DarthTofu

How would you define being famous? What is your criterion for it? Do you need to be asked to endorse a product, to appear on national/international television? Do five thousand people have to know your name? Do you have to appear in a specific branch of the media? In short, how do you define famous? My criteria: I have to have my own Wikipedia Article, and it has to at least be nominated for a feature article. Failing Wikipedia, I'll gladly take Wookiepedia.

Dang, Rob, that is a kickass fridge you've got, there. I kinda wish I had some of those magnets...

@Mad and Eagle: Those were great! Pure awesomeness for Randomness Mk. II I kinda want to make my own spy device, now, and see if it'll work... For the BEAKers.

Ah, but it's an old plaster with a bunch of signatures of famous people on it, and Steven Colbert's sweat upon it! I think he probably really did break it; I voted for option two.

Haha! Though, unfortunately for you, there can be only one Zoot. He'll have to run off and turn that kitten into another mindless drone!

Most impressive, Eagle! The Animaniacs on Shakespear Classics. ... And on Hamlet.

HAHAHA! That's great, Eagle!

Still, it could have been worse. Percy might have arrived just in time to watch Fred die... Jeeze, I still can't believe that she killed Fred... Fred!

Nicely done, mate! When I have less homework (Like on the weekend or something) I'll actually take the time to click on more than three links.

Double post, oh no! Ironic, considering that I reprimanded SOCL for the same thing in my first post in this pair. For an AP English class I had to read All Over but the Shoutin' and The Color of Water, both of which have their high and low points, both of which are biographies. The Color of Water, the better of the two in my opinion, is a black man's tribute to his white mother; she never spoke of her past, never spoke of her side of the family, raised twelve amazing children, and didn't care at all about the color of any one's skin from when she was young on. James McBride yanked the tale from his mother bit by bit, and wrote her exploit movingly, relying more on the quirks of life in his writing than any distinctive style. All Over but the Shoutin', by Rick Bragg, is almost the polar opposite of the other book. The autobiography of Rick Bragg, it details his life in the South and his own mother's sacrifices for he and his two brothers. It ranges from Alabama to Florida to New York to California, following Bragg's career as a newspaper reporter, and his ultimate return to his family. It is, without a doubt, the better written of the two, but the less compelling of the two stories; quite frankly life as a reporter, even a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who interviewed the dead and dying and living dead, is not all that interesting the majority of the time. I recommend both books, though I would warn any potential reader that Bragg's All Over but the Shoutin' is what I'd call a "thick" read, where the reader knows that it is well-written and that they enjoy it to a certain extent, but finds themselves timing how long it take to read each page a despairing mildly at the two hundred and twelve pages left. (For the record, the length of a book rarely deters me; I was through with Deathly Hallows in two days, and it's twice as long as All Over but the Shoutin'.)

I would have registered to vote for you, J, but I didn't feel like being British today...

Oh, and here I thought that they were just so convincing! ... Oh, wait, that's right, I didn't. Good job, voters; Good job!

I'm a tie between Krusty and Duffman. Huh... The two most annoying characters in the TV show. Yeah, that's about right.

Yeah... When I don't get enough sleep, I look like this: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/your_image.png (Simpsonized, yes)

@Def: Huh. I'm going to pull the "You run Vista" card for your problems, even if I don't even have the tech savy to fully understand why it's supposed to suck so hard. I saw The Astronaut Farmer yesterday on Par Per View, and it was actually a pretty decent flick. I'd give it 7.5 to 8.5 stars, somewhere in that general range. While it's horrifically innacurate from a scientific standpoint (I'm going to shoot off a rocket from inside of a wooden barn that's about two hundred yards from my house and three hundred from my mission control RV) it's a heartwarming inspirational story, and the acting is top-notch. The little girls in it are so realistic, I sort of wonder whether their lines were even scripted or not! Issues that anyone who's been to Kennedy Space Center/seen Apollo 13/read Lost Moon/knows anything at all about the Mercury missions will jump out like pedophiles in a room full of small children (What? It's an apt analogy!) but they still, remarkably, don't ruin the movie. You're pretty much glued in from the first half hour on out. Final review of it: Funny, heart-warming, believable characters, horrible attempts at science.

Someone else made it. I found it on Facebook... Edit: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/defiance.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/escort.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/mario.jpg

Is there a set of instructions on how to make a Roman shield like that? I'm taking Latin II this year, and I can always use a project for extra credit/the Latin fair.

Huh, sweetness!

Interesting concept, though, as you've said, the concept itself is more than a bit dated (The whole "robots coming for your brains" thing). However, it sounds like it was executed well, what with innocuous details such as the moving of a rook tipping off the friend and such. I've only seen part of the new War of the Worlds, but I saw most of the original movie, and have the original book on my list of things to read when I have time. It's amazing how reading something like All Over but the Shoutin' will encourage you to read other books so much...

Ah, jeeze, I've been trying to get out of the summer rut of sleeping late since I have school again come Monday, but last night/early this morning, I made a big mistake: I forgot that I should never, ever, play RTS games within three hours of when I want to go to sleep. Why? Because I lose track of time and don't want to quit until I've done something significant, like conquered Africa, or beaten back Mordor. I got to sleep at two AM last night, and got up again at 10:15... Ugh! It had been weeks since I played BFME II. I thought I was over it... I was wrong...

I don't really understand it, either, but that's part of the extreme randomness that makes it funny.

Freak! I generally get up somewhere around nine or ten AM. I waste my days, but live my nights! Well, sometimes I do. Other times I waste my nights, too...

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a169/DarthTofu/suddenlybananas.jpg

It depends on if it's weekend or a weekday. On weekends I generally get about nine hours of sleep, on weekdays about six. I'm kinda cranky when I have only six, but something about going to sleep before one AM just doesn't seem to register with my body, so I wind up listening to music or reading or writing until one, even if I work my rear off during the day.

IT'S PEOPLE! http://www.swrebellion.com/forums/postp92215.html#92215 EDIT: Oops, that was supposed to be an edit of the previous post. Moderator support please? You know, when you made the last post in a thread (IE, most recent) clicking that little x in the upper right hand corner of your post deletes it. Then you could have gone back and edited away. I thought that Minority Report was decent, and had a good plot, but it sort of dragged and focused too much on "Hey! This is really cool, isn't it! See, it's cool. Soooooooooo cooooooooool! You should look at how cool it is, see this high tech cool stuff?! Yeah, it's COOL!" and that distracted from it a lot (Flying car chase, anyone?) I finally managed to show my friends Cube. I love that movie...