Is it just my connection, or is Google off the air? (google.com, gmail.com, specifically)

If it's just me, can someone hand me the IP address of gmail.com? I can't figure out if my DNS is screwed up, or if they're truly AWOL.

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

http://www.warehouse23.com/item.html?id=AG2703]Where the Deep Ones Are, by Kenneth Hite, illustrated by Andy Hopp.

Yes, it's exactly what the title leads you to think it is.

Yes, it's been out for a while. What's new is that one can now http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/where-th ... 76668?mt=8]buy it as an iPhone app. (Although the Darkling might not have an iPhone yet...?)
--
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

If so, I feel deeply sorry for you, as your country appears to have abandoned free speech as a principle.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, well, to summarize a digest of a brief, a good-intentioned attempt to wipe an antique law punishing blasphemy off the books backfired spectacularly, and now they have a brand-new modern blasphemy law which pretty much makes it a crime punishable by a $35,000 fine to say anything insulting about anyone's religion.

Yes, I'm serious.

NPR article here.
Opinion column in The Guardian on it here.
Irish atheists defy new blasphemy law.
More attempts to break the law as a protest.
25 quotes from such troublemakers as Richard Dawkins, Frank Zappa, Salman Rushdie, Jesus Christ, Mohammed and Pope Benedict XVI which are blasphemous under the new law.
The actual text of the law.

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

We have, I've noted, several places where we've outright stated that the United States became hostile to Fen. Now, is there any spillover from this
hostility to science fiction fans in general, and from there to science fiction? Does the SciFi channel find it has to move off-shore to avoid problems with
the FBI or Congress? Does Baen books get intimidating visits from national security agents who suggest that talking about Buck Rogers stuff is possibly
treasonous?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I've been looking for public-domain images to put in the FenWiki, and noticed that "Galaxy Express 999.jpg" was still wanted. Who's the bright boy who specified she was originally a Victorian Railways H Class Steam Locomotive? (Apparently, they only ever built the one, and http://www.steamtrainartist.com/image_s ... L1058.html]the only image I can find of it is definitely not in the public domain.)

Does she have to be H Class? There are plenty of photos of Victorian Railways R Class and Victorian Railways G Class trains in the Wikimedia Commons...
--
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

Okay this is a bit of silliness that I came up with at random:
Take a movie quote and change it so that the character is either moonlighting or has a different job altogether.
I'll start with:

Quote: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You ordered the chicken carbonara. Prepare to DINE!

Black Lightning,  a Russian superhero/scifi film.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Got the Assault on Black Reach boxed set for Christmas, and I thought I'd share some of my painting successes.



Later I'll photograph and upload some of the other units I've gotten done... All in all, though, I'm rather pleased at how well it turned
out.

-W

edit: sorry for large image size. Will make sure to scale it down next time.Falling out of aeroplanes and hiding out in holes

Waiting for the sunset to come, people going home

Jump out from behind them and shoot them in the head

Now everybody dancing the dance of the dead

This should come to the surprise of no one, but...

In September, I allowed my last 6-month renewal to kick in, under the assumption that if I wasn't playing the game again by January, I was done.

And that's true. I'm done.

It was fun. I've been subscribed for more than 60 months, and played for at least 40 of them. Best MMO experience I've ever had. But I'm kind of
int he place where I just can't devote that kind of effort to a single experience that never changes. There's just nothing to keep me interested, with
all sorts of other shiny/new games kicking around, not to mention my new PS3 and the Steam Holiday sale that abused the heck out of my wallet.

Hasta, all.

There is a project. I'm told it's worthy.Seems
they need a good deal of money, quickly, to actually get it off the ground.

It's not really relevant to my own interests, but perhaps others here would find it more compelling?
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."