http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaki ... velis.html]Robert Parker died Monday, at age 77.

He has one last "Jesse Stone" book, Split Image, currently in layout at the publisher... but Spenser is no longer For Hire.
--
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

A nice performance of a monologue from the book 'Soon I will be Invincible.' I am finding a copy tonight; if it is even close to as good the speech,
it will be worth my hard earned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANlgIa4T ... r_embedded

ok, normally I don't squee in fanboyish glee like this, but we have muse #3, and she doesn't look happy.

squeeeeee

-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

My gaming rig -- the only one I have capable of handling CoX (or STO, or... anything, really) just died tonight. It's looking like either a fried mobo or
a wonky PSU. Either costs more than I have to replace right now, it being a Dell.

So... I'll be away for a while. :/ Still around on the forums, but I'm estimating at least a month before I'll be able to afford spare parts.
Nyaarrgh.

Nyaaargh, I say.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

Sculptures made from single pieces of paper.

No, really. Check it out.

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

The big-screen version of The A-Team.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Kate McGarrigle, half of the McGarrigle Sisters and mother to Rufus and Martha Wainwright, died of cancer Monday. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010 ... -obit.html]CBC story

I expect to be hearing some folk music on the radio today... good folk music...
--
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 made me want to watch a 26 episode series just for context.

Good God.

(Source: Negima! anime)
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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."

For some reason I got the urge to do some rereading of the story, and I have noticed something -

The entirety of 2009 went by without any update on DW 5.

I know it's been an utterly SHITTY year for everyone, myself included. And Bob's had job troubles etc. So this gets a pass and a "no-foul"
from me.

Even so, it bears at least mentioning.

(BTW - the menu on your main page doesn't indicate the 6th Chapter of DW5 on the drop-down menu.)

Well.

I was checking my "spam filter" email address, which I've had since 1998...and I discovered that Facebook had sent me some "password
verification/change" notices.

This is odd because I've never signed up for Facebook.

Needless to say, I went to the site and took the effort to scrape the account and change my passwords... again. *sigh*

Any other security tricks I should undertake so these skript kiddies don't sign me up for credit cards?
''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