at midnight, in the month of June
Jun. 3rd, 2014 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI forgot this from Saturday: one of the cats was looking out the door at us and the other cat smacked him on the ass, as if to say "that's my spot, tunahead."
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They did a really good job on the sign for Tater Day, though I'd be lying if I said my vision of the sign had Mars in the sky and not the Earth, and that the moon has clearblueskies.
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Ian said the name Sodapop perfectly describes cats. Later, he was talking about great cats and how his cat grabbed him with both paws and bit him on the nose and wouldn't let go, because cats are capricious like that.
Ian brought up Dark Souls II and about how hard it is and how every little mistake leads to death.
And speaking of hard, I found a design quirk unique to the NES version of King's Quest V (the one with the guard iguanas). See, Mordack appearing is on a timer, which starts when you enter Mordack's castle. In the PC version, each room runs on a separate timer, so he appears if you spend too long gawking at the scenery, or you made the mistake of talking to the cat and saving after he just walks away, or you saved after you left the room because the cat was there but you haven't used the bag of peas on the blue beast yet.
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There was a pale pink cockatoo named Sam, who occasionally made a noise I described as "a goat imitating a fire alarm." along with a very very loud whistle. He liked to hang from the cage upside down and swing back and forth.
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A turtle is going to/had his shell zip-tied together.
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One of the interns is from Texas, and was talking about how Texas considers itself the nice state, and they're all like "don't go to Boston, they're mean there," and when she got here, she's like "what the hell are they talking about? They're really nice here."
I said "I know some people from Texas. I've met nicer people." Said people being Xpander, Gechmir, and Dullenplain. Probably a few others. I don't know. I mean, I've met nice Texans.
One of the other interns asked if she had a barn, because she was talking about armadillos in the barn.
"That's… stereotypical," someone else said. Again, it's a large group of people. The only difference is I only know a few names and Kaz and Nina weren't there when this happened.
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Until now, I had no idea how intense the War on Elephants was. These aren't the African equivalent of Doug Giles with a rifle or longbow, these are the African equivalents of Doug Giles with automatic weapons, assault vehicles, helicopters, seized towers where they just fire upon herds of elephants. Poaching and loxodonta ivory benefits groups like the Anti-Balakas and the LRA. Probably the Nuer White Army and the Sudanese Arab Army as well.
Meanwhile, there are tens of millions mammoth corpses in Siberia.
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Jenna brought her pet silky chicken to get looked at. Their feathers are so fine, they look like fur.
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cuteness overload, what with the baby opossums and the baby raccoons and the baby ducks. I should have brought my camera.
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I ganked this from Chris.
burning question: What video game is so hard that the ancients grant magic powers onto whomsoever can best it in a certain way (like no deaths / killing all the birds / etc)?
***
They did a really good job on the sign for Tater Day, though I'd be lying if I said my vision of the sign had Mars in the sky and not the Earth, and that the moon has clearblueskies.
***
Ian said the name Sodapop perfectly describes cats. Later, he was talking about great cats and how his cat grabbed him with both paws and bit him on the nose and wouldn't let go, because cats are capricious like that.
Ian brought up Dark Souls II and about how hard it is and how every little mistake leads to death.
And speaking of hard, I found a design quirk unique to the NES version of King's Quest V (the one with the guard iguanas). See, Mordack appearing is on a timer, which starts when you enter Mordack's castle. In the PC version, each room runs on a separate timer, so he appears if you spend too long gawking at the scenery, or you made the mistake of talking to the cat and saving after he just walks away, or you saved after you left the room because the cat was there but you haven't used the bag of peas on the blue beast yet.
***
There was a pale pink cockatoo named Sam, who occasionally made a noise I described as "a goat imitating a fire alarm." along with a very very loud whistle. He liked to hang from the cage upside down and swing back and forth.
***
A turtle is going to/had his shell zip-tied together.
***
One of the interns is from Texas, and was talking about how Texas considers itself the nice state, and they're all like "don't go to Boston, they're mean there," and when she got here, she's like "what the hell are they talking about? They're really nice here."
I said "I know some people from Texas. I've met nicer people." Said people being Xpander, Gechmir, and Dullenplain. Probably a few others. I don't know. I mean, I've met nice Texans.
One of the other interns asked if she had a barn, because she was talking about armadillos in the barn.
"That's… stereotypical," someone else said. Again, it's a large group of people. The only difference is I only know a few names and Kaz and Nina weren't there when this happened.
***
Until now, I had no idea how intense the War on Elephants was. These aren't the African equivalent of Doug Giles with a rifle or longbow, these are the African equivalents of Doug Giles with automatic weapons, assault vehicles, helicopters, seized towers where they just fire upon herds of elephants. Poaching and loxodonta ivory benefits groups like the Anti-Balakas and the LRA. Probably the Nuer White Army and the Sudanese Arab Army as well.
Meanwhile, there are tens of millions mammoth corpses in Siberia.
***
Jenna brought her pet silky chicken to get looked at. Their feathers are so fine, they look like fur.
***
cuteness overload, what with the baby opossums and the baby raccoons and the baby ducks. I should have brought my camera.
***
I ganked this from Chris.
burning question: What video game is so hard that the ancients grant magic powers onto whomsoever can best it in a certain way (like no deaths / killing all the birds / etc)?
