JamesSavik

I'm a LEO. Was there ever any doubt. *purrs contently*

While democrats and republicans are busy demonizing each other, they are both picking your pocket.

I'll listen if it's good but boy bands are NOT. They are aimed at 12 year old girls and are neutered to be harmless in the view of parents. Their lyrics are like Fun With Dick and Jane, without the edge or the soul of a Jane's Addiction, the Cranberries, Stone Temple Pilots or Tool. If you want baby food, have at it. I'm looking for something with more substance to sink my teeth into.

Pink Floyd or Led Zep they ain't. Home, home again. I like to be here when I can. When I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire. Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells. -Breath by Pink Floyd Mmmbop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, ba duba dop Ba du Yeah Mmmbop, ba duba dop Ba du bop, Ba du dop Ba du bop, Ba du dop Ba du Yeah - MMMMbop by Hanson We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow -Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin It's gotta be you Only you It's gotta be you Only you -It's gotta be you by One Direction (circle jerk) Is this generation just retarded or did all of their talent go up in smoke when their parents were hitting the bong in the seventies and eighties???

*Sighs* Why did he have to be gay? Why couldn't he have been a freakin' Methodist layman like the BTK killer?' All of the usual nutjobs will say SEE! That's what they are all REALLY like when they aren't behaving.

< some humans are so stupid that if they couldn't use can openers, they would be completely useless

As I am installing routers and switches, my gear is aimed in that direction. I do have a LOT of cabling stuff but I don't carry it on every gig. I have the stuff to make cat 5 cables but I don't need it every trip. The laptop is necessary for configuring the routers and switches,

As a field engineer, I could carry everything in a semi-truck and still show up at a site without something mission critical. This is a list of my standard kit and load out for jobs that have not specified any specific tools. M-51 Engineers Field Kit Box cutter Mini-Maglite Dymo LectraTag Lettering Gun Gerber Multi-Tool Folding Magnifier 8X Jewelers Loop (40X) w/LED light Scissors Needle nosed pliers Wire Cutters Skil laser/LED/area light Phillips/Standard fiber-glass screwdriver Phillips/Standard 1/4" screwdrivers Phillips/Standard micro Screwdrivers 3/8" driver 100 screwdriver bits Cat 5 Network Cable Tester Fiji FinePix A330 digital camera Network cable- various lengths 3', 6' and 9' Misc USB/PS/2 connectors Velcro cable ties Snap-tight cable ties Index Cards Notebook 1/4", 3/8" nut drivers 1/4" mini socket set mirror probe magnetic probe standard rack bolts electric socket tester RJ-11 telephone jack tester 16 gig memory stick hemostats I also carry a laptop but pack it separately.

< Dude! Check your shoes!

inspired by KC's post:

I gave up drinking years ago but I've got lots of experience with both. There's a time and place for both. I used to like stolnaya vodka chilled- put in the freezer and served in chilled glasses. Canadian Club was my favorite sipping whiskey.

Dear 14 year old James: When you meet Nathan, go the other way. When you meet cocaine, go the other way. When you meet Chris, screw him but don't love him. That's all he's good for. Try to keep Travis around. He turns out well. General observation: leave everything alone but pot. Older James

My muse is an obnoxious and abusive drunk that shows up at 2am and goes to sleep before anything useful can happen.

I didn't know you could get those at McDonalds.

In high end Kroger stores in Mississippi, they are beginning to put in sushi bars. I saw a man go up to one, look and turn around disgusted. I asked him what the deal was and he said that bait is entirely too expensive.

I suppose I'm starting this topic because I've yet to do so. What makes a good villain? Is he Snidley Whiplash or Darth Vader? Is he an amoral bounty hunter like Jingo Fett or did he see his father murdered by a Jedi and was born into the profession like Boba Fett? One of my all time favorite villains came from the Babylon 5 universe. He is none other than everybody's favorite psi-cop to hate: Alfred Bester. In the Babylon 5 series Alfred Bester was played masterfully by Walter Koenig who also played Anton Chekov in Star Trek TOS (the Original Series+ movies). If you read the books, you get his back story and understand him a little better. He was much more than a malevolent wisecracking evil mastermind. Bester was trying desperately to save his people- from the Shadows and the normals. Bester was a telepath. In this universe telepaths began to appear on earth ~2050. Normal humans who did not have the gift of telepathy were terrified of them. How do you face someone that can read you deepest, darkest secrets? Humans reacted the way they always do: by slaughtering the different wholesale until a devils bargain was arrived at. All telepaths had to join the Psi-corp and be registered. As long as you did and obeyed the rules, no harm would come to you. You could even do quite well for yourself. Bester was born and raised in the Psi-Corp. He was the orphan of two powerful underground telepaths who were finally caught and killed. The baby Bester was raised by the Corp. The Corp is mother. The Corp is father. Bester loved the corp first and his people (telepaths) second. Bester was a powerful telepath rated P-12 which is near the top end for telepaths. He became a Psi-Cop: a hunter of unregistered telepaths. He truly believed that he was doing rouge telepaths a favor by bringing them into the loving embrace of the Psi-Corp. For all of his malice, for all of his arrogance and down right creepiness, Bester was a man of his people. A villain yes, but a villain that you can understand and respect. The best kind of literary villain I think. A complete human being acting on his own beliefs, customs and culture. ----- Please: give us an analysis of villains that you have found impressive and well written.

Certain people have been conditioned to crap their pants and act irrationally whenever the word nuclear is mentioned.

Noooo! We'll be extinct in no time. We don't want to send the most obnoxious members of our species out into deep space no matter how tempting it seems. Phred Phelps alone would start numerous interstellar wars just for being so insidiously creepy.

As a guy from Cajun country in Mississippi, my chances of meeting Asian people have been few and far between. I'm grateful that GA has given us a place to get to know each other. I've had a lot of fun and have been enriched by the experience. Now... I just wish the Pacific were not quite so wide.

Some modern work: Nighthawks- 1942 painting by Edward Hopper. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks Night Fire by Gaziano

Delete key works every time.

OK maybe you'll get the reference now... < Quaid... start the reactor!