[url=]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books ... 66.html?hp[/url]
He will be missed.
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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

I've been been sick the past few days, and still have no voice from coughing though the fever seems to be backing off, which somehow always seems to translate into doing some P&P art. This time, it ended up being Orihime smut, as I've been reading the Bleach Quest archives in between feeling miserable... and while I initially tried to keep it all very separate from my usual usernames etc. I figure that everyone's opinions of me are as low as they're apt to get from such things already, and I'm a needy internet artist, so check out the link, then get down to that little box at the bottom of the page and praise me! Praise me! Praise me!

Link is to a pastebin with URLS for the Rule 34 pages that actually have the art. Standard age/taste warnings apply. If smut is not your thing, the second one is just nudes hugging, not anything actually explicit.

http://pastebin.com/vrqiKgUe

See? I said it was a worksafe thread. Just make sure you keep it that way even when you praise me! Note that as you should expect from the name, the actual host site when you copy and paste the URLs is VERY, VERY, VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK, AT ALL, EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WHATSOEVER.

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Praise me! Tobi is a good boy.
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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

It's that time again!  No, it's not time to spin the Wheel of Morality (TM), it's time to select panelists for the Anime Central 2014 Fanfiction Panel!

Anime Central (www.acen.org) will take place on May 16-18 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois.  If you're going to be attending Acen and you're interested in being on the panel, please send the following information:

1.  Your name or preferred handle.

2.  Your real name, if different.  By that I mean full, real name, including first and last names for the panel review board.

3.  A list of your preferred works, including any you may have written in the past year.

4.  The URL of your website, if any, or where your works can be found.

5.  If you've been on a fanfic panel before, and if so, where.

6.  (OPTIONAL) Why you'd like to be on the panel.

Please private mail me at pmui1@NOSPAMPLEASE.prodigy.net by December 1 if you're interested.  The panel will be selected shortly after that.

(I'm sure you know what to remove--it's in capitals.) 

Hope to hear from you soon!

--Pearson "Doc" Mui

City of Titans Kickstarter

I don't know how many folks have been following this, but Missing Worlds Media - a group of former City of Heroes players - has launched their kickstarter for a community-created successor MMO. They aim to put out something playable in 2015. This was previously called the Phoenix Project, if you were tracking that.

Article: http://www.incgamers.com/2013/09/phoeni ... -to-launch

Now, I'm not getting my hopes up too far - I can't fault their enthusiasm, but I'm not sure how much technical capacity or bandwidth the team has. This is ultimately a fan project. But it is a labour of love, and even if I have my doubts, I'll probably toss at least a little bit of funding their way.
-- Acyl

Jefferson County, AL is in debt to the tune of $5 billion bucks. All due to amoral bankers (who didn't go to jail) and greedy, corrupt politicians (who did go to jail). As a result, county government cut services to the bone. So what does it have to do with me? Well, I was due to get my car registration tags renewed. I had not received my notice. So I had to go to the only place in Jefferson county to renew. They closed all the other offices. I showed up @ 700 in the morning. This is what I saw :

Now the line extends to the end of the block..which is about a 1/4 mile long.

And this is my place in line. I was finally done at 1130. Could be worse. Last year it took me till 2:30 in the afternoon.  So if ever a government you live under defaults, there are consequences. What is worse is I have a sewer bill of $60 per month and set to go higher. How high I got no idea. I told the people managing the complex that if it starts inching to 80 per month, I'm going to move to another county.
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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

... Is tomorrow and I'mma gonna be there!
Voice Actor Panel, a Ghostbusters Squad, a Platoon from the 501st, and a Back to the Future III DeLorean... as well as voice actor script reading!
So, look for the fat guy in either the Flash hoodie, House Stark T-shirt, or both... with the big ol' sideburns and goatee....
''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

I just stumbled over your post in the recent thread about TVTropes at rpg.net.  Laudre had it right, I am in no way editing anything there -- in fact, I was banned after I left in one of those oh-so-convincing face-saving "And stay out!" moves.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

They're holding the local Oktoberfest celebrations this weekend. Yes, I know it isn't October yet; this is like having March Break in April.

They've got food - from a Scottish-style pub, an Indian takeout place, a chip wagon, and a grocery store. Oh, and a general-style restaurant from out of town that happens to sell the occasional schnitzel.

They've got beer - ales, ambers, and pales. And a cider. No pilsners.

They've got music - local folk and rock acts.

I'm so depressed. We used to have a thriving German community in town...
--
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

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/us/new-li ... ?hpt=hp_t3]Scientists make pseudo-matter out of light.  They've found a way to coalesce photons into a matter-like state that forms molecules.  Let me repeat that:  molecules made of light.  And one of the scientists on the project has basically said this is the basis for a real-world light sabre.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Don't ask me how I got my hands on a pre-release copy of the Blu-Ray disk, but yeah.  And I was wondering if anyone else who saw it felt that some of the animation looked so good that it felt like it had been actually filmed live?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.