What happens when you let D&D LARPers play in a Christmas pagent? This. It's hilarious.
--The Twisted One"If you wish to converse with me, define your terms."
--Voltaire
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire

Does anyone here know a way to put mathematical formulae, such as those generated by TeX or similar, into LiveJournal posts?
Sorry about this, but I'm not sure who else to ask (there's been no response to my inquiry on this topic in LiveJournal's support area).
--The Twisted One"If you wish to converse with me, define your terms."
--Voltaire
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire

(Excerpt from a book put inside a vault with lots of security precautions)
On Handwaved Movie and Television Props
It's determined that influencing handwavium is like herding cats. One's will influences it a bit, along with the underlying desires of the individual conflicting. If one expects one's will to affect it, then the will of an entire group would affect the handwaved device. A actors's job is to make things look like the person he or she is portraying. A thing portrayed in a movie is made to -look- the part and what's better than looking the part than having the effect that the audience(movie patrons) believe in? As Hollywood objects, they are enhanced to behave like the objects they are portraying as a better prop. Perhaps the more patrons who believe in something the more powerful it is at the time it was waved, i.e a movie prop is more powerful than a television prop and a legendary or historical movie prop is more powerful than a fictional prop?
OOClease comment.
"Evil tends to triumph over good...unless good is very, very sneaky."-Anonymous-

I have found the ultimate tool for online collaboration. It is not a chat client or instant messenger (though these can help). It is not Google Docs or any online service.
It is a beautifully simple tool called CoOffice Tools and it turns your Microsoft Word and PowerPoint softwares into real-time online collaborative tools.
Sit there and watch in amazement as your friend on the internet fixes typoes for you in Word in real-time. Take joy in having an "OH OH OH! How about this!" moment as you suddenly jump in and write in a plot twist.
The only way it can get better would be if your writing partner was right in the room with you.
Here is their website: cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/coword/index.html
SET
CoOffice Tools is a small download, quick to install, and easy to setup. It will work with all versions of Word and PowerPoint (I don't know about 2007 versions, though).
First of all, you're going to need a server to connect to. This is actually not as hard as it sounds. Sure, there is the provided public server, but you don't really want that. You want a secure location to save your stuff.
Luckily, the folks that made CoOffice also made an equally simplistic Server program that lets whatever computer you install it on into the host for the 'Repository' that will hold your files.
Here's the one oddity: in order to work on the same files, two people have to use the same account/login. In that respect, it's kinda like file-sharing in a Windows environment - you need to have so-and-so's username and password to access his files.
Other than that, setting up the accounts is simplicity in itself. Just set the name, password, the rights the account has (which is kind of a moot point I think) and the folder on your machine you'll be working out of.
NOTE: Don't change the name of the folder or else you'll ahve to set the accounts up all over again. Granted, it's an easy enough fix if you only have one or two, but what a bother!
Once you set everything up, all your friends on your LAN or in Internet Land need is CoOffice Tools (They won't need the Server if you're the one hosting the party) your IP address, the account name and password.
CoOffice tools is loaded with useful features like a radar to help you track down where your co-author is in the document, highlights to show who made what changes, and other nifty toys.
I can guarantee that you'll love this wonderful piece of software. I already do and it is proving to be just the thing to help me realize my goal of being part of my own team of writers. ^_^

Funny, but wrong.
Gilbert and Sullivan's Baby Got Back.

-- Bob
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I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life, and I shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses in the kitchen and incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So theeeeeere....

OK, after the conversation Noah and A.C. have over the field-com system I put together this for open use. Rob's had a look and, other than the Sat-com stuff I've recently added after looking up some info, he felt it was OK.
Have fun.

A monkey playing.
www.liveleak.com/view?i=f662c8df87

Because, man, I know I ask a lot of tech questions. I feel guilty about that. So I'll ask a tech question and you guys ask me a question about . . . well, anything, really. Why is the sky purple? Who named all the colors of the rainbow? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Anyway: question: mIRC-related.
When the server notice: "This server is using an alternate send method, please make sure your DCC Server is active and set to port 6060. /dccserver +sc on 6060" shows up and you do indeed type in /dccserver +sc on 6060, and the screen responds with "DCC Server is on (6060,Send,Chat,Fserve)." Yet when you go to get the file you wanted it gives you the same server notice "this server is using blah blah blah" . . . What do you do? What's wrong? Why oh why oh why is it so difficult?

Damn.
Some videos and retrospective.
The following quote from a poster at the above site pretty much says it all for me:

Quote:

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Sigh. I miss him, and I probably havent thought of him in years. Superman cant just die. Not of natural causes.
I guess God needed a headliner for his Christmas show. After Steve Irwin wrestles Cerberus, Evel is going to attempt to jump right over Hell.
Should be a good show.
RIP, EK. You the man.

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((I thought I'd get some common ground for the SI group started, so we all agree on SOME of the events that led to us being in Paragon.))
It all started with Some Random Con in New York City.
After much discussion and planning, several of the players from the City of Heroes global channel, The Legendary, decided to set up a face-to-face meeting. Surrounded by writers, fans, actors and various sundry sci-fi types, the channel mates met in the lobby of one of the hotels connected to the convention center.
After introductions were passed around, they got down to a typical gabfest when a hole in reality opened before them. Well... more accurately below them. Newtonian Laws of Motion being what they were, the gathered throng of gamers began to accelerate at 32 feet per second per second into the portal. Several shouts of dismay and startlement rang out, then one-by one, they blacked out...
... and woke up in a hospital. A strange hospital to be sure. What's that structure of rings over in the corner? It kind of looks like... no it couldn't be a medical teleporter like in-game, could it? A few seconds of disorientation pass, and an official-looking person with a clipboard is standing by the privacy curtains in each ward. As if reading from a script, or a prepared speech, each of them begins....
"Welcome to Paragon City! Would you mind answering a few questions?"
''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