Mission

I have been warned by one of the users that the site where this link directed you to infects your a computer with a trojan horse virus. I wasn't able to verify this, but if you have clicked on the link that was here, I suggest running a virus check on your computer. To one and all, please be very cautious when you post links. Raunchy and pornographic sites are particularly notorious for these sorts of software "gifts". Remember that everyone's virus-checking software may not be quite as good as yours.

I've found the photo upload to be tetchy at times. I often just move the photo to my webpage and link to it. (If you don't have a web page, use photobucket or one of those free photo upload sites.) I don't know why you'd get a problem with the extension, though. It may be that the photo is actually too large or something like that and the extension error is the default response when an error it doesn't recognize occurs. (The software may not be able to tell you the correct problem, so you get this generic reply.) I suggest that you try making the picture smaller in a photo editing program if you have one and using that. It may or may not solve your problem, but it's worth a shot. I'm going to move this post to the IR and Pub Management forum where it actually belongs - it might get more responses there. (I'll bet y'all thought that forum was just for welcoming new members, din'cha?)

Yeah, Firefly always seems to end up near the top. Why? I'm beginning to doubt the validity of this test. (Actually, I didn't really understand the test, I just thought I'd post it because it's been awhile since we had a ration of these somewhat insipid on-line tests and it would give us something new to talk about since we have several sci-fi fans roaming around.)

It's about time you gave me one of your promised Anime recommendations. Whoever I am.

Oh, yes? You're the first female INTJ I think I've come across. We are a rare and proud breed. (Full of ourselves, the other types might even be wont to say. ) I was just conversing with some INTJs in another forum and apparently the concept of being "strongly typed" is a misnomer spread by filthy communists and insane warlocks. This person threw 12 years of MBTI training credentials at me as proof. Fortunately, I ducked.

Our minds contain all sorts of information and it has been stated by what appear to me to be reliable sources that this information can be accessed through hypnotism. It is interesting that in dreams, some details have importance all out of proportion to what we perceive to be reality. Why? I am told that when you are hypnotized, you can access details in a scene you were a part of that you didn't even realize you had noticed. Of course, it's sort of the hypnotist's word against your recollection though, isn't it? You almost need a third party to verify everything. Perception is far more powerful to people than reality. That is interesting. I've made notes on the topic with the hope of someday writing on it, but I need more facts. All this has nothing to do with dreaming, of course, so I'll be polite and stop chattering about it. :)

Somewhere in the mess I pointed out Dorian's quote as being another from The Duellists (Tom Conti talking to Carradine). So you did. I was working on the wee small screen of my laptop in the dark corners of Panera when I did all that and I'm apt to miss things under such conditions. Chaos ensued. So I guess it's Hitman's turn, and since his quote is awful old, unless someone can come up with it, I suggest (suggest, not order) he admit what it is and post a new one. Actung, baby! Am I being too directive? Ah, well. Order from chaos, order from chaos. Now everyone have fun with this topic! Now that's an order. (<- Disclaimer: Sticking his tongue out, not panting.) ________________ "You have an interesting time out here, don't you?" Fry asked, somewhat sick at his stomach. "Yeah, I do. Uncle Sam says I got to stay out here. But he don't say I got to be bored." A Boar's Tooth, Tales of the South Pacific, James Michener

Friends, it appears Diego be right. Pyrates though we be, we must follow the articles of the ship. The articles (such as they seem to have developed) are: 1. Any pyrate who gets the answer correct, can post another, single quote. 2. Any man or woman who strikes out and guesses, own up to it as a guess and wait to see if you're right posting another quote. 3. If your quote be not guessed for 3 or 4 days, you should fess up and post a new quote for the crew's pleasure. 4. Any pyrate posting more than a single quote henceforth shall be punished by Mose’s Law [40 stripes minus one] on the bare back. (I myself have violated this one at least once. Oh, me achin' back.) 5. Any man who falls behind gets trampled. Outstanding at the moment are the following quotes: "It would never be thought of for one Tomcat to send a Surgeon to another Tomcat..." posted by Dorian Lassiter "We're gonna hold on to them by the nose n' we're gonna kick 'em in the ass! We're gonna kick the hell outta them all the time! And we're gonna go thru 'em like s*** thru a goose!" posted surreptitiously by Black Jack Shalaq "They've taken human error out of war! They've taken human out of war!" posted legitimately by Hitman, who was probably unaware of the Tomcat quote "Incentives are important, learned that in rehab." and "One more Dude out of you and I'm gonna slap the shit out of you okay, Now I try to save you from yourself but you gotta stop letting your momma dress you man, Your hopeless!" both from the same movie, posted surreptitiously by MrPirate "They still want an American to go, Wanna take a ride?" posted surreptitiously by MrPirate, guessed to be from Patton by blackjohn So what say we all 'fess up and start anew with a quote from Dorian Lassiter, who is actually the legitimate person that should be posting a quote at this point?

You know, though, I've been playing with it a bit and it only works up to a point. If the letters are too scrambled or the words not as common, it doesn't work nearly as well. The second point is pretty easy to comprehend, but the first suggests it's not quite as true as it would first seem. Try this out: Pobltbiaisirc and qnnaltiue (pilrnectee) fnniotucs are cnmlmooy uesd for the asiaylns of mldoes wtih utrtiancnees or vltbiaaiiiers in ptaameerrs. [Probablilistic and quantile (percentile) functions are commonly used for the analysis of models with uncertainties or variabilites in parameters.]

Did you kown taht it's pssolbie to raed eevn wehn the wrdos are all jbmueld up isndie? The olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be in the rghit pclae. The rset of the wrod can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Prephas Cahos Teohry can hlep us disrcebe tihs phnoemnea? (So mcuh for the iprmtonace of cerocet splelnig...)

That is really cool; an inspiring story. Cheers to you!

The whole system appears to be built around Google's resources. I spent a week in Kansas about 3 hours north-east of Witchita on a job once. It's so flat, the trees so squat and the land so sun-kissed that it's beautiful in an austere way. Lots of gullys and ravines and whatnot. You could be the pirate of the ravine during the wet season.

I used to play the clarinet and the piano. The piano is a lovely instrument to listen to, except when played by someone under the age of 12.

It is apposite we posit an opposite approach to the composite closet problem. (Long live bonkiness!)

I dunno, but that's a pretty funny handle. I like the picture of CaptKonnan.

That would make for very limited conversations, unless everyone around you used ARR in similar fashion. Kind of like the smurfs. apposite (AP-uh-zit or uh-POZ-it) adjective [From Latin appositus] - Highly appropriate; relevant It is apposite for folks on this board to read Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates when developing a re-enacting character.

Maybe some folks can actually meet each other. Re-enacting is sort of a chummy, shared thing after all. The moderators had been talking about coming up with a way to let posters share their location in an offhand sort of way awhile ago. Now here Google and GoF have gone and solved it.

Consider it stickied.

Yesterday, some enterprising friends of mine came up with a really novel way to get drunk on the Saturday before Halloween. They held a haunted wine tasting for about a dozen of their nearest and dearest. It was great fun. On the menu: Dark Cellars - Cabernet Sauvignon Vampire - Merlot (from Transylvania) Witches Brew - Spiced Wine (served heated) 7 Deadly Zins - Zinfandel (oh, that pun is painful) Ravenswood - Zinfandel Ravenswood - Cabernet Sauvignon Mad Dog - Shiraz (not that MD) Black Oak - Sauvignon Blanc Monkey Bay - Sauvignon Blanc Toad Hollow - Chardonnay

You know, it was funny at first, but as Jacoby said in the original, "Too long!"

Harbormaster, you do indeed do nice work! When I was a kid, I found the coolest pyrate treasure chest at a garage sale. Over the years, I beat the crap out of it. Since I'm (someday) going to finish my pirate themed living room, I wanted one that was complete to add to the motif. I went on eBay only to discover the stupid things are more than 10 times what that garage sale find cost me! Here is the image of the two I own. I bought the dark wood one that was missing one of the skulls off eBay and took the only remaining skull off my beat up "garage sale" gold one. So I now have a complete skull pirate chest for (relatively) cheap.

You should put that in your story! You can just switch sides?! Wowsers. Is a tight mind a closed one? This is an excellent point, one which I passed over in my last post to maintain cogency. My dad was journeyman toolmaker who never worked for a union (and thus received less than union wages). My mom has assured me that things were quite tight, but I don't remember them that way. He went on to take over my grampa's business (and take a 30% pay cut in the process - think about that for a minute), but he was able to remove the company from the brink of bankruptcy...only to get kicked out and have to start over. So that could easily color my perspective. I keep getting this reminder that the observer affects the results over and over and over lately. (Ok, I get it! Enough! )

I was greatly disappointed not to be able to find the word "bonky" in any online dictionary. (And yet I was able to use it in a sentence today, so I believe I understand the definition... well, at least I understand the idea, but I don't feel I can accurately give it.) So instead... Wonky (wonk-ee) adjective (informal) 1. shaky, weak or unsatisfactory 2. not straight or level Some of the results of my engineering work on my bathroom mirror are a tad wonky.

Pun intended?

Is that what they're telling you at work? I wouldn't buy it. Maybe if you used Duct Tape...