Apparently we can now change our usernames in Yuku.  As you can now see with mine, I've made a subtle change that I have long wanted to make. 

I couldn't remember one way or the other, so I checked Wikipedia, and it says that in OTL's 2013, the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl.

My trivial question is: did they win on Krypton-1 as well? And if so, did Katherine "Sea Hawk" Swensen fulfill her long-standing promise to reveal her true identity?

Just another piece of corroborative detail; do with it what you will.

Mamorien from the Whole Earth Grimoire" thread Wrote:(Speaking of Necron, I've thought for a while that the vignette for the "Magic" chapter should involve him muttering to the effect that he could've started the Mage Age a decade early if those fools at the University had only listened to him...)

Lupin the 3rd! 
Goemon: "Once again I have cut a worthless object..."
Can I get a HELLZ YEAH?! ^_^

So, I was rather surprised to find that this song wasn't listed in the arsenal, and a forum search didn't turn it up either.

Quote:This Land Is Your LandWords and Music by Woody Guthrie

This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;

From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters

This land was made for you and Me.

As I was walking that ribbon of highway,

I saw above me that endless skyway:

I saw below me that golden valley:

This land was made for you and me.

I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;

And all around me a voice was sounding:

This land was made for you and me.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,

And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,

As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:

This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking I saw a sign there

And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."

But on the other side it didn't say nothing,

That side was made for you and me.

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,

By the relief office I seen my people;

As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking

Is this land made for you and me?

Nobody living can ever stop me,

As I go walking that freedom highway;

Nobody living can ever make me turn back

This land was made for you and me.

Supertemps says that "Rynkar is located on the opposite side of the Milky Way from Earth", so we probably don't need to figure out its location more specifically than that. My brain, however, has found itself doing the math on the location of the Confederation home cluster, and in the process, I started trying to figure out where Myrr's primary is.

I actually narrowed the latter down first. P.IST36 says it's "ten light-years from ours, toward the edge of the galaxy." In OTL, there are only five stars at that distance (at least according to Wikipedia), and only one that's on the side of our sky away from the center of the galaxy: e Eridani.

Identifying the Confederation cluster is a little harder; Bob says only that it's "over a thousand light-years away, towards the center of the galaxy" (p.IST35). Getting more specific than that would require knowing how much over a thousand light-years, and whether it's a globular cluster or just an open cluster. (I picked up the terms from the 4e version of GURPS Space, then went to Wikipedia to find out what the known ones are. Then again, I'm assuming it is one of the known ones, if only because I have trouble believing that many stars could hide from our sight.) If it's a globular cluster, the nearest one of those in the right general direction is M4, a "mere" 7200ly away. If it's an open cluster, there are several in the right direction at the right minimum range. (I'm tickled by M23 myself, but that's probably over-egging the beer...)

Story here, along with Guillermo del Toro making the announcement himself in a video.

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

Looks like they would like to. It would make life so much easier. I'll just leave the link here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the- ... ords-laws/

Finally got around to scraping it together after two yars of crazy work deadlines and general life suck:
http://istaleph.wordpress.com/

If anyone is interested. Not much yet, but I expect to add to it bit by bit...

M
Michael R. Smith (lastfreehuman@gmail.com)
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Okay, this kinda bugs me.  What, you may ask?  I'll show you - a snippet of a translation for Book 1 of the Log Horizon Light Novels.

Quote:After Henrietta joins in, the 4 of them talked about
their experiences so far and summarize their situation... But it has
only been half a day, they don't really understand what is happen.