Okay, I've been busy trying to write out how Zeke and Lum's first meeting goes and the most interesting thing happens...

Zeke pisses her off and Mr. Invader couldn't be more pleased about it - something about a guy having the guts to throw something other than flowers at her
feet.

Not according to plan, but it just jumped out at me that way. I'll find a way to get her to fall for him, I just need to take my time with this. Oh, and
before anyone calls me on the fact that Zeke is usually respectful towards women... Well, like anyone else with him, they gotta earn his respect, too.

I know that this has been taking a while, but it couldn't be helped. Our InSurv is coming up and
we're all busy getting ready for it. Just wish it could be done and over with already.

So, as noted elsewhere, the Omega Team Time Capsule was opened. A lot of interesting lore, but the most interesting one to me is the letter from Branforth the
Seer, which seems to be a variety of riddles. One wonders what they mean....

Quote: I often dream of things unbidden, secrets reveal'd and secrets hidden, Future, past, or not to be, I cannot say with certainty, But in case I won't
return, these visions from my letter learn, And so before Omega leaves... I here entrust you with these dreams.

Quote: The glor'ous monarch will defend, his homeland to the bitter end, An army built to soothe all doubts, but ripples show in upstart bouts, Make you choice:
red blue or gray, choose who to spurn and who obey, You'd like to think there's no price dear, but the real world is not so clear.

Quote: I saw a mirror torn apart, thousand-spiraling work of art, Behind a veil was once a fool, now its creation is its tool, Suffered from a mighty fall, seeks
again to consume all, To face it our heroes prep, to win just watch that first step.

Quote: A peaceful race comes from afar, a living message in a jar, Find they cannot grow any more, into new flesh they are reborn, Silence breaks by the gods
thunder, coexistence cast asunder, Now just one culture slow to change, not evil pure but surely strange.

Quote: Bloated life which has not a peer, gobbles all that mankind holds dear, The hive will grow to rise and fall, all will battle the monster tall, Across the
way a mirror flow'r, has no such foes slow its devour, Not placated with scraps to eat, it's rage shall spark leader's retreat.

Quote: A thousand men with javelin, fight to compound their master's sin, Darkly corrupt by twilight gaze, a secret deal to end our days. Hero, villain, that
time forgot, what do they know that we do not? Side-by-side both sides excel, fighting for time-warped parallel.

Quote: Time's river's course is left to run, till shattered by the million suns, Eternal gear comes back to warn, all must beware the coming storm, From
ice and flame and tests of will, forgotten deeds one can fulfill, Has he made strong by accident, those whose acts will despair prevent?

Quote: No purse to snatch or kid to nab, is fashioned by a novel lab, But legends writ and lore create, as cohorts play and strangers rate, Easy to praise; the
virtues plain, of fighting just to entertain, Endless time spent in sirens dens, yet who will save real citizens?

Quote: The iron turns into crystal, their doomsday shall be missed til, When a pair of fives arrives, power flows and power drives, The spinning rod lives again,
then destroyed in evil's den, Mere prelude to what bright hell, comes from drinking of the well.

Quote: Man kills brother; sets into motion, a hundred lifetimes of commotion, Meticulous manipulation, attempts to take this very nation, Within mirrors glow he
finds a pawn, his trick forces them to take us on, We shall fall for his games no longer, that which challenges makes us stronger.

Quote: The web is formed in careful craft, since fatal rescue on a raft, Wraith- beast- hulk- thief- prepare for war, the mastermind will hide no more, Let loose
the tide of villain mix, heroes will gain their own new tricks, And in the end; a world fini, unless the one stops destiny.

Quote: Create new thing which heals or harms, accelerate the race of arms, A million more to buy and trade, the inventors must all be paid, A flood of brains rain
in the town, but evil lurks to bring all down, The helmed one strikes with draining web, the war comes to a crucial head.

Quote: You may have seen all that I say, or await it another day, Of many things I have not dreamt, events the gods have not yet sent, And do forgive this awful
curse, the fates decree I write in verse, Wish I were there to interpret, but battle calls and must be met.

Letter from "Ruin"

Letter from "The Prestidigitator"

Letter from "Plum Blossom"

Letter from "Glacia"

Letter from "Bearer of Aegis"

Letter from "Tin Mage"

Additional Letters

Discussion Thread

Link (just copying what "NotDavies" provided in the WIW Sailor Moon thread)

From some of the comments in the intro I wasn't sure if he was doing BGC or 2040, but as it turns out it's going to be BGClassic and Crash.

OAV1 is a promising start, and with artwork appearing already. Favorite bit so far:

Character note: Linna remarks to Sylia, "Priss is going to be pissed when she finds out we're not getting paid for this one."
Sylia lets the comment pass unnoted, but is obviously thinking, "Gee, Linna, projecting much?"

Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com

"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia

Went to Black Friday at Wal-Mart. Had my stompy boots on, did not, unfortunately, get to use them.

We got to The Mart of Wals at 3:30am, and grabbed a cart. I had @DaemeonX with me, and we cruised through the store, picking up the items we needed that were
not setup for the 5am start. Finished up at 3:45, and setup at the ps3 display. At about 4:45, one of my exes showed up at the display, and was standing right
next to it, while the earlier crowd was keeping enough distance to allow carts and shoppers to pass by.

At 5am, she just about got her block knocked off. At 5:00:10, I was passing ps3s behind me in a chain-gang method that we had worked out earlier, and 5 ps3s
got delivered to the 5 people who had set up the bucket brigade : ).

We pulled out of the ps3 scrum, and @DaemeonX says "merry christmas!".

I replied, ever so suavely, "what?"

He pointed at the ps3. We picked up a few other items, including a mess of VERY good deals on rugrat bait, and got on out of there.

I has a ps3. And Black Friday is _highly_ amusing. Next year, I think we are gonna do Best Buy, that should be fun!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Just something I found while looking for some parts my RC Hummer required



The music's a bit .....

I was expecting to see a Kajira stomp through at one point, till I remembered if someone brought an RC Hummer or drove their car onto the lot, that would count
as one.

--Rod.H

Well, I've been looking, and I've noticed that we don't have a topic here for videos made from Touhou Project songs, remixes and other assorted.

So I decided to make one.

To start things off, an old classic and a new classic.

New Classic: Bad Apple!!

Old Classic: Fragrance Of Oriental Sunflower
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead

Okay, it's now official. At least 3 of the girls were not given the talk about the birds and the bees. Which is surprising considering 2 of them have
mothers. What good is it to get to first or 2nd base if you can't go all the way to home?
__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Over the last few weeks I had a battle with my nieces PC.

It started to give me the infamous missing or invalid hal.dll.

So after some research I booted the system into recovery mode using the Windows XP Install CD.

Try to delete boot.ini

Run bootcfg /rebuild

run bootfix

exit and boot into Windows XP

Window starts normally.

I login then reboot...

Only to get again:

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

system32hal.dll.

Please re-install a copy of the above file."

After a couple rounds of this I did a repair installation of Windows XP.

That worked for all of a few days...

Again back to the missing or corrupt hal.dll

Stop for a few days to cool off.

Do some research.

http://forums.techguy.org/7031504-post4.html

Rerun the above procedure

I note that boot.ini

boot into safe mode cop from window update folderto system folder hal.dll, ntoskrnl.exe

ntkrnlpa.exe with the versions that are their.

Reboot and then I reboot without loginng in.

Login

Then logoff and reboot.

Only to get again:

"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

system32hal.dll.

Please re-install a copy of the above file."

Ok back where we started...

Then I rerun the commands take a look at the root directory after login.

root.ini is missing

Post what has been happening so far at tech support site to see if get any suggestions as to a solution...

Get suggestion to run chkdsk /r after booting in recovery console and then run windows defrag...

Did so end result

Windows boots up normally

after a reboot...

Bad or missing hal.dll...

Repair procedure again

This time after login in I take a look at root directory with windows explorer (after changing a few defaults so will show hidden and system protected
files...Boot.ini is gone.

At this point I came to the conclusion that something was happening after logging into Window XP. Probably malware...

Do some more searching using different search terms...

Then finally a clue...

http://forum.applian.com/showthread.php?t=2123

To be brief apparently some versions of the ask.com toolbar in conjunction with IE8 delete boot.ini, autoexec.bat, and config.sys (last two not needed in
windows XP).

Knowing that my niece has downloaded games and may have installed the ask toolbar without even realizing she had done so.

Run yet again the bootcfg /rebuild and bootfix commands

Boot into safe mode.

Check if ask.com toolbar is ionstalled. (it was).

Uninstall the damn thing plus a few other toolbars that had been installed.

Reboot.

Login to windows

Take a look at root directory...

Root.ini is there.

Reboot

This time windows finally loads normally...

In retrospect the few days the computer worked after the repair installation was due to not having updated yet to IE8. As soon as it updated ask.com and IE 8
zapped the root system files.In this case I would call ask.com toolbar malware.
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."

Holiday wishes to everyone this morning, even if you aren't in/from the US.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.