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I like the Sith Bunny, btw.

Let me throw a few character at you. Captain Malcolm Reynolds. Perfect embodiment of leader caste. Takes precisely the correct action to obtain the best result for his responsibilities (i.e. his crew and their welfare) in every situation. Like clockwork. Perfect avatar / exemplar. I also like the Wash-Zoe relationship. Not a boring clich

The current Next Big Thing in British music (the Artic Monkeys) gained their groundswell of popularity via the free filesharing sharing / downloading mechanism of the internet ... the first they were aware of their popularity was when the audience started singing their song lyrics ... better than they knew them.

Mr Whedon let the cat out of the bag in his commentary of "Objects in Space": he says (just as Keeley and Simon are about to kiss and Shepherd Book appears, stage left): "Hey, don't stop them, they canned the series, so they don't get together later!" (or words to that effect). Sounds like the studio decided not to indulge Mr Whedon past the initial dozen episodes. :D Anyone care to name their favourite scene / episode (and why, of course)?

Ugliness has no constituency.

Um, I don't see an overwelming problem with using an obsolete / coining a new word for a concept that has no equivalent transliteration in the host language. After all, that's what English does all the time. Schadenfreude. (I'm currently ruminating through a book called "Tingo", which is a collection of foreign words that have no equivalent in English. The premise of the book is to gain a glimpse of the various peculiarities of cultures that have specifically named odd events and things. The eponymous noun is an Easter Island word for the process of gradually borrowing more and more items from a friend's house, until nothing remains, for example.) To use an existing word that has completely the wrong connotation, without some sort of priming, seems to be a little silly. Or lazy. Or both. :D

:meta: casts Resurection, Level 7 Don't poke it, it may bite you! There will be some news about this game shortly. If anyone is still interested in playing ..?

(We already know. We even know where you went to school, the little red-haired girl's name whom you had a crush on when you were in junior school, and the teacher who failed you because you caught him in flagrant delicto with his rent-boys.) Also it's interesting.

I just spent all night trawling the W-OT forum for any Firefly / Serenity threads, and there were none in the ten page cache. So here we are. I have Serenity on order (the superior European regional PAL encoding format, not the inferior NTSC copy that was available before Christmas) and I treated myself to the entire series on DVD (

Maybe it's not entirely your fault. Dum dum daaaaaaaaaaaaaar! I read recently that there is finally some evidence of an "obese virus". Scientists isolated a particular strain and gave it to some rats, giving a control group a different strain. Sure enough the obese-infected rats gained weight, whilst the others didn't. (I'll dig up the details shortly ... brain about to shutdown due to overdose of Obsidian forum.) @Topic: I am currently training very little, just the mandatory crunches, pull-ups and push-ups. I'll be running again soon, and I'll add weight training again (for the first time in over six years) when I find a good gym that does boxing.

My brain is approaching one of its own critical points, so I am unable to recall, and unable to retrieve, the article in question. Suffice to say it was v. interesting and more about how superconductivity doesn't make sense with the traditional scientific model, since absolute zero is meant to be when atomic particles stop moving, so they shouldn't be zipping around giving electric current to any strange cathode that happens by ... I'll dig it up after I have some Zzzzs and post a summary here.

You're forgetting the fun of Role Playing

Hokie articles about religion aside (see what I did there?), a recent New Scientist has an article about quantum criticality to assist in the explaination of super-conductivity. (Basically the traditional quasi-object model (where an object is a bunch of electrons) used to describe the electric charge or absence of same in conductors and insulators breaks down when describing substances as they approach absolute zero; there is therefore a postulation that a mechanism analogous to critical temperatures that invoke phase changes in macro-universe-scaled objects (e.g. steam/ water / ice) called "quantum criticality" based on frequencies (iirc).)

O. In that case, I may have been at risk of seemingly appearing to be very nearly not completely and unreservedly correct with some particular fact-based quotations that may, or may not, have appeared in a post that I may or may not have been quoting previously. Or not.

That was a bunch of hot air and fireworks - as per bloody usual with Georgie. I think he basically caught the senate off guard with his posturing and shouting. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have you actually read the transcript? He completely owned them. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He is currently the target of THREE investigations regarding the "oil for food" allegations: his ex-wife and her charity (for Iraqi orphans, or some other owrthy cause) allegedly had some very unexpected bookkeeping. Very true. when compiling the first English dictionary, Samuel Johnson was very tempted to add an anachronistic cross-reference to GG under "narcicism". I'll give you a super-super secret special clue: But Don't tell anybody else though, it's a trillion dollar market capitalisation secret, just between you, me and the gatepost. Google Georgie "onanism just means I love me" Galloway, or even

What about non-specific pigmentation? There is far too much pigeonholing going on here!

This is 100% correct. Also worth noting that LCD technology is less robust (those little dots are at the mercy of three different lines to create each pixel: that's a lot of opportunities to lose a pixel or two over time). Still, I've only lost two pixels on my 17" LCD-plasma hybrid in two-and-a-half-years, so that's pretty good going (even though it was

I read that Finland just passed a law (last few weeks) that stipulates the sonsumer has NO OWNERSHIP RIGHTS WHATSOEVER of music they have bought. They are forbidden from making ANY COPIES AT ALL.

yah, i realized you said 180%, not 100% after i posted... ugly indeed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sounds like the Singaporean system. Certainly is an effective way to keep road congestion under control. Hah. You're either assuming that parenthood ends when the child's majority is achieved, or that you will sally on regardless at that time. :D

Thanks, but <_<

μ? μ, what? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, not μ: MU (the Koan).

Nice Pixie. Well this model is my car, except it's white. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nice (times two). My father used to be jag-mad (that was after his second childhood when he bought a red firebird in the seventies): their air-conditioning had trouble in the Australian climate, however, so he eventually switched allegiances to Mercedes (he actually had the first new model (series two) 500SL in Australia, way back in the nineties. Gave it back to the dealer after a week, ostensibly because he didn't like all the idiots driving like lunatics to get a look at it: he had some numbat drive alongside in the oncoming traffic to get an eyeful. I still think it was because he didn't want to find me wrapped around a tree in it one day.) I have to say the SLK in a pretty decent model, too. A bit small, though, perfect for a girl to drive. (Not my car: her indoors, when she's outdoors.) I have to say Ferrari (Lambourginis are just too OTT) is my ideal car; though Bentleys are nice (if you like driving a sofa wrapped in an aircraft hanger that can do 250 miles/h without spilling the scotch and soda the butler has just poured for you). I have always hankered after gull-wing doors and pop-up lights ...

Ooo. Do tell. I didn't know about that (not all that surprising as I tend to ignore easter egg hunting). I sat through the entire extended series of the three films a few weeks ago (my first re-viewing since I watched them all when the extended version of RotK was released way back last year when) ... had to break it up over two days (read: had to sleep in between!) ... it's just tooooooooooo long to sit through end-to-end. Almost made me want to buy all the cinematic release versions, in case I had the urge to watch the entire epic in one sitting. then I remembered the bits that weren't included in the cinematic release and thought better of it. (What was up with the final edit of RotK? What happened to Saruman and the Shire? What's with the cheap exit: he doesn't even get a line in the cinematic release! And what about the palantias? ... Oh, never mind. I'm starting to sound like a fanboi, and really I'm not: I just thought those bits were way more interesting than the tediously drawn out last 40+ minutes of the third film.)

What, there is someone here not already mad at me? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Launchie, of course.