Err. You might want to watch the Mercedes Lackey titles though, depending on the girls age. The Arrow series is really good, but some of the later books she has written are definatly not for children. Most of them have fairly strong sexual themes.
For fantasy, you might try Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion. It's a really good novel with a teenage female main character. In fact, it's an omnibum of three novels, (Over 1000 pages) and can be picked up cheap on amazon.com
I'm coming up blank on Sci-Fi, but you could try the Honor Harrington Series, or The Council Wars, both by David Weber.
My problem is that I'm finally starting to see decaying CD's. I've got some backup CD's from 1998 or 1999. (I can't access the media anymore to check dates, but somewhere in there.) I put them in the other day to look for some old data and they wouldn't read. When I pulled them out of the drive, the silver media was peeling away from the disk. I've run across about 6 of my backup cd's so far this year that are doing the same thing.
No, I think a good harddrive array is going to be your best bet. Get several harddrives and mirror the data. The cost of gigabytes is dropping on a daily basis. You should find that when you need more room, it will be easly upgradable and cheaper as the years go on.
Which is interesting, since there are indications that Paul (Who wrote 1 Corinthians) was married at one time. It's not certain, but 1 Corinthians 9:5 seems to imply that all the apostles were married.
Paul was also a Sanhedrin, one of the judicial ruling body of the Jews. Biblical historians agree that one of their tenants required their members to be married.
The adjective used in that passage, "agamos", has connotations of widow rather that never getting married. Someone who has never been married is referred to as "parthenos". (Though there are some passages where the words are used interchangeably, so it's not 100% certain.)
Paul referred to widows several times as being especially useful to the church.
I use my iPaq as well. It's much better than anything else I've ever used. I started with an old Palm III, moved to an m505, then a Tungsten C. My latest is an HP hx4705. I thought it was crazy, when I first started out, to buy a unit mainly for ebook reading, but I've found that I use it for that purpose about 90% of the time.
Even my wife loves it since I can turn off the bedroom light and still read without disturbing her.
It reads plain text, HTML, many ebook formats, word, pdf, and I can even use my old palm formated ebooks using Mobipocket.
It's a full VGA screen, but I usually leave it on a pretty large font to read. It cuts out the headaches compleatly. Not only that, but a backlit page hurts your eyes much less than reading in low light conditions.
The adjustable backlight can give you a sharp, brilliant image for using in direct sunlight, or I can turn it all the way down for reading in the dark.
Even better, I can flip the image sideways and get about 33% more length on a sentance, as well as programming any button on the unit as a page down and page up button.
With the backlight turned down and only the ebook reading program running, you will be amazed by the amount of time you can go without a recharge. I know the box says 5 hours, but I've run close to 14 with the wifi and bluetooth off. Running full motion video (Which it also does) will cut that to about 4 hours.
Actually, the parent had a good point. Under pressure from the US government, the Costa Rican's tried to force the ICE (The local government monopoly) to split up a couple of years ago. They wanted to allow foreign investors in to provide telephone service, electricity, etc.. When they tried, the people revolted. But since it's Costa Rica, they just refused to go to work and school and marched through the streets. They blocked off a couple of roads and that was it.
I'm not sure what it's like now, but when I was there, the phone, water and electricity rates were very high in comparison to the adverage income. Long Distance phone service was the worst.
There were alot of people, even 4 years ago, who were using VoIP for longdistance calls. Practically anyone with a computer did so. Now, that isn't nearly as many people as you would think, but it is most of the upper middle class. Or in otherwords, the main people who are making the international calls in the first place.
I'm not really suprised that the Costa Rican government wants a piece of that, but I'd be suprised if they could control it, even if they do get the law passed.
You know, they have made a couple of these before and they don't turn out well. I remember a lego game based on Harry Potter a couple years ago.
It just dosen't translate well. It's really difficult to work with 3-D shapes on a 2-D computer screen.
Of course, I'm sure that some of the engineers and CAD users out there won't have much problem, but kids don't seem to grasp the idea to well. At least my nephews didn't.
Didn't Lego make an announcement about a year ago saying that they weren't going to license movies anymore?
You know, when I first read this one, I didn't think much of it. Then, when I started thinking about it, it got better and better.
I mean, you pretty much have the entire world to explore! Start off a new character and use Hogwarts as a base to learn basic spells and skills, as well as a healing location. Have a room with limited storage for you character and hundreds of low level quests based around the castle.
You can integrate the sorting hat into character creation, specalize in whatever class you want at the school, etc..
When you graduate, the entire world opens up. Solve magical quests, play professional quidditch, run a magic shop. Raise a family, interact with Muggles, etc. Heck, be a professor at the college and teach newbies.
If you want to be evil, start in Slytherin so you aren't persecuted for being compleatly evil, but when you get a couple levels, you can leave the school and be an evil witch/wizard with a good foundation of spells and skills.
You have an established but open mythology and a HUGE fanbase. It would be a pretty good game.
(My girlfriend just told me "That would be an onling game I'd actually play", so it passes that test.)
Sadly enough, that's the only way I play any of the Sims games.. I HATE playing them, but I can sit and build, zone, change stuff around and bulldoze for hours at a time.
I was really angry that SimCity4 didn't have a cheat mode like SimCity 3000. Sure, I understand that some people think that it ruins the game to cheat, but for me, having to build something and keep my budget ridgedly under control ruins the game for me. I just want to build!
Same for the Sims. I just cheat, get a couple million and start building. When I finish a house, I play for a couple hours, then evict my Sim, bulldoze the house and start over.
I've actually got a copy of "Tail of the Sun" in my entertainment case just a couple feet from where I'm sitting.
I don't think it deserves to be called the worst game ever. It wasn't great, but it wasn't completely without merit either.
Theoretically, the idea of the game is to collect food, build up your civilization, invent weapons, etc. Eventually, you are supposed to hunt down hundreds of Mammoths and collect their tusks. The only way to win the game is to build a tower of them tall enough to reach the sun.
In actuality, the game was more about exploring and discovering Easter eggs. The world is HUGE, and without a map or compass, it can be a bit hard to find things, but there are giant stone monoliths, caves, creatures, lakes, oceans, hidden islands, things to hunt, aliens, monstrous fossils, Stonehenge.. The list goes on. You can literally spend hours exploring, always finding something new.
It gets boring after awhile, but it can still give a good 10-15 hours of play without running out of things to do.
Hello. My name is Calmiche, I'm a guy, and I'm addicted to Harvest Moon.
Now, are we talking about the original Harvest Moon on the SNES or are we talking about the misguided newer versions? (Sadly, I own all of them. I even had to break down and buy a GameCube this year just so I could play the newest one.)
I loved the original one, but the rest of them put me to sleep. I still pull the SNES one out every couple months and play through again. It takes about 30-40 hours, same as a normal sized RPG.
All the other versions kept my interest for a day or two. The Gamecube version lasted about a week. (Then I figured out I had acomplished 95% of the tasks in the game and they still expected me to play for the next 10 years of storyline.)
As a pawn broker in Idaho, it's not quite that way here. In Idaho, we are required to hold ANY property for a minimum of 30 days if bought of 60 days if pawned. We also report full descriptions of EVERYTHING that comes over our counter. Serial numbers, distinguishing marks, colors, model numbers, EVERYTHING. We fill our several copies for each pawn/buy and send them to the police twice a week.
Any police officer may place a "Hold" on an item for any reason, which adds another 90 days. They may also extend that hold another 90 days as many times as they wish.
However, as a pawn shop, the authorities try to take us. That is, quite often, a patrolman will come in and demand that we relinquish property, which they intend to give directly back to the person who's property was stolen. Technically this is against the law for them to do, since we bought it in good faith.
We don't take items that we even suspect are stolen. In fact, I turned down a nice mp3 player yesterday because I suspected it was stolen. I couldn't prove anything so I couldn't call the police, but I didn't take it either.
We are always willing to "Hold" an item for as long as is needed, but we require an inventory requisition sheet be filed and that a disposition hearing be held to determine where the property should go.
If we didn't do this, we would have stuff "stolen" from us continually.
There have been several times in the last couple years when someone will come in, write down serial numbers on some of our stock, and then go to the police claiming it was stolen. Most of them are in jail for fraud, and one is awaiting sentancing right now.
This is also why we hate used stores like EB, Hastings, etc.. They don't have any of the same requirements. In fact, I've never seen a city ordinace that adressed pawn shops and second hand stores together. So don't go describing EB as a pawn shop. It isn't.
Your best bet for protection? Always right down serial numbers! It makes it 85% more likely that you will get your property back.
Give it a month or two.. On March 23rd, 2004, FINAL FANTASY XI will launch for the PlayStation 2 in North America. The internal hard disk drive (40GB) for PlayStation 2 will come with FINAL FANTASY XI preinstalled.
The game is already HUGE in Japan with over 500,000 players.
Looks like Square is going to be the first to try a MMORPG for the console.
Yes. In fact, all the really old Lucas Arts games are playable on WinXP. You just need some free software and a little bit of tweaking. Check out http://www.scummvm.org for more information and manuels.
They even have the sounds working correctly on some of the games.
And, if I remember correctly, the Lucas Arts collection (Greatest hits, whatever it's called) have been updated to run under WinXP without any tweaking.
I've actually dragged my windows start bar over to the right hand side. I set up about 4 toolbar folders, setting the text off, small icons, etc. (It's easier to do that while the toolbar is not locked.)
I've got a folder for my games, another for my internet stuff, another for my graphics programs, one for Microsoft office and a last one for my programming. I can fit 15-20 icons into a one inch square box. (about 5 icons across seems to work well.)
I have about 5 icons on my desktop and 45 tiny icons on my toolbar. If I need to find something that isn't a common program, I can find it through the start menu. I only have to use the start menu once or twice a week.
Be advised though that I'm using a 19 inch monitor at 1280x1024. It might not be usefull at lower resolutions.
Seriously, the best purchase I ever made was a USB adaptor for my Playstation controller. It functions perferctly. 99% of the games I've ever played find it perfectly. Both analog sticks work, and you can turn them off and on.
Make sure you get one that is recognised by Windows.
I use something called a Yobo game adapter, but I'm not sure if you can find them still. Mine is about 4 years old.
I can also hook in all kinds of other adapters, including my dance mat. (For dance dance revolutions.)
Hmm. That is as may be if you are drinking coffee or diet sodas, but my main intake of caffiene comes from Coke.
Just a quick label reading of a can of Coke and a jug of orange juice from my fridge says that 8 oz's of Coke contains 100 calories. The same amount of orange juice contains 110. It's not going to make to much diffence at those levels which one you drink.
So, yes, if you are going from diet soft drinks, or if you want to loose weight at the same time, you probably want to stick to something with less sugar. I enjoy crystal light (5 calories, sugar free).
Orange Juice also seemes to slake the nasty thirst that comes from caffiene withdrawls.
However, whomever commented that much of the headache from not drinking caffiene could be dehydration certainy has a point.
One study I was reading suggests that caffiene raises blood pressure. When you quit cold turkey, it drops your blood pressure, allowing more blood to collect in the head, causing a headache.
All the symptoms should be gone in a maximum of 5 days. Some people only have the symptoms for one day.
Calmiche,
Actually, I found that Orange juice seems to be a much better alternative.
The sugar seems to keep the headache down a bit, while the exta vitamin C dosen't hurt any. It also seems to help with the cravings. Perhaps I just have a sweet tooth?
One of the problems I had with water was that it didn't taste appealing. Anything you can do to flavor it helps out.
I was so extremely disappointed by the movie Starship Troopers. I'd been watching the news about it for months. In fact, I still remember e-mailing my brother with the news that they were making it about a year before it came out.
The book is a fascinating mixture of politics, governmental ideas, patriotism, military and civic responsibility, as well as fascinating science fiction and technology.
I was SO incredibly upset about the fact that they didn't have jumpsuits in the movie. I think I could have forgiven all the plot holes, errors, gratuitous sex and missed concepts if they had included that, but as it is, I can't stand the movie. I don't own it, I don't want to own it, and I don't think I will ever buy it. (Which is pretty harsh for me since I own over 300 DVD's, most of them Sci-fi.)
Fortunatly, the animated series got it a little closer to correct.
Now, I've heard they are making another, most likely straight to movie Starship Troopers 2 movie. Filming will begin in the spring of 2004. *Shudder*
Hey, how about Todd McCaffrey's new book, Dragon's Kin, (Which, admittedly is co-written with his Mother, Anne McCaffrey), or his upcoming novel Dragonsblood, which is written solely by him.
Of course, I gave up on McCaffrey books about 5 years ago. I like her old stuff, but I just can't get into any of the new stuff.
Always, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. It's a two person cooperaive dungeon crawl. Enough D&D and character leveling to be interesting for a long time gamer and simple enough for a newbie.
My girlfriend hates most gaming, especially D&D, but she begs me to play Dark Alliance with her.
Sorry, XBox and PS2 only. Also, it's pretty short. About 6-8 hours will get you through the game, even on a first run through. (And Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 is on the way!)
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Man that's a good one. I had to special order it from a used bookstore last time I wanted to read it.
Do you mean the original version (1979, A Planet Called Treason) or his rewritten version? (1988)
Err. You might want to watch the Mercedes Lackey titles though, depending on the girls age. The Arrow series is really good, but some of the later books she has written are definatly not for children. Most of them have fairly strong sexual themes.
For fantasy, you might try Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion. It's a really good novel with a teenage female main character. In fact, it's an omnibum of three novels, (Over 1000 pages) and can be picked up cheap on amazon.com
I'm coming up blank on Sci-Fi, but you could try the Honor Harrington Series, or The Council Wars, both by David Weber.
My problem is that I'm finally starting to see decaying CD's. I've got some backup CD's from 1998 or 1999. (I can't access the media anymore to check dates, but somewhere in there.) I put them in the other day to look for some old data and they wouldn't read. When I pulled them out of the drive, the silver media was peeling away from the disk. I've run across about 6 of my backup cd's so far this year that are doing the same thing.
No, I think a good harddrive array is going to be your best bet. Get several harddrives and mirror the data. The cost of gigabytes is dropping on a daily basis. You should find that when you need more room, it will be easly upgradable and cheaper as the years go on.
Which is interesting, since there are indications that Paul (Who wrote 1 Corinthians) was married at one time. It's not certain, but 1 Corinthians 9:5 seems to imply that all the apostles were married.
Paul was also a Sanhedrin, one of the judicial ruling body of the Jews. Biblical historians agree that one of their tenants required their members to be married.
The adjective used in that passage, "agamos", has connotations of widow rather that never getting married. Someone who has never been married is referred to as "parthenos". (Though there are some passages where the words are used interchangeably, so it's not 100% certain.)
Paul referred to widows several times as being especially useful to the church.
Okay, did anyone else read that article description as someone trying to smuggle drugs inside the space shuttle or is it is just me?
I use my iPaq as well. It's much better than anything else I've ever used. I started with an old Palm III, moved to an m505, then a Tungsten C. My latest is an HP hx4705. I thought it was crazy, when I first started out, to buy a unit mainly for ebook reading, but I've found that I use it for that purpose about 90% of the time.
Even my wife loves it since I can turn off the bedroom light and still read without disturbing her.
It reads plain text, HTML, many ebook formats, word, pdf, and I can even use my old palm formated ebooks using Mobipocket.
It's a full VGA screen, but I usually leave it on a pretty large font to read. It cuts out the headaches compleatly. Not only that, but a backlit page hurts your eyes much less than reading in low light conditions.
The adjustable backlight can give you a sharp, brilliant image for using in direct sunlight, or I can turn it all the way down for reading in the dark.
Even better, I can flip the image sideways and get about 33% more length on a sentance, as well as programming any button on the unit as a page down and page up button.
With the backlight turned down and only the ebook reading program running, you will be amazed by the amount of time you can go without a recharge. I know the box says 5 hours, but I've run close to 14 with the wifi and bluetooth off. Running full motion video (Which it also does) will cut that to about 4 hours.
2000 ICE riots.
Actually, the parent had a good point. Under pressure from the US government, the Costa Rican's tried to force the ICE (The local government monopoly) to split up a couple of years ago. They wanted to allow foreign investors in to provide telephone service, electricity, etc.. When they tried, the people revolted. But since it's Costa Rica, they just refused to go to work and school and marched through the streets. They blocked off a couple of roads and that was it.
I'm not sure what it's like now, but when I was there, the phone, water and electricity rates were very high in comparison to the adverage income. Long Distance phone service was the worst.
There were alot of people, even 4 years ago, who were using VoIP for longdistance calls. Practically anyone with a computer did so. Now, that isn't nearly as many people as you would think, but it is most of the upper middle class. Or in otherwords, the main people who are making the international calls in the first place.
I'm not really suprised that the Costa Rican government wants a piece of that, but I'd be suprised if they could control it, even if they do get the law passed.
Yah, that's some "Artist" doing weird things. Lego didn't make those.
You know, they have made a couple of these before and they don't turn out well. I remember a lego game based on Harry Potter a couple years ago.
It just dosen't translate well. It's really difficult to work with 3-D shapes on a 2-D computer screen.
Of course, I'm sure that some of the engineers and CAD users out there won't have much problem, but kids don't seem to grasp the idea to well. At least my nephews didn't.
Didn't Lego make an announcement about a year ago saying that they weren't going to license movies anymore?
You know, when I first read this one, I didn't think much of it. Then, when I started thinking about it, it got better and better.
I mean, you pretty much have the entire world to explore! Start off a new character and use Hogwarts as a base to learn basic spells and skills, as well as a healing location. Have a room with limited storage for you character and hundreds of low level quests based around the castle.
You can integrate the sorting hat into character creation, specalize in whatever class you want at the school, etc..
When you graduate, the entire world opens up. Solve magical quests, play professional quidditch, run a magic shop. Raise a family, interact with Muggles, etc. Heck, be a professor at the college and teach newbies.
If you want to be evil, start in Slytherin so you aren't persecuted for being compleatly evil, but when you get a couple levels, you can leave the school and be an evil witch/wizard with a good foundation of spells and skills.
You have an established but open mythology and a HUGE fanbase. It would be a pretty good game.
(My girlfriend just told me "That would be an onling game I'd actually play", so it passes that test.)
Calmiche
Sadly enough, that's the only way I play any of the Sims games.. I HATE playing them, but I can sit and build, zone, change stuff around and bulldoze for hours at a time.
I was really angry that SimCity4 didn't have a cheat mode like SimCity 3000. Sure, I understand that some people think that it ruins the game to cheat, but for me, having to build something and keep my budget ridgedly under control ruins the game for me. I just want to build!
Same for the Sims. I just cheat, get a couple million and start building. When I finish a house, I play for a couple hours, then evict my Sim, bulldoze the house and start over.
-Calmiche
I've actually got a copy of "Tail of the Sun" in my entertainment case just a couple feet from where I'm sitting.
I don't think it deserves to be called the worst game ever. It wasn't great, but it wasn't completely without merit either.
Theoretically, the idea of the game is to collect food, build up your civilization, invent weapons, etc. Eventually, you are supposed to hunt down hundreds of Mammoths and collect their tusks. The only way to win the game is to build a tower of them tall enough to reach the sun.
In actuality, the game was more about exploring and discovering Easter eggs. The world is HUGE, and without a map or compass, it can be a bit hard to find things, but there are giant stone monoliths, caves, creatures, lakes, oceans, hidden islands, things to hunt, aliens, monstrous fossils, Stonehenge.. The list goes on. You can literally spend hours exploring, always finding something new.
It gets boring after awhile, but it can still give a good 10-15 hours of play without running out of things to do.
-Calmiche,
Hello. My name is Calmiche, I'm a guy, and I'm addicted to Harvest Moon.
Now, are we talking about the original Harvest Moon on the SNES or are we talking about the misguided newer versions? (Sadly, I own all of them. I even had to break down and buy a GameCube this year just so I could play the newest one.)
I loved the original one, but the rest of them put me to sleep. I still pull the SNES one out every couple months and play through again. It takes about 30-40 hours, same as a normal sized RPG.
All the other versions kept my interest for a day or two. The Gamecube version lasted about a week. (Then I figured out I had acomplished 95% of the tasks in the game and they still expected me to play for the next 10 years of storyline.)
Let's see this from a Pawnbrokers point of view.
As a pawn broker in Idaho, it's not quite that way here. In Idaho, we are required to hold ANY property for a minimum of 30 days if bought of 60 days if pawned. We also report full descriptions of EVERYTHING that comes over our counter. Serial numbers, distinguishing marks, colors, model numbers, EVERYTHING. We fill our several copies for each pawn/buy and send them to the police twice a week.
Any police officer may place a "Hold" on an item for any reason, which adds another 90 days. They may also extend that hold another 90 days as many times as they wish.
However, as a pawn shop, the authorities try to take us. That is, quite often, a patrolman will come in and demand that we relinquish property, which they intend to give directly back to the person who's property was stolen. Technically this is against the law for them to do, since we bought it in good faith.
We don't take items that we even suspect are stolen. In fact, I turned down a nice mp3 player yesterday because I suspected it was stolen. I couldn't prove anything so I couldn't call the police, but I didn't take it either.
We are always willing to "Hold" an item for as long as is needed, but we require an inventory requisition sheet be filed and that a disposition hearing be held to determine where the property should go.
If we didn't do this, we would have stuff "stolen" from us continually.
There have been several times in the last couple years when someone will come in, write down serial numbers on some of our stock, and then go to the police claiming it was stolen. Most of them are in jail for fraud, and one is awaiting sentancing right now.
This is also why we hate used stores like EB, Hastings, etc.. They don't have any of the same requirements. In fact, I've never seen a city ordinace that adressed pawn shops and second hand stores together. So don't go describing EB as a pawn shop. It isn't.
Your best bet for protection? Always right down serial numbers! It makes it 85% more likely that you will get your property back.
Calmiche,
Give it a month or two.. On March 23rd, 2004, FINAL FANTASY XI will launch for the PlayStation 2 in North America. The internal hard disk drive (40GB) for PlayStation 2 will come with FINAL FANTASY XI preinstalled.
The game is already HUGE in Japan with over 500,000 players.
Looks like Square is going to be the first to try a MMORPG for the console.
Calmiche,
They even have the sounds working correctly on some of the games.
And, if I remember correctly, the Lucas Arts collection (Greatest hits, whatever it's called) have been updated to run under WinXP without any tweaking.
Calmiche,
I've actually dragged my windows start bar over to the right hand side. I set up about 4 toolbar folders, setting the text off, small icons, etc. (It's easier to do that while the toolbar is not locked.)
I've got a folder for my games, another for my internet stuff, another for my graphics programs, one for Microsoft office and a last one for my programming. I can fit 15-20 icons into a one inch square box. (about 5 icons across seems to work well.)
I have about 5 icons on my desktop and 45 tiny icons on my toolbar. If I need to find something that isn't a common program, I can find it through the start menu. I only have to use the start menu once or twice a week.
Be advised though that I'm using a 19 inch monitor at 1280x1024. It might not be usefull at lower resolutions.
Seriously, the best purchase I ever made was a USB adaptor for my Playstation controller. It functions perferctly. 99% of the games I've ever played find it perfectly. Both analog sticks work, and you can turn them off and on.
Make sure you get one that is recognised by Windows.
I use something called a Yobo game adapter, but I'm not sure if you can find them still. Mine is about 4 years old.
I can also hook in all kinds of other adapters, including my dance mat. (For dance dance revolutions.)
Calmiche,
Hmm. That is as may be if you are drinking coffee or diet sodas, but my main intake of caffiene comes from Coke. Just a quick label reading of a can of Coke and a jug of orange juice from my fridge says that 8 oz's of Coke contains 100 calories. The same amount of orange juice contains 110. It's not going to make to much diffence at those levels which one you drink. So, yes, if you are going from diet soft drinks, or if you want to loose weight at the same time, you probably want to stick to something with less sugar. I enjoy crystal light (5 calories, sugar free). Orange Juice also seemes to slake the nasty thirst that comes from caffiene withdrawls. However, whomever commented that much of the headache from not drinking caffiene could be dehydration certainy has a point. One study I was reading suggests that caffiene raises blood pressure. When you quit cold turkey, it drops your blood pressure, allowing more blood to collect in the head, causing a headache. All the symptoms should be gone in a maximum of 5 days. Some people only have the symptoms for one day. Calmiche,
Actually, I found that Orange juice seems to be a much better alternative.
The sugar seems to keep the headache down a bit, while the exta vitamin C dosen't hurt any. It also seems to help with the cravings. Perhaps I just have a sweet tooth?
One of the problems I had with water was that it didn't taste appealing. Anything you can do to flavor it helps out.
Calmiche,
I was so extremely disappointed by the movie Starship Troopers. I'd been watching the news about it for months. In fact, I still remember e-mailing my brother with the news that they were making it about a year before it came out.
The book is a fascinating mixture of politics, governmental ideas, patriotism, military and civic responsibility, as well as fascinating science fiction and technology.
I was SO incredibly upset about the fact that they didn't have jumpsuits in the movie. I think I could have forgiven all the plot holes, errors, gratuitous sex and missed concepts if they had included that, but as it is, I can't stand the movie. I don't own it, I don't want to own it, and I don't think I will ever buy it. (Which is pretty harsh for me since I own over 300 DVD's, most of them Sci-fi.)
Fortunatly, the animated series got it a little closer to correct.
Now, I've heard they are making another, most likely straight to movie Starship Troopers 2 movie. Filming will begin in the spring of 2004. *Shudder*
Hey, how about Todd McCaffrey's new book, Dragon's Kin, (Which, admittedly is co-written with his Mother, Anne McCaffrey), or his upcoming novel Dragonsblood, which is written solely by him.
Of course, I gave up on McCaffrey books about 5 years ago. I like her old stuff, but I just can't get into any of the new stuff.
She just got home and I asked her..
She's hooked on Warblade, a really good independent, Galaga type game development by Edgar M Vigdal.
She also loves the Sims. Also, she likes a lot of the computer adapted board games. Monopoly, trivia, etc..
She loves Jeopardy and a lot of the fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, etc...
There are some classics too like Oregon Trail.
Hmm.. Now that I think about it, she doesn't play many games..
Always, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. It's a two person cooperaive dungeon crawl. Enough D&D and character leveling to be interesting for a long time gamer and simple enough for a newbie.
My girlfriend hates most gaming, especially D&D, but she begs me to play Dark Alliance with her.
Sorry, XBox and PS2 only. Also, it's pretty short. About 6-8 hours will get you through the game, even on a first run through. (And Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 is on the way!)