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heyheyhey... they also work great for hanging laundry! Elvisio "friggin' ab lounger piece of S**T!" Rodriguez

Especially right around the little internet cam secretly installed in the light fixture! Elvisio "don't look directly into the lens" Rodriguez

You know what they say: buy land, they're not making any more of it. Elvisio "highest bidder" Rodriguez

DUDE! He's not wearing one of the hats in the pictures of him making the hats! He's a wildman! Talk about living on the edge! Elvisio "no tinfoil for me" Rodriguez

Yes you will. You know it. In the meantime: -Water -Ibuprofen -Vitamins and when you feel you can handle it: -bad mexican food. You'll be right as rain in no time! Elvisio "legendary cure" Rodriguez

As I grow older, I find myself more and more surrounded (or maybe just more aware) by people who are or were in the military. Some hated it, some loved it. But despite their opinion of their time in "the service", I can see that it was a very formative experience in their lives. Love it or hate it, it definitely helped make them who they are today. I often think I missed something by not joining the military. While I don't think I'm actually disqualified from military service by my age (I would need an age waiver though), I'm also reaching a point in my career where I really don't think the military (i.e. any branch) could really offer me something that would make joining worthwhile. My wife was also a military child, and would NOT be interested in the lifestyle. Anyhow, in conversations I've had with folks, the love it/hate it differentiation seems to fall rather reproducibly onto the enlisted/officer differentiation. Just wondered if I'd see a similar breakdown here. Elvisio "probably not much tuesday morning PW'ing going on in boot camp" Rodriguez

The wife and I made out like bandits, nicely rounding out our SCUBA gear bags. We're pretty much ready for anything. Elvisio "living it up while I'm going down" Rodriguez

...and as an exciting epilogue to this thread, we're home with the fam and my sister walks in and regales us with the story of how her computer crashed last night... ...while... ...playing... ...Farmville... ...on... ...FACEBOOK! Elvisio "that shit truly is death" Rodriguez

Without a doubt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc67yQsPqQ&feature=fvsr Still on my "anthem" list, along with a choice few others. But of all of them, this is the one that was out and popular when I was listening to it most. That I loved this song just goes to show you I was always meant to be a skydiver: Elvisio "in a world full of people only some want to fly" Rodriguez

Dude that was AWESOME! dru dru dru dru dru dru da da da! Category: Music Tags: Hindu pop With tags like that, realistically speaking, it could have been SO much worse. Not that this was GOOD, though... pardon me while I check iTunes... Elvisio "one of the commenters on youtube thought it was a skittles commercial" Rodriguez

Yeah, no shit. Actually, it must've been something relatively fresh because the first antivirus scan missed it, then a scan after I updated the definitions caught it. It said it had it quarantined, then when I restarted the computer things just went downhill. I think it jiggled some of my administrator settings or something. Oh well, back up and running, resume is almost retyped. Elvisio "hands off my keyboard, dammit" Rodriguez

"I'm just going to check up on my email and Facebook." Fak. I have a crappy weekend at work, we get snowed into the hospital so I end up sleeping on an ER stretcher in an angiography prep room (it was like camping, but with MRSA!), the transfer case on my Tahoe craps the bed on the way home, and when I finally GET home I have an infected computer. The only thing that worked was a complete Dell Restore (to the original configuration when the laptop was manufactured, uh, OH YEAH FIVE YEARS AGO) Spent the morning getting all the programs I've installed and used since (i.e. everything) back up and running. Now, I get to completely rewrite the CV and resume I'd been working on all last week. Elvisio "rant over" and "Facebook is death" Rodriguez

any place with cabanas. Wow! You guys can afford to rent a hooker for a whole HOUR? Elvisio "give me 5:17 worth, ma'am" Rodriguez

HA! Wait until your wife reads that one. Elvisio "TH might be on the couch tonight" Rodriguez

Sorry Tiger: if you're dumb enough to cheat on THIS, you deserve everything you get. Edit: or rather, she deserves everything she gets. Elvisio "photo attached" Rodriguez

Dude, they're shafting you. We got one in the mail a couple years ago with a $20 in it. They say the economy is hurting everyone, I guess. My wife filled out the survey. I think. Elvisio "money for nothing, chicks for free" Rodriguez

This poll is a null set, as far as any guys voting are concerned. If you voted on this and you're a guy you know you lied. The only true answer a guy could make to this question is: "Anything I can get my hands on!" Elvisio "dey ALL good!" Rodriguez

Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity in the Matrix series. And to really nail it down, I'm talking about the Trinity in the first of the three movies. In the second and third she gets a little soft, and the "Trinity almost dies" and "Trinity actually dies" scenes in the second and third movies were a little over the top, but DAMN that is one badass package. Despite my issues with particular scenes in the second and third installments, taken as a whole even those movies still present a Trinity that cannot be denied. Particularly though, she's best in the first movie where she's so much more in charge and on top of things before Neo starts his "I am a god" run. Smart, kicking ass, gives orders, can handle a firearm, can do martial arts in high-heel thigh high boots, flies helicopters, and SO VERY MUCH vinyl and leather. Elvisio "gotta watch that again today" Rodriguez

"The Taurans hadn't known war for millennia, and toward the beginning of the twenty-first century it looked as though mankind was ready to outgrow the institution as well." --Joe Haldeman, The Forever War It's one line from a VERY good book (IMO, others will disagree). And I guess it's one of those noteworthy lines that snapped me out of the book and really made me think about how it relates to my world. What do you think? Compared to the mankind of a thousand, five hundred, or one hundred years ago, ARE we beginning to outgrow the concept of mass violence and war? Is the amount of war decreasing overall, and the existence of mass media just makes the dwindling amount of war seem like more because it's so readily visible? Or is xenophobia, genocide, and large-scale war hard-wired into the human psyche, never to be eliminated? Elvisio "food for thought, but need more coffee" Rodriguez

You had me... right up to Solaris. But otherwise, FUCK! Fifth Element! One of my all-time favs! Never leaves my Netflix queue. How could I forsake thee? Bladerunner was also noteworthy. Terminator was great. Twelve Monkeys was quite wacked out. Elvisio "even Clooney fans thought it was wretched" Rodriguez

Myself, I enjoyed Matrix and Revolutions, but thought Reloaded was the shriveled turd that the pissed-off cat left behind the dresser for three weeks before we found it (not actually true, just thought it made for a good image). SO, I find it interesting that out of the trilogy that everyone seems to have a different opinion about which were the good ones and which were the bombs. I LOVED Alien and Aliens, and still think ithey're pretty good after all these years (except for the Newt subplot, screw that little pain in the ass). The rest of the series went down the drain after that, but it was a good start. How about Black Hole? Deep space, lotsa ships, maniacal madman, robots, more robots. Actually, pretty ripe for a remake. Speaking of remakes, I'll get flamed for it, but TRON was pretty sweet. WAY ahead of its time. I will also get flamed for THIS, but I'm really looking froward to the remake. I'll agree with the OP only moreso: I've always been a fan of Firefly and Serenity. It's a very "two great tastes that go great together" that I never would have thought of combining, like proscutto (sp?) and melon. I dunno why, but I guess sci-fi is hard to make because, inherently, it appeals to a more educated, geeky fan base (yep, that's us) and we may tend to expect the best of all worlds: good effects, great story, good acting, and ALWAYS a hot chick who digs the engineer or scientist in the story. And, when the movie comes up short in any of these regards, we pan it. Elvisio "strong coffee, long post" Rodriguez

Nice! We were there from the 14th-21st

From our SCUBA trip to Bonaire Nov 7-14 octo1: my fav of the trip, an octopus I found napping in a lump of coral surprisingly close to shore; seahorse: my wife's fav, it's pretty self-explanatory; nightsmooch: A time-lapse shot taken on our last night there at a dive bar. That is, a bar full of divers, not a bar that is a dive, you get it. Elvisio "pulitzer prize, not yet" Rodriguez

Here's a pic that I'm sure pretty much sums up the band: The hot chick, and the three blurry guys. Elvisio "she is hot" Rodriguez

...and the lottery system scammed you out of the cost of the other two tickets. Elvisio "not too proud for a one dollar dream" Rodriguez