Search found 175 matches
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
Re: Books in the pile
Yeah. It's not bad so far, just not outstanding.
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:48 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
Re: Books in the pile
Still working my way through Consider Phlebas...finding myself more and more annoyed with the action sequences, and wishing there were more of the Culture characters. I'm about halfway through a reread of Chapterhouse, after I picked up a nice hardcover copy at a used book store on the cheap. Haven'...
- Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What did you have to read in high school?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 36184
Re: What did you have to read in high school?
Shit..let's see if I can remember it all: 9th grade: Great Expectations Romeo and Juliet 10th grade: Of Mice and Men A Midsummer Night's Dream Oedipus Rex Lysistrata Ethan Frome 11th grade: a bunch of poetry from 1880-1930ish The Age of Innocence Huckleberry Finn The Red Badge of Courage a fuckton o...
- Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:07 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: People on This Board
- Replies: 67
- Views: 43729
Re: People on This Board
Wow, it's been over 3 months since I've posted here?
I don't even know where the time goes.
I don't even know where the time goes.
- Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:48 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: People on This Board
- Replies: 67
- Views: 43729
Speaking of people on our boards, where has Phaedrus gotten to? Anyone heard from him? :? He mentioned a bit ago returning to school. I assume that he just got bogged down and got out of the Dune-board habit. But he has been around recently; two months or so? No, I'm gone for good. I did get busy, ...
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Financial Bail Out
- Replies: 76
- Views: 56462
The bailout bill passes... And the stock market is still dropping like a rock. That worked REALLY well. :roll: It was never supposed to be a silver bullet. It's amazing how little they've told the public about this bill. It'll be years before our economy recovers. Another 700 point drop today! No n...
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Financial Bail Out
- Replies: 76
- Views: 56462
- Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
- Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Upcoming Conventions
- Replies: 118
- Views: 167922
- Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Genre Best of Lists
- Replies: 44
- Views: 42903
So pretty much anything set in a future/hypothetical/alternative-history setting (not including Fantasy type scenarios) is considered SF? Maybe, maybe not. But I would say that any book that has this element to it is worthy of at least examining to see if its a SF book. I tell you one I dont thing ...
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:27 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Paul of Dune excerpt
- Replies: 75
- Views: 95315
Yeah, Victor was technically Paul's half-brother by the crazy Ixian bitch. Leto's firstborn! I think the mother ended up jumping out of a tower in Castle Caladan? I don't remember, it's been a long time(thankfully) since I've read those books. I'm sure we'll have more ridiculous mumbo jumbo like the...
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:56 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Paul of Dune excerpt
- Replies: 75
- Views: 95315
- Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:29 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Paul of Dune excerpt
- Replies: 75
- Views: 95315
Two major inconsistencies in the first chapter. Is that a new record? 1) Paul enshrined the skull of his father before he became Emperor, not a year after. 2) Paul has evidently lost his Other Memory. FH would have had Leto making a comment in Paul's head, if nothing else. (Note, this would have bee...
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:13 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: First PoD Review!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21455
In its unedited glory... Advanced Review – Uncorrected Proof Issue: August 1, 2008 Paul of Dune. Herbert, Brian (Author) and Anderson, Kevin J. (Author) Sep 2008. 512 p. Tor, hardcover, $27.95. (9780765312945). This vital link between the first two books of the Dune saga begins immediately after the...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:36 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New Dune Movie
- Replies: 61
- Views: 62182
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:00 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
I'm not sure if this is a good time to ask, but where's the smilies we were promised? And the free donuts? :wink: I'm working diligently on the layout and look of this website. I will be sure to let you all know just as soon as I have completed my heavy tasks of typing and internet searching. Pleas...
- Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
- Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
Jeez, you seculer, agnostic types are so ignorant about religions sometimes... I'm an atheist, thank you. Yea, basically the Judeo-Christian god is the same, Allah is the same as well...so what? Will a Christian be welcomed to eat pork on Yom Kipur/ramadan in a synagoge/mosque? You shoudl try it, P...
- Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
That's the correct answer. :D I usually try to get people into a pissing match of who listens to more obscure bands and hates more popular ones, if they get into it I know they're a waste of time. I agree, doesn't matter if a band has one fan or if they're the best selling band ever. I assumed that...
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The perfect stress reliever
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22106
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
If Neal Young is obscure in your books who isn't? I don't listen to pop music, sorry. I don't even know what's currently popular, because I haven't bothered to turn on a television or radio in months. But to answer your question, yeah, I guess my perception is a bit warped. There's this ridiculous ...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
(Posted here in honor of Omph's request that the subject(s) not be continued on Jacurutu.) and the brown-noser award goes to..... :D Har har. No, I just agree with Omphalos and Freakzilla(presumably. I don't think he's weighed in yet...). I'm hardly a brown-noser, just ask Byron or Hyppo. I'm prett...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Should Israel & Palestine be admitted to the union?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51679
Omph, resorting to personal insults in a hypothetical discussion , makes me think you should seriously reconsider being a mod here. Then deleting and moving posts to your site? I also see you edited out some comments you made earlier. At least they weren't just outright deleted. I don't know how fa...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
Lot of chess players here. List your last/recent rating (and then I'll make fun of you). 8) I don't have an official rating, but I was that guy the chess team got to play random spots on the B team my senior year. I didn't lose a game, but I'm not an incredibly devoted player. I was never serious e...
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:10 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Watchmen
- Replies: 97
- Views: 115796
Omphalos wrote:While waiting for that big pig of a trailer to download, I thought I'd give Phaedrus a hand. Here is a link for the compilation volume at $13.95, cheaper than most trade pb's. I also see it can be got for $9.50 used.
Amazing.
- Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:41 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Watchmen
- Replies: 97
- Views: 115796
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:19 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: New Site
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21059
That would be very cool, Phaedrus. My brother is going to come over with his medium format camera and lighting and take some pics of my favorite books to make a banner for forums. But Worm is talking about smaller banners for the bottom page of his site. I love cool views of things out there in the...
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:51 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: New Site
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21059
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:19 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Pre-DN Deleted Comment Archive
- Replies: 34
- Views: 36095
- Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:29 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Klaatu Reeves
- Replies: 85
- Views: 66124
- Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:24 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: New Site
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21059
- Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:57 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Upcoming Conventions
- Replies: 118
- Views: 167922
- Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:21 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: New Site
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21059
- Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Upcoming Conventions
- Replies: 118
- Views: 167922
- Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:12 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: New Site
- Replies: 28
- Views: 21059
- Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Upcoming Conventions
- Replies: 118
- Views: 167922
- Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:39 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Gholaforum
- Replies: 65
- Views: 93342
- Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:57 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: related to post count....
- Replies: 57
- Views: 59219
And here we have it, folks! Phaedrus's Semi-Official Top Cross-Board Posters*. 1. Omphalos 2963 2. SandChigger 2937 3. orald 2381 4. Freakzilla 2337 5. GamePlayer 1147 6. Mandy 803 7. Tleilax Master B 740 8. A Thing of Eternity 646 9. Phaedrus 604 10. Robspierre 534 11. inhuien 517 12. Nekhrun 497 1...
- Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: related to post count....
- Replies: 57
- Views: 59219
- Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: related to post count....
- Replies: 57
- Views: 59219
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:03 pm
- Forum: Blatant Post Count Boosters
- Topic: test
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9017
Re: test
icles.A Thing of Eternity wrote:test
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:57 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: 2001: A Space Odyssey, by A.C. Clarke
- Replies: 31
- Views: 25993
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:32 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: 2001: A Space Odyssey, by A.C. Clarke
- Replies: 31
- Views: 25993
- Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
I'm at 15. Someone needs to compare notes. (Edit: SC, are we counting... those? If we aren't, I'm at 13, too.) 7. It's a powindah matter. You wouldn't understand. 8. You've been spending too much time at the selamlik lately, talking about the Ascendancy and the anticipated death/slavery of the rest ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:05 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Not sure if anyone has seen these before...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9936
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:22 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Not sure if anyone has seen these before...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9936
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:24 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: A Confession
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16629
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:19 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:13 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:17 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Dune: House Atreides - Edited and Revised version.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10895
- Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
I was thinking last night about turning Brian into Ronald McDonald, to match Phaedrus' Kevin as Colonel Sanders. I guess we could make Byron the Burger King? :lol: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:32 pm I wonder if Brian would fit the McDonald's clown outfit...they both have fake curly hair and are creepy. Fri J...
- Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:10 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
Orald, your naivety concerning race and gender relations in the US, the political system in the US, and people in general convinces me that discussing this any further with you is a waste of time and effort. My point, which you missed, is that it's incredible that a black man and a woman got as far ...
- Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
I was thinking last night about turning Brian into Ronald McDonald, to match Phaedrus' Kevin as Colonel Sanders. I guess we could make Byron the Burger King? Oh, that's a good idea. A pair of good ideas, actually. The first was MY idea. I demand credit for it! :cry: Hah, Phaedrus, you thought an id...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
http://pix.electronox.net/d/1172-1/Burger+King+Kills+Ronald+Mcdonald.gif That's. So. Amazing. Phaedrus, I bet you'd enjoy a couple of my internet haunts :) I probably would. IF THEY'RE SERIOUS BUSINESS. I was thinking last night about turning Brian into Ronald McDonald, to match Phaedrus' Kevin as ...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
I call your serious business, and counter with LOL INTERNET.
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:29 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:52 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
With that level of analysis, you could be a media analyst for Fox News. :roll: I know it's hard hearing the truth. I'm sorry for your loss of innocence here. :( Loss of innocence? So, I lost my innocence the first time I watched Fox News? Actually, that might be true in a way you don't know. Actual...
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obama
- Replies: 144
- Views: 200272
I like Obama. One of the things I keep reminding myself: He's a politician. He's a politician. HE'S A POLITICIAN. And he's running for president. He's charismatic, he's a great speaker, and all the things people say about him. But he's a politician. Charisma in a politician is dangerous and scary. W...
- Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:44 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: New Dune is not good literature
- Replies: 48
- Views: 52800
Can't you change your browser's display font size on Windows? On a Mac, using Safari, I just hit AppleKey+PlusKey to make the font larger. (+MinusKey to make it smaller.) :? You can do the same in Firefox, and IIRC, both IE and Firefox for Windows have the same function somewhere... Ah. In IE, you ...
- Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
'Translated by Alfred Birnbaum' That's what I figured; he seems to be (or at least was) Murakami's official translator. I haven't looked at any of the translations. ;) What I've read of this one has been good, and I've heard the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is also good. It's definitely different. Kinda ...
- Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:05 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kurt Vonnegut
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9422
*Shrug* I don't really know what the story behind that one is, only that it's writings on war and peace that never got published while he was alive. I speed-read through Slaughterhouse Five today. It was pretty brilliant. I'm about 11 chapters into Timequake, which is excellent if incredibly unconve...
- Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
Started and finished Slaughterhouse Five today, moving on to Timequake... And the pile is: Consider Phlebas (Banks) Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut) On the Road (Jack Kerouac) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami) Haunted (Chuck Palahniuk) Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of ...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kurt Vonnegut
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9422
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kurt Vonnegut
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9422
I love Vonnegut too, Phaedrus, and he absolutely is a SF author (though he tried to keep himself on the fringes for economic reasons, not because he did not like the label personally). I have read almost everything that he has written. You may want to save Breakfast of Champions for later though. I...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kurt Vonnegut
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9422
Kurt Vonnegut
I suppose Kurt Vonnegut is a science fiction author. So far, I've read Cat's Cradle and Player Piano, both of which have been just insanely brilliant. I love Vonnegut. I can't help but reflect on how much better Player Piano depicts a mechanized society and revolt against it than certain other autho...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
I just finished Vonnegut's Player Piano, and I'm considering going for Breakfast of Champions, Timequake and Slaughterhouse Five(the Vonnegut books that I haven't read and have access to) next. I picked up Consider Phlebas the other day, and it's been really interesting so far(I think the culture in...
- Tue May 13, 2008 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: RIP Gary Gygax
- Replies: 67
- Views: 64222
I hate 3.0 and 3.5. Fourth Edition looks ot be even worse. Less emphasis on roleplaying and more on creating super characters ala World of Warcraft. There is a lot more emphasis on slaying and treasure accumulation and less on the lore and role playing aspects of the game. Blasphemy! I wouldn't pla...
- Mon May 12, 2008 2:33 pm
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: Second Person, Present Tense
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6687
Second Person, Present Tense
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0702/Secondperson.shtml
I came across this a while back. It's actually not too bad.
I came across this a while back. It's actually not too bad.
- Mon May 12, 2008 2:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
I dont remember her talking about her mother throwing her out of the house. Tell more, please! It was her justification for closing Arrakeen. I think she said it over on SC's blog. Something about how whenever her mother was cleaning house, she would lock the kids out so she could do it without bei...
- Thu May 08, 2008 3:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Thu May 08, 2008 3:25 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Heroes of Dune
- Replies: 41
- Views: 43402
Come on! It's not like you're wasting years of your life just sit down and crank out a reading in one day. Then you'll have plenty of ammo to keep you going. True, but why spend money on it, when I can buy something much more fulfilling, like a history textbook? If you go the used route then at lea...
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Like Butter...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 31626
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.. I doubt that's true. Even if it is, it's completely meaningless. Water(H2O, required for life, yaknow?) is only ONE MOLECULE away from being HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (H2O2, which is EXPLOSIVE). OMGZ, don't drink teh waters! Sounds to me like that's a...
- Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Like Butter...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 31626
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.. I doubt that's true. Even if it is, it's completely meaningless. Water(H2O, required for life, yaknow?) is only ONE MOLECULE away from being HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (H2O2, which is EXPLOSIVE). OMGZ, don't drink teh waters! Sounds to me like that's a...
- Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
Sorry. Bitch didn't say it three times. Seriously. There ain't no going back after the shit she pulled. None, ever. I know. I was just amused and wanted some way to share this with the community after I found it. Johnny flips you off for the LULZ: Since he's doing it for the lulz, I totally underst...
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20231
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:16 am
- Forum: Blatant Post Count Boosters
- Topic: The Garbage Wall
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11687
- Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:49 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: RIP Gary Gygax
- Replies: 67
- Views: 64222
- Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:43 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: New Dune Forum - www.jacurutu.com
- Replies: 66
- Views: 57542
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
I know I said I wouldn't talk to her anymore, but I really couldn't help myself. I know it's a waste of my time, and even if I prove her wrong on the particular issue I'm taking up, she'll just ignore it and pretend it didn't happen. But my theory is that if she's proven absolutely wrong on every is...
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:30 pm
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: Nebula Final Ballot Nominees
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6913
- Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Starship Troopers....III?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 34883
- Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:24 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:43 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Just don't tug on his cape...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9393
- Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:42 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Just don't tug on his cape...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9393
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:33 am
- Forum: Galach Conlang Project
- Topic: Timeline
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13318
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:40 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
- Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Test for Dementia
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21148
- Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:39 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:54 pm
- Forum: Reimagining the Jihad
- Topic: The State of Human(/Machine?) Space on the Eve of the Jihad
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12929
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:25 am
- Forum: Reimagining the Jihad
- Topic: The State of Human(/Machine?) Space on the Eve of the Jihad
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12929
Maybe the information is stored in that tag of DNA that no one quite understands that grows as you age? I've heard this kind of idea before, and it's somewhat plausible. As to how Duncan would access DNA that isn't part of his body...maybe it's a Mentat thing? There's a pattern there somewhere, so f...
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
Recently finished the Fall of Hyperion. My thought was that, damn, I wish Dan Simmons had written the Butlerian Jihad prequels. There's a guy who can write a realistic AI vs. Mankind battle, without using bad cliches or unbelievable characters. :D Haven't I been telling you that for the last six mo...
- Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
- Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:07 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Dune's Role in Star Wars' Origins
- Replies: 19
- Views: 49101
Star Wars has a lot of creepy similarities to Dune, but I don't think it's that relevant. People always take from previous works when writing new stories. Dune borrows heavily from Greek mythology and plays, doesn't it? Isn't Paul a lot like Oedipus, in a lot of ways? (So, he doesn't kill his father...
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:12 pm
- Forum: Blatant Post Count Boosters
- Topic: Post your Desktop
- Replies: 51
- Views: 43835
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:57 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: The Good Doctor's Dune Timeline
- Replies: 38
- Views: 31228
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:59 pm
- Forum: Blatant Post Count Boosters
- Topic: Post your Desktop
- Replies: 51
- Views: 43835
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:53 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10828
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:03 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
Nope.SandChigger wrote:The Star Trek guy? From the Continuum?
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:09 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:05 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Jacurutu - New Dune Forum Suggestions
- Replies: 58
- Views: 58600
Organization is important. Both the DNBBS and Arrakeen were pretty poorly organized. Well, DN's organization wasn't terrible, but the forum names and descriptions were really rough. Whatever you come up with for organization needs to be as simple as possible to find a topic, and to know where things...
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:08 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:58 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Jacurutu - New Dune Forum Suggestions
- Replies: 58
- Views: 58600
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:49 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:19 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:15 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
If you must. But my criticism wasn't an attack. I know it's bollocks; Griffith knows it's bollocks; and all I said is it was silly, which it is. Regarding this work, it is what it is: research. If one wants to wrap it up in a nice bow it's best to sell spin somewhere else. Also, correlations found ...
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:05 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:21 am
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5321
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:54 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: This is Interesting...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23971
That guy went to my high school! And my college, for a period of time, thought he didn't graduate from here. He's also responsible for the WikiScanner, which made a lot of waves in the media a few months ago. That said, I'm pretty sure it's a joke. Upon further inspection, I'm absolutely certain it'...
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Arrakeen
- Replies: 1144
- Views: 1323185
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:27 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: The movies that are better than the books
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11974
Fight Club the movie comes very close to being as good as Fight Club the book. And the ending, although totally different, is just as cool. Reading is connected to intelligence because first, there was a time, not too long ago, when only a few people were even able to read. Another thing is that bo...
Interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook It's a somewhat too alarmist article for my tastes and more than a bit slanted, but I do appreciate the selling point of the piece, the concept of the human relationship as new advert commodity :shock: Interesting. I'm reading a...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:04 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: CSA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8143
I think it's very unrealistic, actually. A slave-based rural economy would never prove as effective as the alternative, in the end. Quelling slave rebellions costs money, I hear. I'm also not so certain that the South would have invaded the North in the first place. The Confederacy was seen more as ...
- Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:53 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: A Personal Record
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15997
- Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
- Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:57 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: A Personal Record
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15997
A Personal Record
I think I've gone somewhere between two and three months without sitting down with a Dune book, flipping it open to some random page, and reading a few chapters. That's definitely a personal record, breaking the previous record of about a week(when I was at home without any of the books). Sometime, ...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:56 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Alien
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8888
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:52 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Heroes of Dune
- Replies: 41
- Views: 43402
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:59 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:51 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: GHOST IN THE SHELL - Omnibus Thread
- Replies: 32
- Views: 25637
I absolutely love both GitS movies. I haven't watched the anime series, mostly because I refuse to watch it dubbed, and I haven't watched anime in...about two years now. But I still watch both those movies on occasion. In-fucking-credible movies, with lots of neat quotes back and forth between chara...
Facebook can absolutely be customized in that way. In fact, if you want, you can put your real name and all your real information on your facebook account, but make it absolutely impossible for you to be found. There's an option that makes it so that only your approved friends can even know your acc...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:51 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Top 25 SF on TV and in the Movies, per EW
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8136
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:17 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:10 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571106
- Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
My secret is that I'm actually kind of a philosophy geek.Godgirl wrote:and what about the story of your respective usernames??
When I'm not doing physics, computer science, chemistry, literature, (or something else), that is.
- Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
I don't know Liege-Killer or Godgirl/Alia, but hello to the both of you. I obviously don't have an avatar at the moment, so nothing to explain. I usually use something random that happens to be appealing for whatever reason. But I haven't found anything that fits those criteria, so I remain avatar-l...
- Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:36 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
- Topic: Archiving 101
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16510
- Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:17 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
- Topic: Archiving 101
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16510
Re: Archiving 101
I didn't start that debate, but I like to think I finished it.Omphalos wrote:... our conversation (started I think by Phaedrus (?)) about AI...
- Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:34 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Heroes of Dune
- Replies: 41
- Views: 43402
Id really like to see someone go to a talk at a convention and try to quiz him on his Dune knowledge. Im sure that he is too smart to allow himself to be caught like that, and its generally regarded to be in bad taste to try that sort of stunt at a con (I think), but Id still love to see someone li...
I guess I can buy some intelligence. But I wont give up on stupid. They have to be stupid if they think real fans will sign off on their massacre of Dune. (Invoking Godwin's Law) Hitler was intelligent to blame everything on the Jews and run with it. He was at risk for pissing off a minority, but a...
- Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:36 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Teletubbies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7783
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:05 am
- Forum: Reading Group Administrivia
- Topic: Dune Reading Group
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14758
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:02 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Ten favorite books
- Replies: 32
- Views: 23376
There's not a single book in the Dune series that I would call my favorite SF book, but the six books as a whole surpass any other book/series that I can think of offhand. As for a top ten list...I don't even know. It would probably be generic stuff, you know, Dune, Ender's Game, maybe something by ...
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:19 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: About the board
- Replies: 39
- Views: 28709
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:18 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Stephen King's The Mist
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22157
- Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733889