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Let's Try This Again, Shall We?
Apr. 12th, 2021 05:55 pmNew tablet, new keyboard, old blog, old account. All working now?
Ettiene Bouleau
Short, scrawny Caucasian man with straight brown hair and blue eyes. Vertical scar on his left cheek.
Went to flight school but had to give up before he could get a commercial license. Went into the investigative journalist business and so freelances there and as a private investigator.
Human Male
Rank: Novice
Attributes: Agility: d6, Smarts: d8, Spirit: d4, Strength: d6, Vigor: d6
Skills: Driving: d6, Knowledge (Aviation): d8, Knowledge (Computers): d6, Knowledge (Electronics): d4, Lockpicking: d4, Notice: d6, Piloting: d6, Repair: d4, Stealth: d4, Streetwise: d4, Tracking: d4
Pace: 6; Parry: 2; Toughness: 5
Edges: Extra Edge (racial), Gadgeteer
Hindrances: Anemic (minor), Cautious (minor), Doubting Thomas (minor), Outsider (minor)
Gear: Backpack, Binoculars, Camera (regular), Cellular Phone, Desktop Computer, Normal Clothing
Rank: Novice
Attributes: Agility: d6, Smarts: d8, Spirit: d4, Strength: d6, Vigor: d6
Skills: Driving: d6, Knowledge (Aviation): d8, Knowledge (Computers): d6, Knowledge (Electronics): d4, Lockpicking: d4, Notice: d6, Piloting: d6, Repair: d4, Stealth: d4, Streetwise: d4, Tracking: d4
Pace: 6; Parry: 2; Toughness: 5
Edges: Extra Edge (racial), Gadgeteer
Hindrances: Anemic (minor), Cautious (minor), Doubting Thomas (minor), Outsider (minor)
Gear: Backpack, Binoculars, Camera (regular), Cellular Phone, Desktop Computer, Normal Clothing
There Is A Special Place In Hades...
Jul. 1st, 2017 01:15 pm...For those who set archive files into other archive files.
Suruga-Ya Has My Number
Apr. 2nd, 2017 01:31 pmI've been trolling Suruga-Ya's website for about a month now, and contemplating stupf I want to buy from them. The estimated damage so far is about $300 and I'm just getting started--and everything I'm "firm" on so far is at least thirty to forty years old.
Research Addiction Hopscotch
Mar. 28th, 2017 07:16 pmA research thread that started with a fellow on Facebook posting the pictures of an old Doyusha car model he'd just bought last week has led me in a bunch of directions that appealed to my weirdness.
One such place was the particulars of my sister's first car, a Datsun 1200 (a.k.a. Nissan Sunny). At the time it was built it was the cheapest new car available in the States...and I sort of wonder what manufacturer and model has that title now.
After that, it led me to the story of Isuzu cars in America--which ended (among other places) with the Impulse and the Geo Storm. For years I saw Storms parked in the backs of people's yards and was weirdly attracted. Now I know why--they're four-fifths of the way to being LOTUSES. I wonder now how much work it would entail to fit a Storm with the same kind of Lotus suspension that was optional on Impulses--and what modern Lotus powerplant would work in the engine bay.
Let's Put Weird And Weird Together
Nov. 7th, 2016 03:47 pm
Yes, a Japanese vending toy company is marketing reproductions of the old PP/TimMee "Army Men" postWar toy soldiers that Baby Boomer boys used to have by the bucketload. I still have about 300 in storage, myself.
Wargaming Acquisition Weirdness
Nov. 2nd, 2016 06:49 pmStill very much a Team Yankee wanna-be...and still nowhere near having an army ready.
Partly, I'm trying to determine the "character" of my forces, and partly, I'm trying to get the best deal I can on the pieces. It used to be that diecast tanks in Team Yankee's scale were thick on the ground and you could buy them at just any dollar store toy department. Not any more. Now I have to try to scrounge them in antique and thrift stores--if they've got any.
Partly, I'm trying to determine the "character" of my forces, and partly, I'm trying to get the best deal I can on the pieces. It used to be that diecast tanks in Team Yankee's scale were thick on the ground and you could buy them at just any dollar store toy department. Not any more. Now I have to try to scrounge them in antique and thrift stores--if they've got any.
Sagittarius Horoscope for week of June 2, 2016
Aphorist James Guida contemplates the good results that can come from not imposing expectations on the raw reality that's on its way. "Not to count chickens before they're hatched," he muses, "or eggs before they're laid, chickens who might possibly lay eggs, birds who from afar might be confused with chickens." I recommend this strategy for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Experiment with the pleasure of being wide open to surprises. Cultivate a mood of welcoming one-of-a-kind people, things, and events. Be so empty you have ample room to accommodate an influx of new dispensations. As James Guida concludes: "Not to count or think of chickens."
Breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions.
Project Research Shopping Madness
Mar. 23rd, 2016 03:12 pm
In my travels today: an action-figure scale pickup truck and an action-figure scale police cruiser in the toy aisles of two different shops.
I'm stepping back from the brink. The money I have in pocket might need to last for a while.
Useless Fact
Dec. 24th, 2015 10:47 pmThe standard objective marker in Flames of War is the same shape and size as a European-style poker plaque.
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All This Machinery Making Modern Music...
Nov. 18th, 2014 04:35 pmTook a daytrip to Kentucky yesterday. It perpetually mystifies me the way that Moonshine's Sony sound system will play some cuts from the keydrives I have, but not all of them. Really I wish I knew how to remedy this issue.
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lurkerwithoutFreeWill Is Just Peachy
Sep. 2nd, 2014 02:34 pmSagittarius Horoscope for week of September 4, 2014
In Roald Dahl's kids' story James and the Giant Peach, 501 seagulls are needed to carry the giant peach from a spot near the Azores all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City. But physics students at the U.K.'s University of Leicester have determined that such a modest contingent wouldn't be nearly enough to achieve a successful airlift. By their calculations, there'd have to be a minimum of 2,425,907 seagulls involved. I urge you to consider the possibility that you, too, will require more power than you have estimated to accomplish your own magic feat. Certainly not almost 5,000 times more, as in the case of the seagulls. Fifteen percent more should be enough. (P.S. I'm almost positive you can rustle up that extra 15 percent.)
Oddly enough I noticed that the film version of Jonathan Livingston Seagull was available on DVD from Oldies.com and I was rather curious about that. Was it a sign?
Mobile Enough To Suit?
Jul. 21st, 2014 01:42 pm
Thanks to me having a Bandai Channel account for years, I've been able to finagle a Bandai Namco account, which gives me the benefit of allowing me to play GUNDAM: DUEL COMPANY when the game still has yet to be released to the North American market.
This is my Troop's homescreen.
This is my card bank as it was yesterday. (There have been changes.) All my current cards are "Rental" cards, which means I got them for free but they aren't worth anything. I wish I could get codes for the Promo cards, but nobody who's got them is sharing.
This is a typical Formation screen, where you lay out your Troop cards to make Platoons for combat. It's good that everything's in English, else I'd be totally lost.
The results of my first practice battle the other day. I'm now in a multi-player Conquest campaign. Currently my Troop is #8 in a 32-Troop Army, with more than 100 kills so far.
