Even though I have not seen either show, it still made me laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y1jUTHW ... re=related

It could be worse:

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010 ... ne-injured
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

I got to thinking, "Maybe Operation Great Justice needs a field hospital for all the wounded in the Boskone War." Sounds reasonable, right? But then I started thinking like the Fen...

Where to put a field hospital? On a Main Belt asteroid, of course - the Belt is where most of the action is.

Which asteroid? C'mon, we've all seen M*A*S*H - the field hospital belongs on asteroid 4077.

Does asteroid 4077 have a name? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4077_Asuka]Yes, but it isn't an appropriate name...

Which leads to the question in the subject line: Should we risk eternal pain by asking the Roughriders to set up a field hospital on asteroid 4077, or shouldn't we?
--
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

Link: Texas Schools Rewrite US History
I put this here for discussion. As I am not a Texan, I am not able to protest this sort of thing as strongly as I might were it in my Home state but... I would skip work to confront this school board if my kids were attending one of their schools.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I've made some changes to the website for the first time in months.  The change in DW1's status has been reflected anywhere it was mentioned, and the main DW page now as a little summary blurb for it.  I've done up another one of those chatty top page pseudoblog things I do every few months.  There's a new pic on the Gallery page.
Oh, and I've added an RSS feed.
Enjoy.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Avatar and sig tests go in "Forums", not here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

*Sigh* I'd promised myself I wasn't going to waste people's time by posting here, but this is bothering me so much I've just got to talk about it to somebody who'll likely understand. I'm venting, more or less.
David Drake's new fantasy, The Legions of Fire, is in the bookstores. OK, I generally like Drake's work, so I eagerly looked into this book. The introduction states that the setting is not the Roman Empire at about the time of Tiberius, but is rather the empire of Carce (Eddison readers rejoice, I suppose). Not three pages into it, I'm jarred to discover that Carce speaks Latin, has troops in Germany and Gaul and Batavia -- in short, it seems to be Rome in everything except the name of the capital city, and none of the other placenames are changed. A bit further on, I find a reference to Publius Atilius Regulus, hero of the war against Carthage -- yes, even those historical figures I've seen mentioned have the same names.
I haven't gotten deep enough into the story yet to know if I'm going to enjoy the plot, but the characterizations seem interesting, so far. The Carce/Rome thing, though, is driving me clottin' crackers, because it seems so pointless to change only that one name from the background.
*Sigh* Shutting up now.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

If you're reading this on May 21, and you haven't already been there today, look at the http://google.com]Google homepage. Use the arrow keys.

(I assume this is in honor if a particular 30th birthday.)
--
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

http://www.youtube.com/th...blogs#p/u/31/LtsBDXLa_OE
Mister J, I love you!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Fortunately, it's human intelligent design, not God's. 
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.