Only if Whatsit's vines are arranged vertically. If they're crosswise, then it would be a Weft Core (and I'd imagine that a Whatsit stuffed in a bottle and made to power a starship might be very cross indeed).TazManiac wrote:So... Thats what Scotty has in the Warp Core of the Enterprise, right? A captive Whatsit...
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... and don't forget to put the lime in the coconut...Catawampus wrote:Only if Whatsit's vines are arranged vertically. If they're crosswise, then it would be a Weft Core (and I'd imagine that a Whatsit stuffed in a bottle and made to power a starship might be very cross indeed).TazManiac wrote:So... Thats what Scotty has in the Warp Core of the Enterprise, right? A captive Whatsit...
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Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
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How about this quote:
I thinkg it pretty much goes without saying... (but it's too late, it was said anyway... )“The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.” - Anonymous
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So, what are you supposed to do after putting the lime in the coconut?
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Drink 'em both down.Alkarii wrote:So, what are you supposed to do after putting the lime in the coconut?
Then you'll feel better.
Or, call me in the morning.
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Does anybody else hear this playing in the background?AnotherFairportfan wrote:(2emstrut picture)
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
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I forgot - is someone on here from the Valley of the Sun in AZ?
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Why? I know someone from another website who lives in Pheonix.
He's mister GlytchMeister, he's mister code
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They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
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I'm too much!
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Well, given that I'm currently in the 480 Area Code...
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I'm rather partial to this particular interpretation...Dave wrote:Drink 'em both down.Alkarii wrote:So, what are you supposed to do after putting the lime in the coconut?
Then you'll feel better.
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Oh, right. Glen Cook. Not Rick Cook. I was about to say, the Wiz Biz was hilarious from a programmer's perspective, but I wouldn't call it 'brilliant'.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Glen Cook is a fine SF/fantasy writer, now retired from working at a GM plant as a parts chaser - he says he wrote better when he was working.Alkarii wrote:I don't know anything about that author.
However, I have been "working" on some SF writing off and on for the past few years. I haven't done much with it in a while though, because I haven't felt like writing for a while. Even if I did manage to write anything and get it published, and it was pretty good, I don't see myself as writing novel after novel. Besides, I doubt anything I created would be good enough to warrant much attention.
His "Black Company" and "Garrett" books are very well-regarded. (Garrett is a classic hardboiled PI -= sort of a combination of Marlowe and Archie Goodwin {_Archie has Nero Wolfe; Garrett has the Dead Man} in a magical world.
I prefer Garrett, but the Black Company books are fine, too.
Black Company is a good read. I think I may have missed Garrett... and I believe that is my cue to somehow make it to Barns n Nobles without getting in trouble again. Or, failing that, a Half Priced.
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How about this quote:
According to that, I'm just about done being an old youth, and in a year and two months, I will be an young old guy...“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.” - Victor Hugo
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It's kind of like when you have a new car, but there comes the day you say, "I used to have a new car!"lake_wrangler wrote:How about this quote:
According to that, I'm just about done being an old youth, and in a year and two months, I will be an young old guy...“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.” - Victor Hugo
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New car? What's that? I don't recall ever seeing such an animal anywhere near me...Atomic wrote:It's kind of like when you have a new car, but there comes the day you say, "I used to have a new car!"lake_wrangler wrote:How about this quote:
According to that, I'm just about done being an old youth, and in a year and two months, I will be an young old guy...“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.” - Victor Hugo
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have you ever bought a car?lake_wrangler wrote:New car? What's that? I don't recall ever seeing such an animal anywhere near me...Atomic wrote:It's kind of like when you have a new car, but there comes the day you say, "I used to have a new car!"
if you HAVE, then you must realize the fact that the instant YOU bought it, it BECAME "your NEW Car"... meaning it was the vehicle you have owned for the SHORTEST amount of time, from any OTHER vehicles you may own at that time/have owned in the past... even if the car was manufactured before you were born, it's STILL your "new" car the instant the signature is completed on the dotted line...
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This quote made me laugh:
“After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.” - Unknown
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When you specify it like that, sure. But the way you stated it before seemed to imply, to me, at least, an actual new car, as in newly minted, recently manufactured. And eventually, it no longer qualifies as new.scantrontb wrote:have you ever bought a car?lake_wrangler wrote:New car? What's that? I don't recall ever seeing such an animal anywhere near me...Atomic wrote:It's kind of like when you have a new car, but there comes the day you say, "I used to have a new car!"
if you HAVE, then you must realize the fact that the instant YOU bought it, it BECAME "your NEW Car"... meaning it was the vehicle you have owned for the SHORTEST amount of time, from any OTHER vehicles you may own at that time/have owned in the past... even if the car was manufactured before you were born, it's STILL your "new" car the instant the signature is completed on the dotted line...
So sure, I've had several new old cars. Just never any new new car... (And I'm not sure I'd want one, either...)
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Unless the car is a DeLorean, in which case you might will be owning it after you will be paying for it in the past, making your new car your old one.scantrontb wrote:if you HAVE, then you must realize the fact that the instant YOU bought it, it BECAME "your NEW Car"... meaning it was the vehicle you have owned for the SHORTEST amount of time, from any OTHER vehicles you may own at that time/have owned in the past... even if the car was manufactured before you were born, it's STILL your "new" car the instant the signature is completed on the dotted line...
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That's still a touchy subject in some parts.
I have owned new cars, but my last two vehicles have been used.
I have owned new cars, but my last two vehicles have been used.
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"You should never run from the voices in your head. That's how you give them power." - Jin
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