I've changed my mind. While I do plan on using Ping to post here more often, it's going to be more personal stuff. Which, given how rarely I emote personal stuff, means it's still going to be rather sparse. See Der Pudel's comment in my other journal about tracking bunnies by LJ subscription to Twitter.

For D&D stuff I'll be posting to http://direbunny.blogspot.com/ as often as the inspiration strikes me. Wolfy, no reading that to find out all my tricks! :)

Should be the last test. Bloody hell. Nothing
seems to work on this bloody service like it's supposed to. Get what
you pay for I suppose. My luck there's just an odd intermittent
slowdown somewhere and tomorrow all dozen of these things will post at once.

Now with titles!^Maybe. Bloody ping. Now I need to start looking for a
similar service that isn't so gorram stupid. Two different answers on
their instructions page on how to update blogs via email and both of
those are wrong! Had to go to their support page and find users who'd
done the same scientific method thing I have to figure this out.

Testing without the little blogcode, with a subject line. This worked
once, wtf?

Just testing out whether ping.fm will allow me to post more complex
thoughts from work to LJ, which is blocked (but not Facebook, the
bastards). If so, holy hell this journal will be active again. Fair
warning, it's likely to be mostly D&D stuff: pocket reviews of new books
I've picked up, brief rants, and notes on new game related ideas that
are too long to fit into 140 characters or less. If you really want to
know what's up with the bunny, best to follow me at
http://ping.fm/C0dEU Hint: even if you don't use Twitter (it's
not as bad as they make it out to be, really!) you can grab an RSS feed
of individual users to watch, like I did for quite some time.

"Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear…"

Current Music: Wolfy says I suck..

The most important thing, I think, is did anyone get his gun?

This is so perfect, it needs to be implemented immediately: http://crisper.livejournal.com/158324.html

Ok, it's probably not a good idea to read too much in to this, but this is just too good to pass up: According to Twitterholic, Barack Obama is the most popular person on Twitter, with 21,000 people watching his posts. Hillary is way down there at #87, below her husband, who last I checked was not running for president, with a measly 2600 followers, less than fairly obscure internet personalities like Warren Ellis, Wil Wheaton and Joi Ito. Even more telling is that Barack has just under 21,000 friends. Hillary has... 1. Did I mention her husband is also on Twitter?

I'm terribly pissed at The Golden Compass. It was a decent enough young adult fantasy movie, mind you.. not as good as the early HPs or Narnia, not as bad as the more recent HPs. I hated the delivery of the opening monologue, though wolfy (having not read the books) disagreed with me that laying out the mystery of Dust and Demons right at the start spoiled the suspense.. but agreed that the delivery was terrible. The theme of telling the audience what's going on through exposition rather than showing them naturally continued through the movie, and the use of the Compass itself seemed a bit forced.. like the gimicky super magic power used to save the day at the end of every episode of a Saturday morning cartoon, but instead repeated every 10 minutes. Regardless, the bears were impressive, the demons were cute, Mrs. Coulter was suitably creepy, and it did a reasonable job of telling the book's story without mangling it too terribly...

Until the end. The false climax was over, the characters are nestling into the false denouement, the lull before the final true climax at the end of the book and the staging for the next. The scene fades to black and the music starts to swell for the transition to the next and final scene.. and keeps swelling. The screen stays black. Still swelling. And the credits roll. WTF?! Where the hell did the last chapters of the book go? ARGH!

After doing a bit of research, I can only conclude that the director is a bastard. He left the film once because he was worried he'd be bashed by fans and critics of the book alike. He knew going into the project that there was a very good chance it would get a poor reception, and New Line wasn't taking the bait for another LotR three movies at once deal. Despite all that, he moved the last three chapters of the first book to the opening of the second movie, perhaps hoping that fans of the book would be rabid enough to rally around the series just to see them. Given it's box office numbers, it's pretty clear how that's going to turn out. :P