...to add tags to them. That's why a lot of the older threads have bubbled to the top of the queue.

Sorry about that...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

ThePlanet, the webhosting company that hosts Schlock Mercenary, among others, suffered a major power system failure recently.

And they are acting in an _exemplary_ manner regarding it. I only have two links, but some googling should reveal more.

http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185

http://community.livejournal.com/schlocktroops

I am very impressed by ThePlanet's actions during this. Updates have been fast, consistent, and remarkably buzzword free. ThePlanet has already commented
that customers will be receiving credit for downtime.

three cheers to ThePlanet!

Edit: More descriptive title.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Tales Snippets of the Legendary: Salvage and Refuse

(Note: This 'loosely' clips in Mag's origin as somewhat earlier than Terrence's Tenchi Apotheosis. This is subject to change at any need)

I bent, at the waist, to pull open a drawer labelled 'radioactive salvage'. The drawer was lockable, but my armor's security transponder had
already unlocked it. It slid open smoothly on heavy-duty bearings, and I raised an eyebrow at it's stout construction and thick walls.

Oh, radioactive. Right.

Inside were several banker's box sized cartons of a heavy plastic, tagged and wired shut. The first carton was labelled 'possible salvage - CC Nokia
rep on any developments, reference Legendary contract #5107-B'. I raised the other eyebrow at that, then put them both back in place. The wire was merely
twisted closed, and opened easily. Inside the box was a pile of cellphone batteries, emanating the eerie green glow characteristic of most of the radiation
abilities I'd seen.

I looked around, curious. I heard a rustling and doors opening and closing from the Arcane side of the workroom, indicating someone else in the salvage area
there.

"Oi!" I called across the intervening rack of shelves. A 'thump' and some muffled cursing answered me, and a shock of unruly dark hair poked
up above the Arcane workbench, identifying the 'thump'er as Terrence.

"T, why, exactly, do we have a mess of radioactive _cell phone batteries_?" I asked. Terrence stood up, revealing a high blush and an open mouth.

"Ahhh, uh.. ah." He said, then bent, slammed shut the cupboards he'd apparently been acessing. "Ahh. *ahem* HRM." He finished, then
turned, and walked out of the work area towards the base portal.

"Ok, then." I replied to his departing form. I retied the box shut, and put it in the radioactives drawer. Shaking my head, I pulled out the next box
of salvage.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008 ... ey-bo.html]Rock 'n' roll icon Bo Diddley dies, earlier today, of heart failure. (Considering he had a stroke and a heart attack last year, he managed to beat the odds...)

Don't pass up the supplemental story, http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008 ... -riff.html]The riff that keeps on giving.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Stone fists the size of a Virginia ham smashed through the wrecked War Hulk's cockpit. The wetsuited pilot could only struggle feebly as those mighty
hands dragged him out of the insulator gel and into the stinking hot summer air of Crey's Folly.

"I have a message for Eisenstadt," the statue told him in a thunderous tone. "Tell him that he must soon face the justice that he has delayed
for too long, and that I will give him only this choice: to receive it from the authorities of this world... or of the next."

-----

...Yeah, Lincoln's finally on the trail of Nemesis. Shouldn't've sold cavalrybots to the Confederacy, old man.

--Sam

"And so he says, 'I don't like the cut of your jib.' And I go I says, IT'S THE ONLY JIB I GOT, BABY!"

A couple of my coworkers play CoX, based on Freedom. They were discussing Cimerora today and I happened to be nearby at *just* the right time. One of them
had just complained about the number of people in the zone messing everything up. The other replied, "... so what you're saying is, the number of
tourists is upsetting the delicate Greekosystem?"

I swear I nearly dropped my drink, laughing so hard. I am mightily amused.

Anyone else heard any great lines lately?

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

And even more accurately, Ruin Mages, Demons and the dumbest FEMA worker I have EVER seen.

Okay. I did some contributions to this article on the EDC fan club of the
80s and early 90s. Specifically, the writer (and a friend), Dave Merrill sent me and some of the others involved a series of questions which we responded to
via email. Some of my responses got pretty in-depth and selections were used as quotes used verbatim (and properly credited) within the article itself.

Mind you - this article has seen some editing. The original appeared on Dave's "Let's Anime" blog**, but apparently has been removed due to this more official web publication. If you
want to see the original draft as it was sent to me for approval, I can post that, plus my answers to his original questions verbatim and unexpurgated.
There's some weird stuff that happened back in the 80s when most of you were in pre-school. ^_^

(edit: Oh! And do take the time to look over the whole Star Blazers site that the article is hosted with. It's been re-designed of late and is MUCH easier
to navigate. LOTS of neat stuff there!)

( **EDIT: Oops! I apparently have faulty memory! (Yeah like THAT's never happened before...) It never appeared there. I must've been thinking of
something else, maybe Steve Harrison's article on Space Fanzine Yamato or something. )

Transfusion by Lord Raa has updated.

...I've been waiting years for an opportunity to use that title.

--Sam

"He stands... like some kind of pagan god or deposed tyrant..."

because I didn't want to derail the thread it was in.

Quote:with blue moon cameos from Foxboy, KJ, kentmagus & Bob