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Research Notes: Troll Lot (2) (Con)

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*The notes are on a plain black book with cheap parchment paper. The notes seem to be in chronological order detailing the experiments of a certain troll artifact lot given by Demy to Illyea* 

 Lledwyn pissed me off earlier. I fucking broke my hand trying to handle that.

Dagger is still bleeding, tablets are still being tablets and the arrow heads are still being fucking arrow heads. There is no change to anything, but I made sure to wipe down the dagger in case anything happened. Why did I fucking decide to break my hand…

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It’s hard to experiment and deal with the drama around Erudition when your hand smarts. I got enough blood from the brawling pits and a bit from Murder Row to be able to do some experimentation with the dagger without actually using it. I think it’s mostly elven blood but we can see what will happen.

Vial number one is some blood elf. Maybe male, who knows. I put it upon the blade and the dagger absorbed the blood like I thought it did. There is no change to the dagger itself or anything to my surroundings. I do admit maybe I was way engrossed into my studies but I didn’t feel my hand hurt as much as it did before. Maybe it’s just the effect of getting into studying. Bleh.

I guess studying has some merits after all. Old Coots in Dalaran must be right for something about putting your mind into things like that

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I went to change my bandages today before starting on the lots once more and found that a few of the bruising disappeared where there was some before. I don’t think I was near any healing magic. I waved off Garog’s mention to heal it but still, well back to testing at least.  

Using Vials 2 through 5 today and seeing if there is any change in the dagger. I am cleaning it off in-between each use to make sure.

No change as far as I can tell unfortunately. Would I need an actual living host for this to work and not just run offs? I guess I can wait near some of the war hubs and wait for someone to walk alone before I stab them.

Hand doesn’t hurt as much again though after using all the vials. Now I am really curious. I’ll need to gather some more and test it.

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Testing the dagger again today. While I would like to see what the different effects of different classes and magic are that may be something for down the road. I just need to test if my theory is correct.

I unwrapped the bandages covering my hands and then put the blood upon the dagger. It was interesting but the dagger absorbed the blood and then a very fine mist covered my injured hand that was holding the dagger. I watched the wounds disappear equal to what I put upon the dagger. This seems too easy, there must be a down fall.

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I guess I found the downfall the other night. Something keeps whispering in my ear to make more sacrifices to bring him into this world. I thought they usually didn’t talk to the elves, so it must be pretty desperate.  

It did promise answers to some questions I’ve had for a while and it may be a last resort if it comes to it. I can’t do much today however, need to get ready to rescue some Lock named Korrigan somewhere.

I cleaned the dagger down today at least.

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Korrigan was saved but woke up with a horrible cold between the dreams and my body giving up on me maybe I can sneak off to test if maybe it’ll fix this. I can’t tell anymore my head is killing me.

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I’m stuck here in this fucking farm because of this fucking illness. I can’t move and this whole place is a big ol looney bin. The best I can do is just write here.

I was correct in its healing properties and needing some blood from elven sacrifices. Some dopey hunter named who cares tried to interrupt me when I was using the dagger. I stabbed him GOOD and immediately the properties worked and I felt better. Unfortunately he was trying to capture me so I had to run and then I got captured anyways and…

Shit, my head hurts.

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Aaron Swartzが自殺により26歳の若さでこの世を去った【YAMDAS現更新履歴】

Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech

元々は三連休明けに更新する予定だったが、そんなこと言っていられない事件が起きたので。

既にご存知だろうが、Aaron Swartz が自殺した。享年26……いくらなんでも若すぎるだろう。

彼の仕事は多岐にわたる。RSS 1.0 の共同編集者（当時14歳）、初期 Creative Commons のアーキテクト、Reddit の立ち上げ（正確には創業者ではない）、DemandProgress.org の立ち上げといったプログラマ、起業家、アクティヴィストとしての仕事が知られるが、他にも旺盛な執筆家であり、初期の Open Library に代表される Wiki 的なサイトにいくつも携わり、また theinfo.org などウェブスクレイピング関係も外せない。今をときめく Apple ウォッチャー John Gruberと Markdown を考案してたのが些事に思えるくらい。

そして、彼にはこれからできる仕事がまだまだいっぱいあったはずなのだ。彼のコードで世界が変わるはずだったのだ。そうした力のある人がどれだけいるだろう。彼はそうした紛れもなくハッカーでありながら、テクノリバタリアンと一線を画す人間性への信頼を持ち合わせた人だった。

事情を知らないので想像になるが、2011年にデータ窃盗などの疑いで逮捕された件がどの程度関係していたかが気になるところだ。この件に関してレッシグ先生も怒りの文章を書いており、彼の家族からのステートメントにも以下のようにある。

Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach.

Official Statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz - Remember Aaron Swartz

いずれにしても悲しいとしか言いようがない。

彼についてよく知らない人はまず2007年のインタビュー、そして私のような仕事につく方法や生産的になろうを読まれるのがよかろう。

ワタシも彼の仕事については WiredVision 時代、二度取り上げている。

アーロン・シュワルツ先生の次回作にご期待ください！ | ワイアードビジョン アーカイブ

ネットは政治の監視者たりえるか | ワイアードビジョン アーカイブ

また、彼の文章をいくつか翻訳もしている（昨日からはてなブックマーク数が増えている）。The Goog Life は、ワタシが訳した文章の中で屈指の話題となった文章だが、確かに当時無敵だった Google もその後 Facebook に脅かされている。

Wikipediaにおけるコード、並びにその他の法

The Goog Life：グーグルが従業員を子供扱いすることでつなぎとめている件

スタートアップの創業者は何が欲しいのか？

ワタシの場合、昨年8月に「スタートアップの――」を訳したときに Twitter で許諾をとったのが最後のやり取りになってしまった。

今回の訃報に接し、Nat Torkington や Tim Bray といった著名人が思わず4文字言葉を使っていたのが衝撃を物語っている。Dave Winer のちょっとした思い出語りも胸に迫るし、Lawrence Lessig の簡潔なツイートの後に書いた追悼文における最後の文章 "We are all incredibly sorry to have let you down." に涙がこぼれた。著名人の反応は GigaOm にまとまっている。

追悼文では Cory Doctorow も長いものを書いているが、最後にやはり "I'm so sorry for Aaron, and sorry about Aaron." と書いていて泣けてくる。

彼の死を受け、Creative Commons、Internet Archive、Electronic Frontier Foundation、Wikimedia Foundation といった故人と関わりのあるフリーカルチャー系の団体が軒並み追悼文を寄せている。