Randomness, The Sequel

[Darth_Rob]

Exciting news article

[Mad78]

One commented: hammer = awesome/cool etc.

 

The other one than said: "Wouldn´t tend to said it´s awesome. There´s still some practice needed, sorry."

 

 

Which SF/Fantasy Character are you?

I'm John Sheridan. Don't even know who the guy is.

 

Oh and btw thx for the translation.

[BadSamaritan]

I am.... Kosh

 

A reclusive seer shrouded in riddles, you reveal very little and only what is deemed congruent with your plans.

 

Understanding is a three edged sword. Your side, their side, and the truth.

 

http://www.tk421.net/character/kosh.jpg

[DarthTofu]

It's eerie how close this whole thing has come to everyone's personality. Either we watch/read too much Sci Fi and Fantasy, or whoever wrote that program is good.

[Mad78]

Who the heck is Kosh?

[Eagle]

Looks like noone of us ever watched Babylon 5. And why not!? It´s boring. I allways fell asleep while watching it. Myself hoped to be a SW or at least a Star Treck character. But I can live with that russian female officer. Guess only Rob and Tofu were the lucky guys.

[DarthTofu]

... Unfortunately I don't watch Star Trek. My Sci Fi/Fantasy fixes come in the forms of Star Wars and Supernatural. I'd not have minded getting Dean Winchester.

[Moribundus]

Who the heck is Kosh?

Yes.

 

 

One B5 fan here

[BadSamaritan]

Looks like noone of us ever watched Babylon 5. And why not!? It´s boring.

 

Actually, the storyline for Babylon 5 is actually really really good if you watch it all. Its like DS9, where it starts out as just random adventures aboard and in the B5 universe, and then slowly moves into the steady storyline involving the 'First Ones' and the massive war between a overly corrupt earth, Babylon 5 and her allies, and the increasingly violent Shadow and Vorlon species.

 

There are many underlying messages about military dictatorships, religions, freedoms of all beings, and several other little things. All in all, one of the few REALLY good sci-fi series to come out in the 90s.

[Eagle]

I have no doubts about that. But I don´t want to watch a series for ages just to wait until something important may happen. Or if I miss one or two parts of it I have to be afraid to don´t have a clue anymore what´s going on now.

 

The dark side of Elmo

 

http://www.gamestar.de/imgserver/bdb/1520300/1520370/130x.jpg

[Defender_16]

Crap, I ended up with Wesley Crusher. wth?

 

Epic wrestling reverse

 

 

most annoying bobble-head in the world

 

 

The Macgyver Blindfold

[Eagle]

Allthough the character of Wesley Crusher is nearly as annoying as young Anakin in Episode 1, he´s quite a positive character. He´s very intelligent, open minded and has a good heart. I guess that´s it really all about.

 

Spitzbergen´s Seed Bunker

It´s kinda frightening to think of that we have to bunker all that seed for our own surveillance. Just to think of that about 70.000 sorts of different rice has gone lost in the last couples of years in china, just because the farmers were much too poor to cultivate em. That happens everywhere around the world. Not just because of povery.

[DarthTex]

Who the heck is Kosh?

Yes.

 

One B5 fan here

I liked B5 alot. I just wondered how the series would have run had they not chopped it down to 4 years instead of the originally planned 5 Epsilon III was never truly utilized I think the last year of the series (though good) was a bit ... rushed.

 

Watch it if you get the chance

 

I came out as Yoda (I really think it had more to do with age than anything else ).

[Mad78]

I came out as Yoda (I really think it had more to do with age than anything else ).

I was sure you old texan would end up as him.

 

It may be a clissic but by jove its hard!!!

 

Pointless

[DarthTofu]

Matthew Stover is officially my hero. Here is an excerpt from his blog:

 

They come at him one at a time, each warrior in turn charging toward honorable single combat.

Then--

They come two at a time.

By the time they begin to come in groups, they have to scramble over the bodies of their dead comrades to reach him. A pile of bodies.

A pile that becomes a wall, a rampart.

Ganner Rhysode builds a fortress of the dead.

That makes me feel inferior.

 

Doesn't look like much, here . . . but in context, the emotion that very, very simple, straightforward prose evokes make me wonder if I was using the same brain then that I am now.

 

Here's the thing:

 

I am very happy, and deeply honored, that my fiction has been important to several folks 'round these parts, and elsewhere. But you all should understand: it's not because I'm anything special, or because my stories have some particular depth or significance. What is special is the intersection of my words with your imaginations.

 

You've probably heard it said that "What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." What you may not have realized is how literally true that platitude becomes when you apply it to the act of reading fiction.

 

I've tried other formulations of the same sentiment, especially in Blade of Tyshalle: "What any work of art means depends on who you are when you look at it." And, once or twice, in reference to uncomplimentary reviews: "When you judge a book, the book also judges you."

 

These are all ways of saying the same thing. Look: a work of fiction is not words on a page, or on a screen. That's part of it, and it's not the most important part. The actual story--the Real Novel--is what unfolds in your head as you read those words.

 

You get it?

 

This is why I can find myself feeling inferior to authors some readers might not consider my equals--because their books inspire in me feelings and images and all manner of experience that I can never get from my own books.

 

Except sometimes, a few years down the road, when I have enough distance from a story I've penned to approach it as a reader, rather than as its author. Then I do occasionally feel inferior to my (younger) self.

 

So this is the thing I really want to drive home for any and all people who find something special in my books (or, for that matter, in anyone else's).

 

It's not the book. It's you. It's your mind doing all the work. Your commitment, your willingness to be touched, your suspension of disbelief and the power of your imagination. That's why there are many, many people who will never be moved by some story you love -- or, for some impoverished souls, by any story at all.

 

If you find something extraordinary in one of my books, it's because it was already inside you, and the words just helped you locate it, that's all.

 

And for those who don't find anything extraordinary in any of my books, fuck you anyway. Read something else, punk ass.

[Eagle]

Aaaand we got another one:

 

http://img.badische-zeitung.de/aktionen/2008/fastnews/eisbaerbaby-wilhelma.jpg

 

But this time it´s in a Zoo in my state (Baden-Wuerttemberg) and it´s not gonna be raised by humans, though it´s mother seems to be taking very much care off her child.

 

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/3295/eisbaerstuttgartek9.th.jpg

 

But it´s at least as cute as the other two polarbear-babies, Knut and Flocke.

 

I guess now you can call us germans "polarbear-crazed" or whatever.

[Darth_Rob]

I guess now you can call us germans "polarbear-crazed" or whatever.

 

I was gonna say. Thats a lot of polar bears you guys have over there.

 

Edit:

Im not letting this die.

Bigfoot on display at Berkley

[Mad78]

These polar bears... Soooo cute and fluffy!

 

This is cool

 

Old concept but interesting use of physics (my score: max height 4755, max distance 114209)

[DarthTofu]

I guess now you can call us germans "polarbear-crazed" or whatever.

 

I was gonna say. Thats a lot of polar bears you guys have over there.

 

Edit:

Im not letting this die.

Bigfoot on display at Berkley

 

Give it up, Rob. Massive apes aren't real- there's a reason everyone knows that Stanford is better than Berkley, and this is it.

[Mad78]

On a totally different note.

Yesterday i finished my first album. 9 tracks and around 35 minutes in lengh. I may post a rapidshare link later on.

[Eagle]

Definately, Mad!

 

Michael Jackson in Scary Movie 4

 

That scene resembles that one in "War of the Worlds" where people think that Cruise´s daughter has been left alone.

[BadSamaritan]

(my score: max height 4755, max distance 114209)

 

I scored a heigt of 6315, but only a distance of 96503

[Lord_La_forge]

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Han Solo Desk

[Darth_Rob]

Im not letting this die.

Bigfoot on display at Berkley

 

Give it up, Rob. Massive apes aren't real- there's a reason everyone knows that Stanford is better than Berkley, and this is it.

 

I will not give it up! I would be posting this info in the Bigfoot thread, but I fear if I resurrect it, it will be locked down due to its stupidity.

[Mad78]

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Han Solo Desk

 

I want one!!!