lemming

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
And I thought to myself, "Self?"
"Yeah?" Self replied
"What shall I randomly muse about today?"
And Self replied "Is it really randomly musing if you set down to do it and search for something to muse about instead of just letting it happen."
And I said, "Wow, that's deep."
"Not really" Self replied, "You're just easily impressed with your Self."
And I realized it was true.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

We exported our Black Widow 100 miles away to Bryce Canyon. She hasn't written though.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

A woman caught in mystical cross fire during Takofanes first travails across the States is now able to change herself into the patritic devil Liberty Helle. Tragically because Takofanes is that evil that is why the poor woman, whose identity must be forever kept secret, transforms into a devil form rather than an angel. She now fights for the cause of America !
 
That is the basic story fed to the US and world media. And it is an absolute and utter lie. Liberty Helle isn't a woman who changes into devil form, she's a devil able to take human form. For reasons unknown she chooses to fight on the side of the angels (she herself as said that she is here to fight for 'truth, justice and the American way'). The White House has distanced itself from her but Liberty Helle is a welcome sight in New England where she battles evil with a will and generally sunny demeanour that belies her appearance.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

I saw HP and thought HPL...

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Meh, that gets old.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 
wrote this a while ago...just thought of it again and typed up real quickly.
 
 
So you walk into a room full of people there are big booths all around the room where these people come to congregate. Not unlike a convention, but it lasts much longer than any convention would.
There are smaller booths with a members name on each that are connected to each other but locked from people that do not bear the persons name. These booths seem only for private communication between members and general appearance upkeep for the member.
Everyone in the room is wearing a name tag with usual and unusual names. All their faces are boxes with strange images in them, sometime bright and vibrant other dark and mystical, others just plain goofy.
I step hesitantly in the room, my face the image of an upside down Nightcrawler.
I cautiously make my past the booths glances at the large signs above them that allude to the conversations within.
Random Musings, Compliment the Person Above, Why is Bush Still in Office… all sorts of topics.
Some of the booths are larger than the others, filled with life and vibrance, others nearly empty.
I make my way into the Quick Apology to the Boards both. It had started as a general I’m sorry to the convention goers, but it seemed to have transformed into a bawdy joke fest.
I see my opportunity and say hello, making a joke. The words appear in front of my head, before they are plastered to the extensive booth wall.
A person steps in, his boxy face the image of a crazed clown.

Sheep’s…lewdness…general mayhem


His tag says his name is Mightybec and even when my bland body that all the convention goers have morphs into that of a fifteen year old girl, he shrugs. A couple others back off quickly, but I laugh and continue joking.
The convention continues even as the some of the booths are lit on fire. The yelling and screaming echo out faintly as the babysitters quickly come in with fire extinguisher and begin throwing members out of the convention.
A female duo morphs into one member and their body morphs from two sexy woman to one creepy man. The whole convention takes notice, but eventually the members calm again.
The convention continues to go on, as it most likely will for years to come. It is the convention of the NGD.
 
The End

Re: "Neat" Pictures
 
Here are some scenes from the 2005 Burning Man festival.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Nobody is giving me any rep! That's it I'm off! I've had it with the lot of ya. Don't bother locking the door cause I won't be back!
 
 
Well until Oct 8/9th. Tomorrow I start my holidays for one week. I most likely won't get on the HGDB to view the threads unless I stop at a Net cafe at night. So this will probably be the last time I see most of you for a week.
 
take care and be a hero!
 
The one, the only. The BAZZA!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
You have been eaten by a grue.
 

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Nothing like banging your head against the wall for a few hours on a problem connecting to a database that you JUST created, only to find out that your great idea when setting up the tnsnames.ora file of putting the loopback address for the host since the database is local to the client, and the client will likely change IPs since it is a laptop would have worked much better if you'd typed 127.0.0.1 instead of fat fingering it to 120.0.0.1...

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Pop into the Champions forum.
 
Find the Storn art thread.
 
Find one of his pics and rep him.
 
Incidentally while you are there vote on the next pic out of a possible 10 that I will commission in a thread started by me.

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

Re: The Last Word
 

 
yes '^G' > /dev/ttyha &
 
(You may need to be an old-time Unix geek to recall that one)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Similar to what happened to my wife in a grocery store.
She's a tour guide at Best Friends, a large animal sanctuary and this woman ran into her at the supermarker in town.
The woman comes up to my wife and says "Would you like to meet the twins?" while reaching into her shirt. Turns out she had a pair of chipmunk babies being kept warm in her bossum.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Busted out my Dyson DC-14 vacuum today. Impressive, but it ought to be for the price. Probably the best part is that you can tell the vacuum isn't fighting itself to work--the air follows an unobstructed (if convoluted) path through the machine. Even when you accidentally get a swiffer or something blocking the tube, the machine doesn't immediately kick into that high-pitched self-destruct shriek that other vacuums do.
 
Pros:
Very light and well balanced. Easy to maneuver.
Seems surprisingly sturdy in spite of the light weight.
Attachments are pretty good.
Very quiet for a vacuum cleaner. You still wouldn't want your wife running one of these during Galactica, but the motor whine is quite soft, and there is very little of that sharp hiss that you get at the business end of the hose.
Pretty simple to operate, once you figure out where all the buttons are--they are not immediately apparent, but it's not rocket science.
Emptying is actually kind of fun--you wind up pulling off pretty much the whole upright cylinder part; it's light, and it releases the crap directly into the trash can.
 
Cons:
Doesn't get under things very well. Floor/beater section is too tall for that. I assume the low-reach hose attachment, which comes with the red or purple versions of the DC-14, would solve that. But I bought the yellow one.
Quick-release wand extension would totally rock if I had a big house with high ceilngs and staircases. But I don't. I have a cramped apartment, and while the wand isn't totally crippling, it does make attachment use a bit unwieldy.
Costs over four hundred bucks... damn thing better last three decades at least.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Similar to what happened to my wife in a grocery store.
She's a tour guide at Best Friends, a large animal sanctuary and this woman ran into her at the supermarker in town.
The woman comes up to my wife and says "Would you like to meet the twins?" while reaching into her shirt. Turns out she had a pair of chipmunk babies being kept warm in her bossum.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Right.
 
Hawksmoor

Re: The Last Word
 

agreed.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
First Thread ever: Welcome to the new boards though the first NGD thread was: I did it

Re: The Last Word
 
. . . A Dear Diary Moment, if ever there was one!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Rise LRTE, rise...
 
THREE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT IN 2005: COWS, CONSTITUTION, AND THE TEN COMMANDANTS.
 
COWS: Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them all a cow.
 
CONSTITUTION: They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq.
Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and we're not using it anymore.
 
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse! You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery," and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians! It creates a hostile work environment!