Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/01/2007Hmm. Seeing as how you've posted those stats twice now I get the feeling they must be the cat's pajamas in warp drive. If I had any idea what they meant I'm sure I'd be moved to bow to your superior gigabytes. As it is I'm impressed by the fact that you're impressed... does that do?
Good luck in your video venturing. Do you post online? What sorts of videos do you make?
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 06/01/2007ASUS M2N4-SLI SAM2 GL A S 2x16 DDR2 4DIM
AMD Athlon 64 X2 DC 4600 2.4 GHz SAM2
1024MB DDRII 533 MHz RAMx2
Western Digital 250GB JS SATA300 8MB 7200rpm
EVGA nVidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB x2
Yes, I'm bragging...I got my second video card today, and installed it. It's so nice to have plenty of video rendering power, now if I just had more stuff to render with them...
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 05/31/2007Haven't seen the commercial, but get this: Black Horse and the Cherry Tree was playing in the grocery store the other day. As in, that big bright place where you buy spaghetti-o's and laundry detergent.
And it wasn't the Muzak version either, by the way. Just straight up, blasting on the piped in overhead system. And, oddly enough, cherries were not on special that week.
Has anyone seen Lost in Translation? Bill Murray & Scarlett Johannson are great in it... I think it came out, oh, three or four years ago maybe... (?)
Anyway, I just got around to seeing it and LOVED it. Definitely low-key, but thoughtful and humorous... and worth seeing!
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 05/30/2007Suddenly I See has been used in some car commercial or another, I believe...
As for me, I have a few things on my plate as well. Just trying to fill in the details here and there, and I have at least one gaming review to write, and if I ever get to buy the CD, I'll be doing a review of "Eye to the Telescope" as well. Money is tight though, since I had to get a new computer. I have to say, though, that I really like this new rig...she's powerful, fast, and looks smaller than she is, on the inside, anyway...
ASUS M2N4-SLI SAM2 GL A S 2x16 DDR2 4DIM AMD Athlon 64 X2 DC 4600 2.4 GHz SAM2 1024MB DDRII 533 MHz RAMx2 Western Digital 250GB JS SATA300 8MB 7200rpm EVGA nVidia GeForce 7600GT 256MB
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 05/29/2007I am baaaack. Much refreshed from our camping festival and mentally tossing around a few ideas, possibly Psst chronicles.
If you have the ability to write here (and you obviously do), then you have the 'qualification' to write an article! No one, especially me, says an article has to be deadly serious, scholastically stuffy or unbearable to read. Bring humor to your writing, and you will reach some whom may not be otherwise else.
Ok, soul mates. Yes, I believe wholly in the idea. Not necessarilly in the Hollywood way with all the epic music and Greek tragedy crap. And I believe we can have more than one - not every one is/will be a long-lost star-crossed lover but they will be people who have been important in a past life or incarnation. I have the extreme blessing to have met a few of mine, including my once and future mate (presently my husband ). And yes, I believe it all works in cycles - we've been together before and likely to be again. If I'd never met up with him or with the others, how would I know in this life? There was a yearning (before we re-met) but not in an unbearable, incapacitating manner.
Well we have our orders now, but I hardly feel qualified.
However, one sentence in a book I'm reading has me pondering many things, sort of a spark on a chain reaction.
"Everything seems simple until you think about it."
And on a totally different topic, what do people here think about soul-mates? Do we all have one? Do we have more than one? What if you never meet yours?
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 05/18/2007 Most Americans claim (or boast) a great many more descendencies than I do! But, we can't all be Scots, now can we?
Nah, Kansans are just ....... Kansans. Land thieving upstarts, you know. (While I'm only joking, there is still a lot of bad blood between the two states dating back some hundred years or more. Makes interesting historical reading.)
Well, I'm going to assume that most are off having final exams at school/university, are gardening or are just plain BUSY. I know I'm rather busy myself trying to downsize (and clean) one house, fix (and clean) another to move into and spin my wool whilst trying to give lessons to prospective spinsters and such. Next weekend, we'll be gone camping.
There should be an issue published every first and third Tues, but, ummmmm, we seem to have gotten rather lax about that. I'll get a new issue up this weekend; I didn't quite have it completed Tuesday morning, and then I totally spaced it off due to some unpleasant happenings locally.
And while I'm on the subject: WE NEED YOU GUYS TO WRITE ARTICLES! Peruse the Submission Rules and sit yourselves down to write article(s) on writing fiction, on film and music, on writing poetry, on how to improve your writing, on how to promote yourself or how to get published. Actual stories and poetry is published elsewhere, remember.
Bardic One, may I please have another cup of choco-caffeine? Yesterday was a very rough day with the mold count being so ludicrously high, and I really need to be more alert today.......
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 05/16/2007You are quite the salmagundi, now aren't you? And I mean that in the best way possible. I was about to say "melange" but why use modern French when you can use Middle French... the Rabelaisian coinage variety, that is.
Nothing wrong with a bit o' Brit in you, either. Just enough of the imperialist to keep people on their toes probably. Are Kansans imperialistic as well? To Missourians maybe? Can't say as I know much about all that...
*lonely wind, creaking boards, the sound of clock ticking*
This place sure is quiet. Seems like the site has loads of members but only a few really speak up or come 'round to visit. Hmm. What are the great masses doing?
And how often does new stuff get published? Just wondering.
And whilst I wonder: a hot spicy lemonade for me please, Mr. Bard the barista.
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Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 05/08/2007antryg, you're so ....... evocative and poetic . I think I love you.......
I'm American of Scots extract, for the record. A goodly dose of Native blood thrown in as well as a tad German I can't seem to get rid of and *gag* my mother was of *gag*Brittish*gag*- Scottish extract. I console myself with the thought that at least some of her ancestors had the good sense to marry Scots and live long enough to procreate.
Anyone ever noticed that talking about Brits with a Scotsman is a lot like talking about Kansas with a Missourian .
Re:The Bard's Coffee Shop 2007 1st edition - 05/07/2007True, so true. Ewan MacColl's Songs of Two Rebellions -- songs of the Jacobite Wars of 1715 and 1745, as well as his renditions of traditional Scots ballads -- spring to mind immediately, among others.
In this instance, though, my comment vis-a-vis KT Tunstall was directed more toward the recent spate of new groups from Scotland with an alt/pop flavor: Belle and Sebastian, the Fratellis, Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand, etc.
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). And yes, I believe it all works in cycles - we've been together before and likely to be again. If I'd never met up with him or with the others, how would I know in this life? There was a yearning (before we re-met) but not in an unbearable, incapacitating manner.
Most Americans claim (or boast) a great many more descendencies than I do! But, we can't all be Scots, now can we? 
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