Find prizes of sheet of 100 mil opaic plastic, 2 pieces of conduit and / or rigid plumbing pipe, one of which will slide freely within the other, also one end cap that perfectly fits the larger pipe!
Rush to work bench that is always there!
Find hammer, diagonal cutters and a square heavy piece of steel that will function as an anvil!
Rush to wall where compressed gas that are always there!
Its either acetylene, oxygen or nitrous, doesn't really matter which!
Gather all materials in center of room!
Rip button off shirt!
Use hammer and square piece of steel to grind button into powder!
Put endcap on larger diameter pipe!
Put smaller diamete pipe inside larger diameter pipe!
Scrape ground up button into pipes!
Look around and realize there's something missing!
Rush to pile of refuse again and rummage for a rag!
Spread sheet of plastic on ground!
Fill pipe inside of pipe with gas from cylinders!
Look at EL EEE DEEE timer!
Time's almost up!
Reach in pants pocket and take out Swiss Army Knife! (the model with the cross)
This *may* be the event that I'm trying to remember.
Although I seem to remember it as being earlier in the decade and a larger asteroid.
My point is that the one on March 31st was closer, it was pretty small, the one I remember was much much larger, and it wasn't spotted until days after it passed behind us.
About the time Return of the Jedi was coming out or had been out for a bit, that Lucas had plans for 3 trilogy's.
IIRC, after the success of the first two, he started outlining the trilogy of trilogy's.
Can't recall where I read, saw, heard, this but I recall hearing it.
dewd, Denise Richards is hideous.
Worst actress evar!
She rubber stamps that stupid grin on her face and delivers her lines through her teeth.
It doesn't matter what the scenes context, she still has that stupid inflexible grin on her face.
OTOH Dina Meyer is both hot and talented.
To bad she is an underused talent and I think her time has passed.
She's (way) on the wrong side of 25 and won't be seeing many opportunities to strut.
Well, considering that they had one plot that they recycled, and varied somewhat that was borrowed from Shichinin no samurai, they did create at least one great cultural icon.
But to believe that 1/4 ton of brass could hit the ground could hit the ground, but not one round found flesh was ridiculous.
It'll be like 80's TV all over again.
Like the A-Team, where they expend 10K rounds of ammo, but no one ever gets hurt.
Or during a fist fight or HtH combat, the guys always land on soft cardboard.
And those god awful wimpy, mustache twirling, limp wristed villains they had back then.
Put out by the same folks that made City of Heros (NCSoft) cost the same per month, $14.95.
On a per month basis.
If you purchase 3 mos at a time it goes down a dollar. 6 mos it goes down another dollar. And a year is another dollar lower.
Also IIRC the first 2 expansions are free.
They already released one expansion free. Although much of the content in it was supposed to be available at launch.
Also this is for the North American release.
No idea how they're handling it for their Asian or European markets.
If they ever do a European server farm.
I played from open beta, thru release and quit right before the first expansion.
I think a lot of people in the NA market did the same.
Here's hoping EQ2 and WoW are more fun.
Like the original EQ was in the beginning.
L2 was kill monsters until you lvl, then run further out the road where there are higher lvl monsters.
The battles were the same at lvl 40+ as they were at lvl 1.
Slashdot Mirror
"The monitor cleaning fluid of discriminating monitor cleaners!"
Oh Your just saying that flatterer
You know.
of all the ways to lose this man.
Alzheimer's seems the least acceptable.
I hope this triggers an influx of funds for study of this condition that takes people away from themselves and the people that care about them
Whats that quote from David Brin's Startide Rising?
It goes something like this: "All engineers are Scotts and all Scotts are Engineers".
Of course David Brin envisioned an element called unobtainium, so he's probably insane.
I never met him either, but I have talked to people that go to the conventions.
Starting with the first one which was 25 to 30 years ago.
They all say James is a great guy, a real sport, and used to be quite the drinker and scamp.
He'd joke with all the guys and flirt with all the girls.
Sounds like someone I'd be proud to hang out with.
Set a very fat hamster next to each device, positioning the very fat hamsters between you and the devices.
Very fat hamsters work cheap.
Very fat hamsters are glad to get the work.
There are 2 potential problems when working with very fat hamsters.
1) You have to keep very fat hamsters seperated or they will form a very fat hamster union.
2) Very fat hamster crap.
Oh, one other thing.
You have to position your very fat hamsters close to the light source.
If you position your very fat hamsters too far from the light source they will cast very fat hamster shadows on your dorm room wall.
This has the potential of scaring the crap out of your college boy self.
*This message brought to you by the Very Fat Hamsters of America Foundation*
*Where our motto is "We don't move"
"At All"*
And you know he's racing the clock!
He looks at the LED timer counting down!
EL EEEE DEEE's!
Rush to the pile of refuse that is always there!
Rumage thru it!
Find prizes of sheet of 100 mil opaic plastic, 2 pieces of conduit and / or rigid plumbing pipe, one of which will slide freely within the other, also one end cap that perfectly fits the larger pipe!
Rush to work bench that is always there!
Find hammer, diagonal cutters and a square heavy piece of steel that will function as an anvil!
Rush to wall where compressed gas that are always there!
Its either acetylene, oxygen or nitrous, doesn't really matter which!
Gather all materials in center of room!
Rip button off shirt!
Use hammer and square piece of steel to grind button into powder!
Put endcap on larger diameter pipe!
Put smaller diamete pipe inside larger diameter pipe!
Scrape ground up button into pipes!
Look around and realize there's something missing!
Rush to pile of refuse again and rummage for a rag!
Spread sheet of plastic on ground!
Fill pipe inside of pipe with gas from cylinders!
Look at EL EEE DEEE timer!
Time's almost up!
Reach in pants pocket and take out Swiss Army Knife! (the model with the cross)
Set Swiss Army Knife on sheet of plastic!
Look at EL EEE DEEE timer!
Time's all but gone!
Reach in other pant's pocket!
Take out wad of duct tape!
Look at EL EEE DEEE timer!
We're into single digits!
Rip off piece of duct tape!
Rush to EL EEE DEEE timer!
Cover EL EEE DEEE's with duct tape!
Problem Solved!
/cue MacGyver music
"It's just a jump to the left"...
Billy "Wicked" Wilson when you really need him?
And it's a fanflic / trailer for a film that isn't even being made.
jmho
Although I seem to remember it as being earlier in the decade and a larger asteroid.
My point is that the one on March 31st was closer, it was pretty small, the one I remember was much much larger, and it wasn't spotted until days after it passed behind us.
I can't remember if it passed our orbit 6 hrs before we would have reached that point, or 6 hrs after we passed that point.
IIRC, after the success of the first two, he started outlining the trilogy of trilogy's.
Can't recall where I read, saw, heard, this but I recall hearing it.
I didn't name this shit.
I'm surprised the thread made it this far without this reference.
And as long as I'm here...
Yo! Joe!
Worst actress evar!
She rubber stamps that stupid grin on her face and delivers her lines through her teeth.
It doesn't matter what the scenes context, she still has that stupid inflexible grin on her face.
OTOH Dina Meyer is both hot and talented.
To bad she is an underused talent and I think her time has passed.
She's (way) on the wrong side of 25 and won't be seeing many opportunities to strut.
Too bad, what a waste =\
Either it was a really bad movie, or I just so didn't get it.
But it hurt big time to push thru to the end.
Two wrongs do make a right?
This is like the last minute rescue of a Geek Superhero(tm).
Right before he falls to his doom, his support team arrives and restores him.
I wish they'd used the cloth and leather, grey and black suit like the one in Batman: Dead End.
and I even previewed previewed that one that one
But to believe that 1/4 ton of brass could hit the ground could hit the ground, but not one round found flesh was ridiculous.
It'll be like 80's TV all over again.
Like the A-Team, where they expend 10K rounds of ammo, but no one ever gets hurt.
Or during a fist fight or HtH combat, the guys always land on soft cardboard.
And those god awful wimpy, mustache twirling, limp wristed villains they had back then.
They'll be competing with the DOOM 3 release!
Where it counts
You know it is.
He's out looking for something that is both crunchy and chewy.
And we're all just caught up in his wake.
On a per month basis.
If you purchase 3 mos at a time it goes down a dollar. 6 mos it goes down another dollar. And a year is another dollar lower.
Also IIRC the first 2 expansions are free.
They already released one expansion free. Although much of the content in it was supposed to be available at launch.
Also this is for the North American release.
No idea how they're handling it for their Asian or European markets.
If they ever do a European server farm.
I played from open beta, thru release and quit right before the first expansion.
I think a lot of people in the NA market did the same.
Here's hoping EQ2 and WoW are more fun.
Like the original EQ was in the beginning.
L2 was kill monsters until you lvl, then run further out the road where there are higher lvl monsters.
The battles were the same at lvl 40+ as they were at lvl 1.