Pipswich wrote: Those cowboy politicians from Tx are becoming an anachronism with each new Texas birth.  

You do realize that's all crap, right?  
I assume you're just talking smack for fun.

This is pretty disturbing.  I am a little worried that the situation is evolving similarly to WWI with crazy Pyongyang serving as the fulcrum.  Hopefully, it's just more sabre rattling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38375802/ns ... ?GT1=43001

Not at all worried about North Korea.  If they somehow do get a single nuke to detonate anywhere in the vicinity of an American, Japanese, South Korean or Russian....North Korea will cease to exist as a country.  All we would have to do is flatten Pyongyang and hope China stays neutral.  I can't imagine China taking North Korea's side if they decided to launch a nuclear missile.

Unless that is what China really wants.  Pull the U.S. into another shooting war with North Korea....spread our troops even thinner than they already are and then invade the U.S. when we are at our weakest economically and militarily.

It would make a pretty good novel.  Eh...already did.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/eri ... vasion.htm

Pipswich wrote:This is pretty disturbing.  I am a little worried that the situation is evolving similarly to WWI with crazy Pyongyang serving as the fulcrum.  Hopefully, it's just more sabre rattling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38375802/ns ... ?GT1=43001

I pray North Korea launches a nuke. It will actually help out that poor country.  The response would be to wipe away Jong and his cronies like a piece of shit on a dog's ass, and finally get those people food and medicine.  Half of them probably don't even know Elvis is dead, the media is so heavily policed and they are so isolated.

Mike B.

stratochamp wrote:mike, what makes you think they have ever even heard of elvis?

Good one.....probably true

Mike B .

Just sitting down to watch the brand new Sherlock Holmes adaptation on the BBC.  Very much hope it will be good.  Am a huge fan of the books.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t8wp0

red_bus wrote:Just sitting down to watch the brand new Sherlock Holmes adaptation on the BBC.  Very much hope it will be good.  Am a huge fan of the books.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t8wp0

Missed the first half (thanks for the timely reminder, Steven!) but was obvious where that was going from the cafe scene.
Worth watching although I suspect the presentation, technology and popular culture references won't age well. *sticks with Livanov, Brett and Rathbone for the time being*

red_bus wrote::lol: 30 seconds notice... it is up on BBC iplayer already

Cool; heading that way... Would probably benefit from a second viewing even if I had seen the whole programme first time.

red_bus wrote:As with Malc, I enjoyed it - it has plenty of brio.

As with Dr. Who, with Holmes in the 2010s?

red_bus wrote:There was quite a lot (maybe too much) of phone/blog references.  But I think the Dr Watson character is done really well.  Good thing about Rathbone was that he was older - and therefore I think he had more gravitas.

Rather overdid the "trying to be as up-to-date as possible" line on the /popular/ tech side: will we expect him to be as fluent with PCR amplification?
There was probably more teeth grinding with the expected "phone a friend" quote (!) and the characterisations in the wrap-up.

Age at first detection: Rathbone, 46; Livanov, 44 ; Brett, 50. I'd've guessed Rathbone was the oldest of the three, too...

ashmire13 wrote: The chap cast as Holmes looks ideal from the preview.

What's that? a filmed biography of J. Eric Holmes? At last, the recognition our hobby deserves! How about casting the members of Blink 182 as the Lawful Good Blink Dogs? They could do Broadway-style musical numbers, like in Cats.