Klytus Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings We had a diversity speaker at work today. He is a Lakota Souix named Ron His Horse Is Thunder. He said a number of interesting things. Among them, he said that the Lakota, and other Indian tribes, want to have their children struggle through adversity. The idea goes like this: Everything in the world is a gift from god. So, if you try to give money to god, you're not really giving anything. You're actually trying to return the gift. The only thing you really own is your body, and the only thing you can give to god that isn't already his is your emotions. By working through adversity, they learn to make of themselves an offering worthy of god. Doc This is beyond interesting... this is profound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings I have well over 30' date=' probably more like 40, pages of notes to compile into actual session write-ups. Yuck. I love the games, but the write-ups get to be some work. I've fallen behind - 1 Independent Mutants' Resource Center to write up (that's a villain campaign), and 3.5 Justice Squad issues to write up, as well as possibly, if I bother, one writeup from the Nizhny Novgorod-based Mutants and Masterminds game, though that will probably get rebooted when I pick up M&M again.[/quote'] Get to work you slacker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings We had a diversity speaker at work today. He is a Lakota Souix named Ron His Horse Is Thunder. He said a number of interesting things. Among them, he said that the Lakota, and other Indian tribes, want to have their children struggle through adversity. The idea goes like this: Everything in the world is a gift from god. So, if you try to give money to god, you're not really giving anything. You're actually trying to return the gift. Doc Where would Christianity be with THAT attitude? JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Get to work you slacker! I know where you live, and I can hurt you, Pot. - Kettle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings I know where you live, and I can hurt you, Pot. - Kettle. I happen to know our cuttlerry is superior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCUBA Hero Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings As many know' date=' I don't like Star Wars. [/quote']Burn the heathen!!! Burn the heathen!!! JOKE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCUBA Hero Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings As for the Stormtrooper body armor, it gives you a 'temperature glove' (sufficient for both Tatooine and Hoth, apparently), life support, the radio, and a belt to hang all your weapons on. But yeah, it's obviously no good as ARMOR. I mean, in the real world we got rid of armor because gunpowder made it obsolete, and SW characters use blasters because they make gunpowder firearms obsolete. Heck, it won't stop arrows fired by bows drawn by three-foot teddy bears for cryin' out loud! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Hey, you don't know what the draw weight of those bows is. For all you know, an Ewok can bench press an AT-ST and pull the arms off a wookiee if it loses a game of holochess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings I happen to know our cuttlerry is superior. I happen to know how to spell cutlery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings I happen to know our cuttlerry is superior. Is a cuttlerry like a cuttle fish? Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mightybec Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings There are now Pro-annorexia web sites out there where sick young girls with image obsessions encourage other sick young girls with image obsessions to starve themselves to death. Wouldn't it be easier to just find a necromancer to turn you into a skelleton? Doc Interesting. I never though about the possible Necrophilia fetish with anorexic women. Well, you never know what'll turn some people on I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Otaku Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Interesting. I never though about the possible Necrophilia fetish with anorexic women. Well' date=' you never know what'll turn some people on I guess.[/quote'] Or turn some people over... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mightybec Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Or turn some people over... Eh. My funny bone stops a little before the screwing dead people line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings It bothers me slightly that I know the names of the nine captains of the Starship Enterprise that have so far been revealed to the Trek-watching public. It bothers me slightly that I know there have been nine captains of the Enterprise so far. So who are the nine known captains of the Enterprise? Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mightybec Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings So who are the nine known captains of the Enterprise? Doc 1. The dude in the pilot episode of the origional. 2. James T Kirk 3. Picard 4. the captain of NCC1701B shown in a Q episode 5. The guy Scott Bakula plays 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 9. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Worldmaker Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings So who are the nine known captains of the Enterprise? Now that I think about it, there are eleven, not nine. 1. Jonathan Archer 2. Robert April 3. Christopher Pike 4. James Kirk 5. Willard Decker 6. Spock 7. John Harriman 8. Rachel Garrett 9. Jean-Luc Picard 10. William Riker 11. Edward Jellicoe EDIT: That's in chronological order based on when they assumed command (and does not include places where, like Kirk and McCoy, a captain left command of the Enterprise and then returned to her.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings 1. The dude in the pilot episode of the origional. That would be Christopher Pike. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocMan Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Now that I think about it, there are eleven, not nine. 1. Jonathan Archer 2. Robert April 3. Christopher Pike 4. James Kirk 5. Willard Decker 6. Spock 7. John Harriman 8. Rachel Garrett 9. Jean-Luc Picard 10. William Riker 11. Edward Jellicoe EDIT: That's in chronological order based on when they assumed command (and does not include places where, like Kirk and McCoy, a captain left command of the Enterprise and then returned to her.) Ok... Where did Robert April, John Harriman, and Edward Jellicoe come in? The others sound right to me, but I can't place these three. Doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Worldmaker Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Ok... Where did Robert April, John Harriman, and Edward Jellicoe come in? The others sound right to me, but I can't place these three. Okay, the rundown of the little knowns: Robert April (portrayed by Gene Rodenberry in a Trek costume in a publicity picture now used as "Captain April's official glossy" by Berman and company)was the name Rodenberry considered originally for the Captain while developing Star Trek. The name was made official (as the Captain who took command of the Enterprise just after original construction was completed) later when a codified, official history of the Federation was developed for use by Star Trek: The Next Generation writers. (Robert April, the character, also appears in the only animated Trek episode considered official by the Trek powers that be, The Counter-Clock incident.) Willard Decker (played by Stephen Collins) took command after the original "five year mission". He oversaw the refit of the ship referenced in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and was intended to be the commander of the ship until the V'Ger mission took him out of the picture. John Harriman (played by Alan Ruck) was the captain of the Enterprise-B at the beginning of Star Trek: Generations. William Riker (played by Jonathan Frakes) was officially given command of the Enterprise and promoted to Captain upon Picard's abduction by the Borg in the ST:TNG episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I". Picard was counted as a casualty. It always bothered me that after Picard was rescued and rehabilitated, Riker was demoted back to Commander. He should have remained a Captain in rank, regardless of serving as XO of the Enterprise under Picard. Rachel Garrett (played by Tricia O'Neil) was the captain of the Enterprise-C in the ST:TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". Edward Jellico (played by Ronny Cox) assumed command in the ST:TNG episode "Chains of Command, Part I". Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Hey' date=' you don't know what the draw weight of those bows is. For all you know, an Ewok can bench press an AT-ST and pull the arms off a wookiee if it loses a game of holochess.[/quote'] Chimps and Orangutans can be amazingly strong, and they aren't bigger than humans. Most of them aren't. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Have a spelling problem and people just turn on you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings There are now Pro-annorexia web sites out there where sick young girls with image obsessions encourage other sick young girls with image obsessions to starve themselves to death. Wouldn't it be easier to just find a necromancer to turn you into a skelleton? Saw that via Something Postive as well. I don't understand people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rage Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Saw that via Something Postive as well. I don't understand people. there have been pro ana sites for ages offering thinspiration and negative thinspiration (grotesquely fat people). Most of them are made by stupid girls and you can generally tell at a glance which ones they are, however the more professional sites are a little more interesting for example: They often have great dieting and exercise techniques that WW and JC recomend, they have well made BMI counters and some even have proper E-Zines that don't contain poor spelling. (shock horror.) As an aside the entire "are anorexia and bulimia actually diseases" debates really interest me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings Okay' date=' the rundown of the little knowns:[/quote']Thanks Worldmaker. I have a friend who is mad about Star Trek, and I plan to use your two posts to quz him on the Enterprise Captains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Re: Musings on Random Musings I think my favorite Enterprise captain was Halsey. Or does he not count as a captain if he's a vice-admiral? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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