…do not commit crimes. Your victims will be very gratified to be able to give the police such a distinctive, easily-remembered, and above all motivational facial feature when reporting your crimes. And the cops will be equally gratified to bust you.
Moe Lane
*I say nothing about the devil horns, actually. Male-pattern baldness runs in my mother’s family, although thank GOD but I missed that particular gene sequence. I can respect the guy’s quiet defiance, there.
Ah, how I miss the Animaniacs.
Link here. Short version: Obama can’t get some of his banking appointee nominees up for confirmation votes. Ain’t that a shame?
Regular posting will resume tomorrow. Until Christmas descends upon us all, of course. But there should be a couple of decent content days.
-2 for lack of schematics[*]; normally it’d be -5 for improvised equipment, but the Universal GM took pity on me and ruled that the job mostly just required a screwdriver, which I had. Normally Electronics Repair defaults to IQ-5, which would have meant that I had to roll 9 or better on 3d6 to pop the power button back up; but Electronics Repair (Computers) defaults at -5 to Computer Operations/TL8, and I have that at IQ+1 (15-)**, which meant that my effective skill roll was 10-.
Didn’t see the dice roll, of course, but the damned thing popped back up, so I must have made it on the nose. I even made a tricky Will check to keep from snapping at my kids when they started yelling in my ear. So, really, not in fact all that bad a bad morning.
Moe Lane
PS: It’s a GURPS thing: it’s not that you wouldn’t understand. It’s more like: you either understand, or you don’t.
[*Let me add: which was offset by the fact that it was a reasonably easy (+2) task to accomplish.]
**That may be the most obscure brag you see all day.
No Amazon
Found here. Short version… I dunno, folks. I can’t quite believe that these protests about Oberlin’s menu options are on the up and up.
Nice to have extended face to face conversations with people who aren’t my children. Very nice, in fact. I should do this more often.
Because I am going to an actual PARTY. Which means that there will be FUN things to do. And maybe even something to DRINK. So let me offer my commiserations to people early. Because, again, [singsong] I don’t have to watch this! I don’t have to watch this! [/singsong]
Christmas With The Devil, Spinal Tap
I actually like this song. They’re a little too good at the parodying, sometimes.
