For when Doug needs to coordinate any arbitrarily sized group:

Effects:1. Removes any and all possible penalties to teamwork.2. Engenders a mood of high optimism and excitement in all team members.3. Team members work in perfect coordination towards the completion of the designated task.4. Doug chooses the task to coordinate on at the start of the song.
5. Doug designates the team members at the start of the song*, and non-team members who wish to join in may do so.5. Team members who do not desire to work towards the task do not have to (but see 2.)
*Basic willingness towards  doing the task or listening to Doug is required (maybe? not sure about this)
I think that captures the song quite well.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

Broadcasting to you from the semi-high (7- 8000 ft or so) mountains of Southeastern New Mexico.
The net situation here is not so dire as I thought it would be. Mom's actually got a pretty decent rig. It's no T1 pipeline, but it'll let me get on and game with little or no lag. The only dicey part came in the setup. I'm alllllll the way at the other end of the house from the router and mom wasn't enthusiastic about me stringing 100 ft of network cable to the router (though I think she'd have let me if it came to no other option). But apparently that lightning strike from about a year and a half ago that fried my power supply and video card ALSO fried any way to get online wirelessly via the usual wireless method of an attachment directly to the motherboard via PCI card. I just hadn't -noticed- it in all this time because I'd never attempted to use wireless before. But one USB wireless adapter port later (thank god for having 8 USB ports scattered around the tower) and a little judicious jiggery pokery with positioning to get a good signal (4 out of 5 bars) and I'm cooking with gas. 
(Of course I am now doomed to be the in-house tech support. But it was like that with my dad, so this is nothing new.)
Thanks also to Drogen for letting me crash at his place for a night. It made the rest of the trip a lot easier. 

For now arrangements are being made with my brother who assures me he'll be extra careful storing the stuff I had to leave behind. He knows how important some of it is to me, even if he doesn't share my interests. He'll actually be carrying some of the essentials up here himself later (since he was going to visit Mom himself sometime this summer). 
In the midst of all the upheaval I did take a moment to be amused by something.
I was passing a Toyota dealership on my trip and I noticed that they had one of those inflatable displays - you know the type. Usually looking a lot like a cartoony version of Godzilla or King Kong.  
Well this was Roswell New Mexico so naturally it was a giant inflatable green Alien of the "Close Encounters" type. Complete with gold "Flash Gordon" type tights and a red cape. 

I did get a picture of it with my cell phone, but I've yet to figure out how to get it from the phone to my computer or post it. So take my word for it, it looked every bit as kitschy and "Route 66 Awesome" as it sounds. Heh. Roswell is INUNDATED with this kind of imagery. When I was a small child going on trips up to the mountains I never noticed anything like this. I think sometime in the 80s-90s the inhabitants of Roswell decided en masse to embrace the UFO phenomenon and milk it (and the tourists) for all it was worth. 
Ah Roswell. ^_^

One other positive about this - the weather. It's about to get VERY hot in Texas. And I'll be dodging it in the nice relatively cool mountains. The weather is great up here. Though I'm still getting acclimated to the altitude. (WHEEZE WHEEZE...)

So my forced relocation isn't ALL bad. 

...other than the obvious "In a Girls^3 story," of course. But it just won't leave my head.

"My name is Suu! How do you do? ... Why does everyone always tense up when I say that?"
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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

Yes, I just did a CTSNB/Powerthirst crossover.
On that note, what happens when you give the Man Your Man Could Smell Like a can of Powerthirst?  Or The Most Interesting Man In The World?

Or, you know, a vague memory is bedeviling my brain. Something like that.

See, there was a movie. I was sure Joan Jett was the female lead and the title was _Light of Day_ but that is a completely different movie, despite the lead looking and sounding like her, and the song _Light of Day_ being the theme for the ending credits. The opening credits are her, with a bunch of stuff strapped to the top of her car, singing (synched to by the character on screen) "Start spreadin' the news/I'm leavin' today/I've had enough of all the shit/in old New York" etc. but she gets caught in traffic in a tunnel under the river, and then... something or other goes wrong, and the tunnel starts to flood. She and several others then have to fight through the rising waters to get into a maintanaince tunnel or a bunkhouse used when it was under construction or something, and then escape... I don't remember exactly. I really remember it being a vehicle for Joan Jett to be a tough cookie and several of her songs to be played, which is why it's really annoying that no such movie appears in her IMDB listing, nor the Wikipedia bio.

WHAT WAS THE MOVIE, AND WHO WAS THE ACTRESS!?

Please help before I need to choose between a bottle in fronta' me and the other thing.
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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

So, bioships. I can already hear the screaming from the forums. Mind you, it's not actually that hard for me to believe. Tholian ships are at least as much work to refit, and this is the Starfleet Corps of Engineers we're talking about. Run by Scotty, and they once saved a planet from the Borg by making said planet disappear.

More importantly for me though, Mirror Universe Nova class. Tier 5 Nova without starbases! Alice can have the USS Atlas Park again.

My dad suddenly has decided to put himself into a nursing home. But I'm apparently being kicked out of the house TODAY. My brother has told me that I will not be staying in this house one more night. 
Apparently I have a home with my mom until I can get back on my own again. But that's in New Mexico, far away from most job prospects that I'm aware of. And I have no guarantee of a good internet connection in the foreseeable future. Mom has a connection, but I don't know what it is. Hell, she may be on a modem still for all I know. I'm going to TRY and find a friend to stay with in the Dallas area, but I have no guarantee of finding someone I can stay with until I can get a new job (my job the last couple of years has been keeping Dad out of the nursing home. Apparently I've failed) 

If you don't see me online for a few weeks it's because I'm trying to stay off the street anyway I can and save my belongings. 

http://io9.com/the-muppets-jesus-christ ... 1563481673]Muppet Christ Superstar
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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

Two Contraband sweeps, two officers in sickbay, and two DEAD. And this is on a Starfleet ship. WHAT.
(That said, I feel like I need to dismiss two other DOFFs, due to being in the stockade and facing court-martial.)

On April 19th, 2014, Admin The Observer of the Website "Spacebattles.com", with the approval of the only other two active Admins, RJB and Reaperman, fired Athene, previously known as Thantos, from her SuperMod position with vague reasons that did not make any sense. (Keir, the owner, not being active for long periods of time was not personally involved.),
There was no reason stated for the sudden firing of Athene, who was a Mod for 10+ years and actively donated money to Spacebattles for upkeep.
Most of the time, we would not have much of an issue with this. But The Observer attempted to lie to the entire website by calling it a willing retirement.
And posting the retirement thread one minute after telling Athene that she was fired, effectively making it official before she could even ask why she was fired.
http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ ... ng.295647/Where the Observer Lies, Athene reveals the lie, and Reaperman digs the hole even deeper.
http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ ... an.295763/Where the discussion continues, flying in the face of Reaperman's decisions to close the first thread.
http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ ... ne.295822/Where people try to get Athene back her job.
http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th ... es-com.97/A new website (Name in the works.) was made, as Athene's firing and the epic lie were the last straw for Lord Squishy, who bought and paid for a better website then what Spacebattles is run off of. In a single say almost 450 users signed up.Spacebattles has been suffering from Lag and stiff rules, with everything that was piling up this was bound to happen.
This website has the ability to out perform Spacebattles due to being more updated, and can be upgraded if need be, and will perform better even if it gets as many users as Spacebattles.
So, what do you all think? In a single day The Observer destroyed the majority of the trust people had in Spacebattles, and the users that commonly donate money to website upkeep are saying that they are no longer going to donate.
I think that Keir will notice the lack of funding, and The Observer, Reaperman, and to a certain extent RJB will have to pay for their betrayal.
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar