Archive for the ‘Just kind of babbling’ Category

A few days ago I received the following as an assignment in my current class. I have marked the relevant part.

“Write some notes as a personal journal of what you have learned.

By Tuesday, May 10, 2011, post your personal journal to the Discussion Area.

There is no grade for this, but it will form the basis for writing a final, farewell posting, and will be a useful reference as you pursue your career and further studies.”

Guess which is the part I ran with?

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I’ve played Dungeons & Dragons (3.5) for a few years now. I’ve heard some great stories about happenings in Pencil & Paper RPGs (whatever version they may have occured in) from friends, strangers, and Skippy himself.

Regrettably, I only get to play about once a week. Granted, we have a 12 hour “play and hangout” session, but that’s because everyone’s work schedules (or, in my case, lack of a work schedule) all happen to link up nicely on Tuesday evening. That will probably not last forever, and then I’ll get even less D&D.

I’m going to try to keep this post as friendly and informative to people who have never been graced with the righteous feel of their very first d20 in their hands. (If you don’t know what “d20” means, don’t worry – I’ll get to it.)

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Skippy – Answers question posed by teacher, about the power of shading vs line drawing, from the assumption that the phrase “Bring an illustration to life” means “Make it much better”.

Other Student – Corrects Skippy, as his answer is about making the illustration better and the question clearly uses the phrase “Bring the illustration to life”. Student claims that they are being literal in the questions interpretation.

Skippy – Points out that he has never seen a drawing literally brought to life and has always assumed that his experience is near universal in this regard. Admits that his experience may be limited, and wants to know where Other Student has been purchasing these necromantic markers and/or colored pencils.

Other Student – Asserts that they were just trying to play devil’s advocate on the shading vs. line drawing controversy and that Skippy is an asshole.

Skippy – Questions Other Students ability to correctly determine which participant in this discussion is the asshole, seeing as the definition of “literal” has thus far eluded him. Asks: is Other Student is related to Simon, Harold, or Pygmalion.

Instructor – Confirms that Other Student is correct, and that Skippy is in fact the asshole.

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Not having anything more productive to write about, I figured I would just describe how I felt about different current events.

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After years of careful research, I think I have managed to determine what the rules are for arguing online.
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He was a man who referred to his penis as “The Cyclops”. Partially because he fancied it a one eyed-monster of prodigious size, bronchi but mostly because it did horrible things to Greek sailors.

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She was a woman who liked her coffee like she liked her men.

Strong. Black. And served through a hole in a men’s room stall.

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In a school paprt I have attempted to link the Impressionist painter Monet, to the Billy Joel Song Mony Mony.

Let’s see if my instructor notices.

Worst case I get a few points off and still make an A. Although I seem to have ruined that song for myself forever.

Having seen what Monet looks like, the mental picture summoned up during the end of the song is horrifying now.

Ride your pony! Ride your Pony!

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There not so much a punchline to that comment. Just a statement of fact.

I find it very hard to come up with the creative energy to write something for this site, after spending god know how many hours pouring a stream of never ending BS into my word processor, in a painful attempt to convince the professor that anyone in the world has ever cared about the content of an Art History class.

I had something neat I was planning to try to write, but frankly, I don’t have the functioning brain cells left any more.

Here are the some random thoughts off whatever I happend to find on the Internet tonight.

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Here are my ideas for new reality TV shows. Clearly I am a genius and should be rewarded with millions of dollars and a hot tub that is filled with Cognac.  I don’t even really know why anyone would want that much Cognac, or if soaking in it is in any way a good idea, but I would certainly like one on the basis that it sounds like something insanely rich people get.

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