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by andy_t_roo
Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:24 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Sci-Fi just done Wrong (Impact Movie tonight 6-21)
Replies: 11
Views: 11314

Re: Sci-Fi just done Wrong (Impact Movie tonight 6-21)

True, but they do normally try to keep from messing up this badly Do you mean as compared to using nuclear bombs to restart the earths core spinning or nuclear bombs to "fix" the suns core or having 1 nuclear bomb split an asteroid the size of texas , and throw the halves far enough apart...
by andy_t_roo
Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:05 pm
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Shadow Walker Chapter 6 (Spoilers*)
Replies: 24
Views: 24603

Re: Shadow Walker Chapter 6 (Spoilers*)

I wonder if Kyvin is now permantly, and entirly, human again (ie, the fox gave him back his humanity), so any further transformations are now entirly the result of the use of the medalion (or further misguided negotiation with the fox, although i doubt that would hapen, Kyvin has been taught that le...
by andy_t_roo
Fri May 29, 2009 5:47 am
Forum: Spirit Walker Universe
Topic: Shadow Walker Chapter 4 (Spoilers*)
Replies: 28
Views: 25194

Re: Shadow Walker Chapter 4 (Spoilers*)

I think you guys are forgetting that shadowfox refers to "his" human shaman at the end of the chapter -- the fox is still Kyven's "patron", so he should still be able do any shaman related things he wishes too. (the question is if the loregard can detect this or not ... and if Ky...
by andy_t_roo
Mon May 18, 2009 1:57 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: About Google Books and Google settlement
Replies: 7
Views: 9826

Re: About Google Books and Google settlement

I think that the many lawsuits concerning material on webpages being copied has already answered the question of "is presentation on a website publication?".
by andy_t_roo
Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Surviving the bad economy...
Replies: 16
Views: 17036

Re: Surviving the bad economy...

Well, i'm in the last 6 months of my PhD, and as a computer scientist (specialising in biomedical imaging), i can't imagine that this will make it any easyer to get funding, or find a position at a research institute. I would guess that new research positions would disappear quite quickly when fundi...
by andy_t_roo
Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Youtube Clips!
Replies: 84
Views: 76772

the alien song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybXrrTX3LuI
google "alien song"

edit: yes it is the "i will survive" disco animation of the cute green alien which gets a disco ball dropped on its head.
what country are you in?
by andy_t_roo
Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Youtube Clips!
Replies: 84
Views: 76772

Re: Good Youtube Clips!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIvXVMbII0 -- the element song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywSIVVLgA9w -- the alien dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyU0pe6EFBQ -- ?? dinner japanese style (i'm not sure what to call this one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo -- a rubens tube - fire ...
by andy_t_roo
Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Good Youtube Clips!
Replies: 84
Views: 76772

Re: Good Youtube Clips!

let me go digging through some archives -- the problem is i save most of my good youtube links, rather than bookmark them ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Uvl9qKF5E -- music machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI -- ok, go on treadmills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus -- c...
by andy_t_roo
Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:36 pm
Forum: Kit
Topic: Kit, chapter 39.
Replies: 27
Views: 43218

Re: Kit, chapter 39.

you can always tell when a new chapter is out - i glance at the RSS feed and every item is "Re: Kit, chapter 59." Now all i need to do is to decide to : do i work, go to morning tea, or read the chapter .... (or just the first half, i shouldn't spend all that long on a morning tea break, a...
by andy_t_roo
Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:52 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Need a suggestion on a laptop
Replies: 7
Views: 9813

Re: Need a suggestion on a laptop

re: linux on a laptop http://blog.laptopmag.com/one-third-of-dell-inspiron-mini-9s-sold-run-linux -- about 1/3 of the small laptops dell are selling are selling w/ ubuntu on them, and the return rate on both the windows and ubuntu laptops are about the same, indicating that people have about the sam...
by andy_t_roo
Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:20 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Need a suggestion on a laptop
Replies: 7
Views: 9813

Re: Need a suggestion on a laptop

I've owned a dell inspiron 640m for the last 2 years and have found it to be a good laptop - enough built in cpu and onboard graphics to do anything (including my various university maths/science related projects) other than play 3d games, long battery life (i can still get 3+ hours out of my extend...
by andy_t_roo
Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Links to Good Reading (Part 2)
Replies: 452
Views: 756904

Re: Links to Good Reading (Part 2)

http://www.munseys.com/ has many older books for download -- most of these are definitely out of copyright (most things published before 1964 are, and everything published before 1923 is), but a bunch of the authors i checked (eg Dallas McCord Reynolds ) could potentially have written books which ar...
by andy_t_roo
Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:40 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Fire deaths in australia
Replies: 19
Views: 21310

Re: Fire deaths in australia

If the people get caught i'd put them up for 170 consecutive accounts of manslaughter (murder requires intent so basically impossible to get a conviction on). If person A lights a fire at a time when a) there are already fires burning b) a total fire ban is effect c) there is news about problems wit...
by andy_t_roo
Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:27 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Fel's sorry it took so long?!
Replies: 13
Views: 14023

Re: Fel's sorry it took so long?!

re "Whateley Academy"

the first google result was http://www.sapphireplace.com/stories/whateley.html , and the second was http://www.crystalhall.org/ , both of which the links at http://stardustr.us/taxonomy/term/302 would suggest are the official sites.
by andy_t_roo
Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Fel's sorry it took so long?!
Replies: 13
Views: 14023

Re: Fel's sorry it took so long?!

30,000 word chapters -- at 1000 words an hour (edited, i'm sure it is originally written quicker than this), that is still 5 hours a day, 6 days a week (to get it done in 1 week)- i'd struggle to write that much a month, between what I do full time. Fel, keep up the good work, but you would never ca...