So, I posted this over in General, and I decided to post it over here too.

Quote:If you want to clean this stupid fan,
It's not as easy as you plan...
You see, the battery and the screws should be removed,
And then three pannels with more screws,
Behind them, now it gets involved...
Start to slide the optical drive out,
"He means the DVD drive"
Take out the hard drive and this plug,
"Just grip the tag and pull upwards"
Look how they hide the screws,
Under parts that we remove,
I think it's pretty clear, that we're not welcome..

Why's it have to be complicated,
All I wanted to do was clean the fan,
"Clean the fan, as good as new,
But spic and span is hard to do",
I just wanted a simple pannel,
So I can get to the fan without the fuss.

But I guess they made it like that so that you can't clean it and then
it runs out of warranty and you end up having to by another one because
it's broken... Great.

Disconnect the wifi cables,
"All of this just to clean a fan"
Undo these clips to free the RAM,
"RAM means; Random Access Memory"
Now we flip the whole thing over,
Take the top half off,
I'll show you how,
To take it all apart,
But don't go yanking on it because there's still cables attached to it..

Turn the screws to free the keyboard off,
"unplug it before you go tugging it off"
Then start unplugging all the plugs,
"Plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug"
Now the battery case and speakers,
Bare in mind that speakers have a magnet,
So just keep them free,
From any piece of circuitry.

Why's it have to be complicated,
All I wanted to do was clean the fan,
"Clean the fan, as good as new,
But spic and span is hard to do",
I just wanted a simple pannel,
So I can get to the fan without the fuss.

Now we reach the sad part of this song,
"Sad part"
A choice to make before we can go on proceed,
"That doesn't rhyme"
See, if you want the fan to part,
From processor and graphics card,
You'll have no choice but to remove,
Some thermal gel, you can't reuse,
But you've come so far, so why refuse,
To buy a tiny tube of thermal gel?

"Lift this up,
Don't forget about the plug,
Then a couple more screws,
And we can finally begin to.."

"Clean the fan as good as new,
But spic and span is hard to do.."

"So much fluff,
Gets stuck inside the heatsink,
Why is there no easy way to clean this?"

Clean the fan, clean the fan,
Clean the faa, aa, aaaa, aan yeah,
And then improvise yeah,
And say lots of phrases that don't make sense,
Do some twiddly bits,
And, and go really high,
Yyyyeee, eee, eeh, ehh, yeah,
Oooh baby,
Make sure you say baby,
Cos everyone says baby,
Yeah, baby yeah,
Bay, bay, bay, bay, baby.

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I don't know how many people here are members of the SFWA, although I do know the number is not zero. Those who are might want to consider signing the Convention Anti-Harassment Policy on the SFWA website. There's context and a link to it here:
http://www.sfwa.org/2013/07/anti-harass ... a-writers/

(tl;dr: If your convention doesn't have an anti-harassment policy, or has one but doesn't publicize it, don't expect many SFWA members as con guests.)
--
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

Over a pitcher of fluorescing ‘Witch Head’ lambic, specialty of the Ale Blue Dot Nanobrewpub, Van Loan punctuated a sloshed treatise with a deep fried spear of  pickled zucchini. His audience, the five members of the Modular Orchestral Transcription band Fugue State, faces eerily under-lit by the phantasmal blue light of the brew in the dark, cardice swirled interior of the pub’s melodramatic interior, watched his pickled performance with  amused interest.
“... You schee,” He stabbed Zucchini at the band members :  “itsch rheally schimple! Mushic ish schience, UND,” he channeled his inner Rotwang, “schience IST mushic!” He chomped his organic pointer.
“Ohhhh, Deep!” The bottle-blonde pixie Japanese drummer, Suki2-- Suki Suki to her friends-- enthused so intently that one might suspect irony if one did not know Suki Suki : her only affection was her hair.
“You play, then?” The question, lobbed with an inquisitive twinkle, emanated from the most bewilderingly beautiful intersection of physical traits that belonged to the Lead Guitar, Asada Strangelove. Her genetic heritage could only be expressed as  Transcendent Pan-Racial : she was a Teutonic Indian Meso-American African intersect that was somehow impossibly gorgeous. Her ice blue almond eyes further tapered with elegantly applied Elizabeth ‘Cleo’ Taylor makeup and separated by a decidedly Roman nose, dilated with pleased humour. Even her rich and  oddly burred voice seemed distributed across the tracts of many lands.
“Ab-shou-utely!” Enthused Van Loan. “I have a collhection of shur-a...Schera...heh, I might be a thad dhrunk!” That was good for a group giggle. Van Loan took a deep breath, collected his scattered, wandering wiles ; and enunciated : “I co-llect and play ther-e-mins!”
“Ther-a-whats?” Khimera Chang, five-foot-four Japanese Second Guitar was floored by the fact that there was some sort of musical instrument that had escaped her knowledge.
Asada winked at Van Loan : “Radio frequency modulated tones utilizing the heterodyne principle.”
“Oh!” Chang decided to accept that nugget of esoterica with a pull off of her Shirley Temple.
Asada addressed the decidedly even more green than Wandblume final member of the band, Dazzle Ardent. “Think we can incorporate a theremin into Der Rock Ring des Nibelungen ? “
The punk Orion, all spiky raven hair, piercings  and dark eyes grinned roguishly ruby lips. “You’d think that my Moog would be up to it, but I couldn’t get a decent theremin out of it if I fucked Apollo himself!”
“Leave it to Dazz to express herself so colourfully!” The dry comment dropped by the ebon Kenyan bassist, Aerial Cypher, was almost as rich as the full bodied notes she could trick out of her Gibson. “A theremin in the band would be the cat’s ass! I say give him a go!”
Van Loan bowed,  lost his footing ; planted his forehead in the corn chip guacamole.
Asada surveyed the band. “All in favour say, ‘Awesome!’
The reply was loud, unanimous and affirmative.
“We’ll audition you during our gig at your reception, tomorrow night.”
“Huzzah! I’ll bhreak out Blhack Bhetty : she’s my scherious rhock’n out ghirl!” van Loan poured out a round, even managing to fill at least fifty four percent of the targeted tabled tankards.
A resounding toast of, “Rock on, Wagner!” sloshed a sizable strobed spray of luminous suds as the dance floor lighting commenced. The band, a unit, steered the man of the hour towards the dance floor.
****
Wandblume was in the midst of amassing suitable table settings at the The Island’s Holy Matrimony! emporium when she abruptly found herself surrounded by a black garbed  tactical team. A fancy black doily in one hand, and a swath of green taffeta tablecloth in the other, Wandblume looked positively piqued at the interruption.
“Rain check, boys! I’ve got a marriage to plan, attend, receive & honeymoon! She held up her wristwatch wrist. “Come back in, say, twenty four hours and whisk me away.”
The squad leader, feminine under the bulky ‘Sam Fishers’ touched her throat mike.
“Vigil, Vendor reporting : the Jade consignment’s secured.”
Wandblume snorted. “Jade. Cute.”
“Vendor, delegate consignment delivery.”
The fact that Wandblume could actually hear the command chatter confused her. It seemed like terrible unit protocol until it became patently obvious to her that she was meant to hear the conversation : it was Mikuru of the recently spanked Patrol.
Vendor snapped up her helmet’s smoked visor, a bemused expression clouding her pretty puss.
“Delegate, Vigil?”
“You’ve got a wedding to prep, Vendor! Jade, brief her!”
Wandblume sniggered, handing over her samples to the chagrinned looking Vendor. “Black, green & blue colour scheme for forty guests in a fifty square meter hall. Here’s the guest list for place setting tags.” She fished a PDA out of a pocket, added it to the items in Vendor’s hands. “Don’t make it too paramilitary!” Chuckling, she presented her hands for cuffing and her head for bagging. “Okay, Mikuru, time to spank the Doe!”
****
“Good day for a martial wedding!” Vendor, pushing a cart piled high with sundry articles, exited from the store directly across from Holy Matrimony! She sang a bit of this store’s advertising campaign as she headed towards  Space Truck’n cargo rentals : “Survive with taste, outlive the waste, entrust the taste of Jim Bob’s!”

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/showbiz/e ... ?hpt=hp_t2]Elmore Leonard has passed away.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

They see you as small and helplessThey see you as just a childSurprise when they find out that a
Warrior will soon run wildPrepare for your greatest momentsPrepare for your finest hourThe dream that you've always dreamed
Is suddenly about to flower
We are lightningStraying from the thunderMiracles of ancient wonder
This will be the day we've waited forThis will be the day we open up the doorI don't wanna hear your absolutionHope you're ready for a revolutionWelcome to a world of new solutions
Welcome to a world of bloody evolutionIn time your heart will open mindsA story will be told
And victory is in a simple soul
Your world needs a great defenderYour world's in the way of harmYou want a romantic life
A fairytale that's full of charm
Beware that the light is fadingBeware as the dark returnsThis world is unforgiving
Even brilliant lights will cease to burn
Legends scatterDay and night will severHope and peace are lost forever
This will be the day we've waited forThis will be the day we open up the doorI don't wanna hear your absolutionHope you're ready for a revolutionWelcome to a world of new solutions
Welcome to a world of bloody evolutionIn time your heart will open mindsA story will be told
And victory is in a simple soul
-- Jeff Williams featuring Casey Lee Williams, "This Will Be The Day", from RWBY
(And y'know, I would just love to see a piece of fanart with Sailor Moon and Ruby Rose back-to-back, facing a horde of enemies together...)
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

If you're driving a motorcycle (hell, anything really), make sure you pay attention to what's going on in front of the car in front of you (at least!).On the bright side, I got away with only some fairly impressive bruises. On the not so bright side, as least 2-3 thousand in damage between my bike and the car.

I know CSI did an episode on the Fen, but what about NCIS?  With the Stingray launching in 2012, and their history of actually getting naval vessels to shoot on and their habit of at least trying to get it right, they might well do a better job of it than CSI.  Especially if the Ninja proceeded to continually photobomb CSI after their bad episode on the fen.

In fact, it could be a replacement plot for the overall arc of Season 10, with them getting called Up to deal with a crewmember of the Stingray that was murdered via being kicked out an airlock in the main belt; and actually have the cast and crew go Up to shoot it.  Any ideas?

I was going through the Faction page on the wiki (all but one of the Minor Factions now have quickie writeups, BTW) when I remembered that there were still parts of the Senshi page that weren't written. So I took a look at what wasn't there. (I patronize a very good optometrist.) One of those sections is "Religion," which currently has only the template boilerplate text:

Quote:(TO BE DEVELOPED: if there's an official religion, give it a quick description; otherwise, discuss what religions if any are practiced by noticeable groups in the faction)

Once upon a time, there was a collection of fairytales. This was a wise collection, in the way that the everyday person was wise, and it knew things that the more literary collections did not. But it was not as beloved as the literary collections of fairytales, so it went into a deep, deep sleep for over a hundred and fifty years, until it was awakened by a cultural curator...

But this isn't a fairytale; this is real life, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/m ... ed-germany]according to The Guardian. And that page has a link to a translation of one of the tales.
--
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