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by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:26 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Feedback
Replies: 189
Views: 461299

Re: Feedback

What happened to the emoticon of a sandworm eating KJA? :(
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Happy New Year everyone
Replies: 13
Views: 14540

Re: Happy New Year everyone

Happy new years!
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:07 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

Damn. :(=
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jul 16, 2013 11:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

Glad to see you around chig! I'm just working my way through his last one right now, savouring it.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

Thankfully it looks like I have around 4 more of his Culture novels to read still, I bought his latest one in hardcover the other week but haven't had time to crack it.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jun 11, 2013 12:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

Couldn't have put it better.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Jun 09, 2013 5:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

Iain M Banks is dead I just found out from Omphalos.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! No NO NO and NO again! Bahhhhhhhhhh I was looking forward to so many more years of novels from him, easily in my top 3 favourite modern SF authors, easily one of the greats. BAHUMBUG.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:43 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Merry Christmas!!!
Replies: 16
Views: 21450

Re: Merry Christmas!!!

Merry whatever holiday everyone!
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Dec 13, 2012 5:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

RIGHT, I totally forgot you have one! I love that company
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

You should check out Breedlove Guitars sometimes, they make some gorgeous mandolins, we sell their acoustics but our clientele just doesn't support us stocking high end mandolins, too niche. And man that thing looks awesome! The crazy buzzy tone is all in that fancy bridge, being a long slow slope o...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:17 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Revolution
Replies: 15
Views: 23943

Re: Revolution

Ah, yeah it only started being any good after the first few. Haven't watched either of those yet but they do look pretty good.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:13 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Revolution
Replies: 15
Views: 23943

Revolution

Anybody watching this? Has it's ups and downs but so far I'm enjoying it.
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:23 pm
Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
Topic: 20 Sept 12 Huffinton Post, kja interview by Phil Simon
Replies: 8
Views: 7438

Re: 20 Sept 12 Huffinton Post, kja interview by Phil Simon

Wow what a goof.
Steampunk is a genre that originated during the 1980s and early 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

:lol:
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Interesting Article
Replies: 18
Views: 18638

Re: Interesting Article

I loved The Road, but it's definitely questionable whether the message is "look how bloody terrible this will be, we'd better not freaking go this route", or if it's just dark for the sake of dark.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Interesting Article
Replies: 18
Views: 18638

Re: Interesting Article

What I personally think is the most likely scenario is that eventually, maybe 50 years, 200, whatever, we'll pollute this rock to the point where disease and famine become extremely serious problems for the vast majority of us. What exactly our population will be reduced to I obviously have no idea,...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:56 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Interesting Article
Replies: 18
Views: 18638

Re: Interesting Article

Humanity has found a "solution"to every single problem it has encountered. I believe the species will find a solution to avoid extinction. I agree with this part entirely, we're pretty hard to bump off - I just think we'll come very close to extinction more than once in our future. and so...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:43 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Interesting Article
Replies: 18
Views: 18638

Re: Interesting Article

I personally figure we'll go through cycles of almost-extinction until we simply run out of the resources that allow us to rise to such a destructive level. We'll almost wipe ourselves out, learn the lesson for a bit, forget it and go back to our old ways, repeat, repeat. Unless we nuke the whole th...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Interesting Article
Replies: 18
Views: 18638

Re: Interesting Article

I agree with that, based on what I've read of the style anyways.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:14 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Interesting Article
Replies: 18
Views: 18638

Re: Interesting Article

I'm no expert, but it certainly seems more "on trend" to be pessimistic in SF now than it was in the past. Obviously there have been dystopia and post-apocalyptic stories since the beginnings of the genre, but it seems to me that these are even more common now and seem even darker.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: 2012 Olympics
Replies: 42
Views: 39668

Re: 2012 Olympics

North Korean guy lifted triple his own body weight in the clean and jerk - EPIC. 123lb guy lifting 369lbs off the ground, and above his head. World record for the weight class and apparently only the 5th guy to ever move triple his own weight in that movement.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:26 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: 2012 Movies
Replies: 6
Views: 9051

Re: 2012 Movies

If it's anything like Abe vs Zombies then it'll be... well I wasn't sure what I thought of that movie...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:51 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
Replies: 70
Views: 65054

Re: Dreams and Dreaming

Well, if one of them had been a zombie and eaten the other one, then the answer would be clear - I secretly desire a threesome with the both of them. :wink: But in reality I would actually prefer for that to not happen, would be the most awkward experience of my life! I'd take just sleeping with the...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
Replies: 70
Views: 65054

Re: Dreams and Dreaming

SandChigger wrote:
A Thing of Eternity wrote:Some of my friends got eaten though, which was very sad.
The ex wasn't among them, was she? OH PLEASE GODS NO!!! ;)
Haha, don't actually think she was in it - the girl I currently like got eaten though. :shock=:
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: 2012 Olympics
Replies: 42
Views: 39668

Re: 2012 Olympics

Yeah these are the real ones. Unless you live in Canada, then these are the "sorta care" ones! I just want to see the people lift the heavy things and put them back down, that's really the extent of my interest in the olympics.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:56 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
Replies: 70
Views: 65054

Re: Dreams and Dreaming

Last night I dreamt I was up all night doing drugs with President Obama. Man, that would probably be one of the coolest nights ever. That depends on the drug, marijuana sure, but I don't want to seem him in the depths of a meth binge. :snooty: Fair nuff. I'd love to hang out with the guy on mushroo...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:42 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
Replies: 70
Views: 65054

Re: Dreams and Dreaming

Freakzilla wrote:Last night I dreamt I was up all night doing drugs with President Obama.
Man, that would probably be one of the coolest nights ever.

I had a zombie apocalypse dream the other night, THAT was one badass dream. Some of my friends got eaten though, which was very sad.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:18 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: 2012 Olympics
Replies: 42
Views: 39668

Re: 2012 Olympics

I'm stoked for the weightlifting competition in this.

Lotek - that's how I felt about the winter games in vancouver a couple years ago! What a gigantic waste of money, oh well, people seem to enjoy them.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:23 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: John Carter
Replies: 29
Views: 26751

Re: John Carter

I never realized Burroughs wrote so long ago until I saw this movie. I haven't read the book(s) yet but I will when this movie fades more from my memory! I enjoyed it, it was a little rushed but not so much that it was totally ruined, and having no concept of what the story was supposed to be I wasn...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:50 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: 2012 Hugo nominations, for those who care
Replies: 13
Views: 14756

Re: 2012 Hugo nominations, for those who care

We have the same thing here, but it definitely isn't shit like Wendy's and Starbucks winning!
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shameless Commerce Thread
Replies: 51
Views: 45502

Re: Shameless Commerce Thread

Eyes High wrote:
A Thing of Eternity wrote:

That's make a killer upper arm/shoulder tattoo, or calf. :D
Or a chest tatt on the right man. :mrgreen:
Yes but my chest is all full already. :wink: Come to think of it, so are my shoulders though... do have a free calf somewhere I think...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Shameless Commerce Thread
Replies: 51
Views: 45502

Re: Shameless Commerce Thread

Omphalos wrote:

Image
That's make a killer upper arm/shoulder tattoo, or calf. :D
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:21 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

Ah yes, the ol' hardanger/hardinger fiddle - looks like a super cool instrument but I don't think I've heard one yet. It'd be interesting to hear how those sympathetics sound compared to indian-style, because those european instruments don't have the fancy bridge that makes the strings go all zzzzzz...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Test Forum Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 114286

Re: Test Forum Thread

Somehow... that made it feel even worse. :( ;) :lol: Seriously though, any time anyone mentions pretty much any language I can imagine you have comments on how it functions, etymology, etc... I have no idea how many you're fluent in but you seem to have some kind of working knowledge of a truly mas...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Test Forum Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 114286

Re: Test Forum Thread

Hey, I didn't say that you DID know that many, just that you make it appear that you do! :P
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:33 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Pontypool
Replies: 5
Views: 8520

Re: Pontypool

Something set in Canada eh? Thanks for bringing this up, I'll definitely want to see it. :D
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:14 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Test Forum Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 114286

Re: Test Forum Thread

Freakzilla wrote:If some multi-lingual person wants to volunteer to be a full-time moderator we can get rid of that rule. :D
Chig seems to know about 95% of the languages on the planet...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:41 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Test Forum Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 114286

Re: Test Forum Thread

I just go with the orange one like at Jacurutu, everything looks good to me.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:42 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

A guy I know was actually fairly close friends with her and her family (he did technical consulting on one book and him and his family became characters in another), I was holding out a slim hope that I might one day meet her through him.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

:(=
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
Replies: 25
Views: 27090

Re: SF Survey Worth Taking

All google comes up with is discussions about whether sexuality is fixed or fluid, so I'm guessing that's a good guess.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
Replies: 25
Views: 27090

Re: SF Survey Worth Taking

Freakzilla wrote:Bisexuality is still ruling things out. :wink:
:? ... :think: ... :shock=:
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:16 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
Replies: 25
Views: 27090

Re: SF Survey Worth Taking

I don't really understand how it's different than bisexuality, I haven't been keeping up with the modern terms for sexuality and gender as much as I should have...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
Replies: 25
Views: 27090

Re: SF Survey Worth Taking

Try holding down control and clicking both? Good point though...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
Replies: 25
Views: 27090

Re: SF Survey Worth Taking

Did you make this?
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:26 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

Nope, what fanned frets are is about scale length and it's relationship to tone, not the fundamental frequency of each note itself. As scale length gets shorter, notes get bassier sounding, muddier - think about the 5th fret A on a guitar versus the open A - the open one has more overtones and is br...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:45 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

It's just weird, I don't get "jazz" from that clip at all, just sounds like typical techy acoustic playing but really good! I hate light jazz, I like spastic angry jazz.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:07 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

His technique and showmanship are superb. Damn shame the result sounds like every other shit-ass new age soft/modern jazz tune out there. I hate that style of music. Really? I thought it sounded great. Different strokes for different sorts? Or maybe I just haven't been over-exposed to this kind of ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:57 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

:shock=: :? :shock: :clap: Well, the quest to see how far guitar can be taken seems to be over. Dear fucking gods. EDIT: what makes it is the extra vibrato and such, and all the tapped harmonics. EDIT2: Ok, on a second watch it's not quite as insane as I'd thought at first. It's extremely insane, it...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:27 pm
Forum: Dune Talk
Topic: Dune art sells for a shit-load
Replies: 1
Views: 5875

Re: Dune art sells for a shit-load

Coool, not my fav of his works at all but I can still see it fetching a crazy price like that.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:47 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

Here's where it gets interesting - their system is not necessarily better than ours. It's better at SOME things, worse at others. Here's an example - in our note system, relative to A 440hz, the other notes in the A major scale are all out of tune with A, the major 3rd being a great example, it's wa...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:39 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

Thing, when you say some notes (or chords etc) are out of tune, do you mean that they are out of tune compared to a pure note. Say, for example you played an F on your guitar - will it be out of tune in that it won't correspond to a pure F sine wave? I know that they don't fully correspond because ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:51 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

I totally want a mando with that now! I was just getting pissed off today at one particular C note. So they aren't using some funky math to calc fret spaces? They are mapping out the right frequency/vibration (not sure that's the right term/s) for each tone? They have a guitar they use to design th...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

Dude, that is totally fucked up looking. Guess you can only do one tuning on an instrument that is fretted that way? Yes. They have different versions, one is just slightly bent frets and is meant to compensate for string bend when you press down to fret, so it's our modern 12 tone equal temperamen...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:54 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

You play an accoustic electric like that? I took you for a solid body guy. Well, we wouldn't quite call that an accoustic electric, just a hollowbody electric (thin body one too) because unplugged it's not really much louder than a solid body. But, that's semantics - I don't play one currently, but...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:39 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your instrument
Replies: 67
Views: 70064

Re: Post your instrument

Pretty sweet, not much of a mando guy myself, but they are pretty cool!

This guy in the UK is the guy I want to build me a guitar when I have extra money to throw around:
http://www.crimsonguitars.com/paf-hollow
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Hey Thing, I'm still listening to In Flames and I gotta give thanks for you turning me on to them. I found a few more Reroute songs I like -- Free Fall, Cloud Connected. And still loving the hell outta some of those Playground songs. I actually haven't even really checked out the new album yet, I n...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:05 pm
Forum: Moderator's Thread
Topic: It's Back
Replies: 9
Views: 8168

Re: It's Back

Yeah, the Norse religion reconstructivists or whatever they call themselves seem to be split into groups - white power asshats and sane human beings. Doesn't help that the fylfot looks so much like abloody swastika, can make the two types hard to tell apart! I'd like to know more about the relations...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:35 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Favorite short stories
Replies: 23
Views: 23576

Re: Favorite short stories

Short stories can be some of the best stuff ever. I highly recommend the short works of both Frank Herbert and Arthur C Clarke. Clarke especially I actually think is better at short stories than novels, and Frank really nails them well. There's something about the short format that lets different ki...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:49 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New Board
Replies: 68
Views: 65834

Re: New Board

Congrats and thanks!

One thing I'd love to see here that has nothing to do with admin, just us all coming up with topics, is more use out of that "themes tropes etc" subforum. I love that stuff, but rarely have ideas of my own to start topics with.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:47 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

"Hardcore" vocalists can be fairly loud, and hardcore-punk style screaming (actually screaming) is loud, but yeah, the "metal" style of "screaming" dissonant singing is often very very quiet. I mean much quieter than a normal singing voice. Someone like the singer from ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:46 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I gotta wonder how she can scream like that and still keep her vocal chords intact for her regular singing voice. Actually screaming is typically way easier on your vocal chords as long as you do it right (ie: not full volume. Most metal/hardcore dissonant singers are singing much quieter than you'...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: New Blade Runner Project
Replies: 6
Views: 8786

Re: New Blade Runner Project

Booooo. I didn't even read the articles but boooo I say! The whole awesomeness of that movie was the style it was done in, change the style and it'll be nothing I thinks.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:34 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Iron Man 2
Replies: 24
Views: 27300

Re: Iron Man 2

Finally saw this last night, thoroughly enjoyed it. Up until now I didn't really think Scarlet was that attractive, but this movie changed my mind a wee bit!
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:07 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Quite a variety there, covers a lot of time (Colony is early-ish). There's 2 albums in particular that are my favourites, which are Reroute to Remain and Soundtrack to your Escape . Judging by the other stuff you've psoted, you might find your favourite stuff from them to be their most recent albums...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:04 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Rise of the Apes
Replies: 27
Views: 29623

Re: Rise of the Apes

I'll see it. I seriously lower my expectations when I go to see SF films, so I'm sure I'll just enjoy all the apes smashing shit.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Lego Alien Conquest
Replies: 4
Views: 9342

Re: Lego Alien Conquest

Yeah, I hate how in the last 15 years Lego has turned into "put it together as per the instructions, or the pieces won't fit". They kinda missed the point of their own product.

Lego I think is the best possible toy you can give a child, very educational.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Hmmm, having trouble finding some of the bands I used to listen to with girls singing. Here's one example (Walls of Jerico)that still sounds very much like a girl to me, but not quite as much as what I'm looking for in this conversation:

by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I like a wide range of female vocal styles, but I can't stand Angela Gossow (sorry, Cynic!). I still want them to sound feminine (not to mention human!), even if the music is very heavy or aggressive. My ideal of a female vocalist who has a powerful voice that's a good match for heavy music but sti...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:16 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Check some of this shit out and see if you dig it: Hey, I dig it! The first three songs for sure, they could seriously grow on me. I'm gonna have to hit Amazon and do some mp3 shopping. That last song, the older one, doesn't fare so well against my musical sensibilities. It does get into a pretty c...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:55 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

SadisticCynic wrote:

Like Angela Gossow? :drool:
Yup. They're awesome.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I know what you mean, that is definitely the low point of the song. I do like the 3-way vocal structure of rough male, melodic male, and female vocals, but that one part does sound a little silly. Maybe it's more the lyrics for me than the vocal style. It's the combo of the lyrics there and the voc...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:46 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Damn, looked up more and that song is about the peak. If I could just erase the male melodic singer and make the lyrics different I'd have orders in right now for every CD they've made. Darn.

Oh well, I'll keep searching, sucks being so picky... wish I could turn it off sometimes!
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:34 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Here's another band I discovered literally five minutes ago.... ooh yeah..... this is some good stuff.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Idb5w-L0dU&feature=related Damnit, they had me right up to that "this is who I am, this is how I feel" chorus bit, up till that I was thinking, ehy...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:35 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

SadisticCynic wrote:I can't even begin to describe how incredible this is.
Well. Shit!

What amazes me is three drummers of that calibre playing at once, and NEVER was is too much at once or each masking each other except for those 2 crescendos at the end, which were on purpose.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Omphalos wrote:They do it all. Used to be a bunch of classic rockers back when we were in college.
Cool, it definitely all sounded like it was recorded by the same person so I had a hunch!
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:16 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I like the one band Crom, simply because any metal that is so metal that they just accept that they're best off writing about something ridiculous like orcs, or in this case, Conan the Barbarian, gets thumbs up in my books! Also a fairly cool thrashy rock kinda band. The most rest is this odd kinda ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Those crazt Swedes
Replies: 7
Views: 10534

Re: Those crazt Swedes

Not really a very big deal if it was just tiny quantities, I imagine he won't really get in much trouble since he essentially reported himself!
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:38 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

:shock=:

:D

:lol=:

That is AWESOME! :clap:
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:28 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Dave Matthews? First time I've ever heard that. I love the most recent Decemberists album. Rox in the Box is my current favorite song, but it changes pretty frequently . I know the feeling; I've given up trying to maintain a favourite song, or even a favourite album for that matter. Me too, but eve...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:26 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Cowboys and Aliens
Replies: 20
Views: 13700

Re: Cowboys and Aliens

I just found out about it from commercials, I'll probably see it in theatres, I like the blonde-Bond actor fellow, so it could potentially be ok.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:28 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Wilco's a great band, I should buy some of their stuff, it's some of the rare non-metal that I might actually listen to on a regular basis. Meh. Tweedy was far better in his original band. There are a handful of excellent Wilco songs, but I much prefer Farrar's work in Uncle Tupelo. Wilco sounds li...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:46 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Cutting the kicks would certainly help. Cymbals are actually not hard to record, the main problem is A: bad production, many metal producers cut all the low-mids and mids from cymbals, resulting in thin weak sound - and B: they do not take well to MP3 compression, the high frequencies get really dig...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:52 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Funny faces? Can't be a drummer without a funny face! I used to even have one for playing guitar, everyone called it the upsidedownfrown, which made no sense because it was just a regular frown... Cool, so this is the "true polyrhythm" we'd discussed before, a two simultainous petterns of ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Wilco's a great band, I should buy some of their stuff, it's some of the rare non-metal that I might actually listen to on a regular basis.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:07 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Favorite short stories
Replies: 23
Views: 23576

Re: Favorite short stories

The Machine Stops is probably the single most frighteningly prophetic story I've ever read. Forster foresaw everything that's just starting to happen in the last 10 years over a hundred years ago, the bloody telephone had barely been invented and he knew what the dangers could be down the road.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:23 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Favorite short stories
Replies: 23
Views: 23576

Re: Favorite short stories

There's a Poe story I'd consider one of my favourite SF shorts, can't remember the name though. My fav is probably Clarke's story I can never remember the name of with the pilot who goes to jupiter to check out the local animals after being severely injured in a LTA crash. Oooo! Or wait, I know, tie...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:44 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: New and Newish TV and Films
Replies: 12
Views: 11600

Re: New and Newish TV and Films

I watched UltraViolet the other day, was expecting a pretty fun pulp-junk movie with a barely-clad female lead, but it really was really bad... even by junk scifi standards, just horrible. Bad acting, bad cinematography, really bad choreography and execution of stunts/fights... the girl wasn''t even...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue May 31, 2011 9:13 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Hyperion Film
Replies: 4
Views: 7096

Re: Hyperion Film

I wasn't as fond of the second one as the first, the plot stayed good, but the crazy poetic style of writing kinda melted away. I loved the first one to death though.

The only way they could make a movie with the same vibe would be a heavily narrated movie, something like The Watchmen maybe.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon May 30, 2011 3:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: My Dream House
Replies: 18
Views: 14475

Re: My Dream House

I'd want lots of secret compartments and hidden passages/doors and such in my dream house. Totally want the book case that swings around a central pivot (with maybe something fancier than just a "pull on the right book" trigger) into another room, oh man, there are so many options! Also, i...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon May 09, 2011 8:38 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Rise of the Apes
Replies: 27
Views: 29623

Re: Rise of the Apes

OHHHHH! I had no idea the whole movie ending was changed from the real story. :oops=:
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon May 09, 2011 5:12 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Rise of the Apes
Replies: 27
Views: 29623

Re: Rise of the Apes

Oh. But then how does the whole statue of liberty thing make any sense?
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun May 08, 2011 4:27 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Rise of the Apes
Replies: 27
Views: 29623

Re: Rise of the Apes

But the orginal movie took place on Earth right? So the Burton one makes zero sense because it takes place on some other planet.
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu May 05, 2011 11:48 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Rise of the Apes
Replies: 27
Views: 29623

Re: Rise of the Apes

I didn't even know that one was by Burton, that's the last PotA? The twist at the end was total nonsense, I beat myself up for a long time thinking I was dumb for not getting it, then I realized it was gibberish... felt better.
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:18 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Gåte's pretty good stuff man. To my ear (fairly untrained in European folk) the folk aspect of that bears a lot of resemblence to classic Gaelic/Celtic music, even down to the way the language sounds (when sung anyways).
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

:lol=: Well, being that it's us lot doing the posting we all knew it would derail sooner or later, I'm surprised it derailed so gracefully! I think you could happily split everything after we start talking about time signatures into it's own thread called "music discussion" or something, p...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I see what you mean by compound time, in fact I use that formulation quite often, with my feet or in fills. My concept of a polyrhythm comes from this video: [youtube]snip, some crazy drummer[/youtube] This guy is pretty ridiculous, and I can't even follow most of what he does, but he plays the sor...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:25 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

A good example of how to play a 4/4 or evenovereven time sig over an oddover8 sig would be tapping your hand along with Tool's Schism. It's actually in a bunch of different alternating time sigs, but most bars are 5/8 or 7/8 so it works for our purposes. A lot of people stay away from riff written i...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:12 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I will try that. So, let each of my bars be three beats. Then it will take me four bars and him three bars to get back in the same position time-wise. That is, my first bar will start on his one, then my second on the four of his first bar, then my third on the three of his second bar etc. Is that ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:41 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I've tried to learn some simple polyrhythms before; they completely destroy me. :)= Start with this: listen to some music with an easy and steady 4/4 rhythm, like the classic drum bead: 1HAT 2HAT 3SNARE 4HAT (kick pattern varies of course). Then drum with your hands on a surface a simple 3/4 rhythm...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

(Did you notice that the drummer does some interesting things with the hi-hats? As in, he puts accents in odd places to make a kind of meta-rhythm, so to speak. Or maybe it was just that song.) "Poly rhythm" is the usual term, and no, I did not notice that, I'll have to listen for it next...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:27 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Hard to believe that there's a band that we both really dig, what with you being all heavy metal, pierced nipples and body tats and me being all professional career, baby carriages and Volvos. :D Hey, I haven't pierced my nipples! Just giant 1 inch holes through my earlobes! :lol=: I like a lot of ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:17 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Omph, man, buddy, gooooood call. I just listened to a pile of these guys while doing data entry - they're pretty seriously awesome. A lot of the recordings sound low budget, but very well done low budget (it's the drums that tip me off, the cymbals sound a bit cardboard-y on some of the tracks in a ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:37 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Trailer
Replies: 41
Views: 42782

Re: Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Trailer

I used to love Goodkind's books when I was a kid, they were just decent fantasy fare, but eventually I couldn't ignore his preaching and crazy ideas, and how he gets so repetitive in trying to pound his opinions into your head. The guy's a loser, like a real grade A loser. If you thought DN was bad,...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:32 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Tornado's my favourite from that album personally, but Hanger is killer too.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:18 am
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

He should have known better and just stayed quiet. I get that he wants to defend his family, and hell, maybe he even likes that garbage writing KJA spews, but he shouldn't have tangled with me in a physics argument when he clearly knows literally almost nothing. The funny thing is that I don't even ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I found an old classic in my CD pile, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, been listening to it a lot lately. I'm got to get that itunes thingy and go buy all their old albums again, I forgot how much I loved them.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:55 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

LK, I like both of those.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:11 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

One of the things I'd love to do is documentary recording of various indiginous musics from around the world, stuff that's really different from what we're used to, and also in danger of being forgotten. I want to do in-depth analysis to try to understand the intonation/note systems, scales, rhythms...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:14 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Thing, your mention of non-Western music styles reminded me of something. A few months ago I watched a music documentary; I can't recall the title, but it was supposed to be about "the science of music" or about the neurological basis for our sense of music, something along those lines, e...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Found this courtesy of Things 5stringbasssitarthing, thanks, It one of the most beautiful songs i have heard in a long time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBKOTJlIy9k Thanks Inhuien, this is awesome. The music is great, and the absolutely flawless reverb on the vocals really transports it to anoth...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I don't think that dissonance is coming from the accoustics, that's from his tuning, he's not in our note system, not even close, So he plays a lot with a contrast between weird dissonant beating tones, and very harmonious stuff. I was saying two different things. I didn't think the accoustics made...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:52 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I don't think that dissonance is coming from the accoustics, that's from his tuning, he's not in our note system, not even close, So he plays a lot with a contrast between weird dissonant beating tones, and very harmonious stuff.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I like both of those ones. I have a weird thing where I like a lot of really soft music and a lot of really hard music, and the stuff in the middle I don't like most of (but not all, there is plenty of just "rock" that I like). A bigger thing than hard or soft to me is faster versus slower...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:08 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I think I remember you talking about this before actually. Will certainly give it a listen, but I just got a new Bolt Thrower album, and it has my attention. Kind of like groovy death metal. Is that new avatar the thing from Hyperion? Interesting Thing. Not something I would want to have in my car'...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:10 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Ok, here's something mellow. I have this guy's CD, it's bloody incredible. This guy has rigged a 5 string upright bass with a pile of sympathetic strings (running over Jiwari bridges to make them buzz Indian style). Here's my favourite song (if you get bored fast forward it, it's amazing and it does...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:55 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I should post some of the less weird shit I listen to, all this Dillinger and Between the Buried and Me must be making me look a little masochistic or something! At this point I have a hard time telling which is the weird and which is the 'normal'. (For my own tastes, I mean). :)= True enough... ma...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:23 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

As far as earbuds go I can tell you where it's at - get some live in-ear monitors. They have limiter protection to help guard your safety, and some of them have multiple drivers, even 3 drivers (bass/mids/highs) all somehow crammed into the bud (practically fucking nanotech!) and sound awesome. Also...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:19 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Man, I'm not going to fault anyone for not digging the heavier Dillinger, that is some seriously aquired taste (which video was the sexist one? I didn't really watch them to be honest). I've been listening to screaming/dissonantvocal metal since I was 13 and I'm only now in the last few years being ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:10 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Dillinger was a gangster and back robber back in the day. Mathcore works, but the problem to me is that "math___" (be it metal or "core") doesn't cover the noise aspect, which in my opinion does more to set Dillinger style stuff apart than their use of time signatures does. Fuck,...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:39 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

It's funny you say that about BTBAM, I don't think the vocals have very much to do with hardcore vocals at all Maybe hardcore isn't the word I'm looking for, in any case whatever that style is I find it hard to listen to for long. You're gonna laugh considering what I usually listen to, but I find ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:01 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Anyone that loves headphone listening should head to a pro-audio store (NOT a "pro-sumer" audio store, a real one, that sells instruments and PAs and recording hear) and spend whatever they're comfortable spending on some studio headphones. They rock. They're big and annoying, and awesome.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

On a different track, does anyone like any kind of electronic music? That's a broad term, I know, but take it as whatever it means to you. I came across this one on random shuffle on my mp3 player last night, hadn't heard it in a long time. I think a lot of electronic music of this type is rather c...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:09 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Between the Buried and Me.... cool name. Strange music. Parts of it are interesting, others not so much. Kinda reminds me of Opeth, a little (as far as I recall, it's been years), which is another band where I can appreciate what they're trying to do, while still not being able to fully integrate t...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:39 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Also, a band with a Dune inspired name, Shai Hulud. Not really metal, more of a hardcore band... genres get blurry. I think this album of theirs is really on the cutting edge of what heavy music can be too.

by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:27 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I wish youtube didn't have such poor quality audio on most videos, but for those who haven't heard: In Flames (Swedish band, one of the main pioneers of the subgenre of Melodic Deathmetal (a genre that seems to have almost nothing to do with deathmetal oddly enough, they must have just been hanging ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:46 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

Oh sure, I'm aware of all that, and I'm not trying to make any sort of objective argument because I know music is almost entirely subjective. All I can do is just be honest and say I despise rap to the core of my being, for my own subjective and no doubt biased reasons. :P There are, of course, exc...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

My buddy who does the minimalist music (and he's also becoming known for his new seriously groundbreaking visual/audio art, hard to explain, I'll try later though, it's amazing) are going to be doing a project together that I've had in my head for a long time. I don't consider myself a musician any ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:12 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

If the music is good but the lyrics are trash, then just give me the instrumental version of the song. I think I'm different from most people in that lyrics aren't really that important to me. I mean, sure, intelligent lyrics are always a big plus, and especially crude or ignorant lyrics will turn ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:37 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

Oh... I see... any there's no mention of any kind of FTL drive at all? What is wrong with these guys?
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:44 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

D Pope wrote:I'm still a little weak on why you go faster if you've got a trail to follow.
That's a starwars question?
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:03 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

I didn't either, and over-looking gravity on spaceships is so common in SF that it didn't occur to me very often.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:13 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

Well, either foldspace is technobabble gibberish or it's wormhole in my opinion! I agree with you, FH left a hole with some of this. Frank knew when too much would interfere with the story. Folding space serves a purpose, the how isn't important, it is the conditions such an arrangement forces upon...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:44 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

Well, either foldspace is technobabble gibberish or it's wormhole in my opinion!

I agree with you, FH left a hole with some of this.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:02 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

I don't know about that. Opposite magentism wouldn't really levitate things in a very controllable manner I don't think - though you can levitate non-magnetic objects with diamagnetism (such as levitating a frog with magnets, the water in the frog is repused rather than attracted by the mag feild). ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:06 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

I don't think we've glossed over it, I'm sure we've discussed it before. Suspensors seem to do more than just cancel gravity, I was under the impression that they actually had a repulsive force, though I could be wrong about that. FH definitely did some "glossing over" of those topics thou...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:11 am
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

The fuel thing actually isn't that bad, if you wanted you could maybe run any kind of drive you wanted off gasoline or whatever, assuming it doesn't require some exotic energy (which sadly all FTL drives I'm aware of do, meaning even something amazing like anti-matter wouldn't cut it). The exhaust c...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:21 pm
Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Replies: 167
Views: 383413

Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self

:lol=: Thanks, I think that whole discussion was my finest internet moment. Trying to explain to Byron that absolutely no kind of kinetic rocket could EVER breach lightspeed was really difficult. He kept saying shit like "they thought the sound barrier was impossible to break too back in the da...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:14 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I don't think it has anything at all to do with being PC, it's the same as junk fiction, junk TV, junk food. Most people want simple entertainment, not real art - supply and demand for the masses.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:41 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: BSG Exhibition
Replies: 14
Views: 14473

Re: BSG Exhibition

Hey Omph, you still want to meet up to go to this? I'm busy until probably middle/late summer, but then I'm, good to roll if any time after that works for you/
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:12 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: BSG Exhibition
Replies: 14
Views: 14473

Re: BSG Exhibition

Gods damn it, I missed this. Does anyone have any idea whether it will be on display anywhere else? DAMNIT.

EDIT:, nope, damn it again, apparently I'm not smart enough to look at the "year" portion of the run-to date... anyways, I look forward to going to this within the next year!
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

...Between the Buried and Me... I just listened to the first 10 minutes of Colors (Arggh!!! They spelt it wrong! :wink: ) :shock=: Why have I not heard these guys before ?!? That was exactly my reaction man, listen to that whole album end to end (since every song blends into the next one it's reall...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:33 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 198
Views: 320213

Re: What are you listening to?

I went through a similar thing, for years I stopped listening to all "pro" music (years), no radio, very little for CDs, I was only interested in local bands - there's just so much more passion when you know the people and see them build it themselves - note that video I just posted at Jac...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:50 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Total Recall Remake
Replies: 17
Views: 16792

Re: Total Recall Remake

In Bruges is EXCELLENT. Highly recommended.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:47 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: SG: U
Replies: 6
Views: 8224

Re: SG: U

I'm a season 2 BSG guy personally, I've got my girlfriend watching the whole show from start to finish with me right now, she actually is enjoying it which is surprising. Season 1 has really good moments, but moments of utter garbage too (like when Starbuck figures out how to fly that cylon fighter....
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:29 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
Replies: 23
Views: 17011

Re: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome

I think the whole finding Earth ending was subpar too. They should have left it at the destroyed Earth, let the audience wonder about our universe's relationship to the BSG universe, and then just had them find some other planet. Though that wouldn't really have fit with the whole "this has all...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:09 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
Replies: 23
Views: 17011

Re: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome

I just started re-watching BSG from the start, doing all the commentary this time too. Man was that show great, I wish they hadn't gotten so terribly lost in the middle. I maintain that for how thoroughly they messed it up in season 3 they did a damned fine job putting it back together in the end, b...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:55 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: SG: U
Replies: 6
Views: 8224

Re: SG: U

Tell us how you really feel!

Makes me glad I don't even have Syfy.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:21 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Carriers
Replies: 11
Views: 12526

Re: Carriers

Ah, he was great in Fear and Loathing too. :)=
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:44 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Battle: Los Angeles
Replies: 8
Views: 8700

Re: Battle: Los Angeles

I hate it when people have to use BS. I mean, I get it - sometimes you end up realizing way later that a key element of your story isn't rock solid, so you have a choice, either you go back and make it good, even if that means a rewrite of the entire thing, or you leave it as crap and then try to ar...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:42 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Carriers
Replies: 11
Views: 12526

Re: Carriers

Which actor? I love SVU, watch it all the time.
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:14 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Battle: Los Angeles
Replies: 8
Views: 8700

Re: Battle: Los Angeles

I love when the plot dictates that the aliens need our brains or something to eat. They can travel FTL, but they can't grow some potatoes? Gimmie a break. Anyone with that kind of tech could set up house on pretty much any planet/moon with some decent sunlight and get growing (forget terraforming, j...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:20 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: New Film: Skyline
Replies: 29
Views: 27807

Re: New Film: Skyline

I saw a review that called it an excellent demo reel for the FX company, then advised people never to watch it, even if it were on TV for free.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:53 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: The Millennium, by Upton Sinclair
Replies: 20
Views: 19250

Re: The Millennium, by Upton Sinclair

Starship Troopers only ever made sense to me after Omph mentioned to look at it as a utopia piece.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:12 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I can just imagine eating some mushrooms, going to see it in 3D at the theatre and bringing some good headphones and just having my mind blown to smithereens. :D Rush would also be a good choice... or wait, YES. Yes would be the choice to go with (the band, not the word). I don't think I could ever...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:31 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I can just imagine eating some mushrooms, going to see it in 3D at the theatre and bringing some good headphones and just having my mind blown to smithereens. :D Rush would also be a good choice... or wait, YES. Yes would be the choice to go with (the band, not the word).
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:01 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

Same shit is cool with me, I'll just turn off the audio and listen to some Pink Floyd or something, maybe buy some mushrooms. Trust me, there will be SOME way to enjoy the sequels. :wink:
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:44 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
Replies: 23
Views: 17011

Re: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome

Yeah, I was ready for a shit storm of prequily-shittiness, but they actually managed to make a good show out of it from what I saw (only saw 3 or 4 episodes). Not BSG by any means, but better than all the other SF on TV that I've un across. Once it's on DVD I'm going to rent it all so I can watch it...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: BSG Exhibition
Replies: 14
Views: 14473

Re: BSG Exhibition

I think I won't be going for quite a while, I have to see when my girlfriend's reading week is in the spring semester.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:25 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: The Big Bang Theory
Replies: 8
Views: 10367

Re: The Big Bang Theory

I love this show, it just went into syndication too so it's on every day here.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:13 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: BSG Exhibition
Replies: 14
Views: 14473

Re: BSG Exhibition

Thing, you and I should plan on meeting there. I go to Seattle all the time for work. That would be awesome, the only tricky thing for me timing-wise is working it around my girlfriend's school schedule, she'd kill me if I went to Seattle without her. Bring her ass along then! Really, I am up there...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:52 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: BSG Exhibition
Replies: 14
Views: 14473

Re: BSG Exhibition

Omphalos wrote:Thing, you and I should plan on meeting there. I go to Seattle all the time for work.
That would be awesome, the only tricky thing for me timing-wise is working it around my girlfriend's school schedule, she'd kill me if I went to Seattle without her.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: BSG Exhibition
Replies: 14
Views: 14473

Re: BSG Exhibition

Yeah, I saw this at Worm's, I'm there for sure!
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:50 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: X-Prize Winners
Replies: 1
Views: 4870

Re: X-Prize Winners

That is certainly a good area of research. I like the tandem bike one, looks like it has wheels that stop you from falling over in a tight turn.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:56 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

It sends shivers down my spine, and as a composer of sorts I'm continually blown away by his ability to meld eastern and western note systems (it should sound completely out of tune, most notes in a given scale are off by enough to sound like shit when you compare east to west, combining the two req...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:59 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

I'll have to dig into that group, but I remember it being the composer's brother singing it or something like that, so I'll be he wrote it in collaberation with some other people, thus didn't take full cred for himself.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:28 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Jonah Hex
Replies: 10
Views: 11677

Re: Jonah Hex

Yeah, she's not typically competing with Meryl Streep for roles. Probably would've made that Julia Child movie better though. I actually don't think she's very attractive when I've seen her in photos or on TV, but for some reason she's always looked pretty good in those Transformers movies. I agree...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:43 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

Robspierre wrote:I have all four season soundtracks. Lots of good stuff. Excellent writing listening.

Rob
That's exactly what I was thinking, I always to find good instrumental stuff to listen to while writing (languages I don't understand works too), this would be perfect.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:41 pm
Forum: Fiction Links
Topic: Fallen Angels (Novel) by Niven, Pournelle & Flynn
Replies: 4
Views: 8019

Re: Fallen Angels (Novel) by Niven, Pournelle & Flynn

Were'nt we just making fun of KJA for doing that?
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:50 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

Sweet, I found out they have sound tracks for all the series available and the movies. I'm going for the one with Watch Tower first, then I'll get the rest as time goes by. I really liked how he insisted on live musicians too, a lot of the stuff they did (mainly the drumming) could have easily been ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:56 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

I only have the first 2 seasons on DVD, there's something on him in there, but I did rent DVDs for the last seasons, there is a very extensive bit on how he works in the first disk of season 4.5, and I think a good one of him working on that cover tune in season 3. He's seriously amazing. I'm not su...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:54 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

Ok, you're going further back than I was thinking. I can see that bugging you, I'll have to rewatch it though.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:36 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

I'll agree that a lot of the end was half assed, but I think the half-assing happened during season 3 and then they were just fucked. From then on they seemed to do their best to undo the damage, with mixed results. What part of Kara's craziness bugged you? Seemed pretty reasonable to me for someone...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:05 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

Indeed. :)= I liked season 4 more than season 3 in some ways, 3 was just too much obvious winging it with the storyline and reconning (season 4's retconning was much more sucessful IMO). I'll easily agree that the first 2 seasons were the best. I actually liked most of the last 2 seasons, I just did...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:58 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
Replies: 35
Views: 35273

Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)

What makes this movie truly amazing isn't that it's based on a board game with no plot involved whatsoever, it's that the director gave up DUNE to work on a movie based on a board game with no plot involved whatsoever! :lol=:
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:19 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Replies: 158
Views: 237153

Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)

Well, took me long enough but I finally finished watching my favourite show. There were some issues with it as mentioned in the last couple pages of this thread, but it did it for me. It was a better ending than I'd expected, though I would have cut the whole NY ending, WAAAAY too on-the-nose, I thi...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:12 am
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Starbound, by Joe Haldeman
Replies: 4
Views: 7580

Re: Starbound, by Joe Haldeman

Good to know that I can't just grab a book by him at random and expect it to be great... oh well.
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:10 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Zombieland?
Replies: 30
Views: 29897

Re: Zombieland?

Right, translations... forgot about that. I hate overdubbing, subtitles is far better.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:45 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Zombieland?
Replies: 30
Views: 29897

Re: Zombieland?

HEY! SPOILERS much?! :evil: (It's finally going to make it over here, it seems. What, just a year late? :roll: ) Why's Japan so far behind with TV and movies? Do they just have so much of their own stuff that they wait to see what does well enough over here to import? When it comes to stuff like mu...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:47 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Questions for the British fans
Replies: 38
Views: 31363

Re: Questions for the British fans

In other words, you're so skinny one might be able to count your ribs. ;)= I was wondering if that's where it originally came from! :lol: But the change in pronunciation is weird, huh? You'd think it should be more like "ribby" in that case. Oh well, still beats "in depther"! :l...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:36 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I made it!
Replies: 42
Views: 42975

Re: I made it!

Ok. Figured best be safe!
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:56 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I made it!
Replies: 42
Views: 42975

Re: I made it!

SandChigger wrote:(Please keep in mind that this thread is outside the clubhouse! ;) )
Does he know what the clubhouse is?

Lotek, look at T(A)U when you're signed in and when you are not. Note any differences.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:35 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Questions for the British fans
Replies: 38
Views: 31363

Re: Questions for the British fans

I hate the bastards and blame 'em for most of what's gone wrong in the world since, oh, about 1570 .... Can't blame the Brits for Texans being lard-arses. You managed that yourselves. :lol=: You're just jealous 'cause you don't have as much food. :P I've never been to the "real America", ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:49 am
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: The Genocides, by Thomas M. Disch
Replies: 1
Views: 5668

Re: The Genocides, by Thomas M. Disch

Typo about halfway through, about the root being hollow, you wrote hallow.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Feedback
Replies: 189
Views: 461299

Re: Feedback

Cool, how many at Jacurutu?
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:55 am
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

Different latitudes maybe? Actually, as the orbital goes around its star, there would probably be seasons. The way I've shown it, though, it looks like "spring" and "fall" might be completely dark (or perpetually twilight?), with the far side in the shadow of the near. :shock: S...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:19 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:41 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:48 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

Oooh... I thought it was around a planet. So it was spinning and the Centrifugal force held them to it. Centripetal, but yea. Now I'm confused again, I thought centipetal force pulled you in towards the axis, centrifugal force pushes you out, away from the axis... as in being on the inside of a spi...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:44 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:14 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:13 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: I made it!
Replies: 42
Views: 42975

Re: I made it!

Welcome, make sure to look through the archives here as well, they've got some good stuff.
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:01 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

The writting in his newer stuff like Matter is definitely stronger overall. Sometimes I'm not so sure he's being weak in his writing, I think he often just indulges his own very odd tastes. UoW was hard to follow, very vague pretty much the whole time if I remember right, but it does eventually tie ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:11 am
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

I just started Use of Weapons last night. This is my favourite of the ones I've read so far, but I need a re-read. Hell, I needed to re-read it right after I finished it... TPoG is probably in second place after that, but Matter was very good as well. I'm glad you found Banks that you liked, Feersu...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:51 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

Yeah, Feersum is very good, but not representative of Banks' SF work, really. TPoG is a much better starting point. Enjoy UoW. It was my first Banks novel, and I picked it up after a long period of not reading anything. It reminded me why I had enjoyed reading so much. HBJ That's good to hear, sinc...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:25 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

Yeah, Feersum is very good, but not representative of Banks' SF work, really. TPoG is a much better starting point. Enjoy UoW. It was my first Banks novel, and I picked it up after a long period of not reading anything. It reminded me why I had enjoyed reading so much. HBJ That's good to hear, sinc...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:07 am
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Replies: 59
Views: 46811

Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks

I just started Use of Weapons last night. This is my favourite of the ones I've read so far, but I need a re-read. Hell, I needed to re-read it right after I finished it... TPoG is probably in second place after that, but Matter was very good as well. I'm glad you found Banks that you liked, Feersu...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon May 17, 2010 9:16 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
Replies: 540
Views: 1724550

Re: The saying "hello" thread.

Welcome Duke, other than a couple of people you pretty much know everyone here already.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri May 07, 2010 3:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Questions for the British fans
Replies: 38
Views: 31363

Re: Questions for the British fans

Yeah, sometimes people aren't being rude, that's just the way they do things. And sometimes they're being rude. :wink:
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:26 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

I was at first too.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:26 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

Freakzilla wrote:Is it set in "The Culture"?
Yes.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:12 am
Forum: Dune Talk
Topic: Unusual item for a Dune collector
Replies: 6
Views: 10178

Re: Unusual item for a Dune collector

Neat, I wouldn't mind one of these...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:37 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Street Legal Viper
Replies: 4
Views: 8479

Re: Street Legal Viper

Cool. I still have to watch the last half of the last season of BSG, I don't know how but I keep being too busy for it.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

Somehow forgot about that one...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Apr 05, 2010 1:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

His books are kind like Cohen brothers movies, sometimes they leave you sitting there thinking "what???", but they're well done.

I'd recommend use of weapons, that's a good'r.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:08 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Obits
Replies: 71
Views: 112334

Re: Obits

Blame can be spread. Someone kills themselves with drugs, they're to blame (exceptions occur obviously), but the person handing them the "weapon" to do so shares the blame.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Science in my Fiction
Replies: 9
Views: 8821

Re: Science in my Fiction

That is a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:41 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Science in my Fiction
Replies: 9
Views: 8821

Re: Science in my Fiction

Yeah, I've read most of his shorts, definitely some hard-SF in there, but I think his main impact was by far in his stories that were not hard-SF, (but not shit-science-SF) and that would have made a good example for the article - that knowing the science and putting thought into it doesn't mean you...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:33 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: Aniara, by Harry Martinson
Replies: 2
Views: 6334

Re: Aniara, by Harry Martinson

This sounds amazing, I just added it to my list for the next amazon order I do. I didn't know books like this even existed! I have a hunch that much/most of Simmon's Hyperion was written just like that was, but then he just removed all the line breaks and tricked people into thinking it was just nic...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Science in my Fiction
Replies: 9
Views: 8821

Re: Science in my Fiction

Herbert would have been a decent example of how you can write stories that have little or nothing to do with the science, but are still rooted in well thought out science.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:14 pm
Forum: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
Topic: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
Replies: 192
Views: 554603

Re: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography

My mistake, I thought you meant that they folded on the publishing deal, not folded entirely. In hind-sight, that doesn't make much sense though, no one would phrase it that way!
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:08 am
Forum: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
Topic: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
Replies: 192
Views: 554603

Re: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography

Wow, I'd love a copy of that. Did he say why it was never published?

I know how you feel, sometimes the search is more satisfying than the find.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Science in my Fiction
Replies: 9
Views: 8821

Re: Science in my Fiction

Thanks Omph, I enjoyed that. Maybe someone should email it to the hack.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:41 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Flattening an old book?
Replies: 30
Views: 27530

Re: Flattening an old book?

Tell me about it - the last band I was in was unfortunately called The Butcher's Hand - even more unfortunate, dispite my repeated pleas to the other members, every shirt, sticker, website, you name it - they left out the apostrophy, making us a bunch of butchers handing someone something? :? :? :? :?
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:14 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra. One of the many benefits of Canada's form of collective socialism. :D We're so socialized our private corperation...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:45 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:52 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: New Dune Movie
Replies: 61
Views: 61150

Re: New Dune Movie

WTF?
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:08 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

I just started Card's Treason yesterday, I was a little hesitant because the guy is such an idiot, but he seems to be a pretty good writer so far.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:57 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

Just started Fahrenheit 451 for the first time.
by A Thing of Eternity
Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:58 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Flash Forward
Replies: 26
Views: 19437

Re: Flash Forward

Yeah, I actually read and enjoyed a couple of his books when I was younger, but I don't think I'd enjoy them if I read them now. To be fair to Robert, he's not even on the same planet of hackery that KJA is. Robert is simply a mediocre/sub-par writer who's had a lot of undeserved hype, which makes h...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:21 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: District 9
Replies: 56
Views: 56272

Re: District 9

Yeah, I agree with every single one of your complaints, there are a few really serious obstacles to the suspension of disbelief in this movie. That said, I really loved it. SF has a long history of "forcing" it to make the plot work, and I don't think that this one especially stands out in...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:33 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I'll bet "the making of" Avatar will be a total snoozer. "Here's a bunch of people wearing funny helmets and motion capture suits" "here's some people without funny helmets and motion capture suits in front of a green screen" "here's some nerd adding in the environ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:21 pm
Forum: Dune Talk
Topic: Eugene, Oregon
Replies: 3
Views: 7658

Re: Eugene, Oregon

It's amazing to me that places preserve stuff like this... it just seems so odd to me. Cool, but odd.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:42 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I gotcha, but they did not say one damn thing about it, and the only clue that we have that unobtanium has anti-grav potential is that it floats in when its placed in that electronic plate - which by the way does nothing to say why it floats in its natural environment, but not when the humans have ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:32 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

Um ... never did catch why those fucking mountains float. I mean, it was kewl and all, but it made no sense. That's because it was not explained. Nor was the purpose of mining the metal, or the relationship between the metal and the mountains, if any, or the identity of and lack of any involvement ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:28 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

There is a fair bit of the Na'vi language, I can't tell what they were drawing fom, buch many of the accents came off as African-esque. I'm sure it will give you plenty to have fun shredding to death Chig! :wink: (I'll be looking forward to that). I saw it in 3D, which was much less cheesy than I'd ...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:38 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I saw Avatar this afternoon, and it totally came out of left feild... I was expecting some okay quality pulp SF entertainment, but I got much more. Every plot hole that people pointed out in advance (including myself) is deftly filled. This was far, far beyond what I expected to get, and I can see t...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:51 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Joe Haldeman named as the SFWA's 2010 Grand Master
Replies: 6
Views: 8064

Re: Joe Haldeman named as the SFWA's 2010 Grand Master

Cool, I've only read two of his books so far, but I loved both of them, and look forward to the rest.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:14 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: Avatar Trailer
Replies: 157
Views: 120113

Re: Avatar Trailer

I'm actually starting to look forward to this. I enjoy some Science "Fantasy", because once there is one totally obsurd thing (floating mountains say) then I can let go of my hard-SF nazi mentality and just enjoy it. It's just fantasy with machinery in my mind.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:12 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
Replies: 50
Views: 33319

Re: Kids say the funniest shit

I was so glad she wasn't around when he said that. From the mouths of babes... maybe she needs to hear it. I'm sure she has heard it in one way or another. I Spiff and I did get onto her yesterday about texting while she was driving. I think the punishment for that should be that when the cop pulls...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:58 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
Replies: 21
Views: 19152

Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek

Freakzilla wrote:
Stars spell SEX in Lion King:

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I think that's actually the leaves flying in the air, and it's much clearer at one point in the animation. :lol=:
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:32 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
Replies: 21
Views: 19152

Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek

Rakis wrote:Wow... :shock=:

Damn Hollywood pervs !! :x
I'm amazed they get away with it in children's movies honestly.
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:44 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
Replies: 21
Views: 19152

Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek

The best is all the sex stuff in disney movies, brings joy. Hmmm? Say again? :shifty: I can't marry her, she's my friend! ~Lion King I laugh every time I hear that one. Oh...ok... :(= Somehow, i was expecting more, in the line of that R2D2 pic... :oops=: Oh no ,this stuff is much more like the R2D2...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:06 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
Replies: 21
Views: 19152

Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek

really? I love stuff like this, makes me laugh. The best is all the sex stuff in disney movies, brings joy.
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

About halfway through Haldeman's There is No Darkness right now. I really need to get my hands on more of his books.
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:06 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: 2012
Replies: 34
Views: 34669

Re: 2012

Saw this in the theater today. It was exactly what I thought it was: Stupid story with uninspiring characters with fantastic special effects. As soon as they started talking about " mutated neutrinos " from an overactive sun as the cause of calamity I turned my ears off and enjoyed the ri...
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
Replies: 50
Views: 33319

Re: Kids say the funniest shit

The sherrif just knocked on my door. Appearantly one of my kids called 911. They called back but as usual I ignored the ringing phone. I nearly had a heart attack, I thought they were looking for me for some reason. I'm going to kill somebody. :x I had that happen to me when I was a kid, my friends...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
Replies: 50
Views: 33319

Re: Kids say the funniest shit

The sherrif just knocked on my door. Appearantly one of my kids called 911. They called back but as usual I ignored the ringing phone. I nearly had a heart attack, I thought they were looking for me for some reason. I'm going to kill somebody. :x I had that happen to me when I was a kid, my friends...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:17 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
Replies: 50
Views: 33319

Re: Kids say the funniest shit

The sherrif just knocked on my door. Appearantly one of my kids called 911. They called back but as usual I ignored the ringing phone. I nearly had a heart attack, I thought they were looking for me for some reason. I'm going to kill somebody. :x I had that happen to me when I was a kid, my friends...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:03 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: V: The Second Generation
Replies: 132
Views: 125866

Re: V: The Second Generation

As malevolent as the visitors are, something tells me the real reason behind the invasion is really really dumb. "Give us all your Pez! It powers our anti-grav!" If the reason is anything physical -- water, food, minerals, land, anything like that -- then it will be stupid, because anythi...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:15 pm
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: V: The Second Generation
Replies: 132
Views: 125866

Re: V: The Second Generation

As malevolent as the visitors are, something tells me the real reason behind the invasion is really really dumb. "Give us all your Pez! It powers our anti-grav!" If the reason is anything physical -- water, food, minerals, land, anything like that -- then it will be stupid, because anythi...
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:58 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: V: The Second Generation
Replies: 132
Views: 125866

Re: V: The Second Generation

As malevolent as the visitors are, something tells me the real reason behind the invasion is really really dumb. "Give us all your Pez! It powers our anti-grav!" If the reason is anything physical -- water, food, minerals, land, anything like that -- then it will be stupid, because anythi...
by A Thing of Eternity
Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
Replies: 70
Views: 65054

Re: Dreams and Dreaming

Yuk.
by A Thing of Eternity
Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:29 pm
Forum: Book Reviews
Topic: The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke
Replies: 4
Views: 8491

Re: The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke

That review does paint a less than excellent picture of the book! One small critique of your review - you first mention Morgan near the end of the review, with no introduction at all to who he is, and that made the read feel a bit disjointed.

Other than that, as always I love to read your reviews!
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

Freakzilla wrote:I started reading Erewhon but have gotten really bored with the journey through the mountains... I'll keep at it though.
I'm still hunting for a copy. :(=
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

SandChigger wrote:Kan du inte läsa svenska? :shock:

(Jag kan, en lilla. ;) )
Weird, that's close enough to english that I actually understood what you said. Closer than German even. Weird.

And no, I can't speak it, not even a "little" like you kan. :wink:
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:12 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

Cooooooool. Glad the translation is good, my experiences with translated poetry have not been good (Dante's Inferno for example).
by A Thing of Eternity
Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:07 pm
Forum: Dune Talk
Topic: Muad' Dib, the Musical?
Replies: 1
Views: 5526

Re: Muad' Dib, the Musical?

Omph, you'd nail that one, go for it!
by A Thing of Eternity
Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

inhuien wrote:Just got "World War Z" out on loan from the library, I'll read that when I'm done with G-north. How is Simmons? I seen some of his books on the shelf today.
Hyperion was killer, the second book less so, and that's all I've read from Simmons.
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:46 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Books in the pile
Replies: 947
Views: 6596084

Re: Books in the pile

I'm still wading through We , for some reason it has turned into a very slow read for me. Good book though, I love really old SF/Utopia stories, they have a ring of truth to them that I don't see much in modern books. I think it might be because the authors at that time were writing what they were t...
by A Thing of Eternity
Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:44 am
Forum: Genre TV and Movies
Topic: 2012
Replies: 34
Views: 34669

Re: 2012

I thought it looked pretty fake too. Special effects have come a long way, but I think move makers need to respect the limits of CGI at this time and work around them. I would give ANYTHING to see model spaceships in SF rather than GCI, it's the one thing they could do so easily with models but just...

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