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Books / College prep comic books
« on: September 21, 2007, 10:18:42 PM »
First off, how is it that we have SE as a root-level member here but there is no section devoted entirely to comic books?  No matter.

I ran across this and thought that people here would get a kick out of it, and since it does have something to do with comic books, and SE is a root-level member here, that I would post it.  Fun, no?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed130.html

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Writer of the Future. Who Has Been Entering Lately?
« on: September 06, 2007, 04:13:56 PM »
Quote from: Eric James Stone on August 31, 2007, 05:47:53 PM
If anyone is interested in a list of 36 tips on entering WOTF, based on what K.D. Wentworth and Tim Powers said the two times I attended the workshop, PM me with your email address.

(I haven't publicly posted this list because I want to give a slight edge to writers I've had some interaction with.)

Got it. Thanks, Eric.

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Site News / Re: End of Summer Rifftrax party
« on: September 05, 2007, 05:38:26 PM »
I and my passel of kids may be able to come.  This Saturday for sure?  7pm? earlier? later?

Pot luck seems safest.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn 3 Cover (Slight Spoilers for Mistborn 2)
« on: August 29, 2007, 12:02:55 AM »
I like the feet in the upper left.  They're an excellent window into the souls of the beings surrounding her.

I am curious how it fits in with the story though.  Isn't this a scene that takes place well before MB3?

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Writing Group / Re: WotC Discoveries Open Call almost open
« on: August 10, 2007, 07:48:30 PM »
From the post I get the feeling that Science Fiction is not the sort of speculative fiction they're looking for.  Am I right?

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Site News / Re: How Annoying Is This?
« on: July 24, 2007, 09:36:16 PM »
Um, so what are you talking about?

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Music / Re: Pandora Internet Radio
« on: July 20, 2007, 06:40:30 PM »
How expensive/hard would it be to add DRM to the streams?

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Music / Re: Pandora Internet Radio
« on: July 20, 2007, 05:44:11 PM »
I keep getting emails from Pandora saying they're going to close their doors if the internet music laws/payment requirements that are in legislation now don't get changed.

That would be sad.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn 3 Acknowledgements...
« on: July 20, 2007, 05:42:00 PM »
Oh, I think I definitely count on this one.  ;D

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Stephanie Fowers / Re: Remember me? Uh yeah, probably not...
« on: July 19, 2007, 11:12:43 PM »
Guitarbabe!  Great to see you again. ..wait...hear from you...dang it.  Read more posts from you?  (how embarrassing)

Bravo on the book.

Movies, eh?  You doing any work with the Gibbs brothers?  They've produced several short films on their own dime and seem to be ubiquitous in the "film culture" up here in Sad Valley.

See you...READ you later.

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Rants and Stuff / Re: RACISM vs Other Bullying
« on: July 19, 2007, 11:03:51 PM »
Huh.  I hadn't thought about the whole, "I'm a (insert anything here) nerd and so it's my fault that I'm being bullied" possibility.  Yeah, that could be much more damaging than racial bullying which can easily be seen as perpetrated by idiots.

Being a social outcast in my teens, as well as rather short, made me the target of quite a few bullies growing up as well. Nasty business that, leads to a lot of fights.  It's made me just a little touchy in my adulthood.  I don't have to take that shirt anymore so I'm not going to, whether the bully is movie star cool or the size of a pro-football player.  Unfortunately, I'm often unsure of where the line is.  Am I being bullied or is this guy just an oblivious prick?  I tend to err on the side of aggression, though I'm getting better.  I also tend to look for opportunities to back up the victims 'cause hey, bullies are the enemy and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.  Right?

So, enough with the vomitting of TMI.  Taking a step back...

How could a school administrator, teacher, or church leader rationally judge and then later defend his position, that "unacceptable"  bullying is taking place?  Is the line between bullying that should be stopped  and vanilla kid-play quantifiable?

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Rants and Stuff / Re: RACISM vs Other Bullying
« on: July 19, 2007, 08:31:36 PM »
Excellent point Dan.

It exposes a couple of questions.  Lets say that at the same moment in time, you have one guy bullying someone for their race and another guy bullying someone else for their geekitude.  Which of the two victims is more harmed?

Over time, from the perspective of a whole society, racism is more harmful because, as you pointed out, you have a whole segment of the population in permanent social pain. You can't grow out of your race.

So, should a society try to root out racism but leave other bullying alone as something that will solve itself with time? Do you make it a crime to target someone for bullying because of their race?  How do you prove that the bullying was because of race and not some other reason?

Do you make it a crime to bully someone at all and not bother trying to winkle motive out of the bully's brain?  How is this different from treating the two forms of bullying equally?


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Writing Group / Re: Unbiased opinions on my novel in progress
« on: June 28, 2007, 04:58:10 PM »
So, I must say the first chunk of your summary made me cringe, "backwoods boy, son of a blacksmith..."  But the rest sounded interesting and like a different take on the standard cliche so overused by Jordan, Brooks and so forth.

I don't have time to read actual chapters right now, I apologize, but as long as you don't have a "mentor" figure who refuses to tell the main characters important information for obscure reasons it sounds like the concept is a good one.

Good luck!

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Movies and TV / Re: Live Free or Die Hard
« on: June 28, 2007, 03:57:36 PM »
I saw this film last night and verily, it was awesome.

Gibbs is right.  If you liked the first Die Hard, you'll like this one.

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Movies and TV / Live Free or Die Hard
« on: June 28, 2007, 12:08:13 AM »
The review is here: http://www.timewastersguide.com/review/1558/Live-Free-or-Die-Hard

Discuss!

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