LadyCrimson

A long time ago we had some leftover chinese food in cartons...I asked my hubby if it was safe to use the microwave to heat them up, because they had the little metal wire handles. He said "Sure, I've done it lots of times, a little bit of metal like that is ok." So I put the carton in and hit the button, and a few seconds laters sparks were flying inside the microwave and I hit the stop button in a panic. I glared over at my spouse who sheepishly said, "Well, it's never been a problem before..." And not long ago he did the same thing, only this time it flash-fried the top of the microwave blackish & stunk up the kitchen....I cleaned it and it still works, tho. heh

I am....still....playing DungeonKeeper1 now and then. And Casear3. I also created a new Diablo2 account (I let all mine expire close to a year ago or something) and obsessed over it all night, which reminded me how addictive it can be. Gah. Children of the Nile is next on my list of older games to reinstall, because from the looks of things Caesar4 will have a similiar feel, perhaps...and I never did get very far in CofN - just not into the whole Egypt setting, Rome is much more fun.... It was a good game tho, I need to finish it.

As much as I'd like to claim I was 17 in the early 90's, alas, no. Never heard of them.

Who the heck is 'Winger?' <_<

Broken Flowers. It was a lot better than I was expecting, and I was enjoying it quite a bit until....the....very....last....minute. I guess I didn't 'get' it, whatever 'it' was supposed to be, hence the last minute was just too abrupt and WTF?

Brent Spiner singin' the oldies. Ok, I'm joking. I can't think of a single fave band, honestly. When I was 17 it would've been easy. Now...eh...Capercaillie perhaps? Dunno.

Female I picked Atton & Disciple, since I played more than once. I tended to like Disciple tho, because of the cutscenes you get when you have more influence with him over Atton. I tried to play as a male and never got very far...just didn't interest me. My husband, however, did, and had Handmaiden and Visa's in tow pretty much all the time...in their underwear, of course (including his main character). He thought it was amusing.

LOL....I like that description. Every time my PC has done this it's been heat...like on a very hot day when you don't have enough fans in your PC case + too much dust. :D

While I often say "That was lucky" to express "wow, you beat the odds" or whatever, I do not actually believe in luck.

It's been a long time since I've written a resume, but I'd probably call that a 'working knowledge of (insert graphic program you use here).' Something along those lines, anyway - except with a more spiffy sounding spin I guess? Graphic image editor in your spare time?

Ok, here's Langlois page where they describe what they mean by 'mathematically attractive face'.

I've tried to find a good article based on that particular study but all I found on quick googling was a PDF file of the report You can look at it in html but the link for it is monstrous, I'm not sure it'd work in a forum. I believe, however, that they had an adult panel judge which 'faces' were attractive etc. and used those...I do not know the exact nature of how they had the adults 'judge'. I seem to remember Time magazine doing a big article on it back then tho...I think it was 'in the news' a while. The link to the html report is here. If it doesn't work, sorry. Edit: The report has some info on it's 2nd page but not being a scientist I don't really understand their rating system references.

I remember many a RISK game with my brother and his friends over loads of Pepsi. :D

I disagree that there's no imperative for men to at least feel like they would fare better with better looks. It's not just an actor thing, although actors, of course, have to deal with as an obvious surface thing. There are studies/theories about how people/infants react more positively to what is considered 'beautfiul' just in general...(Jean Ritter is one of the more widely mentioned ones I think)...of course, they are just theories based on limited studies at the moment, which I'm sure will go wildly up and down in popularity over the years, but such things are probably what they're basing the 'it might help me with getting a job' bit on.

I'm going to agree with the above. We all have an agenda to our actions...true, some have more wide-reaching and/or positive agendas...haha...but it's still an agenda. It's the lack of empathy or conscious remorse/consideration for the fact that something they're doing may affect someone else negatively, that I think people are really objecting to. Just because you don't visit your sick aunt or you spend more money in a day than some people see in 5 years doesn't make you 'selfish' in of itself. And no, I wouldn't live in a hut to cure poverty because I know that's not actually possible and it's just a stupid rhetorical question. If people want to examine moral fiber they should pose realistic hypothetical situations, not utter-fantasy ones.

Fun w/D ick & Jane - not fun, not entertaining. Harry Potter/Goblet of Fire - why are these always about 30 minutes too long? Ralph Fiennes in the end was great...hehe...the rest...not so much. But it was a lot better than the other movie...

Well, I don't have a lot of refined sugar or carb intake to reduce (my Dew is diet), beyond a few chocolates now and then. That isn't the issue for me. There may be a diet related thing I'm not aware of (maybe a mild allergy undetected for years) but eh...caffeine does me no real harm, either, so what the hey...who cares. :D

Catching up... I don't like coffee either. I also use the Dew for my caffeine fix. I've quit caffeine entirely for 4-6 months, twice. Even after that much time, I still felt more laggy and tired w/out it, so now I say, why bother quitting? I think some people are more wired to benefit from it somehow. My consumption goes up and down...obsessive task periods, I drink a lot...the rest of the time, not so much. It affects me in terms of lessing feeling tired and concentration but it doesn't make me 'hyper', no matter how much I drink. The only thing insane quantities of caffeine does to me is incrase the heartrate, so I don't do that very often. heh

Agreed. I liked the first one quite a bit, occasionally re-read it. it does not, however, stand the test of time (couple decades) as well as some; the more I re-read it the more the writing feels stiff and forced, but I'd still recommend it to those who haven't read it. Tried to read the others ages ago, got through the 2nd one, couldn't stand the 3rd, stopped trying. I think this is a common thing w/this series.

Caeasr4? Tiltled Mill? Hmm...the Egypt one was ok, but didn't enthrall me. I'd really love a C4, I hope they make it good - people have been asking for that for years. heh A new Firefly game, vampires or not, is also something to look forward to in my book. I was just talking elsewhere about how there's so few good new strategy/sim games. Maybe we'll get lucky. And thanks again to the denizens of this forum for giving me notice to the new developments that I never look up/keep up with anymore. :D

I can get very cranky without caffeine. It controls me. My life is in shambles.

I think it's just the typical male out-of-control hormonally-charged sex-drive. :D God bless them.

@sega-soldier - LOL now that's truth.

The only drug games have made me use a lot more of is caffeine.

When the rain ends...which it hasn't this year yet, much to the seemingly endless fascination of local news weathermen. I get so tired of listening to them blather on about 'record rainfall!' "It feels like Dec. not April!" when it's just...y'know...rain. It's not like we're flooding or anything.