That was nice.

I was designing some worlds, with the Olympics on for background noise, when the announcer told us that there would be biathlon coverage. I dropped everything and headed for the couch.

I love biathlon, it is one of my favorite winter sports, and nobody ever covers it! Ever at the Olympics, I've had to search for results in the paper and never get to see these great athletes at work.

Today was different. A full hour on the men's 12.5km chase. The winner was shooting his rifle like a bloody assault weapon, and only missed two targets out of 20.

Radiance bath!

"An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance..."

Congrats to Lilith the Valkyrie, who was just welcomed into demi-goddess status by Odin in the game of Nethack I just finished. This was one of those games I started just idle away some time.. she had such bizarre runs of good and bad luck I thought that getting her throughout the end game was hopeless. She had all the good armor, but no way to improve it. The moment I blew up Vorpal Blade by to over-enchant it, I got Mojo, and so on.

Killed all the regular demon lords plus Yeenoghu, took out Rodney a total of six times, five of them with the wand of death. It was odd, he never appeared until I had made it up to like 12th level, then he appeared four times in the next five!

Amazingly, I did most of the Elemental Plane of Air blinded! last four shots for the wand of death took out the Air Elementals from HELL (get engulfed by them and your hit points fall faster than Enron stock) and found the portal by accident. On the plane of fire, a fire vortex did the job for me.

On the Astral Plane, I had enough oomph to kick serious butt with the aid of the Guardian Angel Odin finally sent me (where was he when I needed him in Gnomish Mines, huh?) Killed Pestilence six times, Famine four, and Death two. Of course, with three temples to pick from I chose the two wrong ones to start with.

But I ascended. Took about five days of off and own playing, but I done it! Now, I can get back to building worlds!

My Names Project

OK, here's the deal. I have to name about 270 planets. I suck at coming up with names, so here's you chance to achieve nothing but the warm feeling that you've help a hack writer with a block.

What I need a place names that would translate well to a planet. Doesn't have to be in English, but a quick explanation of the name would be appreciated.

TIA!

Missed it by *that* much

Got three out of five, and missed the mega number in tonight's lotto drawing. That should be worth something, anyway.