The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil. What is this about, and is it any good? Horse People , by Michael Korda. An amusing look into a thin slice of the horsey set. Could have been written morse clearly and elegantly, which is very amusing, as the author himself is a...

alynna is now 27 (uh, no) alynna is the voice behind the naughty love songs "kahit gaano kalaki" and "pasumpa (not so much) alynna is teaching third world politics and middle east politics (well, no, not that, either) alynna is upset and complaining (yeah, that's bang on) alynna is al...

Heh, honestly I only remember him saying that democracies lead to tyrannies, not that tyrannies were necessarily better XD But I could definitely be wrong. I would say it doesn't matter too much, since we're not exactly a democracy as plato described it in any case. Yeah, democracies led (back) to ...

I guess I didn't miss anything then, not having cable.

Also, I can (sort of) live with the existence of HL II... you just have to watch the Director's Cut where they took out the whole "out of this world" concept.

I miss what this fandom was in, like, 1997. *sigh*

oh goodness...I had to give up after about twenty...I was guessing on most of them. Don't feel bad, Drew -- apparently so were some of those college kids. Drew shouldn't feel bad at all... he's Canadian. "52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %" I have to say, the one about Plato and The Republi...

Not likely, although Season Four looks a little more promising. They have a couple of things lined up that look original, and they've got some character development going on that might be interesting. The only reason I watch it is 'cause I somehow became a fan of Rodney McKay. If David Hewlett ever ...

VIP pass? Nice! Hope you have a good time!

Me, join another forum? LOL! I can't even keep track of this one! Yeah, I've lurked on the dGeek forum once or twice, and that's about it.

Can't wait to see A Dog's Breakfast. Hewlett in the buff! With bad hair!

Hey, if you happen to be standing in the autograph line and get more than, like, 5 seconds to talk to him, tell him there's at least one Atlantis fangirl out there who's not creepily stalking him. (And if you get an extra few seconds, tell him to tell David Hewlett to be very afraid. )

Poor Jay is taking this really hard, I bet.

My boss went to the game. He's keeping the tickets. $$

Yandomort??

Why do you believe Weir might ascend? At the end of last season, she basically said she was done with the job, if they lived through the current crisis, so she doesn't have to die, ascend or whatever to be replaced. I seem to remember the final scene of Season 3 showed she did indeed survive, am I ...

Season looks pretty exciting form where I'm sitting. We'll finally get a backstory for Sheppard toward the second half of the year. Yey! Season premier is September 28, I believe. www.gateworld.net/news/2007/08/sci_fi_unveils_fall_schedule_pla.shtml (beware spoilers) Looks like Dr. Weir is coming ba...

"The Evil Empire?" I'm sorry, how am I supposed to take seriously anyone who uses melodrama to make a point? "FDR adopted the idea as U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt." ??? Um, yeah, because that's FDR's fau...

Esmer wrote: Inorganic life.....where have I heard that before.....

Dunno, but that's some wicked cool science.

New Stargate: Atlantis Season 4 trailer! tv.yahoo.com/stargate-atlantis/show/35558/videos/3559666 Beware of spoilers. It's actually pretty cool, with some SG1 and season 3 recap and clips from the new season. *sigh* Of course, it's not like I'll get to watch it properly until it comes out on DVD, bu...

Phantasm wrote:I don't need to take the test to know I'd turn out to be a Lazy B***ard.

Ditto for me!

I am ashamed to say that my current knife is *cringes* an Eddie Bauer 2 inch folding blade with a serrated edge. It was the first thing I saw when I had to get a new knife after my truck (and my straight blade) got stolen, so I picked it up. I just needed any knife, at that point, and now I can't af...

Apparently she's not the only one. As I understand it, there are some people still scattered on the outskirts of the area, and I think they post scientists or monitoring folks or something out there on rotation. Word to the wise, speaking from experience. Be aware of whose property you're on and whe...

But... Isn't there a way to read "new posts" without ever seeing a threads title? I always go through the Index, but I thought there was. Yes, there is. You can see the thread title but also the start of each post, and most people tend to start skimming the post before they notice the tit...

*sigh* I don't want to hear about another "OMG you didn't spoiler that!" incident like tha last few over SRD's books. Just use the tags and deal.