The Hall of Fire

SirDennis wrote: You would think exhibiting certain forms of abhorrent behaviour would disqualify them.

Now they're giving standing ovations for them.

The_Angel posted a disturbing article on his facebook that is somewhat relevant to this discussion: How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work Some highlights: Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese fa...

Last I checked, most of Europe was in financial straights as well. Some European countries. Not the whole of Europe. Though those countries are affecting the Euro currency. And there is no such thing as free education or free health care or free anything. The tax rate in many European countries far...

It must be nice to live in a place with a subsidized university system and a single-payer health system and look down your nose at the choices young Americans have to make. Must be real nice. No kidding. It used to aggravate me quite a bit when I heard young adults whining about having to pay a £7 ...

Bob Cesca has been vehemently pointing this out on his blog lately.

http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/ ... sives.html

How conservative he isn't doesn't surprise me. It's the stuff with racism and sexism that did.

Cenedril_Gildinaur wrote:That the young overwhelmingly for Paul shows there is hope.

Hope? Given what's been coming out about him lately and given what he stands for, I find that downright scary.

So relaxing seeing Hobbiton. And excellent to know they're building it to be permanent.

I wonder if there actually is a house called Mordor in Alkmaar. How odd.

I thought I'd share some pictures I took on a hike here in the Netherlands. I did a 16km hike with other expats. I posted them on Facebook but I'm not friends with all of you there:

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/Er ... 0IJmuiden/

I'm curious to hear what some of you think about these memes floating around: http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/388805_323827160967990_100000221255724_1540236_1532119403_n.jpg http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/393190_275868029116041_109496509086528_675103_197268979...

It was all very cool, just not thrilled with the 3D. :/ I've not liked any film I've seen in 3D and always preferred the normal version. So I'm hoping the normal version will be available in theatres as well.

Hey even in Oklahoma you can take pretty pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12514987@N ... 306015522/

Sorry Alatar... was without internet for a while. I'll just be a spectator as I'm getting most of these wrong.

Just out of curiosity, are you making up all these questions Alatar?

(Seeing this sorta makes me want to play, but I know I'll get so much wrong! )

Geez, this game is highlighting how much I've forgotten!

Just watched the latest episode...what an amazing, intense, powerful and wonderful episode. Whilst I'm disappointed by the lack of showing any actual fighting, I can get over that as the rest of the episode was superb. The end...I knew what was going to happen...but damn...really made me cry. Bet ne...

I'm a bit into book two as well, and I'm actually surprised that Danny's story is one I'm looking forward to quite a bit as I found her and her brother not all that interesting for a while. I also look forward to Jon's chapters and anything to do with the wall. I'm finding some of the political wran...

River, I can't wait to see what they do with that scene as well. Hopefully they'll do it well.

Wow, that's dedication Nin.

I'm in the same place as you Nin. No shocks, but I'm really enjoying it and hooked.