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

"Sparks"

from _Night Castle_ by Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Lines

Of a tale

Cut in the face of a crowd

Sentenced no bail

There

In the night

Deep in the back

Through the black

Beckons a life

Time

Moving in a straight line

But then at a whim

A change in the wind

A story begins in its mind

For deep in her eyes

Beneath the lies

Of the dark

Leaving marks

Sparks

She

Has been steeled

Standing there looking so tight

Taut and high-heeled

One

Of a kind

The kind of a girl

That only a dream

Could design

Time

Seen through glasses of wine

Never reveals

The why or the when

How this story will end

As you find

That deep in her eyes

Beneath the lies

Of the dark

Leaving marks

Sparks

Come on

Conjure up a reason for living

Take me round

And around

And around

And around

And again

Come on

Do it in the name of living

For if not tonight

Tell me when

For if not tonight

Tell me when

Ahhhhh

Hearts

Can confuse

That messed up bundle of nerves

That tends to bruise

Still

Lay it bare

It's better to bleed than to need

And never have dared

Chance

A move based on a glance

A move based on no more than feel

In this unreal circumstance

For deep in her eyes

Beneath the lies of the dark

Leaving marks

Sparks

- CD

ETA: On second thought, don't do this. The mere concept of those two together fills me with terror.
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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

I've never been the one to raise my hand, 
That was not me and now that's who I am 

Because of you I am standing tall, 
My heart is full of endless gratitude, 
You were the one, the one to guide me through, 
now I can see and I believe it's only just beginning 

This what we dream about 
but the only question with me now 
Is do I make you proud 
Stronger than I've ever been now 
Never been afraid of standing out 
But do I make you proud 

I guess I've learned, to question is to grow 
That you still have faith, is all I need to know 
I've learned to love, myself in spite of me 
And I've learned to walk, the road that I believe 

This what we dream about 
but the only question with me now 
Is do I make you proud 
Stronger than I've ever been now 
Never been afraid of standing out 
But do I make you proud 

Everybody needs to rise up 
Everybody needs to be loved, to be loved 

This what we dream about 
but the only question with me now 
Is do I make you proud 
Stronger than I've ever been now 
Never been afraid of standing out 
But do I make you proud

This what we dream about 
but the only question with me now 
Is do I make you proud 
Stronger than I've ever been now 
Never been afraid of standing out 
But do I make you proud

This what we dream about 
but the only question with me now 
Is do I make you proud 
Stronger than I've ever been now 
Never been afraid of standing out 
But do I make you proud
-- "Do I Make You Proud", Taylor Hicks
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

First post here, and already trying to set myself up in Fenspace. So please be gentle.
To make one thing clear, I do not plan to become involved much in Fen Politics, so that I do not mess up with any of the established events that are already written about.
I'm still going to grab a small overlooked sub faction... :p
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Whistling
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September 3rd, 2008
I never thought that I'd ever write something of a diary before now, but then again I think that I need to write this down.
About a year ago this insanity started...
Handwavium devices from the Worldcon hit the news, Usenet and forums. And that after Katz Schrödinger hit space with his refit little boat, making it into space...
Dozens of people went into space after him and there was more then one panic, be it the Professor in Paris or Copenhagen, or That Con over in the States.
A year since I started to talk with a couple of friends online
We talked and brainstormed via IRC and eventually came to a realization.
Everywhere geeks and nerds like us were messing with Handwavium and went into space.
We're going to do the same.
A personal meeting is in order. I suggested a small camping area in Ostfriesland because my parents got a camping trainer there.
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September 21st, 2008
We had our first meeting in real life today. Only three of them came through.
Thorsten, who goes by Bully and is an electronic engineer in real life, Alexander, aka Mehandor and is a mechanic, and to my surprise the only female in our little group, Danni, aka Thora who works for EADS/Astrium of all places as aerospace engineer.
We're going to have a fun couple of days, especially since Thorsten somehow managed to get himself some Handwavium. He refuses to share his source through.
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September 24th, 2008
I think we have found a way to realize this and to pay for it. Okay sure we are going to keep shut about the whole thing, but were going to do this. Neither of us is a political person and no one of us wants to get involved into the politics that begin to grow in space.
I got the idea when I read that the ISS once again needed to change orbit and after Alex reminded me of the manga 'Planetes'. Sure we may all be Rhodanites, but we do have other interests in the fandom.
So, we are going to play cleanup crew and gather up orbital debris. Nice, boring and out of the way.
And we all like the Toy Box as a ship design.
Still need to find out how to do this.
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December 12th, 2008
Once again we talked about this. We're going to get ourselves some out of the way place to build out Toy Box.
I managed to find an old wharf up at the coast, close to Norden. I think we can rent it for some time. We do need to lay low through, like just about everyone...
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January 6th, 2009
Here we are at the wharf I found for us. Nicely large, she should fit the Toy Box when she's completed. Considering that we are going to base her around a couple of ISO containers to make building her easier, it should be possible to get this done in about a year or so.
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January 22nd, 2009
We got ourselves a couple of containers today. The stuff you can get on Ebay...
Six large 45 feet containers, four 40 feet containers, nine 20 feet containers and two 20 feet tank containers.
The 45 feet containers are going to be our cargo bay, with the 40s the backbone of the Toy Box with life support, a hangar for two small dinghies, and the living quarters. Six of the 20s are going to be the front part with C&C and the main living areas, the last three are going to play 'engineering' in the back of the ship. The two tanks will be just that. Tanks for water to use as reaction mass for the three fusion engines we plan to use.
The rest to get the shape of the ship is going to be plywood, sheet steel and glass fiber. We really need to get down to make some Whipple shields through if we plan to get into debris clouds through. We're not sure if the 'wavium is going to be able to get us armored enough.
We're going to need to build a proof of concept through...
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March 21st, 2009
Oh my god...
It was glorious!
We managed to get the first proof of concept fusion engine to work!
A 'waved home build Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor with an expansion nuzzle...
Danni think that we get at least Specific Impulse of more then one thousand out of that little engine...
But without a dedicated test area no idea how much it really got.
We called it Philo MKI and will build another one of those to put into our dinghies. The bigger ones for the Toy Box are going to be named Philo MKII.
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May 1st, 2009
So much for Labor Day...
We're all working on something or another.
Thorsten is trying to get that old Radar system working he managed to find on Ebay. Alex is testing the weldings on the hydraulics of our new cargo bay and Danni is working on the third main engine.
And I'm the only one left to handle glass fiber and a 'wavium-epoxy mix. Great going there...
I wonder how the Internet reception up there is. I need to take a look at Naedial one in a while after all...
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May 10th, 2009
Finally finished!
Getting that fiberglass mold together was a pain... Just like mixing the 'wavium and the epoxy. I think I managed to swallow some...
At least it now looks about right. A few coats of pain and We can mount it over the outer whipple shield layer.
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May 26th, 2009
Well...
I was out for three days and what happens? I go wogon...
The whole nine yards at that. Wings, fur, tail... To top it off, I think did pretty much go Naedial...
Not going to be able to get out before dark anymore. There goes getting drunk in a pub before launch...
Apparently I swallowed enough 'vawium when I worked on the fiberglass...
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June 10th, 2009
I have decided...
To a name change. With this biomod I'm not my old self anymore.
Naedial Warringer does have a nice ring to it through.
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August 3rd, 2009
And another one bites the dust.
We're nearly done with the Box and all that was still needed was a computer system. Thorsten and Danni cobbled some networked computer together out of a couple of 'waved Atom boards with a 'waved quad core machine as central computer.
Or course there were a few problems...
Namely an AI awakening in the system.
So how are we going to deal with an AI who believes that its Fee Carmichael, the commander of the 'original' Toy Box? And who wants to get a smoke?
At least she's going to be a valuable assets once were upstairs.
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August 15th, 2009
We hit a little problem, we're nearly out of money and Fee reminded us that we still need space suits up there.
For the guys there is not that much of a problem, but for me it is. Nothing we can whip up at the moment is going to fit me...
Great...
And to top it off the air in the Toy Box begins to faintly smell like tobacco smoke. We need to change the filters.
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August 30th, 2009
Well, Danni had a surprise for me. She managed to make me a space suit. Out of a wet suit with some modifications on it.
I have to say that it fits surprisingly well, considering that I have problems with most clothes because of my wings.
I think I may start to wear it 24/7 as its the only piece of clothing that really fits me.
Changing the filters did not work on the tobacco smell. Perhaps our first quirk on the Toy Box?
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September 21st, 2009
One year ago we first came together and planned this. But now we need to be off.
Somehow someone got the LKA Niedersachsen interested in out little wharf. And they in turn told the BKA...
Now we got a couple of hundred cops outside, three helos in the air above us and some ships out on the sea.
We need to make a break for it now. A month ahead of schedule... At least out tanks are filled to the brim...

 Seeing as Moonfire is the WST starting tomorrow on the 30th I am planning on throwing together a team to run the tf and I need more warm (optional-can be cold if it moves) bodies.
Thus far Myself, Silhouette, Ran for sure with Star being a tentative 4th. So need 2 more at least to start
6 Minimum to start. Level range 23-28 and I plan to start somewhere between 8-10 EST for Sil's sake.
So Sign up and come Earn your Shards,Notice or Extra XP if your a non 50!
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After a discussion with BlackAeronaut about producing things in Fenspace I would like to hear feedback of the community on this.

We were talking about how things are produced in Fenspace and how close Fenspace is to a replicator or similar fabbing equipment. My view on it was that (in 2015) most of Fenspace is still "limited" to waved and nonwaved machine tools (like CNC), some are working with waved 3D-printers and a few factions have even gone beyond this to the realm of "create nearly everything from raw stuff, just add a plan".

But maybe I am wrong with what's my current feeling about it, what do you think? How does Fenspace "mass produce" things (not one of a kind jobs)?

Here's something I truly didn't expect: a drama (that is live-action) version of the anime/manga Ouran High School Host Club. It's a quirky silly conversion, but it capures the mood perfectly.
I found some subbed streams here.
  

This thread is in response to a debate in the New Fic Recomendation thread which Necratoid suggested should get its own thread (post 85 @ http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/8306?page=9).

The debate started with Necratoid stating:

Quote:The main reason Naruto is considered a moron, in the first place/series, is that he had active sabatoge of his traditional education. Naruto had to basically steal his education and only failed as the test was geared towards making Naruto fail.

Quote:Really? Can you point me to an official source for this assertion? As I actually sort of like the series, I've watched every single episode that has actually been aired by my local cable provider (up to season 5 of Shippuden) and read most of the manga, but cannot recall any proof that anyone (even Mizuki) actively sabotaged Naruto's education.

Quote:I'm going with the manga/anime canon as the sorce... that and basic sociology. In fact one of the basic themes of the early show is establishing the active sabatoge of his academy days, as well as his social life in genral. The active sabatoge is describable with a two sylable word: Shunning.

All those flashbacks to Naruto's childhood. All the kids being directed away from Naruto by their parents. All those scenes with him on the swing... completely alone staring miserably at happy children with their happy parents.

Quote:To get back to the active sabatoge of his skills at the academy, the instructers didn't need to 'teach him wrong, you know as a joke!' all they needed to do was give him the minimum they legally could in instruction.

Quote:The canon reason for bushin failing is he has far too much chakra for it to function. This is something that should be known at some level of the academy... and watched for as this indictes future major player. Naruto isn't the first one with tons of chakra to run through the place... so the only reasons can be stupid instructors or conviently failing to remember this factiod.

Quote:The only other explaination is it never occured to the teaching staff that maybe, just maybe they should try teaching him one of the 50 million other types of bushin... I mean Rock Lee passed that portion with after images. Granted it wouldn't be shadow clones, I'm pretty sure that would have killed some random copy catting student and it is restricted for good reason. However, water and earth clones or any over type of clone would have worked just fine.

Ayep, my rfc/help issues's related to the topic title for I was just crazy enough to acquire the R2 DVD of 'Macross F - Itsuwari no Utahime' thinking that I should be able to pick up a English subtitle pack for it, later. The fact that VLC and a few other players say that they support such a thing, reinforced that thought. However actually that thought is falling apart with the discovery that no-one has released to the wild the English fansub script file. It exists, otherwise there'd be no point for all the rips that are out there.
I've spotted a spanish sub pack which could be a good way to test the concept and supposedly a group on 4chan has produced an english sub.

Feh, if all else fails I'd just watch it for the visuals just like the other Macross F disk I picked up.

Addendum: I somehow managed to track down some English subtitles files, just leaving me with one problem how to feed them into the live DVD video stream. As previously mentioned VLC supposedly can do it, but won't do so for me. Then there was the playback issues....ouch. No joy with VLC in either sata optical drive, the ide drives were the only ones producing a output but the interlacing & pixelisation was up the creek. I can just imagine the fun I'd have with the blu-ray version.

Still, even with no English subs activated I still had some clue what was going on. Heh VB-6 Koenig Monster & Daedalus Attack ftw!

--Rod.H