Archive - Nov 2008
I'm reduced to memes. At least I'm posting something.
Swiped form Mary Robinette Kowal:
- Started your own blog
- Slept under the stars
- Played in a band
- Visited Hawaii
- Watched a meteor shower
- Given more than you can afford to charity
- Been to Disneyland
- Climbed a mountain
- Held a praying mantis
- Sang a solo
- Bungee jumped
- Visited Paris
- Watched a lightning storm at sea
- Taught yourself an art from scratch
- Adopted a child
- Had food poisoning
- Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
- Grown your own vegetables
- Seen the Mona Lisa in France
- Slept on an overnight train
- Had a pillow fight
- Hitch hiked
- Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
- Built a snow fort
- Held a lamb
- Gone skinny dipping
- Run a Marathon
- Ridden in a gondola in Venice
- Seen a total eclipse
- Watched a sunrise or sunset
- Hit a home run
- Been on a cruise
- Seen Niagara Falls in person
- Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
- Seen an Amish community
- Taught yourself a new language (only if you count programming languages)
- Had enough money to be truly satisfied
- Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
- Gone rock climbing
- Seen Michelangelo’s David
- Sung karaoke
- Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
- Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
- Visited Africa
- Walked on a beach by moonlight
- Been transported in an ambulance
- Had your portrait painted
- Gone deep sea fishing
- Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
- Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- Gone scuba diving or snorkelling
- Kissed in the rain
- Played in the mud (almost died in some mud, wouldn't call it playing)
- Gone to a drive-in theatre
- Been in a movie
- Visited the Great Wall of China
- Started a business
- Taken a martial arts class (as a student)
- Visited Russia
- Served at a soup kitchen
- Sold Girl Scout Cookies (sold generic cookies door-to-door)
- Gone whale watching
- Got flowers for no reason
- Donated blood, platelets or plasma
- Gone sky diving
- Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
- Bounced a check
- Flown in a helicopter
- Saved a favourite childhood toy
- Visited the Lincoln Memorial
- Eaten caviar
- Pieced a quilt
- Stood in Times Square
- Toured the Everglades
- Been fired from a job
- Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
- Broken a bone
- Been on a speeding motorcycle
- Seen the Grand Canyon in person
- Published a book
- Visited the Vatican
- Bought a brand new car
- Walked in Jerusalem
- Had your picture in the newspaper
- Read the entire Bible
- Visited the White House
- Killed and prepared an animal for eating
- Had chickenpox
- Saved someone’s life
- Sat on a jury
- Met someone famous
- Joined a book club
- Lost a loved one
- Had a baby
- Seen the Alamo in person
- Swam in the Great Salt Lake
- Been involved in a law suit
- Owned a cell phone
- Been stung by a bee
- Read an entire book in one day
20 out of 100. Admittedly there are several I don't want to do.
It should be fairly clear here that I can't draw. Never was very good. I did manage once to be able to draw a fair profile of Judge Dredd, but that was just his head.
If anything, I've regressed:
The results of your analysis say:
- You are driven and ambitious and tend to make radical moves to reach your goals.
- You are a thoughtful and cautious person. You like to think about your method, seeking to pursue your goal in the most effective way.
- You have a sunny, cheerful disposition.
I think the analysis comes more from your own interpretation of your drawing, rather that there being any computer analysis of it.
Found on the blog of another Paul Campbell. The one that writes for EastEnders and Holby. Not the one that was in Battlestar Galactica and now Knight Rider.
On the subject of writing, I'm working on the script for episode 7 of Estalvin's Legacy. Sadly, when I came back to revise the original scripts that I'd written for episodes 7 through 12 last November, I was very unhappy with the structure of large parts of it. I haven't thrown all of it out, I do like a lot of the elements I had in there. So those are being cherry picked for the new scripts.
The biggest change from previous scripts is a much tighter focus. Instead of trying to keep up with all of the characters in each episode, I'm focusing in on one set in the A story and an other in the B story. That will be a two part story, episodes 7 and 8. Episode 9 will then move on to a different set of characters.
If you want to consider Episodes 1 though 6 as the Mini-Series, where the universe is setup, and we are now into the actual series.
