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Oh my god...
if games came out more like Alice is Dead 2... I would be gaming more.

If only Sierra didn't die out!

At 1/17/10 04:04 AM, fli wrote: If only Sierra didn't die out!

Sierra went out of business? I have fond memories of their games back when I still had Windows 3.1. Lara Bow and the Dagger of Amon Ra, King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, stuff like that. :-(

Somewhere I've got a computer game based on Isaac Asimov's "Robot City" series from Byron Preiss Multimedia, for which I got a lithograph of the Robot Visions cover for completing.

Cat/Rat shipping anyone?

At 1/17/10 04:04 AM, fli wrote: Oh my god...
if games came out more like Alice is Dead 2... I would be gaming more.

If only Sierra didn't die out!

Telltale Games, the Sam & Max series.

:D

At 1/16/10 11:25 PM, Malachy wrote: more - sorry about your dog, man. my grandparents had a yorkie that was spoiled and pretty smart and held her own with my uncle's mastiff/rotweiler mix.

;;;
Thanks Mal, & to all of the rest of you who offered condolences...
Its a bit of a raw wound right now, in talking it over with my girlfriend the other night.
She wants to not get another pet, because of how upsetting it is to lose them.
She lost her cat to a feline desease at 17 years old , about 6 months before we moved in together.
I'm of the other mind ,of how great they are & how much fun someone denies themselves by not giving an animal they care about a good home.

I still use checks. But now it's only down to 2 bills. Rent and propane. Up until recently it was electric but they've since started online billing, and the oil company said they're starting that up too. Wouldn't it be awesome to pay rent online with a credit card?

;;;
I pay everything except my mortgage online, I can do it like debit right out of my bank account, or use a credit card, if the bills due & I'm short of funds. I even pay my yearly insurance renewal for my car & truck online.
I really like this online banking...the only prolem I ever had was with PayPal. They are just like paying by check, when I first joined up I thought they were like a debit card...but no they can take over 4 days to clear a transaction...so you gotta be careful with them.

At 1/16/10 02:51 PM, Proteas wrote: 7 hunting knives

Edited for great justice, give or take a knife.

I'm in the process right now of sorting through box after box of stuff I had crammed into my closet before I moved into the upstairs of our house, and I'm finding some stuff I've either forgot about or simply misplaced. The local Salvation Army store is getting a fair bit of stuff from me this upcoming week.

Now if I could just figure out where that ammo can full of pocket knives went.

At 1/17/10 11:02 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 1/17/10 04:04 AM, fli wrote: If only Sierra didn't die out!

Sierra went out of business? I have fond memories of their games back when I still had Windows 3.1. Lara Bow and the Dagger of Amon Ra, King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, stuff like that. :-(

No, not really...
they became Vivendi games, which is popular... I still like Prince of Persia, although some people say that's an old game by now.

My god!
Kids are complaining, "Oh, those graphics are horrible." And I'm like... urrrrghh...

Does anyone else believe 2003 is not that old?
Heck... 90s stuff doesn't seem old to me either...

At 1/17/10 01:32 PM, morefngdbs wrote: Thanks Mal, & to all of the rest of you who offered condolences...
Its a bit of a raw wound right now, in talking it over with my girlfriend the other night.
She wants to not get another pet, because of how upsetting it is to lose them.
She lost her cat to a feline desease at 17 years old , about 6 months before we moved in together.
I'm of the other mind ,of how great they are & how much fun someone denies themselves by not giving an animal they care about a good home.

I didn't want any pets because I'm sick of cat fur all over everything I own, but now we have 2 cats and they'll probably be around for a long time and then of course we'll have kids...so much for having nice things.

I still use checks. But now it's only down to 2 bills. Rent and propane. Up until recently it was electric but they've since started online billing, and the oil company said they're starting that up too. Wouldn't it be awesome to pay rent online with a credit card?

;;;
I pay everything except my mortgage online, I can do it like debit right out of my bank account, or use a credit card, if the bills due & I'm short of funds. I even pay my yearly insurance renewal for my car & truck online.
I really like this online banking...the only prolem I ever had was with PayPal. They are just like paying by check, when I first joined up I thought they were like a debit card...but no they can take over 4 days to clear a transaction...so you gotta be careful with them.

I remember when I opened my first checking account when I moved out of my parents house the banker made it very clear to me that it is not a good idea to play that game with checks because some checks will only take a day to clear and you could wind up paying a ton in overdraft fees. So, I have always been pretty paranoid about my checks. In fact, I don't even write a check until I know I have the money in my account. And I deduct the check from my checkbook register as soon as I write it so that I never have to worry about a check that takes forever to clear. My landlady never cashes my rent check until the middle of the month. Hell, one month she lost the first check and I had to send the other one. (Made sure to stop-payment on the first check, but I don't think that she was trying to get 2 checks out of me.) So I like to be certain I know my account is kosher to avoid stupid fees.

At 1/17/10 12:25 AM, SevenSeize wrote:
I saw Book of Eli yesterday and loved it, but discussing it would be borderline politics in the lounge. So I'll just leave it at, I really enjoyed it.

also because of the Fallout 3 similarities, yes.

I was JUST about to tell you about that movie.

At 1/17/10 10:04 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: My boyfriend originally wanted to see "The Book of Eli," but after reading some reviews he thinks it's "Rapture porn," as he refers to the Left Behind series. So he'll go see Legion instead.

So he doesn't want to see "rapture porn" so instead he went to see a movie about angels cleansing the earth?
Also, something I don't get about the very premise of that movie. Couldn't God just like snap his fingers and then it'd be over? Dennis Quide has no shot against that.

Ok. I just saw another commercial for Legion and I can't beleive this didn't hit me before. A waitresses baby is the only hope for humanity, but only if their lone protector can save them. Where have I heard this before?

I am making a "Childhood" post on my NG page for all the stuff I grew up with as a kid.

Already included are Bugs Bunny cartoons, Super Mario Bros, and the "Ninja rap" scene from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 movie.

I feel accomplished for the day and on to something grand.

Go ninja go ninja go!
Go ninja go ninja go!

At 1/17/10 11:27 PM, stafffighter wrote: Ok. I just saw another commercial for Legion and I can't beleive this didn't hit me before. A waitresses baby is the only hope for humanity, but only if their lone protector can save them. Where have I heard this before?

Ooh ooh! Pick me pick me! I know this one!!

Obviously the answer is Ben Hur

You would think that someone who works in the entertainment business, & who actually works as a member of a film crew, would have some idea about what going on....well not me.

I just noticed in todays paper that Robert Downey won an Golden Globe award for his performance in Sherlock Holmes.
I've got to find out when that's going to come out on DVD. I love Sherlock Holmes movies.
So I'm off to IMDB to see if they have any info.....better late than never.

man I am so out of touch here in the boonies

New project: Indoor Party Flamethrower for Kids

Will post progress as things come along.

My project is a lot more boring - I spent the last hour or so scouring, washing, and painting a rusty old cast-iron bench my mom gave me a while back. It was my great-uncle's. Circa 1900 - there's an identical bench with the original patina going or like four grand on a garden antiques site, but this one has been painted white at some point so it's probably worthless.

Almost finished, but I ran out of paint. Should have bought two cans, I guess. Going for black Rustoleum in the hammered finish. Should be nice.

At 1/17/10 10:19 PM, stafffighter wrote: Couldn't God just like snap his fingers and then it'd be over? Dennis Quide has no shot against that.

If you read Revelations, the final battle between good and evil is over like that.

It's all the crap that leads up to it that people write movies about.

At 1/18/10 03:02 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Going for black Rustoleum in the hammered finish. Should be nice.

Post pictures when you're done with it, I want to see how that turns out. :-D

We sell the Hammered Finish Rustoleum where I work, but I've never worked with it myself, so I'm curious to see what it looks like on a finished project.

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Today was my first day back at work after being on vacation for so long, and I had a chiropractor's appointment afterward. I actually felt worse after the adjustment than I did going in, because my spine was apparently a lot stiffer than I thought it was. I afraid I may have spooked a few other people in the office by going "OW!!" several times.

And say hello to my new project; Brychon, my Electric Melee//Shields Defense Brute in City of Villains. By nature of being a brute, he deals more damage as the fight goes on, but his electrical attacks are designed to sap endurance... so I could technically drain an enemy's ability to attack me before I'm done attacking them. >:-D~

that's a full body circuitry tattoo on him you see, fits the theme I have going for him.

All done. Snapped this while there was still sunlight. The feet were still fresh and wet, so I left it on its back for a while. The menfolk moved it back out onto the porch about an hour ago so we could pull the cars back in (I did this under the carport to cut down on wind and possible rain).

Considering that before it was kind of a pale cream color and absolutely rancid with rust, I think there is vast improvement.

My netbook decided to lose the driver for the scroll thing on the touch pad and I can't be assed to restart.

I am feeling sick again. I was sick last weekend and last week. I am so pissed that I got sick again. Not a flu or anything though, My temp was 97.7 last week when I was sick, and 98.1 today. Had a good 3 days straight of work at the mountain though to make up for not going in last weekend and I'm going to go to NY next weekend. Maybe ski at my old haunts. Haven't had a chance to ski some of their new trails they opened up last winter.

At 1/17/10 11:27 PM, stafffighter wrote: Ok. I just saw another commercial for Legion and I can't beleive this didn't hit me before. A waitresses baby is the only hope for humanity, but only if their lone protector can save them. Where have I heard this before?

It seems like another throw away horror to me... I can't believe it hadn't gotten out any sooner.
I thought the same thing... I mean, God can basically do whatever he wants-- heck, he can abort the kid without a legion of angels. He could think it, and it would happen.

Oh wells...

At 1/18/10 07:34 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Considering that before it was kind of a pale cream color and absolutely rancid with rust, I think there is vast improvement.

I can't really see the hammered effect all that well, but that's all right... I love that pattern it's got. :-D

It looks beautiful.

At 1/18/10 08:18 PM, Proteas wrote: I can't really see the hammered effect all that well, but that's all right... I love that pattern it's got. :-D

It looks beautiful.

I can take some up-close shots if you like, when there's light. The finish really does look just like the top of the can, though.

At 1/18/10 08:20 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I can take some up-close shots if you like, when there's light. The finish really does look just like the top of the can, though.

*looks around*

1 picture would work, don't go to so much effort over me.

The dog is so focused on chewing his beef bone that when Steve draped a blanket over him he didn't even seem to notice. Now he is just a big wiggling lump that makes strange crunching noises.

So, I've met an old friend from my youth a few weeks ago.
He's an artist now... and does photoshop on the side for extra bucks.

Years ago, we had a psychologist class together... I made a painting, and he kept it. It was a a bunch of squares with small finger painted images... a house, a flower, a virgin mary, and a butterfly.

I didn't know he kept it for so long, since that was in 2001.

And now,
he made art using my own art.

I told him that I'm having a stage reading at San Jose State of my play, The Butterfly in the War, and that if he make a poster or something... to make some interest in it.

And he used part of my art to make it.
This is a butterfly... originally, I had it made as many colors possible... and I finger painted it. So, those are my finger prints you see... but the whole concept of it is his... making it into a black and white and yellow art.

I loved it.

Anyways, here it is... I'm thoroughly impressed by it so that's why I'm sharing.

That's a kick ass cast iron bench Skunky...very nice , & I disagree with your thought about cleaning it & painting it having 'now ruined it'
Now its an eye appealing functional piece of art.

At 1/20/10 08:11 PM, morefngdbs wrote: That's a kick ass cast iron bench Skunky...very nice , & I disagree with your thought about cleaning it & painting it having 'now ruined it'
Now its an eye appealing functional piece of art.

Yes, but in the world of antiques, you lose a ton of value by "cleaning up" and repainting. They wind up selling for a lot more being rusty and having original paint. But since she mentioned it had been repainted before, it was probably totally cool to clean it up. If you're going to use it, may as well avoid tetanus.