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I absolutely do not recommend that you watch this. You'll suffer SAN damage, guaranteed. You'll question any faith you might still have in the human race. Even knowing this video is linked to Florida won't help. I can only call it...
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5 hours ago, Asperion said:
A: All their cash is made of water.
Q: What do you mean, "liquid currency"?
A: Lucid, but not comforting.
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Desperately falling
Feeling our love set us free
We were better together
Believed it was all meant to beStay as one forever
The band of gold would always prevail
Happy in the moment
Life betrays one, a fairytaleMemories time cannot erase
I still see your faceWhere did I lose your love
You'll always be the question in my heart
How could I make you stay
I still regret the night you walked away
What we shared was not enough
Where did I lose your loveNever saw it coming
You left so suddenly
What was here that scared you
You want what I couldn't seeEmotions time cannot erase
I still see your faceWhere did I lose your love
You'll always be the question in my heart
How could I make you stay
I still regret the night you walked away
What we shared was not enough
Where did I lose your loveSo far from each other
So close to happiness
I'll be there to remind you
Love forgives but never forgetsEmotions time cannot erase
I still see your faceWhere did I lose your love
You'll always be the question in my heart
How could I make you stay
I still regret the night you walked away
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When I die, I'm going to ask the BYU Men's Basketball team to be my pallbearers ... so they can let me down one last time.
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Proof yet again that anonymity on the Internet is not and has never been real.
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9 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"
"STOP SAYING THAT!!"
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I didn't intend to take as long as I did to make the updates, but here we are. As usual, check and see what I missed. And let me know your Title if you haven't declared one yet.
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Creepy Pics Thread yadda yadda.
- Trencher and Lawnmower Boy
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Tangentially related to my recent viewings of Star Trek (the original series): Someone online asked why the Romulans seemed so angry all the time. My favorite response went something like this:
"So you've got the Vulcans, whose intelligence and scientific achievements are rivaled only by their smug superiority in the same.
"You've got the Andorians, a militaristic society who's spent years / decades / centuries fighting with the Vulcans.
"You've got the Tellarites, who have raised belligerence and antagonism to the level of a racial stereotype.
"And now you have humans, these self-righteous little space monkeys who can barely find their way around a warp core but who have, nevertheless, managed to make the other three all play nice with each other.
"So if I'm the Romulan Star Empire and I wake up with these guys at my doorstep every morning, I'm probably gonna be cranky too."
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Meh. I may have two degrees from the place, but in general I don't give a hill of dingoes' kidneys about Utah athletics.
Unless they're playing BYU ... in which case I put on anything blue I can find. Go Cougars!
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Four minutes into the second half, Virginia trails Colorado State 37-16. The Cavaliers scored 14 in the first half and went almost ten minutes without a point. They're shooting has been atrocious. The phrase "Couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat" comes to mind.
Go Rams!
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"I don't know what 'HD' is, but I've got eighty of 'em!"
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23 hours ago, Asperion said:
Earth has been declared uninhabitable. Name some real planet that we need to be transported to, how many needs to get there, and how we can reach that planet.
It's funny, I'm having my Astronomy class working on that problem right now. It involves an unnamed planet in a nearby star system; a crew of 20,000 to assure sufficient genetic diversity, and a generational ship that will make the trip in 50 years or so.
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Spelunking!
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I recently got a copy of The Hobbit on CD from the local library. It's a good way to pass the time back and forth to school. There was a lot of it that I didn't remember; it's been decades since I read it.
My next thought was to get The Fellowship of the Ring, but there are 20 some odd people in line ahead of me for it. So instead I checked out a different audiobook, The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley. Again, a book I've read before but it's been a very long time.
(Spoilered for verbose summary.)
SpoilerOur heroine, Aerin, is the daughter of the second wife of the King of Damar. She is tall and ungainly with pale skin and fiery red hair, unlike pretty much everyone else who has dark hair and ambiguously brown skin. Furthermore, her cousin and chief court rival Galanna continuously taunts her about her heritage, suggesting that her mother was a witch who seduced the king just to produce an heir. She also loves pointing out that the magic talent that those of the Royal Blood all exhibit has somehow skipped Aerin. Her only friend in all of this is another cousin, a kind young man named Tor who is the presumptive heir to the throne.
After being goaded by Galanna into trying to prove her royal blood, and nearly dying in the effort, Aerin undergoes many months of rehabilitation that eventually finds her forging a friendship with her father's lame, retired war horse, learning swordplay, and developing a flame retardant ointment from a thousand year old book. So armed, she takes it upon herself to start slaying the small dragons that pester the periphery of the kingdom of Damar. Aerin gains a great deal of self-confidence and some measure of respect in the pursuit. But then, as her father and his army are called away to deal with an insurrection, she learns that Maur, the last great dragon from the old days, has awakened and is tormenting a nearby town. She goes looking for him and eventually finds him in a mountain valley.
She manages to slay Maur, but is nearly killed herself in the process. Worse, she has been poisoned by the dragon, which eats away at both her health and her sanity. She can hear the dragon's voice in her head, a fact that is intensified when a couple of idiots in her father's army decide to bring the huge skull of the dragon home and mount it in the Great Hall as a trophy. The visions eventually prove too much, and Aerin leaves to seek out the help of a blonde haired man who's been appearing in her dreams.
She finds the man, or perhaps he finds her, just in time to keep her from dying. He nurses her back to health and eventually bathes her in the Lake of Dreams, which makes her not quite mortal. His name is Luthe, and he's a wizard. He teaches her about an evil wizard who threatens all the world—and who happens to be her mother's brother. And yes, her mother was in fact a witch, and did marry the King in the hopes of producing a (male) heir who would defeat this wizard. Already frail and otherwise unwell, the birth of a daughter was too much for her to handle, and she died.
Aerin learns what she can from the Luthe, who for various reasons cannot face the dark wizard himself, and then goes to seek out her malevolent uncle. In a battle that seems to transcend the limits of time, she fights and eventually defeats him, again nearly at the cost of her own life. In the process, she takes from him the Hero's Crown, a powerful artifact that was taken from the kings of Damar generations ago. Luthe drags her back to the present time and again brings her back to health. They become lovers, but Aerin knows she must return to her homeland.
She arrives home to find a horde of literally inhuman Northerners has nearly taken the kingdom. She fights through the battle to find Tor, placing the Hero's Crown on his head. Her arrival, plus the bestowal of the Crown's power on Tor, is enough to turn the tide, and the Northerners are routed. But her father has been mortally wounded and dies in Aerin's arms.
Tor becomes King and marries Aerin, whom he has always loved—even if she had never allowed herself to believe it—a few months later. The unnatural forces released during the battle have turned Damar from a pleasant wooded kingdom into a flat, arid desert. Aerin helps her people adjust to their new habitat and, she and Tor becomes legends in their own time. They live more or less happily ever after.
McKinley does a great job with characterization and world building. Her descriptions of the people, the land, the magic, and the otherworldly experiences Aerin has along the way are finely crafted. She tells a good story. It was quite enjoyable to re-familiarize myself with the book after so long.
Although written two years later, this book is a thousand-year prequel to one of Robin McKinley's other works, The Blue Sword. That's what I'm listening to now.
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I should not be nearly as amused by this as I am.
What Have You Watched Recently?
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I just finished watching the first episode of X-Men '97. I think it stays pretty true to the original in terms of animation style and tone. Wolverine's deep gravelly voice, Gambit's ridiculous Cajun accent, Scott trying really hard to sound earnest but coming off as pompous, lots of bright pink power effects, all that jazz.
It looks promising.