JamesSavik

Oh my God! I'm laughing my ass completely off! HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THUMP! The Service of the Sword is a collection of short stories and novellas. One of the stories is called A Ship Named Francis. It's the funniest damned thing I've ever read. You must find it and laugh your ass off too. wikipedia entry: A Ship Named Francis by John Ringo and Victor Mitchell Sean Tyler, a corpman in the Royal Manticorian Navy, thought that a stint as a loaner in the explosively-growing Grayson Space Navy would boost his career. So, when there was a slot vacant on board the cruiser Francis Mueller, his wish was granted. Unfortunately for Corpsman Tyler, no one told him that almost everybody on board the Francis—from the clueless captain to the psychotic XO and the panicky chaplain—had been sent there because no one else in the entire Grayson Space Navy wants them. Hilarity ensues...

Here's an idea: Batman has been done to death. Why doesn't Hollyweird make something else? How about: or maybe Either would be much better than

Sink holes don't just form on land. They can form at sea where they are called blue-holes and attract a lot of attention from divers and fishermen. This one is the Great Bluehole off Belize.

There are several different types of sinkholes but by far the most common are caused by bed rock that has been dissolved by the action of ground water. The two types of bedrock that are most susceptible to this type of erosion are limestone and dolomite, which are widespread. In the United States, we see the most sinkhole activity are Florida, Louisiana and Texas. However- this sort of geological activity is everywhere. This sink hole below occurred in Central America. They can be quite destructive and strike completely without warning. Some occur after periods of intense rainfall while others appear to strike completely out of the blue. Sometimes people attempt to fill in sinkholes with traditional landfill and the additional weight of material makes them collapse even more! It has been suggested that the use of fracking for natural gas production causes sinkholes but that doesn't hold water since they occur at the same rate as they did before fracking came into use and areas where no natural gas is extracted. The problem is that 1) humanity has spread out into areas that were once only wilderness, 2) we have a geologically active planet and 3) we have not paid particularly close attention to geological stability when we build and, clearly we are going to have to start. It may also be a good idea to do geological surveys of major metropolitan areas to avoid serious problems in the future.

the Honor Harrington series by David Weber.

With all of the manure that we've seen, there's bound to be a pony. ________________________________________ translation- there are so many lies and distortions involving this case, we actually know nothing about it.

I usually wake up allergic and cranky1. I need: A Shower Caffeine In that order. ________________________________ foot notes: 1- I know this crankiness comes as a great shock to all concerned.

Never blew up a cake. I've had a go at blowing up a few networks though.

I get few reviews and appreciate them all.

Glad for you laddie.

I'm from a place that is only modestly more gay-friendly than Iran. I can see the dark side from my house.

I'm glad you are feeling better Scotty. However- never forget that there are people out there that wish us ill. Enjoy your life but remember to keep your eyes open and watch your back.

I-10 is in red. Driving long distances on I-10 can be REALLY nerve racking. I-10 goes along the Gulf Coast from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana to Houston and beyond. It is a major smuggling conduit. People either drive like maniacs or very conservatively which makes things very hairy. The mules do the speed limit and others go ~80. Can get downright dangerous in weather. Not to mention the stupid cop tricks when they stop everybody for a "license" check... with dogs and lots of guns. I'll be driving a slice of it soon but that's all I care to drive of it- just a slice.

I'm boycotting asparagus and watching the movie.

Her name was Hera.

NFL Footbrawl is fun to watch. It's like a year long soap opera and it never really ends. It starts right after the stupor bowl, the draft, rookies mini-camp, we see who gets arrested, training camp and the pre-season. Then the regular season starts. We have the first quarter- the first four games and we see how the teams are shaping up. We see who gets injured and out for the season, the halfway point and then the stretch-run and the battle for the playoff spots. Once the regular season ends, the playoffs begin starting with the wild card games, and then the divisional champs and then the AFC and NFC title games. Then we have the Stupor Bowl media circus for two weeks and by then we're all sick of it, say F**k it for a while and by April the draft begins and it starts it all over again.

A concert by my favorite bands would require a seance.

Vozrozhdeniya Island Aral Sea Soviet Biological Warfare Testing Facility Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic June 2, 1988 "Come on Vanya, unless you want to be another test subject!" Vanya Akulov quickly tested the restraining strap and checked the instruments monitoring the test subjects vital signs on the last chimpanzee and left the large vapor chamber. The beast gave him a murderous glare but was completely restrained and tranquilized. There were thirty test subjects inside the chamber and none of them would leave it alive. Akulov stopped and heaved the heavy steel door closed and sealed the large bell shaped chamber. It's walls were four meters thick. When the tests were done, a gas would be pumped into the chamber and ignited reducing anything inside to ashes. It was a big day for the youthful virologist. It was the first full up test of his brainchild which had been given the innocuous title of preparation 437. Preparation 437 began as a Alphavirus. In its original form, it caused Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis or VEE and was a mosquito borne menace to horses and people in its original jungle. It had been troublesome enough for a vaccine to be developed but still had interesting characteristics. As an Alphavirus, it had a ridiculously simple structure: simple and elegant. VEE was a positively sensed, single stranded RNA virus. It was this very simplicity that allowed Akulov to radically redesign the virus by splicing its genetic material. It was no longer VEE. It was a genetically programmed bioweapon. Like its origin, Preparation 437 could easily be transmitted by mosquito giving it a vector that could spread it far and wide. Akulov completed the preparations outside the mist chamber and climbed a spiral staircase to control room on the next level. He stopped at the airlock in between and stripped off the heavy "space suit" and proceeded in scrubs. When he arrived in the control room there were several officer there in the uniform of the Soviet Army and KGB. One of the officers stepped forward and said, "Comrade Scientist Akulov, your breakthrough has been noted at the highest levels. I bring congratulations from the Chairman of the Central Committee." Akulov said, "Thank you Comrade General. I serve the Soviet Union." That made the KGB man and the faceless party apparatchiks smile but some of the other scientists winced. Nobody likes a brown-nose regardless of the system but the Soviet bureaucracy bred and rewarded many scores of them. Dr. Rodenko was senior in the lab but there was glory enough to go around. "Gentlemen, we are ready to begin the test. Vanya has modified the original virus. In its original form, it attacks the brain and causes Encephalitis: a swelling of the brain that causes coma and sometimes death. However, in its modified form, it's attack is more targeted. It attacks the higher brain function." Akulov said, "I expect that we will see a different illness. Some will die outright. Encephalitis can do that. In its modified form, I expect the victim to awaken from a short coma with all higher brain functions destroyed." The general asked, "What will that mean Comrade Scientists?" Akulov relied, "We will see but if it works as I expect, we will have the agent that causes incapacity and chaos that the Sub-committee has been wanting for years. Give us 4 days for the test to run its course and we'll see. Twenty-four hours later, all thirty chimps were comatose. Thirty-six hours later eight of the chips expired from cerebral edema. The first of the others awoke fifty-two hours after infection. They raged. They fought at the restraints with all of their might. Over the next four hours sixteen of them awakened in a murderous hatred. Fighting and snarling to free themselves. Six more of them stayed in what Akulov judged to be a persistent vegetative state. As the first one finally freed itself 56 hours into the experiment, a pale and shaken Dr. Rodenko armed the self-destruct system and incinerated all of the test subjects in the vapor chamber. All of the important men that had come to see Akulov's accomplishment were badly shaken. It was obvious for all that had seen, anyone the raging chimps might have gotten their hands on would have been torn to shreds. Should they have survived, the victims would be certainly have been infected. Preparation 437 was never advanced to full production. The People's Sub-Committee on Special Weapons deemed it entirely too dangerous. It was saved for special projects by the KGB and became yet another agent in the Soviet bioweapons massive arsenal,

My birthday loot: I know one special boyfriend who is getting some tonight.

Thanks guys. When it comes to birthdaze, I try to ignore them. I like to save my higher math skillz for paying gigs. I rather like the board software that calculated my age once and it has been the same ever since.

What? Who? Where's my wallet?

Any road in a never to be sufficiently damned summer thunder storm.

No mention of my story the Inquisitor http://www.gayauthors.org/story/jamessavik/theinquisitor ~600 views, good comments

I love the croissant! Slice one in half, add sliced smoked turkey, Swiss cheese, mayo, lettuce & tomato. OH... and bacon

I hear that some people are calling for a boycott of Ender's Game. Now I didn't like it but I went along with the Chick Fillet thing. I'm drawing the line at Ender's Game. I suggest a punishing boycott of asparagus as an alternative. That'll show the bastards!