High-speed zoom through

DaddyCatALSO And yet, by stating that you're not going to comment, you are, in effect, commenting.

Christopher Marlowe It'd be nice to have even half that.

And I found out that, yes, it is possible to remove Apoxie Sculpt from a model. It's just very, very time consuming. But Myst no longer has his chest ruff. I sanded his tail smooth and gave him a light coating of primer to see if there were any other areas that needed sanding (Doesn't appear to be), so after LCS I'll work on his beard, horn & tail tuft.

I'm planning on painting him a shimmery white, w/maybe a touch of gold dusting, silvery white mane & tail tuft, and silver hooves, possibly silver horn, as well.

Blue, brown or green eyes?

Ow. Ok. I need to go stretch out on the couch - while working on him I had a major problem with my hip, and, even though I popped it back into place, it's really painful right now.

Back in a few hours.

Zoom, zoom

DaddyCatALSO, Leather Jacket & valMichael -

I think natural phenomena are discovered and technologies are invented.¹

Natural Phenomena (Discovered)

Electricity
Radio Waves²
Nuclear Fission


Technologies (Invented)

Airplane
Radar³
Nuclear Fission Power Plants⁴
Jets
Cell Phones
Compact Disk
GUI
Space Travel⁵


All of the above technologies are composites of technologies and depended upon previous technological inventions and innovations.


¹ I do believe a person can discover an idea for a technology by observing natural phenomena.

² A segment of the electro-magnetic spectrum

³ A technology that applies radio waves for detection.

⁴ A technology that applies nuclear fission to power generation.

⁵ A whole set of technologies



WG

Beldin Thanks. Comics page,.

Beldin Didn't have to recuse myself. One of the other councilmembers talked to her and she agreed that a traffic light is not very good idea. However, they are exploring some kind of cross-walk type thing.

Keywe - *smooch* What's going on, me darlin'?

Christopher Marlowe - Don't you know that now you can do anything? What did you do about that conflict of interest involving one of your relatives?

DaddyCatALSO - "Youdunits". Liked that.

Keywe!
I had seen evidence that you had been visiting, but I never seemed to be here when you were.

I seldom contributed to Algerina's poetry corner and was reluctant to even try Leather Jacket's Limerick's. Now it's starting to feel like I don't suck at suck-y versifying.

In a prison library, is the Mysteries section stocked with youdunnits?


wolfguard I'm not sure how good Burnam was with crediting his sources.
I'm not sure how old eh is, but if he's up to it he really ought to update his articles and release them as an omnibus.Soem of the scientific and legal facts have changed since then.

ShadowQuestI recall your posting that picture before but when I call it up in my memory I picture you differently. Then again that was a smaller image than the one in this link. I'll not comment beyond that as I respect your feelings on the issue.

STGermainOh, heck I remembered him too, I just can't help but target writing errors, hence the *g*g*g to keep it in fun.

StGermain
It's not how often you appear, but that you appear at all. Good to see you. :-)

YAY Christopher Marlowe Hope you are having a fantabulous day!

Mrs. Beasley I'm wildly waving! Loved your limerick.:-)

Beldin **smooch**

Beldin I've had only three so far. Very different issues.

Modified Leather Jacket's Limerick

There once was a woman named Marti
celebrating with drinks and a party
It would seem to appear
That she never drank beer
Cuz' it left her feeling too gassy. ;-)

Here now.

Christopher Marlowe - I guess you should be thankful that it's only one a day.

Yay Christopher Marlowe

Happy birthday to Alyiania, BiffyBuffy, Dirty Socks, Kalika, & Mr.EverDawn.

Glow Boy I would hope they would be longer than one hour. I am curious as to what kinds of stories they will tell given the unusual format.

ShadowQuest There will always be people with that kind of cash... and I wish I was one of them. *g*

Leather Jacket's Limerick

There once was a girl named Marti
who liked to drink, celebrate and party
The room was all smokey
With no karaoke
So she sang a capella, how arty!

Apologies!
I modified the start to make me happier with the cadence.


There once was a woman named Marti
celebrating with drinks and a party
The room was all smokey
With no karaoke
So she sang a capella, how arty

DaddyCatALSO,

I'll look for the book and recheck his sources. *g*


WG

MrsBeasley - But you did get me to delurk, so that's something. :-)

DaddyCat - What can I say - I'm old.

HI, Beldin!!

StG

Christopher Marlowe, all the specials will be longer than a standard episode as well which is good. I think the next series of the Sarah Jane Adventures will be showing later this year or early next as well.

GB.

Zoom through before actually doing something w/her day

YAY Christopher Marlowe! And..."remarkable" is one word for it. Stark raving insane are three more.

Man, if I had that kind of money...well, for one thing Carpe Noctem 2008 would have been a reality. I'd not be living in this...duplex, my car would be absolutely fine, and my fridge would be fully stocked. Among other, more important things.

Geez. I can't...shakes her head

Leather Jacket Curious? Bubba, I'm not your type. :-D

But, seriously, if you must know, then...go here. (Poor Amber. Then again, she is used to demons, monsters and other icky things.)

Off to work on my unicorn so I can finish my mustang so I can start on my Clydesdale.

Zoom, zoom

StGermain: Yes! I unabashedly did! I plagerized! I'm evil!

wolfguardThat's acute saying but doesn't seem to eb hsitorically correct. Tom Burnam researched it for one of his "Misinformation" books amnd found most early comemrcially available cars were rear engined. One of the few makes that wasn't specifically put the engine up fron t to amke it look less like a wagon. cc valMichael

ShadowQuest 13K? That's pretty remarkable.

Beldin And the calls keep coming. *g* This time a business owner is complaining about why she has to take down her banner, when some local group is allowed to their own banners.

Dianne,

Thank you for the updates. :)



DaddyCatALSO,

Sherden noted one difficulty in predicting future technologies is that we see them through what exist. Another writer or historian said one reason car engines were place in front of the driver is because that's where the horses went. *g*



valMichael,

I think Sherden's comment on failed predictions is valuable as a place to begin arguing. *g* Sherden wrote that most people didn't give much thought to the technological future until the early 19th century, in part, because there was little personal experience of it.



WG

Zoom through

Ok, this? Is NUTS!!

I'm getting the model, but he's staying OF (Original Finish) because the mold was broken Sunday night after BreyerFest ended.

Zoom, zoom

Tea tinme!!!! TEA TIME tea time[/b]

is water.

*g*

Christopher Marlowe - It was much too far south. We got a good rain shower a little bit ago and the radar shows more rain, and possible thunderstorms, on the way.

RedCrayon A bit of stuff. I worked this morning. Had a meeting earlier this afternoon. Now I'm returning messages. I might be swinging by a Civic Association meeting tonight for a little bit.

wolfguard -- they've lifted the boil water advisory and say the water in the pipes is fine without having to flush the lines.

Christopher Marlowe

What are you going to do today?

Happy Birthday from the Bronze to:
Alyiania, BiffyBuffy, Dirty Socks, Kalika, & Mr.EverDawn!

RedCrayon Good to know you too.

Beldin Interesting article! Did Dolly hit you?

Mrs.Beasley StGermainAaak! Uri Geller is no Jossverse celeb; you ladies are giving my eyes the blues here *g*g*g.

  They did it to themselves?


StGermain - Long time, no see. How's it going?

Glow Boy - Specials is definitely better than nothing. I wonder if they'll have a companion in those specials or will the Doctor go it alone?

MrsBeasley - You stole my Uri Gellar line!

Dianne - Your newest screenplay sounds a lot like Hannah Montana. (teen popstar goes undercover at school as "just a regular kid")

StG

Yay Christopher Marlowe! It's been really good knowing you.


wolfguard

Well, I'm glad they're watching Buffy over anyting else. (Not like they can.......since we cancled cable.)

But I hope they identify with her, take on some of her passion and sassiness.........


Ojagwers

Well..........things are back to normal over here. Sort of. The Dr. wants her to sleep in our room (Hubby is a light sleeper) for the next week to see if there are any more siesures. So far, all the tests are normal........so.........this is just weird. It was so out of the blue.

But she's eating and happy and watching Willy Wanka and the Chocolate factory now........ seems back to normal and no more vomiting.........

We'll see what the EEG says on Monday. Hour trip to the Dr. each way. Joy.







Now I'm going to check out that Comicon convention. I've heard a lot of good things about it. I've heard it's gotten really big over the years and Seth Green is there! Whoo-hoo!

I'm going to try to find some more information on Twilight, dollhouse, and that new Terminatior Movie with Christian Bale.

Personally, I just don't see what kind of a story they could do with the Terminator........haven't they exhuasted all story lines?

Aren't they doing some tv movie now called the Sarah Connor Chronicles? Isn't that pretty much covering everything?

wolfguard valMicahelAn example that's (too) often brought up in regards to science fiction; several writers before or in the early days of the auto assumed amazing and plausible advances in it, but nobody predicted the modern highway/autobahn type systems or the modern-style traffic jam.

Yay Christopher Marlowe

Happy birthday to Alyiania, BiffyBuffy, Dirty Socks, Kalika, & Mr.EverDawn.

Christopher Marlowe & abt. Well I've just read the latest Doctor Who magazine and it confirms that there are going to be five specials before the next series proper. One at Christmas this year and four more next year. It's not the same as having a full series but it's definitely much better than nothing.

GB.

Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits

Category: Science
Question: What objects did Galileo reportedly drop off the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

answer: two balls/stones or a ball and feather.
trivia masters: Algerina, valMichael
trivia comedians: Leather Jacket
valMichael The apple falling from a tree and hitting Newton was also questionable?

Happy Birthday Alyiania, BiffyBuffy, Dirty Socks, Kalika, & Mr.EverDawn!

Mrs.Beasley The script Ohio formation. Sounds like a new cheerleading move.

Bossy The Cow Yay for prospects!

wolfguard -- the boil water advisory is still under effect:

* Do not drink water unless you know it is safe.
* Do not bathe in the water unless you know it is safe.
* Do not cook with the water unless you know it is safe.
* Do not brush teeth with the water unless you know it is safe.
* Do NOT use the water in homes or restaurant locations to make ice unless you know it
is safe.

Even a slob like me has to wash dishes and take a bath every once in a while...

Trivia Girl Two different weight stones. But there is much doubt as to whether or not he did this. his actual experiments in gravity and kinematics were rolling balls down inclined planes to reduce their "fall time".

Wolfguard I would question a number of "inventions" he lists. No one "invented" electricity, the properties of electricity were uncovered over a few hundred years. Out of his list you've quoted: "light bulb, radio, airplane, radar, atomic energy, jets, space travel, cell phones, CDs, GUI (graphic user interface)." Wasn't the lighting on the Nautilus a lot like florescent lighting. It's motive power was electrical, but what generated it? Maybe nuclear power? Jet like devices and space travel were all in the 20s and 30s pulps. What was Dick Tracy's two-way wrist radio TV but a cell phone? Btw, pictures with overlays are a graphical user interface. :) Look at James H. Schmits science fiction stories written in the 60s. He has the web. That's what he calls his world wide communications system that functions exactly like todays world wide web. Plus, reading the material carefully will show you that he must have thought of something like a GUI to present information from the web. We aren't told how it was done, of course.

Finally, there is the problem of what he means by prediction. Until Verne and Wells, there was no science fiction. I think that is mainly because there was almost no large impact of science on everyday life until the late 19th century.

A number of issues. A parking meter plan that pretty much has everyone putting their two cents. Opposition to a resort near the only road into a housing subdivision. The upcoming 2009 budget. Large projects we don't know how to fund yet.

Foot tapper runs into The Bronze, waving madly ...

Can't stop - love to all!


kessie - You're welcome! Good to spread the love :)

Yay to Christopher Marlowe! - Have a fab day!

neonate - Me? Naughty? Never! *eg*


Flies out of the door again ...

SOs to: abt, Algerina, amystar, angela, Aramina, Austin154, Bossy the Cow, buffyrat, cabin7dad, CaughtNTheQuiet, Christopher Marlowe, DaddyCatALSO, Django, Dru in LA, GothicAvenger, Gray (RIP), helygen, Holy Water, Irishrose, Jaan Quidam, jitsudude (RIP), KAM, k8cre8, Leather Jacket, Leira, loop, lostinamerica, lucille, Maverick, Menomegirl, Morella, neonate, newt, Niblet, Octoquad, Ojagwers, Old One, redwitch, Scourge, ShadowQuest, Shan, slayerdaddy, Thoin, Trinity, VampSlayer, VanHelsing, Watchers Pet, wolfguard, Zeus, white wings, wiccachick, The Birthday Gnome (you bring birthday fun every day!) The wise people = Old Man Fan, Mrs Beasley, valMichael (you guys know everything!), and anyone else Ive missed!

Welcome to the Hellmouth: Because you are the Slayer. Into each generation a Slayer is born,
one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, one born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires...

Buffy: (smiling at Spike) Hi, honey. I'm home. (attacks him) You know what? It's good to be me. (Halloween)
Xander: Clearly the hellmouths answer to what do you get a slayer who has everything (Surprise)
Willow: (to Oz) I was waiting. I feel like some part of me will always be waiting for you. Like if I'm old and blue-haired, and I turn the corner in
Istanbul and there you are, I won't be surprised. Because... you're with me, you know? (New Moon Rising)
Angel:It's a claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship, the crown represents loyalty... and the heart...
Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. (Surprise)
Giles: And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Can we *please* talk about the Ascension? (The Prom)
Faith: (to Buffy) Are you protecting vampires? Are you the bad slayer now? Am I the good slayer now? (Dirty Girls)
Spike:Love isn't brains, children, it's blood... (clasps his chest) blood screaming inside you to work its will.
*I* may be love's *****, but at least *I'm* man enough to admit it. (Lovers Walk)

City of : Los Angeles. You see it at night and it shines. A beacon. People are drawn to it. People and other things.
They come for all sorts of reasons. My reason? No surprise there. It started with a girl.

Angel: (to Lindsey) I'm just here to say 'bon voyage'. Don't come back. (Dead End)
Cordelia: (to Wesley) What? That she'd try to manoeuvre Angel into an exchange of bodily fluids in order to make herself eternally young
and beautiful, thus saving her failing career? Gee, now that you mention it. (Eternity)
Wesley: I had my throat cut and all my friends abandoned me. (Spin the Bottle)
Gunn: (to Angel) You enjoying your visit to nineteen seventy three? (Picks up a memo pad) I meant her message pad. (Epiphany)
Fred: (to her parents) Angel's the champion, and Wesley's the brains of the operation, Gunn's the muscle
and Cordy's the heart, and I'm... (Fredless)
Lorne: (to Angel) What's to understand? You think you're the first guy who ever rolled over, saw what was lying next to him and went 'Guyeah!'
And you're not. Believe me. - It's called a moment of clarity, my lamb. And you've just had one. (Epiphany)
Lindsey:The key to Wolfram and Hart: don't let them make you play their game. You gotta make them play yours. (Dead End)

Dianne, Beldin, Ebdim9th, Algerina, Leather Jacket, Foot Tapper, Old One - Thanks for the yays!!

Drive-By


Leather Jacket,

Not Chinese. Japanese. *g*


When I first read Sherden's list, alot of his examples raised an eyebrow. Without looking into each one, I've no opinion on a particular example.

I think one can make a legitimate distinction between a discovery and an invention, but not everyone appears to do so. It seems that the US Patent Office has granted intellectual property rights to some discoveries, .e.g. certain genes (?).

To my mind, an invention involves creating, usually by recombining existing things. One can discover the wind, but one invents a windmill. I imagine the same could be said for electricity. As you noted, people were aware of lightning, so perhaps electricity was a discovery. OTOH, simply being aware of a phenomena does not mean one understands it well enough to apply it. OTOH, one can apply a phenomena, such as wind, without understanding how it works. We've all used gravity without understanding its essence. Scientists and engineers have a quantitative understanding of gravity, but very few, if any, know what causes the phenomena we call gravity. We can state that two objects attract each other directly with respect to their masses and indirectly with respect to the square of their distance from each other.¹ Why so? Not certain anyone knows for certain.²

Which is all to say, I agree with your distinction between discovery and invention. OTOH, I don't think the distinction matters with respect to the book's topic, forecasting and predicting the future.<sup>ETA


1</sup> g = (mass of a)(mass of b) / distance<sup>2

2</sup> There're certainly theories, .e.g. gravitons, but I'm not sure how well they've been tested by experiment.

^ETA Sherden gave his examples in a chapter on forecasting technology (technologies). Joel Mokyr, an economist and/or historian, distinguishes between micro and macro inventions. He says the macro inventions tend to blindside us.




WG

Hey did you know you can take figs and strawberry jello and fake strawberry preserves?

Yay, Christopher Marlowe!

Heh, we have a guy on our NPR station named Giles Snyder...


LJ, Drew who?
Lots of junior council members get screwed by their savvy seniors... but usually in an esoteric 'game of politics' kind of way.

There once was a girl named Marti
who liked to drink, celebrate and party
she did write for the fans
but some desired Noxon bans
When she helped make Buffy seem tarty

Yay Christopher Marlowe, yay!!

Joss:The Mayor is a snake... the...Mayor... is a snake!! *scribble scribble scribble*

Leather Jacket -- yep. I'm planning to have her get a total makeover from long silver-blond Paris Hilton hair to short dark bobbed cut. Ooh -- and maybe colored contacts? Plus a look-alike leading the paparazzi on a wild goose chase.

Trivia Girl : His mother-in-law and his wife

ShadowQuest : Well, you've certainly got me curious. The funny thing is I'd just finished talking to Myslayre about how I can't keep track of who's male and who's female here.

Ojagwers, Dianne : There are a number of differences between the fictionalized Sound of Music and the real-life Von Trapp family, and enough on-line resources to find them that I won't bore everyone here. But I will say that Since George and Maria married in 1927 and didn't leave Austria until 1938, that it's difficult to compare the real-world timeframe with the movie's timeframe.

Christopher Marlowe : I wonder wither your mayor and council president are working at cross-purposes. Putting "troublemakers" in charge of big committees does not seem like a good way to "speed things up". Then again, as long as the mayor isn't trying to ascend, I suppose it's all good.

As far as reshooting scenes from a pilot episode goes, I've got two words for you: "Star Trek".

Ebdim9th : I've heard of doing it in some unusual places, but on a council?

Dianne : I saw you posting about the screenplay you just started. Are you planning to have this teenage heiress change her appearance? Because in these days of no-talent-just-money celebutantes, I would find it hard to believe that someone in the school wouldn't recognize her.

wolfguard : Sherden doesn't know what he's talking about. Electricity wasn't invented. It was "discovered" by Benjamin Franklin, though I suspect people had been observing lightning for years. What was invented, I suppose, was a way to harness it. Space flight was definitely predicted, since it's been the subject of science fiction since at least the 1920s. One could argue that Star Trek predicted the invention of the cell phone. One could also argue that the graphical user interface was more of an evolution than an invention.

wolfguard, Christopher Marlowe : Having watched the Chinese cook at my local Chinese restaurants, I can't imagine them ever having any use for a microwave oven.

Finish the Limerick

Thanks to those who played yesterday:
Made me laugh: Mrs.Beasley, Myslayre
Nicely done: ShadowQuest (twice), Ojagwers, buffyrat (twice), Old One, Ebdim9th (I hope that wasn't a Drew Fuller reference), Algerina
Never too late: Ojagwers
And another nod for original material to Mrs.Beasley

Today's Limerick (an equal opportunity rhymer)
There once was a woman named Marti
Who liked to drink, celebrate and party

My entry for yesterday:
A young man named Drew couldn't tell
But he thought he was under a spell
He'd just kissed a girl
Whose face made him hurl
And his boyfriend said, "You are not well."

And since we're all equal-opportunity today:
A young man named Drew couldn't tell
But he thought he was under a spell
He met a new boy
Tried to make him his toy
Which made his girlfriend feel less than swell

Myslayre : I was originally going to rhyme moose and mousse but decided that would be cheating.

Leather Jacket's Limerick


A young man named Drew couldn't tell
But he thought he was under a spell.
he spoke to swine
a very sure sign
that the man was going to hell

Jeez, did I miss Thoin?


My
At work I just take time
And all thru my coffee break time
I post a little post for you..

yay christopher marlowe!

Trivia Girl
stones and a feather

let's hear a great big bronze cheer for christopher marlowe!

yay christopher marlowe!


Happy CD Thursday!

Hello again,

YAY...

Christopher Marlowe: What issues are you facing in your town?

KAM
Ty King Fan

Christopher Marlowe
Good. have some exciting prospects for a new job but nothing certain yet but if it all comes off it will work out brilliantly!

Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits

Category: Science
Question: What objects did Galileo reportedly drop off the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

ShadowQuest -- I did, and e-mailed her about that one and another I'd written that has a supporting part for a singer, but she never got back with me. She's probably staying busy with other stuff.

Niblet Heavens no! I'm not so evil as to be a lawyer. *g*

Bossy The Cow How have you been doing?

ETA

KAM Ready for the weekend to start?

Trivia Girl
non sequitor Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits
The script Ohio formation.



buffyrat: Thanks for the appreciation

A poet you know as Ms. Beasley
had talent that most would call measley
But a tip of the hat
From a kind buffyrat
Left her feeling a little less weasely



Leather Jacket's Limerick


A young man named Drew couldn't tell
But he thought he was under a spell.
He was visiting bars
And began to see stars
Then awoke in a eight by ten cell

Haha look at this

Kids' names

am I back yet????
EAT

yes I am hoorah!

Christopher Marlowe Are you a lawyer?

Dianne And then the local mayor turns out to be a giant evil snake but it's ok because the kids have arrows and a few of them die but not the ones the audience really cares about, and the apocalypse is averted and then they all graduate happily. The end.

Oh, wait. I think I saw that before somewhere...

Late night zoom through

Leather Jacket's Limerick

A young man named Drew couldn't tell
But he thought he was under a spell.
He had minions galore
for his take on Buffy'lore,
drawn from his never-empty well.

A young man named Drew couldn't tell
But he thought he was under a spell
For he just couldn't see
why he was attracted to she
but in the end said "Oh what the hell."

Dianne Did you ever write the screenplay for Erika?

Zoom, zoom

Good evening and SOs to all here, especially but not only abt, Algerina, Amarra, amystar, angela, Aramina, Artie, AussieBullDog, Beldin, Bossy the Cow, cabin7dad, Captain Chaos, CaughtNtheQuiet, Christopher Marlowe, Dachelle, DaddyCatALSO, Django, Dogmeat, Ebdim9th, 4paws, Foot Tapper, Genevieve's Lucie, Glow Boy, GothicAvenger, halfrek, helygen, Hollyn, Holy Water, HumVee, Irishrose, Jaan Quidam, Jocasta, judas, k8cre8, KAM, Kiba Rika, Leather Jacket, loop, lostinamerica, lucille, Luv_Lux, Major Wiggins, Maverick, Menomegirl, Morella, Mr. Holtz, MozzarellaDemon, neonate, newt, Niblet, Nirvana 1, Old One, OldManFan, paks, Peace Fire, Pfeifferpack, Phoenix, redwitch, Rikki, roja, Serina, ShadowQuest, Shan, SheBit, speare, Trinity, valMichael, VampSlayer, Watcher's Pet, white wings, wolfguard, Xanderella, Y_slaybelle and everybody else!

Yay Eiddileg!

Yay Holy Water!

Yay Redwitch!

Happy Birthday Birthday Persons!

RedCrayon, sincerely hope your son gets better. I can imagine that was a pretty scary experience.

Leather Jacket limerick:
A young man named Drew couldn't tell
But he thought he was under a spell
The Original saw the Ultimate
New Drew wasn't a duplicate
But both wrote supernaturally well.

deadguy QoD: Not sure if you mean physically attractive or just attractive in the sense of being an interesting character. Regarding the latter: Angel, Wesley, Fred, Andrew.

Leather Jacket, Christopher Marlowe, wolfguard, the three chapters of "Dr. Horrible" have the 1, 2 and 3 spots on iTunes TV and they'll be bringing it out on DVD. I suspect it will at least make back its cost -- there's no studio overhead tacked on to the budget.

Leather Jacket limerick:
There once was a young man named Percy
Who made all the women cry "Mercy!"
Why this he desired
Was a question that mired
The minds of all and made them feel cursy.
(Cursy, adjective, i.e., swearing in frustration, the way you feel when you try to find a rhyme for Percy and mercy ...)

Dianne, I think the three Von Trapp children in the book who weren't in the movie were the product of Maria's marriage to Captain Von Trapp, so they wouldn't have existed in the film's timeframe.

Ojagwers

Yay Holy Water!



Deadguy Memorial Angel Wednesday Question

Which, if any, characters/actors on AtS or BtVS did you not originally
find attractive but changed your mind?

Faith


Faith: Thanks, B. Couldn't have done it without you.

Faith, Hope & Trick, end of Act 1.

Don't do this to Buffy, Joss.



Buffy: He killed her, didn't he?

Faith: (angrily) They don't have a word for what he did to her.

....

Kakistos ~ I guess you need a bigger stake, Slayer.

And then Faith drives a pike through his heart.

Faith, Hope & Trick, Act 4.

You got me, Joss.




Good Night to All

WG

Beldin You know I havent' been to mysoju in a while. I should start the second season of Trick though.

Thoin, who is full of gingerale-and-limes but still tired to death has qwertyfaced and peels herself off her keyboard. Dripping drool, she blinks around and realizes that she's pretty well done for the night...she tries getting off the Comfy Famlet Couch and realizes she's about to face plant all over the pool table. Deciding not to break up anyones friendly game of pool, she flops back down on the Comfy Famlet Couch, pulls out her squashy pillow and her fluffy blankie and rolls over in a comfortable snuggle position. There is silence for a moment. Wise Bronzers flee the area. Wiser Bronzers pull out earplugs and set themselves at carefully distanced points from the Comfy Famlet Couch...

Night all. See you s-- snzzzzzzz...

Dianne, how about the group is protesting the return to school of a boy with AIDS?

Ebdim9th -- and? ;)

wolfguard Good story. International marketing is tricky, isn't it? And how customers see possibilities when the makers don't.

RedCrayon Glad you are ok and eating pudding.

RedCrayon,oops, I was afraid I'd said a 'he' instead of 'she'.


Eta: WG, either that or its the color of that space between outer and space that I forgot to put there the first time around.

Christopher Marlowe,

There's a marketing story from the ~80s where a US company had some success selling microwaves ovens in Japan. The company decided to play-off the demand by offering microwave cookware. When the cookware did not sell so well, the company looked to see what sort of cookware the Japanese were buying. They learned the Japanese were not using the microwave ovens for cooking, but for warming towels. *g*


ETA Red Crayon,

'Cause Buffy looks at the demon guard, bats her eyes and says, "Buffy. The Vampire Slayer. And you are?"

Then she whaps and baps them all. *g*

ETA 2 Ebdim9th

The color of outerspace is red rose. *g*




WG

Mrs. Beasley

Sorry about that. It was a little........... upsetting.


Ebdim9th
The Pumpkin Belly's belly is........ sour. We're not sure why she keeps vomiting..... but......we're hoping it gets better soon.


Christopher Marlowe

Hubby is okay. The other kids are fine. He's a little nervouse since this is just out of the blue with no precurser.

Tonight we're having lots of pudding, jello, cake and ginger ale. ;)

And the kids are watching Anne. I don't know why they like Anne so much.


ShadowQuest

Hum.........interesting article from Joss. I guess I just sort of think that all things he does and writes comes out perfect the first time. Like........he's got this vision and .........WELLA! Here you are!

I'm very much looking forward to seeing Dollhouse. I like Eliza.

Thoin as a theoretical chord, I am like a divining rod when it comes to anomalies out of which payments for large bartabs at the Bronze might be paid...

Dianne, all kinds of things can happen in high school, maybe she comes on the day there's some sort of protest march out in front of the school maybe...

WolfGuard, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells predicted space travel to a certain degree... Some speculate that The Color From Outer Space with its accurate description of radiation damage may have predicted atomic bombs/power of some sort as written by H. P. Lovecraft. I've read it and that does appear to be the case.

wolfguard I'm would think inventions may not be predicted, but that applications of a particular idea could be. I watched a piece on stem cells. I don't recall the 'invention' of stem cells being predicted, their possibilities can be. Whether or not those possibilties become reality is another story.

Christopher Marlowe,

You're welcome. :)

ETA You can't be much more harsher than the end of Normal Again. *g*



Some notes from, I believe, The Fortune Sellers by Sherden.

~ History does not repeat itself. Major social trends, movements and revolutions surprise those closest to them. Social theories are weak. Social predictions are subjective and subject to political aggendas, situational bias and wishful thinking.

Inventions not predicted: electricity, telephones, light bulb, radio, airplane, radar, atomic energy, jets, space travel, cell phones, CDs, GUI (graphic user interface).<sup>1

1</sup> I question, at least, the space travel example.

Discuss

*g*


WG

Beldin Not yet. I expect to do it this weekend. That seems to be the time I like to write stories. With the new idea, the stream of consciousness method, I should be able to make major headway on my story. Just talking to you guys has really helped.

valMichael Watching Nova Now. Good stuff!

Christopher Marlowe - Did you try the stream of consciousness exercise?

wolfguard Thank you. I don't think I'll be quite that harsh. But you have given me an idea that should help me greatly!

Ebdim9th -- I just need to figure out what to do with her once I get her to high school...

"The truth is the safest lie."



Dianne,

I did not know about the Dekalb water warning. :(



Christopher Marlowe

Spoiler for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (a short story)


((A man / spy(?) is about to be hung from a makeshift gallows suspended off a bridge. The plank is pulled and he drops, but the rope breaks, so he splashes into the creek and desperately swims away. The rest of the story tells of his fight to escape home. He gets to this house and sees his wife at the door. Runs to her...

WHAP! He's swinging from a noose above the creek. He'd been dreaming his last dream.

Bierce served in the US Civil War (Union). After the war, he worked as as writer and journalist (?). One of his books is ~ The Devil's Dictionary. In his later years, he journeyed to Mexico to experience or report on its civil war. He never returned. Gregory Peck played Bierce in the film, Old Gringo))


WG

Thoin, who KNOWS what her bartab is (slightly more than the cost of the Iraq war at this point) goggles at Ebdim9th and the casual paying of the tab...

Ebdim9th, thank you for the drink, but you either just bounced a HUGE check or you have, in the bank, the equivalent amount of the gross national product of Great Britain! Wow. And thanks!

Christopher Marlowe, thank you for the drink, ma-am! You rule.

Oops sorry Beldin, its actually just the link I posted at another thread. Its in groups and ships as The Leaggue of Nations: There's No Place Like Greggtown. Its for the shows' script coordinator/writer and co-producer Gregg Nations. Sometimes it gets random, yknow, 'hey look, isnt this interesting?',so I figured at stick it there and see if it flew...

CM, I hope you don't get stuck with dungwork either...

*pays Thoin's bartab and joins Dogmeat on the preturnaturally (love that word!) sturdy Bronze ceiling fan*

Beldin I just got my 'Woman Ascends the Stairs' dvd today.

Ebdim9th Lets hope I don't find myself in any embarassing positions. *g*

ETA

slides an extra frosty gingerale and lime to Thoin. I'll shoot you an email.

Thoin stumbles in from the Lurkages, swiping great gobs of goo out of her hair. Her eyes are both wild and glazed (which, strangely enough, IS possible) and she has a pronounced twitch about her facial muscles.

She staggers over to the Comfy Famlet Couch and collapses thereupon...

If anything ELSE goes wrong, I'm gonna commit hiri kiri, I swear I am!

First I lose my Internet connection, then my computer decides to shut off and not turn back on. (All while my brother-in-law, who normally helps me with my computer, is out of town for a week.) Then my landlord has his tech person get my computer up and running. But said tech person manages to screw it up so that I lose ALL of Microsoft Office...including my Outlook...with all my e-mail addresses in it!!! And I don't have a back-up on disk anywhere!!!

Then, just to make my life even MORE complicated, I have a weekend party to go to (which was wonderful and loads of fun) and the day before, a friend finds a war protest rally that we just HAVE to cover. He SWEARS this time he's got a paying outlet (and, as usual, doesn't!). So I'm at a rally, interviewing wonderfully interesting people and find out there's no outlet at all. So I decide since there's no time crunch, I'll do the article when I get home Sunday night. Only I get sick. And stay sick 'till today. I got the article written yesterday and posted at a non-paying online site (NowPublic), and am still trying to market another version of it and follow ups at the RNC.

I know that I've slept, eaten and bathed since Thursday night, but somehow, it doesn't feel like it. And the details escape me...

And I did another series of interviews at the weekend party and have ANOTHER article to put together for hopeful publication (if I can find an interested outlet) soon, also.

All this and I still don't have a job!!! ARGH!!!

Meanwhile, I'm hunting for e-mail addresses. If I had your address before, PLEASE e-mail me (and this DOES mean YOU, Algerina, Mrs. Beaseley, ShadowQuest, Old One, ValMichael, White Wings, Irene Adler, Morella, ducky, Slayerdaddy, and everyone else that my head is too foggy to think of at the moment. You should know who you are, shouldn't you, now!) at the addy above, so I can get your e-mail address back again!

Please? Pretty please with Fifths on it?

Thoin, with no money for her bar tab, sinks down into the cushions and pulls out her soft blankie. Clutching it, she rocks back and forth, trying NOT to think of a frosty gingerale-and-lime...trying really hard...failing...miserably...

Back! I attended the weekly meeting of the new GLBT center. Wanted to get an idea of the status of things and drop a few ideas with them.

Ebdim9th - I can't even *find* the thread. I hate threaded boards.

Dianne, great title for it...

Niblet -- I've been unemployed self-employed a writer full-time for about two years now. I've written 11 screenplays so far and am still waiting for the first sale. The one I just started is called Slumming It:

A teenage heiress, fed up with paparazzi and posers, escapes to a suburban high school in search of friends who aren't just after fame and money, but high school politics and a relentless photographer threaten her foray into life as a "normal" teen.

ShadowQuest, at least you're not trying to throw the horse...


Beldin, I haven't gotten any reactions to it on the thread yet...

Christopher Marlowe, I kinda felt sorry for, yet happy at the same time, you as soon as I heard the joyful news that you would be assuming the position. Um, that is, your position, on the council...

RedCrayon, what kinda pumkin belly does he have? big one, round one, tickly one? All of the above?