I've just started 'Goldfinger' by Ian Fleming. Not too bad.
I also picked up 'Rogue Warrior - Echo Platoon' by Richard Marcinko & John Weisman, and 'Eaters of the dead' by Michael Crichton. Bargain books rule.
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"...you know, Omega, there's a phrase you might want to look up. It goes something like "paranoid arrogant fuckwit who has more chance of ejaculating to the moon than he has of ever convincing a girl that he's a viable prospect for marriage." -PsyLiam, September 16, 2000 10:23 PM.
Still on the waiting list for Clive Cussler's newest, "Blue Gold" & still trudging through "Sovereignity And Security In The Arctic"...finished the chapter on "sovereignity issues in the Arctic region," though.
I don't do as many books as I should...there's simply not enough time for me to read them all. I really need a 78-hour day. Music is my primary passion; too bad I can't play any instrument.
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"Two parts slush...one part solid ice...one part hard-packed snow...a dash of assorted debris...sculpt into sphere, and serve at high velocity without warning." --Calvin
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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"
(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)
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It doesn't matter if you don't know what you're doing as long as you look good doing it.
I've also been reading (don't hurt me...) the Harry Potter books. As it turns out, they really aren't that bad, if you aren't bothered by the fact that they were written for a younger target audience. If nothing else, read them for the sole purpose of pissing off your local right-wing Christian fundamentalists. :-)
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"Count the arms, the legs, and heads, and then divide by five."
-They Might Be Giants, "Certain People I Could Name"
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"Two parts slush...one part solid ice...one part hard-packed snow...a dash of assorted debris...sculpt into sphere, and serve at high velocity without warning." --Calvin
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Intelligence, Integrity, Responsibility.
Vote Bush/Cheney 2000
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This is a place of business, not a peewee flopphouse!
~C. Montgomery Burns
359:
2001 and 2010 are GREAT books. Just don't even TOUCH 2061 or 3001. Utter crap, like most of Clarke's later work. Although "The Light of Other Days" was decent...
Fructose:
Good choices. "Nightfall" was a really good book, as were the Foundation books (well, except "Foundation and Earth"). Did you read all seven Asimov "Foundation" books? If you did, I highly recomend the Second Foundation Trilogy (where the word "second" modifies "trilogy", not "foundation"; so it's the second trilogy about the Foundation, not a trilogy about the Second Foundation), written by Benford, Bear, and Brin. "Foundation's Fear", "Foundation and Chaos", and "Foundation's Triumph". I'm just waiting for one of the authors to pick up after Foundation and Earth...
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Don't listen to Omega...he still reads latter-day Tom Clancy--which isn't even written by Tom Clancy anymore.
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"Two parts slush...one part solid ice...one part hard-packed snow...a dash of assorted debris...sculpt into sphere, and serve at high velocity without warning." --Calvin
Hardly latter-day.
And all the Ryanverse books were written by Clancy. Netforce and Ops-Center, or whatever they're called, weren't. They were just partially his idea.
And just what do you mean, "to get the full perspective"? 3001 flatly contradicts nearly everything we know about the monoliths and the Firstborn, as he's now taken to calling them! There's no plot. There's no mystery behind the monolith's purpose(s). It's just a story that happens to involve some of the same characters.
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Speed in reverse if you ask me.
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
But about that airplane book, did they think about the taxi roll to the runway. That's usually about 2 miles right there. And most big planes can lower the mainlanding gear without the nose gear incase of a malfunction. It wouldn't be a fun landing, but everyone would live. (Airplane stories are my pet peeve.)
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It doesn't matter if you don't know what you're doing as long as you look good doing it.
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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"
(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)
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"Poetic souls delight in prose insane."
--Lord Byron
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"Two parts slush...one part solid ice...one part hard-packed snow...a dash of assorted debris...sculpt into sphere, and serve at high velocity without warning." --Calvin
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Where's the bathroom on this ship?
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Administrator
Ganon Net Internet
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[Bart's looking for his dog.]
Groundskeeper Willy: Yeah, I bought your mutt - and I 'ate 'im! [Bart gasps.] I 'ate 'is little face, I 'ate 'is guts, and I 'ate the way 'e's always barkin'! So I gave 'im to the church.
Bart: Ohhh, I see... you HATE him, so you gave him to the church.
Groundskeeper Willy: Aye. I also 'ate the mess he left on me rug. [Bart stares.] Ya heard me!
I'm still reading what I mentioned in the other thread, along with The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie.
I think that the Dirk Gently books are in fact better than most of The Hitchhiker's Guide.
I've also got one or two philosophy books I've been crawling through for awhile now. I really should finish them, as I'm in need of the bookmarks.
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love's function is to fabricate unknownnness
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E. E. Cummings
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.
Can't wait to get the third book of The Night Dawns trilogy by Peter Richardson (I think) - the first two were better than what was on the TV at the time.
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Remember December '59
The howling wind and the driving rain,
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.
The two Dirk Gently books are funnier than the last two Hitch-hiker's books (which were complete drivel), but not as good as the first three (Life, the Universe and Everything being my favourite).
If you liked them, try and pick up "Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" by Grant Naylor. It's not a novelisation as such. It's got the same characters, and some of the same incidents, but it's been greately expanded (for example, Rimmer is actually in charge of a large group of people in "Z shift") and, dare I say it, it's a more "mature" work. That still has fart jokes in it. "Better Than Life" is very funny too. The other two (which are writen by the authors seperatly) aren't as good though.
And to anyone reading the bible, I'll now spoil it. He dies.
But then they pull a deus ex machina, and he comes back. Tsk, and people complain about Jean Grey...
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
As for "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", and "Mostly Harmless", you're right. Drivel in the highest degree.
And while I've got you, Liam, check your ICQ, wudja? I've had an authorization request waiting for about a month now...
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"...Well, we're about to witness All-in Wrestling, brought to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, by the makers of Scum�, the world's first combined hair oil, foot ointment, and salad dressing; and by the makers of Titan�, the novelty nuclear missile. You never know when it'll go off!" <br>- Monty Python, Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
*ahem*
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
:-)
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"Count the arms, the legs, and heads, and then divide by five."
-They Might Be Giants, "Certain People I Could Name"
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"Poetic souls delight in prose insane."
--Lord Byron
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love's function is to fabricate unknownnness
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E. E. Cummings
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.
I enjoyed that quite a bit. I'm disturbed that there are games like this.
BTW, what would:
A) These 'things' be?
B) That giant target be for?http://www.catechumen.com/images/sshot16.jpg
BTW, it's neat to see it's "family approved" when it's nothing more than a Christianized Doom. Of course, Doom was satanic. Or just bad. One of the two.
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"...Well, we're about to witness All-in Wrestling, brought to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, by the makers of Scum�, the world's first combined hair oil, foot ointment, and salad dressing; and by the makers of Titan�, the novelty nuclear missile. You never know when it'll go off!" - Monty Python, Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
*ahem*
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Actually, that might be kinda cool. Anyone know if there's a game where you can be the Satan-possessed Romans and kill the Catechumens? *grin*
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"Count the arms, the legs, and heads, and then divide by five."
-They Might Be Giants, "Certain People I Could Name"
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love's function is to fabricate unknownnness
--
E. E. Cummings
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.
Like in the "what are you going to be for Halloween?" I was going to say I was going to dress up as the Bush tax cut and only give myself to rich people...but then all heck would have broken loose.
And that was a joke so back off!
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Get going! And answer those phones, install the computer system, and rotate my office so the window faces the hills.
~C. Montgomery Burns
Couldn't they do a complete religion conversion for Quake III? Budhist's would have the power to respawn when they die, and the power of the new body would relate to how many frag's they've got. Catholics would produce offspring at an amazing rate (possible better for the Sims, but carrying on...), Jehovah's Witnesses would have a magical barrier of rightousness around them, and so on... You could have "Capture the Holy Grail", and possibly Indiana Jones could be in it (cause he's cool).
And then, for the ultimate tag-team fight, God and Bryce/Omega verses Satan and Santa.
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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"Poetic souls delight in prose insane."
--Lord Byron
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Pilot: You're sure they were Americans, eh?
Fraser: They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns.
Pilot: Americans it is.
- "due South"
Sephiroth was an Angel dontcha know.
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
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"I just can't imagine the sort of thinking that went into making up that story. Oops, sorry for cutting your head off, here, have another. Human? No, only elephants around I'm afraid. Want a lolly?"
-Simon Sizer, 18-Oct-2000
J/k, I had no intention of finishing the game, anyway. How did this ever get a perfect score over at cNet?
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Pilot: You're sure they were Americans, eh?
Fraser: They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns.
Pilot: Americans it is.
- "due South"
(Well, not at C/Net, of course. C/Net would give a good grade to SimBowelExtraction.)
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love's function is to fabricate unknownnness
--
E. E. Cummings
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.
Give me Chrono Trigger any day. This Diablo game is incredibly repeditive. An plot that changes sometime during the game would be nice, too...
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Pilot: You're sure they were Americans, eh?
Fraser: They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns.
Pilot: Americans it is.
- "due South"
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"...Well, we're about to witness All-in Wrestling, brought to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, by the makers of Scum�, the world's first combined hair oil, foot ointment, and salad dressing; and by the makers of Titan�, the novelty nuclear missile. You never know when it'll go off!" - Monty Python, Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
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love's function is to fabricate unknownnness
--
E. E. Cummings
****
Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.
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"...Well, we're about to witness All-in Wrestling, brought to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, by the makers of Scum�, the world's first combined hair oil, foot ointment, and salad dressing; and by the makers of Titan�, the novelty nuclear missile. You never know when it'll go off!" - Monty Python, Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
I've gotta get me some of his drugs...
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"Why do you want to spend time with a deer? They're so stupid, they get hypnotized by headlights!" - Guido Anchovy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodorovich Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodorovich Dostoevsky
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (very slowly and occasionally)
Just finished Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
I've ordered a biography of Tito that was recomended to me. Balkan history has been one of my passive interests.
The past summer I finished Hugo's two works, Les Miserables and Notre Dame de Paris s well as some Tom Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge. Pretty much a smorgasboard. I've put Sci-Fi on hold for a while...
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-Small Computer Systems Interface "Scuzzy" Emperor
Operator of Cargill Conglomerate Publications, http://www.cargillconglomerate.com
"Socialists? They are industrious, commercial people; �the happiness of all� is their case. No, life is only given to me once and I shall never have it again; I don�t want to wait for �the happiness of all.� I want to live myself, or else better not live at all. I simply couldn�t pass by my mother starving, keeping my rouble in my pocket while I waited for the �happiness of all.� I am putting my little brick into the happiness of all and so my heart is at peace.
-Dostoevsky
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love's function is to fabricate unknownnness
--
E. E. Cummings
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.
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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"
(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)
Mustang Class Starship Development Project
You know, I'm glad no-one gave the smart-arse answer.
"Well, at the moment I'm reading a thread entitled 'Whatcha reading?', hahahahahahahahaha H@x0rz rulez!"
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"If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there it would've been like Woodstock. I was at Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours watching my hand move." - Spike, BtVS
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"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
-Yasir Arafat on religious wars
I'm sorry, but you forced me to do that.
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"If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there it would've been like Woodstock. I was at Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours watching my hand move." - Spike, BtVS
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"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
-Yasir Arafat on religious wars
The main rules are:
His CASP LOKC was indeed correct.
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"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."
- Tiger Woods
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"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
-Yasir Arafat on religious wars
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love's function is to fabricate unknownnness
--
E. E. Cummings
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Read chapter one of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! And party everyday.