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by Gwalla
Mon Apr 09, 2001 4:49 am
Forum: Blotto Street
Topic: Mab the four toon hunter
Replies: 1
Views: 148

Scott Maddix had <A HREF="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/Forum11 ... 00291.html" TARGET=_blank>an interesting reaction</A> to the news.<P>------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton
by Gwalla
Mon Apr 09, 2001 4:40 am
Forum: FRAMED!!!
Topic: hey all you anime afficionados!
Replies: 6
Views: 120

Sohryuden I've seen, but I don't have it. I rented it from my favorite cult video store (Movie Image in Berkeley! It rocks!). I <I>think</I> they've also got Grey. As for Princess Rouge, sorry, never heard of it.<P>------------------ "Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!" - Ge...
by Gwalla
Mon Apr 09, 2001 4:10 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Roll the Bones
Replies: 22
Views: 347

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> This 23-sider of Power, now. I'm having real trouble with it.<P>See, there are only five regular solids, the ones you all know, with four, six, eight, twelve or twenty sides. No others. So what is thi...
by Gwalla
Mon Apr 09, 2001 3:57 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Go Shanna! You've got them all fooled
Replies: 8
Views: 183

I'm just pointing out that an observer doesn't have to be sentient. In a darkened room, if you throw a rock at the wall, the rock has (in a quantum mechanical sense) observed the wall. Interaction = observation. As far as the rock is concerned, the wall's wave function has collapsed because they cam...
by Gwalla
Mon Apr 09, 2001 3:51 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Fandom 101: The Beginner's Course
Replies: 47
Views: 633

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Doublespeak: <B>I would say that I would be put off from buying a two thousand page book. Whats not to understand?<P>Of course, another reason could be, stop me if I sound crazy, that the author has more than one ...
by Gwalla
Mon Apr 09, 2001 3:42 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: A Way Into The Business?
Replies: 15
Views: 303

Update:<UL TYPE=SQUARE> <LI>reducing length of workday: very likely, if only to save the last remaining vestiges of my sanity <LI>volunteering for Cartoon Art Museum: unlikely if I do this, but it doesn't matter because I was only considering it as a way of getting more involved in comics (and this ...
by Gwalla
Sun Apr 08, 2001 7:10 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Fandom 101: The Beginner's Course
Replies: 47
Views: 633

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Czhorat: <B> I've never read much of the Jordan stuff, so can't comment on that. So far as multivolume epics go, if I recall correctly <I>The Lord Of the Rings</I> was supposed to be one volume, but whoever publis...
by Gwalla
Sun Apr 08, 2001 6:35 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Fandom 101: The Beginner's Course
Replies: 47
Views: 633

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Czhorat: <B>Actually, this is the kind of thing I was trying to avoid. I'm looking primarilly for things that are self-contained. Thirteen-volume, ten-thousand page epics DO have a certain charm, but are a bit of ...
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 10:51 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: The Origins of Hyperman
Replies: 39
Views: 371

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Doublespeak: <B>No worries Czhorat, just because a guy has a certain viewpoint that makes him a complete ass, doesn't mean he isn't a good writer and you can't enjoy his fiction work. (Though any writer puts a lot...
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 10:37 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: A Way Into The Business?
Replies: 15
Views: 303

Hey, I'd love to do the newsletter correspondent thing. It's just that, at the moment, working nine-to-five (actually 10-to-6 this week), and possibly starting to take classes at community college, and getting back into Aikido (I can just imagine my sore neck after taking a few breakfalls after such...
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 10:29 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Fandom 101: The Beginner's Course
Replies: 47
Views: 633

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bardliam: <B>Part of his genius (in my opinion) is his ability to take his view on how a healthy society should operate and shove it in your face. He did the same thing in Starship Troopers, albeit using the polit...
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 9:45 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Go Shanna! You've got them all fooled
Replies: 8
Views: 183

I thought a quantum mechanical observer was just another particle that interacted with the one under observation. That's all it takes to collapse a wave function...<P>------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 8:51 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: print vs. web
Replies: 4
Views: 102

<A HREF="http://blottostreet.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>Blotto Street</A> has done some interesting experiments with transparency.<P>------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 8:44 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: ConScrew -- Like FAANS, but not, and drawn badly
Replies: 8
Views: 147

My ex-roomie was obsessed with those pandas. Then again, he also had a plastic Charmander glued to his dashboard...<P>------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 8:40 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Something interesting...
Replies: 8
Views: 187

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Czhorat: <B>Aside from the high quality of the work itself, there are two other things I found remarkable about it. The first is that I found a copy of it in my local library. The only other graphic work I've seen...
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 8:06 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: He asked for it
Replies: 10
Views: 159

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by wish: <B>I think that this exercise has the potential to shape Shanna into what might be known as the Uber-Fan, at least for a little while.. someone with so much imagination spilling out of every pore that she de...
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 8:02 am
Forum: FANS!
Topic: Rosharch(sp?)
Replies: 5
Views: 134

I thought it sorta looked like Timm...<P>------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 7:51 am
Forum: Ancient Messages
Topic: Pop quiz! Everybody answer!
Replies: 13
Views: 830

Looks like a man to me. Just very Heian-era-Japan.<P>------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 7:43 am
Forum: C.Ulture Shocked
Topic: C.Ulture Shocked ...ticking away?
Replies: 7
Views: 1199

<AOL>ME T00!</AOL><P>I love this comic and I'll be really sorry when it ends.<P>------------------
"Sun Ra? He's out to lunch, all right...same place I eat at!"
- George Clinton
by Gwalla
Sat Apr 07, 2001 2:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ed "Big Daddy" Roth dead at 69
Replies: 1
Views: 47

The great hot rod designer, monster artist, patriarch of the 1950s-'60s Kar Kulture, and creator of the immortal Rat Fink, died in his studio of a heart attack on April 4. He was 69 years old.<P>The full obituary can be found <A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive...