Posts Made By: Paul Walsh

Agent Scully (Gillian Anderson) from the X-Files and I wrote the poem to prove it...


Agent Scully, will you rendezvous with me?
Sheltered by some viaduct, umbrella'd by some tree,
to scan terrain for pheromones of alien display,
our one hundred thousand candle power torches
light the night sky and our trench-coats,
brushing at the elbow, make a sound I can't stop thinking - like your nylons swishing as you
climb the crime lab library ladder.

Agent Scully, will you rendezvous with me?
Can you set aside your microscope, your specimens and doubt, sweep away the vacuum flasks,
and let me take you in your labcoat, on the gurney,
while oscilloscopes record the supernatural effects
of red hair, green eyes, and skin the color of
the Mother of all ship's milk.

Agent Scully, will you rendezvous with me?
And take this G-Man by his cashmere lapels,
as those skeptical, crimson lashes lift, like the dawn sky, turning up those eyes of yours in which I see all of nature bowing down in adoration of a green no chlorophyll could emulate and take this G-Man down through the ferns, because I know the truth lay somewhere just beyond your valley.

Agent Scully, will you rendezvous with me?
Bring your ether and your scalpel, your rubber gloves and, please, your handcuffs and your stethoscope, some duct tape and a gun... I'm tired of all this mystery, let's just have some fun.

Speaking of the original Bates story, "Farewell to the Master", I found the full text of it on a site called the Nostalgia League:

http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/bates.html

They have a great listing of oldies-but-goodies at:

http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/index_olm.htm

Enjoy!

-Paul S. Walsh

Nice grab with that gear. May I ask how, exactly, was your D70 attached to the eyepiece?

-PSW

Beautiful grab. Is that C11 equatorially mounted or fork??

Wow. I continue to be amazed at what you guys are doing with these DSLRs.

My my. The hits just keep coming.

That right there is probably my favorite scene of the decade. Levon Helm really delivered the goods and I love the way he kept switching glasses to match the D.O.F.

Nice gun. But we might want to re-read Greg Bear's "The Forge of God" before getting too cocky too soon. His book is a beautifully written wake up call that suffiently advanced alien planet killing techniques can be positively bowel-loosening in their potential and virtually impossible to defend against.

Not that I wouldn't like to get my hands on a concealed-carry 128 Megajoule rail gun... Just for fun. In the mean time, I'd settle for a Samaritan.

There are several areas you might explore. (knowing that a system restore may be inevitable)

While its possible you have contracted a virus, I do know that AVG is capable of False Positives and may have Quarantined a healthy file. Can you "View" the name of the quarantined file?

If you are running Windows XP you might read this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812340

I would also like to know the full spec on the machine in question.

-Paul

I highly recommend Paint.net

It's free and beautifully designed, giving all the basic image manipulation tools you could want in a free package. Nice to look at and easy to use and did I mention the price? Here's the link:

http://www.getpaint.net/

(GIMP is also available on that site and, though more powerful, it has a MUCH steeper learing curve and not recommended for quick and dirties like resizing images. I'd start with Paint.net

-Paul