oRGy on 1/5/2008 at 22:23
10,000BC - Age of Stone
200BC - Age of Classicism
1200AD - Age of Darkness
1500AD - Age of Rebirth
1750AD - Age of Enlightenment
1870AD - Age of Industrialism
1900AD - Age of La Belle Epoque
1940AD - Age of Destruction
1960AD - Age of Hideous Architecture
2008AD - Age of Procrastination
Harvester on 1/5/2008 at 23:22
Film directors, and film/video game composers.
Vivian on 2/5/2008 at 10:01
Quote Posted by Jennie&Tim
I've heard that corvids are very intelligent birds, I think they can do simple math for instance. Birds are smarter than people think. Did you get to birds through dinosaurs, since they're related?
Yup, basically - once you realise dinosaurs are birds are dinosaurs, they get a whole new level of interesting. To me, at least. New Caledonian crows have been shown to understand tool manufacture and so-called 'metatool' use, i.e. using tools on tools - some workers even claim they have endemic local variations in tool manufacture that could be called a cultural tradition. All of which points to them being of a similar order of intellectual sophistication to chimps. I love the idea that when a crow stares at you likes its trying to work something out about you, it probably is.
fett on 2/5/2008 at 12:21
Quote Posted by Stitch
The Democratic Party nomination race.
Word.
Peanuckle on 2/5/2008 at 19:56
I'm obsessing over whether or not to get into tabletop Warhammer 40K. I know it's incredibly expensive, but hey, I've got money to toss around.
It's mine. You can't have any. :devil:
Jennie&Tim on 3/5/2008 at 04:45
It's always fun to see Homo sapiens knocked off the pedestal a bit. So crows have culture and tool-use too. Makes us frantically search for our "special uniqueness" doesn't it?
Kolya on 3/5/2008 at 08:31
I thought this thread was about our special unique traits? I for one have no obsession with cracking nuts.
Tocky on 4/5/2008 at 04:12
I've always wanted to teach a flock of crows via food reward (a sandwich maybe) to say one ominous word like "kill". I just think it would be funny to see them chasing someone with a sandwich down the street saying "kill" until they dropped the thing and ran screaming. There are a lot of them here.
They are related to magpies right? There was a magpie at a store when I was a kid that would say "psst... hey you" until you got close to the cage and then say "let me out of here!" He also meowed and barked like a dog.
I have nuts. Walnuts, hickory, and pecan. Mostly fruit. Pear, varieties of grapes, muscadine, scuppernong, several varieties of cherry and apple, blueberry, plums, strawberry and blackberry. I still need a persimmon, a june apple, and a mulberry. Just one obsession.
Dia on 4/5/2008 at 12:59
*Makes note to self not to walk around outside eating a sandwich anymore especially when Tocky's in the vicinity*
Quote Posted by doctorfrog
Strangely enough, it's the fierce and inpenetrable cloud of mods available for Oblivion, and the promise, conflicts, fixes, and neat things they all hold that have to be taken in, measured, balanced, and applied that keep me from buying the full thing, expansion packs included, not the $50 price point.
Don't let that stop you DrF. I accidentally found Morrowind (GOTY ed.) in a pile of PC games that my late husband had bought awhile ago. I remembered hearing him tell me how great it was & how he really thought I should try it, but at the time I was still heavily addicted to all things Thief and TTLG.
During a lull in new T2 FM releases my curiosity got the better of me so I loaded it; two months later I went online to Amazon & bought Oblivion (GOTY ed.) It took another 3-4 weeks to finish any of the quests I found remotely interesting in Morrowind; but once I started getting bored with it (having already played Tribunal & Bloodmoon) I loaded Oblivion and haven't looked back since. I didn't load any mods for Morrowind probably because I knew Oblivion was sitting there waiting for me.
Yeah, I'm addicted to Oblivion now. It's kind of a weird addiction though. I'll only play for a few hours a couple of times during the week and every other weekend (dirty dishes and litter boxes have a way of becoming seriously nasty after a few days). I guess knowing there's no E.S. V out (yet) prevents me from blasting through it and thusly going into game-withdrawal. Reminiscent of what I went through after I'd finished T2 before discovering TTLG (God Bless you guys!).
So far I haven't had any serious problems with the Oblivion mods I've downloaded, but have decided that the time is rapidly coming for me to go out & buy a new PC, since mine is over 6 yrs. old & is having trouble keeping up (serious 'stutters' and lags, especially when I'm in the middle of a melee). Tweaks can only do so much when you have an older PC ya know.
I've also continued to download the latest T2 FMs (& faithfully keep an eye on that particular forum ) against the time when I
do run out of Oblivion mods and/or become bored with it.
All in all I figure it's better than being addicted to drugs; although I've got a feeling that if I jump on top my desk at work (when seriously stressed out) one more time wildly waving my pen in the air and shouting, 'WHAT SAY YOU???!!!' they're gonna fire me.
:weird:
