The Daily Week: http://dailyweek.com/stories/20090719_kibo/kibo.html]Japanese space module Kibo not set to unleash destruction on unsuspecting Earth

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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

Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

That fic recently recommended in the New Fic thread left me with the yen for more. Anyone have some good recs?

Well, I have to take a week off unpaid before the end of the year anyway, so... why not?

But the train fair is... oy! If I choose Business class for the Toronto-Montreal leg (the Sarnia-Toronto leg only has Economy available), the price jumps to
between $400 and $600 -- I could fly for roughly the same amount. I dunno.... hey, Rob, what's Economy like on ViaRail for ~12hrs for a *big* guy?

With a whole week, I figure I'll have three days or so to bum around Montreal and soak up the local color. Anyone familiar with town who can list some
"don't miss" items? I'm *still* kicking myself for not allowing extra time to hang out around Denver *last* year....

"Debug Error!

Program: Crogram FilesCity of HeroesCohUpdater.exe

HEAP CORRUPTION DETECTED: after Normal block (#61547) at 0x07d83780 CRT detected that the application wrote to memory after end of heap buffer.

Memory allocated at cvncohcoh_sourcelibsutilitieslibutilspiglib.c(601).

(Press Retry to debug the application)"

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I have no clue what that means, but I suspect it's bad news.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

I took a quick look (called "search") for mentions of this series, and found nothing. I just saw an off mention of the name (the studio that made
this made Shana as well), and proceeded to download the batch torrent for it.

I watched the first, episode, then the second, and then spent all my free time in the last two days screaming through the series.

For something that's just to the left of an Unwanted Harem series, it's pretty awesome.

Here's the best summary of the plot
I've found. (Felt this was better than cut-and-pasting the text).

Here's the TV Tropes page

Mikoto has probably the neatest trick. Her esper power is being able to generate electricity--enough to blackout areas of the city if motivated enough. But
her main attack with this? Turing a coin into a railgun projectile! She even uses "Railgun" as her nickname.

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20090716_18186.mp3]Highlights from an interview with John Cleese, plus a somewhat naughtier story from Thursday's episode of Q. (Should be available for four weeks.)
--
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

So a friend has expressed an interest in COH. What are trial accounts not / allowed to do? I don't think they're allowed past level 10, if I recall.
They can't send /tells or emails either can they? What else?

That book you thought you owned . . .

The irony of this is astonishing. It's almost enough to make you forget how damn creepy it is.

Deal is only for a few days, but if you are interested, here's the link:

http://www.gogamer.com/vi...32185&extid=July1609