Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Now, admittedly, I am a Druid (www.adf.org), but I know many Witches/Wiccans.

The list of gifts in that article...well, Red Riding Hood is not Wiccan. It's nice...but no Witch would show up to Circle in that! Additionally, Anything involving "The Craft", with the exception of the soundtrack, is despised in the Pagan…

I can't read what it says on the sword...I hope it doesn't say "Stormbringer"! If so, she is in for a world of hurt!

They can be Jedi...Sith Jedi. People who pray upon others, abuse their power, and any trust that they have been given. Evil people.

You Americans have it easy...up here in Canada we have *two* official versions of the National Anthem, one in English and one in French...and usually, you have to sing half in English and the other half in French at public events! Add tothat, the lyrics have changed a number of times since it was first written! The…

Thank the Gods there is less Minmei...in fact, that may be the only plus that Robotech has over Macross!

I think that Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie said it best!

No, they are sort of like the Russians and Americans fighting a proxy war through the less advanced races in the B5 universe. They only see Godlike because of Clarke's 3rd law.

I love almost everything else I have read by him...but this one just kind of sucked. I mean, there were lots of great in-jokes and such, but it too often seemed like a bunch of gags held loosely together with an attempt at a story. Not recommended.

Another that is missing is the Bolo stories by Keith Laumer. These stories explored the various aspects of dealing with semi-sentient and sentient massive battle machines and the sometimes difficult problem of what to do with something/someone that can destroy a city without breaking as sweat, (literally) when you no…

One of the best things to have in a winter car emergency kit is candles, along with a lighter/matches. A candle will help keep your car's interior above freezing, and provide light, both for you, and for people searching for you. I also keep a -40 sleeping bag, a shovel, salt, and a tarp among other things in my…

I guess this solves the old "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" problem...see: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html

Here is a link to a video of Leslie Fish's inspiring song about the Apollo Landing..."Hope Eyrie"

It's debatable if you can legitimately call it "opera", but Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" is one of the best performed on stage live Science Fiction musical events out there.

Hey, that's a friend of mine's hand! He worked on Videodrome, and he held the gun and stuck it through the membrane! Only two degrees from Cronenberg! :-)

Don't forget an older networking technology created by IBM...it was called Token Ring, which sounds a lot like "Tolkien Ring"...and in the IBM universe this was true: