Until I realized, finally, belatedly, what had been happening to me. Until the Great God Pan reached out of my hindbrain and thundered "YOU!" And his gift is music and his chosen instruments the pipes and flutes. And his, too the power of joy; magic so strong that when it flowed out of me, even before I knew what I was doing, it amazed people into awe and incoherence and poetry.
That day I was reborn; from a skinny lame kid with a flute into a shaman and a vessel of the Goat-Foot God, the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the Horned Lord. And the music was my first power, but not my last.
I went to a seminar a week or two ago given by Byron Bashforth, a Pixar employee. He told us that Pixar h as a version of Renderman that's significantly different than the standard one. They make changes and improvements as they need to. Sometimes changes get rolled into new Renderman versions; other times, they're kept proprietary.
Plural forms do not use apostrophes, even if it is popular to do so. So as an example, "CDs" is the proper term, not "CD's". You should have used "ones" instead of "one's" and "Cro-magnons" instead of "Cro-Magnon's".
So the people like me, who've been reading it pretty much daily since they registered (and I was reading for a few months beforehand, too), are statistical outliers? Damn.
The large number of people who don't have oriental language sets installed on their browser is a bit sad.
Is it? Not all of us have the time to try to muddle through websites in other languages. I'll do it in French if necessary, since I understand a little, but honestly.
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You beat me to it. Keep the flame of the English language burning, my friend.
Since it's anime, shouldn't it be called "Moving Castle Howl" or something like that?
I concur.
The irony of this post is delicious.
That's "voila" - basically, it means, "see, there". "Wallah" is nothing even resembling a French word.
Oh God, Eegah. That was my most recent MST3K rental, and so far, it's easily the worst.
There were giants, once...
Thank you, Ogg the Caveman.
Seriously? Damn. Ideologically, that's all the reason I need to upgrade!
These people sure have!
With a service like this, one could go camping at Big Bend, Yellowstone, or Canyonlands National Park, and check email in the heat of the day
Quite frankly, if you're checking e-mail while camping, there's something wrong with you.
Exact same experience here. The second was so bad that I completely avoided the third. My friends tell me that that was a wise decision.
and the jokes about the French are friendly ribbing
Exactly. I call a friend of mine a silly frog, and he calls me a dirty Anglo. All in good fun.
Imagine the lucky couple who become the first members of the 62000-mile-high club.
Yeah, but if a guy claims that he saw Jesus in his coffee that morning, I'm still going to look at him funny.
Oh, and did you read his infamous Sex HOWTO?
Sorry, I don't take sex advice from fat, limp, mustached roleplayers who practice the most bovine of martial arts, Moo Do.
Until I realized, finally, belatedly, what had been happening to me. Until the Great God Pan reached out of my hindbrain and thundered "YOU!" And his gift is music and his chosen instruments the pipes and flutes. And his, too the power of joy; magic so strong that when it flowed out of me, even before I knew what I was doing, it amazed people into awe and incoherence and poetry.
That day I was reborn; from a skinny lame kid with a flute into a shaman and a vessel of the Goat-Foot God, the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the Horned Lord. And the music was my first power, but not my last.
ESR is off the deep end.
Yeah, it happens.
I went to a seminar a week or two ago given by Byron Bashforth, a Pixar employee. He told us that Pixar h as a version of Renderman that's significantly different than the standard one. They make changes and improvements as they need to. Sometimes changes get rolled into new Renderman versions; other times, they're kept proprietary.
Ubiquitous, but technically inferior?
A quick grammar lesson:
Plural forms do not use apostrophes, even if it is popular to do so. So as an example, "CDs" is the proper term, not "CD's". You should have used "ones" instead of "one's" and "Cro-magnons" instead of "Cro-Magnon's".
Only royalty may speak in the royal plural.
So the people like me, who've been reading it pretty much daily since they registered (and I was reading for a few months beforehand, too), are statistical outliers? Damn.
This is Slashdot, land of people who think that John Carmack should be enshrined. Your logic falls on deaf ears.
;)
You also forgot that Shannon, along with Ed Thorp, built the first wearable computer meant to help beat roulette odds.
Malignant?
The large number of people who don't have oriental language sets installed on their browser is a bit sad.
Is it? Not all of us have the time to try to muddle through websites in other languages. I'll do it in French if necessary, since I understand a little, but honestly.
Two words: resume stain.