Amue Me III

[electricpaladin]

ladypimpernel and I had a great weekend. The highlight was probably babysitting the twins. Abby's cousin Brad and his wife Jennifer have recently produced a pair of adorable twin girls named Isabelle (Izzy) and Callista (Callie). Abby and I volunteered to give Brad and Jen the night off.

We arrived, settled in, and played with the babies while Brad and Jen got ready for their date. Then Brad bought us takeout (Indian pizza - the best food ever), put the babies to sleep, and left. All we had to do was hang out near the baby monitor, eat Indian pizza, and do what we would have done anyway - namely, sit around playing Exalted.

The babies were ridiculously cute. They're almost a year old, at the sit up and pay attention to the world, loves loud noises, smiles and laughs stage. They were very easy to please (even Izzy, who's the grumpy baby). All I had to do was snap two nesting plastic hemispheres together to form a sphere with a plastic cup inside so that shaking it made an unholy racket, and they were in heaven. When I invented the Power Spoon (sliding a smaller plastic sphere onto a large wooden spoon the twins like to chew on) I was probably voted best babysitter ever. Or would have been, if the babies understood democracy.

The upshot of the experience? I want to design a roleplaying game that uses babies as the randomizer. Just sit around with your gamer friends, a couple of babies, and see what happens. The concept needs work, clearly.

. . .

Question One

What is the story behind your online handle/LJ username?

Question Two

What was your strangest childhood fear?

Question Three

Well, on Friday I asked you what you expected from the debates, so now I'll ask the next logical question: if you saw them, what did you think of them?

Comments

[educatedmonkey.livejournal.com]

1) because that is what I am. An educated monkey

2) stormship troopers coming into my house. It was a bad dream I had when I was little that stayed with me.

3)I think McCain did better, but the polls say otherwise, so what do I know. I have a bracelet too. Enough said. The real fun is Thursday. I recommend watching the Palin interview by Couric, to lower your standards appropriately. At the moment, I'll be impressed with coherent thoughts.

Actual quote "That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help
those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to
help shore up our economy, helping the--it's got to be all about job
creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right
track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in
spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for
Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a
competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the
trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All
those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a
part of that."

SNL take on this http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/28/gov_palin_gets_the_snl_treatme.html

please note how the writers didn't really make up any lines for her


Oh, and yay for cute kids

[queenbast.livejournal.com]

I will answer your questions with a question:

how the hell do I call you? 'cause I totally tried the other night and your phone was all "I don't exist anymore!" and I was sad. very sad. I cried.

Thats a lie, I didn't cry, but I *do* want to be able to call you :P

*hugs*

[electricpaladin.livejournal.com]

My phone is working again as of... three hours ago. So don't cry! Call my instead!

[ladypimpernel.livejournal.com]

Eek! I'm really sorry I didn't call you back. I was in class. I got home and I told Mark you called, but I completely forgot to call you and let you know the situation. (Or poke Mark hard enough that he used my phone to tell you.) I'm sorry!