The BS thread by Talrius

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Originally posted by Talrius:
Okay, I'm just sitting here with nothing to do and nothing to talk about. I've got writer's block on my fic and a headache. So what you guys wanta talk about?

When I come here I have a hard time thinking about anything but Firefly. But out of curiousity, what kind of hobbies do we all have? Do you collect anyhthing and if so what? What do we do when were not thinking Firefly?

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"Curious. We have the memories of your entire life to play around with, but your thoughts are rooted here in this station. It means a lot to you, doesn't it?"

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:52 PM

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Posted by Hotforkaylee:
What do we do when were not thinking Firefly?

Thinking about why in the world I'm not thinking about Firefly.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:37 PM

SARAHETC

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Originally posted by HotForKaylee:
[B When I come here I have a hard time thinking about anything but Firefly. But out of curiousity, what kind of hobbies do we all have? Do you collect anyhthing and if so what? What do we do when were not thinking Firefly?

I'm getting back into the gaming, which I dropped last October when Firefly took my brain over. DiabloII right now, but that's just until I can get my mitts on Deus Ex 2. I'm a first person shooter fan from way back-- meaning DOOM.

I do water aerobics and yoga and should lift weights but often don't cos that's too solitary for me.

I read. Just finished a second reading of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I highly recommend it. I think it will resonate with most Firefly fans. I've moved on to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress as recommended by my fellow Browncoats. Good so far and I'm woman enough to admit that I'm a little confused.

I used to knit but kind of got tired of that. 'Sides, that's a winter thing and it was 85 here today. I would knit if I had someone to knit for. Anybody want an afghan?

Oh-- sometimes I write stories.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:40 PM

Okay, you guys are for real?

At the moment I’m spending most of my time doing homework in an attempt to graduate and get a degree in something that probably wont help me one bit in the future.

Any spare time I have after that, (and not counting when I’m hanging around this board), I do a little writing, lots of pretty weird art, as much research reading as possible, ballroom dancing, fencing, old fashioned arguing, beginning rock climbing (which by the way I‘m horrible at), self taught html (another thing I’m currently horrible at) and have been searching for a place to take motorcycle lessons at this summer. Though, pretty soon I’m going to have to get a job, and I’m sure everything else will be thrown out the window so I can concentrate on earning my minim wage.

There. Now it’s somebody else’s turn, I’m board too.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:12 PM

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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
Okay, you guys are for real?

There. Now it’s somebody else’s turn, I’m board too.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Board, cute. I was gonna say I know you think about things other than Firefly. (of course I always look for a connection to Firefly)

Hobbies, well now that I've finally gotten to Florida a whole new list of hobbies are developing. One of the great carry-overs is scuba diving. I've been waiting to dive down here for a long time. Lake Erie is just damn cold and the quarries are pretty boring. Finally getting into cave diving. Love caves, even better underwater. Jet skiing, boating, fishing, just so much to do here.

Collecting, well, sadly I collect about everything. Got a great train collection I started when I was about 9 and have quite a few old ones from Europe where the quality is amazing. Used to collect Magic cards until a few years ago. Got boxes and boxes of everything up to ice age. Lots of other cards too. Nutcrackers, lots of them (the wooden carved character ones). I also collected full size video games. At one time had about 50 of them. Sold all but 2 before moving, they are just too big to move all this way. Now I've been focusing more on classic home game systems and computers. Matter of fact at the end of march there was a big show up in Philly so I used that as an excuse to visit my brother who lives there. Found a game for the atari 2600 called Firefly. Never played it before but I had to have it obviously because of the name. Like I said, could probably fill 100 threads with all my different collections but I'll leave it at that for now.

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"Because, while I do not know who the enemy is any longer, I do know who my friends are, and that I have not done as well by them as I should. I hope to change that. I hope to do better."

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:16 PM

LJC

I'm a full-time professional web designer and journalist, but in my spare time I have about 20+ fan sites I maintain, and do a lot of freelance web and journalist work. I write constantly, and read constantly. I've got a handful of fave authors: Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Emma Bull, John M. Ford, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Walter Mosley, Jane Yolen. I'm seriously addicted to fairy tales, folk tales and mythology, as well as hard-boiled detective fiction, urban fantasy, and the like. I read a little horor and very very occasionally SF, but my main faves are the above.

I used to read comics, from age 12 all through college--I read DC super-hero titles from 1986 to 1994 or so, but the only monthly book I'm reading now is Ed Brubaker's Catwoman, tho I really do need to read all of Warren Ellis' TransMet and I devoured the first collection of megatokyo a few weeks back, and need to catch up on-line.

I just came out of a 4 year relationship, so it's been a kinda squirrelly 3 weeks. But I love to cook (my black bean chili kicks major ass), and love to walk all over my hometown on week-ends, and I've become quite the music freak lately. I don't club (so amazigly NOT a club kid), but I do love goth/industrial and techno and such, as well as live Irish music any chance I can find it.

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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:19 PM

PHILOMEL

Ok, I'm bored too--which is really thinly disguised stress about all I was to accomplish this weekend and haven't even made a dent in and am contemplating staying up late to finish but not really because what's the point--and writer's block sucks, I agree. Anything we can do to help? Bounce around ideas or something? I'm always up for a good brainstorm ...

Notice how long weekends always seem like--oh, a whole day! What a lot you can get accomplished! What a lot of plans to fulfill! And then it's all over and you're like, well, huh--guess a day isn't really so long.

Back to work tomorrow. Gorram it.

Phil. (off to make tea. Tea good.)

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:22 PM

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Posted by Hotforkaylee:
Board, cute.

Oh, I know you're not making fun of my total un-ablenesses to speel! Me smart! Rally I is!

Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.

Well I am... but...but... you know what I mean!

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:34 PM

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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
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Posted by Hotforkaylee:
Board, cute.

Oh, I know you're not making fun of my total un-ablenesses to speel! Me smart! Rally I is!

Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.

Well I am... but...but... you know what I mean!

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

You know I'm not making fun of your speeling Kaythryn. Hell, you've put up with mine.

I love reading. That's one of the best parts of the net. It's like a giant library. Read lots about paranormal activities and hoaxes and on and on. Got a pretty good comic collection too. All I've bought lately is the Amazing Spiderman and Rising Stars both by Strazynski. His series Midnight Nation though was just awesome. Only 12 issues but now the trade paperback is out. Highly recommended.

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"Words have meaning and names have power. The universe begun with a word, you know. But which came first: the word or the thought behind the word? You can't create language without thought .. and you can't conceive a thought without language. So which created the other and, thus, created the universe?"

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:40 PM

2 Questions regarding your tag Hotforkaylee-- first, where'd it come from? And secondly, how come you can't conceive a thought without language?

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:48 PM

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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
2 Questions regarding your tag Hotforkaylee-- first, where'd it come from? And secondly, how come you can't conceive a thought without language?

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Aww, come on Kaythryn. I thought by now you knew they all come from Babylon 5. This one season 4 ep 2 "What ever happened to Mr. Garibaldi". I suppose you can have a thought without language but it's just an image, no way to express it. I honestly didn't think about it that much. Thats why I like you.

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"Nothing goes on forever. Not falls, not you, not I, not love, not life. Entropy consumes everything. We all hit bottom, sooner or later."

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 7:01 PM

Wow this thread got pretty big since I posted it a couple hours ago.

Okay what I do when not thinkin' about firefly... Working on two dead end novels that I fantasize will become best sellers, if I ever get past the staging ground. After that work on drawing like Michael Turner, Comic readers should know his work. I read mainly fantasy and Sci-fi novels, just got done with Bram Stoker's Dracula, I recomend it, don't expect that shitty movie with the clepto Wynona Rider in it. You can pick it up for like 5 bucks. Preparing to go back to school in the fall. And now watching Helen of Troy. And some gaming here and there, I agree with Sarah I can't wait for Dues Ex 2 to come out, but mainly I'm an RPG fan.

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Sunday, April 20, 2003 7:52 PM

LERXST

Usually work 6 days a week at the post office. After walking around for 8-10 hours (delivering mail), I stop by mom's to do anything she needs done in the yard or whatever. Then get home and have dinner, and if I'm not feeling too tired or lazy (yeah, right) I try to knock an item or two off Mrs. Lerxst's honeydo list. By then I'm too tired to do much else, although that usually doesn't stop me from hanging out on this board until the wee hours. Crash for 3-4 hours and do it all again. Some life, huh?

Don't have many hobbies. Used to build models when I was younger. Back then my dream job would have been working for George Lucas @ ILM, building models and then blowing them up.

Still read when I get the chance. I like Heinlein, although as Sarahetc says, he does get a mite confusin'. Also like Asimov, Bradbury, and the others from that generation. Been getting into Joe Haldeman and Allen Steele lately. Ooh, I almost forgot, I was at Media Play the other day rooting around in their bargain bin. I found Douglas Adams's "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" (all five novels in the trilogy plus a bonus short story). In hardcover, for 7 bucks. What a deal, no?

Despite having had a computer for a few years now, I'm still fairly illiterate. Just recently I discovered that Windows Picture It! came with my latest computer's software. Figured out how to use it to convert that publicity shot of Serenity into some flyers about the AC Shindig. I'm gonna pass those out at the Ohio Science Fiction Marathon April 26-27. Tickets are still available, http://www.drexel.net/specialevents.shtml BTW they're gonna show the Ohio premiere of Cowboy Bebop:The movie! That alone is worth the price of admission to some folks.

Also, discovered that I have Windows Movie Maker too. Am considering learning how to use, and if I get real ambitious maybe try my hand at makin' a video. Have no idea how to get it posted though. Know absolutely nothin' about web pages or hosting. Lucky if I can spell HTML. Got a friend who does have his own web page, maybe I'll start bugging him. Might be worth the effort, to combine Rush and Firefly, two of my favorite-est things in the 'verse.

Okay, rambled on long enough. Next!

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Cap'n, can I have money for a slinky dress?

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Monday, April 21, 2003 5:54 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

My free time, what little there seems to be of it of late, are spent reading, painting, and hiking.

I wish I had more time for all the above pursuits, but work, family, and family obligations take up most of my time.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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Monday, April 21, 2003 8:49 AM

SARAHETC

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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
My free time, what little there seems to be of it of late, are spent reading, painting, and hiking.

I read that super fast at first and for a moment thought that your free time was spent "reading and panicking."

(Yes, I know that's spelled wrong. "Me not know english? That's unpossible!")

And I was going to be like: Yes! Somebody else admits to it!

Not that I did, but you know what I mean.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

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Monday, April 21, 2003 8:19 PM

Half way there...

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Monday, April 21, 2003 8:31 PM

Gotta start over again...

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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 9:06 AM

LOSTANGEL

I read LOTS in my spare time because I seem to have nothing but time on my hands.

No I'm not in jail.

I also do needlework, like cross stitch and embroidery, but not very well. I latch hook because it gives me something to do while watching TV or in the car for long stretches. Anyone want a rug? I love latch hooking, but there are only so many rugs you can have in a 2 bedroom condo.

Seriously, anyone want, just email me. I also crochet, but I can only do straight lines, so all I do are blankets. Anyone want a blanket? Sarah, you and me could open up a store of unwanted crafts!

I collect Angels of all types, and I want to start collecting Easter Eggs (not the chicken kind, the decorative kind) My mom used to do that, but she stopped, so I want to carry on the tradition.

Basically, I'll collect anything that captures my fancy. My new project now is the Mardi Gras masks. Those are nice, light, and relatively cheap, so I'm figuring it's ok to collect those. I run into space issues a lot.

I also want to get a library going in my house. Floor to ceiling books in one room. I'm doing a good job of it too. Too bad I don't have a house of my own yet. But I'm young, and my hunny knows that my clock is ticking!

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 10:58 AM

Sounds like you're a busy little bee. And you still have time on your hands?

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Friday, May 9, 2003 1:01 PM

It's alive!! So what do you want to BS about?

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DOBSON: I'm supposed to be meeting my wife's sister. I've only got a few days to see her...

ZOE: I wish there was another way...

DOBSON: Oh, no, no. That woman is like a dragon. I mean, I believe she has a tail. If there's any other moons we need to visit, or if we could just
fly very slowly...

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Friday, May 9, 2003 1:03 PM

LOSTANGEL

I'll bs about anything. I'm waiting to be let go from my job for the weekend, so talk to me baby!

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

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Friday, May 9, 2003 1:17 PM