Nightmares of playing the baritone in high school. Second worst song ever for bass players. The first being http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%27s_Theme

1. Dune - Frank Herbert
Dune remains amoung my favourite book I've read and the only one I've read multiple times. While I was disappointed by the rest of the series, the first book is a tremendous read and very enjoyable.

2. Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson (Book 2 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
The Malazan Empire series by Steven Erikson is one of the hardest to read fantasy books I've ever encountered. The author has a complex web of relations and events going on while writing with a fairly high level of english. The second book stands out for its section call "The Chain of Dogs" which details a group of refugees fleeing to safety under the guidance of a powerful leader.

3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
A great blend of comedy and science fiction. I still remember the first time I read the passage about the two missles screaming toward the Heart of Gold. I burst out laughing as the petunias came into being.

4. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
The fantasy version of Douglas Adams. Equally enjoyable and both love to use footnotes* for off the wall observations.

5. Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
While probably not the best written book and it is clearly Tolkien inspired, it is in my top 5 simply because it was the first real book I ever read. Previously I only read a few kids books, this one was a beefy amount of pages that took my 12 year old mind nearly a year to get through.

*Attaching notes to one foot does seem an odd, and potentially painful way (if you use a tac) to do things.

I don't think it would be impossible to model but highly difficult and in the end how much worth would it have? Land is easy to model, it doesn't move. While water could have something just below the surface, waves, ice, etc.

Yes a nice calm body of water could be figured out but the ocean?

So... ETA on a made for TV movie of this?

>> ^Farhad2000:
This thread has officially been Godwined.


Where? I don't see any mention of Hitler or Nazis. Oh wait... I've been tricked!

The second part is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdBoEZ7JfqQ

My friends dogs do that often. One of them even starts to run a bit.

If you make bird sounds really quietly near them they really get going and will wake each other up with barking.

The internet has scared me. The first thing that came to mind when he said chocolate milk was 2G1C.

This man needs to not win.

"Discovery therefor pays Comcast a sum to have them broadcast their channel and all it's commercials."

That is not always the case. Right now in Canada a few channels are seeking the right to charge cable companies to air their station because they get them free right now. Cable companies are protesting against it.

Comcast, Shaw, Rogers, Verizon, etc usually make their money just off their subscribers while Discovery, TLC, Fox, etc make money off the commercials. Stations want to change that so they make money from commercials AND subscribers.

Painkiller is one my favourite FPS games I've played. It lets you run & gun or creep about and snipe.

I think I died about 20 times in Hell because I simply had to run about and look at everything. It was the best endgame level design I've ever come across. Sadly the fight with Satan is a gimmickfest but it remains the only FPS I've played through three times. Most others I play once and I'm satisfied.