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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 @ 08:11 PM


Well, so much for going to the gym tonight. I've never seen a situation quite like this. I was able to get back to my apartment after driving about ten blocks out of my way and approaching from a completely different direction (one cop I'd asked at the perimeter suggested that I'd be better off finding somewhere to go get dinner for about six hours). My gym is inside the perimeter.

Video games inside it is, happy hunting to the LAPD. I guess I'll get up tomorrow and ride the bike before work.

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Kestrel

Kestrel

Austin, TX
July 2003

SEP 07, 2011 04:05 PM

Thanks, love. It's smoky where I am, but no real danger.

MisterSatan

MisterSatan

Portland, OR
August 2002

SEP 19, 2011 09:04 PM

No no, I HAVE dental insurance. Great dental insurance, actually. The same kind my dentist has, actually. The only problem is actually finding an open spot to SEE somebody. I swear to Christ, you could walk into a Kaiser Permanente bleeding from every orifice in your body and on fire, and the first thing they'd do is tell you to come back in three weeks after you've filled out their bullshit forms.

Yeah, my tooth still hurts a bit. >.<

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

SEP 20, 2011 08:19 PM

Interesting question, but IP law is so not my bag, baby.

He'll figure it out. He's a smart guy and well-connected.

Kestrel

Kestrel

Austin, TX
July 2003

SEP 28, 2011 12:37 AM

Isn't it cute? It's a frolicking baby AT-AT.

tuxy

tuxy

Switzerland
October 2004

OCT 04, 2011 09:37 AM

:-)

Kestrel

Kestrel

Austin, TX
July 2003

OCT 15, 2011 04:10 PM

I see what you did there.

Kestrel

Kestrel

Austin, TX
July 2003

OCT 17, 2011 10:25 PM

I have better posture than was photographed in that desert; it was kind of cold!

baudot

baudot

Oakland, CA
February 2004

OCT 19, 2011 06:33 PM

Thank you, sir. They should be, though I find the excitement of the coming presentation is keeping me from sleep. I'll have to work on that.

SignalNoise

SignalNoise

USA
February 2004

OCT 31, 2011 05:06 AM

True! I think we're still in an adjustment period. By the end of the year, we'll be much cozier socially I'm sure.

Lemonkid

Lemonkid

Canada
May 2003

NOV 08, 2011 07:12 AM

Hearts.

Lemonkid

Lemonkid

Canada
May 2003

DEC 03, 2011 06:03 PM

I re-watched that this morning, just to assure myself I wasn't totally insane.

baudot

baudot

Oakland, CA
February 2004

DEC 09, 2011 07:45 PM

The Tower of London is well documented. The central tower - the simple, four story stone building at the center - the original tower - that was constructed in the 11th century. The rest: The other towers, the walls and wards, those were built up in the centuries that followed. I considered using it, but it's a plain stone cube.

In the 11th century, the majority of forts were wooden motte and baileys. Artificial hill, two or three story wooden fort on top, wooden palisade outside, dry moat outside that wall. And that was is.

But I figure people wouldn't understand that model, either, and those weren't the great castles of the day. You only get 2 or 3 castles each in a game of Lyssan. They should be the big ones. And that's true to the era. One of the characteristics of the dark age is that tech took longer to spread. You could have something WAY ahead of its time and stay that way for longer, with the communications & educational system of the time.

What I wanted to avoid was the castle features that were learned from the crusades: Multiple wards, inner curtain wall and outer curtain wall, massively compounded gatehouses. So this is the hybrid halfstep: A few towers, the rest of the wall follows the countours of a hill, and there's still room on the front to add a simple gatehouse.

P.S. The star fort you linked is typical of the 16th century. That's Age of Empire, not medieval, after cannons had made castles largely obsolete. It still made sense to do simple construction of brick walls, or retainer walls holding back earthen ramparts. The old castle shapes still gave good fields of fire, too. But there was no sense spending a decade or two on massive stone construction when a week of cannon fire could reduce it to rubble. We had one of those forts in the town where I grew up: Fort Conde, guarding Mobile Bay.

baudot

baudot

Oakland, CA
February 2004

DEC 09, 2011 08:03 PM

Another castle (ruin) that's well documented to date back to the 11th century was Old Sarum. It's a classic norman hill fort in design, but larger, and built in stone with a several stone buildings within.

toothpickmoe

toothpickmoe

Los Angeles, CA
May 2004

DEC 12, 2011 03:32 PM

Warmer than here, anyway.

toothpickmoe

toothpickmoe

Los Angeles, CA
May 2004

DEC 14, 2011 03:54 PM

Will do!

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