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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Stargate" soundtrack. Currently "Caravan to Nagada". JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "The Flower King (Re-recorded 1998 version)" by the Flower Kings. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Stagefright" by Def Leppard. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, conducted by Erich Kunzel. JoeG

Re: Traveller Hero Launches! Might I suggest a simple solution to the map issue? Just assume that each square is 1" (Hero) for purposes of tactical (combat) purposes. It's usually close enough. After all, even the 2m per hex is an approximation. As far as why the standard Traveller map uses a 1.5m square, it traces back to the original Snapshot rules and the LBBs. Traveller uses a displacement ton as the basis of their ship construction system, with one ton of liquid hydrogen equal to 13.5 cubic meters. It's approximated in the mapping system by having 3 m between decks, and mapping with two 1.5m squares per ton. Effectively, this means that a huge number of deckplans created over the last 30 years are available and easily readable. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "My Destination" by Boston. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Europa and the Pirate Twins" by Thomas Dolby. To be followed by the sequel, "Eastern Bloc" by Thomas Dolby. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Knife Edge" by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame soundtrack (Disney). Really amazed that the "Hellfire" part of the song made the cut. It's right up there with "Johanna" from Sweeney Todd in both format and subject matter, though with less self-flagellation. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Family Snapshot" by Peter Gabriel. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "The Golden Age of Steam", by Steve Hackett (GTR and early Genesis). This one's from his "Darktown" album, which is fittingly dark and brooding. "The Golden Age of Steam" has a lush, orchestral quality to it, with a driving melody, with a cheerful feel to it. Contrast that with the lyrics, 12 years old in Amsterdam in 1939 A blue-eyed boy my clean complexion always got me by A boy with real potential sold secrets by the score Where refugees were hiding I’d just point out the doors In the golden age of steam I learned those German songs I had to stay alive there was no right or wrong In the golden age of steam The fatherland was rising the world would hear the roar Both sides fed and trusted me in 1944 Trains ran on time those days oiling the machine Smoke rose up like serpents I was barely seventeen In the golden age of steam It’s over now but not somehow I was a hero then to many men Switzerland was a short ride for an eager blond haired boy With a silver smile and loaded with jewelery to enjoy Maybe one day they’ll come for me they’ll take me from my bed A soldier of fortune that’s what my passport read In the golden age of steam I keep on wanting to run a Pulp/WW II game and use this as the theme song. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Sooner or Later" by the Alan Parsons Project. By the way, Amazon's taking pre-orders for "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", a deluxe 2-disc set featuring both the album version and the CD version + lots of extras, which should ship first week of May. the Alan Parsons Project website also has it for pre-order. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "The Stranger" by Billy Joel. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Stranger in Town" by Toto. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Freudiana (Instrumental)" by Freudiana*. JoeG *Which is really the 11th Alan Parsons Project album in all but name.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" by Genesis. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "The Drop" by Peter Gabriel. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Dreamtime" by Yes. From Magnification, a more recent album that doesn't get a lot of play from me. Followed by "Dry Land" by Marillion. The Auto DJ is having a prog mood right now, with intermittent bursts of weird stuff ("Oliver Cromwell" by Monty Python popped in a few tracks ago). JoeG

Re: Traveller-era guns

....which is always a danger if you stop your Monowheel too sharply. Pics of various designs can be found here: http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "After the Ordeal" by Genesis. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Theme from Antarctica" by Vangelis. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Separate Lives" from the Vulture Culture Alan Parsons Project remaster. Excellent. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Internal Exile" by Fish. A bonus track on his remastered Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors. A little bit slower, with more pipes than the title track of the followup album. JoeG

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Losing It" by Rush. JoeG