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The actual line is "Bite my shiny metal ass". Still, it's a great line.

OMG! Someone else played that game? I thought I was the only one. I was given that game by a friend for my Commodore 64 when I was about 13 or 14. I had never read the book so I was confused. When this same friend told me it was based on the book, I got it and read it. Obviously, I really, really like the game mostly because it got me to read that wonderful series. No, I haven't seen the movie and probably won't simply for fear of disappointment. I've seen too many excellent books get massacred when they are made into movies. My heart just couldn't take that. :)

I am more of a fantasy person than a scifi person but I think Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarion is one of the best books ever written. She does scifi as well, but I've never read any of it so cannot say whether or not it is as good as her fantasy stuff. Another fantasy/scifi writer that is good for the younger crowd is Piers Anthony. A Spell for Chameleon is the book that got me into reading for enjoyment when I was around 11 or 12. On a Pale Horse is my favorite from him. I have read some of his scifi work as well and it is on par to the fantasy stuff.

A young lady in New York City decided to leave for Europe so she heads down to the docks to stow away on a ship. She finds one and hides below deck. That night one of the crewmen finds her. She says, "Please, don't tell anyone I'm down here. I'm trying to get to Europe and I can't afford a ticket. I'll do... anything." So the crewman tells her, "All right. I will promise not to tell anyone you are here AND bring you fresh food and drink every day in exchange for sex." The young lady agrees. Weeks go by with the arrangement, every night he brings her food and water and after she eats they make love for hours. Everything seems to be going fine until the captain stumbles across her. He asks her why she his hiding on his ship. She explains, "I made this deal with one of you crewmen." "What kind of deal?", the captain asks. "He brings me food and water every night and keeps quiet about it", she says. "And what is your end of the deal?" She blushes and can't look the captain in the face. "He's screwing me", she says sheepishly. The captain starts to laugh, "He sure is. This is the Staten Island Ferry!"

Why does this compny I work for insist on putting Blue in front of everything? :) Blue Brain. Jeez. Hope they never work on a project to simulate multiple spherical objects.

Apples and oranges. Star Treks are more true science fiction while Star Wars is more of an action movie in a science fiction enviroment. I love them both but cannot say that I like one over the other. Better to compare Star Trek and Stargate SG-1.

Stem cell research has to go through it's own "playing God" phase of medicine. Almost all new research has been thought of that way, this is just the latest. After a while, everyone will get used to hearing about stem cell research, cloning, and genetic engineering and eventually they will all calm down about it. Once that happens, then the money can start flowing in which of course is the real limitation here.

The biggest difference between IE and Firefox isn't that the security is better or worse on one vs. the other: it's the type of person that runs Firefox. IE is the default on any Windows box and the people that use it are not usually computer savy. On the other hand, Firefox users had to go out of their way to install it. That implies someone who knows a thing or 2 about a computer and thus are more likely to keep virus definitions up to date, have malware software installed, etc.

Clerks. One of the funniest movies of all times. Also, one of the dirtiest. :)

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2 priests go into a Niemen Marcus one day to buy new black overcoats. The saleperson goes into the back and discovers that they are out of black coats but have a whole bunch of navy blue ones. He sells the priests the coats and they leave the store. Once out in the sunlight, they start looking closely at their new coats and think that something is wrong with them. They see 2 nuns walking towards them and call them over. They hold their new coats up to the nuns' habits and compare. They thank the nuns and walk away. After they leave, the one nun says to the other, "It's so nice to hear that there are still priests speaking latin." "Latin?", says the other nun, "what did they say?" The first nun replies, "I don't speak latin myself, but it sounded like: niemen marcus fukdus."