A good friend of mine and I share unusual tastes in history and music. We both like to listen to recitals of middle English and old English, for example. She shared a video of a reading of The Owl and the Nightengale, an early Middle English poem. The poem, and other works of Middle English, can be found online at the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Related Images:
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Apartment parking policy
Last night, my Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay group met at my place for one of the last sessions in the Eye for an Eye campaign. (More on that in another post.) Everyone meets at my place around 7:00-ish once a month and we play for about 3.5 hours. Crazy amounts of fun with great people. My apartment complex said that they were going to enforce a new towing policy beginning in May. Any car,...
Continue reading...City of Heroes: More like City of Fail
I am always talking with my friends about playing games together. Lately, it has been Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2 beta, World or Warcraft, or the nostalgic days of Diablo 2 LAN parties. A good friend of mine suggested trying City of Heroes since their policy had changed and it is now “free to play.” Cool! I remember when the game first came out. I loved the idea of the game. (There are...
Continue reading...ORBIS: Google Maps for Ancient Rome
The science fiction blog / news aggregate site io9 has an article today about ORBIS, a Google Maps for Ancient Rome. Want to know how long it would take to travel between Roma and Londinium and how much it might cost in denarii? ORBIS, developed by Standford University, can tell you all you want to know about travel planning in the Roman empire circa 200 AD. ORBIS looks like great fun to play...
Continue reading...Stupid human trick
I have floppy ankles. Most of the time, I’m fine. Other times, I’ll be walking along and my ankle will suddenly give out and flop towards the ground. This lovely “feature” is exacerbated by the fact that when I was 18 I tore all of the ligaments in my right ankle from a riding accident. It’s never fully recovered. So, today at work, I was trotting across the cross walk and my right...
Continue reading...Cats in Space: The Feline Frontier
Cutest Star Trek spoof ever. Related Images:
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What if the alien in the movie Alien was actually a chocolate egg… Related Images:
Continue reading...More Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay resources
Listening to Reckless Dice podcast episode 29, and they mentioned a few new resources: Explaining The Old World blog, which describes Warhammer FRP in terms of someone new to the game. You There What Day Is This, a blog about gaming and role playing Fantasy Flight Games has also announced an updated / revised version of The Enemy Within campaign for Warhammer. The Enemy Within first came out for Warhammer first edition in...
Continue reading...New Guild music video
Awesome new music video from The Guild (Felicia Day) and Knights of Good. “Now I’m the one that’s cool….” Yup, I was one of those geeky kids in school who preferred books over hanging out with other kids. Lyrics: 1ST VERSE: Oh, no. Don’t pretend I didn’t see You roll your eyes at my gaming tee Don’t know if you can read or if you’ve seen The sweet piece in this week’s Wired...
Continue reading...Good bye, my friend
A good friend of mine died today at 3:45 PM. She lost her fight with cancer and is at peace. She will be missed. Related Images:
Continue reading...Week 2.5 of riding bareback
I never expected to be having great schooling rides bareback. We’re walking and trotting bareback and I’m not losing my seat any more. The differences in how Kasane responds to my aids are subtle but amazing. For a while, we had trouble free lunging. She’d race from one corner to the next and not pay attention to me. We’ve had several weeks of primarily lunge line work using larger spaces. We’re still working...
Continue reading...Her Highness all curled up
Saturday it poured and poured and poured. We had several inches of rain over the weekend. In between rain showers, I went to the barn to play with Kasane. I walked out to the field and found her laying down. She was so cute and tired. She let me walk up to her and kneel next to her. So happy to have fingers scratch the long hair under her chin. So very cute....
Continue reading...Apassionata: The Beginning is coming to North America
Oh my. This looks like a show geared for horse people. According to the Apassionata site: APASSIONATA has been Europe’s most popular live arena show for nearly a decade, thrilling more than five million fans across 15 countries with a breathtaking display of the beauty and the bond between horse and rider. Now APASSIONATA comes to North America to take audiences through a magical adventure featuring more than 40 horses, with exhilarating equine...
Continue reading...Riding in the Prestige Venus K
Today was the second day of the test ride in the Prestige Venus K monoflap. Yesterday when I rode, it was in the small square ring behind the barn. That ring is on a slight incline and not quite large enough to have a straight line for any distance. Kasane did very well in the small ring yesterday, but I didn’t have a chance to ride in the larger ring because of a...
Continue reading...Comparison of saddle length
For comparison purposes, here is a picture of Kasane in the Courbette Magic Dressage. I took these pictures to show off the new saddle pad, but they turn out to be pretty good at showing the saddle fit. See how long the saddle panels are? You can tell by where the saddle comes over her back — it comes over her lumbar. When you look at the front of the saddle, see how...
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