Straight from the List of the Day blog.

Got my new band right here!

1 - Go to wikipedia. Hit "random".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random


The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.


2 - Go to Random quotations:

http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.


3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.


4 - Use photoshop or similar to mix it all up. Post.

Happy Christmas!!!

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

Illinois goes smoke free on January 1st. I'm actually looking forward to it. On the rare times I go out to the bar I find that I start chain smoking after my 4th drink. It'll be nice to go out and not feel like I have to do that. I'm going to set my date soon to quit. My mom did well on Chantix, so I think that's what I'll try too. Cold turkey worked for a while, nicotine gum helped, but I still felt the need to smoke. Hopefully this route will make it easier to ignore the urges.

Icy car crashes

It's that time of year again, don't drive stupid.

I took a D & D test. Nerdiness has reached critical mass!

I Am A: Lawful Good Human Monk/Sorcerer (3rd/2nd Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-14

Dexterity-15

Constitution-14

Intelligence-14

Wisdom-13

Charisma-14


Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment because it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.


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:
Monks are versatile warriors skilled at fighting without weapons or armor. Good-aligned monks serve as protectors of the people, while evil monks make ideal spies and assassins. Though they don't cast spells, monks channel a subtle energy, called ki. This energy allows them to perform amazing feats, such as healing themselves, catching arrows in flight, and dodging blows with lightning speed. Their mundane and ki-based abilities grow with experience, granting them more power over themselves and their environment. Monks suffer unique penalties to their abilities if they wear armor, as doing so violates their rigid oath. A monk wearing armor loses their Wisdom and level based armor class bonuses, their movement speed, and their additional unarmed attacks per round.


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.

Take the test here. But be prepared, it's about 130 questions.

2 years ago i bought Slea a sewing machine...

She wanted to try out sewing or quilting and what not. Seemed like a good hobby for her to take up. Now the machine is still sitting, in its box, untouched. It's definitely not for lack of inspiration or motivation, it's about space. There's no good spot for a sewing table in the house. In fact, I forgot about it until I saw this post on Mental_Floss. I don't know why i never thought of combining 8-bit art with quilting blocks, it's a natural fit.



But this one stood out, mainly because it's a tattoo I've wanted to get for a long time, that is until I saw Seanbaby's reader babe Caitlin. I don't want the same tattoo some chick has, unless it's the one me a Slea share.

Possibly the greatest movie ever made!

Ninjas, yakuza, schoolgirls with machine-gun arms, and a drill bra.

Just in time for Christmas: The Scared of Santa Gallery!

Hundreds of pics for you to enjoy/be terrified of.

Astronauts tested sex in space.

LINK

US and Russian astronauts have had sex in space for separate research programmes on how human beings might survive years in orbit, according to a book published yesterday.

Pierre Kohler, a respected French scientific writer, says in The Final Mission: Mir, The Human Adventure that the subject is taboo both at Nasa and at mission control in Moscow, but that cosmic couplings have taken place.

"The issue of sex in space is a serious one," he says. "The experiments carried out so far relate to missions planned for married couples on the future International Space Station, the successor to Mir. Scientists need to know how far sexual relations are possible without gravity."

He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A project codenamed STS-XX was to explore sexual positions possible in a weightless atmosphere.

Twenty positions were tested by computer simulation to obtain the best 10, he says. "Two guinea pigs then tested them in real zero-gravity conditions. The results were videotaped but are considered so sensitive that even Nasa was only given a censored version."

Only four positions were found possible without "mechanical assistance". The other six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag.

Mr Kohler says: "One of the principal findings was that the classic so-called missionary position, which is so easy on earth when gravity pushes one downwards, is simply not possible."