overlap, because few societies are so resource poor that everyone's only a part-time warrior and few societies are so well off that there are lots of committed soldiers, and that's their job. As examples; Saxon fyrdsmen were basic schlep farmers who could also hurt people, but there was a small core of huscarls who were the real badasses, the guys where doing this was their job, and the style of fighting was this mix of shield wall and formation with personal bravery and individual combat. The Zulu empire is another example; these guys fought in ranks, and when they talked about honor codes they were just as likely to talk about "the uKhamdempemvu" or "the umCijo" as their individuality, but ultimately, the average Zulu was a herdsman and needed to get back to his cattle. Since very few of these guys are full time soldier soldiers, where that's all they do, the society develops some sort of ritual to carefully separate out the average Zulu, Kanienkehaka or Dene at peace doing their thing with the average Zulu, Kanienkehaka or Dene out there fighting. Ritual is kind of a useful thing for a society with soldiers, but it's vital for a society with warriors.
Dunno if that's useful. |
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[Dec. 6th, 2009|02:03 pm] |
Happy Independence Day!
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you need to brush up on your world history. |
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| "Polyharmonic Distortion" would be an awesome band name. |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|01:30 pm] |
So I was fiddling with the settings on my amplifier. It has a button marked "OD".
This stands for overdrive.
Overdrive means that, instead of using the known properties of the guitar pickups to prevent distortion, the amplifier simply amplifies straight on past amplitudes that produce "clean" reflections of the sound from the strings, into regions of operation where distortion is so acute you can barely make out the notes.
Acoustic guitars are entirely made of passive components, so any sound you get from them is inherently "linear" which is to say that the sounds will not distort. There might be some time-shifting properties and multipath of the waves, but sounds won't clip*. This is also why, if you want your electric guitar to sound more like an acoustic guitar, you select "clean" rather than "overdrive" for your amplifier, which has been designed by engineers who know how to make amplifiers behave like your passive, linear guitar, but who also know, that your passive, linear guitar does not rock as hard as an overdriven electric. Hence the button for throwing out their carefully-engineered linearity work.
*rocks out*
*Well, if you are pushing the strings hard enough to push the wood out of its linear region it might distort a bit, but I think you have to be a superhuman guitarist to do that, and we're talking enough vibration to damage the wood, which I think might mean you'd get clipping from the strings bouncing off the fretboard first, which..... |
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| Interesting Week in SL |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|03:59 am] |
Normally, things are pretty quiet around Therianation and the WereHouse. I answer the IMS that are delegated to me or that people send me, and usually everyone is happy.
Well, earlier this week, I stopped by the sim to do my checks for the random avatar box that usually gets left behind. Typically it's just a quick rclick return.
Well, I happened to run across a chair near the hub. No big deal. Then I looked up. Megaprim in the sky. fun. got rid of that. Checked the mall area. This guy decided to put his own rental boxes over all the rental boxes in the Therination mall area to try and scam people for money. So I abuse report him, and return the boxes and the 30 other boxes that he has scattered in that one little chunk of land that I could not see.
After checking the sim, he had about 300 prims scatered about in the sim. All in all, I returned them all and banned him from the sim. Hopefully Linden Labs suspended his account at least for Land sale/rental fraud.
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Ok, SO that's all over. Couple days later, I do a sim prim check, and find 2 random people having left a bunch of prims on sim. I tell it to highlight them so I can see what it is, and An outline of one of our Vendors appears in the middle of the sim. Great.
I go to investigate and see that it's a copybotted version of Jakkals vendor.
For those who dont know what copybotting is, its a program in Secondlife that basically clones whatever it is that the person wants to steal. The only thing it does not steal is what is inside the object or it's scripts. People use it to steal avatars, clothes, armor, objects, etc. It also makes it look like you're the owner, so you can go and sell whatever you botted to make some quick money.
You see this happen alot with Guns in SL.
But anyways, it looks like they were trying to copy the vendor so they could get free avatars. Failed. And they tried to hide it by making the vendor invisible, and not picking it up and putting it back in their inventory. Retarded.
I called up Jakkal and had her Log in, while I started an abuse report. She checked it out, and filed an abuse report herself. about 5-10 min later when I was letting other shop owners know bout this person and to ban them from their sims, The guy's profile ended up not searchable. Typically evident of a ban from Linden labs. Owned.
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Then we have tonight. Ya can see what happened over on Jakkal's Live Journal.
http://jakkal.livejournal.com/296996.html
It's a good read.
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But all in all, we had an interesting week in Therianation. We dont typically have this much excitement. |
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[Dec. 6th, 2009|04:44 am] |
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Jonny and Sno came and we picked up Casey! It snowed though, so we were on the road WAY TOO LONG. Also, whenever I was not in the car I was falling on my butt in the slippery snow. :( Seriously. I fell like 5 times. I got soaked, and I'm kinda sore. I feel bad Jonny and Sno didn't get to do much other than yap in the car, by the time we got back we watched some anime and then went to bed. :/ Casey was tired after travelling all day. I was tired too. Then Cookie woke me up and I couldn't get back to sleep so here I am. Gonna try to go back to bed now and hope I can sleep.
We didn't get home in time to mess with the scanner so.... meh. I'll bring my art to my mom's tomorrow and scan there. I was really hoping to have more DAY to today. Or, well, yesterday.
Sleepnow, for a little bit. |
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