Bazza

Re: The Last Word

You people who remember your dreams. Yeesh.

I have active dreams not passive dreams. mostly.

Re: The Last Word

And TV is meant to be watched passively. They've proven that one's brain is less active watching TV than doing any other activity. If I want my brain to take a nap' date=' I'll go to sleep. At least the dreams are interesting.[/quote'] Agree about the dreams.........

Re: Musings on Random Musings

And my movie of my dog. Someone needs to comment on it. I'm dying. I've had one comment and it was a "Girls Gone Wild" spam post.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

If all you have in an article history are vandalization then reversion of the vandalization' date=' then you're at 50% of the edits being reversions, and no valid content is being added. In that situation, at any given instant, you've got about a 50% chance of reading it in the vandalized state. Vandalization could be just injecting a few four-letter words into titles; it could be wholesale delete and replace with wanton gibberish. The "perilously close" is a value judgment by me, since a source that's being scribbled on about as fast as it could be improved is not particularly useful as a reference.[/quote']

Gotch ya.

Re: Complicate the Person Above

Death Tribble's picture was posted to youtube

Re: Complicate the Person Above

SatinKitty is voluptuous and makes every man jealous, except one, when she and Oddhat hit the town at night.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

To heck with David Beckham. That's how they should promote soccer in the U.S.

Agreed. What flexibility she has.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

neat image of turtle underwater

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Heh, true.

 

An interesting thing would be to have everything in the random musing thread auto-show in one's blog. Not that I suggest HERO Games should go to that effort, as well as many probably wouldn't like that. But I think that would be cool.

or you could just do this...link. Use the Random Musing thread as a plug for your blog entry.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

So there's blogs on the HERO site now?? Just noticed.

But the question is, do you blog or do you muse...that is the question.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Zornwil,

further to my post(s) above:

So if Billy the Kid wasn't all that bad, why is he one of the most famous outlaws in history? One reason, the Lincoln County War. If he never participated or was killed during the war or even disappeared after the war was over, we would've never heard of Billy the Kid. He would been just another saddle tramp rustler lost to history or maybe he would've settled down to a normal law-abiding life, but because he got mixed up in the LCW, he is now immortalized in history. But out of all the other LCW participants, why is he the most famous? Because after the war, he came back to Lincoln County to settle the score, he rustled his enemies cattle and testified against them in court and because of that, the James Dolan side singled him out for special treatment. The newspapers (who were in cahoots with the Santa Fe Ring and Dolan) built up the Kid's reputation as the TERRORIST OF NEW MEXICO and all rustling activities were pinned on him. The public who were once sympathetic towards the Kid were brainwashed into believing he was their main problem and a threat to society and needed to be "taken out." (reference)

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Interesting' date=' I've heard sort of similar takes on Billy the Kid but not quite like that, thanks.[/quote'] Look at this site, it is the most comprehensive I've encountered about Billy the Kid. Ps: read the link if you get time. It is long, real long but very entertaining.

 

My whole opinion on Billy changed, to me he held loyalty to one man (Tunstall*) who took him in. It is just the rest of the world was against the Tunstall's side in the Lincoln County War. As Billy was on the side who lost, he had to escape and survive the only way he could -- hense he was viewed as an "outlaw".

 

*I just found out, I wrong on this, his loyatly was to Tunstall's "side" which Billy was on.

 

edit: correction: Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang, Inc is the website I meant above when I said it is the most comprehensive. It is also the most authoritive. Myths about Billy

Re: Musings on Random Musings

I have no idea, nor would I judge good or bad except in terms of survival.

 

Speaking of which, it occurs to me that this is really what good and bad mean to me morally/ethically, as well. You shouldn't kill because if we do that we'll kill ourselves off, and it certainly tears at the fabric of us as social beings. For the most part the commandments are about preserving community, which is essential for humans for long-term survival, being too weak or fragile on our own. This also begs, to me, that in general shouldn't allow ourselves to become too individualized and to break away from society, for even as we might get to a point we feel omnipotent and that exploring within is as important, I believe that the universe and beyond that the many dimensions have untold perils and we should be working together lest those perils overwhelm us. We'll assuredly hang apart, and all that.

The second point, where the common unity sort of breaks down and we as a community face threats to our survival, my mind recalled the personage of Billy the Kid. He is to me the example (poster child) of a social system breaking down and not looking after a member who is now on the outside. In his case he threatens society for his base survival (eg stealing animals aka rustling). To me Henry McCarty is a misunderstood individual, not the savage outlaw he is portrayed to be.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

That reminds me, it'll be interesting to see how home-3d-holograms will go when that becomes viable technology, however that might work (and also when it becomes a projection into your optical, touch, hearing, and other sensory inputs).

imagine when the "best of" becomes a full concert in your living room or head (but in the latter case is entirely "real" to you),

and even beyond when theres' enough intelligence and programming you can interview the artist yourself (and in this case answers would not only be the material the artist gave but a "trend"/"theoretical" answer taking into account their answers over the last few years to your or similar questions).

And included becomes even having sex with that artist.

The future will be weirder than the present... (to us, to the futurites it will of course be the norm)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings

I recently watched the documentary on Enron. More info on my blog

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Oh, it's one of those mini-discs, the 3.5 inch ones?

 

Re: The Last Word

Certainly not' date=' but I retain information I've read far better than from a visual medium. Movies are made to be viewed all at once (except [i']Gone With the Wind[/i]), and so I view them all at once. Chances are good I've forgotten half of it after I've turned it off, anyway.

[sarcasm] You must dislike commercial tv. all those ads must make it difficult for you to remember the show before each ad brake [/sarcasm]

Re: Musings on Random Musings

That's what I used to say....

 

The thing I like is that there are songs I like I can pull up anytime, and lots and lots of them.

Me too. I'm almost not buying music video DVDs as if I have an itch to scratch, I can scratch it on youtube rather than by the DVD.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

BTW: Today's feature "Main Page" article on Wikipedia is ... Dungeons & Dragons. Looks like 30-40% of the edits on that page are vandalism reversions' date=' perilously close to the theoretical 50% limit.[/quote']

 

What do you mean "perilously close to the theoretical 50% limit"?

Re: "Neat" Pictures

On the houseboat "Maniacal Laughter"

Re: Musings on Random Musings

* imagines death tribble facing Superman *

* grins maniacally *

Re: Musings on Random Musings

* imagine's death tribble singing Love Shack *

*shivers*

Re: The Last Word

And Alice, I'm sure you'd get a kick out of my latest blog entry.

Re: The Last Word

Oh' date=' you're one of THOSE. It drives me up a wall to watch a movie in bits and pieces, because I always forget the important bits in-between. [/quote'] I suppose then you would read a novel all the way through, as reading it in parts, you'd forget the "important bits in-between"?

 

I must sat last night I watched About A Boy all the way through with no breaks. A charming movie, to be sure.

 

Runaway Jury was interupted by lunch, and then a friend coming over. That too was a good suspenceful film.

Re: Complicate the Person Above

death tribble once dated Dana Scully, only to find out it was a clone of her sister Melissa who had plastic surgury to look like her.