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Full Metal Alchemist fights rocked too !! Rock Lee vs Kimimaro, Neji vs Naruto (Chuuinin) ! Sword fights - watch Conan The Barbarian and get a lil viking-ness in yer writing hehe ... you may also wanna watch Patton and Where Eagles Dares for inspiration on military / battle tactics, especially the former.

Full Metal Alchemist, Fruits Basket, Naruto are al great in Jap voices, not heard their English equivalents ... yet. Sabe, Wolf's Rain's English voice actors do sound justice, good choice !

How about Ghost In A Shell - Stand ALone, Second Gig ... they've used the same English voice actors for both series' and they're damn good. How's the series in Jap ? Dragonball's Jap voices sound like they're talking in a room with a high percentage of helium in the air ...

I don't write that much ... infact, nothing at all but once in a while I send the wierdest sms's or offliners that make uber little sense - the inspiration from that comes from my 23 year old virgin typical horny side of the brain, damnit. Pink Floyd could be really good for inspiration, I can imagine ... what albums in particular, Lady ?

By good dubs you mean voice actors doing justice to the character and the language as well ? How'd we ever know if the translations in the subtitles are acurate *hides before being pelted with tomatoes ...*

Good luck FM, stay badass

Haha ... sounds like a complete belly tickler X'D

Wooo seductive piece of work ... I like the top ( / first) picture.

Blooooooooody hell, it'll never come on air over here ... I hope they come out with season dvd's or something. Good news and let us know how the series shapes up.

I'm sorta hoping the mulberry/rasberry plant grows well so I can make some jam out of it ... it'll be my first so I'm really excited !

Hmmm I'll try and look out for those reccomends Lady, but first I'll have to find their equivalent local names so they understand what I ask for since most of these vendors may not even speak in English ... once I order my print cartridge maybe I can take a printout and show it instead . Thanks !!! I'll google it ...

whoa the road looks hella scary! A lotta sand and clay ne?

Heh, NO ! The red mud you see is the mountain itself . The soil is rich in iron, which explains the coloration. f you look at the mountain from a distance, you see a thin line ... and part of that line is what we see in the pic x_x

the phlox are very pretty . marigold are unappealing to most wildlife too. Deer wont eat em. Generally I plant marigold or mint near plants that deer and other critters might want to snack on.

A lot of roses (most actually) need a good hacking down before growing season gets going. they're one of those plants that wont grow new green on old wood.

Hacking up n stuff, hey, I remember studying it in college and you could even cross-breed (I'm sure it's called something else ... *thinks*) em, but only if my caretaker could not touch them and make them survive ... I've really wanted to try cross-breeding and creating hybrids ... you've tried it Lady, Sledge ?

there seems to be quite the mix of sun and shade in your garden. you can probably get away with growing stuff that is more sensitive to hot afternoon sunlight.

Any recommendations ? Hmmm Sledge's suggestion of growing sunflowers rings a bell. Actually, they're well suited for the climate and yeah, I'll try it the next time I visit.

were you thinking of reworking the beds so that there is a variety of different stuff in each one? each individual bed can be designed to be its own lil ecosystem. Plants that complement each others growing conditions (like how acidic the soil is, how much sun) difference in color and leaf texture give each bed it's own unique look

I grow lavender and mini roses together. I also put some mint, sage, yarrow (yarrow strengthens the herbs it grows with. makes em more potent) and a couple other herbs (Irises for spring) in the bed together.

I'll get some pics of the disaster and show ya

You're a pro ! I could rework the beds, but there're less chances of it to survive if I'm not around because the caretaker will kill em all . And, that's good advice .. how'd I know the acidity of the soil ?

Can't wait for your garden's new pics .... disaster my ass !

I swear ! It'll atleast make my browsing / downloading / internet speed faster by a slight bit because of a better processor on board

12,000 bucks hehe ... Indian currency which's roughly 43 bucks to a dollar (blooooody economy!), makes everything on ebay and distro's or webstores all the more expensive X'D

I'm planning on a system overhaul, spending 12 grand to replace my motherboard with 1.something GB RAM and the works. Either that or an appointment with the dentist ' ... I'm sorta cross with my computer techie because I paid through my nose for my Sony Dvd Burner and that bum gave me an import which carried Ntv as the software instead of Neogeo.

*waves* welcome aboard Prowler , don't think we've met.

I concur with Dubird on The Lord Of The Rings book, and the movie does leave out battle parts and a few interesting characters here n there. I'm probably gonna pick up Shantaram this weekend, another fatassed book, since it's pretty interesting - a bestseller written by an Australian (who serving a 19 year prison sentenc), he fled to India, and after a decade was recaptured and extradited. It's basically about his life here in India and a certain taxi-driver who becomes his side-kick. It digs into the roots of Mumbai city and is entailed with real life events (I think )

Digital Fortress was really unimpressive and The Sphere is so much better on paper than it was on film.

Reading (on and off) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, when will I ever finish this X'D !

Here's a peak into my rocky deserted garden at the hillstation ... '

Couple of 'flocks' (purple flower plants) and there's supposed to be a lily somewhere ... *looks for it .... goddamn*

All flocks and random flower plants lined up, there's one Gladioli plant at the far left of the line. That's a rose plant in the basket - lower right.

Poor ol Kaizer's grave (my earlier dog - dalmation by breed), but it's always covered with these tiny white flowery plants

Yaaay finally atleast one blossomed white rose X'D ... I dunno how my caretaker managed that. To the immediate left of the rose, one step back is a shoeflower plant and right next to it is a rasberry / mulberry plant. He's gonna kill them soon, so I had to take pictures >_> ...

That's me (with my eyes closed as always \m/) beside a 'Marigold' flower bed that I planted myself ... it took an hour when I went there a few months back and was surprised to see them alive even ... in the background is my aunt's cottage with her garden.

Off Topic: Now that was supposed to be a road ! The monsoon this year was really nasty and about 15 meters of the road alongwith the tar and soil sorta got washed away ... ofcourse part reason could also be the increase of hotels in the area resulting in cutting of loads of tree land, amounting to things like this. The drop is around 50 - 60 feet ...

Pretty smooth ... how do you get rid of all the excess icons on the desktop ? I have 3-4 columns to the left of my screen '

How huge is the entire series ?

Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow my camera role will go to the studio for processing and I'll post pictures of the garden at my cottage ... I was surprised when I visited 2 weeks ago and you'll know why very soon.

Great quality pictures, smooth looking wp. What desktop resolution do you recommend for this ?

I think I've seen only till about episode 18 or so of Destiny and Athrun is the most tolerable character.

I think Nero's pretty popular when it comes to being a burner software, however with my new Dvd-drive I picked up in December, my computer techie cheated me and bought me a pirated version which has NTI as the burning software.

Kreuk's such a hottie ... good drawing xelloss.

Thanks for all the recommendations guys

Before getting to read anyone elses messages, I downloaded Aqu's recommended codec pack. There's good news and bad news;

Good news - the file opens and I get to see something *phew*

Bad news - there is no sync between video, audio and sub-titles.

I think I'll have to un-install it or something and try Eppy's codec pack and then if that too doesn't work I'll try out Dubird's (next in line) . I only hope the un-installation doesn't wipe out other stuff ...

EDIT: I tried Eppy's pack, afterwards Dubird's software and each time the result was the same - video ran slow and very jerky, sound came late as did the subtitles with no synch between any of the 3 things. I think this may have to do with my computer settings / video / graphic card thingie or something ? Considering I'm at borderline cpu useage with 128 Mb ram, a PIII and XP