User:マイキ/random

This page is for random scraps of info.

RPG Books
There are all kinds of resources for online RPG books and modules. Many of these are older publications that are being released to the public under their own specific licenses. They make for really great research and inspiration material, so get them while you can!


 * Dwarfstar Games - http://dwarfstar.brainiac.com/ds_index.html
 * Dragonsfoot Adventure Modules - http://www.dragonsfoot.org/ad/

Modes
Internal mode is where one seeks to consolidate and conserve their energy. It often corresponds with a natural cycle, such as winter, or after a certain phase in a repetitive work environment. A person may choose to behave and manifest this mode in many different ways.

maiki normally shuns new ventures in order to finish older or more pressing projects.

infoyelling
infoyelling is a podcast that has no subject or time restraint. The idea is that we are town criers on the internet. Long form presentations take the form of pamphlets, on the site.

The term is taken from America: The Book, where town criers are described as doing something between sharing information and yelling, and the footnote describes this as being "infoyelling".

recipe site
A site that gathers recipes and released them in a human- and computer-readable format.


 * Content is as libre as possible
 * Open standards
 * Beautiful layout, like a menu
 * Categorized with icons (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, etc.)

"real world"
“The real world.”

As a child I was often told that I had to accept certain premises because “that is how the real world works”. Such claims both frightened and encouraged me. I was frightened of the consequences if they—grown-ups—were correct in their assumption, and whatever ideas I had were actually incompatible with the real world. I was encouraged because this thought grew into the defiance that I simple didn’t care about the rest of the world. I was going to do this my way, and my way would eventually be seen as a viable alternative to their—the real world—ways.

I have never regretted this behavior.

1901

 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Classical_planets
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Titan_%28moon%29
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cryovolcanoes
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jantar_Mantar_%28Jaipur%29
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/George_Darwin
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Carl_von_Linde#Key_inventions
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tesla_turbine
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

Child abuse
A story dealing with a mysterious event in which children along a range of ages leave their house in the middle of the night and gather in a park, after attacking numerous people, including killing and partially eating a police officer. The story actually takes place after this event, and deals with the aftermath of this event.

The story is told from the point of view of a child psychologist who has been in contact with many of the children. At one point he has the dream at the soccer game where they must fight the children after they all faint and awaken agitated and eventually murderous.

The officer's gun hadn't been discharged, which the news picks up on. There is, of course, a media blitz, as well as the FBI investigating if it is a terrorist attack.

Mythological creatures
Mythological creatures are great and all, but am I the only one who is fed up with their shit?

Take a chimera for example. Not only has that guy nearly single-handedly turned public opinion away from stem cell research, but he... it... they have

Sweet Pair
Working title.

A boy and a girl grow up, in obvious reverse rolls. The boy goes through the developmental changes of a female, while the girl does that of a male. Somehow they just work through it, and at one point in their teens they are an item, though it ends a couple of years later. They stay friends, though not particularly close.

One of them attends nearby Berkeley, while the other gets a series of part-time jobs near the campus. At one point the boy is being made fun of for being effeminate, and the girl sticks up for him. Afterward, the two get in a fight, and the girl slaps the boy, at which point the two switch bodies.

Skin contact allows them to switch bodies, which allows them to experience the gender they are more comfortable with.

Time Matrix
A time-travel story.

Time travelers are leaping back in time using a machine that is a series of nodes spread out throughout the universe. It operates by tracking the movement of objects of a certain size, and then allowing a consciousness form a physical object at a certain point in time using ambient energy.

Their goal is to make it back 1986, the first time the time matrix tracked the use of an FTL drive on Earth. Their hope is that they will be able to make contact with, and form a working relationship with alien life, in hopes of understanding humanity's purpose in the universe, as well as what the purpose of the time matrix is.

Timeline

 * ~50000BC - Atlantis is destroyed.
 * 1995AD - Mecha invade Okinawa.
 * ~3000AD - Worldfall happens, Cloud World begins.

NaNoWriMo 2008

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone_energy
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Maynard
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_and_present_danger
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torts
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish,_New_Hampshire
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_academic_cap
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Smart
 * http://interi.org/2008/09/zombies-versus-mummies/
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextus_Julius_Africanus
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism
 * Satan's Faces: The many lives of Lucifer

Song of Fellowship
There are a few stories that nearly every sentient being knows, mostly having to do with the ancient spirits and the creation of the world. These stories are told and re-told because e

Files cuts off there.

Backups
Backing up important information is crucial to sanity.

Besides backing up the entire home directory to local external drives, there are really important files I need in the cloud. We're talking tape drives, here.

^ Name ^ Path ^ Notes ^
 * Photos | ~/photos | These are important, because I need to have a document of every 20 minutes of Emma's life. |
 * Documents | ~/docs | Among other things, contains my writing. |
 * Work | ~/work | Client files. Keep for at least a year after I've not done any work for them. Also, ensure they have a copy as well. |
 * Drush | ~/.drush | Drush config and backups; this way I get the files and databases all together (backups go to ~/.drush/backups) |
 * Firefox | ~/.mozilla | Firefox settings. Also, use Firefox Sync. |
 * GnuPG | ~/.gnupg | Encryption stuff. Need it to check the good e-mail. |
 * Pidgin | ~/.purple | Pidgin settings, but also OTR keys. |
 * SSH | ~/.ssh | Encryption stuff. Only works on the same machine. Contains my awesome SSH config file, with all my shortcuts. |
 * Thunderbird | ~/.thunderbird | Thunderbird. Contains settings and copy of inbox. Monthly, purge e-mail older than 3 months, for security reasons. |

really random

 * PHP generated order based on chronology or syndication/release. The idea is that the nodes or content are "stacked" visually on top of each other, likes sheets of paper. Kinda cool. ^_^ Uses absolute positioning.
 * A spell that creates a cage of chains. They hang down at varying lengths. If a person tries to leave the cage the chains will entangle themselves around the prisoner. Variants include attacking people who try to break in.
 * Writer's Square
 * Flash fiction; do it!

HTML template checklist
Templates are pretty much the intersection of where development and design meet the world in the work that I do.

Here is a list of considerations to keep in mind while starting a new template.


 * Header
 * DOCTYPE goes are the top, before anything else
 * The META element is more or less deprecated
 * That being said, if it isn't otherwise semantically marked up, the name attribute and generator value is useful for indicating the software/version. Look at the source of this page for an example.

Class Templates
Character abilities in Nexia Tactics are modular; they are chosen as the character becomes more powerful, and is able to meet the requirements for a new ability. Class templates are a default set of abilities and powers that allow easy leveling.

Magic wood
Ancient castles have magic woods surrounding them that animate when a true threat approaches.

An attuned character could possibly meditate to communicate with such an enchanted wood.