Excellent! I'm glad to hear that your recovery has progressed to going back to work.
Recovery takes a lot of patience, guts and grit. It's a lot harder work than most people think.
Don't pack your bags just yet. Methods and instrumentation for finding earth like planets are still many years away.
The data that they are talking about is almost all inferential. Yes- we know that planets of all sizes are there. We are years way from direct observation of earth-like worlds and even further from sending a Voyager like probe to fly by.
I do want to reserve a seat on Colonial 1 when we do launch.
I think that there are a lot of fairly homophobic males that think that gays are attracted to anything with a dick and that's just not the case.
It is a bad mix of anti-gay propaganda and ego.
It is a lot of fun to shoot these guys down in flames when the opportunity presents itself. It is sort of the same mentality as the 300 pound fat ass wearing a no fat chicks t-shirt.
I got this idea from a prank I pulled some years ago and thinking about it- whoa... this story could kick major ass.
Prankster kid is instantly swept up in a web in international intrigue and ends up wanted by the FBI, Mossad, FSB, Homeland inSecurity and terrorists!
What do you think!?
Does this sound like fun or am I dain bramaged? No wait. I'm dain bramaged and it sounds like fun... or does it just sound like fun because of my dain bramage?
I'm a MEH...
Traditional
MEH Traits
grouchy and surly
enthusiastically apathetic
mean and a little evil
was drunk and disorderly, now clean & sober without an excuse
would rather be fishing
On the dark side....
makes postal workers look sane and stable
asks hookers for refunds on bad sex
fantasizes about beating people to death with a claw hammer
cheered when shouting tv huckster and coke head Billy Mayes died like a dog
screws televangelists, publishes videos on u-tube for kicks
Famous MEH's in history
Stewie Griffin
Dr. Evil
300 pound dumb ass wearing a "No Fat Chicks" t-shirt
English, Pascal, C, FORTRAN, COBOL, Mathematica and Math through DE.
Oh and just enough assembler language to get by on most processors.
I am bi-measurements: just as inept in English units as I am in Metric.
I was at the mall and am familiar with a company called Dead Sea Spas. They are an Israeli company that sells beauty products from the unique chemical composites found in and around the Dead Sea. They have cute Israeli college student aged kids selling stuff in the center courts of malls all over the country.
As I was walking by I was seized by a sudden urge to prank the kid- a really cute girl.
I looked her in the eye and said, "Yuri says your cover is blown. They know you are Mossad. Get out." and walked on by.
Watching from the upper deck, the poor girl closed up shop, left and I never saw her again!
Got any pranks, punks or practical jokes to share? Do tell!
Oh yeah- ole ma duce will mow them down. Gotta love the 50 caliber round.
Works real good in the handy take home size too.
The flamethrower is an old favorite too.
The flaming asshole approach works too but they are hard to keep around and perfectly useless when you don't need them.
Of course there are always the classics.
I like the way you think. This kid is going places.
I was thinking bouncing Betties myself- they are crowd pleasers too but the claymores are a nice touch.
I'll put some in the inner perimeter. Good call.
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Damn radiation zombies. Ever since I installed my new North Korean 88 inch plasma TV from Beast Buy, I just can't seem to get rid of the obnoxious, smelly bastards.
Any advice?
There are your stereotypical mustache twirling charactertures of villains but what makes a really good villain that instills fear and loathing in the reader?
I ran across one some time ago that stuck out in my mind. What I remember about the guy was that he was an ordinary guy. Everybody trusted him. He told the truth as far as anyone could tell. He didn't wear black or twirl his mustache.
What he did do was wait until the most critical moment, betrayed everyone and walked away with all the diamonds and left his teammates to face the music.
So tell me- what makes a good villain?
What makes him tick?
Do you chose evil are are you born that way?
Is a villain just an ordinary guy that choses the worst possible moment fail, to screw over everybody or get drunk and slaughter a car/bus/train full of people.
Or is a villain a guy named Snake that kills people for kicks and sells crack to middle schoolers just to watch them hurt for it?
There are two tools that are excellent for getting around Nifty:
Stories by prolific net authors is a great help getting around and grouping stories by author.
The Best of Nifty is a bunch of the best stories from Nifty reviewed by readers and authors with links directly to the stories.
There are several very special net authors that I would direct you too.
Driver may be the very best. I love his stuff and highly recommend it.
Freethinker is... amazing. He's one of the best I've ever seen.
EleCivil is quirky, witty and delightful. *hugs EleCivil*
Dewey's Brian & Pete Saga is a classic of the genre. Start it on a long weekend because you won't be getting much done.
The Eggman's A New Life & Life Goes On are also classics of the genre. (Just between us, I wish I were Preston)
Graeme's New Brother is a masterpiece but don't overlook his short stories. He knows how to make every word count.
The Scrolls of Icaria is as good or better a fantasy epic than you could find at your local bookstore.
Drake's Tales are a tour de force.
There is great stuff out there to be found.