Please get better Soggy.  We miss you too. But yes, I'd rather you not have a nasty infection.

Thanks for the update Nouk. I was worried there. As I said, I'm not giving up until someone says to.

I'm going to wait until Delphy says something. Yes, I do respect you Pes, but I'd like to hear Delphy's side before I say anything. I do think however, that we should keep the matter open until either Delphy or Buggybooz says to drop it entirely.

Blackbeard sailed near where I live and was even held in prison briefly 45 minutes from here. But me personally, I take "Captain Blood" and Jack Sparrow any day.

She looks like a reject from the 60's or an extra from the movie "Hairspray".

Pirates have been in the news a lot lately. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies haven't hurt, plus there was a lawsuit recently involving a website called "Pirate Bay" I believe. And as Snarky said, the boat attacks with both cruise ships and commercial shipping in the Pacific.

I'll post my games picture in a bit. Need to do yard work first.

Axeleefe, your Avi is really pretty. It looks very Victorian. Where did you get it from?

I was bored and went looking to see what had recently been posted at TSR and found this. Again, their "PG-13" site is NOT.

A thought about the Sim Masters verses Maxoids....

My understanding was that the Sim Masters were the moderators of the BBS i.e. they locked threads "flaming" someone, gave warnings to people who's behavior was out of line, locked threads that were becoming too long and repeated the same thing over and over and over again. Basically, the general day to day running of the BBS. The Sim Masters were all volunteers from the regular fan base and gave of their own time. The Maxoids are EA employees who are a part of the Sims division and visit the site rarely, perhaps make "official announcements" (We are having a contest to see who can retell the best Fairy Tale or whatever contest), and posted special customer content for everyone to download (like Moonbelly and Monkey).

So now someone has decided that the Sim Masters *cough* Steve *cough* should be some sort of "title" with no job function and the Maxoids are now the Moderators. I wonder what Drea's job description really is. Heck, I do a better job than she does. We all could.

She'd be more like Daffy Duck as the Scarlet Pumpernickel.

Well it would if I had Windows or some kind of Windows emulation which I personally do not. The old Windows emulation programs (before the Intel chips) took up so much memory and everything ran at like a quarter speed. For playing games, it was near impossible to run anything. The only programs that ran at something near a normal speed were things like Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

I personally run everything on the Mac OS. I doubt I could even find a Window emulation program anymore. Thanks Huge Lunatic for explaining the Mac operations. And thanks Quorneater for listening.

Back to TSR....

I really hate their current smoke and mirrors to try and rest this issue away from the original point, the theft of Buggybooz's mesh and Shakeshaft's idiocy at having done so. I would really like to see 1) TSR remove the mesh 2) Publicly apologize to Buggy and 3) do as Buggy suggests with the money they have collected from it. But none of that will happen given TSR and their low morals.

I did watch the first few episodes when the new Galactica started. I do have to hand it to them the writing for the series was very well done. Afraid it was too "dark" for me. Same thing with a lot of the newer "Trek" spinoffs too. Future is dark, worlds will end, etc. I do think its funny though that Dirk Benedict (The REAL Starbuck if you ask me  ) met the actress playing the new Starbuck (don't remember her name, but she's a great actress. Saw her on the new Bionic Woman and loved her character there) in where else... A Starbucks coffee shop to discuss playing the character. And yes, I have the original Battlestar soundtrack on vinyl. I loved the music to the original show.

I wish someone had coded something like SimPE for the Mac OS. Someone did try, but not sure what happened to him. Quorneater, if your husband does code a new SimPE for Sims 3, please have him work with a Mac programer or player to make sure it works on Macs too. We often get the "Oh you can correct that in SimPE answer if you have problems" answer. It shouldn't be too hard as the new Macs have Intel chips.

Alas, I will not have access as I play on a G5 PowerPC Mac.

The parents I get mad at are the ones who take their 6 or 7 year old to an R rated movie. Many years ago when "The Mummy" was first released (the remake with Brandon Frazier), my husband and I were at an 8pm show and a couple walked in with their 4 or 5 year old kid. First of all, I hope they loved having to deal with the nightmares that poor child would have had after seeing that movie. And second, why didn't they find a babysitter or wait for the movie on VHS? That's the kind of parenting I find very inappropriate. Heck yes, if I go see a Disney movie at 2 or 3 something in the afternoon I except find children there. Back in the 80's, I would be the only adult watching them without kids.

I too am childless and not sure of the cause. And yes, I'd love to have children.

Edit: To correct my grammer

I got the questions "What was Starbuck really?" I said a store that sold coffee. I never watched the "new" Battlestar Galatica. I loved the original cheezy one too much.