[scifinoir2] Medium Shake-up - What do you Think?

2008-01-11 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Anyone catch Medium on Monday? What did you think? Weber: Medium Is Short http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=47234 Jake Weber, who stars as the husband of psychic Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) on NBC's Medium, told reporters that the currently airing nine new episodes

[scifinoir2] Star Trek Sets all CGI

2008-01-11 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
http://syfyportal.com/pagetogether.php?id=4604page=2 This story contains MINOR SPOILERS for Star Trek XI. It's not only hard to get any information out of the Star Trek XI sets, it's almost impossible. But Dawn Brown, a multi-talented Hollywood artisan who has credits ranging from Ocean's 11

[scifinoir2] Commuters' body heat to warm office

2008-01-11 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish state-owned firm has found a cheap, eco-friendly source of energy to warm one of its offices: body heat from a quarter million commuters steaming through Stockholm's central train station. Body heat already warms the station itself but the surplus, currently

[scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread B. Smith
The storyline was a bit vague. She was either stolen at birth by Norman Osborn or died. Depends on what the writers feel like using that week. I've pretty much given up on collecting superhero comics from Marvel and DC and stuff like this just reinforces my decision. --- In

Re: [scifinoir2] Four Wheels for the Masses: the $2500 Car

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
I wondered where all those Yugo parts went. On 1/10/08 10:12 PM, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/business/worldbusiness/08indiacar.html?_r=1; oref=slogin http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/business/worldbusiness/08indiacar.html?_r=1

Re: [scifinoir2] Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Gymfig
Didn't they have a child in some storyline? What happened to her? **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [scifinoir2] Commuters' body heat to warm office

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
Wow. How many times have you been at a party in an apartment/loft and thought if we could contain all this heat we'd save hundreds on our heating bill. Someone actually WENT for it! Interesting. Of course, I wouldn't wanna WORK in the office heated by hot people, as it won't be the best SMELLING

Re: [scifinoir2] 5 yr old on no-fly list detained

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
Well they would have known he was 5 years old before he got to the airport, but the day of the flight, the phone company cut the wire tap on his mother's line off, so... On 1/10/08 10:38 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message

Re: [scifinoir2] Star Trek Sets all CGI

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
Okay, I give up. I just give up. Paramount obviously just doesn't like Star Trek anymore and have decided to spend millions of dollars to kill it for good. CGI sets? What part of unnecessary blinking lights and plastic consoles was a production challenge? New new year's resolution: start watching

[scifinoir2] Re: Go Green and stay charged! (Solar powered laptop bag)

2008-01-11 Thread moondancerdrake
This is s my kinda gadget! :) Moon --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://current.com/items/88810307_laptop_bag_charges_laptop_by_solar_pow er Go green and stay charged! For first time Voltaic have managed to generate enough energy to charge a

[scifinoir2] Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does

2008-01-11 Thread B. Smith
That's the dirty secret of the biofuels world. Lots of other things (sugarcane and sugar production byproducts, sugarbeets, switchgrass, woodpulp and other things) are better ethanol producers than corn but big agricultural interests in the Midwest and the agribusiness companies that produce

[scifinoir2] Fw: from Robert Wexler

2008-01-11 Thread Amy Harlib
[EMAIL PROTECTED] A Surge of More Lies by Congressman Robert Wexler A new troubling myth has taken hold in Washington and it is critical that the record is set straight. According to the mainstream media, Republicans, and unfortunately even some Democrats, the President's surge in Iraq has

[scifinoir2] Buying of the President Website Unveiled

2008-01-11 Thread Amy Harlib
[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the corporate corruption that destroys any hope of real democracy. http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/ Center Unveils Buying of the President 2008 Website Comprehensive examination of how big money and special interests influence the path to the Oval Office The

[scifinoir2] Barker back to talk about his baby 'Hellraiser'

2008-01-11 Thread ravenadal
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/chi-080111screen- story,1,901720.story chicagotribune.com LOCAL CINEMA SCREEN SCENE: Barker back to talk about his baby 'Hellraiser' By Robert K. Elder Tribune staff reporter Some demons die hard. Clive Barker's horror blockbuster Hellraiser

[scifinoir2] At 25, 'Diva' continues to command spotlight

2008-01-11 Thread ravenadal
Like Pulp Fiction, Diva was a movie that opened up my head to possibility - not what movies were, but what movies could be. I highly recommend this re-issue. I also endorse the Gorodish books written by Delacorte that the movie is based on. They are brisk, fast reads told with wit and

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
Is bootleg ethanol a solution to this? On 1/11/08 1:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, i've known this for years. some have criticized Obama for favoring Ethanol from corn for that very reason... -- Original message -- From: B. Smith [EMAIL

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Street
that story line sounds a bit melodramatic to me. They need to get back to when Spiderman was good. There are no comics out right now that are really good.

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
The US is about the most backwards developed country in the world in terms of things like cell phone tech, broadband speed, etc. In Japan, a cellphone is a total media device. People expect to play complex games on their phones, surf the Net, and watch movies and TV shows. Same for much of

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
Correct. In the alternate reality future (the so-called MC2 universe) of the comic Spider-Girl, that child is confirmed as having been kidnapped by Norman Osborne. Peter's assassin clone Kane locates the babe and recovers her, giving her to Mary Jane. This was done in secret. I'm not even sure

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
yeah, i've known this for years. some have criticized Obama for favoring Ethanol from corn for that very reason... -- Original message -- From: B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's the dirty secret of the biofuels world. Lots of other things (sugarcane and sugar production

Re: [scifinoir2] Star Trek Sets all CGI

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
wonder why the actual sets just couldn't have remained as physical things instead of all the CGI? -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://syfyportal.com/pagetogether.php?id=4604page=2 This story contains

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Gymfig
Do the Thunderbolts s still exist? **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread Bosco Bosco
I have not used an I-Phone. I absolutely HAAAEEE I-Pods. They are most restrictive counterintuitive device in that market. I will give Apple Props for providing people with less and getting them to pay way way more for it. If, in deed Apple has redrawn the wireless playing

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
Funny you should put it that way. The new Zune is actually a superior mp3/media device than the iPod ever was. Microsoft has actually created a superior product but nobody talks about it. On 1/11/08 4:15 PM, Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not used an I-Phone. I

[scifinoir2] Woman lived for months with dead partner

2008-01-11 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
VIENNA (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner, APA news agency said Wednesday. Police found the remains of the man in the couple's small vacation cottage in the eastern village of St Andrae am Zicksee Tuesday, swaddled in

Re: [scifinoir2] Woman lived for months with dead partner

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Acid bath time... 8-O Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JEEZ! That's creepy Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIENNA (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner, APA news agency

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
The *only* reason I have an iPod is because a friend *gave* it to me. Were it my money to spend, I wouldn't have one at *all*. And anything with the Microsoft-in-the-head brand on it- fuggedaboutit... Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny you should put it that way. The new Zune is

Re: [scifinoir2] Now In My DVD Player

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
So did I. Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man, I LOVED that show. It was a late season addition (November start) was canceled because it was in the dumbest time slot NBC had put a science fiction show since Star Trek. Sunday night at 7. And then they moved it, without really telling

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
They do, still as evil as ever. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the Thunderbolts s still exist? **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
I know, Mike. Makes me wonder what's going on in the industry. Mike Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that story line sounds a bit melodramatic to me. They need to get back to when Spiderman was good. There are no comics out right now that are really good.

Re: [scifinoir2] Star Trek Sets all CGI

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Keith, someone is trying to be too smart for their own good. GOign high-tech, when low-tech will do. Watch it blow up in their faces, and hurt the franchise in the process. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wonder why the actual sets just couldn't have remained as physical things instead of

Re: [scifinoir2] Commuters' body heat to warm office

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Daryle, I guess they could puzzle out a way to scrub the air of scent. Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. How many times have you been at a party in an apartment/loft and thought if we could contain all this heat we'd save hundreds on our heating bill. Someone actually WENT for it!

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Go Green and stay charged! (Solar powered laptop bag)

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
I'm game, too. moondancerdrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is s my kinda gadget! :) Moon --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://current.com/items/88810307_laptop_bag_charges_laptop_by_solar_pow er Go green and stay charged! For first

Re: [scifinoir2] Four Wheels for the Masses: the $2500 Car

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
I'm waiting to see one, along with the barely distinguishable Y on the back bumper, almost obliterated by a shoddy paint job. Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wondered where all those Yugo parts went. On 1/10/08 10:12 PM, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Star Trek Sets all CGI

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Reading this makes me glad that I've never built myself up for seeing this. I'll be savign my money for it until it hits basic cable. Wait, won't be spending anything then. Bonus! Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I give up. I just give up. Paramount obviously just doesn't

Re: [scifinoir2] Four Wheels for the Masses: the $2500 Car

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
Ahem...Reverse-engineered Yugo parts, thank you...they upgraded the engine also... Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wondered where all those Yugo parts went. On 1/10/08 10:12 PM, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[scifinoir2] Re: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread ravenadal
It is still my assertion that apple products have better esthetics - they feel and look better. This is not to discounted. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not used an I-Phone. I absolutely HAAAEEE I-Pods. They are

Re: [scifinoir2] Now In My DVD Player

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
Man, I LOVED that show. It was a late season addition (November start) was canceled because it was in the dumbest time slot NBC had put a science fiction show since Star Trek. Sunday night at 7. And then they moved it, without really telling anyone. Then there weeks would go by with no episodes.

[scifinoir2] Now In My DVD Player

2008-01-11 Thread Bosco Bosco
I have to say that Netflix has changed my life. I am currently two discs into the quirky 90's One Season Wonder, Earth 2. I can't remember why they cancelled this but I remember really digging it. It remains pretty fun on this decade plus later second look. Had to share Bosco I got friends who

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Daryle
...and Marvel will absolutely, positively, change all of this back, and undo the Captain America fiasco. The ³Namor from the future² scenario in Fantastic Four gives me a little hint. I would estimate within a year¹s time Marvel will be shaking it up again, and, as it is said, ³Bobby¹s in the

Re: [scifinoir2] NEW BUSH COINS - Change for te Better

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Tracey, you've done it again! Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://blip.tv/file/520347 Yahoo! Groups Links There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Yeah. That is numbing to comprehend, even at distance. Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How horrible...I wish it had come along sooner for your father, Rave... ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone who has watched a parent wither away from the savage ravages of

[scifinoir2] An Open Letter to the Sci-Fi Channel

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Street
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/01/scifi-open-lett.html -- -- Blogs: The Greasy Guide http://greasyguide.com Your Online Destination for Urban Information Coming Soon Street Sweet NYC http://www.streetsweetnyc.com Get your fix on cupcake bliss.

Re: [scifinoir2] Barker back to talk about his baby 'Hellraiser'

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
To quote one Elton Hercules John, I've heard this song before... ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/chi-080111screen- story,1,901720.story chicagotribune.com LOCAL CINEMA SCREEN SCENE: Barker back to talk about his baby 'Hellraiser' By Robert

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread Bosco Bosco
I was specifically thinking of Khrushchev's quote to Kennedy, Every year you become more like us and we become more like you. I don't know if that's the exact quote but it's the jist of it anyway. I'm gonna check out the Zune. Bosco --- Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny you should put it

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
Paraphrasing Dune dialog: Plans within plans... Sounds like it is working out fine for Big Oil, don't you think? B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the dirty secret of the biofuels world. Lots of other things (sugarcane and sugar production byproducts, sugarbeets, switchgrass,

Re: [scifinoir2] Woman lived for months with dead partner

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
JEEZ! That's creepy Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIENNA (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Austrian woman lived for almost a year with the corpse of her 85-year-old partner, APA news agency said Wednesday. Police found the remains of the man in the

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
Ingenius, Darlye! I see we think alike... Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is bootleg ethanol a solution to this? On 1/11/08 1:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, i've known this for years. some have criticized Obama for favoring Ethanol from corn for that very

Re: [scifinoir2] Four Wheels for the Masses: the $2500 Car

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
LMNAO! Better than the three hamsters on a wheel. Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahem...Reverse-engineered Yugo parts, thank you...they upgraded the engine also... Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wondered where all those Yugo parts went. On 1/10/08 10:12 PM, ravenadal

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
rave, that's another thing that I must be missing. I neither want nor need look or feel for my devices, simply that they function. ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is still my assertion that apple products have better esthetics - they feel and look better. This is not to

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
I'm really interested in hear why you think it is this way, Keith...Then I'll tell you my theory...Though I think we'll arrive at the same conclusion... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US is about the most backwards developed country in the world in terms of things like cell phone tech, broadband

Re: [scifinoir2] Comcast Cable Reveals Ambitious Plans at CES

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Which explains why I've been having trouble with my wireless card whenever someone uses the DSL-linked PC down the hall... Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They already have a transporter for that... Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pal, I suspect that that 100 Mbps link will come

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Go Green and stay charged! (Solar powered laptop bag)

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
Straight out of my 'Side Street Chronicles'... moondancerdrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is s my kinda gadget! :) Moon --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://current.com/items/88810307_laptop_bag_charges_laptop_by_solar_pow er Go

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
I'm leaning against this Spider-Man reboot--at least the way it's done. It's the comics, of course so a little resurrection or time reboot is par for the course. But it still feels a bit too easy for me. Now you see that Peter revealing his secret identity is not a big deal after all (even

Re: [scifinoir2] Who Is The Final Cylon?

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Yes, Tracey. Lots of folks over there were fixing on the series by online downloads months before the eps aired here in the States. Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think scifi turned off viewers with their threats to cancel, splitting the seasons,

[scifinoir2] Re: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread ravenadal
It is comforting to know my maxim that the cruddiest product will always win in the marketplace still holds true. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny you should put it that way. The new Zune is actually a superior mp3/media device than the iPod

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
yeah, they've gone through several changes. They became part of the pro-Registration forces, when Reed Richards, Stark, and the government, desperate to stop Cap's forces, starting drafting criminals to fight for them. The criminals--including the likes of the Green Goblin--were injected with

Re: [scifinoir2] The Last To The Party As Usual

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Chuck, the series that airs before it, about the Nerd Herd guy who get all the Guv'mint secrets downloaded into his head by his ex-best friend? Many of the fans I knew who watched it got so fed up with Heroes in S2 that they turned the show off and went into online forums to talk about Chuck.

Re: [scifinoir2] Now In My DVD Player

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
at one point it was being shown Sunday mornings around 10 or 11. Now that's no slot to get an audience, so I lost track and interest in time... -- Original message -- From: Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man, I LOVED that show. It was a late season addition (November start)

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
money's too much for me too, seeing as I'm saving for a flatscreen TV and have pesky things like car repairs and bills to pay. :( My main thing is the ATT network. Once that's improved, it'll be more attractive... -- Original message -- From: ravenadal [EMAIL

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
The jets? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the Thunderbolts s still exist? **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [scifinoir2] Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Keith, maybe this means that someone wa slistening to me at Marvel in realizing that Civil War was so messy that it needed complete undoing, and this is the first stab at that. Or maybe they're just frelling clueless... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure how many of you still

Re: [scifinoir2] The Last To The Party As Usual

2008-01-11 Thread Bosco Bosco
Another party I have arrived late to I suppose. How's Chuck? B --- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck, the series that airs before it, about the Nerd Herd guy who get all the Guv'mint secrets downloaded into his head by his ex-best friend? Many of the fans I knew who watched it got so fed

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
No, pal, the superhero team. I think... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolts_%28comics%29 Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The jets? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the Thunderbolts s still exist? **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape.

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
what don't you like about iPods? I don't like their lack of built in FM tuner, and the menu system could use a bit of work (I'd like to be able to jump to things sometimes without having to scroll through a whole list). Not a fan of the iTunes interface. But overall it's the most user friendly

Re: [scifinoir2] The Last To The Party As Usual

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Lots of fun. It's been compared to Jake 2.0, though I wasn't as big on that as I am on Chuck. Imagine an Everyman, thrust into the world of espionage without warning or training. Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another party I have arrived late to I suppose. How's Chuck? B ---

Re: [scifinoir2] Star Trek Sets all CGI

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
agreed -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith, someone is trying to be too smart for their own good. GOign high-tech, when low-tech will do. Watch it blow up in their faces, and hurt the franchise in the process. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wonder

Re: [scifinoir2] Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
yeah, i'm completely stumped as to how this *younger* seeming Pete will be plugged into the post Civil War world going strong. What about his current role as part of the Avengers? I haven't seen any of the books following the erasure, so i'm damn curious... -- Original message

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
from what i heard, the latest firmware updates can possible cause havoc with an iPod that someone's been modifying to use other carriers... -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only reason why I haven't gotten a iPhone (besides it's high price) is the

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread GWashin891
The only reason why I haven't gotten a iPhone (besides it's high price) is the fact you have to get ATT as a service. And I despise ATT, but am also too damn lazy (and more than a bit scared to crack open one) to modify an iPhone enough (via various third-party software/hardware add-ons) to

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread GWashin891
That's true but newer firmware updates are comming on line to correct that problem. Which proves that Apple now has a problem with folks who do like the iPhone, but doesn't like the ATT service to go with it (something that apple folks seem to have a history of). Hince the iPhone cat--mouse

[scifinoir2] Re: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread tetsuwanatom1
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My aunt and uncle gave me an Ipod for Xmas last year and I returned it. I already have a Sony w810i phone and I'm fine with it though you can't fast foward through songs. The niece of one of my co-workers has a zune and I got to

[scifinoir2] Superheroes are older than we think

2008-01-11 Thread Brent Wodehouse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/03/bokno130.xml Superheroes are older than we think Robert Hudson reviews Our Gods Wear Spandex by Christopher Knowles Alan Moore's Watchmen was the only graphic novel to appear in Time magazine's 2005 list of the finest 100 novels

[scifinoir2] The future looks bright for 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'

2008-01-11 Thread Brent Wodehouse
Minor S P O I L E R S - http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-sarah11jan11,0,704339.story?coll=cl-tvent-util January 11, 2008 TELEVISION REVIEW The future looks bright for 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' The new series on Fox has heart

Re: [scifinoir2] Peter Parker and MJ No More

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
i agree. they say the fans just don't relate to a married Spider-Man. That makes me nervous because next they'll be splitting up Clark and Lois over in DC, and i've felt the dynamic and tensions of Lois knowing Clark's secret has made the character better. Every couple of decades Marvel and DC

Re: [scifinoir2] Comcast Cable Reveals Ambitious Plans at CES

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
i guess, but not sure why a wired PC would affect a wireless connection. Anyone using a cordless phone at the same time? -- Original message -- From: Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like a possible security issue...Right, Keith? Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
you're right on all counts, and I've voiced the same concerns, especially the clunky iTunes interface (no drag-and-drop) and the MP4 issue. But still, the overall package and functionality is still attractive for me to use it. Now, i have thought long about getting a cheaper MP3 player that I

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread Bosco Bosco
if you do any research, please share. I am looking for something for my car. Bosco --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you're right on all counts, and I've voiced the same concerns, especially the clunky iTunes interface (no drag-and-drop) and the MP4 issue. But still, the overall package and

Re: [scifinoir2] 5 yr old on no-fly list detained

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
LMAO...Very good one! Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well they would have known he was 5 years old before he got to the airport, but the day of the flight, the phone company cut the wire tap on his mother's line off, so... On 1/10/08 10:38 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L.

Re: [scifinoir2] An Open Letter to the Sci-Fi Channel

2008-01-11 Thread Bosco Bosco
My thoughts exactly. Glad to know I am not alone Thanks B --- Mike Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/01/scifi-open-lett.html -- -- Blogs: The Greasy Guide http://greasyguide.com Your Online Destination for Urban Information Coming Soon

Re: [scifinoir2] 5 yr old on no-fly list detained

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Don't even *talk* to me about that ludicrous list. Oh, and LMNAO! Daryle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well they would have known he was 5 years old before he got to the airport, but the day of the flight, the phone company cut the wire tap on his mother's line

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: [Fwd:Lynch (Tiger Woods) In A Back Alley !?!?!?]

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Appearences, pal. Simple appearences. The Evil White Woman must seem contrite. Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I think she was suspended for the wrong reason...Yes, I understand what she said offended and outraged some viewers, but because she was suspended JUST to appease

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: [Fwd:Lynch (Tiger Woods) In A Back Alley !?!?!?]

2008-01-11 Thread Martin
Exactly. She'll come back from the suspension, and it'll be business as usual. Someone will dredge the issue up, stick a mike in Tiger's face, and he'll dismiss it, and that'll be it. Save for the kudoes he'll be getting, for being so big about forgiveness. Astromancer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Ice Cube up forThe A-Team

2008-01-11 Thread Astromancer
Okay, I submit...Just had my ex argue me down too... Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pal, hre may ahve been old, but I recall seeing it on DVD for the first time with my mother, sister and two of my aunts, and they were all hooting and hollering at him, for all the reasons *we* would

[scifinoir2] [Fwd: Andrew Cuomo on Obama: ‘You Can’t Shuck And Jive’]

2008-01-11 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
--- Original Message Subject:Andrew Cuomo on Obama: ‘You Can’t Shuck And Jive’ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:27:39 -0600 From: Skee OuiZy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Andrew Cuomo on Obama: 'You Can't Shuck

Re: [scifinoir2] Now In My DVD Player

2008-01-11 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Earth 2 is one of my favorite shows of all time. It started out with high ratings but they quickly tanked is Bosco Bosco wrote: I have to say that Netflix has changed my life. I am currently two discs into the quirky 90's One Season Wonder, Earth 2. I can't remember why they cancelled this

Re: [scifinoir2] [Fwd: Andrew Cuomo on Obama: ‘You Can’t Shuck And Jive’]

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Street
Oh see me and Cuomo would have had a problem. I'm sorry but some people just bring ignorance to a new level. And what's sad is that they don't even realize it. On Jan 11, 2008 10:22 PM, Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Original Message

Re: [scifinoir2] The Last To The Party As Usual

2008-01-11 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
I think Chuck has better writing and character development Martin wrote: Lots of fun. It's been compared to Jake 2.0, though I wasn't as big on that as I am on Chuck. Imagine an Everyman, thrust into the world of espionage without warning or training. Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

2008-01-11 Thread KeithBJohnson
will do. any thoughts, anyone? What's a good, cheap MP3 player that's easy to load, easy to use, and versatile? -- Original message -- From: Bosco Bosco [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you do any research, please share. I am looking for something for my car. Bosco --- [EMAIL