Why are people so terrified of offending Muslims? Why are people so willing to give up their own freedom and choices at the drop of a hat because it might make some Muslim guy slightly upset? Why are people, in the year 2009, so willing to throw themselves in the wayback machine and live by rules made up by some guy centuries ago, even though they aren't part of that religion? What is it about this particular religion that seems to intimidate people so much?

Eh, it's the Glorious Islamic Caliphate of Britanistan. I shouldn't really be surprised.

I think I'm gonna like it here.

This isn't AIM. Please stop posting like you're on AIM. Other than that, hello and welcome.

Hate that if one has older versions .docx, .xlsx, etc. cannot be opened by them.  Hate Excel 2007.  Fortunately work stuck with 2003 and stuck with XP.

I'm taking a sabbatical from WoW for awhile. I'm thinking until the next major expansion. Screw this Argent Tournament crap.

<rant>What the hell is wrong with Blizzard, anyways? It's like they have no idea what direction they're taking the game in. "HAY GUYZ WE'RE GONNA INTRODUCE SPACE GOATS AND CRASHED STARSHIPS AND WILD GLOWING FUTURISTIC CRAP IN THE NEXT XPAC. IT'LL BE AWESOME!" So they go and release that abortion know as "The Burning Crusade" and render all your epic gear obsolete after the first few quest rewards. Then the decided people really didn't want sci-fi crap in their WoW so they went back to old style look with "Wrath of the Lich King" *note, no Lich King actually ever fights with you* and decided two or three model styles of armor was all that was needed for ALL classes. Oh, and pretty much all casters now need to roll on the same gear so you've got priests, warlocks and mages all fighting over the same stuff.

BC had awesome craftable gear at high levels. They took that out for LK. The 'high end' stuff blows goats. Class specific quests? Screw that. Not anymore. Ye Olde Treasure Chests lying round the countryside? Nope. Took'em out. Good thing they kept the Dwarven racial ability of "Find Treasure" right? USELESS. They've watered down the game to the point were almost all classes have the same abilities. Just introduce a healing tree to the warrior class and get it over with. Bah. Screw this game. They had a thing of beauty and ran it right into the ground. </rant>

   Nobody mentioned Pink Panther. Wait. Was that the 70's? It's been so long...

   Same goes for workers like waitresses. I usually leave a huge tip. A lot of them don't even make minimum wage because of the "tips" scheme. So unless they are really blatantly rude or negligent, I leave way more than 15%.

It was cancer.

Congo was kinda weird and yeah the movie wasn't that good.  Jurasic Park was the best book ever!  And Jeff Goldblum did an awesome job as Ian Malcom.  The movie was pretty good.  The movie was about about dinosaurs but the book...that was about MATH!!  It was really great.

From wikipedia about Sphere..."The novel follows a psychologist named Norman Johnson, who is called by the United States Navy to join a team of scientists assembled by the U.S. Government to examine an enormous spacecraft discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The depth of coral covering the craft proves that it has been lying there for over 300 years and so could only be of alien origin.

The novel begins as a science fiction story, but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, ultimately exploring the nature of the human imagination."

I didn't like Prey that much, but I accidentally got the abridged version.  I did like State of Fear alot. 

Was 'piece' intentional?

Michael Crichton.

They made a movie out of it.  Had Samuel L Jackson and Dustin Hoffman in it, I think.  But the movie was no good.  Book was good.

The one I had which is pretty small, was $200. Remember: These things are pretty much permanent, so don't do something stupid. Get something that actually has some type of meaning for you. 30 years down the line, you don't want to look at it and think 'Whisky Tango Foxtrot was I on when I did that to myself?'