TGP Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 1 minute ago, Guindyloo said: Reaperland is cancelled for today, back next week! Reaper Errant was last week or two weeks ago? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 22 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said: If I stop taking showers for some reason, I'm blaming you. We will stay upwind! 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Green Eyed Monsty Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Corsair said: We will stay upwind! Even if we need an electric fan and a long extension cord. GEM 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocPiske Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Origins Game Fair is a bit subdued this year, but much better than last year. And my game sessions of the D&D Adventure Board Game are full. Even got to try a demo of Lost Ruins of Arnak. I'm still bemused that I bought $78 worth of game bits (meeples, coins, cubes, gems, etc.). 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarah Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 I always enjoyed Origins for the variety of games on offer. Each year I'd try to find a new one we'd never played before. Unfortunately I haven't been in 10-20 years, vacation time got limited by work. I don't miss the long hike through the hotel to the vendor hall though. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 I just came across this, it is awesome" Helen Keller describing Beethoven. #Helen_Keller. Here's how she describes listening to #Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" over the radio, Helen Keller wrote the following letter to the New York Symphony Orchestra in March 1924. Dear Friends: I have the joy of being able to tell you that, though deaf and blind, I spent a glorious hour last night listening over the radio to Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony.” I do not mean to say that I “heard” the music in the sense that other people heard it; and I do not know whether I can make you understand how it was possible for me to derive pleasure from the symphony. It was a great surprise to myself. I had been reading in my magazine for the blind of the happiness that the radio was bringing to the sightless everywhere. I was delighted to know that the blind had gained a new source of enjoyment; but I did not dream that I could have any part in their joy. Last night, when the family was listening to your wonderful rendering of the immortal symphony someone suggested that I put my hand on the receiver and see if I could get any of the vibrations. He unscrewed the cap, and I lightly touched the sensitive diaphragm. What was my amazement to discover that I could feel, not only the vibration, but also the impassioned rhythm, the throb and the urge of the music! The intertwined and intermingling vibrations from different instruments enchanted me. I could actually distinguish the cornets, the roil of the drums, deep-toned violas and violins singing in exquisite unison. How the lovely speech of the violins flowed and plowed over the deepest tones of the other instruments! When the human voices leaped up thrilling from the surge of harmony, I recognized them instantly as voices more ecstatic, upcurving swift and flame-like, until my heart almost stood still. The women’s voices seemed an embodiment of all the angelic voices rushing in a harmonious flood of beautiful and inspiring sound. The great chorus throbbed against my fingers with poignant pause and flow. Then all the instruments and voices together burst forth – an ocean of heavenly vibration – and died away like winds when the atom is spent, ending in a delicate shower of sweet notes. Of course this was not “hearing,” but I do know that the tones and harmonies conveyed to me moods of great beauty and majesty. I also sense, or thought I did, the tender sounds of nature that sing into my hand-swaying reeds and winds and the murmur of streams. I have never been so enraptured before by a multitude of tone-vibrations. As I listened, with darkness and melody, shadow and sound filling all the room, I could not help remembering that the great composer who poured forth such a flood of sweetness into the world was deaf like myself. I marveled at the power of his quenchless spirit by which out of his pain he wrought such joy for others – and there I sat, feeling with my hand the magnificent symphony which broke like a sea upon the silent shores of his soul and mine. The Auricle, Vol. II, No. 6, March 1924. American Foundation for the Blind, Helen Keller Archives. 7 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Werkrobotwerk Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 5 hours ago, Corsair said: https://youtu.be/mK2jFO_DaRQ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PaganMegan Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 5 hours ago, Werkrobotwerk said: https://youtu.be/mK2jFO_DaRQ I see and raise. https://youtu.be/_Cr7F-oLU84 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Dean Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 17 hours ago, Corsair said: Ah, the joys we endure who love our fountain pens! I’ve got one that probably needs cleaning now. My wife got me a fancy one built (as a side hustle) by her chiropractor, and it has a very fine point. It’s nice enough for writing, but dries and clogs if not used daily. My regular Cross fountain pen will endure being left unused for a lot longer. 9 hours ago, Inarah said: I always enjoyed Origins for the variety of games on offer. Each year I'd try to find a new one we'd never played before. Unfortunately I haven't been in 10-20 years, vacation time got limited by work. I don't miss the long hike through the hotel to the vendor hall though. I haven’t been to Origins since it was a moveable feast…ealry ‘90s in Baltimore, perhaps? With Gen Con almost too big these days, I have been wondering whether it’s time for an adventure. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnwulf Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 18 hours ago, Corsair said: Ah, the joys we endure who love our fountain pens! Sometimes I wonder why I bother. Other days I'll write for hours with it and enjoy every minute. Maybe it's the coin toss that's so much fun. Also clear barrel piston fillers are fun to look at when you're bored, watching the ink slosh inside 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheAuldGrump Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 6/10/2022 at 10:50 AM, PaganMegan said: That's why the "ish". Shrek is one of her favorite movies, along with Up and Big Hero 6. We're nerds. Raising a nerdling is what we do. It's also a movie where the princess kicks butt. She also loves Tangled - where the princess kicks butt. And the Princess in Black series - where the princess kicks butt. As she put it, years ago... 'Lightning bolt!' I still love her logic - witches wear pointy hats, they cast spells. Wizards wear pointy hats, they cast spells. Princesses wear pointy hats, therefor.... The Auld Grump 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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