A "website" I tried to put together a long time ago... The worst part
is I've forgotten my passwords to upload things, so even if I create new content for it... I can't post it.
''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

We've had a whole bunch of people hit 50 recently.

Anybody want to schedule a Statesman's Task Force for those who haven't done it yet? ^_^

! Morgan hit 50 today.

I would like to send huge thank yous to everyone who teamed with me this week to get him there. Especially, WireGeek - as Pooky and Mag; Wire's friends
Vyperpunk and Genau'Goeg; Acyl as Space Mage and Obsolete; Ankhani as Amberlee; Horned Dragon as Stephnie Jenova and Rev as Jackie, and the woman Morgan
would be no where without, the beautiful Bella Fuego.

Thanks again to everyone, I'll be on to help the next person hit 50.

Group Hugs! -Cindy

I either got bored, or went insane, because I've gone and Cut&Paste'd the Convention Thread to a Word 2k3 doc. No reformatting, just Posters and
Titles (where applicable).

Anybody want a copy? 'Cause I ain't going to Wiki it and edit to coherency (not that it needs much, but it does need some). If you do, please make sure
a valid email address is in the Contacts thread.

You have 24 hours from this post to request a copy. For information purposes the file ended up 335K and 59 pages.

Ta Ta,

Cobalt (Who can't can't claim being drunk for this, no matter how much I wish...)

http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorkt ... ing&id=532]Press Release on John Kovalic's site.

Looks like they overextended themselves, and are paying the price...

 
 
--
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

Well, it seems his "site" has either been vandalized or shut down by a zealous "anti-furry" mod from his hosting service... since I was
trying to find the Legion's Quest link from the DW Concordance and got a rather nasty shock. Site

Fwiw, the link is NSFW depending on how zealous your workplace is.
''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

I don't know if anyone else has seen this, but there's ten pages of complaints in the support forum on the website: COX is crashing on startup for a
lot of people -- either at server selection (usually upon selecting Virtue) or at character selection (if the character has an aura). Judging from the
timestamps on the messages, this has been going on for at least 50 hours as of the time I write this, with no solution in sight yet.

Naturally, I've gotten bit by it. Has anyone else?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I did a doubletake last night when I saw a Council boss make a Jewish joke as I approached. I know it was a basically random scripting thing, but still
pretty warped. He was a vamp, so it was even creepier. I think I gave him a few extra Force Bolts into the wall, just to punish him for it.

http://img249.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... cilbr5.jpgGlobal: @Jimmy Amp

"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

Russian Soyuz capsule has a gun.

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Epsilon

Just doesn't have that musical ring to it.

Once upon a time, there was a young man who was blessed by the Kami. He was handsome, strong, and wealthy. In his youth, the Kami had offered him a single
boon. He'd been hungry at the time (it was a lean year for the entire region), so he made a contract with the spirit to provide him with a bowl of rice
and a fish, every day, for the rest of his life.




And so the man lived in his nice house on the riverside for several years, comfortably well-off, and needing to spend almost nothing on food because every
day, the spirit would bring him his fish, and his bowl of rice, and this was pretty much enough for him, so he was satisfied.




One day the young man married a beautiful young woman. They shared the nice house, and he bought her nice clothes, and some for himself as well, so he'd
look nice alongside her. They shared the rice and fish, and it was almost enough, but not quite, so they bought some extra from their neighbors. And they
were happy, and in love, and all was well.




And eventually, in the way of such things, the woman had children, first one, then another, and more. And the couple were very happy to have children, and
loved them very much. But now the rice and fish was not nearly enough, so they spent more of the man's money, buying more food from their neighbors, and
clothes and toys for the children. And most of the time, they were happy.




But not all of the time. Sometimes, there would be a lean year, when the rice harvest was poor, and the fish were hungry. The spirit's bowl of rice would
be small, and the fish would be small, too, and the couple would have to spend even more to be sure they had enough food. "Why do you bring me so
little?" the man asked the spirit, "You promised I would not go hungry."




"I promised to bring you one bowl of rice, and one fish, oh man," answered the spirit. "I said nothing about your hunger, or your
children's."




And so, slowly, the man grew poorer, as the money ran out, and he had to sell some of the nice clothes, and the toys, and the fine things he'd bought for
his beautiful wife. Eventually she grew dissatisfied, and divorced him, and moved to a big city and got a huge alimony lawsuit against him. His children went
with her, or ran off to join the army in order to make sure they would have enough to eat.




In the end he had to sell his nice house to his neighbor, and move into the hut he'd disdained for so long, in order to pay all the bills. And the spirit
brought him his fish and his rice, and he sighed, and he ate it, and was not happy.




He looked out at his neighbor's fine new house, the neighbor's happy, beautiful wife in her fine new clothes, their children playing happily in the
yard. And he wondered how they could keep it, when he with all his strength and his wealth and his gifts of the kami could not.




And so he went to look for his neighbor, to ask of the man how he managed it, and he did not find the man at first. He looked in the house, and in the road,
and in the little shop where he'd bought the fish and sold his fine clothes and jewels.




And finally, he looked out at the river, and he saw his neighbor, sitting in a small boat with his oldest son, fishing.




This was inspired by a story I recently came across that swapped Asuma and Kakashi as team sensei's, and Asuma's explanation to Sasuke of why the
Sharingan is not the ultimate power he thinks it is.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.