Took the hardrive out of my parents old computer; that sucker was in a metal cage that swung close on a hinge. The heatsink had a hard plastic covering that vented it out the back. Weird.
Kind of stupidly excited about this. I'll probably never convert it from a prop replica to a toy saber just because it's an actual vintage Graflex 3-cell, and that's OK with me. Now I need to design a whole costume just to have an excuse to wear this to Connecticon...
Thanks It's really 99% the Graflex. Once you have that it's like 20 minutes to tack on greebles, not counting the cleanup and "restoration" work if you have a vintage Graflex and not a replica.
Okay, I just finished and mailed my application to the MD Bar in an attempt to escape KY.
It has taken nearly a month to finish this. In the end, the entire application - being the app to take the Out-of-State Attorney's Test plus the Character & Fitness app - was 186 pages long. I kid you not. I feel like I've accomplished something just be finishing it on time.
This was pretty tough to complete, because every C&F question required some thought about crap in the past I'd rather forget added to the increasing anxiety that the NCBE would somehow decide that they should refuse me due to some C&F issue.
So some punks cut the logo of Crass into a crop field in 2011. Now some "astronomologer" (yes, that's what she really describes herself as) is attempting to interpret it.
Two firsts in a day. The first first is that for once, I miss the political beat. The second first, and the direct cause of the first first, is that a fucking mad bastard of a Senator Bill Heffernan just pulled out a fucking pipe bomb in the senate.
It was fake, turns out, but still, there's probably better ways to make a point about parliament security than pulling a fake bomb and a couple of fake sticks of Gelignite out of your briefcase.
From the transcript: Heffernan: "Many of the people working in this building know that it's safe, I don't think it any longer is and to demonstrate that, this morning I brought in what could be, I brought this through security - a pipe bomb."
Two firsts in a day. The first first is that for once, I miss the political beat. The second first, and the direct cause of the first first, is that a fucking mad bastard of a Senator Bill Heffernan just pulled out a fucking pipe bomb in the senate.
It was fake, turns out, but still, there's probably better ways to make a point about parliament security than pulling a fake bomb and a couple of fake sticks of Gelignite out of your briefcase.
From the transcript: Heffernan: "Many of the people working in this building know that it's safe, I don't think it any longer is and to demonstrate that, this morning I brought in what could be, I brought this through security - a pipe bomb."
Tony Negus(Federal police commissioner):"What."
Would that be proof that the elected aristocracy should be forced to endure the same laws as the rest of us? If he had been properly "pat down" the way a commoner visiting the Senate would be wouldn't the fake bomb have been found?
I have never liked this sort of thing. "Look at me abuse the privilege of my station and then use the example of my abuse to force news laws and restrictions on that group over there who are already barred from doing what I just did."
Actually, no. He does have a point. I know parliamentary security - you don't do the political beat without encountering it more than a few times - and I could have slipped it in easy as he had. As could any tom-dick-or-harry working at parliament house - everybody goes through the same procedures, top to bottom.
And to be honest? Parliamentary security sucks. It's got holes you could almost literally drive a truck through. He's not forcing restrictions on any group not bound by the same restrictions he is - he's bound by the same rules. Though to be fair, if a staffer had done it in the same manner(Ie, stating it was fake before you revealed it, to make a point, in a senate hearing, with a minister's Authority), I don't doubt they'd at least be in custody for a while.
I get where you're coming from, but it's not quite like you seem to think - though I can't really fault you for not knowing, in this case. I should have added more to my initial post.
Street Fighter Assassin's Fist, it's surprisingly good. Way better than any of the other live action Street Fighter adaptations, though I supposed that's kind of damning with faint praise.
Makes me wonder something. If we were to reach the point where we can transfer a persons consciousness into a machine would a humalike form be ideal or would we want something humanlike but improved or even go all the way to a form that looks nothing like a human?
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Kind of stupidly excited about this. I'll probably never convert it from a prop replica to a toy saber just because it's an actual vintage Graflex 3-cell, and that's OK with me. Now I need to design a whole costume just to have an excuse to wear this to Connecticon...
Still, it does look pretty sharp, eh?
Small joys.
It has taken nearly a month to finish this. In the end, the entire application - being the app to take the Out-of-State Attorney's Test plus the Character & Fitness app - was 186 pages long. I kid you not. I feel like I've accomplished something just be finishing it on time.
This was pretty tough to complete, because every C&F question required some thought about crap in the past I'd rather forget added to the increasing anxiety that the NCBE would somehow decide that they should refuse me due to some C&F issue.
Now, I just have to start studying.
It was fake, turns out, but still, there's probably better ways to make a point about parliament security than pulling a fake bomb and a couple of fake sticks of Gelignite out of your briefcase.
From the transcript:
Heffernan: "Many of the people working in this building know that it's safe, I don't think it any longer is and to demonstrate that, this morning I brought in what could be, I brought this through security - a pipe bomb."
Tony Negus(Federal police commissioner):"What."
A climate researcher in Nepal fell down a crevasse, and has a video camera. You won't believe what happens next!
I have never liked this sort of thing. "Look at me abuse the privilege of my station and then use the example of my abuse to force news laws and restrictions on that group over there who are already barred from doing what I just did."
And to be honest? Parliamentary security sucks. It's got holes you could almost literally drive a truck through. He's not forcing restrictions on any group not bound by the same restrictions he is - he's bound by the same rules. Though to be fair, if a staffer had done it in the same manner(Ie, stating it was fake before you revealed it, to make a point, in a senate hearing, with a minister's Authority), I don't doubt they'd at least be in custody for a while.
I get where you're coming from, but it's not quite like you seem to think - though I can't really fault you for not knowing, in this case. I should have added more to my initial post.
Welp, someone's in trouble.
http://www.gits2501.com/
Nice to see they still have a brain cell once in a while.