In the imagination-full Vampire: the Requiem book that I've been savoring, in the section where they define what a vampire is for their purposes they pulled an interesting thing. That is, at the point where a person is made a vampire, they stop growing emotionally or maturing. They might gain immense amounts of knowledge or be that much smarter over years of unlife, as it were, but will never go beyond the emotional maturity at which they died. That, and the emphasis on what suddenly becoming an out-and-out predator might do to the psyche are just a couple of the interesting implications in, as the authors point out at the start, is supposed to be an exploration of one's self as much as the story or characters in question.

my parents' Nice Meal of the Day:
-spicy chicken and green bean stirfry
-rabbit tempura
-rice

-quantum darwinism - very interesting article, kind of reminds me of Mage: the Ascension, Kevin said it made him think of the novel Starfish (via Kevin)

Music to Slay By - fun site for Abigail Whistler fans (via Scott)

-phonetic symbol guide - kind of fun to play around with

-scrambled course catalogs - well, I actually thought it was a real catalog before I read the top (via Kevin)