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                <title>The Stars of Dream Spiritual Writing Contest</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:33:00 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">The Stars of Dream Spiritual Writing Contest</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ We as artists, whether our tools are pen and paper, brush and canvas, or keyboard and mouse, have one overriding responsibility to our fellow beings: to inspire the best parts of human nature through our creations. At Stars of Dream, our chosen path is to explore the deeper spiritual possibilities inherent in worlds of past, present, and future myth, fantasy, and science fiction.<br /><br />We are now taking submissions for the Stars of Dream's first official writing contest.<br /><br />For more details, visit http://alcyone.starsofdream.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=178 ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2009.01.23: Maria</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:57:06 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2009.01.23: Maria</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Namaste.  Somehow you've managed to find your way onto one of my blogs.  I don't know if you got here via MySpace, Lord of the Rings Online, Stars of Dream, DeviantArt, or some other network I am not aware of, but nevertheless I welcome you!  My name is Victor Sheckels; I usually use the callsign StarSeeker online but you might also know me by the name of one or more game characters for example Mneme of the Muses.<br /><br />Since this blog is posted on multiple sites with different purposes, it may include different content such as game-related discussion, writing, philosophical or political musings, or whatever else I might feel like talking about a  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2009.01.18: 40 ways to mess with people in LOTRO</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:59:37 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2009.01.18: 40 ways to mess with people in LOTRO</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Namaste.  Somehow you've managed to find your way onto one of my blogs.  I don't know if you got here via MySpace, Lord of the Rings Online, Stars of Dream, DeviantArt, or some other network I am not aware of, but nevertheless I welcome you!  My name is Victor Sheckels; I usually use the callsign StarSeeker online but you might also know me by the name of one or more game characters for example Mneme of the Muses.<br /><br />Since this blog is posted on multiple sites with different purposes, it may include different content such as game-related discussion, writing, philosophical or political musings, or whatever else I might feel like talking about a  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2009.01.05: Another New Year</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:49:49 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2009.01.05: Another New Year</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Namaste.  Somehow you've managed to find your way onto one of my blogs.  I don't know if you got here via MySpace, Lord of the Rings Online, Stars of Dream, DeviantArt, or some other network I am not aware of, but nevertheless I welcome you!  My name is Victor Sheckels; I usually use the callsign StarSeeker online but you might also know me by the name of one or more game characters for example Mneme of the Muses.<br /><br />Since this blog is posted on multiple sites with different purposes, it may include different content such as game-related discussion, writing, philosophical or political musings, or whatever else I might feel like talking about a  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2008.01.07: New Year, New Install, New Frustration</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:13:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ On the new year I decided to reinstall Windows.<br /><br />This was probably a mistake.<br /><br />I unfortunately misplaced my Windows CD.  This meant I needed to get a copy from a friend and install that.  Only the CD key was invalid.  And my CD key was for the particular version of Windows I had.  Therefore I can't update anything without a lot of hassle.<br /><br />And while I did do a fairly good job with backups, of course one thing had to slip through my fingers: the complete Quatran alphabet, two font files and probably 24 man-hours of work at the bare minimum.  They were installed rather than sitting in a folder like (thank God) my other font files were.<br /><br />*sigh*  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2007.05.06: I beat Alice!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 15:40:54 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2007.05.06: I beat Alice!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ American McGee's Alice.  Awesome game.  And I'm getting a new monitor, hopefully tomorrow.  About time I got a piece of 21st century technology rather than a CRT.  :) ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:22:00 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Devious Journal Entry</media:title>
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                <title>2007.02.26: Examples of Poisoned Minds</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:41:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ==01:41==<br /><br />I bring you this link as an example; study it well!: http://www.fstdt.com/top100.asp<br /><br />I am a religious man... but sometimes when I see such examples of the sliminess of some of our fundie Christian friends, I can sympathize with Richard Dawkins, arrogant ass though he is.<br /><br />I find it extremely depressing to contemplate all the children's lives who are ruined by their parents impressing upon them such hateful psychotic, neurotic, and sociopathic views as fundamentalist Christianity or Islam inspires.  And don't say "these are just psychopaths".  The same poison pours from the mouths of many who call themselves moderate.<br /><br />Where is the ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2007.02.20: For My Mother</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:18:38 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2007.02.20: For My Mother</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ==01:40==<br /><br />This evening I took the time<br />To read page after page of words on a screen.<br />Too often do I sit and ponder,<br />My words withheld for the assumption you already know<br />What I am about to say<br />Doubtless you do, but right now I renounce this habit of silence<br />You have spoken, and shared with me your words.<br />Nay, not words; a word is but a cluster of letters<br />An ideogram of pixels on a screen supposed to mean something or other<br />Often misunderstood, more often ignored<br />Words should be deeper than that<br />With His Word He spoke the universe into existence<br />And as we speak, we strive to speak the universe inside us, likewise<br />In His image.<br />M ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2007.02.16: Taking the Buddha's Picture</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:34:51 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2007.02.16: Taking the Buddha's Picture</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ==10:25==<br /><br />So there was an interesting dream last night.  I had a pack of photosensitive plates and I had decided to go to the temple and take a picture of the Buddha.  Now once I got in the building, which was somewhat dark, there was a churchgoing sort of lady, a bit on the fat side, talkative, quite interested in having her picture taken.  Since I had extra plates I agreed, and she stood still and posed as I held the plate up toward her.  Her image slowly came onto the plate, and I checked to see it was properly exposed.  It was.  She thanked me and wandered off, preening.  I shook my head and moved deeper into the temple.  Some little tem ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2007.02.08: The Muse's Ravings</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:43:24 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2007.02.08: The Muse's Ravings</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ==23:41==<br /><br />It's got to be a strange twist of fate to discover a star that is gold and to listen to gold to allow the consciousness to spin in orbit around it every 108 years.<br /><br />Even one cycle is beyond what John knows; Maria is older and wiser and has seen several of the spins of the planet around the star but even she had no idea what the gift of life extension (by divine intervention no less) would mean.<br /><br />Divine?  What is divine, and do I have the first clue?  No.<br /><br />The muse laughs with me for once; I don 't suppose she would laugh at me but I am as unsure about that as to what the divine is.<br /><br />The leaves turn brown on the autumn of a planet t ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2007.01.31: Attention Space Artists!</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:58:42 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2007.01.31: Attention Space Artists!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ==18:48==<br /><br />As some of you may know, I'm a member of a writers group call the Ghosts of the Antipode, which you may find more information about on our wiki at http://www.sunandshadows.com .  One of our projects is the Lines universe, described thus:<br /><br />The Lines Universe is a free-form, flexible science fiction universe established and expanded by the participants. In this universe, the players take the roles of starship captains or officers in command of or otherwise affiliated with a set of starships in one of six fleets, called Lines. The universe is meant to be broad in scope, expansive in concept, and non-linear, and anyone is welcome to pl ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2007.01.14 Sprinkles</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:16:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ==23:16==<br /><br />Happy 18th to my (not so) little sister Tiffany.<br /><br />It snowed.  So Steve, Alan, and I drove around town with candy sprinkles throwing them on people's cars and drawing smiley faces.<br /><br />I'm working banker's hours this week.  WTF.  Hopefully this will help me get some stuff done this week.  Having Saturday off (!) will help. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2007.01.08 Snowflakes</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:47:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[  It snows so beautifully.  It is a snowfall delicate and vertical such as I have not seen since childhood, and the total calm and silence as the fat white flakes fall is as the voice of God whispering in my ear the words "beauty" and "joy" and "love" and a thousand other words soft as the kiss of the snow landing on my outstretched hands and persisting but a moment before melting into little drops of water, sweet on my tongue as I taste them.<br /><br />	I would dance in this snow, but the ground is icy and I would surely slip and break my neck in these shoes, so I merely stand with my arms outstretched as the snow falls and falls and falls, leaving no ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2006.12.31 Happy New Year!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:07:22 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">2006.12.31 Happy New Year!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ To all my friends out there celebrating the New Year!<br /><br />As our world takes another graceful spin in its dance around the sun; may you feel the sunlight on your face, may you taste the sweetness of a snowflake or drop of rain (whichever befits the climate where you reside), may the moonlight whisper to you of magic in each of its dances this coming year.  May you shine like the sun with joy, love, and peace, illuminating all darkness from the light of your spirit.  As the universe sings the music of the spheres, may you stop to listen; may your life be a dance as you move in joyous rhythm with it.  May your days be filled with laughter, prosper ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2006.12.31 Happy New Year!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:08:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ To all my friends out there celebrating the New Year!<br /><br />As our world takes another graceful spin in its dance around the sun; may you feel the sunlight on your face, may you taste the sweetness of a snowflake or drop of rain (whichever befits the climate where you reside), may the moonlight whisper to you of magic in each of its dances this coming year.  May you shine like the sun with joy, love, and peace, illuminating all darkness from the light of your spirit.  As the universe sings the music of the spheres, may you stop to listen; may your life be a dance as you move in joyous rhythm with it.  May your days be filled with laughter, prosper ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2006.12.27</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:25:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Interlude 2<br /><br />Outside Canopian Federation space<br />3446  T.C.<br /><br />	Watching and dancing with glittering stars entwined in My body like tiny sparks of delight, I spin endlessly in a dance where He and She entwine, the stars not caring for My mad dance through eternity.  Or maybe the stars are merely laughing at My silly game, for they know the Eternal and I am but a confused dance and an attempt to bring life to a realm that is, perhaps, beyond life.<br /><br />	Since I have died, I do not understand how My dance is an affirmation of Life, but neither do I understand quite for certain how My life was an affirmation of Dance, yet I know in My soul that it was, ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2006.09.11</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:03:30 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ :iconinner-space: :iconghostsoftheantipode:<br /><br />==13:02==<br /><br />The young woman breathed a long, slow breath and her heart quickened as her eyes found the flowers, every color of the rainbow, shining through dark, dark grass. The grass was strange and the flowers were of no variety she'd ever seen in her mother's gardens, but it didn't matter. The sun was bright golden on the horizon, and her body was cooled by the strong breeze off the ocean, as it had been several months ago when her family had visited the beaches at Barcelona and the Mediterranean sun shined off the water. But here, in Dream, it was more beautiful, and it seemed that perhaps the s ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Tablets?  Recommendations?</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:28:24 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ :iconinner-space: :iconghostsoftheantipode:<br /><br />I'm in the market for a tablet (computer input device for drawing).  My available funds are... not impressive.  Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2006.06.29</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:06:50 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ :iconinner-space: :iconghostsoftheantipode:<br /><br />==11:24==<br /><br />According to the doctor I saw yesterday, I have "bone contusions and a complex tear of the medial meniscus", which roughly translates to "your knee is fucked up, yo, and we're probably gonna have to cut you."  So on 07 July I need to go contend with that.  And then sit around on my ass for some more weeks.  Fun.<br /><br />My friend Jess gave me a nice monitor as payment for me making http://www.omgmaille.com .  Since I wasn't making her site for any other reason than that she is Jess and awesome, it was kind of a surprise, but it underlines again her awesomeness and works a ton better than my old ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2006.06.19</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:01:08 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ :iconinner-space: :iconghostsoftheantipode:<br /><br />==16:15==<br /><br />So apparently the doctor I saw when I got injured conveniently forgot to set me up with a followup visit and the doctor I saw today was like "WTF?  You're getting this anti-inflammatory, you're getting an MRI next week, and by the way your boss can go suck it."  Which is good I suppose.  Worker's comp = good.<br /><br />So now I'm sitting here relaxing; I was just laying on the couch meditating on some thoughts inspired by having read Neil Gaiman's Sandman some years ago while  listening to some country music and contemplating life, the universe, and everything; most specifically "The Heart of a S ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>prologue</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:21:24 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ :iconinner-space: :iconghostsoftheantipode:<br /><br />	22nd September, 3989 (10th Tishrei, 7750), the Deep, near Beta Sagittae<br /><br />	The gong that signaled the end of her meditation was not the small bell in front of her but the vibration of the ship itself, ringing with a deep and disturbing note that sent unpleasent shivers up Xa's spine.  She opened her eyes and looked around the small chamber, and her eyes had barely located the clock on the wall when there was a loud bang and a sudden lurch of the deck that almost threw her out of lotus.  She caught her balance by placing her hands on the deck but the motion and noise were over in seconds.<br />	A differ ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>A bit of a Lines story</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:24:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ :iconinner-space: :iconghostsoftheantipode:<br /><br />	Starlight white and gold casts tiny sparkles of light across the visor, into eyes wide and shimmering with tears.  They are the tears of joy and of pain: the beauty of the starlight is breathtaking, but the pain... stabbing, wrenching pains running up and down her back and neck, across her chest... distracting her, taking her mind away from the starlight she longs to be lost in and returning it to the time and place of darkness where the pain had started--<br /><br />	"No," she whispers, rejecting the image of the motionless Death, the cessation of all time and life and even starlight--<br /><br />	"No."  Defiant, a  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>2k</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:27:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Cool. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>More musings, story ideas</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:17:28 PST</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">More musings, story ideas</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ http://www.sunandshadows.com/temp/Shani%20-%20Dancing%20In%20A%20Minefield.wma "Dancing in a Minefield" by Shani<br /><br />The world revolves<br />My heart evolves<br />So much to do<br />So little time<br />Reborn to life<br />I feel no strife<br />It's just a matter of mind<br /><br />You know we're dancing in a minefield<br />And our roses saturate the air<br />And all that we have is really all we need<br />And so we'll dance away the menace of despair<br /><br />When pain exists<br />My joy resists<br />I have to try to share my heart<br />I breathe to live<br />I live to breathe<br />My spirit yearns to play its part<br /><br />You know we're dancing in a minefield<br />And our roses saturate the air<br />And all we have is really all we ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Updates!</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:37:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Yes, I've updated stuff.<br /><br />Traffic on S&S is booming.<br /><br />Since I'm too lazy to write up another journal entry right now, but I'm in the updating mood, I'll post some journal-like musings from my notebook that I also posted on S&S the other day...<br /><br />----------<br /><br />Who can map in time and space the point where the light of two stars intersect? Meditate upon this for a moment, is it a point? Is it a plane? Is it a volume? Is it a temporal location in four-dimensional spacetime? Or is it something differen, a think of dimensions beyond understanding, a mutual thought in the unity of all things, in the oneness of spirit?<br /><br />[first line of a possible song,  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Who wants a scarp deck?!</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:59:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ http://www.sunandshadows.com<br />Sun and Shadows Forum Index   -> S&S Civilian CommNet: Writing and Roleplaying -> Ghosts of the Antipode General Writing: The Pen and the Particle Beam -> Who wants a scarp deck?!<br /><br />We're working the bugs out of the printing process now; we might have this experimental run done by Monday, if not, we'll most likely get them done the last week of December when my friends (who work at the printing company in question) return from Phoenix.<br /><br />I'm thinking maybe a run of five (5) decks.  But then the question is, who gets them?<br /><br />Well, here's the answer.  First off, whoever gets these first decks out of the first run woul ]]></media:text>            
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ :thumb25563290:<br /><br />So I went ahead and made a test run of the game.  I'm still looking for artists for the final draft of the set.  If anyone is interested in thise game please view and check out the forum thread refered to in the deviation description.<br /><br />Peace. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Artists!  I need help on a project!</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:01:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Hey folks.  I have a small project I need some help on.  If you view my gallery you will notice a distinct lack of handdrawn images.  The reason?  I suck at handdrawing!  But unfortunately I have a small project for which I need some hand-drawn content.<br /><br />Basically, I am trying to make a deck of playing cards based on a game in some of the Ghosts of the Antipode ( http://www.sunandshadows.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index&c=2 ) fiction.  The game is called Scarp and it involves four suits of cards numbered 1 through 10, an Essence card of each suit, and a Ghost (basically a joker).<br /><br />I need to have some kind of consistant theme between the ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>A Dream</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:32:58 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ "Looking back I cannot remember when it was I first glimpsed her, on the station or on the transport.  I want to say it was on the station but memory is a funny thing.  In fact I can barely remember her face; it's fading now like the memory of the dream.  But the lessons she taught me, and the joy we shared, never.<br /><br />	Lorelei, I called her; she never told me her name.  She spoke no English (I am unsure what language she even spoke, or what planet she hailed from) and we never talked.  But our communication went deeper than that.  She could show me a pumpkin seed or a winding stretch of corridor, and do it in such a way that I would see more be ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>A prayer for Zan</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:09:21 PDT</pubDate>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Holy One, who has created the universe and all things of beauty, today You have called back to yourself a small creature of Water.  This creature danced red fire in a little tank by my desk, but now he dances in Your light, his journey in this form complete.  Now he passes to whatever is next for his spirit, and I thank You for his small, silent, beautiful presence in my life.<br /><br />May his body nourish the life in the pond where I laid him, water to water, as is fitting for his kind.  May his spirit nourish You, as I am sure that whatever plan You had for his tiny life was fulfilled.  Give me the strength and wisdom that I live my life so.<br /><br />Farew ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Here we go again... data loss...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:21:03 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Here we go again... data loss...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Windows borked. Upon attempting to install--specifically telling it NOT to format or partition--it deleted practically all my data, programs, and files, for no obvious reason. Art, writing, music, 90% of my programs, etc. I now am down 20 gig of files and programs. So I'm going to format and reinstall from scratch. Will be down for a few days.<br /><br />I'm quite tempted to be angry, but I recognize the futility... ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>1000 Page Views</title>
                <link>http://starseekervds.deviantart.com/journal/1000-Page-Views-249209260</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:43:04 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">1000 Page Views</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Somewhere along the line it looks like I forgot to say "omgwtf 1k pageviews!!1!1 bbq!!1!"  My bad.<br /><br />Thanks y'all.<br /><br />Oh, do check out my Scraps; I have some interesting new crap in the works there...<br /><br />:iconinner-space: Inner-Space<br /><br />:iconwolfprincess33: :icondigital-nexus: :iconnwalme: :icont3rmin4t0r:  :iconsamurai135: :icondarke-reflection: :iconnindigo: :iconspikeygoddess: :iconvitiator: Respects. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>A prayer</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:38:12 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">A prayer</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ ...El Shaddai, whose holy Name has created the stars and the atoms and guided their paths according to Thy will, from the beginning of time to the end; who gave the gift of Life to all beings; from whom springs all love and light; this small one attests to Thy infinite Might, to thy infinite Wisdom, to thy infinite Love.  May it be that my tiny voice be raised in praise to Thee; may it be that all living beings sing of Thy Glory and dance in Thy Light!<br /><br />May it be that this small one, that Thee in Thy infinite Wisdom has given Life, walk mindfully and joyfully on the path that Thee has decreed.  May it be that this small one releases all thing ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Waiting</title>
                <link>http://starseekervds.deviantart.com/journal/Waiting-248971209</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:51:20 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Waiting</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ My sweetie is stuck in Indiana with a busted engine, at the mercy of the mechanics, as she puts it.  And my heart is at the mercy of her, as I sit and wait for word that she's under way again.<br /><br />I wish my system wasn't fried, so I could do some art for her to show her when she gets here... *sighs*<br /><br />:iconinner-space: Inner-Space<br /><br />:iconwolfprincess33: :icondigital-nexus: :iconnwalme: :icont3rmin4t0r:  :iconsamurai135: :icondarke-reflection: :iconnindigo: :iconspikeygoddess: :iconvitiator: Respects. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Back online, sort of...</title>
                <link>http://starseekervds.deviantart.com/journal/Back-online-sort-of-248898227</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:37:11 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Back online, sort of...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ No, I've not been producing very much lately.  My computer's power supply blew in a shower of pretty purple sparks, cascading through my hard drive.  Fortunately, I only lost one file... a critical Windows file, of course.  So I had to reinstall Windows.  And lost all my programs.  *sighs*<br /><br />Big transition going on in my life here this week, so I won't have the time to be making much artwork.  When it's all said and done though, I'll be making more... and I'm sure I'll be very well-inspired indeed... :)<br /><br />:iconinner-space: Inner-Space<br /><br />:iconwolfprincess33: :icondigital-nexus: :iconnwalme: :icont3rmin4t0r:  :iconsamurai135: :icondarke-reflection ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Hey DA users!  Why DA, and what's your art for?</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2005 11:39:54 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Hey DA users!  Why DA, and what's your art for?</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Point of curiosity here, well, actually two points:<br /><br />Why do you post your art on DA?<br /><br />And also:<br /><br />When you post a particular piece to DA, what is that piece usually for?  Was it intended for use on DA or some other purpose?  What all do you NOT post on DA?<br /><br />Just curious.<br /><br />:iconinner-space: Member of.<br /><br />:iconwolfprincess33: :icondigital-nexus: :iconnwalme: :icont3rmin4t0r:  :iconsamurai135: Respects.<br /><br />:icondarke-reflection: :iconnindigo: :iconspikeygoddess: :iconvitiator:  Des Moines. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Inner Space</title>
                <link>http://starseekervds.deviantart.com/journal/Inner-Space-248765436</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 21:24:22 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Inner Space</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Well, it seems I was finally accepted to the Inner Space DA community.  Yay!  I'd like to thank the friendly folks there for their efforts in promoting space art and for the feedback that they've given my works.  You'll be seeing more out of me.  :)<br /><br />:iconinner-space:  ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>Music Search</title>
                <link>http://starseekervds.deviantart.com/journal/Music-Search-248686287</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:41:44 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">Music Search</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ To locate a group online that has such a generic name as Bliss is quite a nuisance.  I guess if I want any of their stuff I'm going to have to head to Amazon or something... as soon as I rediscover what money is.  http://www.marcoshepherd.com/movies/bliss.mov is a song of theirs: kick ass.<br /><br />Strangely, another group I've been looking for, with the unlikely name of Balligomingo, is nearly as difficult... bah... why can't America have any taste in music and why must the only stuff you find on air be Teh Sux0r unless you have Internet Radio?!<br /><br />*grumble* ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>More Stuff, More Stuff...</title>
                <link>http://starseekervds.deviantart.com/journal/More-Stuff-More-Stuff-248670891</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:01:21 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">More Stuff, More Stuff...</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Well I think I'm about done uploading all the artwork.  It's taken me five days to gather, size, watermark, upload, and annotate all this stuff.  97 deviations and 67 scraps, at this time.  Yay...<br /><br />Please check out the gallery and the scraps and maybe some of the links in the descriptions... as for me I'm gonna go pass out.  Bye bye. ]]></media:text>            
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                <title>New Account, More Work!</title>
                <link>http://starseekervds.deviantart.com/journal/New-Account-More-Work-248652119</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:38:34 PDT</pubDate>
                        <media:title type="plain">New Account, More Work!</media:title>
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        <media:text type="html"><![CDATA[ Greetings to all! I am in the process of moving over all my submissions from my old account and adding new ones. I've done a lot of work tonight in starting this process, and currently have 17 pics up. I will have over a hundred, by the time I am done, and then I'll be putting up some writing.<br /><br />I hope you all enjoy my work here; feel free to contact me by ICQ or AIM if you want to discuss anything, or if I can be of assistance with your artwork, or if you want to maybe borrow some templates.<br /><br />Please check out the following sites, all of which I created (though I am no longer actively involved in any but HG).<br /><br />http://www.heavensguardians.com - ]]></media:text>            
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