"Jet Lag"
by Simple Plan
(feat. Natasha Bedingfield)
What time is it where you are?
I miss you more than anything
Back at home you feel so far
Waitin for the phone to ring
It's gettin lonely livin upside down
I don't even wanna be in this town
Tryin to figure out the time zones makin me crazy
You say good morning
When it's midnight
Going out of my head
Alone in this bed
I wake up to your sunset
It's drivin me mad
I miss you so bad
and my heart heart heart is so jetlagged
What time is it where you are?
5 more days and I'll be home
I keep your picture in my car
I hate the thought of you alone
I've been keepin busy all time
Just to try to keep you off my mind
Tryin to figure out the time zones makin me crazy
I miss you so bad
I wanna share your horizon
and see the same sunrising
Turn the hour hand back to when you were holding me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSBKPkk4m4
The guy in the song thinks he has a lot of timezones to cover?  He's got nothing on Doug. 8)
Edit: can't believe I forgot to list the name of the band. 8P
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

Okay, so, keep in mind that I'm hard of hearing.  Not too bad, but bad enough that I don't always hear what someone said clearly.
So, we're talking about comic books at work and someone comments on "Crisis on Infinite Earths."  Which is not what I heard.  What I heard was an idea for an Ah! My Goddess story.
"Crisis of Infinite Urds."
I'm still trembling at the idea.

Need some help with G'nette here, as I cant shake the feeling that several of my slotting selections and power choices are very sub optimal...
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.93
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Garavornette: Level 34 Mutation Tanker
Primary Power Set: Invulnerability
Secondary Power Set: Super Strength
Power Pool: Leaping
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Resist Physical Damage

• (A) Resist Damage
  
• (3) Resist Damage IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Recharge: Level 29
  
• (3) Damage Increase IO: Level 35
  
• (5) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (5) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (7) Accuracy IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Resist Damage
  
• (7) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (9) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (9) Resist Damage IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 35
  
• (11) Damage Increase IO: Level 35
  
• (11) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (13) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (13) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge: Level 32
  
• (15) Karma - Defense/Endurance: Level 25
  
• (15) Defense Buff
  
• (17) Defense Buff IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Resist Damage
  
• (17) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (19) Reactive Armor - Endurance/Recharge: Level 15
  
• (19) Resist Damage
  

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 35
  
• (21) Damage Increase IO: Level 35
  
• (21) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (23) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (23) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Healing IO: Level 35
  
• (25) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (25) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Jumping IO: Level 30
  
• (27) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Resist Damage
  
• (27) Resist Damage
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 35
  
• (29) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (29) To Hit Buff IO: Level 30
  
• (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge: Level 30
  
• (31) Defense Buff IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Kinetic Crash - Damage/Endurance/Knockback: Level 31
  
• (31) Damage Increase IO: Level 35
  
• (33) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (33) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (33) Damage Increase IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Resist Damage IO: Level 30
  
• (34) Resist Damage
  

• (A) Range IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 35
  
• (34) Defense Buff
  

• (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance: Level 32
  
• (34) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Knockback Distance IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Endurance Modification
  

• (A) Focused Smite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 27
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

Totally could use some advice here, since Purrfect Warrior isnt that Purfect IMO. Right now even with the EPP selection he suffers from the weakness all Dark users have: End consumption can massivly outpace recovery. Its not unusuall for him to suffer end detoggleage before more serious fights are done...
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.93
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Purrfect Warrior: Level 42 Mutation Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Shadow Punch

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40
  
• (3) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (3) Damage Increase IO: Level 35
  
• (5) To Hit Debuff IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Resist Damage IO: Level 40
  
• (5) Resist Damage
  
• (7) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40
  
• (7) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (9) Damage Increase IO: Level 40
  
• (9) To Hit Debuff IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40
  
• (11) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (11) Damage Increase IO: Level 40
  
• (13) To Hit Debuff IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Titanium Coating - Endurance: Level 26
  
• (13) Resist Damage
  
• (15) Resist Damage
  

• (A) Red Fortune - Defense: Level 34
  
• (15) Defense Buff
  
• (17) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (17) Springfoot - Endurance/Jumping: Level 23
  

• (A) Impervious Skin - Endurance/Recharge: Level 29
  
• (19) Resist Damage IO: Level 40
  
• (19) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Recharge: Level 19
  
• (21) Accuracy
  
• (21) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  

• (A) Jumping IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Resist Damage IO: Level 25
  
• (23) Resist Damage
  
• (23) Resist Damage
  
• (25) Endurance Reduction
  

• (A) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing: Level 42
  
• (25) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (27) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 35
  
• (27) To Hit Debuff IO: Level 35
  
• (29) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense: Level 29
  
• (29) Defense Buff IO: Level 40
  
• (31) Defense Buff IO: Level 40
  
• (31) Endurance Reduction
  

• (A) Endurance Reduction
  

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 40
  
• (31) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (33) Karma - Knockback Protection: Level 12
  

• (A) Accuracy
  
• (33) Damage Increase IO: Level 40
  
• (33) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (34) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy: Level 34
  

• (A) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance: Level 29
  
• (34) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 35
  
• (34) Harmonized Healing - Heal/Endurance: Level 35
  
• (36) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40
  
• (36) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 35
  
• (36) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (37) To Hit Buff IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40
  
• (37) Damage Increase IO: Level 40
  
• (37) Immobilisation Duration IO: Level 40
  
• (39) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance: Level 25
  

• (A) Accuracy IO: Level 40
  
• (39) Endurance Reduction
  
• (39) Disorient Duration IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  
• (40) Endurance Modification IO: Level 40
  
• (40) Harmonized Healing - Heal/Endurance: Level 40
  
• (40) Disorient Duration IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 40
  

• (A) Damage Increase IO: Level 30
  

• (A) Quickfoot - Endurance/RunSpeed: Level 18
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

• (A) Empty
  

Starting this Saturday, I'm going to be away until the middleish so of July, on a family vacation.  I might be able to post sporadically, based on internet availability, but it's not going to be likely for the latter half of when I'll be gone.
On a related note, anyone have any ideas on how to kill a day in Vancouver, and one in Seattle?  I hear there's a Science Fiction museum in Seattle, but other than that...
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

To me, this looks interesting/promising
City of Heroes Freedom - http://www.cityofheroes.c...ty_of_heroes_free_1.html
Issue 21 Convergence - http://www.cityofheroes.c...1/issue_21_overview.html
Letter from Brian Clayton - http://www.cityofheroes.c..._brian_clayton_at_p.html
I'm especially curious about the new starter Zone (Finally Galaxy becomes useful) and the whole VIP server.
Will you transfer toons there?  Or use it for Altitis?

I don't know how I missed this a couple of days ago. But all respect to Clarence Clemons. He leaves behind a legacy and a lot of great music.

Quote:Clarence Clemons was the unmistakable presence in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. His sax style was a throwback to the hot sax sound passed down from Louis Jordan, Big Jay McNeely, Junior Walker, and King Curtis. In telling the story of the band in "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (video below), Springsteen paid tribute to the day when "the Big Man joined the band." And he portrayed himself leaning on Clemons in the beautiful black-and-white cover of the seminal album that included the song.
Clemons died today at the age of 69, before his time, following the stroke he suffered last Sunday. Ben Sisario's New York Times obituary presents the essential facts. This account of the meeting between Springsteen and Clemons at once possesses the air of a tall tale and the ring of absolute truth:

Quote:Mr. Clemons's first encounter with Mr. Springsteen has become E Street Band lore. In most tellings, a lightning storm was rolling through Asbury Park one night in 1971 while Mr. Springsteen was playing a gig there. As Mr. Clemons entered the bar, the wind blew the door off its hinges, and Mr. Springsteen was startled by the towering shadow at the door. Then Mr. Clemons invited himself onstage to play along, and they clicked.
"I swear I will never forget that moment," Mr. Clemons later recalled in an interview. "I felt like I was supposed to be there. It was a magical moment. He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love. And that's still there."

Big Man, RIP

http://www.oregonlive.com..._citys_water_supply.html
Submitted without comment - I have no background or experience in this.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

blackaeronaut Wrote:Wow. Who says man isn't meant to fly.

This came from somewhere. Dunno
where. Anyway, Mass Effect and all characters are the property of
Bioware.

Belehk Formigj has been having a bad
day. This is not a bad thing, as Belehk is a bad person. A
batarian, a four eyed inhabitant of this floating rock of viciousness
and hate, he is also a slaver. Normally, the words 'batarian' and
'slaver' are synonymous, and nothing special, but this is a special
case. Even discounting that not all batarians are slavers, there's
the fact that Belehk is a slaver of children. Children which he
abuses, personally.

That particularly got under his craw.

A rendezvous was arranged. Belehk
thought he was going to meet a Quarian girl, young and innocent, on
her pilgrimage and new to the world outside the Migrant fleet. They
exchanged lovey dovey messages, Belehk passing himself off as an
older Quarian youth. They were going to meet, tonight. Belehk told
her to bring her favorite flower: Posies.

The look of Belehk's face when he saw
who was holding the flower was something he will commit to memory.
Much like the look on his face, now.

Because as the batarian pedophile runs
down the open transit tube, deep in the bowels of Omega, he glances
over his shoulder, half convinced he's lost his pursuer. That belief
is naturally shattered by the sight of the four wheeled, gunmetal
gray tank leaping into view, four jets firing underneath its chasis
as the oversized wheels land, propelling it forward.

Breathing batarian epithets, Belehk
continues his run, running into a maintenance shaft, climbing the
ladder inside as fast as his arms will carry him. He ascends,
propelled by panic, by fear, by denial that he could be caught. His
brow is shifting to green, soaked with sweat from the terror and
exertion. This shouldn't be happening. This has never happened
before.

The ladder ends at a platform, and
Belehk swings open the door, running out onto the rooftop of one of
the many buildings in the Omega centerline.

And straight into a blue armored fist.

His jaw ignites in pain, several teeth
loosened as the force of impact sends him off his feet. He grabs at
his holster, pulling out his gun, only for it to be kicked away
before a three fingered hand grabs the collar of his jumper and
tosses him across the roof.

Struggling onto his hands and knees,
Belehk looks behind him, and get's a good look at his nightmare.
Tall, lankly, cracking his three fingered knuckles. His armor is
blue, lined with white, a full helm with a T-shaped black visor
hiding his identity. But there's no mistake of the species, at
least, and there were these rumors from earlier this year...

“Belehk, Belehk, Belehk,” he says,
almost conversational as he continues a slow, steady advance, “You
really have no idea how much trouble you're in, do you?”

Reaching for his boot, Belehk pulls
out his hold out pistol, the cube unfolding into something that, on
Omega, is considered a decent killing tool. Belehk never gets the
chance to see if he was ripped off or not, though, as the pistol
explodes in his hand, the shockwave shattering the bones in his
digits. The batarian screams, grabbing his hands, as the turian
before him clicks his tongue, shaking his head.

“So, the good news is, I'm not going
to kill you,” he says, “Instead, you're going to do something for
me. I want you to find all your lowlife friends, and I want you to
give them a message. Tell them I'm back. Tell them that they tried
to kill me, but they failed. And now I'm coming for all of them.”

He grabs Belehk by the collar, lifting
him up, Belehk's ineffectual kicks bouncing off the kinetic barriers
covering the armored turian.

“And then you're going to turn
yourself in, because I just hacked your network and sent the entire
contents to the local authorities. Or you can run, which means I'm
coming after you, again. You're call. Or I can just drop you.”

Holding him up by one hand, Belehk
chokes, wheezes, and looks down to find himself held over the chasm
of Omega's centerline. A drop of miles is below him, and Belehk
nods, a stain spreading over the crotch of his jumper.

“Good man. For a pedophile and
slaver.”

“Who the Hell are you?” Belehk
breathes.

He's pulled close, eyes staring at the
visor.

“I'm Archangel.”

With
not even visible effort, Archangel pitches Belehk across the roof,
slamming into the wall next to the ladder. A groan, and Belehk
collapses into unconsciousness. And tapping his belt and the button
therein, Archangel glows blue, and disappears.

Mass
Effect:

Archangel






So, the basic idea behind this, especially since I've talked it over with some of my cowriters, is that Garrus Vulkarran is going to go from 'angry vigilante with a sniper rifle' as we see him in the beginning of ME2, to Turian Batman.  Which is where the fun begins.