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Gentlemen, it has long been my conviction that all citizens should provide services for which their talents best suit them in support of those who have been called to duty. In the case of politicians such as yourselves, that would be target practice.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

From the Tagline on Vulpine Fury's E-mail:
----- Vulpine Fury's Puppetworks --------
Bleeding Edge 'Wavium Animatronics since 2011
2004 Atlas Park Drive, Kandor City, Luna
The man known as Vulpine Fury [occasionaly called Eljay by close friends from pre-Diaspora] was one of the folks who got tarred with the "terrorist" brush early on during the US 'Wavium crisis. He lost his job, his home, and an extensive pop culture collection to overzealous investigators from Homeland (in)Security. With a waved Dodge Neon and the clothes on his back his only possessions, he worked simple labor and service jobs during the founding of Kandor City.
Assisting these folks, he discovered his niche for working the wave: Puppetry and Telepresence. He's been able to work up simply amazing android bodies, but he's never been able to create an AI sentience.
His shop is on a fairly bustling street in Kandor, and visitors get a strong sense of whimsy from what's on display, and the Helpstaff.
Folks who were fortunate enough to experience Jim Henson's studio while the great puppeteer was alive find similarities in VF's decor: Traditional puppets in unusual materials, startlingly lifelike animatronics staring glassily, and the four-foot tall anthropomorphic fox telepresence VF uses as his public face in his shop.
His highest profile puppets have been the Motoko Kusanagi telepresence rig from KandorCon and the head of Dee's android body. His general skill at overcoming the "Uncanny Valley" has led folks to believe that VF was biomodded into a Muppetlike form from his shopkeep telepresence. This could not be further from the truth.
VF is a pretty straightforward stereotypical Elder Fanboy, unmodded as yet. Thick around the middle, receding hairline, ancient t-shirt from THAT Con, affable and friendly, yet also very hermitlike.
His puppets' signature quirks include the fact that he cannot awaken an AI in his animatronics, no matter how complex.
Vulpine Fury's telepresence system involves bike helmets and medical EEG leads, producing a neural induction interface with FTL messaging to the computer running the puppet's animatronics.
On either side of his shop are an old-fashioned diner and a well-stocked book store. Across the street is a park-like area filled with Statuary and the most expensive lawn known to humanity at the time of its installation.
As of the start of OGJ, his current project had been his latest doomed-to-failure "Gepetto Attempt." That is, he was attempting to awaken an Android AI.
''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

A Gentlemen's Duel (slightly NSFW)
Code Guardian
some interesting videos (and some very very VERY nsfw videos) on Stage6..
call it.. DivxTube?Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

Just finished watching. Was a little dicey but a win is a win!
Brady played awesome!
Wheeee!!

She is. Really. I just got V27 of the Dark Horse translation, and on Page 6 is a panel of Angry Belldandy. Not merely irritated, or upset, but truly, icily, *angry,* enough to make Skuld, Urd, and Peorth all gulp and step back. I think this one would even faze Paradox's Full Manifestation. Let's all be glad Doug never managed to upset her like this....

and VG Cats is on the spot...

well, not really. Slashdot is a good place to go for new Jack Thomspon information, though. And 'ol Jack is ringing in the new year by doing his thing, this time he's accusing the department of defense of being deep in collusion with the video games industry..
'cause everyone knows we NEED MORE FUCKING PYLONS IN IRAQ, JACK.
It is my belief that this 'person' is completely irrational, and should be stopped.
Anyway, here's the VG Cats starting page for "Jack Thompson's A Christmas Carol"Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

Good morning folks!
It is done at last. I'm quite happy with the results... (^_^)
Here she is in digital colour, Captain Vaeria!


Enjoy!
Bert V.V.
skyknight@sentex.net

Thought this might interest some members of the board.
Just came across it in a NASA news letter.

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By using SAGE you help to support a viable open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB. SAGE includes many high-quality open source math packages.
/ENDQUOTE/
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www.sagemath.org/
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howard melton
God bless

naruto: snake sannin stays
www.fanfiction.net/s/3775...rfly_Wings
(Edit: Sorry, yesilmavi, the misspelling in the subject was bugging me, so I felt compelled to fix it. -- Bob)
(Edit2: No problem. I actually copied the title from the previous thread...)

Saturday, 12/29, 10pm.
Dark Heart High will be 'rescuing' Baby New Year. Headmistress deWinter has uses for the little muppet.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.