Mentor

Re: The cranky thread The universe revolves around her, but in a good way. In a paradoxical way, while everything in the house revolves around her, she manges to give back even more than she receives. Kinda cool.

Re: The cranky thread Obviously, she is related to Mrs. Mentor.

Re: Musings on Random Musings You gotta respect a guy who knows their way around the block.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I thought the Iraq Losses thread was going well. This is the NGD I love and respect. Passionate, articulate, and intelligent. What happened? Edit: Never mind. I got my answer. (sigh) Good job otherwise, NGD.

Re: The cranky thread I read this post yesterday and spent four hours surfing D-Day sites on the web. Don't do that again Tim!

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Future Weapons, Mythbusters, Driving Through History. Not much time for TV in the Mentor house, either.

Re: What are your favourite Pulp cities? San Francisco, California Alexandria, Egypt London, England Shanghai, China Rio de Janero, Brazil Actually, I find great Pulpiness almost everywhere.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings So would there be a greater reduction of the global temperature if we all just painted our roofs white or if we all had solar collectors to reduce electricity?

Re: The cranky thread I think the water in government buildings in Washington DC kills brain cells and the air shrinks the heart.

Re: The cranky thread Someone is speaking of government intervention, just fortunately not on this forum. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/democrats_make_walmart_an_issu.html

Re: The cranky thread I can see it now. Congress will pass a law requiring all citizens to buy their stuff from boutiques where everybody makes over the living wage and has 90/10 health insurance. When customers cease to shop because they can't afford the higher prices and start mail ordering and online purchasing everything, tarriffs are erected to protect the people's living wage, 90/10 boutiques. Since that will mean most consumers can only buy a fraction of their previous level of consumption, boutique stamps will be issured to the poor to enable them to shop at the living wage, 90/10 health insurance people's boutiques. This requires a tax increase to fund, of course, which makes the average people's boutique living wage 90/10 health insurance program employee unable to afford to shop at the people's boutiques with the living wage and 90/10 health insurance. Or the government can teach (and perhaps learn) economics.

Re: The cranky thread Well, yes, but this is the cranky thread and that is my latest crankiness button that has been repeatedly pushed all over the bloody web.

Re: The cranky thread What the Hell is it about techno geeks. Try and get real comparative information about competing system concepts and they lose their minds. People complain that you are too intrusive, opinionated and arrogant when you actually give an opinion that relates to their immortal soul or that a threat to Western civilization exists but fail to pay obesience to their OS or hardware platform and all nuance and relativity depart. Mac vs. PC? "Die, die, slave of Bill Gates!!" "Stick with cartoons and music and leave computing to the experts you Hollywood capitalist pansies!" "The annointed cyber elite only use open source like Linux. Acolyte, take the stranger up to the altar so that he may be made a sacrifice that we Linux users continue to be free of viruses. No novices belong in computing." Palm vs. Blackberry? "Klingon lover!" "Sith lover!" "Centauri lover!" *Multiple nuclear detonations* Frikkin' dorks.

Re: Character: Tarzan As usual, Mike, I think you did a terrific job. Despite my temptation from Hero inflation to give him a 5 SPD, I suspect that you have the more appropriate values.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Wow, A Pascal's Wager for nonbelievers.

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Re: Character: Admiral Dame Honor Harrington I must respectfully disagree given her own concerns and regrets about her violent temper and propensity toward mayhem in carrying out that results of said temper, as the character is written.

Re: The cranky thread OK, I'll be the bad guy here. In order to save the time needed for HR to manually input vacation days for every employee as they take it, it is now commonplace to pay vacation on the employee's anniversary and they are entitled to take the days off as the choose throughout the year or work them, as they so choose. It is not illegal or unethical as the days taken for vacation are in fact compensated. Sick time is a different issue as these are not guaranteed days but emergency days which should only be used for illness or doctor appointments of the employee, or in the case of our company, a family member or some other emergency. Thus, sick time is not nor should it be viewed as additional paid vacation since it isn't.

Re: Character: Tarzan Correct. In Tarzan and the Foreign Legion he revealed his immunity to aging to the world.

Re: Character: Admiral Dame Honor Harrington Bingo.

Re: Thrilling Places! I ordered from the online store and got it in four days. (Channeling Kip singing) "I love technology..."

Re: I GOT IT!!! Thrilling Places Read it. Loved it. Ghost Angel's review as posted by The Question Man covered the high points really well. The only thing I would add to the part about being able to run a whole campiagin based out of Thrilling Places is that any mix of characters, from the free wheeling wilderness adventurer to the citified hard bitten detective can thrive and be challenged by the locations and backgrounds presented. Terrific job, DOJ!

Re: I GOT IT!!! Thrilling Places I just got mine. (Finally) Reviews to follow.

Re: The cranky thread They should give you a free parting gift just for improving their stupidity based customer service policy. Still, sorry you had to go through that crap, lemming.