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  Thumbs up to Google today
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-25-2014, 05:33 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (1)

Below the search buttons on Google this morning is the tag

Quote:Our mission is to make the world’s information accessible—yes, even Seth Rogen movies
The last three words link to The Interview on Google Play.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

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  To those who celebrate it...
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-25-2014, 05:29 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (9)

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

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  Christmas Eve, 46 years ago
Posted by: Logan Darklighter - 12-25-2014, 03:58 AM - Forum: General Chatter - No Replies


Merry Christmas to all. And to all a good night. 

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  Third "Star Trek" movie to be directed by...
Posted by: robkelk - 12-24-2014, 07:06 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (11)

... the director of Fast & Furious, Justin Lin. http://www.awn.com/news/justin-lin-dire ... ek-feature]So says AWN, at least.

An action-movie director? Really? Have people completely forgotten what Star Trek used to be about?
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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

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  We've lost another of the greats, part 3
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 12-22-2014, 10:04 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (1)

Joe Cocker has passed away.

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

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  Sailor Moon Inspired Wedding Dress
Posted by: Jenova Silverstar - 12-20-2014, 01:57 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (3)

Sailor Moon Inspired Wedding Dress
(with Cutie Moon Rod scepter made by Grant Imahara)
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
--Dr. Seuss

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  We're getting ads again...
Posted by: robkelk - 12-19-2014, 11:27 PM - Forum: Forums - Replies (12)

... and my credit card has to lay fallow for a couple of days, so I can't buy page views right now.
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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

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  Bushido: Way of Total Bullshit
Posted by: Black Aeronaut - 12-19-2014, 02:17 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (9)

I just stumbled across this article on Tofugu and really, it explains a whole lot about why Japan seems so off-kilter - it's because we have been given the wrong impression entirely.
http://www.tofugu.com/2014/12/08/bushid ... -bullshit/
Really, now that I've read this article, I think the best example in pop culture of how Samurai actually behaved before the Tokugawa Shogunate unified the country is in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke - everyone has their own agendas, act however they want to act, and not once is the word 'honor' dropped by anyone (that I can recall, anyhow).  It would also explain why Lady Eboshi had absolutely zero qualms about the honor of pitting rifles against swords and archers.
This is going to change how I write some of Garrick's steps as some of them are in pre-Tokugawa settings.

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  Headgear question?
Posted by: ordnance11 - 12-18-2014, 05:09 AM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (1)

Do you guys remember the Gestapo agent in Raiders of the Lost Ark? What type of headgear was he wearing? 
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Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
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  Is there life on Mars?
Posted by: robkelk - 12-17-2014, 04:07 PM - Forum: General Chatter - Replies (1)

(No, not the Bowie tune or the TV shows. The planet Mars.)

Maybe.

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