Vanderbilt and the Yeggman. Vipers. Vigor, the Hammersmith wonder.

The book I am reading:
Several at once, but notably the new Twilight Robbery by Frances Hardinge. Highly recommended of course!
The book I love most:
Difficult to name just one really. Perhaps Diana Wynne Jones's Charmed Life.
The last book I received as a gift:
I got a few at Christmas... Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonté might have been the latest of those, from my sister.
The last book I gave as a gift:
In Spite of the Gods, by Edward Luce, for my dad.
The nearest book:
Xenophon's The Persian Expedition, in Rex Warner's translation. On the cupboard just behind me, where I emptied it out of my laptop bag after last time I went to London on the train.

• Seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
• Watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
• Lost all those moments in time.
• Liked tears in rain.

[Poll #1211949]

6th level! That's pretty cool. Am I party leader?

"can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable"

Yeah, right, Rand-boy. I'll limit your actions with an Explosive Runes if you don't STFU.

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I Am A: Neutral Good Human Sorcerer (6th Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-14

Dexterity-10

Constitution-13

Intelligence-16

Wisdom-14

Charisma-13


Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.


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.


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.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

You scored as Storyteller. You're more inclined toward the role playing side of the equation and less interested in numbers or experience points. You're quick to compromise if you can help move the story forward, and get bored when the game slows down for a long planning session. You want to play out a story that moves like it's orchestrated by a skilled novelist or film director. Storyteller 92% Method Actor 67% Casual Gamer 42% Tactician 42% Specialist 33% Power Gamer 17% Butt-Kicker 17% Law's Game Style created with QuizFarm.com

(from rotwang)

(from smiorgan)

Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat / important events, two births, and two deaths!

• 394 - Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish magister militum Arbogast. (I've got no idea if this was important or not, but what great names they have!)
• 1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. (Poor fella. There's some film of him turning restlessly around his concrete / steel cage -- not nice.)
• 1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds. (We had a big party that weekend. Not to celebrate that, but because it was my 30th birthday.)

Births:

• 1879 - Max Schreck, German actor ("Count Orlock" in Murnau's Nosferatu)
  
• 1943 - Roger Waters, bassist, songwriter, and previous leader of Pink Floyd

Deaths:

• 1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa (his assassin said he was told to do it by "a large worm in his stomach")
  
• 1998 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director

This toy uses quite a clever bit of LJ analysis:

undyingking 's LiveJournal popularity rating is 3.42/10. undyingking is more popular than 94.6% of all LiveJournal users. undyingking is more popular than 65.8% of their mutual friends. How popular are you? LJ Popularity created by thehumangame.

You might have seen this entry from the other day, talking about LJ tag popularity graphing. The inventive bateleur  has devised a scheme to make "moose" the top tag in time for Christmas. All it needs is for you, yes you, to include "moose" among the tags for every entry you make from now until then. You can use this url to monitor how the project's going!

The other important thing is, of course, you should repost along these lines in your own journal, so that all your friends can also particpate in a viral manner. Isn't LJ fun sometimes?

Tagged by karohemd!

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