Profile for I'll Steal Your Toast
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| Displayed name | I'll Steal Your Toast |
| Member number | 2210 |
| Title | Agent |
| Postcount | 1084 |
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| Registered | Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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| The Artifact Belts in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, January 17 2007 09:28
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I found neither to be that useful. I used a Girdle of Life instead. I found for a melee oriented character +2 endurance and +2 endurance for creations to be more helpful. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Living items in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, January 17 2007 09:16
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Chitin is insect shells or crab shells treated to be wearable. The US military is looking at developing chitin like substances for body armor. Another substance, nacre, a pearlescent hard ceramic from abalone shells is also being looked at for ballistic inserts for body armor. I would think of nacre as being a good choice to make the living material for shaped items. Also crystals could be grown thus you get crystalline fibers for making things. I would think of the batons as a living gas powered rotating bolt wand. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Slartanalysis: Leadership in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, January 17 2007 03:59
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To get all of the drakons to join you in the inner shaping hall for the final fight you need a leadership of 12. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| All G4 Anvil Recipes, please place here! in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, January 16 2007 18:31
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I rather like the legs of the tyrant with talisman of might, draconian plate, and draining blade with ethereal bindings. It makes for an interesting combination. Although it is not particular effective, it is a nice touch to have over 30 points of vampiric touch. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| What have you been reading lately? in General | |
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written Friday, January 12 2007 09:20
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I read the God Delusion and found it rather disappointing. He successfully attacks the bible and other written works but has no real answer or challenge to deism or scientific rationalizations for god. He mainly is arguing against theism, but once again fails by only focusing on western theism. He calls buddhism and eastern religions a personal philosophy which is not quite accurate and pontificates a lot. It was an interesting but lukewarm book. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 8 2007 13:48
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There is a hidden history to Wikipedia. I don't think you will find it anymore, but on a rumor Wikipedia was inspired by Gordon R. Dickson's book The Final Encyclopedia which was an orbital compilation of all human knowledge. There is other stuff about the making of Wikipedia which is buried in its past. I think there is a connection to the nonprofit group the Dorsai Embassy as well. I think they have quietly moved away from their science fictioney origins. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, January 5 2007 09:04
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I just started reading Pulse-- The Coming Age of Systems And Machines Inspired by Living Things by Robert Frenay. It is a doorstopper book. After this next on my agenda is Natural Capitalism: Creating The Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Other than science fiction, I really enjoy popular science type titles. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 17:09
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I love my flaws, I just want to enjoy life more, make some more money, and have a more peaceful life. Wish other people had the same as well. [ Tuesday, January 02, 2007 17:10: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 09:29
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I think of the Codominium as more military than anything else. The moties is less military than the other novels. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 07:32
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If you can get King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle, it is well worth the read. Although, it is a standalone book, I think in some way it is the best book in the Codominium series. It doesn't seem like it is part of the series. You may be surprised that Jerry Pournelle considers The Mote In Gods Eye as part of the series as well which is kind of strange. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, December 31 2006 06:58
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I have a very nice copy of the Holy Bible Illustrated and Designed by Barry Moser with very nice woodcuts. It is huge and very readable. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, December 28 2006 13:58
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I am reading Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming, Ecology as the Basis of Design by Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd. I find this to be fairly interesting, John Todd is the father of creating artificial wetlands, as well as "living machines" for phytoremediation and wastewater treatment. I tried to read Arcology: The City As the Image of Man but it was incomprehensible full of things that looked like they were created by a stoned hippy and made you hallucinate if you just looked at the pictures. A truly strange and inspiring book about megacity ecologies. I also read the Ecolitan Enigma by L.E. Modesitti Jr., a rather interesting science fiction story about a secessionist colony with a bioscience base. The Ecolitan series is an interesting series. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 20 2006 08:57
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Just attempted to read Empire by Orson Scott Card, unlike his other novels this was really really awful, it was unreadable after the first two chapters. I just got Transgalactic by A.E. Van Vogt, it includes Empire of the Atom, the Wizard of Linn, Mission to the Stars, and two short stories. I read Empire of the Atom, but couldn't find the Wizard of Linn until now. It should be very entertaining. Slan is an excellent novel, so is The Voyage of The Space Beagle. A.E. Van Vogt's writing is very crisp. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| another environmental topic in General | |
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written Wednesday, December 13 2006 14:36
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Overproduction of food is necessary for high economic standards of living. Every single one of the nations with the highest standards of living overproduces basic foodstuffs. They do this to eliminate starvation and takeover of the agricultural sector by foreign powers. When you do not have overproduction and have economic efficiency you have starvation. Staple food stuffs become the most expensive because they are the most needed food crop. Foreign powers come in and encourage the most economically expensive crops to be produced at the expense of staple food crops. You end up with an economy that exports coffee and chocolate and imports rice at a huge expense. This is an example where the "free market" is not that great. The United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and most industrialized countries do not practice the free market here. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Nothing Plus Nothing Equals Nothing in General | |
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written Wednesday, December 13 2006 05:38
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You must mean before the year 2000. Genetic determinism has been proven wrong by epigenetics, the idea that how genes are expressed is partially determined by environmental factors, a person has different genes-- the environment interacts with the genes as they growing causing certain genes to express themselves more if a person does certain things. So creating a better environment for children increases the chance of more favored gene expression. Think on this hard. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, December 11 2006 13:05
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Ultimately it will come down to high rise agriculture in closed building where they don't need to use a lot of chemicals. Essentially you will have an integrated organic multistory farm. Basically a skyscraper greenhouse powered by a generator, solar panels, wind generators, and various energy saving technologies. People will become so packed together that farmland will be increasingly needed for living space. There is no effort at population control. Plus land will get used up or be designated as environmental holdings. This 1) eliminates the use of huge amounts of pesticide. 2) makes the crops more locally produced because they are in an urban environment. 3) frees up more land for homes. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, December 8 2006 05:01
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I rather like comic books. If you want to read something truly fantastic, read Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe-- a humorous coverage of history from the big bang through ancient Greece. I also really enjoyed Frank Miller's 300 which is going to be made into a film. It is about the hot gates, Thermopylae. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Thursday, December 7 2006 09:47
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Jeff is a small company with a few employees him and his minions. Once he has including himself, ten minions he becomes subject to imperial cultural assay about which kinds of minions he can hire, he might have to hire vahnati, imperials, and other sorts he is not sure of, as well as be more subject to the empires auditors, and edicts about which vahnati holidays he must follow. Introducing the crystallosphere for many minions games may cause him much strife and grief. The claws of lawyers guild could cause him terrible strife, and the introduction of contractual scrolls could tear at his heart. Methinks that a single player is best. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 6 2006 14:57
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Just finished reading Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer. His writing is both intriguing and odd. He also wrote several books on Ambergris, a truly strange place inhabited by odd bibliophiles and mushroom men. "Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek" and "City of Saints and Madmen" -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, December 1 2006 07:01
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I am enjoying another one of my political reads Burning Books and Leveling Libraries Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction by Rebecca Knuth. This is a truly interesting piece of literature, it covers destruction of libraries and books in such places and regimes as the Khmer Rouge, the Taliban, Kashmir Muslim and Hindu conflicts, the Nazi burning of the Berlin Sex Institute, and all sorts of other destruction. First they burn the book that symbolizes the person, then they burn the person if he hasn't run away by then. It even has a section on the looting of museums, libraries, and cultural institutions during our wonderful Iraq war. [ Friday, December 01, 2006 19:48: Message edited by: I'll Steal Your Toast ] -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 19 2006 16:51
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Max Brooks, World War Z, The Zombie War. He also wrote The Zombie Survival Guide. A nice piece that shows how human stupidity can almost kill us all, against a readily defeatable enemy. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 07:29
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And now for a little bit of right wing shoot em up science fiction. If you like to read about aliens and humans blowing each other up with powered armor and artillery try John Ringo's Posleen Quartet, Gust Front and A Hymn Before Battle are available for free at the Baen Free Library. I am currently brushing up on When The Devil Dances and Hell's Faire. There is something horribly compelling about reading science fiction about mindless alien hordes versus us humans. Thus we get Starship Troopers and John Steakley's Armor. John Ringo can be repetitive and fascistic but his combat descriptions are excellent. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 10 2006 08:46
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The best two things that happened this election: Joe Lieberman became an Independent after being kicked out by his own party. Rumsfeld resigned. Skeletor is incompetent. Cobra rules !!!! -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 16:09
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Breaking The Real Axis of Evil: How To End The World's Worst Dictatorships by 2025 by Mark Palmer. This is a pretty interesting book. It talks about nonviolent strategies designed to take down dictators. Mark Palmer, however is often full of nonsense because he was a US Ambassador and likes to spout the US line. However, it has a lot of interesting material on how dictators fall from internal and external pressure, unions, trade groups, diplomatic efforts, sanctions, opening the media, etc. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Add your one star vote to my tally. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 6 2006 16:01
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I play nationstates and when you play on the forums you play completely in character. It is completely roleplaying. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |