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On a Related Note... ... My computer is also having a problem on startup. I am also running Windows XP, in this case SP1. I get into my account and my desktop fine, but after a few moments it crashes, and I get a Blue Screen of Death that advises me to check my programs because there's some...

Okay, I paused that trailer in strategeric locations and I can tell you two things: One, Harry's got his own costume and his own glider -- a lot slimmer than Norman's, about the size of a skateboard. The costume seems to include a face-mask instead of a helmet, in the shape of a skull. Two, in...

w00t!!! Good times, good times. I think that I will probably watch anything related to Dr. Who without critical comment. The same goes for Star Trek and Star Wars. I guess I'm not very discerning. Gotta tell my wife -- I'm sure she'll be as excited as I am. TWK Worst. Cosmic Wars. Ever. I...

Well, there wasn't much of Mel. I think she was on two seasons, from the Trial of a Time Lord to Dragonfire -- maybe a half-dozen stories. One of the shorter companions, rivalled only by a few others. She just couldn't cut it, I think -- she couldn't scream for as long as the role of female...

I saw someone over at SJGames say something similar... ... only he was using it to demonstrate how the "liberal media" had influenced the discourse in this country! I don't care what you celebrate (or if you celebrate), but have fun doing it! I'm also going to be away from a reliable internet...

Something similar happened to my family when I was a child. Nothing so extreme, but someone down the road had a dump truck that stuck in its raised position. Rather than bring a mechanic out to fix it, he brought it into town to be fixed. A dump truck with its bed raised is pretty tall. We lost...

Sounds like Pratchett's dwarf bread to me. Can you use it as a weapon? You could probably get dwarf bread as a special material when making weapons, although it'll only do Bludgeoning damage. TWK

Well, crud. It ain't the headphones. I tried a pair that I borrowed off a friend; they worked in his player, but not in mine. So it looks like it's the jack, and not the plug. Grrrrr. The good side is, I have a warranty on it from Best Buy. The bad side is, I don't know when I'm going to get...

I went with the Beatles, since I own lots of their music and none of Elvis'. Of course, by the same logic, I prefer the Beatles to Bob Dylan a little less, since I have some of his albums. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. TWK

I've seen it as someone's avatar before. I haven't seen March of the Penguins, but everyone tells me how it endorses the Defense of Marriage Amendment! [/snark] So is it from MotP, or somewhere else, or has it been faked up? TWK

I, for one, proudly welcome our new overlords, whoever they may be. There's always someone who has to ruin it for the rest of us.... My fiancee once wrote a short story about a man who was convinced that the roadside barrels along the bypass here in Knoxville were the cocoons of alien...

Yep -- it's basically headphones for your car. OK. I guess headphones are more fragile than the players themselves. Thanks for your help! TWK

I got a car conversion kit -- basically, instead of headphones there's something that looks like a cassette tape that goes into the tape player and carries the signal, and sometimes a plug that fits into the cigarette lighter port to give power. It's because I'm too poor to own anything other...

Hey guys, I need some advice with my CD player. I got it this summer, so it's relatively new; I've chiefly been using it in the car, and not with headphones. Recently, I tried listening to it with 'phones and I noticed that I only get output through the right earphone. In the car, I don't notice...

Prisons: Chez Granite -- the Granite Place (a slang phrase) La Doloreuse -- the Sadness/the Pain/etc (actually a real-life slang term for a restaurant bill) and, of course, la Bastille is still pretty famous as a prison. The Book: Livre du Temps a Futur (Book of Future Times) Les Jours Venir...

The poem wasn't much. Just a few quatrains of doggerel. I was able to whip out a passable sonnet in a half hour to replace it. And the party was ordered to retrieve the weapons. That era of adventures had a simplistic approach to motivation, as I recall. At least WPM didn't threaten you with...

No, it's what he says to Mulder and Scully while describing the encounter with the MIB. There is an afterschool program involving D&D. I have wondered, why not one with M:TG? All in all, study of the decline and rise of D&D as a business model is a bit too yawn-inducing in me. After all, I'm...

There's always the off chance that beautiful alien women in thigh boots will steal your brain. This can't be helped. I like what I've seen of all the series. But then I'm not picky. The only times I MST3K things are when SCI FI has its usual 9 PM Saturday movies (Raptor Island, anyone?). They...

A lot of people say they play for fun. I must admit, I laugh at nothing harder than when I'm at a game and am high on the collective effervescence. On the other hand, a round of Magic or a board game works almost as well for me. No, I roleplay because I am not a hero; I am not a knight in...

Hoody Hoo! One person told me that he couldn't understand why I liked SG-1 so much because the whole thing was "silly." He completely lost control and laughed openly when I told him about Atlantis. He thought that it was the first time a spin-off had produced a spin-off. I then told him about...