You are the third Doctor! Well, you certainly know
how to dress. Even people saving time and
space have to look good, I suppose. You’re
not overly fond of the military. Strange how
you ended up working for them. You can be a
bit egotisitical, but this is tempered by
your genuine dedication to putting right the
wrongs caused by evil men and monsters and
your sincere affection for those around you.
Which Doctor (from Doctor Who) Are You?
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I went to Toren’s last night to make up Mutants and Masterminds 2nd Edition characters for his new campaign. Well, that was the plan, but I was so excited about actually playing that I’d made up three possible characters the day before using Simpson’s M&M2 Excel Character Builder (with a few modifications to fix some errors — I’ll submit a fixed sheet to him soon). I created:
Because I had these characters complete before the character-creation session I spent my time helping out those who didn’t know the rules very well making theirs and helping out with character concepts.
Mostly I helped out Mike Jackson, who turned out to be the director of Dial A For Alphaman, which stars my old friend Andy Thompson. Andy & I were in both high school and college together, and performed in both Garrison’s Garage and Hamlet. He played Hamlet and I was Horatio (though to be honest it was one of my worst performances). Andy has gone on to quite a few performances including “Scalp Taker” in the mediocre The Chronicles of Riddick. Mike confirmed my suspicion that Andy had several bigger scenes in the movie that got cut, including a dialogue scene with Dame Judy Dench.
Anyway, Mike wanted a gadgeteer and after he leafed through the powers and talked about a unifying concept we came up with a machine-spirit-talker who has clouds of nanobots doing his bidding. It’s a good build that can do a lot of cool stuff, including a very good “Create Object” power much like the Green Lantern except his are probably metal coloured rather than glowy and green. I suggested the character name “Deus Ex” and it’s stuck.
Here’s The Humanitarian Character Sheet (149kb PDF) (updated 11pm with some more tweaks)
Well, we’re nearing the end of the second month living in Burnaby. So how has it been? It’s a mixed bag, really.
We’ve been finding problems with the new house here and there. Nothing too bad, just annoyances that should really be fixed but when you bring them all up with the landlord you seem picky. That doesn’t stop me though.
We had Jennifer Barclay paint the bedrooms and bathrooms which was sorely needed. The walls were dirty and in some cases written on by the previous tenant’s children. Our bedroom has a gorgeous feature wall done in a dark red with a smidge of orange. Very much like the current background to this blog. The other three walls are “Russian White” which is sort of a halfway between beige and white. It’s very nice and warm.
Speaking of warm, the tenants in the suite downstairs are from Brunei and are obviously used to very warm temperatures. Their heat rises up into our bedrooms (and my computer room) and at times it’s roasting. I can tell when the husband gets home from work because the heat gets jacked way up. We’ve managed to block off the air ducts enough so that it’s not too hot.
Mike (Thornley) did an awesome job of wiring the house a few weeks back. Now I’ve got a network cable running from my computer room’s router all the way to gaming consoles in the living room. It’s perfectly hidden, going through the wall, into the attic and down again. He also wired up my surround speakers the same way, so we’re set for movie watching.
Mel is working the 3pm-midnight shift Monday-Friday. She enjoys those hours but it’s a pain for me. I typically start work when I get up (11am or so as we’re up late) so we can’t do anything together then, and then she leaves for work, taking the car with her unless I drive and drop her off. Then she’s gone for the whole time anyone with a regular schedule might be available for socializing and gets back after midnight. We typically play something together or watch whatever TV I’ve downloaded and then go to sleep and repeat it the next day. My main clients tend to leave their office (and therefore, stop bugging me for stuff they want done yesterday but didn’t give me until today) at 5pm so for about seven hours every night I’m catching up on a small amount work (usually not much) and then generally doing nothing but playing games by myself.
To top it all off, most of the friends that live near here are either in crunch mode at work or have other plans nearly every night. It’s also hard to socialize when you’re on Medifast because you can’t go out for a drink or for food without ruining it. (Medifast update: It’s been a month and I’m down over 16 lbs)
If the weather was better I’d just drop Mel off and go golfing, but it sucks outside. When it’s warm out it’s cloudy, grey and raining, and when it’s sunny out it’s cold. Every year at this time I’m just totally done with winter and want the warmth brought back.
On the positive side it’s nice being close to the city. I’m about a ten minute drive from Metrotown and it takes me all of twenty minutes to get right downtown Vancouver. But I’m at the point now where I’d rather shop online and do without the hassle of driving, finding and paying for parking, and seeing if what I want is actually in. I had to go to the Vancouver Future Shop to get Mirrormask on DVD and ended up paying $2.25 to park, not to mention the gas and time in and back. If I’d ordered from the Future Shop web site shipping would’ve been free and the only drawback is I’d have to have waited a few days — but I could’ve ordered it whenever I wanted, not just when the car was available and I had time.
So yeah, even the good stuff is tempered with annoyances.
Amazon.ca has Doctor Who The Complete First Series on sale now!
There’s the clever box for it. I still find it odd that it’s listed as the “First Series” when there are 26 (yes, twenty-six) other seasons of the show. But it’s a great starting point for new Who fans, so I’m not going to complain too much.
Check out this excellent trailer. I love these things.
To see more of the power of a movie trailer to present the kind of movie they want, check out this trailer for The Shining.
I just picked up four stools for our kitchen island/bar, and we’ve moved the spare bed out into the living room for people to lounge all around. In addition we’ve got the aforementioned loveseat/sofabed courtesty of Fatrick, the Lazy Boy that Dave Schneider gave us way back before we moved as well as assorted floor pillows and some relatively comfortable chairs we normally use outside.
Seating for the party has been taken care of!
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