Posts by SacrificialLoon

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Science fiction book suggestions...

by zeroday in

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i love science fiction books and have run into a dry spell.

i have read alot of david weber but he has been quite slow with new books lately...anyone have any good suggestions for a good read...i need 5 star authors with "blow your socks off" books...any suggestions...

SacrificialLoon

I like Stephen Baxter's stuff, in particular his Xelee sequence of books.

Not quite science fiction, but you might like Harry Turtledove's alternate history books. How Few Remain is good.

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What is your current status with the Watchtower Society and Congregation?

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

i'm a baptized member considered ''inactive.

'' i don't hand in ''service reports'',attend maybe 3 meetings a month,ain't signed up for the ministry school and will never attend any convention or the ''book study.

'' always make the ''memorial.

SacrificialLoon

I honestly haven't a clue, other than maybe inactive.

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How much does a house cost in your area - Is it affordable???

by Witness 007 in

where i live in australia nice newer 3 bedroom brick houses go for $220,000 up.

i think this is reasonable.

(aust.

SacrificialLoon

Plano and North Dallas can be expensive, but most of the rest of the area is pretty reasonable. IMO though a lot of the suburbs just seem to lack the character that older more established towns did back east, it just seems bland and cookie-cutterish to me. You can get a McMansion in McKinney for about 200k. I payed about 110k for a 2bed 1.5 bath townhome.

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Weirdest music you like

by JK666 in

i always liked captain beefheart and his magic band.

here are a few youtube examples:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrhr5peifu&feature=related.

SacrificialLoon

I prefer polyphonic to plain chant.

I also like stuff along the lines of Daft Punk. I also have several Ministry of Sound compilation CDs.

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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?

by Crumpet in

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i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.

SacrificialLoon

Well to be honest the keyboard was pretty new at the time; it's not quite as shiny now, but it's not all grungy either.

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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?

by Crumpet in

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i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.

SacrificialLoon

Here he is sitting on my computer desk while I was playing an MMORPG, FFXI.

Edit: That picture is a couple years old and he's grown a bit since then, and he's a bit too big to be up on the desk while I'm on the PC.

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What are your Guilty Pleasures of a geeky/nerdy variety?

by Crumpet in

jw
friends

i don't mean the ones we know about already - things people wouldn't think you did or enjoyed to look at you.. i love watching ray mears extreme survival and learning about how to survive and find food and shelter in extreme climates even though there is a strong possibility that i shall never try and escape naked from a japanese prisoner of war camp, or crash without a flagon of water into the sahara, or come stuck in my ship in a freezing ice plateau in deepest antartica.

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what's your guilty geeky pleasure?.

SacrificialLoon

I've built my own PCs.
I have the entire Star Trek TNG series on DVD.
I have about half a dozen books by Carl Sagan, and I also have Cosmos on DVD.
I am familiar with the usage and day to day maintenence of round reel drives.
I think Monty Python is hilarious, and while I'm not quite at the level of reciting scenes word for word I am familiar with most.
I've beaten Oblivion, but sometimes I'll fire it up just to run around town killing everyone like that one scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
A previous one was I used to play Everquest and had a level 60 Gnome Cleric.
I own a laser pointer and a cat.

So yeah I have a few....