FrankL

I read Mentor as male. (sorry. I've been in this subforum only rarely since March.)

My wife ordered zinc oxide the other day to make our own sun screen. I didn't get a good look at the bag and thought it was a bag of salt (a real quick glance was all I took). The company had Essential in the name. I honestly thought for a moment someone had the bad taste to send "Essential Salts."

I've had really good returns from Juggertha@hotmail.com. I've had him do fantasy genre, but most of his deviantart page is supers.

This is one he did of my character, Shylocke Averyson. I gave him a physical description and said the expression should be, "I hope you feel lucky, punk. But you aren't going to be!" This was the result:

Goldenager here on the board might also be available.

The Doom that Came to Walnut Grove

Nah. Hard to find brown cows around here.

An evil spirit sent by Hel has trapped his soul inside his body. The only thing we know is that she now counts as a side in the gate conflict.

We also do not know if this is how vampirism typically works in the OOTS-verse or if this is a special case.

I got the new job!

The Smokey D's Farm Boy. Two slices white bread topped with tenderloin, french fries, bacon, country gravy & cheddar cheese.

Jump to about the minute mark to see the sandwich. These are tasty. I had part of my brother-in-law's last time we were all there.

Saturday night, I told the boys we had an Avengers cartoon for them to watch. My eldest asked if it was a VeggieTales version. The image that came to mind was Iron Larry and the Incredible Bob.

Got called this morning to do an on-sight interview Tuesday, Feb 4 from 10:00 to 11:30! So happy! Full of thanksgiving right now!

Got called today to do a phone interview with the programming department at a very nice company!

I talked it over with him today. He wants me to call him "Technic." And he's trying to get his brother to do the same.

You are a cool dad.

 

 

How about Keystone?

Thanks. Not feeling Keystone, Gizmo, or Daedalus. Daedalus mostly not because I have a character in a story that used to go by that name until his son committed suicide.

The Clobberin' Times herozine had a character named Gadjet Jack.  

Liking it!

hmm Lego and gadgeteering suggest TECHNIC or MINDSTORM

 

and there is a precedent for super genius gadgeteers called Buddy. SYNDROME in The Incredibles of course he was a villain but he did have very cool toys.

 Considering how he sat down with the catalog recently and started drooling over the Technic and Mindstorm pages, these are under consideration. He was quite sad when he saw the ages on them, even more so than when he saw the prices. I told him as good as he already is, he won't have to wait five years but he's still too young right now.

Does he also like to get up to mischief?

 

Perhaps, given the Scandinavian (Denmark) roots to Lego, you could combine Lego and a certain god of mischief... Legoki Billundson could be a secret identity.  Then something like Blocker or Constructor.

 

Presumably he would have a set of support agents; [Lego] constructs?

 

 

I am assuming that not only is he a gadgeteer, he would logically be a [Lego] Brick - would he not?

Rocket is the mischievious one. I hadn't thought about making the gadgeteer a brick as a secondary power set, but that fits so well. And yes, I'm planning that he will have motorized constructs. His super suit will be colored like Lego sets. (Your avatar is very fitting for this discussion.)

The Lego Fan Club calls its members "Master Builders" -- it doesn't quite roll off the tongue in the middle of a fight, but his friends might just call him "M.B." for short...

Simply "Builder" has a certain appeal.

gimmick

Another with appeal.

I am doing something a little different than I've done before--I'm statting my family. My youngest is a speedster. He told us the other day that he thinks everyone else moves in slow motion. I gave him the nickname Rocket years ago so that will be his handle.

But his older brother would like a neat nickname, too. His nickname is Buddy, but I think he wants something more personal. He's a gadgeteer, no question in my mind. He plays with Legos a large portion of the day, building everything in the books several times and then making something new as his imagination runs wild. For example, he took the Iron Man Malibu Mansion and turned it into a space ship the other day. I was impressed. K'nex are his next favorite, but it's a far second.

What I'm thinking is stat them as if they were in their teens (Teen Champion rules). The first thing I need is a handle for the gadgeteer, then I'll worry about his specific power set. In general, he builds super tech out of legos but can use anything at hand to put together a solution to the problem.

What kind of names work for a gadgeteer who builds his primary tech out of legos? I'd like to avoid anything using teen, kid, etc.

Thanks!

I'm interested in reading as these go. Will the campaign logs be on obsidian portal, here, or elsewhere?

My current job is moving, and that will double my commute. I'm looking at new ones, and found a place that will half my current commute that is looking for a programmer. It's a great place to work. I am applying! Prayer appreciated!

Had a pre-interview screening with this company today. The internal recruiter said she sees no reason not to recommend me for the next round! I should hear early next week if I get an interview.

I did the screening from my car in an empty parking lot, so my teeth may have chattered a bit. She asked about two specific technologies that I admitted I had never worked with. However, once back at my desk, I googled the names quickly. I have worked with similar products (Oracle APEX was compared to Rails and CakePHP which I have a good background with while PL/SQL was described in terms that made it sound similar to Firebird's internal SQL extensions to make triggers, stored procedures, etc.). I called back to let her know that I was familiar with similar technologies.

Happiness. Prayers still appreciated!

My current job is moving, and that will double my commute. I'm looking at new ones, and found a place that will half my current commute that is looking for a programmer. It's a great place to work. I am applying! Prayer appreciated!

Dust in the Wind becomes Someone Broke Wind.

Prayers for you, L. Marcus.

Merry Christmas all!

Same client as my recent post in the cranky thread.

I've been redoing some things with his website. Improvements to code, this is the same one I had to add a third crop. There was one set of calculations that he was fussing about. The capital expense and power costs for a crop share farm weren't as he expected. He gave me this formula for what they were supposed to be. The numbers made no sense whatsoever. None. So since my farm numbers weren't correct as he thought they should be, my business summary numbers were off.

I pulled out the old spreadsheet he had given us way back when I first started this. The formula there was as I thought it should be all along. I made my current formula match (I had a bug, my fault, fixed). I emailed him. He said he wanted the new formula. I replied. "Since that's not how it was in the old spreadsheet, the old pages, or the old javascript, that counts as a change in definition. This capital expense formula is used in several places [where I was unable to switch them over to calling one function mores the pity. Believe me, I wanted to.] that you have previously signed off on. I will also have to make changes to the account dashboard. That will be several hours. I can have [the salesman] contact you with the price if you want."

Two minutes later: "Let's just leave things as they are."

Well, it wasn't a burned out one by the looks of things, so it could even be actually Useful to V &/or Blackwing

Discussion on the giant forum is that Blackwing was closest to the orange bauble when he was swatted down and holding an orange one in his claws in the last panel. Orange stones grant +1 to caster level.

It doesn't raise save DC as the other person said, but caster level factors into a number of things, usually dependent on spell. For example, Disintegrate deals 2d6 damage per caster level, to a max of 40d6. +1 caster level boosts the damage on it by 2d6. Haste lasts 1 round per caster level, so +1 caster level makes it last a round longer. Caster level also makes spell effects harder to dispel, and makes it easier for the caster to overcome spell resistance.

A day may come when a certain client thinks ahead, when he does not request yet more changes to what he already changed. But it is not this day. A day when he actually uses the test server before telling us to take it live and then freaking out because things aren't like he wanted them! But it is not this day!

I'm really hoping ONE of the bad guys dies this time around, they're getting on my nerves now. Geez, let the heroes sail off into the sunset already

I agree. This rollercoaster needs to come to a stop. I've been expecting the arc to end since they blew the gate.

We were watching an episode of Little House on the Prairie the other day. Pa and Ma were going on a trip but the lady who was going to watch the girls was sick. Ma was ready to stay home when Mr. Edwards showed up, heard what was going on, and volunteered to watch the girls.

Pa: I don't know why I didn't think of you first! We'd love that.

The look on Ma's face told me that she had just blown her first SAN roll and then made the second so that she could see the implications of what she had learned.