It took'em damned long enough.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Anybody else had their PM's erased or reset to zero ?

I checked my inbox and it's all zero... including a scene from Cobalt I wanted to use for the Melancholy of Mackie Chan and some plot related items.

Wop. Must've been a transfer bug. They're back.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

Just got this email from Bob, who asked me to pass it along:

Quote:I, and at least one other user who's emailed me about it, cannot log on to Yuku -- although I can see the boards are active and that others have logged in and are posting, I'm getting a fancy "Sorry, we're down" graphic when I try to log in myself.

I've emailed Yuku support about this -- as I can't log in to post on the support forums -- but given the holiday I'm not expecting a fast turnaround.

-- Bob

Now that it's 00:01 UTC on December 25,

Merry Christmas, everyone!
--
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

An article about this product which seems to come down on the "pretty sad" side can be found here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/22 ... _pcs_macs/]Raspberry Pi Foundation releases operating system for PCs, Macs

Download link to the 1.3GB ISO is near the end of the article.

From the review, this looks interesting enough that I might just grab it and try it out on one of the "boat anchors" I haven't taken in for recycling yet.
--
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

"There's always a price for magic, Dawn, *especially* something 
like a resurrection.  If it looks like it's free, that just means 
the price is hidden because it's more than you'd want to pay. 
Any spell *this* powerful that an amateur can cast with only
minimal preparation...  it's a trap.  It's designed to hook you, 
hook your soul, for someone or something that wants it for their 
own reasons.  You'd be better off summoning a god and offering to 
bargain -- at least that way when you find yourself in Hell 
you'll know *why*."

"My price?  My price is *duty*, and the simple truth that I can 
*never* have a normal life.  Not when my unguarded touch can 
vaporize plastics and rot organics and enchant steel.  Not when I 
can *never* let my guard down completely around other people --
especially and worst of all my wife.  I'll probably never have 
children of my own.  I'll probably never reconcile with my 
parents.  I may never even get home to *try.*  That's my price,
Dawn.  It's paid in sweat, and blood, and *gallons* of tears, and 
with every second of my life that ticks away while I search for 
the Earth where I was born."
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

OOC: Rob's sidestory #1, set before "House Call"

So, unlike the several of us who've been doing fun stuff with Poser and DAZ and such, I decided to go in for a different field. I've been working so far with Google Sketchup, although I'm tempted to give Autodesk Fusion a try since they offer a free one-year renewable license for hobbyists.
So I've been doodling some spaceships, had a test print of one run from Shapeways and it came out pretty darn good.
Caledonia-class CL:[img]http://i.imgur.com/bzyViS1.jpg?1]
Epidii-Class CL:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/zI9ie2o.jpg?1]
Orkney-class CL:[img]http://i.imgur.com/QpU9rMr.jpg?1]
Picti-class DD:[img]http://i.imgur.com/z5gq247.jpg?1]
The destroyer design has changed slightly since this picture and still has one update to go through, I think, as I need to clean up the hull-edge trim properly so it will print in WSF.I'm working on a frigate to go with these but at the size it's coming out it will only be able to print in FUD (though it won't cost much even for that).I've also posted a heavy cruiser design that I don't have a picture of right this minute.
Meanwhile I've started work on another set of ships:Khitai Principality Bai Ying CA:[img]http://i.imgur.com/lA5Math.jpg?1]
Khitai Principality Koujaku CA:[img]http://i.imgur.com/DqwxHr5.jpg?1]
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Is there any way to link to Youtube videos instead of embedding them here?

If there is, could some kind soul go through the "Tis the season..." thread and convert all the embeds to links, please? Trying to load the first page in that thread currently crashes my browser because of a memory overflow.

If there isn't, could some kind soul go through the "Tis the season..." thread and spread the videos out so there's only one per post? Yes, I know this will drive the post count up considerably, but it's the only way that I'll be able to actually load the thread and be able to watch the videos.

(Before the obvious comments are made: Yes, I did try sending Timote a PM first; it was ignored. Yes, I am running the most recent version of Firefox. No, I cannot afford to buy a new computer at the moment.)
--
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