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    Chapter 19

    Rilbur commented on Rilbur's story chapter in Chapter 19

    "More?! You want MORE?!" (At least Oliver was polite )
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    Chapter 19

    Rilbur commented on Rilbur's story chapter in Chapter 19

    Military family doesn't mean you live on military food. I'm a navy brat, and I didn't exactly eat at the mess very often. And even then, it was usually the chief's mess onboard ship, which serves fairly good food.
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    It was as if the Grim Reaper had reached out with his scythe and sent it whirling through Jared's enemies. Quick, accurate, deadly bursts of fire exploded from his hands, shredding flesh and destroying armor as he walked through the elite guard President Ellison had gathered around himself. He wasn't as close to the White House as he'd hoped, but he was close enough. Five times his armor jerked as he launched AA rockets, taking down gunships and jet craft that tried to swoop in and engage him
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    Before the school board for expulsion... twice? Yeouch! Kilt and combat boots? I like this kid!
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    Strong lyrics, I will agree. Very, very strong lyrics. The list of names at the end was just right too -- not too short, so as to focus on the individuals, but not so long as to become monotonous. Two good qualities for the song.
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    The Guardians

    Rilbur commented on Rilbur's story in Fiction

    Redemption isn't a direct sequel, but I think it may be close enough for your purposes.
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    I should point out that my major is Computer Science. I sit and type at a computer all day for school, work, and play. Yes, I am going to be a very, very proficient typist.
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    One, now.
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    Chapter 18

    Rilbur commented on Rilbur's story chapter in Chapter 18

    Just one short week to go and it'll all be over. As for his communications... they went nation-wide, in an instant. For a short period of time, he 'hacked' into the national command communications system. He blasted out on every TV and radio station, (courtesy of the Emergency Broadcast System), he blasted out on every unencrypted military frequency, he blasted out on most of the encrypted frequencies. He was heard. And honestly, if someone made a speech like that to you just how 'effective' do you think it would be?
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    An alarm grew louder and louder, until finally it penetrated Jared's silent, wracking sobs. The pod had breached atmosphere, and had successfully avoided the surface-to-space missiles attempting to engage it, but it was rapidly approaching a cloud of surface-to-air missiles that were reaching out to destroy it. It's massively overpowered engines blasted, jerking it around in a frantic evasion pattern that left Jared bruised and would have battered a normal human being to death. And then the
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    110 with 3 mistakes.
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    I use openOffice purely for the spellcheck functionality. I do most of my work using HTML so I control the formatting.
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    Association is a pain in the... GAH! I'm writing a new story, and I needed to come up with some names. I grabbed Jones out of a hat, and then came up with Breckenridge. That bugged me. Then I realized what the problem was -- the main character's of Do Over have those names. I do NOT want to have Jones and Breckenridge at the same time! So, I decided to replace Breckenridge. And came up with 'Davies'. Given that I just came off from trying to avoid naming my main character, Jack, 'Jack Sparrow' and then 'Jack Daniels', I'm starting to think tonight is just not the night to be writing. What do you think? And has anyone else ever had this kind of issue?
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    Chapter 17

    Rilbur commented on Rilbur's story chapter in Chapter 17

    I know you didn't mean to be insulting, but comic book?!
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    I just noticed that chapter 17 is out. Um... please don't lynch me? That way I can give you the next two chapters?
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    Chapter 17 The massive capacitors which provided the large bursts of power the jump drive required took days to recharge after the Nova Maria's latest maneuvers. Jumping from one location to another took a fair bit of juice, but nothing absurd. Matching velocity with objects moving at an appreciable fraction of lightspeed, as Mathews explained, was another matter entirely. "The drive can't create velocity from nothing," he explained to Admiral Beech. "I don't understand the physics of it,
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    One of my roommates explained the boy/girl one to me once. Apparently, they're so stuck with the standard 'guy dates girl' paradigm that they simply cannot reach past that to the idea of two guys going at it as 'equals'. Someone has to be 'in charge' as it were. I don't know if they've explained that theory to their girlfriends yet; I wanna be a fly on the wall when they try.
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    Chapter 16

    Rilbur commented on Rilbur's story chapter in Chapter 16

    Why oh why did you have to use the word 'fire'...
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    "You want me to kill the President of the United States," Jared asked, jaw dropping. In a way, he'd kind of expected it, but actually hearing the words flat out was a shocker. It was the kind of line you simply didn't hear. Ever. "Yes," Admiral Beech nodded. "As I said, I'd prefer to capture him for arrest, but I just don't think that's practical. The man is a menace, and needs to be brought under control. Hell, assuming you could capture the man, you're just moving the date of his execution
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    The article didn't say it directly, but I think it implied that all they can touch on that 140 mil is the interest.
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    If you're that interested in grammar rules, you might want to look into some linguistics books, too.
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    I suppose I should have said 'experience' instead of appearance, but yes e-ink reproduces the qualities of the printed page extremely well. Which, for those prone to eye-strain when using LCD screens at least, is a critical point.
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    Different devices use different systems. The most common is called 'e-ink', which is a technology that's designed to reproduce the appearance of the printed word (and does so at a very low power cost). The original Kindle, Nook, etc all used E-ink technology, which precludes the use of back lighting. I'd have to check, but I believe the Kindle, and the black and white Nook, are still e-ink. I'm not sure about the color, but I suspect it moved over to an LCD type display, since colored e-ink was a difficult proposition the last time I did my research.
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    Chapter 15

    Rilbur commented on Rilbur's story chapter in Chapter 15

    Because making a walkway out of cake would create a very messy situation?
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    "I don't wanna wake up," Jared sulked, cuddling even tighter to his adult version of a teddy bear. "Jared, sooner or later your kids are going to poke their noses in here," Mathews pointed out. "Davey knows better," Jared muttered. "And he'll keep Cody from doing anything, either." "And what happens if Davey gets up after Cody? What's going to keep your younger son from barging in and leaving us with all sorts of difficult questions to answer?" Mathews asked. "I already get to answer t
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