The holidays are not all egg nog and shopping malls, as the Legendary face a daunting Northern exposure (well, one besides Jackie...)

http://www.whatsupdark.com/3.html

They're saying that http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122966038836021137.html]the RIAA is going to abandon its highly successful "sue everyone who has ears" customer relations program.  That's crazy talk.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Cooked up while noting that theorizing on what/who Nemesis is is an amusing pasttime, I figured most people would have a side interest in crazy crackpot
theories about said criminal mastermind.

My personal favorites thus far:

- Nemesis is Mender Tesseract. Nemesis in classical mythology is a goddess, and Mender Silos is an anagram for Lord Nemesis, a common Nemesis alias. However,
Mender Silos is too obvious, and too openly interested in doing good, even if his methods are suspect. Similarly, The Ouroborus Conspiracy Guy tells us that
Silos is the one keeping Tesseract in check and not out conquering timelines to rule as empress over. Nemesis has a long-standing history of overreaching
himself to the point that he half-causes his own failures(underestimating the Rikti, failing to consider his giant robots on Brass Monday would be extremely
top heavy due to their bipedal nature, etc.) and the concept of a super-intelligent Fake Nemesis developing a personality not quite so morally ambivalent and
taking over from Fleshy Nemesis is not inconceivable. Furthermore, Silos' violation of the time travel laws that govern living beings would be
inapplicable, since he's merely a machine. On the other end, Nemesis/Tesseract stews in servitude to her creation, while secretly seeding the fields for a
revolution by a series of secret letters. All the Menders are portrayed as morally ambiguous and potentially diabolical in the letters....except for Tesseract,
who the writer seems almost admiring of for her forthright nature in being clearly an evil overlord if not being under Silos' leash. Nemesis's ego is
such that she can't even pretend to disparage herself, thus resulting in an odd, out of place letter describing herself, compared to the tone of the
others.

- Nemesis is a stupidly powerful telepath. Nemesis' primary advantage seems to be his blinding intellect, capable of creating plan after plan after plan
for all sorts of contingencies, but said plans often seem as if he's capable of A.seeing the future or B. simply all-knowing. Similarly, he's a
brilliant inventor and engineer, having complete credit for developing the Fake Nemesii, the Automatons, and his own soldiers steampunk technology. He's a
capable commander, capable of installing his troops with fanatical zeal and loyalty...all making him out to be the perfect human villian. But the chances of
all that concentrated in one person are...unlikely. Rather, Nemesis is simply telepathic and "borrowing" said attributes from people known to
naturally have them, making him out to be an (occasionally inconsistant) super-intelligent and capable villian by proxy. Similarly, his seeming omniscience is
because he's literally reading the minds of his opponents and laying out his plans ahead of what they're
already doing. The Rikti War was his first major blunder because the Rikti were powerful enough psychics to make his reading Hro'Dtohz's plan of war
impossible, leading to his backup plan of literally seizing control of the Rikti race as a whole by uploading his telepathic consciousness into their mind net
and taking it over from within instead. His extremely long lifespan that dates all the way back into the 19th(possibly 18th) century is the result of his using
his massive telepathic powers on the PsychoChronoMetron to rewrite history so that he's always been there. This had the side effect of his body becoming
very old, leading to the Eternal Nemesis arc, where he needs to create a new brain to house his impressive mind(and telepathic powers) since a computer brain
won't do. In fact, the brain template he uses is stolen from the Paragon Protectors, known to be used to house superhuman abilities(including psychic ones), so that he can maintain his ongoing campaign.
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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."

Wire wanted one, and this is how far I've gotten thus far:


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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."

http://media.photobucket....ngel446/anime29.jpg?o=496

who's that?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Between minor colds, Peggy's outrageous amounts of overtime, and lousy weather, we only really started our Christmas shopping on Monday night.

Tonight, we have to drive to West Virginia to spend the weekend with all our friends, who are converging on Kat, Joe and Scott's place for the Solstice.
We still need one more gift for this gang, who compose over half our shopping list.

Peggy forgot to remind me that her office Christmas party is today, and she's going to work with our crockpot, the huge grabbag gift she bought, a gallon
or two of cider and mulling spices.

And there's a hell of a winter storm coming from the south and west -- the directions we have to drive in this afternoon.

I can haz nervus brakedown now?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://apnews.excite.com/...e/20081218/D955BPH81.html

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Epsilon

Moment of silence.

This series makes so much more sense when you realize it's the Japanese version of Peanuts.

I think I love it now. :lol:
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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."

Anime News Network: Keanu Reeves Hopes to Star in Live-Action Cowboy Bebop

Okay, Keanu's (roughly) the right look for the part, but doesn't Spike actually have emotions?
--
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

In the past few days I have noticed that the "Unread Message" "New Posts" and "Hot Topic with New Posts" icons no longer show up.

Instead they are replaced with the above text.

I don't think it's just me as I have seen this on three separate machines, both firefox and safari, logged in and logged out.

I first thought that the images where not being found, and I was seeing the alt-text.

But after a quick browse over the source of the page, the images are no longer referenced, instead it's just a span of text.

Am I the victim of strange happenings or is this a bug others have run across?
-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