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At 4/8/05 03:27 PM, Ted_Easton wrote:

At 4/8/05 01:43 PM, BeFell wrote: books are expensive.

Screw books, I've got Mad Magazine.

At 4/8/05 06:34 PM, justiceDAK wrote:

At 4/8/05 03:27 PM, Ted_Easton wrote:

At 4/8/05 01:43 PM, BeFell wrote: books are expensive.

Screw books, I've got Mad Magazine.

Both my mad and my playboy came in today. I can be wacky and whacky all at once!

At 4/8/05 03:37 PM, Freakapotimus wrote:

At 4/8/05 03:27 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: And HP is frighteningly good, good...

Wait until you see my HP collection :)

Seriously. I used to make fun of people who liked HP, then I read them, and they fucking rule. Simple writing, but the stories themselves are really good. Very imaginative. They get my thumbs up. :)

At 4/8/05 03:27 PM, Ted_Easton wrote:

At 4/8/05 01:43 PM, BeFell wrote: books are expensive.

Try the library. Amazing things we have, nowadays. =P

Paperback books work too, as do used book stores.

Speaking of, I may be heading to one of the local ones soon. I'm looking for Anne Rice' "The Vampire Lestat." The local library has every other Anne Rice book in existence except that one for some weird reason.

At 4/8/05 03:27 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: And HP is frighteningly good, good because it's well written, and frightening because that implies I read on the same level as an 11 year old.

Did you make fun of me like last year because I read the whole books many times? And you said that the only reason I should be getting to HP was to see Hermione does a nip slip?

Hmmm...

i like my school's library...its free.

right now i'm in the middle of "neverwhere" by neil gaimon (he's my favorite author at the moment) and Lord of the flies. both are very good. i read lord of the flies during the day and neverwhere at night....odd.

anywho, lately i've been getting into neil gaimon, i've read Coraline, american gods, good omens, and some of his Sandman graphic novel series. i love his writing for some reason, i get very into his books.

At 4/8/05 09:35 PM, MALforPope wrote: i like my school's library...its free.

right now i'm in the middle of "neverwhere" by neil gaimon (he's my favorite author at the moment) and Lord of the flies. both are very good. i read lord of the flies during the day and neverwhere at night....odd.

anywho, lately i've been getting into neil gaimon, i've read Coraline, american gods, good omens, and some of his Sandman graphic novel series. i love his writing for some reason, i get very into his books.

He has a new one coming out where he auctioned off the name of a boat in the story to get money for a comic book legal defence fund. My favorite of the sandman series was the dolls house

PENIS!

I'm djing. Maybe you people will actually be awake to listen this time

At 4/8/05 09:50 PM, FatherVenom wrote: PENIS!

I'm djing. Maybe you people will actually be awake to listen this time

Yes, unlike the last time you died

At 4/8/05 09:42 PM, stafffighter wrote: He has a new one coming out where he auctioned off the name of a boat in the story to get money for a comic book legal defence fund. My favorite of the sandman series was the dolls house

there's a few i would love to read. that compolation of short stories he published in 2000 (or was it 1999?)

i actually wrote a short story of my own a while ago right after i finished american gods and read stephen king's "the stand" before that. read if you'd like.

At 4/8/05 09:52 PM, stafffighter wrote: Yes, unlike the last time you died

Huh?

Of course your school library is free. Is there any other kind?

At 4/8/05 11:40 PM, Ted_Easton wrote: Of course your school library is free. Is there any other kind?

they were sudjesting a while ago of selling library cards for a profit sot hey could buy new books and charging late fees.

but the school is too small for students to even care enough to pay money for such things. so instead they partnered up with some grant.

Shesh--
I haven't had a decent Friday Night for a long while... Time to get into my sweats, and play some Silent Hill or something...

At 4/9/05 12:53 AM, MALforPope wrote: they were sudjesting a while ago of selling library cards for a profit sot hey could buy new books and charging late fees.

but the school is too small for students to even care enough to pay money for such things. so instead they partnered up with some grant.

It would never work. How on earth can you justify making students pay for a library, it's just ridiculous. As for me, going to UT gives me the privilege of going to not 1, nor 2, not even 3, but 14 UT libraries that all offer an incredible selection of books of all sorts. Of course, some of those libraries are dedicated to course related material, but still, damnit, 14 libraries is a lot and I can get lots of books. The undergrad library even allows students to check out movies, as in feature films. It's like a video rental store, only it's free. I love going to UT, it rocks like no other.

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that I have some good news. I am going to get a job this summer, and it looks like I'm going to get a sweet job at the Center of Electromechanics at UT. I'm good friends with one of the people who work there, he's a very well respected engineer who works there and he let me know about a possible job opening there for Mechanical Engineering students, such as myself. Seeing as how I have his recommendation and that I don't think there is a whole lot of competition for the job, I think that I have a very good chance. I would be helping with a project they are working on currently.

This project happens to be working on a power source for a rail gun. At the moment they have a huge alternator that provides tons of pulse energy that fires the bad boy. The guy who showed me around showed me a block of solid steel that was two feet thick with a hole through it. The thing works. The idea is that the alternator needs to be small enough to fit on, say, a vehicle of some sort. They're working on several other cool projects there that I got to see, as well, but it sounds as if that rail gun project is the one I'm going to be helping with.

I'm thinking of doing the co-op program which would mean that I work for a semester and do classes the next semester, alternating over spring, summer, and fall, so I really wouldn't be held up too much in school, so I could probably graduate in 4 or 5 years, which is just fine with me, engineering takes a while. It pays about 10-12 bucks an hour, and a couple bucks more per hour for co-op students, so it's a win/win across the board. I'm pretty excited about the whole thing and I'm going to talk to the guy again sometime next week, so wish me luck.

At 4/9/05 02:15 AM, Gunter45 wrote: so wish me luck.

Good luck.

Dude, that's awesome.

MAKE MY HOVER CAR ALREADY, FUCKER!!!

At 4/8/05 09:35 PM, MALforPope wrote: anywho, lately i've been getting into neil gaimon, i've read Coraline, american gods, good omens, and some of his Sandman graphic novel series. i love his writing for some reason, i get very into his books.

If you like Neil Gaiman, and especially if you liked Good Omens, you should read Terry Pratchett. He's the reason Good Omens was funny.

Seriously. Ask Funk. He can vouch for the extreme awesomeness that is your average Terry Pratchett novel.

At 4/8/05 11:40 PM, Ted_Easton wrote: Of course your school library is free. Is there any other kind?

I think mad magazine said it best in their article about warning signs needed in a post 9/11 america

"patrons borrowing George Orwell's 1984 may be subject to government investigation disturbingly simular to the one in chapter three."

Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

chatroom interview

I could only think of one question to ask Gaiman "is Destruction supposed to be irish or scottish?" Damn I'm a geek

I've read "The Truth" by Pratchett. An odd novel, to be sure, but I enjoyed it.

After reading the foriegn affairs page, and how many times I've read "Canadians should not travel to this country" on travel reports for countries.. It sounds cool, all this time I've been looking for outlawed countries and it was right under my nose. Haiti.

OMGWTF?!?!?

I thought Zeke had left this place? Silly hipocritical whiny hippie!

At 4/9/05 01:16 PM, stafffighter wrote: I could only think of one question to ask Gaiman "is Destruction supposed to be irish or scottish?" Damn I'm a geek

i bet he would answer scottish...somethings telling me he would.

man, i dont know what i'd ask him. i'd ask him to sign my boobs..yeah...thats it

At 4/9/05 12:54 PM, TheShrike wrote: If you like Neil Gaiman, and especially if you liked Good Omens, you should read Terry Pratchett. He's the reason Good Omens was funny.

i felt good omens was trying too hard to be funny really. but i really enjoyed it. i think it was the combination between pratchett and gaimon which made it unique.

i havn't read anything by pratchett yet, it'll be my next book.

At 4/9/05 01:58 AM, Gunter45 wrote: It would never work.

chill out young padawon. had you read that properly, you would have noticed the information including the end of the story where they decided not to because it was not possible.

At 4/9/05 06:20 PM, SkyCube wrote: OMGWTF?!?!?

I thought Zeke had left this place? Silly hipocritical whiny hippie!

I thought I felt a disturbance in the force.

*belch*

Nope, it was just those chili cheese fritos I had with lunch.

Hmmm, so, not a lot going on with me, going out drinking tonight, hope the Mets lose this one before we do, but I doubt it, and then I can make fun of my friend who's a Mets fan.

You know? I tend to think Destruction is maybe a bit Irish, the Scots have a rep as a contentious people, where as the Irish always sort of get portrayed with that drunken fun loving personality (well, at least the one's who aren't heavily involved in the political badness), so I just got the feel he was sort of the laid back Irishman actually...do I smell a debate that will be brought up at The Endless Crew? I think I do.

At 4/9/05 08:17 PM, aviewaskewed wrote: Hmmm, so, not a lot going on with me, going out drinking tonight, hope the Mets lose this one before we do, but I doubt it, and then I can make fun of my friend who's a Mets fan.

You know? I tend to think Destruction is maybe a bit Irish, the Scots have a rep as a contentious people, where as the Irish always sort of get portrayed with that drunken fun loving personality (well, at least the one's who aren't heavily involved in the political badness), so I just got the feel he was sort of the laid back Irishman actually...do I smell a debate that will be brought up at The Endless Crew? I think I do.

well, he uses scotts in his novels. hell, the main character in neverwhere was scottish. and i never hear anything about irish in his books (that i've read).

maybe we're all completely wrong, maybe destruction is welsh or something, i mean, gaiman is a brit...