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The Year of the Robot.

A bit early for most people.

Another banner year for the fast food and pharmaceutical industries. 

Coincidence???

<HAPPY NEW YEAR!>

I hope everyone has a lovely New Year.  Tell us what you're doing!

I'm cooking lamb and it'll just be the two of us.  It's how I like it.

I'm primed and ready to face 2007.  Here's hoping it doesn't blow up in my face.   :-o

It may be early, but we've already gone through wine, sake, and absinthe, and it can only go downhill from here so Happy New Year while I can still type.

Kathy

Your name is Kathy?


Oh...um...I'm home alone. With Flyers' hockey and Eve Online. This holiday is ghey.

Time passes too quickly. Blech.

I should be going out shortly.  Here's to a new year full of new chances.  No looking back.

Buncha people coming over to f13.house and getting smashed.

Yes, I drink to forget the last year and wake up anew in the next.

Hoping the year improves from the initial hangover I presume.   :-D

I'm at home drinking some nice wine and having a self-cooked meal of the highest caliber which I'm capable of making (which turns out to be pretty good, fortunately), helping a few folks out in Eve and playing some Dwarf Fortress on and off. Oh, and random anime. Basically, I'm doing whatever the fuck I feel like.

Here's hoping the wine lasts until midnight, though.  :-)

Macaroni and cheese and warm fuzzy socks?  You so cute. 

What the hell is random anime?  Is it spontaneous?  Does it just happen?

Potato-leek soup, lightly toasted pita with homemade hummus, and a cucumber-dill salad, thankyouverymuch. :)

And yes. I just kind of tune my computer in the direction of East Asia and stuff happens on screen. It's quite the mindfuck.

I just bailed a party. Turned out to be nothing but an aggravation.

That sounds very, very yummy, Yoru.  The food, that is... the anime thingy just sounds weird.

Have a wonderful New Year, Stray, I COMMAND YOU.

I don't go to parties anymore unless they're thrown by a gaming company, a publisher of some sort (books, games, whatever), or ME.

I don't trust human beings not to piss me off in an environment where I can't smack them one upside the head.

I'll be fine. Contrary to what it may seem, I'm happy to spend it by myself :). 2006 was the Year of the Loner: I'll pay tribute accordingly.

The people I know are a bore, that's all. And busybodies. Yapping about their jobs or yapping about other people. Or yapping about how I should quit smoking for a New Year's Resolution. I go to parties to have fun. Not to hear lecturing and bullshit.

The kegs were full of Bud Light anyways. No big loss to me.

Flyers finally win back-to-back games. That's a good enough New Year's for me I suppose. I can hardly even go to bars/clubs/parties; 95% of the time I become painfully bored after about 45 minutes, sober or otherwise.

The last time I stayed for any amount of time was due to someone having a PS2 and NHL 07 hooked up to a big LCD; everyone else just simply drank and conversed loudly. I'm a bore I guess.

Only 15 minutes away from 2007.  Just having a nice laid back evening at home.  Like quite a few others, Dave is playing Eve tonight.

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

Bliadhna mhath ùr.

Happy New Year from California!

May you keep all your New Year's resolutions.

I CAN KEEP M NEW Y EARS RESOLUTIONS BECAUSE I DIDN'T MAE ANYWA.

A WONDERUFL HAPPSY NOEW YEARS TO ALL FO YOUJ.

INTERNET .

I've decided to start a movement to replace "Happy New Year" with something culturally/numerologically/calendarically neutral and thereby make the original expression as politically incorrect as "Merry Christmas" has become.

So... Warm Tidings, everyone.

My new years resolution was to breathe out whenever i breathe in... so far it's going good.

Made three kinds o sushi, a sicilian lobster soup and two kinds of homemade icecream. Drank a bottle of sicilian white, an Amarone and a nice muscadet (gave the wife a bit too) and spent most of the night holding hands with the 1½-year old, who didn't like the constant barrage of fireworks, while trying to watch a movie. The five year old liked my firework display but demands that next year I buy noiseless fireworks (?!), like the mess made from confetti and went to bed at 10.
I sometimes miss the parties...

I went to a friends house in the mountains and played pool tournaments while drinking nice scotch in moderation. I wake up today for the real holiday, New Years Day. A day of feasting all day with family, football all day, and good times.

We listened to the crazy drunk guys down the street scream and holler and bang pots and pans for ages.  It was nice.  Righ had a wee drink of whisky and gave me a big kiss.  We watched fireworks from around the world for a bit.  We were boring but not bored.

Godt Nytt År!

Know a guy who I had heard was gonna have a party at his apartment, so I went there. When I arrived it turned out he wasn't there, just his roomies and a bunch of their friends. Was pretty sweet anyway though, we played guitar hero and engaged in all the other activities which comes with the occasion.

Btw, I think it's "Gott Nytt År!" if it's meant to be in swedish :-)

It's Norway saying Happy New Year to Sweden!   :-)

Day 1:

Already a shitty year. I'd drink, but I've got to drive an hour to see the family because they can't be fucked to drive down here.  Were it not for the Son's B-day celebration I'd tell them all to cram it and go out for Pizza.

Yeah Happy Happy, Fuckers.

I now remember why I quit drinking.  Met some nice new people,  and had interesting conversations,  so the evening was pleasant enough.

Of course,  I should have been unpacking and straightening the new place, but.....

Happy New Year to all of you.

Thanks Schild for keeping F13 going along with the writers and moderators.

2007 is a new beginning for me - I have finished a certain segment of my career - now onto the next thing.  Whatever that will be  :-)

Ah   :-P

 :-o

TMI

A very interesting new years. Didn't get very drunk, realized my girlfriend is WAY too clingy, saw my buddy piss on my other buddies car while someone took a picture and decided to take the bus home at 2:30 in the morning. Cause it was free.

Now I have to finish packing cause I move into my new place tomorrow and start school in a week. Yay!

So she liked the Dutch Oven you gave her?  :evil:

Are you implying that my ass fumes must be so amazingly beautiful that a girl can't help but want to be near me?

Good luck in your new place.  Here is a picture of a housewarming gift.

(http://www.epicturegift.com/images/static/housewarming_photo_gift.jpg)

What a great night.

Went to my favorite bar (i.e. the only bar I like) with my brother and some friends and clapped along to irish bar songs, got free champagne (still don't like wine, by the way, but oh well) made lots of noise, and wrapped up the night singing bohemian rhapsody with 7 other people.

And because I stuck with rum the whole night, I didn't even wake up hung over.  Tired, but not hung over.

Was disapointing, but relaxing.  2007 seems like it will be an interesting year (as opposed to depressing, like last year was). 

I hope everyone had a great new year.

May 2007 be better than the ball of suck 2006 was. I spent the New Year's Eve with the wife, both of us trying to get over the same cold.

I played Bully with the wife.

Lots to do in January.  Two birthday parties (mine does not count), trip to Chicago and trip to WDW.  I'd go to the Mythic thing here if I could do it, but alas.

Hoping for a good 2007.

Went over to Furiously's house, drank, and played Guitar Hero. Was low key, but very fun. Happy New Year, everyone.

You really know how to make someone feel special. :heart:

NYE was nice, could've been a little better. Our champagne (Laurent & Perrier, decent stuff) was flat :| The company, however, was stellar. Luckily my girlfriend was way too clingy :) I like that Dick Clark still shows up for the NYE show...but someone please stop him from destroying the countdown. Second year in a row he's messed it up horridly. And get rid of the douchebag they're trying to replace him with. And schedule some musical acts worth seeing. And fire Aguilera's producer. I think that's it.

The new year has been great thus far, had the first two days off. Did a bunch of stuff around the house, played a lot of Gothic 2 (in my lead-up to a new pc, I'm trying to finish games I started), got in a lot of guitar playing and laid down an instrumental version of Thrill Is Gone by BB that I really need to tighten up a bit. Also reading a fun series (Corean series by Modesitt). Just a great couple days lounging around indulging my hobbies.

Also, my titties hurt from doing presses and butterflies. Finally got my weight bench dusted off because I want to get back into rock climbing.

I watched the first season of Battlestar Galactica (yes, just starting now) and casually indulged in various drinks.

Where are my flying cars? I was promised flying cars! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFgRAcr0jg)

Sky: I don't use all that mcuh of my chest when I climb, it's a lot of shoulders and back as far as the upper body goes. Of course, I'd love the completely ripped look but I don't think it's going to happen - I'm just too thin. I don't really use those muscles much climbing regardless. I've been going 4 nights a week to an indoor gym for about 6 months now, and I find it's a great substitute for a regular gym. I can't wait for the weather to get warm enough to start doing weekend trips.

It works for me, but I think I may need to change up my diet. Not sure. I'm like HaemishM as far as body type goes, no matter what I shove down my gullet I don't gain weight. I do have an advantage though - as my friend says: Light on weight, light on skill. I don't have as much mass to haul up the rock  :)

Did your SO remember to buy you the Movie as well ?

 :|

I'm light-medium build genetically. I'm just starting to work the chest as part of a total workout package. My main focus is aerobic stuff, jogging (I hate jogging), just to build up stamina for longer mountainous hikes. Hoping to move from the hikes we've been doing up into the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. I'm good, but I have to take more breaks than I'd like. More of a burst energy guy, I was a sprinter in high school.

When I was unloading trucks, I'd unload for about 4-6 hours a night and then go home and do a full workout, 10 miles on a bike, 100 situps, alternating free weight stuff. I got strong as hell, but I looked about like Haemmy, too :) I'm not one for that 'gainer fuel' bullshit. I like being skinny and strong. And, like you said, it's the perfect build for climbing.

But you look like the mountian man! .. Maybe you're like a cat, most of what I see is beard.

I  bought it for myself.  (I've been single for a while.)

The Movie?  For the original series or the four hour mini-series?  The latter comes with season one.  Fry's was out of season two, so there will be a shopping excursion soon.

I can't understand why people go to stores and stand in lines....
http://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-Season-Episodes-1-10/dp/B000BNI90Y/sr=8-1/qid=1167941998/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7377473-4333429?ie=UTF8&s=dvd (http://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-Season-Episodes-1-10/dp/B000BNI90Y/sr=8-1/qid=1167941998/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7377473-4333429?ie=UTF8&s=dvd)
and
http://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-Season-Episodes-10-20/dp/B000GFLEAO/ref=imdbpov_dvd_0/103-7377473-4333429 (http://www.amazon.com/Battlestar-Galactica-Season-Episodes-10-20/dp/B000GFLEAO/ref=imdbpov_dvd_0/103-7377473-4333429)

You can't get that new strain of flu all the kids are raving about if you stay in your pajamas with tissue boxes on your feet all the time.

Because I can shop for other things while I'm out?  It's not like I am averse to online shopping.  I do plenty of it.

I like the retail experience. Lots. Shopping online still freaks me out, despite having an amazon prime membership.

No, see, that's the problem.  Over here it really, really doesn't.

You slap the DVD in and find yourself straight into the episode '33' and you realise that you're going to have to take another fucking trip to the shops.

I love shopping online. It's like the postman is santa claus because of the disconnect involved.

Ouch.  It sounds like you found that out the hard way.

Fortunately I knew to make sure the mini-series was included.

Hate to blame the wife, but I got it as a gift.

 :|

After searching every store in existance, I finally located a copy of Season 2.0.  The internets is down at home, so we watched a ton of episodes, saw it was still down, went out to buy 2.5, then watched another disk.

It's fun because our takes on the characters are often very different, and we get into philosophical discussions about the Cylons.  The only things we agree on are that Starbuck kicks ass and Ellen needs to be tossed out an airlock.  In the spirit of the show, I have dubbed her 'Airlock'.

Don't worry....  somewhere down the line,  you'll feel sympathy for poor Ellen.

Not in my case.  Her husband, yes.

Nor me :  She got what was coming to her.

At best I might think she would have been better off with a quick trip out the airlock. I really do not like her.  (This comes from someone horrified at the treatment certain Cylons have received.)

Toaster-lover.

I like at the end of season two where he wanted to stay on the Galactica and he told her she should go planetside and whore around. I dislike her, but it's a good pressure on Tigh's character, gives him more dimension. Just found out UniHD is picking up season 3 of BSG at the end of the month...gotta post that in the tv thread for the 3 of us that have UniHD...

Totally.  I'd bear [Number Eight's] love child if I could figure out how to manage that feat.

Edited in case someone actually hasn't seen the show.

I could manage her feet.


Number 6 is in C&C.  That's so cool.  With Lando Calrissian.

Athena
D'anna
Imagery Six
Boomer
Madame President
Caprica
Sergeant Hadrian
Dee
Cally
Ellan

Starbuck is gross, she doesn't get on the list.

Gross ?

Are you kidding ?

Is this one of those beauty in the eye of the beholder things, or are you just mental ?

We're talking about this person right? (from the new Battlestar)

(http://www.supernovajuice.com/albums/Battlestar-Galactica-Season-2-Promo-Shots/bsg05ga0147bt.sized.jpg)

Yea. She's gross. She's like Claire Danes. If you pumped Claire full of testosterone and made her wear clothing from a Man's Future.

(http://www.xeni.net/images/boingboing/galactica/starbuck.jpg)

It's hard to find flattering pictures of this girl. Normally that means... dun dun duuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. She's ugly.

But knock yourself out. (http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-07%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=katee+sackhoff) She's even bad looking in her Femme Fatale spread.

(http://home.planet.nl/~m-a-d/Photos/Katee_Sackhoff_1_s.jpg)

Katie Sackhoff indeed. Kinda lookin like a slightly feminine dude. If you cut his sackhoff.

I will honestly, honest to GOD, never understand how being on the internet will suddenly turn a woman whom you would be lucky to converse with in real life into a Medusa.

In stark contrast to this, I am always amazed by worship of women in the media and on the web that you would literally pass in the street without noticing because you have your eyes on someone else in the same street who's neither famous nor in the media and is 100 times hotter.

All women have their own beauty*.  It's a shame that you can't see Katies :  It's brightened up my morning.







* Of course, all women are also whores.  It's funny how that works.

No. Normally I'd agree with your first sentence. My standards do have lines drawn. Reminding me of a dude or a male version of a chick is one of those things over a line. In real life I wouldn't be lucky to converse with her. It's not because I'm trying to be an asshole or anything. It's merely a statement of fact: She does Nothing For Me and Kinda Freaks Me Out.

And did 'Season 3 Long Haired Starbuck' help in any way ?

I think she's pretty, especially in that first picture.

I like her.  I did not like Long Hair Starbuck although I am generally partial to long hair, but then I also like dark hair so I don't get it either.  I like tough women, I guess it's a personal preference.  I should probably point out that I don't like manly women (Angelina Jolie's face is something I can't deal with, looks too much like her dad), I'm talking about the sort that play sports or drive Jeeps and wear baseball caps.  Tennis, swimming (!), etc.  I like her new tatoos as well, although they look somewhat fake.  She's not someone you would see in Cosmo, but that's not something I take points off for.  Also: opinions, keke.

Katie may not be as immediately appealing as some of the cast, but she is not bad looking.  Maybe the played up macho attitude doesn't help, but I think it works considering the character (ace pilot, military, wartime, hiding from her past, etc.).

Hairstyle does make a huge difference in her look though.

I've never thought Starbuck was all that hot either. She's no troll, but I lust after No. 6 a whole fuckload more.

That chick reminds me of Macaulay Culkin.

I think everyone is required by law to be attracted to #6.  I might as well throw more fuel in here and say:  Grace Park.  What's her appeal?

What is #6?

And yet you like Jennifer Garner.

No kidding, talk about a masculine woman. The first Alias scene I ever saw started with a closeup and I thought that was a man with a ridiculous wig.

Which once again proves that taste is a personal matter and there is no right or wrong there. Too few redheads in BSG anyway.

#6
(http://www.georgehernandez.com/h/aaBlog/2005/media/03-08_TriciaHelferAsNumberSix.jpg)

#8
(http://www.galactica2003.net/Images/ep0156.jpg)


Me personally I'd like a #6 and #8 combo pls

(http://z.about.com/d/scifi/1/0/r/F/1/bgsgall12.jpg)

I don't find #6 to be all that.  I still would, but I'd worry about cutting myself on her chin.

Also, her boobs never looked real to me.  (Please don't bother telling me one way or another; I don't care.)

#8, of course, is of interest.

what have you done with the real starbuck?
(http://www.bajaclub.homestead.com/files/starbuck.jpg)
Does this new one still try to get it on with the ladies?

Not so far.  I figure they would do that with the Xena Cylon first.

The new Starbuck is Baltar, if you are looking at it that way.

Apparently my tastes are closer to Ironwood's than most of yours.

Starbuck was my favorite of the original series.  I'd love to have a couple of cameos.  (The A-team opening with Dirk Benedict and the Cylon is still one of my favorite TV moments, too.)

I'm with Ironwood.   #6 is too gangly and soft-looking for me.  Whenever I see her, I think of Marionettes and wonder if there's a way to cut her strings so she puddles on the floor in a tangle of missized limbs.  Starbuck and Boomer, tho, are quite the hotness.  As is Xenia: Philosopher Cylon.

Starbuck's biggest problem was defined in a Seinfeld episode.  She's one of those "good light/ bad light" people.  Plus, when she's got that red-eyed puffy-faced look. Yikes.


I suppose it's to my advantage that I don't know what her dad looks like, then.  She's very nice to look at.

(http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/Jon-Voight-Lolita-Davidovich-are-Ready-for-SEPTEMBER-DAWN-2.jpg)

...


I don't see it. He looks more like Christopher Walkin than Angelina.  Yeg gets another tick in the 'crazy' column.

That's....disturbing.

She has his cheeks, his lips, his eyes. Let's wind off those years and help him out:

(http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/movie/MA/Previews/Plans-34160.jpg)

Angelina is still hot though.

She's hot, yes, but I'm thinking neck-down.

You guys are so gay.

Yes, and... ?

If it helps you feel better, the overlap on whom would like us in return is probably not very similar.

If our tastes are similar, you might be hot for my wife.  And, considering me, she might be tempted.

Trust me, it's disturbing.

What woman wouldn't kneel before Zod?

Ironwood's baby girl thinks he has funny hair.  She points and laughs at it.  He has admitted to having silly tiny ears, too. 

(http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/ostrich.jpg)

Hmmm.  I think I need to visit Scotland...

If I'm there, I might as well do some touristy stuff.  I doubt it, but is Lanark at all rabid over William Wallace?  My last name might be a slight hinderance if so.

(You're safe.  While I would like to visit one day, it will be a while yet.)

You're always welcome.


I didn't say 'tiny', Signe.  At least, I hope I didn't.   :-(

You said small.  I exaggerated again.   :oops: 

One of the greatest movies of all time.