Or you could avoid the Baroque Cycle like the plague. It's the only series I know of where the author keeps bringing up cool stuff going on around the world, only to run away from it to cover in more excruciating detail the pseudo-realistic financial transactions of a fictional world.
It's like he *really* wanted to write a series of books on banking in historical France, but his publisher said no, so he bulked a single volume adventure about pirates chasing alchemical treasure into three volumes by stuffing it with his book notes. Somehow his publisher failed to notice this.
The target audience? Which must be everyone linquistically illiterate enough not to realize that if you're going to change the 'ii' of Wii into 'e' you really need to change both letters, thus giving not 'e', but 'ee'. Which results in 'wee'.
People who also somehow won't know that means either diminuitive or urine.
As far as I can tell, that's pretty much only one year olds. I can see toddlers making potty jokes about this. Even if they can't read, it will still *sound* like wee, or pee.
I can see women in stores now, picking it up going "Oh, it's a little pee box. No thanks." and putting it down.
Ham. Seems, madam, Nay, it is. I know not 'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
'That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within which passeth show-
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
You won't see light slow down or speed up (depending on which was you're looking) but what will happen is that the light you are moving towards will shift to a higher frequency wavelength (blue-shift) and the light you are moving away from will shift to a lower frequency (red-shift).
I fill out the customer surveys at Amazon so they know what I like. Then they go and suggest new stuff based on what I've said I like and what I have been looking at. This is one of the major ways I find new authors to enjoy.
Then I froogle everything to find a bargain. Sometimes it's Amazon, sometimes it isn't.
Well you're running on a pentium 2 33333mhz chip...of course that's an entirely theoretical chip and is being emulated in software on the big mainframe down in the chip R&D lab...
Don't forget the various wildlife knocking down the fences to go where they want...storms...subsidance...paying people to cut down the crap growing on the fence so that doesn't pull it down...
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Or you could avoid the Baroque Cycle like the plague. It's the only series I know of where the author keeps bringing up cool stuff going on around the world, only to run away from it to cover in more excruciating detail the pseudo-realistic financial transactions of a fictional world.
It's like he *really* wanted to write a series of books on banking in historical France, but his publisher said no, so he bulked a single volume adventure about pirates chasing alchemical treasure into three volumes by stuffing it with his book notes. Somehow his publisher failed to notice this.
The target audience? Which must be everyone linquistically illiterate enough not to realize that if you're going to change the 'ii' of Wii into 'e' you really need to change both letters, thus giving not 'e', but 'ee'. Which results in 'wee'.
People who also somehow won't know that means either diminuitive or urine.
As far as I can tell, that's pretty much only one year olds. I can see toddlers making potty jokes about this. Even if they can't read, it will still *sound* like wee, or pee.
I can see women in stores now, picking it up going "Oh, it's a little pee box. No thanks." and putting it down.
I direct you to http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1122. Hamlet there. Geeks here.
Ham. Seems, madam, Nay, it is. I know not 'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
'That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within which passeth show-
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Telcos have alot of dark fibre in the States.
Most people assume that's optical fibre...but it's actually moral fibre.
I vote to remove the oxygen from the building.
You won't see light slow down or speed up (depending on which was you're looking) but what will happen is that the light you are moving towards will shift to a higher frequency wavelength (blue-shift) and the light you are moving away from will shift to a lower frequency (red-shift).
I fill out the customer surveys at Amazon so they know what I like. Then they go and suggest new stuff based on what I've said I like and what I have been looking at. This is one of the major ways I find new authors to enjoy.
Then I froogle everything to find a bargain. Sometimes it's Amazon, sometimes it isn't.
God. Jumping puzzles in mazes just sprang into my mind. Argh the evil!
Poor kitties.
*blinks*
*imagines the quality of Klingon code*
So...Microsoft is a Klingon outfit?
That explains sooooooooooo much.
Someone should really tell the Sun.
er, use one of our products...dang posting at 4 AM.
The commercials are hilarious though. Become one of our products and become grinning moron!
Small government?
Tactical nukes are generally smaller, and/or closer to the ground. Thus, less fallout.
Sssshhhhhh. Don't think. Just watch the pretty lights.
full time job, wife, kids == life
having rabid rats claw out your eyes is a better user interface experience than using the Gimp UI.
Ultimately leading to the summoning of a shit demon.
Oh for a can of Lysol...
Yeah it WAS a good game.
Thanks for the clarification.
Well you're running on a pentium 2 33333mhz chip...of course that's an entirely theoretical chip and is being emulated in software on the big mainframe down in the chip R&D lab...
what the heck is NMCI?
some of us aren't in the Navy.
Don't forget the various wildlife knocking down the fences to go where they want...storms...subsidance...paying people to cut down the crap growing on the fence so that doesn't pull it down...
There's one not too far from my house, sadly enough.
That's my mom.