MisterVimes

Re: Automobiles of the Pulp Era I need one of these to live.

Re: The cranky thread And a flight from Atlanta to California and rent a car. And when I'm out of the office there is a business impact. I've have been totally down with it if I'd had some notice.

Re: The cranky thread Today's first world problem: my publisher contacted me to let me know that I have a press pass for Comic Con - now that it's too late to get time off of work and too late to get a decent hotel room.

Re: "Neat" Pictures The Bakers are closing in on 80, so, they could look worse.

Re: "Neat" Pictures McGann. I should have realized. He looks less Byronesque with short hair.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Colin Baker? McCoy? Tom Baker. Dunno. Peter Davison.

Re: "Neat" Pictures It's actually going to be painted white. Colonial style.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Thanks. The 45 degree angles were easy. The 135 degree angles were hard.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Good call. Currently I use this:

Re: "Neat" Pictures I also like the majority of Raymond Fiest's books. I even have some of his pre-magician gaming material that he published (that was the source material for the Midkemia series).

Re: "Neat" Pictures That is Stel of Grenda. He's from a race of robots. This model was an incentive. 7 parts of him were in 7 different packages with other lanterns and then you could assemble him. I usually never complete the incentive character, but in this case I actually wanted all the figures.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Thanks and thanks! I had to go look and see what was on the shelf. There are about 700 paperbacks. Most are in that vein. 300 hardbacks, some of it sci-fi and fantasy, mainly Russian and French literature ( my other weakness).

Re: "Neat" Pictures You know what's not easy? Cutting a compound miter joint for bed molding. You know what looks awesome at the top of bookshelves? Properly cut bed molding.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Oh. I will cut a clergyman. You just watch me!

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread I bought a laser guided compound miter saw.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? MLP:FIM Season 2

Re: "Neat" Pictures They also have some high quality kitchen tools.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Song of the Thin Man

Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ?

Re: "Neat" Pictures I've found that giving money to people who support my values is just as effective as withholding money from those that oppose my values. So, I'm right there with you.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Adding the Primarchs to the mythology allowed for a lot of interesting ethnic variations. I'm a fan.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: "Neat" Pictures These puns are Plane-ly gut Wrench-ing.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... In the 41st millennium you're either human or mutant. Most of the human race has homogenized down to a single "race", however, despite the game being created by and for English middle class white males in the 1980s, there are a few deviations from that white baseline that are noted. Midas Betancore. Magnus is given Egyptian trappings and described as having dark skin. Tallarn Desert Raiders are Berber/Arabian. Heqta Jajjo is described as dark skinned. Space Marines drawn from the Achaemenid Empire were from the areas ruled by the Persian Empire on Earth. There are examples, but as the writing and setting matures, you see more diversity (not unlike comics). In any case, with the exception of the Salamanders (as Susano mentioned), which are based on the story of John Henry, none of them would be "African" or "American" as those concepts are 39,000 years out of date. And, since the origins of the game are English, calling anyone African-American would get you a funny look, because the majority of sub-Saharan Africans of native origin (black people) living in non-African countries are not American.