-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I have a small pile of old Babylon 5 miniatures - in the smaller, hex-map-conforming "Fleet Action" scale - that I'm never going to use, and it's time to start clearing my basement.
(And I could really use some extra cash, I just got hit with some bills that are going to make the next couple of weeks very uncomfortable.)
I also have a couple of the spaceships from Battletech (a McKenna, two Camerons, and an Aegis) if anyone's interested in those.
Centauri: $30 the lot, or per loose/blister:Loose2x Primus ($3.50 ea)2x Centurion ($3.50 ea)4x Kutai ($2 each)
In Blister ($6/blister)Haven
Lias
Narn: $30 the lot, or per loose/blister:
Loose2x G'Quan ($3.50 ea)3x Rongoth ($2.50 ea)
Blister ($6/blister)Var'nic DestroyerSho'kos Cutter x2
Earth Alliance: ($35 the lot, or loose2x Hyperion ($3 ea)3x Olympus ($3 ea)1x Oracle ($3 ea)6x Omega ($3.50 ea)
Shadows $6/blisterDestroyer/Scout x2Medium Fighter
Vorlons $6/blisterLight CruiserTransport/Scout x2
League of Non-Aligned Worlds
Brakiri $6/blisterHalik x2Falkosi Light FighterFleet Box ($30) (Worth $46 at AoG's current per-ship pricing)
Hyach ($40 the lot or loose/blister)Loose:Urutha Kal DN ($5)Tachila Kor CVS ($3.50)2x Irokai Kam BC ($3.50 ea)4x Okath Kat FF ($2 ea)1 Alichi Kav Sub ($2)
Blisters ($6/each)Irokai Kam BCSenchlat Kes CAOkath Kat FFTachila Kor CVS
Dilgar: $45/set or loose:1 Mishakur DN ($6)2 Tratharti BC ($3.50)2 Targath CA ($3.50)4 Ochlavita DD ($2.50)4 Jashakar FF ($2.50)3 Protra Scout ($2.50)7 fighters ($4/set)
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

I was trying to figure out how to sample for 2 chemicals, isopropyl alcohol and toluene for an inspection I'm conducting. The simplest way is to use 2 air pumps pulling air into 2 charcoal tubes, but employees are not happy wearing 2 pumps most of the time. Plus I'd have to set the air flow to the lowest setting. Not a good idea. The better option is to use a twin port sampler, but the new ones I'ved had always cause the air pump to stall out once I place a charcoal tube into one of the ports, even if I turned the flow screw all the way out on one port before I insert the tube. I've followed the instructions and people I'ved asked couldn't give me a clear answer. I was examine the sampler when I decided, why not turn both flow screws open? Tried it and Eureka! It worked! It's one of those moments.
Of course now I got to figure out how to determine the lower explosive limit of a IPA/Toluene mixture combined with N2, O2, CO2 mixture (read air). There must be a computer program somewhere..*grumble*
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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

Well, maybe.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released a list of what books were found in Bin Laden's residence. http://www.dni.gov/index.php/resources/ ... lf?start=3]Here's a list of the English Language Books that they found.

Note the entry at the very end of that list.

(Yes, it's an extremely slim indicator. But it isn't as if the Secret Service hasn't http://www.sjgames.com/SS/]acted on slim indicators in the past...)

Oh yes - three guesses which forum I spotted this link on, and the first two don't count.
--
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

If all goes well, of course.

http://www.space.com/29423-x37b-space-p ... -otv4.html

Yes, there is still one reusable vehicle in service in the USA. It's unmanned, and military...
--
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

We've all driven by or otherwise seen old, abandoned buildings in our lives. Being the average Fen on a budget, what's to say they have to stay abandoned?
This thread is hereby christened for posting the images or sites with images of locales for the do-it-yourselfer Fen to get their grubby, modded paws on.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.viralnova.com/creepy-house-explored/
This page starts with the house I think a Fen might decide to rescue and refurbish in his/her personal manner, but continues through to a creepy 'extra floor' beneath some rented flats and an abandoned East German bunker.

What if the "Chamber of Secrets" was really the Chamber of Regrets? Sal got in an argument with the other founders and left when he was (for a wizard) young and full of piss and vinegar, but experience showed him that those ideals were not so absolute in practice, and better to follow a middle road. So, he gathered up the monster he'd meant to dispose of the impure on the grounds they were unworthy, and all or at least the worst of the paraphenelia of his youthful folly, and set the one to guard the other before sealing it all away. Then a thousand years of revisionist history ends up making even his younger self look like a cuddly crup by comparison, and a bitter, self-aggrandizing schoolboy finds it, and it turns into a whole big mess...
--
"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

The thrill is gone...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/b-b-king-de ... -1.3075340
--
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

Here's the original article:
http://babydustdiaries.wordpress.com/2 ... ters-hair/
And here's the shit-fit:
http://www.today.com/parents/6-year-old ... cid=sm_fbn
So... discuss? Or not?
''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