I was coming out of the building into the parking lot when I saw a crowd of parents and their kids streaming into the adjacent building. I went over to a guard I knew.
"What's the event?
"The circus is in town."
"The state Republicans are holding a convention?"
*drum roll*
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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

D-Shape - the 3D printer that makes buildings.

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

I forgot to take a USB memory drive out of my pocket before washing that pair of jeans... Is it safe to plug the device in (once it finishes drying), or should I just hit it with a hammer now?

(Luckily, most of what was on it was backed up.)
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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

...this one might suit:

She lacked nothing that is to be found in a carefully detailed fashion-plate – in fact, she might be said to have something more than the average fashion-plate female possesses; in place of a vacant, expressionless stare she had character in her face.  It must be admitted that it was bad character, cold, hostile, inquisitorial, with a sinister lowering of one eyebrow and a merciless hardness about the corners of the mouth.  One might have imagined histories about her by the hour, histories in which unworthy ambition, the desire for money, and an entire absence of all decent feeling would play a conspicuous part.

- Saki, Morlvera

Lolsearching random crap, I was quite surprised to find that despite living in a bathtub and having a buncha suggestively shaped tentacles, there's no Rule 34 to be found on the nBSG Cylon type called Hybrids, the ones who run the Basestars. Sure, they're loopier than an air show, but when has that stopped the internet? Clearly I must have missed something, for as we all know,

NO EXCEPTIONS!
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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

 Starting this evening at 4PM PST a double xp event will be activated until 10AM PST Monday. Over the weekend when I'm on and there are interested parties I'll give a hand running missions, adventure packs or Alerts.
That is all!..for now..maybe?
Terr

I was stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force in the 80's where one of the more colorful workers named Marv used to say 'I've been beaten like a red-headed stepchild. Marv came from the northen alabama area and it was a popular saying in his day. I got to saying that every once a while.
Fast forward to today. I was at wargaming tourney at Ft. Knox and getting my glutinues maximus handed to me. I said said "I am being beaten like a red headed stepchild". Everyone looked at me funny. Turns out they never heard of that saying. And this is the south. What ever happened to those good ole collequiallism's?
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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

All be it a little... squishier XD
http://sakkysa.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5s00q9
There is no coincidence, only necessity....
- Clow Reed

It was a Potterfic, where the Dursleys were actually some sort of magical constructs designed to be as odious as possible as advanced training for house elves, and Harry somehow got stuck in the trainee position by mistake. I remember it was pretty short - it's not exactly a deep concept - but can't even come up with a phrase to search by. Anyone remember some more identifying features?
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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

Sedition Wars—Personal Impressions

Well, we got our sets and this is what I’ve gathered from them so far . . ..

#1.  Man, these maps are dark.  They must not have been reviewed properly before they were printed.  Or, the proofs they got back weren’t indicative of the final product.  Still playable, though you do have to look close at some areas to see if that’s an open path or a wall.

#2.  This isn’t a Fantasy Flight game.  The counters are . . . poor.  They did try to do a good job, and, it looks like this may have been a result of the rush to get them re-printed.  They rip easily when punching them out, but, there’s nothing special about the counters, so they’re perfectly usable.

#3.  Not all the cards are the same size nor the same texture.  Nor even the same printing.  Okay, that looks more like some are printed to be flipped vertically and some horizontally . . . haven’t found any other discrepancies, but we’re looking close.

#4.  Great googly moogly, that’s a lot of figures.  I got a “Keep Firing” set so, that’s three copies of the game and all the extra shwag.  We’re looking at over 300 figures from that (and our GITD set) alone with about 100 more coming in the future.  MonkeyFist is only about 1/3 through assembly what we already have.

#5.  A lot (if not all) of the figures are requiring tooling.  Either extensive pinning or heating and twisting to fit correctly (in some cases, both).  Not really a problem, but, a little annoying.  The plastic is stubborn and cools quickly so I only have a few seconds to get it aligned correctly before I have to re-heat it.

#6.  The instructions are . . . odd.  Sure, they make sense when you first read them, but, once you try to play the game, you spend a lot of time re-reading the manual.  They’re poorly-organized, though they seem well-organized at first glance.  And some rules seem to be missing.  To make matters worse, there is a standing “Awaiting FAQ” thread at their forums that are only about 1% answered as of today (and the thread has been up since the 17th).

#7.  The rules need to be more clear.  In some cases a game-changing rule interpretation requires you to be intimately familiar with how each of the rules are written to catch subtle variations in phrasing.

#8.  The balance is off.  Even after taking some of the rules that had to be re-interpreted and the resulting “softening” of some of the units, the prices and abilities of the units don’t mesh. 

#9.  Heh!  Cylons vs The Borg!  AWESOME!

All-in-all, even with what I’ve said above, the game is good.  We’re in the pay-to-play Beta phase, and, I hope, we’ll get new copies of the rule books when they go back in and re-write them (it’s desperately needed at this point).  I hope they do this as the game shouldn’t be released to the general public with its rules in this state.  You can tell there’s a great game here, it’s just covered by a bunch of mud.