Spotted on The Inquirer: Ancient Robot Rebooted

What I find interesting in that article are that the robot was built in Showa 1 - in our calendar, 1928 - and that it was powered by a primitive pneumatic system.

Now, if we were to change "pneumatic" to "steam-powered", and push the date just one year earlier so that it was built in the Taisho era, then Doug might help Kohran build this robot when he visits the Sakura Wars universe.

Just a thought...  8)

This week, the User Friendly guys are testing a "pre-release" version of D&D 4E. Leave it to Sid to know which game got there first... and to make a joke about it.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080430]The character creation strip
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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

Folks in-channel already know of my problems with my father's schoolwork.

Well tonight is hell as we have to cram 1200 words into his "essay" before midnight, and he won't work on it while I'm not here to hold his
hand. ><

I have a long shift at work I'm about to go on, and as soon as I walk in the door he's going to start in on me.

So.... I'm not going to be online much at all tonight.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

As a casual fan... I must say... the movie doesn't disappoint much at the end of the day
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.

Running Penelope Yin's first mission this morning, saving Doc Delilah, I found it was quite fun if you speed boosted the Doc. Just a Note. :-)

Youtube:

Story: http://tinyurl.com/572u5f

Scary.

I think we've pretty much got this Sewer Trial/Slay the Hydra business down to an art form. Emerald Blast is parked at 39, sitting on the mission, and
I'd like to get back to running her full-out again. She's already got the badge, she's just holding the mission so we can get anyone else covered
who hasn't done it yet. After this weekend, one way or another she's going to out-level it, so I'm throwing it out here.

If anyone's still interested in doing the trial, shall we aim for late Friday (I won't be available until after 9 Pacific) or Saturday morning sometime
before Ankh's Eden trial? The last run took a whopping 40 minutes, if I recall correctly. Link to the first thread here, which includes the successful strategy and other goodies.

(Virtue blueside, just in case it matters)

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

Hellen Killer.

A comic about Hellen Keller, her sight restoring goggles built by Alexander Graham Bell, her superpowers, her violent mulipte personality disorder, President
McKinley and anarchists.

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Epsilon

We all know somebody like Igor. Heck, in http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorkt ... ic&id=1372]this situation, there may be a bit of Igor in each of us...
--
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

I like you a lot
You’re funny and kind
So let me explain
What I have in mind

I want to be your personal penguin
I want to walk right by your side
I want to be your personal penguin
I want to travel with you far and wide

Wherever you go, I’ll go there too
Here and there and everywhere and always with you
I want to be your personal penguin
from now on

Now, lots of other penguins seem to do fine
In a universe of nothing but ice
But if I could be yours
And you could be mine
Our cozy little world would be twice as nice

I want to be your personal penguin
I want to talk with you night and day
I want to be your personal penguin
I want to listen to whatever you say

Look at these wings
So perfect to hold you
I’d like to say again what I have already told you
Let me be your personal penguin
from now on

Wherever you go, I’ll go there too
Here and there and everywhere and always with you
Please may I be your personal penguin?
Imagine me your personal penguin!
I wanna be your personal penguin
from now on.

-- Davy Jones, Your Personal Penguin (written by Sandra Boynton)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.