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What is this "beer" you speak of? |
Posted by: robkelk - 06-21-2018, 04:40 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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Canada considering changing the legal definition of "beer"
Quote:No longer would beer be required to "possess the aroma, taste and character commonly attributed to beer" or be categorized into different styles or types like ale, stout, porter and malt liquor. Instead, officials are proposing to set limits on sugar content and simplify language around the use of additives that would set define what is a beer.
Added to that would a wider list of herbs and spices among other ingredients that can be used in the brewing process.
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Boston-area? |
Posted by: ECSNorway - 06-21-2018, 08:28 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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So, my family is considering relocating to the New England Coast area, as my brother is pretty well established in Boston and my parents want to spend their remaining active years in that area with both of their children close at hand. So if this deal goes through, I'm likely to end up somewhere in the area between Boston MA and Portsmouth NH. Any of us live in that region, got some time to discuss it?
Looking to get a handle on good/affordable places to live, the local gamer/sci-fi/nerd scene, that kind of thing.
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Song of the Day, 21 June 2018 |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 06-21-2018, 07:29 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel
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When they see us they will run for their lives
To the end they will pay for their lies
So long did we wait, now we are home
Here once again there's a battle to fight
Gather together for the sound and the might
So long did we wait, now we are home
Now we will fight for the Kingdom, fighting with steel
Kill all of them, their blood is our seal
Fight till the last of the enemy is dead
Ride through their blood that we gladly have shed
I now issue the call, are you ready to fight? (yeah!)
Fight all together as one for the Right
To be free once again - tonight we will win
I can see by the look that you have in your eyes
You came here for metal, to fight and to die
Defenders of steel, now we are home
Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
Blood is upon my steel
Now we will fight for the Kingdom, fighting with steel
Kill all of them, their blood is our seal
Fight till the last of the enemy is dead
Ride through their blood that we gladly have shed
I now issue the call, are you ready to fight? (yeah!)
Fight all together as one for the Right
To be free once again - tonight we will win
I can see by the look that you have in your eyes
You came here for metal, to fight and to die
Defenders of steel, now we are home
Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
Fight for the Kingdom bound for glory
Armed with a heart of steel
I swear by the sisters who stand before me
To no one shall I kneel
Their blood is upon my steel
Blood is upon my steel
Blood is upon my steel!
On my steel!
-- Manowar, "Call to Arms"
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A Teaser from Chapter Four |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 06-20-2018, 12:16 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel
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"Luna," I asked after some thought, "what are the odds that Her
Nibs bound all the guardians' souls together so they'd all be
reborn around the same time in the same area?" I snorted. "Or,
better question, how likely is it that she would have been
stupid enough *not* to?"
Luna laughed. "'Stupid' was a word *no one* -- not even her
enemies -- *ever* used to describe Her Majesty."
"Then we've got, what, another half dozen or so Guardians all
around us, just needing a swift kick in the butt to wake up and
join the fun?"
I saw the realization of what I meant dawn across her face. "I
do believe that you are right."
"It'd be a waste to sit back and wait for them to wake up on
their own," I said, and took a sip of my tea. "So what do you
say we *give* them that kick?"
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Robin Hood |
Posted by: Labster - 06-20-2018, 03:27 AM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order
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DW II, Chapter 13 Wrote:It had been her favorite book, once. Howard Pyle. The Adventures of Robin Hood. The definitive Japanese translation, first published in 2018.
You know that thing where you pick a distant date in the future, and then you end up living through that time? I think most of the characters of BGC would be in school by now. Incidentally, no Robin Hood translation released this year, afaict.
I'm doing a reread now, again, because I was flying to a conference, only had a phone in my pocket, and I wanted something to read on the plane. It's odd how you notice different things each time you read.
It strikes me as unlikely that a selling a diamond at a pawn shop would net so much money in a place with nanofacs -- then again, DeBeers sounds like a corporate culture that would get along really great in a merger with GENOM.
Chapter 8 Concordance Wrote:"Nice nail polish, Lisa!"
Yeah, it's permanent. Probably not inheritable, though. Probably. So why would Lisa get blue nails? Oh, right. Seemed pretty random at the time, but now it seems like foreshadowing.
Chapter 6 Wrote:"There what?" Nene crinkled her nose in confusion as she read the line under Priss's fingertip. "'Beverly's Dandelion Wine', the Beatles, 1974? What about it?" ...
"The Beatles broke up in 1971, right after the Revolver Tour. They didn't get back together again until just before Sir Paul McCartney's death in 1983." The singer stabbed her finger at the screen again. "And they never recorded any song by that title, least of all in 1974!" Chapter 7 Wrote:The JSDF is disbanded, and the Nationalists re-establish the Japanese military Arrrgh, are these facts supposed to be related? I guess we found out who really split up the band after all!
Moreover, I think what I said recently about reporters in the DW S step seems to apply here too. Maybe they're somehow author surrogates -- a way of asking questions to explore the setting. Bob seems to have one in each setting: Lisa, Yoshi, and Hermione (and to some extent Luna). Each a person who keeps asking questions at the plot until things start making sense. I think it contributes a lot to the realism of the stories, and it shows how much time Bob has thought about how it would be to live in each world.
Like, Hermione lends a lot of strength to the canon of Harry Potter, because she was always there to ask how something really worked, which forced JKR to build a deep consistent world. Although, that seemed to be her thing anyway. Which is what I mean by an author surrogate.
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