Wings Over the Pyre

Current Mood: jealous
Current Music: William Shatner - You'll Have Time

I hate to admit it, but I was reading InDesign magazine and deeply enjoying the discussion of OpenType font design, and felt the urge to go look at the cost of one of the nicer fonts they showcase.

Five fonts. $160.

Why did no one tell me I can't afford to be a graphic designer?

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

Well, its been a relatively productive evening for me, I must say.

• Two LJ posts in one night. Given my recent relative useless nature when it comes to any posts of real content, I feel that alone might merit brownie points.
  
• I finished the last book in the Kushiel's Legacy series (Kushiel's Avatar) ... finally ... and I'm fairly pleased with the recommendation made by nyxsis that I start it in the first place. Its not every day that you read a fantasy series which has as one of the hinge divergences from our mytho-history that the angel God sent to part the Red Sea for Moses refused to do so, leading to the dominance of Judeo-Christianity being flipped along with a cascade of other strange effects. Oh, yes, and apparantly an avatar of myself being cast supporting the spread of invert Zoarastrism and worship of Angra Mainyu.
  
  Ill-words, ill-thoughts, ill-deeds, folks. I'm all over it.
  
• I managed to wrestle Omega Redemption up to level 6 ... which doesn't sound like much, but its the level at which I received the gift of two zombie minions at once, and Enhance Undead, which lets me mimic Big Steve's pet zombie power of "Ugly Green Acidic Puke."
  
  Which is gratifying, truthfully, because we killed enough of the vomit-hurling bastards as heroes. I rather like having them at my beck and call, now.

I still haven't tinkered together some text for The Wushu Guide to Giant Robots or my text on covering fantasy tropes in Capes, but its been far from a wholly pointless night. Which is nice.

Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Meat Loaf - Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back

Damn you, Actaea, for tagging me on this one:

List five weird habits that you have, and then tag five other people to do the same.

Are there any habits I have that aren't weird? Though I think its safe to say that most of them are grounded in a barely-controlled OCD.

1. I can not read an RPG without creating an echo of one of my favourite characters of all time, Vrai. This has resulted in there being an extended hyper-spacial lineage of the Vrai family, extending even so far as Guild Wars
2. I don't eat cheese. Ever. Which may not be all that weird, except that I love Cheese-Its. Maybe its due to the fact that the cheese is wholly synthetic, or just a strange quirk of nature.
3. I cannot pass up the opportunity to buy strange fusion music, which explains why there are so many things like Paul Anka covering Wonderwall on the Redoubt (though I have Heather to thank for that specific album).
4. I retain every piece of email I've sent since roughly the beginning of 2000, and would have it back to '92 or so if a hard drive failure hadn't taken out the files. This is not because I'm oft making reference to it, but simply because I'm a total packrat. Gmail was built for geeks like me.
5. I design RPG settings. Constantly. At any given time, I'm comparing some piece of media with every mechanical system I know (and as anyone that's entered the Sanctum can tell you, there are roughly 40ft of shelves groaning with RPGs in here), looking for the best fit.

Now, let's see ... who shall I torment?

Liberty Libertine, mandy, Eric the .5b, nyxsis, and Heather ... you're up.