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I have a dog that if he walked any slower he'd have to go backwards...
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I think the glasses make the outfit!
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“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.” ― Christopher Hitchens
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To Anyone who is interested, I changed the recent installment of my story in my blog, I had accedentally posted a rough draft instead of the actual story prelude. e
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Cheese nips for anyone who knows who Professor Chaos and General Disarray really are
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I'm back! again! Terrible storm, between power surges and exploding transformers I got off easy with just a few burned out appliances. Lots of flooding 15 people dead so far..
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A great series of videos, relatively new channel, but he is on top of the heap for sure!
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Damn TV died last night, it's old, I tried the quick fixes I looked up on google, none worked.
Looks like I might have to use my Computer monitor as a tv for a while.
If I can get the monitor to hook up with the dish.
Life goes on!
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It's a samsung HLS4266WX/XAA, I think the bulb overheated. It turns on for a minute or so then turns off. I put a new bulb in last year when I was doing the same thing. It worked until now. The TV was one I rescued off my neighbors trash, recycling at it's finest! It was doing the same thing then, I might look and see if the cooling fan is messed up. It appears to be running but I'm not sure how strong the airflow should be. It's pretty weak...
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New story on my blog!
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Sure, I just posted a story, it needs some editing as usual.
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2018/02/26/winston-and-the-pickup-truck/
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I started getting my garden ready today. I still hurt but i will not give in, the garden can't wait for me to get better. I was able to do some needed weeding for about 30 minutes!
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I just found out one of my stories was being used on a site without crediting me as the writer. Weird feeling...
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It was my ghost rider story, It's in my blog herehttp://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2010/09/06/night-flight/
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I have been husbanding a small endangered fish for the last few months. I started out with about 12 of them and now I have more than 12 dozen of them.
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Yes, I will add some more wild specimens when I transfer them to an outdoor pond. I used to breed dwarf crayfish, I tried several times to breed a line of blue specimens but the blue color always seemed to be associated with extreme inbreeding. I ended up with a line of paisley patterned crayfish. I still managed to sell quite a few...
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Lots of rain lately has left many puddles hidden in the grass. Riding mowers don't mow water very well...
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Well I'm back, almost three weeks of Hurricane and after math. My blog post about it here
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/moontanman/2018/10/02/hurricane-florence/
It has been 19 days of destruction fear, terror and boredom.
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I just posted a story, here is the link....
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Does anyone on here know anything about riding lawn mowers? I have a craftsman Lt1000. last time I mowed the blades wouldn't disengage and the lever went loose. Now it will not even turn over as though the blades were still engaged and I can't figure out how to fix it. Any ideas out there?
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I watched Avatar... The Way of the Water last night... or should I say Moby Dick on another planet? Wonderful CGI technology but evidently future humans are so evil the universe should be hoping for an early Nuclear War. What is the plot of the next Avatar based on? Maybe they'll step up and go with something more adult like Between Planets by Heinlein, Ooo Ooo Ooo I know! How about Oliver Twist? Naw too complex.
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The cgi was great and hints at some wild possibilities, the John Varley trilogy, IMHO a great story but until now impossible to make, would lend itself to this type of cgi quite well. Sci-fi in general would benefit with this technology. But this movie was... not much more than a retelling of Moby Dick and not really well done either.
The first movie was sweet but just a retelling of Pocahontas, the CGI and the idea of what an alien planet might look like was great but some of the portrayal of the aliens was "sweet" instead of realistic.
The shifting of the necklaces of the females to hide their "almost" breasts was sweet in the beginning but became distracting and comical as the movie went on.
The females either should have not had "almost" breasts or they should have shared the modern taboo of not exposing them, would bra tops have been such a problem for cgi? The constant "accidental" covering of the breasts became silly at best as the movie went on. In the second movie it became annoying as hell and just made it more difficult to suspend disbelief of the sci-fi setting of the movie.
I thought the idea of a world wide AI controlling the ecosystem was kind of unique and made it interesting but the willy nilly method of the AI intervening seemed contrived to me at best.
Let's talk about the over the top evil of the humans and the unobtainium of both movies, the first one was difficult to swallow but not impossible to conceive of. It was easy to assume the "people" of earth stumbled across such a thing and it's value in their technology was enough to justify mining and shipping it to earth.
But the stuff obtained from the alien whales? They arrive ten years later and within a year they find an immortality serum in the brains of "alien whales" and have a complex system of obtaining it already set up? This just beggars the imagination to think they discovered it that quickly.
Did they set about the slaughter of native animals immediately when they arrived the second time looking for something of value to justify star travel? The method used to obtain this substance would have required a technological base already in place when they landed. No justification for this was even hinted at.
The Red Planet by Heinlein would have been a much better story and a good way to display the CGI tech.
In fact the entire operation seemed to indicate they already knew about the immortality serum before they arrived, screw the unobtainium that allowed for the tech that got them to the planet, lets kill something and see if we can find an immortality serum.
I think the whale theme was meant to be a tear jerker for little kids but it detracted from the story line and made suspension of disbelief even more difficult. I write better than that or at least more subtilly. The entire story was about as subtle as a slap in the face with a dead fish.
Such a wonderful possibility wasted, let us hope this technology can be applied to better movies in the future.
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Does anyone use the search engine Opera? Any pros or cans or tips to make it better. I generally use google but I am looking around to see what is available.
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Is anyone else having a problem with accessing SFN blogs? I'm getting a 502 bad gateway notice.
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Works fine here. http://blogs.scienceforums.net/
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Guys! Guys! Guys! One of my short stories has been published on YouTube!!! Illustrated and voiced by ai!!! I am thrilled!
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Tea flavored burbon, just tastes like a red oak lumbur somebody spilled tea on, I'll stick with tequela....
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Michael nesmith game show parody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgzUuAA5pXU&feature=autoplay&list=PLB4476960FF91DD66&index=3&playnext=1
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I had greasy fried chicken at the cafeteria today, eeewww I have no self respect....
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Almost two weeks of the flu, today is the first day in quite a few I feel like it's worth thinking about living, I had a flu shot too, must have been one of those lesser flu's. Maybe I'll live...
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Another warm sunny day in the south, that's why i live here!