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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/16/2017 7:40:04 PM

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But Britt's a Swede!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/16/2017 7:47:30 PM

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And change the Windows options so it is not Always On Top (nod at BBfanboy )

How do I do that? I've got the full screen working now, and I noticed that with a combination of hitting the escape key and dragging the toolbar at top sometimes returned me to my desktop without losing the game, but I couldn't figure out a consistent way of doing that. Would be really convenient if I could figure that out.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/16/2017 8:37:26 PM

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Talk about bombshells!

How about those contact fuses?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/16/2017 9:59:48 PM

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Talk about bombshells!

How about those contact fuses?

You wouldn't have to be James Bond to figure out the key combination.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/16/2017 10:42:07 PM

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And change the Windows options so it is not Always On Top (nod at BBfanboy )

Why the nod at me? I can nod off all by myself!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 7:55:03 PM

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So I went to Jury Duty and took a new book to start, Pacific Crucible. I know that lots of people think they're more literate than me (I learned this from Percy Dovetonsils) and Ian is probably one of them, but he used the following construction: "an history". Now we have both the word "a" and the word "an" for a reason. It's not because if you use the wrong one and step on a tile on the floor that causes you to fall into a dungeon. It's about sound. Some think that you use "an" before a vowel, and "a" before a consonant. I wonder if they know that "y" can be either one or the other? They are half right, but it matters not what letter was pressed in ink upon a piece of paper but what the sound is. It should in all cases be "a history" because in that case the "h" is most definitely a consonant. It should be "an hour" as the "h" in that case is silent, it is a mere ornament. This is so because the intercession of the "n" between two vowels helps one distinguish that there are two words, not one. For instance, "ahistorical" is a word but what does it sound like? It means 'not historical' and we pronounce the 'a', "not", as a short a, whereas when we say "a historical" we pronounce the the "a" as a long a. I always run into people who disagree for some unintelligible reason but as soon as I'm done smiting AW1Steve I will be Emperor of the Earth and everyone will have to do as I say and think as I tell them to.

Now I ran into an interesting quote in Toll's book from an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle not long after the Great San Francisco Earthquake referencing difficulties finding school infrastructure for children and considerations about, let's say, the rationing of the available resources vis-a-vis immigrant children. The SF Chronicle was a Hearst newspaper and you may know that he was the inspiration for "Citizen Kane". He was also a very bad boy at times, a rabble-rouser, militarist and nationalist. The quote is "Japan sent us not her fittest, but her unfittest; she has sent us the scum that has collected up on the surface of the boiling waters of her new national life, the human waste material for which she herself can find no use." Sounds eerily familiar but I can't place it at the moment.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 8:22:36 PM

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So I went to Jury Duty and took a new book to start, Pacific Crucible. I know that lots of people think they're more literate than me (I learned this from Percy Dovetonsils) and Ian is probably one of them, but he used the following construction: "an history". Now we have both the word "a" and the word "an" for a reason. It's not because if you use the wrong one and step on a tile on the floor that causes you to fall into a dungeon. It's about sound. Some think that you use "an" before a vowel, and "a" before a consonant. I wonder if they know that "y" can be either one or the other? They are half right, but it matters not what letter was pressed in ink upon a piece of paper but what the sound is. It should in all cases be "a history" because in that case the "h" is most definitely a consonant. It should be "an hour" as the "h" in that case is silent, it is a mere ornament. This is so because the intercession of the "n" between two vowels helps one distinguish that there are two words, not one. For instance, "ahistorical" is a word but what does it sound like? It means 'not historical' and we pronounce the 'a', "not", as a short a, whereas when we say "a historical" we pronounce the the "a" as a long a. I always run into people who disagree for some unintelligible reason but as soon as I'm done smiting AW1Steve I will be Emperor of the Earth and everyone will have to do as I say and think as I tell them to.

Now I ran into an interesting quote in Toll's book from an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle not long after the Great San Francisco Earthquake referencing difficulties finding school infrastructure for children and considerations about, let's say, the rationing of the available resources vis-a-vis immigrant children. The SF Chronicle was a Hearst newspaper and you may know that he was the inspiration for "Citizen Kane". He was also a very bad boy at times, a rabble-rouser, militarist and nationalist. The quote is "Japan sent us not her fittest, but her unfittest; she has sent us the scum that has collected up on the surface of the boiling waters of her new national life, the human waste material for which she herself can find no use." Sounds eerily familiar but I can't place it at the moment.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 8:34:10 PM

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I think he's off his meds....GP

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 9:12:35 PM

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I'm afraid to ask - what meds would a Gorn take? Are they natural meds? Approved by the Gorn FDA? What's the Gorn equivalent of LSD?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 9:30:09 PM

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So I went to Jury Duty and took a new book to start, Pacific Crucible. I know that lots of people think they're more literate than me (I learned this from Percy Dovetonsils) and Ian is probably one of them, but he used the following construction: "an history". Now we have both the word "a" and the word "an" for a reason. It's not because if you use the wrong one and step on a tile on the floor that causes you to fall into a dungeon. It's about sound. Some think that you use "an" before a vowel, and "a" before a consonant. I wonder if they know that "y" can be either one or the other? They are half right, but it matters not what letter was pressed in ink upon a piece of paper but what the sound is. It should in all cases be "a history" because in that case the "h" is most definitely a consonant. It should be "an hour" as the "h" in that case is silent, it is a mere ornament. This is so because the intercession of the "n" between two vowels helps one distinguish that there are two words, not one. For instance, "ahistorical" is a word but what does it sound like? It means 'not historical' and we pronounce the 'a', "not", as a short a, whereas when we say "a historical" we pronounce the the "a" as a long a. I always run into people who disagree for some unintelligible reason but as soon as I'm done smiting AW1Steve I will be Emperor of the Earth and everyone will have to do as I say and think as I tell them to.

Now I ran into an interesting quote in Toll's book from an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle not long after the Great San Francisco Earthquake referencing difficulties finding school infrastructure for children and considerations about, let's say, the rationing of the available resources vis-a-vis immigrant children. The SF Chronicle was a Hearst newspaper and you may know that he was the inspiration for "Citizen Kane". He was also a very bad boy at times, a rabble-rouser, militarist and nationalist. The quote is "Japan sent us not her fittest, but her unfittest; she has sent us the scum that has collected up on the surface of the boiling waters of her new national life, the human waste material for which she herself can find no use." Sounds eerily familiar but I can't place it at the moment.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 10:48:00 PM

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I'm afraid to ask - what meds would a Gorn take? Are they natural meds? Approved by the Gorn FDA? What's the Gorn equivalent of LSD?

Gorn meds are smuggled onto this planet in the form of those colored things in Lucky Charms cereal. Our agents come in wearin' the green and no one asks any questions. Those colored things have no effect on humans but are necessary for many of our bodily functions. The pink hearts improve our defensive characteristics, making us hard to find. The yellow moons keep us from making hopeless assaults on enemies, large or small. The orange stars designate which part of Ireland we are from. The green clovers keep us from vomiting up the others. Since the early days, a few new meds have been added, but I'm not sure what they do. I think the blue things are supposed to make us hard until something (not our tails) falls off.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 10:57:52 PM

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I'm afraid to ask - what meds would a Gorn take? Are they natural meds? Approved by the Gorn FDA? What's the Gorn equivalent of LSD?

Gorn meds are smuggled onto this planet in the form of those colored things in Lucky Charms cereal. Our agents come in wearin' the green and no one asks any questions. Those colored things have no effect on humans but are necessary for many of our bodily functions. The pink hearts improve our defensive characteristics, making us hard to find. The yellow moons keep us from making hopeless assaults on enemies, large or small. The orange stars designate which part of Ireland we are from. The green clovers keep us from vomiting up the others. Since the early days, a few new meds have been added, but I'm not sure what they do. I think the blue things are supposed to make us hard until something (not our tails) falls off.

So Leprechaun's are from the Gorn home world.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 11:00:43 PM

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Actually, they are gorns in disguise. The next time you see one throw him a piece of well rotted chicken liver and see how he snaps it up with relish.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 11:04:09 PM

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Don't ask them to pick up the check, our arms are too short.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/18/2017 11:30:26 PM

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I'm afraid to ask - what meds would a Gorn take? Are they natural meds? Approved by the Gorn FDA? What's the Gorn equivalent of LSD?

Gorn meds are smuggled onto this planet in the form of those colored things in Lucky Charms cereal. Our agents come in wearin' the green and no one asks any questions. Those colored things have no effect on humans but are necessary for many of our bodily functions. The pink hearts improve our defensive characteristics, making us hard to find. The yellow moons keep us from making hopeless assaults on enemies, large or small. The orange stars designate which part of Ireland we are from. The green clovers keep us from vomiting up the others. Since the early days, a few new meds have been added, but I'm not sure what they do. I think the blue things are supposed to make us hard until something (not our tails) falls off.

Oh, I see. Nothing to do with M&Ms or flavors of Howard Johnson ice cream.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 1:36:19 AM

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Entirely correct. But on the subject of Ho-Jo's clam rolls, I inhaled so many of those that almost the entire chain was consumed. I ... Need ... Ho-Jo ... Clam ... Rolls!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 1:42:14 AM

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Thirty years ago there was a Howard Johnson's on Lindbergh just a hop skip and a jump North of Watson Rd., otherwise known to many as Route 66, and I would haunt that place once a week or every other week and strip their larders of clams. I wish somebody would bring that chain back.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 2:21:37 AM

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On occasion, somebody will ask what music you listen to when playing. That frequently devolves into talking about great soundtracks for movies. The usual mentions are such greats as Bernard Hermann, John Williams and Ennio Morricone. I'd like to mention someone who contributed to a really, really fine film, one that stands out. The cast was stellar. The director somehow wrung out of Dennis Quaid, an actor I consider to be mediocre compared to his brother Randy, an amazing performance. Really. I haven't read it, but I'm sure the book the movie is based on, written by Tom Wolfe, is a real peach too. Bill Conti. The Right Stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCblQ_fnPpc

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 6:33:16 AM

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I'm afraid to ask - what meds would a Gorn take? Are they natural meds? Approved by the Gorn FDA? What's the Gorn equivalent of LSD?

Reminds me of a Larry Niven story about a shape changing alien species that had a few members hiding on Earth. The protagonist met up with an alien bounty hunter who was trying to find a member of his species who was on the lam on Earth. The bounty hunter said the only thing that could harm them was an organic liquid poison. It turned out as the story went on that the poison was ethanol. It was very deadly to the aliens, even a small amount would kill them, but of course moderate amounts was no big deal to humans.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 3:30:02 PM

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I'm afraid to ask - what meds would a Gorn take? Are they natural meds? Approved by the Gorn FDA? What's the Gorn equivalent of LSD?

Reminds me of a Larry Niven story about a shape changing alien species that had a few members hiding on Earth. The protagonist met up with an alien bounty hunter who was trying to find a member of his species who was on the lam on Earth. The bounty hunter said the only thing that could harm them was an organic liquid poison. It turned out as the story went on that the poison was ethanol. It was very deadly to the aliens, even a small amount would kill them, but of course moderate amounts was no big deal to humans.

Bill

I can see it now...in big bright lights...coming to a theater near you...Predator vs. Gorn!

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 4:41:28 PM

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Has anyone any experience with this Hornfischer guy?

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 4:44:16 PM

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Neptune's Inferno and Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors were good reads, IMHO

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 5:09:37 PM

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Has anyone any experience with this Hornfischer guy?

Last stand of the Tin Can sailors was an entertaining read. I've heard mixed reviews on Neptune's Inferno however.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 6:41:37 PM

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Has anyone any experience with this Hornfischer guy?

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Only read Neptune's Inferno of his - which was pretty awful imo. Gave up after about 3-4 chapters as unreadable.

If you want to read about that period then Frank's Guadalcanal is the book to buy.

As for the period of time that is covered by the book you mention above, then Fast Carriers takes some beating (albeit there is, as the name suggests, a focus on the carrier aspects whereas this book may be more broad based).

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 10:46:26 PM

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Well written and researched. Gives one a sense of actually being in the action.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/19/2017 10:53:46 PM

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Interactively entertaining. Really pulls you in.

Edit: sorry a bit too crass for this forum.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/20/2017 6:38:14 AM

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I read Ship of Ghosts about the Houston a year or two back and I finished Neptune's Inferno a couple of days ago. IMO, both were good reads. He focuses a lot on the personalities and eye witness accounts of survivors, some major figures and others minor.

I just found out about the Fleet at Flood Tide book the other day and was planning on getting it.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/20/2017 6:45:04 AM

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Well written and researched. Gives one a sense of actually being in the action.

warspite1

Horten Hears a Who? Is a very good film.

I think the diplomatic process is beginning to break down

No idea where that line came from, or why he uses the voice he does - but exceptionally funny

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/20/2017 11:40:07 AM

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Interactively entertaining. Really pulls you in.

Edit: sorry a bit too crass for this forum.

A crass novel written to expose the underbelly of life. In need of the touch of a Dickens' novel.

A crass novel written to expose the underbelly of life. In need of the touch of a Dickens' novel.

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 1/20/2017 4:46:16 PM

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Help. Pictured here are (I believe) chemkid's extended map sections labelled WPEH that I currently have in effect. The WPEN are stock maps that are not in use, I'm not sure if they're extended or not. Anyways I think I have to rename the WPEH sections so they are not used by the game but I want to replace them with chemkid's non-extended maps. Anyone know where his site is so I can download them? I need them to play AW1Steve, stock scenario #1.