I have my first practice with a men's roller derby team tomorrow. It's something that I really want to do because the grandma that raised me was a derby girl in the 50s and in some weird way I want to make her proud.

Hey, your friend Cannikin is always here if you would like something terrible to happen to him.

Probably my first big raid drop which was the tanking sword from the optional raptor boss in Zul Gurub where I rolled slightly higher than the other tank that had the same amount of karma as me and I actively disliked.

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I was taught at a young age that I was special, and that not only was I special, but so was everyone else. Telling children that they are special is not the issue. The issue is not showing them the ways that everyone else is special.

I had my issues with Mass Effect, but this is amazing. It's something that you notice and don't at the same time. Well done Bioware.

Surprisingly few of these stories so far have included hitting.

Thanks. I find that there is often a beauty in analysis.

All of it. The worst things are the ones that are perfectly intricate where you could almost do something about it but it would require being some sort of emotional ubermensch that w0uld almost negate the point of existing. You also had a twofer where you first got the Esteem and Loving/Belonging tiers of the…

This was last summer. So I was put in charge of organizing the 20 and 30 something social group for my UU congregation. I kept getting e-mails from a few recent grad students that were moving to the area and wanted to introduce themselves. They were all cool, but one came up to introduce herself in person. She smiled…

I was mistaking Kelly Ripa for some... regular ass person that couldn't deal with real ass shit. It turns out she's in deeper cover than me. Mind Blown!

...yeah. I've been working out a lot lately and I'm in amazing shape. I know I'd hate me though. I love me, but I'd hate me. I'd probably like myself more than other people... both ways.

KISS would probably be dangerous too since they never play a show without enough pyrotechnics to overthrow a small country.

Buddy Holly&Ritchie Valens

Swag hood Joyce

I'm planning on building a new PC later this fall after the new Intel Skybridge chips come out, so I'm not that concerned about meeting the specs for this because I'll probably surpass them without trying anyways.

And you thought Pittsburgh cuisine was bad? At least putting french fries on things is slightly more original than just fucking everything up.

I got something wicked at DragonCon last year, though I was probably overly susceptible due to exhaustion. I'm an Atlanta local so I didn't get a hotel room and so I had to carry all my stuff with me all day and I didn't have a solid place to regroup so it was pretty much 4 days of moving around endlessly. This year I…

VR is the logical solution to many existing problems in gaming. Let's use FFXIV as a prime example. This is a game that's gotten progressively better with each update. The lingering problem is that it's a game where you hang out and play dress up and interior decorator in your free company(guild) house. So while it's…