I got home from work tonight and my desktop machine won't boot.  It gets part-way through its startup but hangs before the BIOS kicks in.  
A little research on my tablet suggests that this may be an easy fix -- a new CMOS battery, which I will take care of tomorrow.  However, if it's not as simple as that, I may be a little scarce until I get it fixed.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

It does assume you already know how to select and move things around, but a few minutes clicking on the pretty multicolored arrows in the default screen will let someone figue that out. The topic the seemingly simple but ever annoying art of getting a human head to look good, and does it in 340 triangles. (I could probably have cut that even more, but if there's one thing a player is going to be staring at for hours it's the back of their character's head, so I left an extra six or twelve quads there that could be snipped, plus eight tris on the back of each ear)



I know, I know, "Adjust for roundness (~1/2 hr.)" :lol:
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

No, not this one. As I believe I've mentioned, SJGames won't be renewing their Traveller license. Thus, I'm worried that http://forums.sjgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16]the Traveller forum on SJGames Forums will be disappearing at the end of this year. It would be a shame to lose the good ideas, background points, and plotbunnies in those 2200+ threads...

What software do I need for an automated download of the forum, and how do I set it up to grab all the pages? If it makes a difference, the SJGames forum uses vBulletin software.
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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

A number of times in the last couple of days I have tried to use various bookmarks which point to various fandom index pages only to see the indexes were empty. I checked FictionPress's blog, Twitter feed and their main page, but there is no mention.
Any ideas?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/10 ... s_aged_68/]Susan Sheridan, original voice of Trillian from HHGTTG, has died.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I was playing with Daz Studio, seeing what I could so, and came up with this young lady:

[img]http://web.ncf.ca/fm536/renders/fen-elf">

The slim limbs, pointed ears, and anime-style eyes indicate she's an elf. The shoes (all I had that would fit those "thin feet" morphs) hint she's not from a fantasy world. So... she's biomodded. I'm thinking the eyes allow her to see a full octave of "normal" and UV light, while the slimness of the limbs makes finding a form-fitting spacesuit "off the rack" difficult to impossible. And that's as far as I've got.

Does anybody need an elf in their supporting cast? If yes, here's one. If no, let's come up with a background for her together...
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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

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-24 ... -1.3181983

Useful in any election, not just the two going on at the moment in North America.
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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

Well, maybe not, because it already has a name...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/venom-frogs-1.3182922]Brazilian scientist discovers venomous frog - the hard way
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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

Since the writ has been dropped and we're now into an incredibly long (for Canadian politics) 78-day election campaign, I thought a thread would be appropriate.

Quoting from http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/federal ... -1.3178991

Quote:Our job is to listen carefully to what the candidates say, subtract the cartoon sound bites and decide which leader and which party are most likely to negotiate a deal that is in Canada's best interests. And on this issue, that is how we should vote.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolog ... ar-BBlnzSm
Why does the phrase "Thunderbirds are go!" keeps springing in my head?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell