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Music / Re: What are you Listening to?
« on: May 30, 2010, 04:36:14 PM »
went to a Local Metal show last night, only caught the last 2 acts: Acaro and Acerose. also pretty addicted to Train of Thought as well, they have been getting a lot of MP3 play lately.

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Rants and Stuff / Re: I would like to announce!
« on: May 19, 2010, 05:32:01 PM »
Cox sent me an email apologizing for the slow speeds yesterday LOL I will check again when I get home tonight.

How did you manage to almost burn your house down?

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Rants and Stuff / Re: Computer Trouble
« on: May 19, 2010, 12:14:55 AM »
spyware removal programs, according to a lifelong PC tech (me, 40 years old) ;)

1: Super Anti-Spyware
2: Spybot Search& Destroy
3: Ad-Aware

I do recommend using ALL THREE. Because they do, in some ways, complement each other.

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Rants and Stuff / Re: I would like to announce!
« on: May 19, 2010, 12:12:10 AM »


Bad upload, but I care not about upload speeds mostly.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: May 13, 2010, 06:58:46 PM »
ok, I got 28 pages into "Good Omens" and bookmarked my page and have not had a desire to pick it up again. So I probably wont even bother at this point.

Going to start the Elric Saga for the first time now.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: May 10, 2010, 12:10:31 AM »
Quote from: ErikHolmes on May 08, 2010, 09:35:05 PM
Not sure what you mean by one-off. Just like stand alone novels?

Yes, exactly :)

Thanks all for the recommendations. I am going to start with Gainman, I think :)

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: May 08, 2010, 07:53:15 PM »
Finished Worldwar series by Turtledove, need a break from alt history, and mega-series fantasy as well. Anyone recommend a few one-off fantasy novels with no tie-ins to any other series?

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Books / Re: Hard SF recommendations
« on: May 06, 2010, 07:59:22 PM »
ok, i think I get it.

From Peter: it has to be within the realm of possible while also being at least within it's own frame, technically sound. Which, in my opinion, removes Old Man's War and Dune from the list, would probably also rule out Pohl and Chalker as well.

From BSG: it has to be heavy on the technical aspect of whatever science it uses, without necessarily being slaved to the realm of possibilities.

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Books / Re: Hard SF recommendations
« on: May 06, 2010, 06:45:33 PM »
why make this kind of distinction? I dont really get it. Hard or..  soft? or is it "Difficult" or not?

I think what is "hard" or "difficult" varies by person. whatis simplistuc and boring to one, may be challenging and interesting to another. plus, what are you basing the qualities on? Technical confusion? Elizabethan prose?

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: May 06, 2010, 06:37:54 PM »
about 3/4 of the way through book 3 of the Worldwar saga from Turtledove. Really enjoying this series. Dont really like the timeline leaps he does though. probably going to read Guns of the South after I finish Titling The Balance, sicne it has been highly recommended by some people here.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: April 27, 2010, 01:52:46 PM »
Reading Turtledove's Worldwar series. Pretty good, if a little on the light side.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: April 07, 2010, 08:26:19 PM »
I really really liked Old Man's War. I read the sequels as well. the 4 book set was great.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: 83
« on: March 05, 2010, 04:31:43 PM »
this is entirely untrue. Computer run on the life force of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Little known fact: Gates and Jobs are aliens and are immortal Highlanders. there can be only one.

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: March 03, 2010, 09:10:07 PM »
BSG: I tried to remember that, I really did. He explained it at teh beginning. But it does not explain away, or help the fact that he was all over the place. He shattered the timeline, confused up the map, had entire chapters where you barely knew whose point of view it even was, plus adding new characters and confusing up THEIR point of view by bouncing back and forth from character to character from one paragraph to the next and back again. If it had been like reading half of a book, that would beone thing. But it read, to me, like 8 different books with a novella which tried to tie them all together (and failed, mind you).

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: March 03, 2010, 08:30:05 PM »
i read the C/T traffic books, but really quickly. they were all from a teenagers point of view. Good but not great. But re-whetted my interest in teh genre again.

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