On the 3nd day on vacation today. Arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday. I missed the sunny blue sky, even with the smog! Didn't miss the traffic though.
Spent a pleasant first day with my teenaged nieces. Heaven help the boys they will be dating eventually. My brother already has the shotgun out. A brand new experience for me..shopping with the girls in a mega mall. Highly amusing in fact. 
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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

Right with the coming of the PS Vita (and Sony's wish to finally kill UMD) I have decided to list all the games on UMD that I've got for people to look at and no doubt say it sucked, or is better on x or is available on the EU/US/JP PSN. This list is for that and may just indicate what games I thought were the best fit for the PSP.

• Ace Combat X
• Ace Combat Joint Assault
• Crazy Taxi
• EA Replay - Original Syndicate
• Gran Turismo
• Final Fantasy
• Final Fantasy 2
• Final Fantasy 4
• Final Fantasy 7:Crisis Core
• Justice League Heroes
• Lumines 1 & 2
• Lunar
• Midway Arcade Treasures:EP
• NFS:Undercover
• Ridge Racer 1 & 2
• Sakura Taisen/Wars 1 & 2
• SNK Arcade Classics
• SOCOM FTB 1 & 2
• Soulcalibur
• Star Ocean 1 & 2
• Star Trek: Tactical Assault - A game I find hard
• Star Wars Battlefront 2
• Star Wars Battlefront renegade squadron
• Star Wars:force unleashed
• Street Fighter alpha 3
  
• Tekken DR
• Tenchu
• Test Drive Unlimited
• Valkyrie Profile Lenneth

 Play it!
*Spoiler!*

 Penny Yin is in it and...whoa..she's now badass! You'll see what I mean when you give it a whirl.

Since HRogge noticed inconsistencies on a couple of pages, and identified them in a way that didn't match the way I identified pages with inconsistencies... I've created a new tag to put at the top of pages that have problems.

Add {{Cleanup}} to the very top of a page, and not only will http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... te:Cleanup]a nice, big, somewhat-boring notice be added to the page, it will also be listed http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... of_cleanup]in a centralized location. It would be polite to say why you added the Cleanup tag to a page, too.

(The boring nature of the notice is intentional, by the way - that encourages people to do something to warrant removing it.)

Note that I didn't actually fix the problems, I just highlighted them...
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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

It's been almost a year since it last appeared, but on Friday my intermittent Net connection failure problem came back.  And as of last night, it dropped and nothing that I and the telephone tech support folks at Comcast can do is able to fix it; it's been dead for about 9 hours as of the moment I type this.  I've got a tech coming out to the house tomorrow night, and hopefully he can fix it.  Until then, though, no COH and no appearances here outside of work hours.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Assumptions:

1. Magic use is some kind of energy or force (in the scientific sense) manipulation ability, through means as yet unexplained

2. Expressing magic in humans requires certain genetic traits, and takes the forms of various rare talents as well as casting

3. While some talents may be located or modified by other sites, the primary cluster of magic genes is in that part of the X chromosome that is missing on the Y

Conclusions:

A. Women are more likely to have some kind of magic talent, since they have two X chromosomes

B. Men who do have magic, are more likely to have strong magic because they don't have a second X to interfere

C. Women are more likely to have multiple talents, because they have an X from each parent

Question:

Is an all-traits-positive XX combination significantly better than the same combination in XY? I don't know enough genetics to be sure, but it seems like having the same information twice over shouldn't make a difference, or not much of one.

Thoughts?

- CD
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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, I saw The Secret World of Arrietty this evening... Good movie, definitely a family film (not a kids' movie, but one they'll enjoy too), and a decent dub (the actress they cast for Arrietty was spot-on). Not wanting to wait for Disney's home-video release (and not wanting to help fund Disney's part in backing SOPA), I'll be ordering a copy from CDJapan later this week.

I believe blackaeronaut called this one "bittersweet" - he's right, but given what happens in the story, that's the only reasonable way for it to end. They set up a particular ending, and they have the courage to see it through to that ending - no rabbits out of hats here.

The flying scene is not quite an hour into the movie. It is Studio Ghibli, after all.

Lovely music, composed by http://www.cecile-corbel.com/en/home.html - I'll be getting the soundtrack from CDJapan as well, and looking in the local record stores for her other albums.

I'm happy...
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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

Put on a seatbelt. Watch this trailer.
Prepare to have your mind blown!

Okay, I admit it... I'm jealous that I didn't come up with this first.


--
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

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