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Hi friends!
It’s 1am on New Year’s Day for your (mostly) faithful author, gentle readers.
It snowed, no one called, my hair underwent a dramatic re-tealing, I had some wild nightmares, and I’ve got a few ideas in mind for the New Year and the blog!
My New Year’s List (so far)
- Start a magickal journal
- Dream record more
- Diet journal (see also Just Bento January Bento Challenge)
- Organize collections (books, films, dust bunnies, etc.)
- Purge the unnecessary (knickknacks, old clothes, stuff I don’t need in general)
- Yoga (i.e. stretching routine, meditative relaxation time, etc)
- Use organizational tools to support good habits
- Get into the makeup routine
- Extend aggressive budgeting rules to food, clothes, vice and miscellaneous spending.
And some older goals I set for myself that still need doing (updated comments in parenthesis):
- Wake up early enough in the morning to do what I want to do, not just what I have to do.
- Eat breakfast, plan for lunch (see bento challenge above, too)
- Drink once a week or less. (already getting there)
- Find a phystical activity that I will stick to. (the yoga thing I hope)
- Cut coffee intake. (less of an issue than it was when I wrote that)
- Recognize and learn to manage my triggers to unhealthy actions. (ties in with restructuring my diet habits and various vices)
- Read more (doing better on that!)
- Blog more (no comment)
Develop a schedule for bill payment (BOOM! done on that one. heck yeah!)
- Stay motivated to make lunches and dinners. (seriously, the food thing. gotta stay on it.)
Find out what smells weird in the fridge!! (an admittedly recurring issue.)
- Save up for “splurge stuff”. (ties in with that budgeting of non-bill items.)
- Go through my closet, find different “target weight” outfits and put them somewhere obvious. (probably not an easy thing to do since my weight has effected my wardrobe in strange ways. the idea here is to motivate myself every day to do the right things.)
- Do more organizational tasks, cleaning, making lists, STICKING to lists. (can’t argue with that.)
What do you want to do in 2009? Share your list (or link to your list) in the comments!
Note: The diet and magickal journals may be completely seperate from RKNet, or at least run in an area seperate from the main blog, for those who simply aren’t interested. I am also investigating my theme options to see if a more magazine-like style might be a good way to provide you, gentle readers, with a more approachable and fun RKNet for 2009 and beyond. If you have suggestions for the site, by all means comment or write me! I love outside perspective and all criticism is helpful even if it’s not strictly “positive”.
I want to thank everyone for reading, for commenting, for subscribing to the feed, and for generally being awesome. I hope this coming arbitrary Gregorian time period is as fun, as enlightening, as painless, and as unpredictable as possible.
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Ceux qui ont déjà souscrit Ã
l'(feedburner) RSS feed
mai ont remarqué un lien particulièrement important dump poste, brimful ésotérique et occulte whatnots à base de plantes ne sont-pères.
Ceux qui ne le sont pas, je voudrais attirer votre attention sur le grand violet boîte en haut à droite de l'écran. Exclusif à l'alimentation est de mon activité dans del.icio.us résumé quotidien postes. "Mais pourquoi est-ce que je veux savoir ce que vous faites sur Internet?" Me demanderez-vous vous-même. Une question légitime certes, mais garder à l'esprit l'objectif initial de "blogging", comme
indiqué par le gars crédité de l'invention du blog
est de partager des liens vers des choses que l'on aime ou veut faire partager.
Les éléments du lien à partir de samedi après dump tous ont en commun un tag:
wcghm.
Cette étiquette est blanche pour la coagulation du Grand
Homunculi
Matter. Pas vraiment. Il est synonyme de
Weiser Concise Guide to Herbal Magick.
Judith Hawkins-Tillirson offre une initiation facile à saisir à l'étude des correspondances à base de plantes planétaire archétypes et de la Qabbalah mis en place par (l'oncle Al) Crowley
777
et fonctionne avec un objectif d'amélioration de ses pratiques magickal grâce à l'utilisation des plantes.
Ceux qui sont déjà familiers avec
777
intimement mai trouver un peu redondant, mais pour les débutants ou les curieux en général, il est une excellente référence. J'ai choisi il à mon Barnes & Noble pour environ 12 $ et il est plus que vaut chaque centime. Hawkins-Tillirson fournit bien plus qu'un simple condensé de compréhension de l'information à base de plantes disponibles en
777,
elle cite de nombreuses sources différentes, et parfois donne des interprétations divergentes de ce classique magickal guide.
Le wcghm del.icio.us tag vous fournit la quasi-totalité des web-based références citées dans le livre. Vous pouvez obtenir le scoop sur des choses comme cela en vous
inscrivant à la RKNet animale,
ou vous pouvez
m'ajouter à votre réseau del.icio.us
del.icio.us et d'ajouter votre réseau d'alimentation de lecteur de votre choix. Vous pouvez le faire en accédant à votre "réseau" en page del.icio.us - delicious.com / network / votrenomutilisateur - et le défilement vers le bas de la page, il y aura un lien intitulé "RSS feed pour ces Signets" qui vous donnera votre réseau personnalisés spécifiques à l'alimentation animale.
Bonus: Si vous êtes un membre Premier Amazon (vous pouvez toujours faire le mois d'essai gratuit!), Vous pouvez l'obtenir pour 11 $ sans la navigation. Il ya aussi quelques (et je suppose surplus?) Copies là entre $ 3 $ -7 si vous êtes curieux mais peu sur l'argent de poche. Et bien sûr, il ya toujours de votre bibliothèque locale. Comme Judith mentionne elle-même dans le livre, il ne faut pas sous-estimer la valeur des services que fournit le prêt interbibliothèques!
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Those who are already subscribed to the (feedburner) RSS feed may have noticed a particularly large link dump post, brimful of esoteric whatnots and occult herbal do-dads.
Those who aren’t, I’d like to direct your attention to the great big purple box in the upper right hand corner. Exclusive to the feed is my del.icio.us activity in daily digest posts. “But why do I want to know what you do on the internet?” you might be asking yourself. A valid question indeed, but bear in mind the original purpose of “blogging” as described by the guy credited with inventing the blog is to share links to things one likes or wants to share.
The items from Saturday’s link dump post all share a common tag: wcghm.
This tag stands for White Coagulate of Greater Homunculi Matter. Not really. It stands for Weiser Concise Guide to Herbal Magick. Judith Hawkins-Tillirson provides an easy to grasp initiation to the study of herbal correspondences to planetary archetypes and the Qabbalah as set up through (Uncle Al) Crowley’s 777 and related works with a goal of improving one’s magickal practices through the use of plants.
Those already intimately familiar with 777 may find this slightly redundant, but for beginners or the generally curious it is a terrific reference. I picked it up at my local Barnes & Noble for about 12$ and it was more than worth every penny. Hawkins-Tillirson provides more than just a condensed understanding of the herbal information available in 777, she cites many different sources and at times provides differing interpretations from that classic magickal guide.
The wcghm del.icio.us tag provides to you nearly all the web-based references cited in the book. You can get the inside scoop on stuff like this by subscribing to the RKNet feed, or you can go add me to your del.icio.us network and add your del.icio.us network feed to your reader of choice. You can do that by going to your “Network” page in del.icio.us - delicious.com/network/yourusername - and scrolling down to the bottom of the page, there will be a link labeled “RSS feed for these Bookmarks” which will give you your custom network-specific feed.
Bonus: If you’re an Amazon Prime member (you can always do the free month trial!) you can get it for $11 with no shipping. There are also some used (and overstock I guess?) copies out there for between 3$-7$ if you’re curious but low on pocket money. And of course, there’s always your local library. As Judith mentions herself in the book, do not underestimate the valuable service that interlibrary loaning provides!
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En étant l'un des principaux croisements de base dans le monde des super héros, vous pensez que tordant ensemble deux univers ne serait pas le concept d'un tel étranger. Leave it to long-temps développeur de jeux Midway de prendre une idée regorge de awesomeness et de la conduire dans une voie vers l'échec approche proportions épiques avec leur plus récent épisode de leur classique, imprégnée du sang de combat Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat prévisible intitulé vs DC Universe. Maintenant, ne vous méprenez pas, c'est tout à fait capable de chasse, mais il n'a pas la simple kickass facteur que vous pouvez attendre d'une alchimie de ces deux généalogies de confiance. C'est un peu comme la plupart des rock-and-roll super groupes ... combinaisons qui semblent bonnes sur le papier, mais la liquidation d'être quelque chose de beaucoup moins que ce qu'ils devraient être. Ce titre a de nombreux visages instantanément reconnaissable de deux mondes, comme Sub-Zero, Rayden, Batman et Wonder Woman et de sels dans un petit nombre de troisième niveau comme douchenozzles
Jax
et
Captain Marvel
(lolwut?) pour le (discutable) bonne mesure, parce que je pense que
Bizarro,
M. Freeze,
Doomsday,
The Riddler,
de
l'acier
et
Lobo
étaient tous trop occupés pour participer.
Massive a'plenty menton.
Bon, parlons de choses qui me font avoir un goût amer dans le fond de ma gorge à chaque fois que je fait un appel de ce jeu Mortal Kombat. Tout d'abord, j'ai tout de suite remarqué (comme dans une dizaine de secondes à mon premier match), que la lutte contre le système de combat et a été ridiculement peu pour un MK titre. Chaque joueur ne dispose que d'un peu de combos à treize et l'élimination d'environ 80% d'entre eux sont recyclés (tous les caractères des trois premiers combos dans la liste sont X, X, Y sur 360. Chacun.) Et un grand nombre de coups spéciaux ( maintenant appelé «le pouvoir se déplace», pour une raison quelconque), montrent que les développeurs facilement favorisé certains des personnages ... cela est montré à l'origine de détail après vous essayez Sub-Zero, The Joker ou Rayden qui sont un peu déséquilibré. Sur la même note, la plupart des personnages DC Universe se sentir un peu de lumière sur le pouvoir et awesomeness ... Batman est sans certains de ses gadgets glacière (même si il reçoit deux versions différentes de son Baterang - dont l'un est ce que Douglas Adams pourrait appeler
«la plupart inutile
») et Superman n'a pas le sentiment que Super.
Il s'agit de la plus de sang, vous verrez.
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With crossovers being a major staple in the world of superheroes, you’d think that twisting together two separate universes wouldn’t be such a foreign koncept. Leave it to long-time game developer Midway to take an idea brimming with awesomeness and lead it down a path toward failure approaching epic proportions with their newest installment of their classic, blood soaked fighter Mortal Kombat, predictably titled Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s a fully capable fighter, it just lacks the sheer kickass factor that you’d expect from an alchemy of these two trusted pedigrees. It’s sort of like most rock-and-roll super groups…combinations that look good on paper but wind up being something far less than they should be. This title takes many instantly recognizable faces from both worlds like Sub-Zero, Rayden, Batman and Wonder Woman and salts in a few third-tier douchenozzles like Jax and Captain Marvel (lolwut?) for (debatably) good measure, because I guess that Bizarro, Mr. Freeze, Doomsday, The Riddler, Steel and Lobo were all too busy to participate.Â

Massive chins a'plenty.
OK, so let’s talk about the things that make me get a sour taste in the back of my throat every time I actually call this a Mortal Kombat game. First, I immediately noticed (as in about ten seconds into my first match) that the fighting and combat system was ridiculously shallow for an MK title. Each player only has a few combos at thir disposal and about 80% of them are recycled (EVERY character’s first three combos in the list are X, X, Y on 360. Every one.) and a lot of the special moves (now called ‘power moves’ for some reason) show that the developers easily favored some of the characters…this is shown in glaring detail after you try Sub-Zero, The Joker or Rayden who are a bit unbalanced. On the same note, most of the DC Universe characters feel a bit light on power and awesomeness…Batman is without some of his cooler gadgets (although he gets two different version of his Baterang - one of which is what Douglas Adams might call ‘
mostly useless‘) and Superman just doesn’t feel that Super.

This is about the most blood you'll see.
MK vs DC Universe does another thing to piss on the Mortal Kombat pedigree by removing the one constant that the series has seen over it’s seven previous titles, namely the series’ trademark violence and over-the-top fatalities. While there still is a moderate blood (this is the first T-rated Mortal Kombat), the fatalities (or DC’s ‘Heroic Brutalities’) were apparently grown with some care on the stupid farm. From Superman’s overly cartoonish “pound someone into the floor”, the Green Lantern’s “dual energy sledgehammers of doom” or The Joker’s toned-down “shoot ‘em in the face” fatality (which is unfortunately mimicked by Deathstroke, who has pretty much the same thing), every last fatality in the game is either lame or just plain weak at best. Also, you’ll find another series addition (from MK 4 on) missing in action, the multiple style palette switching and weapons. While I was reluctant to this addition at first, i did fall in love with it the first time I found up fighting a skilled player in MK: Deadly Alliance and things went from a heated fistfight to and all-out swordfight within a matter of seconds…and with heroes present like the sword-wielding Deathstroke or The Joker (who, if he’s true to character, is carrying an assortment of knives somewhere on him) this could have been easily implemented, in my opinion. If it wasn’t bad enough, add the obligatory poorly written (and equally poorly voice-acted) story mode to the mix for even more (piss-poor) flavor.

4chan users will have fun with this one, I'm sure.
MK vs DC isn’t a complete failure, find a few friends for multiplayer and overlook it’s shortcomings and you can actually have fun pitting some of the better characters against each other, and several new mechanics like a pretty intriguing grapple system and what I call ‘Falling Kombat” where characters actually beat the piss out of each other while in mid-air and the real-time bruising and suit tearing and you’ll have a degree of fun, but ask yourself…is it really $59.99 worth of fun? This gamer thinks not…but look on the bright side: at least Brandon Routh has some competition in the “make Superman look like a pussy” department.
Verdict: 4/10, pretty damn mediocre.
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