WordWolf

"Well the dawn was coming, heard him ringing on my bell." "I have a lesson that I must impart to you. It's an old expression, but I must insist it's true. 'Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun, no sense in sitting there hating everyone. No man's an island and his castle isn't home, the nest is for nothing when the bird has flown.' '' " Hey man, what's the plan, what was that you said? 'Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed.' I try to socialize but I can't seem to find what I was looking for, got something on my mind."

That's one of so many good quotes. I was thinking of using it. I also like "Where are you going with those fireworks?" "Well the 'Protector' got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole and just, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach fifteen, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation." "Uh, alright. Dinner's at seven. Well, at least he's outside."

Ah, freedom! At first, it can be a bit scary, but it's exhilarating, and there's nothing like it.

" 'Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun, no sense in sitting there hating everyone. No man's an island and his castle isn't home, the nest is for nothing when the bird has flown.' '' " Hey man, what's the plan, what was that you said? 'Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed.' I try to socialize but I can't seem to find what I was looking for, got something on my mind."

"You'll forgive my impertinence, but even though we have never before met, I have always considered you as a father to me." "You've gotta admit, they really do love him." "Yeah, almost as much as he loves himself." "It doesn't take a great actor to recognize a bad one." "Wonderful. You have all done far greater damage than I ever could have. Bravo!" "He doesn't understand. Explain as you would a child."

Another example of this. Twi thinking says that all the instruments have to be used for all the song, otherwise the song is "good" but not "best." Here's a song that violates that thinking. Would it be a better song with more instruments in more of the song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idd_92ajjwY or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU9FwP4uOY8 (That's Evanescence's "My Immortal", for the curious who don't want to click.)

*checks the IMdB page for "Creepshow." Ok, that was correct. Let's move this along. ====================== "You'll forgive my impertinence, but even though we have never before met, I have always considered you as a father to me." "You've gotta admit, they really do love him." "Yeah, almost as much as he loves himself."

" 'Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun, no sense in sitting there hating everyone. No man's an island and his castle isn't home, the nest is for nothing when the bird has flown.' ''

Seems like an episode of "Enterprise." If someone's actually SEEN "Enterprise", they're welcome to get closer than that. This is as close as I can get for the series as a whole.

"Pride (In the Name of Love)", by U-2.

Beware of Good Enough author unknown My Child, beware of "good enough," It isn't made of sterling stuff. It's something anyone can do; It marks the many from the few. The flaw which may escape the eye, And temporarily get by. Shall weaken underneath the strain, And wreck the ship, the car, or plane. With "good enough," the car breaks down, And one falls short of high renown. My child, remember and be wise, In "good enough", disaster lies. With "good enough," the shirkers stop, In every factory and shop; With "good enough," the failures rest, And lose the one who gives the best. Who stops at "good enough" shall find, Success has left them far behind. For this is true of you and your stuff-- Only the best is "good enough." ================ It makes a pithy saying, but this sentiment works some of the time, and fails miserably other times. For those who are used to doing inadequate jobs, it's a reminder to do better. For those who already got the job done, it's an invitation to waste lots of time. It's been said, of making ALL movies, that you never "finish" a movie, you just "give up on it." In other words, think of your favorite movies, and realize that someone can easily walk up, recite this poem, and expect the director to spend hundreds of hours more on it, to "improve" it. How do you feel about Lucas and Spielberg redoing E.T because "it was only good enough"? Well, they DID! Basically, everything you ever owned was considered "good enough" and produced as it was. Heck, every operating system ever used on a computer was considered "good enough". As frustrating as every O/S has been at some time, it's been of great use to somebody at some time. etc.

Ah, WHY do you have to DISABLE one to use the other? I'm on Windows XP. (I presume Vista does the same-I've heard no outcry on it, I'm sure Linux works like this.) IE is still set as my default. Once it opens, I either use it, or- much more often- close it and manually open Firefox. I use Firefox for all my browsing. I use IE for Windows Updates and things like that.

It seems to have gotten considerably bigger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupelo,_Mississippi It's no Manhattan, but it seems to be a sizeable town.

I think you're confusing THREE episodes. Harry (Harcourt Fenton) Mudd appeared in TWO episodes- 1) Mudd's Women- Mudd (and the Venus drug) was peddling brides to lonely miners at a dilithium mining station. 2) I, Mudd (like "I, Robot")- Mudd was trapped on a planet of androids- at first their ruler, then their prisoner (He also had an episode of the cartoon- "Mudd's Passion." ) "The Trouble with Tribbles" featured the fast-talking salesman, CYRANO JONES. (I used to confuse him with Mudd, too.)

There's been a number of posts reminding the rest of us about when vpw would visit places. The locals would pass the hat around, and he would be given some physical present (like a MOTORCYCLE) or the like. Other times, he would be given the cash that was collected. Of course, when he visited, it was required that he stay at someone's home- he never did anything like PAY FOR A HOTEL ROOM. Does anyone here think that the presents or UNTRACEABLE CASH were ever declared on his INCOME TAX? They WERE TAXABLE INCOME.... I'm not sure about the overnight stays, but I don't think anyone would lose sleep over whether that was actually declared on taxes (although that IS a present and took the place of him spending cash.)

In a moment of distraction, I forgot my usual policy of distrust of Windows programs. I updated my Windows XP and saw a new IE there- IE 8. Foolishly, I downloaded it. "Data Execution Protection" insists on shutting it. In other words, Windows isn't playing well with WINDOWS. I tried fixing it, but ultimately I needed to delete it. For those running XP, I would recommend not loading it, at least not now. Let them keep it running for 3-6 months while thousands of people complain and they finally fix the thing. Those of you running Vista, I presume it runs with that- but I have no guarantee. You might wait on downloading it, too.

This is the first "Creepshow" movie, right?

Of all the posters who've ever posted at the GSC, I recall ONE who had such a story. http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.ph...amp;qpid=320908 "I knew him, spent time w/ him, got to know his family, baby sat his grand kids, worked w/ him, had a reasonably prominent position in "his ministry," had his trust & respect & made decisions that effected "the whole ministry." I'm certainly not the ultimate authority on VPW, but I did know him & he knew me and liked me, so much so that he personally paid the final tuition amount that I needed to graduate from TWC." I don't know anyone else had such an experience of him paying for anything. In fact, in one of his "BY THE WAY" articles, he made a point of saying he was a lousy tipper. (He tipped a very low percentage.) twi was organized so the money all went one-way. Way East and Way West were taken over from the people who built and ran them SPECIFICALLY to centralize the money and the power. The men who set them up were disinterested in both-which made them "poor stewards" as vpw saw it- they would actually have used their authority and money for the benefit of the people in their areas, not specifically for twi. Shame, shame, shame!

*shudders*

As a Chief Petty Officer, O'Brien was not an "officer." Glad you figured that out. :) Very Twilight-Zone-y, IMHO. Not that it's a bad thing. The episode is called "Whispers." The weak points of the episode: someone told Molly that something was wrong- Molly acts cold towards "O'Brien." Aren't small children likely to tell everything? Quark should be the best liar on the station- but he's a clumsy one here. "I think it's one of the high numbers"? Shouldn't Quark be able to recite ALL the Rules of Acquisition complete with number? Growing up, it's one of the cornerstones of Ferengi male education! Quark cites them regularly, too. (BTW, it's Rule 194.) Your turn!

I'm not left out- I can already see some things I could use more study on- as soon as I get the time. First among those is the various trumps, and possibly the voice of the archangel.

"I've gotta try to set the record straight about the last fifty-two hours. I don't know who's gonna hear this. I don't even know if I'll be alive by the time this log is recovered. I figure they'll be coming after me." "I wish I could tell you who they are. That's part of the puzzle I haven't figured out. Part of the puzzle, hell. None of this whole damn thing makes any sense." "The minstrel boy to the war is gone... In the ranks of death you'll find him... His father's sword he hath girded on, And... " ""The minstrel boy to the war is gone... In the ranks of death you'll find him... His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him... Land of song, said the warrior bard, Tho all the world betrays thee, One sword at least thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee." "They'd even broken into my personal logs to see what they could find in there. I hope they enjoyed reading the sexy letters to my wife." "It's always good business to know about new customers before they walk in your door." "Yeah... ? Which Rule of Acquisition is that?" "Oh, one of the high numbers... one ninety-four, I think..." "I'd call Starfleet but what would I tell them... my wife doesn't seem like my wife..." "Turn the ship around and go back. You will not be harmed." "Everything you need to understand is behind this door. " "Listen to him. He's not your enemy. We're not your enemy... "

It's not Voyager. Think harder. I can't think of any married officers other than Worf, either, but it's very unlikely he would have written "sexy letters" to Dax, I agree.

"I've gotta try to set the record straight about the last fifty-two hours. I don't know who's gonna hear this. I don't even know if I'll be alive by the time this log is recovered. I figure they'll be coming after me." "I wish I could tell you who they are. That's part of the puzzle I haven't figured out. Part of the puzzle, hell. None of this whole damn thing makes any sense." "The minstrel boy to the war is gone... In the ranks of death you'll find him... His father's sword he hath girded on, And... " ""The minstrel boy to the war is gone... In the ranks of death you'll find him... His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him... Land of song, said the warrior bard, Tho all the world betrays thee, One sword at least thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee." "They'd even broken into my personal logs to see what they could find in there. I hope they enjoyed reading the sexy letters to my wife." "It's always good business to know about new customers before they walk in your door." "Yeah... ? Which Rule of Acquisition is that?" "Oh, one of the high numbers... one ninety-four, I think..."

As I understand it, the only time the "tares" thing CAN refer to is "the end of the world", the latter half of Revelation 20, AFTER the 1000 years, AFTER the Resurrection of the Just, AFTER the Tribulation, AFTER the "Rapture." (Rapture, then 7 years of Tribulation, then the First Resurrection, then the Millenial Reign of Christ, THEN the Second Resurrection.) The Second Resurrection is "the end of the world" because Revelation 21 shows the next thing- the New Heaven, New Earth, and New Jerusalem all debut. The world that WAS is no longer. (As I understand it, any "old" Earth gets recycled into any "new" Earth. It's on the same location, using the same materials, but it's a new design, and newly constructed.) The Second Resurrection is when the "sheep"/"wheat" and the "goats"/"tares" are separated from each other. The sheep/wheat get entry into the kingdom, the goats/tares get destroyed in the lake of fire. (THREE events.) Ours is the FIRST of THREE, not the LAST of TWO. It's natural to be fuzzy on final disposition because there's something I don't have the details of, either. The "tares" will be destroyed in the lake of fire. HOWEVER, In the last 2 chapters of Revelation, we find some people were punished by being prohibited from entering New Jerusalem, and there's some business about "the outer darkness" that I don't understand yet. If I were pressed to GUESS about them, my GUESS would be that those people are the born-again Christians who earned punishment and squandered the gift of eternal life. I'm NOT certain about that at all. My honest response is still "I don't know."