A vanity
registration apparently anticipating what he'll say if he ever has trouble with it...

I just had to make a shout out for Brian Blessed's TV Tropes page.

OR PERHAPS THAT SHOULD BE BRIAN BLESSED'S TV TROPES PAGE!

The whole thing they did there with making the typeface bigger and bolder the further down into the page you go just had me ROTFL by the end. ^_^

Ever wonder what happened between the two long runs of Doctor Who? Here's a answer.
--
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

There's http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=62721]a thread over on the SJGames forums where a poster with eclectic tastes is asking for anime recommendations... After reading the entire thread (so you can get an idea of the requester's tastes), what did we miss recommending to him?
--
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 good site for first time users of MySQL to learn from?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Okay... I've come to the conclusion that in order to handle some of the educational stuff I want to do during my period of unemployment, as a first step I need to get my desktop upgraded from Win2K to at least WinXP.  I've spent at least a token amount of time searching the web for XP installs I can buy, and to be perfectly honest, I've found many, some of them surprisingly affordable.  But which ones will do an upgrade, preserving my disk structure and contents?  (At least I know to stay away from the OEM CD-ROMs, which at least officially only install from scratch and won't upgrade.)  Can anyone give me a clue?  Thanks.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

This resulted from Stormgear and myself tossing notes back and forth on what the ultimate Good End for Fate/Stay/Night would be....and mutated into a massive Fate/Zero&Fate/Stay/Night crossover Perfect End where everyone lives together and has wacky hijinx.
Character sheets for Fate/Stay/Night and Fate/Zero, courtesy of TV Tropes, for reference.

Quote:[05:58] OpMegs: ....honestly, can you imagine an alternate
Nasuverse where the entire servants of both wars (minus True Assassin and
Kiritsugu Caster) are hanging out?

[05:58] OpMegs: Lancer and Lancer are drinking buddies!

[05:59] Stormgear: Yes.

[05:59] Stormgear: Yes indeed.

[05:59] Stormgear: Reminiscing on a war nobody else seems to
care about.

[05:59] OpMegs: Iskander noogies Gil whenever he gets too
full of himself!

[05:59] Stormgear: Shirou is the adopted son of Kiritsugu
Emiya and Emiliya Einsburn!

[05:59] OpMegs: Ilya has a wonderful, full family!

[06:00] Stormgear: Yes indeed!

[06:00] Stormgear: Kiritsugu is concerned and somewhat
impressed at Shirou's ability to attract women. Less so in Shirou's older
brother.

[06:00] OpMegs: And Berserker cuts down Christmas trees for
orphans.

[06:00] Stormgear: Berserker RUNS THE ORPHANAGE.

[06:00] OpMegs: And he was the most beloved monster looking
giant ever

[06:01] Stormgear: Indeed.

[06:01] Stormgear: ;_;

[06:01] OpMegs: Also, Sakura was never adopted.

[06:01] Stormgear: ...

[06:01] Stormgear: Yes indeed.

[06:01] Stormgear: The Matous are a normal, if dysfunctional
family.

[06:01] Stormgear: With Epic Level Housemaid: Rider-san.

[06:01] Stormgear: Assisted by Epic-Level Combat Butler, Assassin.

[06:01] Stormgear: (True Assassin.)

[06:01] OpMegs: Caster is happily married

[06:02] OpMegs: and teaching Chemistry at the local school

[06:02] Stormgear: Kojiro is their bodyguard.

[06:02] Stormgear: As a favor to DEATH-SENSEI.

[06:02] Stormgear: And because he's a freeloader.

[06:02] Stormgear: Caster tolerates him because he attracts
girls for her to throw in costumes.

[06:02] OpMegs: He and True Assassin get together some days
to arm wrestle

[06:03] Stormgear: It's always a stalemate because True
Assassin always uses his petrified arm.

[06:03] OpMegs: And the Black Knight keeps following Saber
around

[06:03] OpMegs: Everyone thinks it's kinda weird, but he's
okay otherwise

[06:04] OpMegs: Most people assign it to an unrequited crush

[06:04] Stormgear: >_>

[06:04] Stormgear: _>

[06:12] OpMegs: Also, Kotomine is....um...at the same monastery
as Shinji. His only joy comes from smacking the boy over the head with a ruler.

[06:12] Stormgear: He is then smacked over the head by the
new nun in town.

[06:12] Stormgear: Both enjoy physically abusing Shinji.

[06:13] OpMegs: .....Taiga!

[06:13] Stormgear: Taiga is still Taiga.

[06:13] Stormgear: Not much needs to change.

[06:13] Stormgear: Except that she's the school Kendo
Instructor.

[06:13] OpMegs: Though she and Caster have collaborated on
costuming for the school plays

[06:13] Stormgear: Mitsuzuru is somehow working at the Mato
residence.

[06:13] OpMegs: She always wonders where Caster gets all
these wonderful clothes.

[06:14] Stormgear: ...So are all of her friends. Many
believe it's because of Rider-San and a good deal of blackmail.

[06:14] Stormgear: Caster designed their uniforms on
request.

[06:14] OpMegs: Rin is not unappreciative of the new
uniforms

[06:14] OpMegs: They're a bit revealing, but the view on the
female student bod-er.....um. Yes. Totally improper. Yes.

[06:15] OpMegs: Outrage, um....shame.....where's Saber....

[06:15] Stormgear: Saber and Shirou are, of course, fianced.

[06:15] OpMegs: Of course.

[06:15] OpMegs: The wedding is expected to be the biggest
event the town's ever seen

[06:16] OpMegs: Of course, there was a slight
misunderstanding and Saber almost ended up wearing a suit

[06:17] Stormgear: The Dress is also a Caster-Creation.

[06:17] Stormgear: It may or may not be legal to wear in
public.

[06:18] Stormgear: Rider is suspiciously competent at a
range of fields. She teaches history at school, and somehow still finds time to
be the Mato Family Maid.

[06:18] Stormgear: She... also never seems to sleep. The
class suspects her of being a vampire. They're wrong.

[06:18] Stormgear: She's really more of a succubus.

[06:19] OpMegs: Archer and Gilgamesh are considered the
great rivals of the town

[06:19] OpMegs: It's all in good fun, but they can't help
competing at anything

[06:19] OpMegs: The last eating contest emptied out all the
curry in town

[06:19] Stormgear: Shirou ultimately gets dragged in.

[06:20] Stormgear: Somewhere, in a distant church, a Nun
collapsed in tears.

[06:20] Stormgear: (Ciel senpai detects a disturbance in the
FORCE.

[06:21] OpMegs: Also, at night, there is sometimes drag
racing

[06:21] OpMegs: Iskander, Rider, and Saber are known to
trade the top three spots constantly

[06:23] Stormgear: Nobody quite... knows why Iskander is so
popular.

[06:23] Stormgear: For whatever reason, his words somehow
seem irresistible.

[06:23] OpMegs: He's also great fun at football games.

[06:23] OpMegs: Though he takes up half the couch

[06:24] OpMegs: Gil has challenged Taiga at the kendo club
once a week for months

[06:24] OpMegs: He never wins, despite bringing a new sword
every time

[06:24] OpMegs: He is flummoxed by this

[06:24] OpMegs: Saber just watches and giggles quietly

[06:25] OpMegs: She also has a second storage house behind
her and Shirou's place for her plushie collection

[06:25] Stormgear: He has declared it his new goal to obtain
the mythical Taiga-Shinai

[06:25] OpMegs: It's actually smaller than it should be due
to spatial warping via her Gate of Avalon, which is needed to store all of
them.

[06:26] OpMegs: She got advice from Gil on how to store all
of them because he has so much stuff himself after all

[06:26] Stormgear: ...And of course, because Gil is
powerless before Saber.

[06:27] OpMegs: He's the unlucky childhood friend

[06:27] OpMegs: He's known Saber the whole time, but it was
one look between her and Shirou and boom

[06:27] OpMegs: love at first sight

[06:27] OpMegs: Kiritsugu was amused, but greatly pleased to
have Saber as an official part of the family

[06:28] Stormgear: Because Saber was, too, Kiritsugu's
student.

[06:28] Stormgear: Long, long ago.

I hereby start this Epic Undertaking with this beautiful reinterpretation...

Easy Heaven
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DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

http://navyfield.com/

input this into your cerebrator.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

I suggested we pull the Crossovers That Should Be out of the Crossovers That Should Not Be thread, then didn't pull the one that I started out... until now. Better late than never, I suppose... I'll start by reposting the previous posts.

(Me