Monthly Archives: January 2001

so I decided to just take a peek at EQ vault to see what was going on in EQ land, and the next thing I know I’ve got like 5-6 different browsers up, looking at the old and new maps, reading about new spells and quests and trying to find a web site where I had a profile of my characters on.
O. K. I gotta get off. I AM NOT getting back on the E’Crack. I can’t……
Current mood: worried
Current music: George Michael and Elton John – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me

By Andrew Morgan, in London
A tiger’s roar is so intimidating that it has the power to paralyse animals and humans within earshot – a phenomenon that has, until now, baffled researchers.
Scientists at the Fauna Communication Research Institute in North Carolina have discovered that the tiger’s secret is its ability to make very low-frequency sounds that any prey will feel, in addition to the threatening rumble that is usually the last thing a victim hears.
Researchers have been working in the field of bio-acoustics, studying the frequency, pitch, loudness and duration of animal sounds in order to understand animal behaviour. They have established that the tiger emits low-pitched “infrasound”, a growl so deep that it is inaudible to humans. All big cats have this skill, although to a lesser extent than the tiger.
Humans can only hear frequencies from 20 hertz (cycles per second) to 20,000 hertz, but tigers, whales, elephants and rhinos can all produce sounds below 20 hertz. The tiger mixes infra sound growls at 18 hertz and below with the roar that we can hear, and the result, according to Dr Elizabeth von Muggenthaler, president of the institute, is that humans can feel the tiger roar – a sensation that causes momentary paralysis.
That blast of infrasound means a tiger has the capacity to paralyse even trainers who have worked with them for years.
“It rattles and shakes people, and it’s stunning because it happens so fast, just a split second,” Dr von Muggenthaler said.
“It’s an incredible force coming at you. When they roar, tigers often move at great speed from lying down to straight up. During that time you never have any thoughts of running away because you’re so glued to the moment in time.”
Tigers do not only use infrasound literally to scare their prey stiff. It is an invaluable means of communication for them because it can travel long distances.
The research will not surprise military scientists, long aware of the potential of infrasound as a weapon. Several devices that can stun advancing troops with a shockwave of low-frequency sound are being developed.
The scientists say tigers are “remarkably articulate” animals which, in addition to roaring, have a wide variety of special sounds for use with other tigers, such as chuffing – a type of affectionate greeting – growling, hissing, grunting and mewling.
In the first study of its kind, Dr von Muggenthaler and her colleagues recorded every growl, hiss, chuff and roar of 24 tigers at the Carnivore Preservation Trust, in Pittsboro, North Carolina, and at the Riverbanks Zoological Park in Columbia, South Carolina.
Last month she told a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America how tigers “talk” with a range of messages. It is the use of infrasound, however, that really singles them out.
The Telegraph, London
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Well, poking around LJ, trying to fix my style. I need to find my color guide, cause I can’t fix any of these colors…
I guess LJ has a to-do list that’s in beta. I guess that’s cool if you are in a community doing a project. maybe like forCreativity 101
I just realized that I really haven’t emailed anybody in awhile. Hmmm, I think I will have to crank out some of those today while I still have the time to.
I also should do a little with the new web page. I have about 2 pages of sketches that I did awhile back. Now I just need to tinker and see what I can do with those sketches
I think I also need to find a new icon.
Current mood: calm
Current music: Sade – Bullet Proof Soul

**yawn**
Early morning web surfing
Got the Sunday relaxing music and toast to go along with the surfing…
Current mood: waking up
Current music: Sade – No Ordinary Love

Horoscope (by astronet.com)
Recent worry and pressures may be due to a partnership situation that seems to be going nowhere. If you are in a relationship in which someone else seems to control every situation, you may need to reevaluate your position. Try to discover why you need the control in your life. You are more potent and powerful than you may realize. Let go of any strings in regard to financial matters. Make new plans.
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Pictures have been edited and moved to a CD. It almost filled the whole disc. Amazing.
Randomly read other journals. Most of them are teenagers in love. **sigh**
Also went to GabbyMoe’s. I was listed on there once in a previous lifetime. I wonder if I was ever mentioned in her column. Anyway, the thing that caught my eye was the posts talking about secludedgrrrl. Can she even be considered a grrrl. Anyhow, the girl just makes me laugh. I’ll be reading her journal and she will be talking about her day and the stuff that she is doing with her husband. And then, one day, she’ll just say something so…..Christian Coalition like and then the battle just starts up between her and the rest of the world. I def. don’t agree with her views, but she has the right to post and I admire her for standing up to them, even if sometimes she is a hypocrite about them.
That just gave me an idea……..
I’m on AIM and one of my old friends is online. I want to talk to her, but she has pushed everybody aside. Actually, it’s pride that keeping me from doing anything. I’ve tried to talk to her, but she has brushed me aside. If she wants to talk to me, she knows how to get a hold of me. I hope everything goes well with her delivery. I’ll have to hit the gossip lines to get info on that, I guess.
**sigh** Pride is another double edged sword.
Thinking about watching the extras of Fight Club. Sometimes, I wonder if I am just imagining the life that I am living and in actuality, I’m insane. That is the only reason that I can think of for some of the things that I have done in my life.
Well, she is at her party. Is this the day that she meets the new guy? The guy to replace me. My last two ex’s rebounded off of me pretty quick. I, on the other hand, am slow to get back in the game.
But I don’t want to get in the game. I want her. I just need to fix myself, that’s all. But, I need to figure out what’s wrong with me. Or face up to what’s wrong with me. The same old roller coaster ride. I wish I knew how to get off the ride.
O. K. I don’t have too many minutes left on my phone bill, so I should save them for tomorrow. I think that I will watch either The Matrix or Mulan? Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum
Current mood: blah
Current music: Listening to Subsonic on Live 105

Just thinking about why I like the bad guys in movies so much.
Is it because they are hurt, lost souls dressed in black like Darth Vader?
Is it because they are usually so ingenious like Wylie E. Coyote (even if they didn’t work)
Or is it just because, they are all just a little crazy?
Well, still no roommates. Am kinda hungry, but I think that I will wait until later to eat.
Too late to do a photo shoot; my room is way too dark. Unless I bring in all the other lights from the other rooms. I’ll think about it.
Actually, I was thinking of playing with my themes. I think I might unzip all of them and set them up again. I used to be into collecting and designing themes. I guess there could be worse things to be addicted to. I could be playing EverCrack. I can see it now: Screw classes, screw work, I just need one more kill to ding to level 10.
Thank God I gave that game to Suzanne to hold.
Current mood: cold
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Not too shabby for workin on a Sat. So monday mornig might be peaceful for Amber and I; until 11am anyway.
There’s a party that I want to goto, but i don’t have gas or toll to get to it. And I wasn’t really invited.
O.K. Time to go home and clean. I’m thinking a trip to the mall might be in order, if nothing else to goto borders and read. But I think I might actually do some window shopping. We’ll see.
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Well, not really. I got shit done, but there’s still more stuff to do. I just don’t know how much of it I want to do. There are hats that need to be labeled and two orders that need to be recieved. And then I need to sweep and the 3M tape order needs a home. I’m thinking the hats are the easiest, so I can sit and watch TV while I’m stickering them. I might do the Blue Book order too; it looks big, but I think it’s only 2-3 items. The hardest thing is moving them since they are so heavy.
At the bookstore, I saw alot of people with Centennial Village keychains on. I wonder if any of the other roommates moved in yet. I totally left the kitchen a mess. I hope that I cleaned my room. I think I need to finish here and then get back home.
Current mood: bored
Current music: Jars Of Clay – Worlds Apart

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Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well,
there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However
every Evil Overlord I’ve read about in books or seen in movies
invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end. I’ve noticed that
no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad
scientists or alien invaders, they always seem to make the same basic
mistakes every single time. Therefore, if I ever happen to become an
Evil Overlord:
1. My legions of terror will have helmets with clear plexiglass
visors, not face-concealing ones.
2. My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
3. My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not
kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
4. Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
5. The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on
the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons
of Eternity. It will be in my safe-deposit box.
6. I will not gloat over my enemies’ predicament before killing them.
7. When the rebel leader challenges me to fight one-on-one and asks,
“Or are you afraid without your armies to back you up?” My reply will
be, “No, just sensible.”
8. When I’ve captured my adversary and he says, “Look, before you
kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?” I’ll say,
“No.” and shoot him.
9. After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married
immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three
weeks’ time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried
out.
10. I will not include a self-destruct mechanism unless absolutely
necessary. If it is necessary, it will not be a large red button
labelled “Danger: Do Not Push”.
11. I will not order my trusted lieutenant to kill the infant who is
destined to overthrow me — I’ll do it myself.
12. I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum — a small
hotel well outside my borders will work just as well.
13. I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no
need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my
weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
14. I will not waste time making my enemy’s death look like an
accident — I’m not accountable to anyone and my other enemies wouldn’t
believe it.
15. I will make it clear that I do know the meaning of the word
“mercy”; I simply choose not show them any.
16. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any
flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before
implementation.
17. All slain enemies will be cremated, not left for dead at the
bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any
accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned
disposal.
18. My undercover agents will not have tattoos identifying them as
members of my organization, nor will they be required to wear military
boots or adhere to any other dress codes.
19. The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any
other form of last request.
20. I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I
find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to
activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his
plan into operation.
21. I will design all doomsday machines myself. If I must hire a mad
scientist to assist me, I will make sure that he is sufficiently
twisted to never regret his evil ways and seek to undo the damage he’s
caused.
22. I will never utter the sentence “But before I kill you, there’s
just one thing I want to know.”
23. When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to
their advice.
24. I will not have a son. Although his laughably under-planned
attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would provide a fatal
distraction at a crucial point in time.
25. I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was
evil, but one look at the hero’s rugged countenance and she’d betray
her own father.
26. Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in
maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it’s too easy to miss unexpected
developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to
accordingly.
27. I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original
uniforms for my legions of terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs
that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or
savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my
troops to have a more positive mind-set.
28. No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I
will not consume any energy field bigger than my head.
29. I will keep a special cache of low-tech weapons and train my
troops in their use. That way — even if the heroes manage to
neutralize my power generator and/or render the standard-issue energy
weapons useless — my troops will not be overrun by a handful of
savages armed with spears and rocks.
30. I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and
weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at
least I will never utter the line “No, this cannot be! I AM
INVINCIBLE!!!” (After that, death is usually instantaneous.)
31. No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any
sort of machinery which is completely indestructable except for one
small and virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot.
32. If I am engaged in a duel to the death with the hero and I am
fortunate enough to knock the weapon out of his hand, I will graciously
allow him to retrieve it. This is not from a sense of fair play;
rather, he will be so startled and confused that I will easily be able
to dispatch him.
33. No matter how attractive certain members of the rebellion are,
there is probably someone just as attractive who is not desperate to
kill me. Therefore, I will think twice before ordering a prisoner sent
to my bedchamber.
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