Hell, they're still finding bombs from World War 1.Wow, They are STILL finding those things?!?
I would have thought (HOPED) they had dealt with the last of those long ago.
At least you can't say that your ride to work is boring! ;P
O_O <Facepalm> I,... did not know that. Obviously. ;P
Yeah I read an article somewhere that a not insignificant amount of European farmers die yearly from accidentally plowing up UXO.
The legacy of having two massive wars fought on your soil.
Hell, they're still finding bombs from World War 1.Wow, They are STILL finding those things?!?
I would have thought (HOPED) they had dealt with the last of those long ago.
At least you can't say that your ride to work is boring! ;P
Oh man, imagine stepping on one of those and dying! Sheesh.
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Oh man, imagine stepping on one of those and dying! Sheesh.Hell, they're still finding bombs from World War 1.Wow, They are STILL finding those things?!?
I would have thought (HOPED) they had dealt with the last of those long ago.
At least you can't say that your ride to work is boring! ;P
Imagine stepping on one of those and surviving...
Imagine stepping on one of those and surviving...Oh man, imagine stepping on one of those and dying! Sheesh.Hell, they're still finding bombs from World War 1.Wow, They are STILL finding those things?!?
I would have thought (HOPED) they had dealt with the last of those long ago.
At least you can't say that your ride to work is boring! ;P
Much harder to imagine!
I suppose if death was something more than a black void an you died stepping on one I would just be furious that I was a casualty of War 100 years later.
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Now I have an urge to run an Urban Arcana game where the Boss baddy is a necromancer who is attempting to shift to the afterlife echo of the French WWI trenches where some evil MacGuffin was hidden back in 1920. The heroes would be Dept. 42 or something like that tasked with preventing that.
Hmmm..
I'd need to make some clockwork WWI zombies like in Sucker Punch
I loved (the directors cut of) Sucker Punch.
I liked the three cutaway action pieces. The bordello/hospital scenes....not so much ...
I just spend an hour trying to fix chrome, which stopped showing the selection of save place for downloaded pdfs and started to open the pdf viewer immediately after downloading to default location...
Finally I managed to deal with the problem, though I am not sure which of actions I took exactly helped... It should be solved with pushing a single button in the setting ("clear auto open settings"). Yeah, right. That button did absolutely nothing.
Let's say I had to open preference file and edit it in a notepad, reset cookies, settings, cache, and turn on and off plugins. Some of those steps I had to take multiple times.
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I liked the three cutaway action pieces. The bordello/hospital scenes....not so much ...
Yeah, based on the oni samurai fight, the WW1 zombie fight, the dragon fight and to a lesser extent the robot train fight, it should be the greatest movie ever. But the actual movie as a whole is something of a mess.
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Well, I just have to disagree. The movie is an amazing feat. What happens when people try to analyze it is they bog themselves down in the various levels of reality in the movie, but they miss the idea of the story (which is roughly the same in all settings). As Snyder said: This was a reality to women up until the late twentieth century, getting put in institutions for various reasons not having to do with mental illness. Seen in this light, from the viewpoint of an utterly powerless woman, even the slight step up of being desired and able to gamble on that is a step up.
You have all the weapons you need. Now FIGHT!
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Now I have an urge to run an Urban Arcana game where the Boss baddy is a necromancer who is attempting to shift to the afterlife echo of the French WWI trenches where some evil MacGuffin was hidden back in 1920. The heroes would be Dept. 42 or something like that tasked with preventing that.
Hmmm..
Sounds like that should be a Bureau 13 game.
Dibs on the Hellboy substitute- I'm thinking Kid Frankenstein, son of The Bride and The Monster.
Maybe he wants to be an actor, but can only get sideshow or stuntman jobs.
Hey Rube!
Hey Patrick, did you see this book?
The Interminables by Paige Orwin
(I have no web-fu)
It's set in 2020 or so after a magical apocalypse.
The main characters are a 1920's mystery man and the ghost of WWI.
OK, I never had the slightest desire to see Sucker Punch.
But,... Just the NAMES of the fight scenes,... Now I has a little desire,... ;P
The Interminables,... adding to my list of books to (eventually) read,...
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Zack Snyder should be the choreographer for action sequences, under a director that can tell a coherent story. I don't consider Sucker Punch a movie so much as the amazing audition reel that got him all the big name projects.
I just spend an hour trying to fix chrome, which stopped showing the selection of save place for downloaded pdfs and started to open the pdf viewer immediately after downloading to default location...
Finally I managed to deal with the problem, though I am not sure which of actions I took exactly helped... It should be solved with pushing a single button in the setting ("clear auto open settings"). Yeah, right. That button did absolutely nothing.
Let's say I had to open preference file and edit it in a notepad, reset cookies, settings, cache, and turn on and off plugins. Some of those steps I had to take multiple times.
F***.
It's back and the previous solution does not work...
I just spend an hour trying to fix chrome, which stopped showing the selection of save place for downloaded pdfs and started to open the pdf viewer immediately after downloading to default location...
Finally I managed to deal with the problem, though I am not sure which of actions I took exactly helped... It should be solved with pushing a single button in the setting ("clear auto open settings"). Yeah, right. That button did absolutely nothing.
Let's say I had to open preference file and edit it in a notepad, reset cookies, settings, cache, and turn on and off plugins. Some of those steps I had to take multiple times.
F***.
It's back and the previous solution does not work...
Deleting preferences file helped. Closing and opening Chrome made the problem return.
Urgh.
I just spend an hour trying to fix chrome, which stopped showing the selection of save place for downloaded pdfs and started to open the pdf viewer immediately after downloading to default location...
Finally I managed to deal with the problem, though I am not sure which of actions I took exactly helped... It should be solved with pushing a single button in the setting ("clear auto open settings"). Yeah, right. That button did absolutely nothing.
Let's say I had to open preference file and edit it in a notepad, reset cookies, settings, cache, and turn on and off plugins. Some of those steps I had to take multiple times.
F***.
It's back and the previous solution does not work...
Deleting preferences file helped. Closing and opening Chrome made the problem return.
Urgh.
<Whispers> FIREFOX </Whisper>
;)
Have it started to synchronize with Google Account? :/
Now I have an urge to run an Urban Arcana game where the Boss baddy is a necromancer who is attempting to shift to the afterlife echo of the French WWI trenches where some evil MacGuffin was hidden back in 1920. The heroes would be Dept. 42 or something like that tasked with preventing that.
Hmmm..
Sounds like that should be a Bureau 13 game.
Dibs on the Hellboy substitute- I'm thinking Kid Frankenstein, son of The Bride and The Monster.
Maybe he wants to be an actor, but can only get sideshow or stuntman jobs.
Hey Rube!
Good to see you neil! I hope all is well
Hey Patrick, did you see this book?
The Interminables by Paige Orwin
(I have no web-fu)
It's set in 2020 or so after a magical apocalypse.
The main characters are a 1920's mystery man and the ghost of WWI.
I have not, but I'll put it on my list!
Well, I just have to disagree. The movie is an amazing feat. What happens when people try to analyze it is they bog themselves down in the various levels of reality in the movie, but they miss the idea of the story (which is roughly the same in all settings). As Snyder said: This was a reality to women up until the late twentieth century, getting put in institutions for various reasons not having to do with mental illness. Seen in this light, from the viewpoint of an utterly powerless woman, even the slight step up of being desired and able to gamble on that is a step up.
You have all the weapons you need. Now FIGHT!
I'm sure that was the intention. It didn't work for me. YMMV
Freya's t!ts it is cold out here tonight
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Afternoon, all. What did I miss?
Well Patrick drove a big yellow bus into a frozen parking lot for Valentines Day while looking for the lost plot of Lord Snyder. Scott continued to grumble about bacon and ..
Wait that's my soap opera!
Valentine's on a Tuesday bites. I won't have time to cook anything nice, and by the time I realized that it was too late to get a dinner reservation. I think we are kind of phoning this one in.
same here. Bought my wife lunch via seamless. That's it.
We celebrate plenty of b#*~+%@& commercial holidays but not this one. I try to do at least one thing nice for my wife every day, even the days I'd like to launch her into the sun :-)
Got my wife lingerie, and a book.
Ah. Valentines Day. My wife had a wonderful start to today. She got a call at 4:30 AM to come over and help me out with my car. Needless to say she was not happy about getting woken up. It turned out that the battery cables were loose on the battery. My guess is that the person who worked on my car last did not tighten them. Lucky for me it was an easy fix with a 10 mm socket wrench. I even forgot to say happy anniversary to her when she drove up to help me out. OTOH the nice shiny new gaming computer that she got over the weekend as a Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Anniversary, may I please live another year? gift did go over very well as did treating her to the bar-b-que place that just opened up.
I spent my Valentine's Day driving a forklift for twelve hours. Go me.
My guess is that the person who worked on my car last did not tighten them. Lucky for me it was an easy fix with a 10 mm socket wrench.
The first two times I read this, I thought you'd written "...the person who worked on my cat..."
My guess is that the person who worked on my car last did not tighten them. Lucky for me it was an easy fix with a 10 mm socket wrench.The first two times I read this, I thought you'd written "...the person who worked on my cat..."
~thinks~ Did I or did I not let my vet work on my car? I know that he has worked on my cat, but my cat did not like it.
And hey there David. How are you doing?
Hey Freehold DM. I was thinking about planning a trip to New York City in a few months. Do you have any idea of a good place that I can sleep for two days since it would be a weekend trip?
*yawn*
4am. Again.
How long does it take to get frostbite? Asking for a friend...
No idea. But it happens quicker than anyone would want.
Ugh
So. Fell on some black ice just now. Fun fun
When I said break a leg, I did not mean literally.
Black Ice sucks, especially when driving, because if your not actually looking for it, you won't see it until it's too late. :P
It's how i got into my car accident at work. Sliding ahead slowly at 10 mph. Not fun.
Hey Freehold DM. I was thinking about planning a trip to New York City in a few months. Do you have any idea of a good place that I can sleep for two days since it would be a weekend trip?
Hmmm... Not sure. There was the place the guys crashed in during the night of cider and debauchery, but you'd have to talk to the monkey man about that.
GOOD MORNING AFTERNOON TREEFORTNAM!!!
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Time to head to Boston. School and some time spent with my delightful Tatar lawyer friend. Life is good!
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Made dinner yesterday for Valentine's day, and my wife brought home expensive chocolate. Going to Fondue for dinner tonight for my anniversary, and taking the munchkin along with us.
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Made dinner yesterday for Valentine's day, and my wife brought home expensive chocolate. Going to Fondue for dinner tonight for my anniversary, and taking the munchkin along with us.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO