A business can legitimate but not established, or legitimate but a maverick.

There are cheap hotels and there are cesspits masquerading as fleabags.

Tom may be right about legitimate modelling agencies, but not all are legitimate.  And businesses do tend to cluster.  There's a half block in the upper 20's that's wall-to-wall florist.  Of course, if you can't afford the prime space you take what you can pay for.

You may just have to do some research on this.

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Just found an interesting spoonerism: Fire and Ice; Ire and Vice.  There's something very ... political ... about it.

Just apostrope out the E when he says it quickly.

But then you don't know what new stuff has come in on the stories that you are following.  (Hint for new feature, Sol.)

I like to learn from others.

Great sruff.  I'll add a few suggestions later.

In regards to falling, rolling, and thumping:  A fall coverts the potential energy of height into the kinetic energy of motion.  In a straight fall, all that kinetic energy is downward.  But if you roll using the energy of the fall, some--ideally most--of that energy goes into spinning you, so you hit the ground or floor with less linear velocity, less downward velocity, and less kinetic energy in the direction normal to (perpendicular to) the floor.

The button to show more new inline reviews goes back to the main page, both on the desktop and mobile interfaces.

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I'm not sure they'll ever get fully reconstructed.

I just tested the naked circuit board for the redesigned/rebuilt LDO 12v regulated supply.  It doesn't work.  I know where the wiring error is, but I'm not going to fool with it now.  (It looks like there may be two complementary errors.)

Time to wash up and get to writing.

After this I have a long list of partially finished electronics.  The first couple of items on the list aren't too big a deal, although they may take an hour or two.  After that I have a somewhat larger project, though it should be straightforward (crosses fingers).

I believe Sol deliberately ruled that out.

Quickies, which are public messages.

Every writer is a Dr. Frankenstein, whose creations may start making their own decisions.

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A mad science superwoman comes into her powers.  Hilarity ensues.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090803

Under all ot that, it's an amazingly well-crafted story.  All the parts hang together, at every level.

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Kdot wrote:
Norm d'Plume wrote:

Perhaps a "blaster" with multiple settings?

1. I forgot the sunscreen
2. I'm wearing a red shirt
3. BBQ
4. Liquify
5. Reactors look balmy compared to this
6. Mushroom cloud
7. The sun is jealous
8. Sh*t, I just melted the planet
9. We don't need no stinkin' solar system
10. Big bang

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090306

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I created it.  Two and a half days later it was not with any of my notes.

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I lost a page of notes and spent about three hours more or less reconstructing it.  I got a lot, and a few things I missed last time, but I missed things this time too.   This is a list of disturbing things that Merran finds in her first few hours at the Academy.  I've got three sequences to write for all this, and yes, I'm skipping ahead because a bunch bof ideas came together.

I'll work again this evening.

He's not going to recover from a femoral artery opened with both entry and exit wounds.  He's liable to suffer a severe blood pressure drop and go faint.  And then loose consciousness, and then die.  (This is for her final attack on Peter.)

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I took a jump ahead a bit to record something that's floating around in my head.  But found that I need to get a few inconsistencies out of the topography.  I'll be working on that tonight.

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That's what I wrote!

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The only cross-world trade is what sorcerers carry.  Well, not quite  but I haven't developed that yet.

The correspondence isn't exact, but a World-dependent mix from the twelfth century to maybe the fifteenth, with some things ahead or behind.  (Kirsey's math is pushing the nineteenth.)

In her state?  Even if she sets out to do that, I don't think she'll have time to orient.

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Could just be local wierdness, until that part stabilizes.  Who knows, it might give the ship motion sickness.

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Depends how strong it is.  (Remember, it will fall off as the square of the distance from the generator.)  Close up it might fry electronics; further out it may just scramble logic circuits, requiring a restart to clear.  If those logic circuits are controlling power switching equipment like motor controllers, something in those circuits might be fried when the control circuits space out.  Further out still, it's severe RF interference (QRM).

C is not a trained fighter.  From her knees, lunging for the groin is a logical reaction.