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Re: The Last Word This probably goes in the Random Attacks thread but the temptation is too great .... * Emails Alice a certain bootleg PDF *

Re: One Small Step for Man... "We came in peace for all mankind." I'm among few people old enough to have been able to see it who ... didn't. I was asleep in my bunk at Boy Scout camp (Camp Freedom, Germany) when it Armstrong went down the ladder onto the Sea of Tranquility. Precisely seven years later, on 20 July 1976, the Viking 1 lander became the first really successful landing on the surface of Mars.

Re: The Last Word More work than it's worth. I'll read the new HP someday, but it's unlikely to be soon. I have no plans to get one, but last time my wife went and got one on release day, and I figure that'll happen again.

Re: Now that is a space suit... Needs a cleavage window.

Re: The Last Word BTW, I'd have to register in order to fill out your poll.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: AAaaah! What happened to Melvin, my pet slug? He's all shriveled up next to that big bowl of popcorn! A: Here, to go with that, have some notes from the UK Lottery Commission and a hatful of business propositions from Nigerians.

Re: The Last Word Yes, another intriguing aspect of the internal consistency of a self-referential structure. (And you've heard of that before somewhere, I'm sure.)

Re: The more corrupt you are, the more it hurts I'd expect you'd have to link in an Analyze or Detect of some sort into the compound power build, and I'm also concerned about the "Here's a power that only hurts people I don't like ... and that's a limitation!" effect. There's gotta be a counter or a serious downside for this. Perhaps you handle that by having it be Uncontrolled, and then it hits someone in power who's more credible than the PC, but who is corrupt, but hasn't done anything provable yet....

Re: The Last Word Heh. I've recycled a number of lines from old chatroom transcripts from a decade ago.

Re: Musings on Random Musings They've never seen Crater Lake, I guess.

Re: "Neat" Pictures OK, next do Barad-Dur, including the Lidless Eye.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Release the squirrels!

Re: Musings on Random Musings Gah, I gave up years ago on learning students' names. Of all the social skills one ought to develop, name-learning is among my absolute worst. It is with known irony that I find "That's Doctor A*****e to you, buddy!" is so funny.

Re: The Last Word "We don't need your guilty-of-incestuous-rape sails!"

Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't know whether to in response to that, or back away slowly without making any moves that might be considered provocation.

Re: Astrophysics question You're thinking of Cerenkov radiation, emitted when a charged particle (not a photon) passes through a medium at a speed faster than the speed of light in that material but not faster than the speed of light in vacuum.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So you locked him in the helium tank? What happened, and what's he doing now? A: All I can say is: Spend the extra money for the optional warranty. You'll be glad you did.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings My bus commute this morning took me past a sign saying "Serious Pie". Intrigued , I researched it. Not as interesting as our NGDers would hope.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Psst, Pariah. NT?

Re: Musings on Random Musings Naah. Even at the Jesuit school, you can't get away with that any more.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I've got baseball tickets for tonight (late birthday present; my birthday, when it falls in the middle of the week as it did this year, is always during the All-Star break). But, it's rainy today. However, Safeco Field has the roll-on/roll-off roof so it will happen.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I may look at it someday, but obviously not from the office. Your description of the setting makes it sound interesting; of course, being an academic myself, it is "close to home" for me, sort of.

Re: The Last Word The other speaking-races tend to have attitudes about sex with other non-humanoid species that are approximately "What?!? Ugh. Take him out and hang him." It's common enough (though not really accepted) among Orcs that they view it more like a disgusting admission that you can't get your sexual gratification any other way.

Re: How do you keep your dark knights from going "squish"?