Nibbs XXIII (Page 8)

2008-08-13 12:45 PM

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wgraves7582 - 2008-08-13 6:36 AM

Wow a new Nibbs has started up.

I must have missed a lot last night since we are already knee deep into the new Nibbs.

Good morning. Won't be around much today - Big Boss is in and actually have to look busy I guess!

Don't tell - but someone has a birthday today.

Couple of hints - She loves men in green tights/She flies everywhere (see just a couple)

Oh, green tights, not green men. LOL

2008-08-13 3:16 PM

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2008-08-13 3:21 PM

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wgraves7582 - 2008-08-13 4:16 PM

Berry Berry quiet around here today.

Hope TinkerBeth has a great B-Day!

I am out and hopefully the weather clears up by 6 and I can get a dry group ride in. If not I get a muddy mt bike ride in instead. Somehow I think the muddy one will be much more fun!

TTYT!

Muddy mountain bike sounds like more fun. It will probably be just as much work as a dry group ride, too.

2008-08-13 3:21 PM

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Yup, it's quiet in here today. I'm cleaning my home office and have piles everywhere and I keep hoping that someone will be out here to talk to so that I don't have to clean.

2008-08-13 3:22 PM

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Hi Jen, or shall I say...Hello Mad Scientist.

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2008-08-13 4:07 PM

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A new Nibbs thread... gotta get in on this!

2008-08-13 4:15 PM

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Blagels - 2008-08-13 4:07 PM

A new Nibbs thread... gotta get in on this!

Welcome back to Nibbs, Blake. You've been absent quite a while.

Blagels

2008-08-13 4:24 PM

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Work has been so incredibly busy and has kept me away from my Nibbs peoples! How are you doing?

2008-08-13 4:56 PM

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Blagels - 2008-08-13 4:24 PM

Work has been so incredibly busy and has kept me away from my Nibbs peoples! How are you doing?

All is well in my world. I'm taking a staycation this week. At home cleaning my home office. That part isn't too much fun, but I'm also getting caught up on a lot of reading. That I enjoy. I think work has been busy for a lot of people recently.

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2008-08-13 5:02 PM

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kns57 - 2008-08-13 4:56 PM

Blagels - 2008-08-13 4:24 PM

Work has been so incredibly busy and has kept me away from my Nibbs peoples! How are you doing?

Crazy times all around then... Things are starting to settle down a bit here, so I'm really happy about that. What are you reading now? I'm an avid reader as well.

2008-08-13 5:14 PM

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Blagels - 2008-08-13 5:02 PM

kns57 - 2008-08-13 4:56 PM

Blagels - 2008-08-13 4:24 PM

Work has been so incredibly busy and has kept me away from my Nibbs peoples! How are you doing?

Crazy times all around then... Things are starting to settle down a bit here, so I'm really happy about that. What are you reading now? I'm an avid reader as well.

The Sand Castle by Rita Mae Brown (short quick book)

The list by my bed includes
Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark
The Foreigner by Francie Lin
Silent Thunder by Iris Johansen
The Market by J.M. Steele
Shadow of Power by Steve Martini
Keeper of Dreams by Orson Scott Card
The Girl with no Shadow by Joanne Harris

2008-08-13 5:23 PM

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I love Orson Scott Card.

But I guess you probably knew that.

Just read one of his books that I didn't know about - Invasive Procedures...kinda what would happen if OSC swallowed Michael Crichton. Or something like that.

2008-08-13 5:24 PM

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enders_shadow - 2008-08-13 5:23 PM

I love Orson Scott Card.

But I guess you probably knew that.

Just read one of his books that I didn't know about - Invasive Procedures...kinda what would happen if OSC swallowed Michael Crichton. Or something like that.

That's a great description. LOL

Keeper of Dreams is all short stories.

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2008-08-13 5:24 PM

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Other than that, I rarely read...although I enjoy it so much I should do it more. I grabbed some paperbacks for my recent travel. I love me some crap books. Legal/crime thrillers. Yum!

2008-08-13 5:25 PM

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2008-08-13 5:26 PM

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enders_shadow - 2008-08-13 5:24 PM

Other than that, I rarely read...although I enjoy it so much I should do it more. I grabbed some paperbacks for my recent travel. I love me some crap books. Legal/crime thrillers. Yum!

I love crap books for vacations. I call them my throwaway books or brainless books.

2008-08-13 5:27 PM

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Hi Scott.

2008-08-13 5:27 PM

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Spokes - 2008-08-13 6:25 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-08-13 3:23 PM I love Orson Scott Card. But I guess you probably knew that. Just read one of his books that I didn't know about - Invasive Procedures...kinda what would happen if OSC swallowed Michael Crichton. Or something like that.

He completely fooled me in the way he wrote Enders Game. Great book. They've been trying to make it into a movie for some time, but Card's writing the screenplay... they just need to find a superstar director that would take an interest in the property to make it happen, tho.

It's taking too long...I remember first hearing about a movie when Haley Joel Osment would have been a rockin' Ender. Now HJO is getting arrested for DUI and sports a goatee...oh how time flies.

2008-08-13 5:28 PM

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I'll check back in later. Frank is on his way home, so I'm going to still be nice to him and go make dinner. TTFN

2008-08-13 5:28 PM

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2008-08-13 5:28 PM

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kns57 - 2008-08-13 6:26 PM

I love crap books for vacations. I call them my throwaway books or brainless books.

I guess you can't really call them "crap" books in a library, huh? A big sign that says "This way to the crap books!"

(I think my library is calling them "beach reads" this year.)

2008-08-13 5:29 PM

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Spokes - 2008-08-13 6:28 PM

kns57 - 2008-08-13 3:27 PM Hi Scott.

Man, I'm on a conference call right now, and our agency is taking a BEATING from the participants. Can't tell you what its about, but it has the potential to blow up into a national problem.

If you told us, you'd have to kill us - right? I'd rather not know.

Sorry things aren't going well.

2008-08-13 5:30 PM

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2008-08-13 5:32 PM

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2008-08-13 5:32 PM

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Spokes - 2008-08-13 6:30 PM

enders_shadow - 2008-08-13 3:27 PM

Spokes - 2008-08-13 6:25 PM

It's taking too long...I remember first hearing about a movie when Haley Joel Osment would have been a rockin' Ender. Now HJO is getting arrested for DUI and sports a goatee...oh how time flies.

Look how long it took to turn Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" into a Hollywood movie - or Dune vis-a-vis the publication dates of those books.

With Dune, the FX people couldn't figure out how to do the worms... now with CGI, its childs play. Verhoeven ended up making a satire of ST because they wouldn't give him the budget to do the armored combat suits right... although with the advances in CGI/blue screen now, they could remake the movie with the suits virtually painted onto the actors, like you can see in Iron Man.

True about the effects...but I think the problem with OSC is really that so much of it is character/mental...hard to put that up on the big screen.