Monday, September 29, 2003

Heliopolis - SG-1 fan fiction archive

You know you're a SG-1 junkie when...

GateWorld FanFic archive

Suz at JacksCabin.com - mediocre, slightly out of character S/J fic

Jam's Insane Ramblings Fan Fic links - mediocre, lean toward slashiness

we interuppt these SG-1 links to return to my first slashy love, potter fic

moremostly sg-1 videos, though there may be some fic in there somewhere

Seldear's recommended fic

Jojo's S/J fic - the first i read, and some of the best i've seen.

SG-1 ship fic - moments of adoration

an sg-1 fic review page - ship fic in particular

Night Terrors

Near Yet Far

Sunday, September 28, 2003

cotton chenille
21683 - quest, copper - 2
21369 - artisan lace merino, grape -1
50144 - lace pattern - 1
80083 - umbrella swift - 1
21502 - frosting, fog - 2
21498 - frosting, loden - 2
21499 - frosting - jet 1

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Monday, September 22, 2003

An Incremental Approach to a Web-Based Computerized Medical Record

Online Records Serve Patients, Clinicians, and HIM

AHIMA library

achewood

Game of Thrones board game (and another link here)

SelDear's SG-1 fic

A Beautiful Mind

http://www.stargatefan.com/fiction/index5.html
http://www.overduemedia.com/archive.aspx?strip=20030922
http://www.geocities.com/sguniversity/
http://www.sg1-place.de/

fave sg-1 fan fic quote of the day, from Earth Dating is Easy:
Teal'c would do the eyebrow thing and have that faint, smug, self-satisfied, O'Neill-is-in-trouble-I-shall-laugh expression on his face.

Rosedale, 15 skeins.
(color 90, 80, 52, 74, 88)

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

hidden truths - Sam/Jack secret marriage series. silly.
chrysalis - Chrysalis is a Stargate virtual mini-season hosted by JanetFraiser.com.

Holding the Line, Part 2

http://janetfraiser.com/frames.htm


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http://berroco.com/200/200_arlene_pv.html
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer03/PATTsigma.html

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

one more...shippy
the Sam/Jack directory
more Sam/Jack...duh - these seem funny, short
Sam/Jack - mediocre, established relationship...eh
Sam/Jack Awards
Pink-Martini.net - more Fic
angstnromance/nanda fics
angstromance.net



The Gates of Winter byMark Anthony.
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ideas for grammy shawl - lion brand, imagine or jiffy, something soft but machine washable.

Monday, September 15, 2003

more fic (hey, i know i have a problem, okay?):

The Many Shades of Night

the price of secrecy
yet another fic where jack gets tortured and sam saves him. poor guy can't get a break.
fic from Doc, who wrote "For God and Country"

Saturday, September 13, 2003

SG-1 novella, For God and Country

Thursday, September 11, 2003

more sg-1 fan fic

bloodyquills.com - even more fic...reminds me of the harry potter fan site, sugarquill.net

Sam/Jack

Tuesday, September 09, 2003

All Stargate SG-1, all the time.

stargate fan fic quote of the day:

"Thor thought Colonel O'Neill was three fries short of a Happy Meal. Thor had taken Sam aside after one mission and quietly asked if O'Neill was on any medication that their extremely accurate sensors could not detect."

from Missing Something

Lots more sg-1 fic

and more fanfic
The Veils of Reality
One word. Angst! You are 'The Veils of Reality'
series! Angst! Sam-Jack shippy and totally
angsty. Did I mention the angst?


Which of Sel's Stargate fics are you?
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'Semiprecious'. They're. Just. So. Damn. Adorable. *Squee*. Sigh.
You are 'Semiprecious'. Because they're just so
damn adorable. Squee. Sigh.


Which Suzvoy Stargate Fanfic Are You?
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Enigma - she kissed me
A Hundred Days - except for the last five minutes
Need - that geek had the right idea then
Brief Candle - he married me!!

Monday, September 08, 2003

this fic is far too normal, but okay in a Harlequin romance kind of way...

Friday, September 05, 2003

ReproDepot Fabrics - for Christmas presents??

mechanical swan

perfect chili!!

The Library Shop

Personal Library Kit - with the amount of books that come in and out of my house, i need one.

The Booklover's Repair Kit - I think I saw a better one in Levenger a long time ago, but it isn't there anymore...this one is cute, though they've got the industrial ones at Brodart, of course.

Books I want:

Tattoo by Earl Thompson

OOP books I desire:

Karen by Marie Killilea

Fic, Fic, Fic

Dark Directed

the "Yellow Brolly" fic

Incendio

Wednesday, September 03, 2003

new fic
http://www.hug.co.uk/shop/showpage.asp?id=1

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/bubba_ho-tep/

Super Bubble Puzzle
Kindom Heart...desperately want it. sigh. need a game cube first, right? or is it X-box?

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=shinyprettythings&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25

Emozione

www.livejournal.com/users/shadwolf

http://www.advanceforhim.com/

http://www.ahima.org/

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2003/08/07/cx_mh_0807amln.html

Friday, August 29, 2003

Adrift in Japan - a blog about living in Japan
"Splendid Slippers", a book


Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes.

David Liss. A Conspiracy of Paper & The Coffee Trader


Scrooge's Cryptic Carol by Robert Gilmore

http://www.slantreview.com/

The Kitchen Sink Papers by Mike McGrady

http://annecentral.blogspot.com/

http://thegofish.com/#001965

http://www.smallhand.blogspot.com/

http://www.bookbitch.com/

http://rainbowchills.blogspot.com/

http://www.stormwerks.com/linked/

http://echo.colum.edu/back/winspr02/intensecity1.html

http://www.capturingtheghosts.net/scissors/index.php

http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=dangerengrish.jpg&category=Toys&date=2000-11-03
MOVIE: PiƱero

Overstock.com

Through some randomness, I came across the story of this young girl who was murdered and her body hidden in some sort of water supply. I can't remember if it was in a resevoir or a water tower. But so I randomly googled her, and found all these psychics who predicted/prophesied her death, or her location, or something. It was weird, because I've googled crimes before, and I don't usually get 2 psychic hits on the first page. Bizarre. psychic one and psychic two

Bob the Angry Flower grammar lessons - it's and apostrophes.

yet another fic in the quest to find more good HP fic.


DEAD CAN DANCE
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
SWITCHBLADE SYMPHONY
CRUXSHADOWS
CORPUS DELICTI
THE CURE
WOLFSHEIM
COCTEAU TWINS
CHRISTIAN DEATH
BELLA MORTE
BAUHAUS

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from PJ:
http://laeren.zoggins.net/rpg/l5r/ref/
Good for the number-crunchy bits. Plus, I've found that finding backgrounds, advantages and disadvantages that you like can make developing a character history easier.

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Unicorn Archery - Most Rokugani practice what they call kyujutsu. This is a fast method of shooting the bow, and relies primarily on instinctive aim, feel, and experience. It's the equivalent of "hip-shooting" with a bow. In their travels to distant lands, the Unicorn learned a different method, involving careful aim. Instead of drawing and firing instinctively, the bowman looks down the shaft of the arrow and aims it. They found this method to be superior to the Rokugani method, for they could fire rapidly when they needed to, but they could also take their time and aim the arrow when scoring a hit was of critical importance. The Unicorn call this technique by its gaijin name, "yomanri," and all Unicorn samurai use it. As you might imagine, gaijin use this skill as well. The downside of this technique is the stillness it demands on the part of the archer: use of this skill is considered a Full Attack. No extra dice are rolled, but the TN to hit the archer is a 5.
For the Unicorn, the Archery skill is based on Agility rather than Reflexes. The Unicorn samurai can fire once a round like their counter parts, but they may also take time to aim their bow. For each round a Unicorn archer spends aiming (and doing nothing else), he or she gains a Free Raise on his or her to hit roll. An archer can only aim for a number of rounds equal to his Archery skill.
Also, the amount a target is moving also restricts the amount an archer can aim. Only half a character's skill can be spent in rounds aiming at moving targets.


Horse Archery - A character with the Horse Archery skill can not only fire a bow from the back of a moving horse, but can do so without falling off and with a reasonable expectation of hitting the target. The bow used for this skill is the dai-kyu, a long, asymmetrical bow particularly suited to the task.
The strength of the dai-kyu comes from its size and greater draw, thus giving more force to the arrow; and a bowman on horseback is at least three feet taller than one on the ground, affording a much broader field of fire and range.
The Horse Archery skill is based on the Unicorn method of archery (and uses the same mechanics), and so is not generally available to non-Clan members. A character who knows Archery, but not Horse Archery, has his TN raised by at least 10 when firing from the back of a horse; characters who don't know how to handle a bow at all probably ought to hope for divine intervention. A similar penalty would apply if, for some reason, a character trained solely in Horse Archery were forced to fire from the ground.


Lance Unicorn - bushi (and occasionally shugenja) - use this skill when trying to lance (for example, with a yari or a naginata). Obviously, lancing an enemy can only be done from on top of a moving horse. If the Unicorn samurai succeeds in hitting his target with a lancing attack, he does not add his own strength to the roll. Instead, if his mount is charging, he rolls the weapon's DR plus the number of rounds he's charged for damage. He must also make a Strength+Lance check against a TN equal to x5 the number of rounds he charged. This extra roll is not considered an action. If the bushi fails this roll, he loses his grip on his polearm. If he fails it badly (GM's discretion), he can even be unhorsed.
Lancing from horseback is a Unicorn specialty, something they learned in distant lands. It is rare for any other Clan's samurai to use their polearm in this way, but it is not unheard of. For a non-Unicorn samurai to use a polearm as a lance, he must either have a Unicorn teach him, or else survive such an attack and make a Perception+Yarijutsu check against a TN of 30 (less 5 for every time he's seen it) and spend an Experience Point.

>Moto Sanjo - Those of Sanjo's blood always hear his maniacal laugh whenever Shadowlands creatures are near. While this acts as an early warning system (it alerts the character even if he can't see the creatures), it is also demoralizing: the character must always drop his highest die on every die roll while fighting Shadowlands creatures. The character can avoid this penalty for one day if he succeeds in passing an Honor test at TN 10.
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>Moto Soro - Those with a direct tie to Moto Soro can completely ignore their wounds for a number of rounds each day equal to their Void. These rounds need not be sequential.

Thursday, August 21, 2003

Stitches East - I kinda want to go. Just to the market, I don't really have a class interest.


I need this shirt...and this one and these too...one, two, and three.


half keyboard


More thoughts from PJ:
Absolutely. I'm just saying. The other benefit of Yarijutsu is that there is no range MINIMUM, something that archers have to deal with. Plus, Yarijustu allows you to use ANY spear-like weapon - Yari, Naginata, Nagimaki, Nage-yari (throwing spears), Sasumata (man-catcher) and Sode-garami (sleeve-tangler). So a shugenja carrying two or three nage-yari could throw a couple and still have one left over to fight hand-to-hand with. Whereas an archer, when overrun, is screwed.

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Game Stuff. All by PJ, copied from our work chat program, in no particular order:

But, yeah, the Moto as a family have a personal grudge match against the Shadowlands, so that would work fine. They have the affinity to Water magic, which is mostly healing and such, and a deficiency to Fire magic, so that fits the criteria. And their starting spells consist of 3 Water, 2 Air (no damage, illusions and communication and such) and 1 Earth (two words: Jade Strike), so she'd be more helpful around people, but still capable of blowing holes in icky things.

And they get one "Bugei" (warrior) skill to start with, so she could take care of herself just fine in a pinch.

And she gets a pony.

Yeah, the Unicorn are the only Clan with extensive Lore of the Shadowlands and the Lying Darkness AND the lands outside of Rokugan AND they tend to travel all over the damn place, so they know the best routes.

Well, when last we left Reigen and Gaika, they had just inherited a pair of Unicorn war-horses from the Moto they had helped when the Shadowlands infested the capital city, Otosan-Uchi. So, one of the Moto from that detachment joining them would be an easy way to squeeze you in, or the sister of one of the deceased Moto from that detachment would work equally well.

So, yeah, a Moto who studied at the Iuchi shugenja school (the Unicorn shugenja family) and either served in the detachment or was related to someone in the detachment would fit perfectly.

All you gotta do now is come up with a solid amount of backstory. And I know how much you hate to write.