And let's not even talk about the sex purity test!

No exercise today — it’s a day off. Played CthulhuPunk, run by drcpunk, whupped alien brain-bug ass, played music for the August Personage of Jade (suggested that when he’s not available, the July Personage of Malachite subs), ate too much bread with brie and turkey paté (is there such a thing as peppermint paté?), drew a gryphon, came home with a paper shredder.

And my score on this quiz is much too high. Mostly because I haven’t played as many systems as some folks, but also I haven’t done enough GMing. I need to work on that.

Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
Category	Your Score	Average
Hacklust	28.3% Has conversations in between massacres	54%
Sensitive Roleplaying	30.38% All the game's your stage	49.6%
GM Experience	62.32% Ran a module once or twice	64.6%
Systems Knowledge	80.08% Played in a couple of campaigns	88.1%
Livin' La Vida Dorka	60.92% Goes nuts on the weekends	58.3%
You are 55.4% pure Average Score: 65.6%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test and see how you match up!

Idle thoughts about food

I don’t expect any of you folks to actually find this interesting, but I could be wrong. It’s here so that I can see it at some future date, when I’ve forgotten this stuff, and be reminded.

• Thinking of fattening foods as something I can deserve leads to willpower struggles which I’ll lose. I’d have eaten at Burger King tonight if it hadn’t been about to close, and was about to go on to the fried chicken place. Framing the decision as a matter of virtue made the proper choice clear.
  • This may explain some of the popularity of religion as a tool of social control.
    • People who have god experiences — do they get that virtue-framing thing as apparently-external input? If so, why?
      • Julian Jaynes couldn’t have been right with all that breakdown of the bicameral mind stuff, could he?
  • This may have implications for public policy. Many people are offended by the notion of controlling pollution by issuing pollution credits rather than just clamping down directly. Is it because they sense that a trade-based pollution-control regime will wind up allowing more overall pollution than a straight regulation-based one?
    • Do matters change when scaling up to a society from a single psyche? Maybe, maybe not. It’s not as if psyches can’t be considered as societies (Minsky’s Society of Mind).
• Toilet Alert: Burger King open till 10 PM, has unlocked bathrooms.
• When in doubt, have a salad.
  • But hold the onions.
    • At least, yellow onions are a really bad idea.
    • Red onions are better, but still not great.
    • Try vidalias next time.

No shrines

(  Heavyhands, week 4, day 1  )

On Sixth Street, between Coles and Jersey, I noticed a firehouse. Something about it seemed odd, quiet, subdued. It took me a moment to realize — no flowers, no candles, no pictures, statues, shrines.

I arranged my route to finish at Pikewood Arts, a small gallery (open on Sundays only) on Fifth and Brunswick. Saw some small colored pencil pieces that got me thinking about using that medium again, and a big painting that captured the flavor of the neighborhood very well. I learned that there is indeed a local open studio weekend in October.