117 - "Can you honestly deny that you've changed?" - 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'"You can't go home again", isn't that the old chestnut? Gotta admit that for a while there, I was pretty much subscribed to that idea. A couple of cycles in the Uncharted Territories, with almost nothing but E.T.s around to keep you company and the only folks who look ( Read more... )

April 2009 - 113 - "All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people." - 'My Man Godfrey'

True, because that kind of people is crazy people.

Don't be offended, please, because trust me-- I am the first person to admit that I have been, from time to time utterly and completely bonkers. Cuckoo. Mad as a hatter. ( Read more... )

March 2009 - 108 - "These things are really pretty simple - they just look complicated." - 'Three Days of the Condor'What we call an explosion is a sudden, often destructive release of energy resulting from a rapid physical and/or chemical reaction. As any good pyromaniac will tell you, all you really need to create an explosion is the right ( Read more... )

Cross-posted like mad, sorry.

RP LOVE MEME

February 2009 - 106 - "That's the way we are, the way we live. You just can't live unless you're what you call selfish." - 'Rashômon'I know that when I talk about the stuff I've seen and done here in the Uncharted Territories, it's usually about how tough things are and how I'm usually on the run from somebody who wants my head or my ass or both. ( Read more... )

97 - "Normally, it takes years to work your way up to the twenty-seventh floor. But it only takes thirty seconds to be out on the street again. You dig?" - 'The Apartment'I've fallen a lot in my life ( Read more... )

94 - "Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong." - 'Double Indemnity'

Two rides in the shuttle, and I figured that I knew pretty much everything there was to know about what launches were supposed to feel like, since both of them had gone almost one hundred percent by the book, so if it felt like that, it was "good". Anything that ( Read more... )

90 - "Well, I've always thought the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. Sometimes I lean one way and sometimes I lean the other." - 'Hud'

Heh. Boy are you asking the right Erp-man about leaning a couple of different ways where the law's concerned. I mean, considering the fact that I spent better'n four cycles of my life running ( Read more... )

87 - "I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children."
- 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips'

Even with the treaty and the Eidolons and people standing around and singing "Kumbaya", there was no escaping the fact that everybody was pretty nervous about having a newborn baby onboard Moya. I mean, we've always led a pretty rough-and- ( Read more... )

85 - Mr. Chips: "Silence! Silence! I'll have no more of it!"
John Colley: "No more silence, sir?"
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Space isn't silent.

Okay, well, that's a simplification. If you were to be out in a vaccuum, then no sound could be detected by your eardrums, because there's no medium (like air) to vibrate against them. So, I guess, space ( Read more... )