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I do remember Exo-Squad, at least the commercials for the action figures. Never actually watched an episode of it, though.


Something amusing I've noticed about working at the Polling Center. Right now, we're calling households to try and get some idea of what Americans think about health care in our country today. I don't like working Sundays, but I went in for four hours today. But the most humorous thing about working Sundays is that we get a lot of people who don't want to take the survey "because Sunday is God's Day and [they] don't do things like that today." Funny thing is, I was under the impression that the Bible preaches helping one another. I actually told that to one of those zealots once, saying that I was working on a Sunday because I was trying to help the American public, the way the Bible taught us to help one another (which was bullshit; I was working on a Sunday because I needed the money, but this guy didn't know that). They said "goodbye" and hung up. So I'm gonna dig up my Bible, and figure out the Chapter and Verse of the parable of the Samaritan, and start spitting that out at pious respondents the next time I work a Sunday, to see how many other hypocrites I can expose. Probably a ton. Hypocrisy is, after all, human nature.

I don't want to inadvertantly start another theological discussion in here, though. Just something amusing I've noticed. So I'll just add that I saw a preview for "Lord of War" while I was watching the Simpsons earlier, and the commercial contained a cover of the Clash song "Tommy Gun." The Clash is one of those bands that should not be covered, since it's impossible to improve upon perfection. But there are some songs that actually take on new life from being covered. Can anyone here name a song cover they think is better than the original?
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Sunday, August 28, 2005 09:12:13 PM
IP: 69.174.1.148

HoE> Exo-Squad was one of the three great animated series of the 90s. Right up there in my mind with Gargoyles and Batman. Unfortunatly it had little promotion, and very few people remember it.

I am hoping for a DVD release some day, but not holding my breath. But thankfully all, or most of the episodes are available to view online... I've got bootleg DVDs.

Click my name to see them, I highly recommend the show.

LYNATI> We so need to get Aaron and Mara to watch the show (if you haven't already). :)
Greg Bishansky - [<--- Clicky, clicky.]
Sunday, August 28, 2005 03:15:33 PM
IP: 69.118.108.212

HoE: It's an Exo Squad reference (thanks Greg!) and you'd probably want something a little sturdier than that. ; )
Lynati
Sunday, August 28, 2005 02:30:13 PM
IP: 69.148.199.106

Lynati- shhhhhhh that's our secret! ;) We don't want the whole room runnign around with cloakign devices
Revel
Sunday, August 28, 2005 12:18:27 PM
IP: 24.182.112.92

DPH: I'd be happy to help you with your problem, but this is too public a place to discuss it. If you use AIM, my handle is Minstrel75. Drop me a line sometime, if you dare.

Lynati and Greg B: What exactly is Planet Chaos? Sounds like my kind of place. Should I wear comfortable shoes?


Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Sunday, August 28, 2005 09:56:23 AM
IP: 69.174.1.148

I know it wasn't directed at me, but I'll back you up, Lynati ;)

Ah yes, Planet Chaos. A pity we'll never get that plot thread resolved. Lousy aliens and lousy network execs.

Been re-watching Exo-Squad on these bootleg DVDs I bought. But damn, I want official DVDs. THe quality on these are pretty crappy. Watchable, better than my old VHS bootlegs, but still crappy.

"Let me tell you a secret, Livia. There is no Neosapian Order. No destiny. There is only power, my power."
- Phaeton... before he got all gooey.
Greg Bishansky
Sunday, August 28, 2005 01:27:53 AM
IP: 69.118.108.212

Yeah, everyone knows the tenth planet is "Chaos". Back me up, Revel?
Lynati
Sunday, August 28, 2005 01:16:57 AM
IP: 69.148.199.106

**Ebay related**
I had a seller finally get my items to me 1.5 months after I bought them. I left negative feedback over that. Now the seller has left me negative feedback. What can I do?
**End ebay related**
dph
ar, usa
Sunday, August 28, 2005 01:16:15 AM
IP: 63.232.255.137

I think there's been some confusion. Sedna and the "tenth planet" are two different things. The object that scientists just found is larger than Pluto (while being more distant).
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Sunday, August 28, 2005 12:07:39 AM
IP: 69.174.1.148

DPH: Just how far out we talking here? Light from the sun reaches Pluto in seven hours (meaning that however long a Plutonian day is, someone standing on Pluto's surface would always be seeing the sun from where it was in the sky seven hours ago). Now, neighboring stars are another story. Despite what science fiction might tell us, I doubt that man will ever create something capable of traveling faster than light. In which case, a round trip to Proxima Centauri would still take eight years. And there some things traveling above the plane of the Solar System. Voyager 1, in order to flyby Saturn's moon Titan in 1980, used the planet's gravity to alter its course. But the side effect of that was that Saturn's gravity slingshotted Voyager above the solar system's plane, where it still is today.

And I'm sorry to hear of your trouble. Ironically, academic bodies are utterly devoid of logic.


Dezi: What I meant was that I didn't even know about Sedna until my brother told me about it. I'm normally good about keeping up with this stuff. I even knew about the Cassini craft dropping the probe into Titan's atmosphere, which took the first-ever photos of the moon's surface. Most people I know wouldn't give a shit about that stuff if they even bothered to hear the news. So I would find the discovery of an object about the size of Pluto orbiting the sun at a distance greater than Pluto to be very cool. Which is why I can't believe I didn't hear about it when it first happened.

Starsinger: Pluto's true status aside, the Hubble photographs were very interesting. The only other body in the Solar System with such extreme contrasts of light and dark on its surface is Earth. I've heard that the Pluto-Kuper Express mission got scrapped, but that something else was in the planning stages. I hope they make their way out there someday.
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Saturday, August 27, 2005 11:54:37 PM
IP: 69.174.1.148

Some people consider Sedna to be a Kuiper Belt Object and not a true planet. The reason some people don't consider Pluto to be a planet is that it is not on the planet plane. This address has some interesting articles on Sedna, Pluto, the Kuiper Belt and the Oort cloud. I google and got an impressive amount of articles on all of the above.

Sometimes the gargoyles have it right, names can just get in the way.

I regularly get Discover magazine, several of the astronomy magazines and almost anything that looks interesting. As a child I remember when the first manned space flights went up and was almost late for school most mornings of the flights.

SPACE.com -- Weird Object Beyond Pluto Gets Stranger
Address:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/hubble_sedna_040414.html

Have fun.
Starsinger
Saturday, August 27, 2005 11:18:44 AM
IP: 209.240.205.61

HOE, DPH: About a year ago or so (maybe two?) they announced the tenth planet thing, saying it was named Sedna after the Inuit ice goddess...but then they announced it again recently, so I don't know if it's different groups or what. I just remember reading both stories. Check CNN.com archive. *shrugs*
Dezi
Saturday, August 27, 2005 04:43:03 AM
IP: 68.54.214.198

Hoe - you do realize that there is no formal definition of "planet" yet, right? What I find interesting in astronomy is how long it would take us to even travel that far out. Even if we could travle at the speed of light it would take us years, if not decades or centuries, just to travel there. What I would like us to do is put a permanent marker in space, a space station at a fixed location from the sun. As Earth revolves around the sun, we get closer or further away from this space station. Next question is why we are traveling in a plane that has the sun and the planets in it? If you image the sun and the planets being in a plane, why not travel in a direction perpendicular to that plane?
dph
ar, usa
Saturday, August 27, 2005 12:30:52 AM
IP: 63.232.248.140

1st, they tell me I'm on academic suspension and no way out, then the next day they call to me I can go in the fall. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. But they had to rewrite my schedule. :-(

Good news, though. If I get all c's or better in the fall, I have *6* classes left until I can graduate, assuming I meet all the other requirements.
dph
ar, usa
Friday, August 26, 2005 06:54:58 PM
IP: 63.232.251.58

I don't know if anyone else here gives a damn about astronomy, but I've always found it interesting. Anyway, I can't believe I didn't hear about this sooner. They've been looking for a tenth planet since the discovery of Pluto in 1930. I suppose that the main reason there isn't really a huge ruckus about this thing is because thanks to more powerful telescopes, they're now finding all sorts of floating rocks out beyond Neptune (leading most astronomers to think that Pluto's status as a planet should be revoked, and that it should actually be considered simply a large asteroid in a trans-Neptunian asteroid belt). I suppose this is simply noteworthy because the object they found is larger than Pluto. Although not as big as they would have liked it to be. The search for Pluto was fueled by the fact that the orbits of Uranus and Neptune had strange fluctuations which were likely being caused by something large enough to be a planet. The search for the tenth planet was started when they found out that Pluto did not contain enough mass to cause those orbital fluctuations. Anyway, I'm going to stop before I get too technical. But there is a meeting once a year to name newly discovered objects in the sky (things like asteroids and comets can be named after their discoverer, or given whatever name their discoverer wishes them to have; I believe things like planets and planetary moons must be named by committee). I guess if this tenth planet is considered a planet, we're gonna need a new mnemonic for grade-schoolers (must likely an adverb describing the manner in which the eager mother served the pizzas).
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Friday, August 26, 2005 06:12:54 PM
IP: 69.174.1.148

Starsinger: I just survived a 2.5 year enslavement to Hobby Lobby, and we would be getting Christmas trees in May or so, and start putting stuff in the aisles out for sale in June/July. Fall stuff is put out immediately after the Easter stuff sells down (about 3 weeks after Easter), the same time they put out 4th of July/Memorial Day stuff.

Why? "So the crafters will be able to get their supplies to start working on craft fairs" So then why are the little collectible figurines out?

This will be the first holiday season since 1998 that I won't have anything to do with retail! Yipee!! Some of the real meaning of holidays will return! Cause the nasty attitudes of customers either griping that we don't have all the C-mas stuff out in August, or griping that we do have alot of C-mas stuff out in August, really puts a damper on holiday spirit.
Ha. And now I work for a TV station that refers to itself as the 24-hour news station of Indianapolis...there went holiday vacation...
Dezi
Thursday, August 25, 2005 09:56:01 PM
IP: 68.54.214.198

Todd : "Is it just me, or are the stores getting more impatient than ever?" It's just you. They do this every year. Over here, Halloween stuff has been around for two weeks now.
Spen
Thursday, August 25, 2005 09:46:15 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

Damn, I'm on academic suspension because of missing paperwork and failing to attend a special class for those in a problem. All because of 2 bad grades and my initial grades 1st time I was at college. Why must I be continiously punished for bad choices back in 1995/1996?
dph
ar, usa
Thursday, August 25, 2005 03:45:29 PM
IP: 63.232.255.157

Todd: I remember ten years ago, stores were doing this absurd promotional thing called "Christmas in July." It basically meant that items that were normally on sale around Christmastime were at that sale price for the month of July. It also meant that my local mall was playing Christmas carols. And behold! For unto us is born a Savior, and this shall be a sign that all appliances shall be up to 50 percent off!

Anyway, I was in my Giant the other day, and I saw that they had a bunch of crates full of Fun Size candies stacked by the self-service checkout lane and advertised as being on sale. But I thought that they were for Labor Day (you know, picnics and stuff). I guess they hadn't gotten around to putting out the decorations yet.
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:32:55 AM
IP: 69.174.1.148

Ahhh, Todd, I hate to tell you, but, I work part-time a Joann's Fabric and Crafts and we had Christmas fleece and fabric in at the end of June.
Starsinger
Thursday, August 25, 2005 07:28:25 AM
IP: 209.240.205.61

Is it just me, or are the stores getting more impatient than ever? I was down at Straub's this morning to buy a few groceries, and they already have Halloween candy out. It's not even Labor Day yet! It's still August! Couldn't they at least wait until September had begun? And I shudder to think of when the Christmas decorations will first appear, at this rate.
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 06:30:51 PM
IP: 4.244.18.2

Part 2 of the story
Picked up the package this morning. Official policy is to leave only *1* notification. Still, that begs the question; why in heck would the post office hold on to something for 2 (or more) days after the notification is delivered without giving out a 2nd notification? Talk about inefficiency and uncaring.
dph
ar, usa
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 09:57:52 AM
IP: 63.232.249.97

SPEN - Thanks for pointing that out to me; I can't believe that I goofed up on that one.
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 06:27:25 AM
IP: 4.244.12.89

DPH- my lean to FedEx is because I get discounts and they pay me. But for the most part, it reall breaks down to the sender, the weather, and the driver.
Revel
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 01:18:06 AM
IP: 24.182.112.92

Revel, this story is for you.

I bought an item off ebay. I got impatient about it not being delivered so I emailed the seller. Seller emails me back today with news that the package was attempted to be delivered and the usps left notification on 8-15. Because the seller sent me the trackign number, I was able to verify the story about why I hadn't got the pack and get the information I just repeated. Funny thing was the website said only 1 notification was left and funnier still I never received said notification. Dumber question: why in heck didn't they leave me a 2nd notification?

This leads me to an idea for a network special: get 5-7 people in different states to buy 20 items from 20 different people [located in different states] off ebay. Send payment by mail and use local affliates to track down when the payments arrive and when items are shipped. Then track to see how long it takes items to arrive. Show the results and let the viewer decide what to think of the post office and ask officials at the post office to explain the results. Then use a similiar procedure to test out Fed Ex, DHL, and UPS.
dph
ar, usa
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:25:18 AM
IP: 63.232.223.62

Just posted a review for Gargoyles Season Two, Volume One. To anyone who hasn't posted yet, don't forget. And those of you who have no amazon.com account, get one so you can post. Be sure to tell your friends (I've got the same link listed in my Subprofile). The more the merrier, plus everybody spends less on beer, 'cause the tab gets divided between so many.
Harvester of Eyes - [Minstrel75@gmail.com]
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:09:35 AM
IP: 69.174.1.148

Okay, now that the top ten race is over, I can get around to making a (fairly) decent-sized post.

Harvester : "it appears I'm Part Deux, in addition to being part Irish." You too?

Todd : "I think that the medieval setting might be the main reason why a lot of the staff got scared off of "Bad Guys"." You meant "Dark Ages", right? Anyway, you're probably correct about that, I was just using it as an example.

Revel : I wish I could help on the con journals, but unfortunatly, I wasn't at the Gathering this year. (And if my finacial situation doesn't change drasticly sometime soon I won't make it to L.A. either.)

Lynati : " I can wait until your email calms down." Glad you can, since it's been acting up for six months now and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. (If anyone cares to know, the problem is that I can recieve mail, I just can't send any.)
Spen
Monday, August 22, 2005 08:36:01 PM
IP: 207.177.11.252

Tenth!!!

I got my copy of the Eye of Odin Anthology today! <grins, before going off to read it!>


Maintain and Check Six!

Stephen Sobotka Jr.
Tampa, FL
Monday, August 22, 2005 04:23:44 PM
IP: 24.28.10.202

NEIN! Stealing Josh's line again ;)
Greg Bishansky
Monday, August 22, 2005 01:36:50 PM
IP: 69.118.108.212

Eight
Spacebabie
Monday, August 22, 2005 12:20:45 PM
IP: 69.161.157.101

Se7en
Revel
Monday, August 22, 2005 12:03:55 PM
IP: 24.182.112.92

I claim six.
Starsinger
Monday, August 22, 2005 07:03:31 AM
IP: 209.240.205.61

I take the 5th in both crs.
dph
ar, usa
Monday, August 22, 2005 02:40:56 AM
IP: 63.232.248.9

4th!
Leo
Monday, August 22, 2005 01:30:41 AM
IP: 68.231.241.236

Third!
Spen
Monday, August 22, 2005 01:27:31 AM
IP: 207.177.11.252

er...lol I mean SECOND! :D
Dezi
Monday, August 22, 2005 12:56:44 AM
IP: 68.54.214.198

...
dezi
Monday, August 22, 2005 12:56:22 AM
IP: 68.54.214.198

#1
silvadel
Monday, August 22, 2005 12:20:08 AM
IP: 24.149.178.180