...the middle of July, when Peg and I pack up and join a whole bunch of family in beach houses on Long Beach Island.
Surf City, where the house we've rented every year for nearly the last decade is located, was very very well protected by dunes and a long, steep beach, so our place came through Hurricane Sandy pretty much untouched.  Which makes us very happy. 
The last two years we've been able to make use of a nearby open wifi node and I'm assuming it's still going to be there, so my presence online will likely be pretty much unchanged.  In fact, I suspect that if I didn't post this message, no one would even notice that we were on vacation... 
Maybe this year I'll post photos from my phone or something so you can see more of where we hang out than the WWI munitions warning signs. 
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

So, yeah. I just got back from the early show. I'll make this short and simple:

You. Are. Going. To. See. This. Movie.

That is all.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

I was already considering taking a break. But the latest "Patch" broke the game so hard it's not even funny. 
Say goodbye to emotes. 

No really. Seriously. I couldn't believe it either. THERE ARE NO MORE EMOTES IN THE GAME. 

Yes - it's some kind of bug. But bugs don't get fixed in Champions except after months and months. And frankly they were ridiculously low on emotes in the first place. 

It's just one of many things - the lockbox only content. The neglect. 

I may be back - never say never of course. But I'm not going to be back until they fix what they broke and give us real new content that IS NOT IN A LOCKBOX. 

Just friggin sad, really. 

So! Anyone for DCUO?

Seen on the SJGames forums:

On the SJGames forums, whitecloud197 Wrote:This past weekend during a Star Trek Convention,

I had the Honor of Meeting Cassandra Kirk, A 20 year old Edmonton college student, She is a remarkable, and Inspiring Individual and she has Entered the AXE Apollo Space Academy Contest. She is Currently in Spot 30 out of tens of thousands of entry participants. She is Striving for Number One Spot to Win a Trip to Outer space, to further her goal of one day becoming the next Canadian Astronaut.

Please fallow this Link and Vote for Her, http://captaincassandrakirk.webs.com/ Even tho this might mean nothing to you, it means a lot to her, and having met her, I would love nothing more then to support her and help make her the next Canadian Astronaut.

Thanks everyone for your Support!!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... n-proposed]CNN:  National park on the moon proposed.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I was volunteering for the VA Educational section when I was out of work in 2009-2010. One of the looming problems the counselors told me that veterans going to school were going to for profit schools when the schools were saying that jobs will be available for them when they graduate.  So, after accumulating maybe 20, 40, maybe even 60K of debt when they get out, are we looking at the next generation of U.S. college graduates who are going have to wait 10, 15 or even 20 years before they climb themselves out of the hole? And what about those that do not finish their degree?
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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

With the switch from Yahoo Mail Classic now being mandatory, and yet again being stuck on PSPotato due to the third failure of a laptop in under a year, I can't even get in to their site at all - just the login page overflows available memory, for crying out loud! So, I need to find a new free web based email provider, with at least basic functionality when all scripting is turned off. Any suggestions?

ETA - Gmail is not an option for the same reason
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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

A few of you may have heard of Copellion. It's a manga set 15 years after an earthquake and tsunami damaged a nuclear power plant and caused a meltdown, irradiating the area around Tokyo and forcing it to be evacuated. It was slated for an animated adaptation in 2011. Which was shelved after an earthquake and tsunami damaged a nuclear power plant and triggered a meltdown.

Well. Some footage was recently shown at a French anime event. ( I think it was France.)


It looks beautiful in animation. The original manga had a definite Japanese Stalker feel to its visuals - with genetically engineered radiation-resistant schoolgirls making their way through the decayed abandoned ruins of old Tokyo to find survivors.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

Did you make a wish and tie it to a bamboo stalk?

(And does anyone know what the weather was like in Japan? Did the lovers get to meet this year?)
--
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

A cubicle anime about civil servants
You have as the main characters:
1.  The former noob of the department who is now their sempai. Note: you do not ask the new newbies what to do now. And don't tell them "Please work yourselves like a dog for the civilians."
2.  The slacker - He has 3 questions:
     A.  When is lunch break?
     B.  Where is the smoking area?
     C.  Where's the place I won't get caught slacking off?  
3. The one with low confidence - she's getting to the old maid stage (24 years old?) and it's her first time at a job. It looks she's ready to cry at the customer service desk. I share her pain...customer service is not my thing either.
4. The dedicated one - who is a a mission of vengeance.
The work setting seems to be at the city/ward welfare administration department. The closest show I can see this being is Parks and Recreations...or a Japanese version of Dilbert.
Just one question..what's jugem jugem in japanese?
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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