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Biggles · <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
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Peru is a fun place.
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I still exist!
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The books are a great read, but only after you've invested a lot of time getting into them. The author's other books all have the same problem. Incredibly detailed, well thought out, but difficult to get into. [i]The Years of Rice and Salt[/i], for…
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One (not that great) analogy I heard was that lifting the lander would be like lifting a piece of paper on Earth. Another problem that apparently occurred with the landing was that their best guess for the surface was for a relatively soft, powdery…
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Both the Enterprise and the Millennium Falcon are as fast as they need to be to produce sufficient lens flares. Also, if there isn't at least one battle in hyperspace I will be disappointed.
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My life has been pretty standard and dull by comparison to SpiritOne and Freejack's, but I suppose that shows the truth of the "interesting times" saying. I may have a permanent job within a year. SpiritOne: Of course you're not pretty. The standar…
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Are you going to go and see it anyway?
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You're making your Lochley dominatrix costume, at long last.
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Something the NZ government promotes quite heavily, but which is already a part of the food culture anyway, is eating lean, low-fat meat. Don't eat the skin of the chicken, don't eat beef with lots of marbling (in NZ, the most expensive beef has abs…
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It has been somewhat established that the Mediterranean diet and the diet of many parts of Asia, both of which feature a lot of fish and not much fat, are healthier. They don't throw out the meat and eggs and so on completely, though. They just eat …
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The Battle of the Five Armies is a fairly important part of the Hobbit, but it's not described in any great detail (literally about 3 pages in the edition I have). That doesn't mean that a film adaption should gloss over it, though. In terms of time…
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Both McCoy and Scotty are played by actors who are huge scifi geeks themselves. I think the characters being "got right" (in personality, etc.) in JJ Trek is almost entirely due to the efforts of those two actors rather than thanks to the writing st…
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The writing and the production quality are both excellent. I look forward to seeing what they can achieve in a feature length production.
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Seems like a lot of people don't have that intimate knowledge to the whole TOS lore that keeps them from enjoying the reboots on their own merits. They only merits Into Darkness has to enjoy are as a turn-your-brain-off action movie.
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It wasn't great at all. Just a rehash of plot points with a new shiny surface. Makes me fear for the new Star Wars movies "It wasn't great at all" is an understatement. It was a terrible movie and a horrible use of the Star Trek name and characte…
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"If you do things right, no one will be sure you've done anything at all."
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Still not fast enough!
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Crusade could be done with a five-minute opening speel of the background. It worked for Lord of the Rings.
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Elite Dangerous already has the rotating space stations part down.
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I'm having trouble getting excited. I think it's just been too long and I'm satisfied with the B5 that I have. If JMS is doing so well that money is no longer a problem, I'd rather he put his energy into a new science fiction story rather than regu…
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Yeah, the name showing up twice thing was my broken avatar. It's back now, so you can all relax.
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The lurking does not end. The lurking will never end.
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Wing Commander 2! Woo! Yeah, I'm a bit behind.
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I don't visit only when I'm on a business trip...
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We have waaaay to many sub-forums. Given the number of posts we had here *before* we got hacked to death, we'd probably be fine with just the Zocalo, and archive all the rest.
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MrMilli, given the crap the site has been through with hackings and awful software over the past year, I think any of our accounts still existing is a partly a miracle. (The other part is thanks to the huge effort put in by Random Chaos.)
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So... theatre or rental?
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Write a script that pulls the latest image from the webcam's web interface using Curl and puts it in a directory that your VPS serves (it shouldn't need to be more than a few lines). Set that script to be run by cron at a suitable interval.
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Tokyo: Senso-ji in Asakusa is one of the best temples in Tokyo. They probably have their cherry blossom festival at the moment, too. Climb the Sky Tree if you feel rich and enjoy long queues. Otherwise, climb the Tokyo Metropolitan Govt Towers for a…