Archive for March, 2008

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“That was just pillow talk, baby…”


2008
03.28


Questionable Content #1109

Any woman who knows the origin of this posting’s title could own me. :-)

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Think of the children!


2008
03.27


SMBC 2008-03-25

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All In the Family


2008
03.26

From The Washington Post:

Obama Related to Pitt, Clinton to Jolie

By DENISE LAVOIE
The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 26, 2008; 12:02 PM
BOSTON — This could make for one odd family reunion: Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt’s girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.


Hillary & Angelina

Barack & Brad

Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates _ Democratic rivals Obama and Clinton, and Republican John McCain.

Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother’s side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.

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Trolling & Flaming


2008
03.25


How The Internet Brings Us Together

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: “Arguing on the internet is like yelling in to a toilet… while flushing.”

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I roll the 20-sided die….


2008
03.25

…and got this results on my What D&D Character Am I> test:

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Cleric/Sorcerer (3rd/2nd Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-18
Dexterity-16
Constitution-15
Intelligence-16
Wisdom-12
Charisma-15

Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Primary Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron’s vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity’s domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric’s Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.

Secondary Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.

Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

Detailed Results:

Alignment:
Lawful Good —– XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (25)
Neutral Good —- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (28)
Chaotic Good —- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (19)
Lawful Neutral — XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (18)
True Neutral —- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (21)
Chaotic Neutral – XXXXXXXXXXXX (12)
Lawful Evil —– XXXXXXXXXXX (11)
Neutral Evil —- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (14)
Chaotic Evil —- XXXXX (5)

Law & Chaos:
Law —– XXXXXXXXX (9)
Neutral – XXXXXXXXXXXX (12)
Chaos — XXX (3)

Good & Evil:
Good —- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (16)
Neutral – XXXXXXXXX (9)
Evil —- XX (2)

Race:
Human —- XXXXXXXXXXXXX (13)
Dwarf —- XXXXXXXX (8)
Elf —— XXXX (4)
Gnome —- XXXXXXXX (8)
Halfling – XXXX (4)
Half-Elf – XXXXXXXXX (9)
Half-Orc – XXXXXXXX (8)

Class:
Barbarian – (-2)
Bard —— XX (2)
Cleric —- XXXX (4)
Druid —– (-4)
Fighter — (0)
Monk —— (-17)
Paladin — (-21)
Ranger —- (-4)
Rogue —– (-4)
Sorcerer — XXXX (4)
Wizard —- (0)