Garnoopy

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FARRON & GARNOOPY Chief Science Officer & Chief Engineering Officer USS Manticore, NCC-5852 Stardate 50511.06 “Fault” Farron was laying in sickbay, knowing Garnoopy was on the biobed next to her, making plenty of noise but not talking. Garnoopy pulled himself up, looking over at Farron, then he looked around to see if he could find a nurse so he could leave. Farron tried to get up, but can't, and she looked at Garnoopy, “Don't you even start looking at me with that look.” Garnoopy slit his eyes at Farron, “I don't need to give you a look, you've already caused enough problems that you're going to have enough people looking at you to make you uncomfortable for weeks to come.” She raised her voice, “Oh, so this is all my fault?” “Whose fault did you think it would be? Miss Science apparently doesn't know her stuff. At least my engines haven't blown up.” “Oh, so it couldn't just be the fact that we're stuck in this odd area of space, stretching? Last I heard, we're sitting here because your engines don't work! At least that would kill us faster” she spat out. “We wouldn't be stuck in this area of space if you had been paying half a lick of attention to your sensors. Instead you were probably playing solitaire on that computer console you claim is a science station” Garnoopy angrily declared. “If your engineering department wouldn't keep sending surges all the way up the ship and blowing out my sensors, then maybe they would work better, and more often! If you're calling me a bad science officer, then you're an even worse engineer; at least part of my major systems work. Your engines have us stuck here. My sensors are keeping us from going into places we don't need to go.” Garnoopy glared at her, “Oh, keeping us from going the places we don't need to go?! What do you call what just happened?! We flew into a nebula and half of us nearly died! Commander Farrington disappeared and turned into a ghost! And meanwhile, you have the audacity to sit here and tell me that my engines are responsible for leading us here?” Farron responded quickly, “No, no, your engines are responsible for getting us out! My sensors didn't get us trapped - moving this ship in to investigate an anomaly did. And, here we are, in the same predicament as ships before us, working on exploding because we just can't hold together. Isn't the ship's ‘holding togetherness’ your responsibility?” “So far, the ship is together! Now, if you could just manage to find a way out my engines, which, by the way, Chief” Garnoopy spat out the title, “are working fine. We have thrusters and impulse. What more do you need, me to find the way out and hand it to you on a silver platter? Isn't it your job to find our way out?” “The ship isn't holding together much longer, and the entire crew knows it; we can't get near windows! We have two warp cores on this ship, and you can't even get one of them to work. Unbelievable” Farron said as she threw up her hands. “If you could manage to get us the data we need in order to protect the warp core, they would work fine. But instead of getting us that data, you are messing around which has caused my staff to start having to do your job!” Garn spat out. Farron glared at him, “And if you could get the data on how to get my sensors back up and running, since you stated last time they broke that they were in fact your responsibility, maybe I could figure out how to get us out of here. But, really, what would that do if we can't move!” “Perhaps we could get your sensors online if you bothered to analyze the data you already have. Tell me, why haven't you looked into that data?” Garn said with great sarcasm. “Because, Mr. Garnoopy, my sensors are only able to tell me that our cohesion is failing, and the ship is coming apart at the seams. I've analyzed it all I can” She said. Garn rolled his eyes, “Did they teach you in the academy to speculate why and perhaps, oh, I don't know, what's the word? Theorize as to how to stop the degradation? Or are you just here to repeat the computer. Because I like the computers voice more.” She sniped back at him, “Let's see, we could always try putting up shields. Oh, wait, we can't do that... you've put the ship at the lowest power settings. Or... no, we couldn't try that either. Or we could try to leave, but wait - again, we're stuck.” “Let’s see, since shields didn't help the other ships, I doubt they'll do much for us. I guess your equivalent must have been on the other ships as well. I guess that means we're also doomed.” “It is also nice to see that those ships stayed for destruction, too. I suppose they have just as incompetent of an engineering chief as we have, to have been stuck here.” I don't need to take this from you, “Garn said as he looked around,” I'm going back to work. “And I don't from you, either” Farron said as she hypoed herself with a sleeping medication to drown out that hideous voice. Garn stood and walked away from Farron.

Actually, I think it was a different article and the previous one didn't discuss the bluetooth aspect of it. Anyone want to search the forum for it?

I agree with Fred. I think that in the case of a newly starting Ensign on an advanced sim, less is more. If you add too much right away, you corner yourself into that history. Trying to change, alter, or just add something can be a difficult task later on. If you leave it open ended though, you have the ability to later on use open parts of your past for logs. You can compare things that are happening now, on an advanced sim, to things that may have happened in your past, say while at starfleet academy. So, in my opinion, for your first bio, less is more.

Happy Birthday Vanroy! Another year older, whatever shall you do?

And oh boy those are scary pictures. Happy Birthday Vanroy!

I'd agree. Personally, if I saw that, I'd think it was the Delta Flyer before I'd think it was the Falcon.

Very very cool. Did Star Trek ever do the reverse for Battlestar?

I think it was during one of your "soft" moments. We'll have to suppress the original posting... we wouldn't want anyone to know about that side of you Vanroy. :P

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Well, this certainly is a surprise. Makes you look back in the day when having 500 posts was considered a lot! 500th Post! Congrats everyone. :P

Ohhh, how spooky. The end of submissions has come! Wherever shall SLW be in 2006?! Guess we'll ge to find out soon!

Congradulations Muon!

Fazolli's is much more than a midwest chain, we have one in Daytona Beach, FL. I love Culvers... Beef A Roo (Rockford, IL food chain)... I hate Burger King... Wendy's... Taco Bell..

Regardless of where I was (Starfleet, outside of Starfleet), I'd be flying. That's what I do now and that's what I'd do then. Although I love playing an engineer onboard the Manticore, I know engineers and what they do, and well, nothing quite compares with being the pilot in command. :)

A Cruise For Shore Leave 2006! Everyone would like Shore Leave to come to their front door, but no one has really made a case for it! If you really want everyone to be interested enough to spend money to come to see your city, then you need to sell your city! Don't just post a few lines filling the requirements set down by the committee, really put it out there! You have to ask yourself, if you were going to spend money... what would make you want to come to your city? My proposition for Shore Leave will need to be downloaded. It is a PowerPoint presentation that is a slightly large file. I apologize to those who have dial-up. Please follow this link to download the presentation: http://www.garrettbernard.com/garnoopy/SLW.zip File size: 4.16 MB Once downloaded, open the file "Presentation". In the menu click "View", and then "Slide Show". This will start the presentation. Use your arrows to move between slides. If you do not have PowerPoint, then PowerPoint Viewer can be downloaded from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en If you are still unable to view the presentation, please send me an e-mail and I will package the file such that you are able to view it. The reason for the above formats is that these were the smallest files I could put together without packaging the entire program.

Actually, from what I recall (I may be wrong...), there was only one person that went and gambled, and he was supposed to win us all dinner... but that didn't quite work out, eh? I found SLW to have no connection with gambling the whole time we were in Vegas. If you wanted to go gamble, you went to gamble. It's the same with other things... if you want to go down teh tube river, go down the tube river... You didn't have to stay together as a group to have fun. One night, half the group went to go puke on roller coasters and the other half went to go watch the fountain lights.

Ironically, while everyone has been posting the "idea" of a cruise, for about the past month I've been putting together a power point presentation supporting the idea of a cruise, including collecting data, prices, sail dates, events, ect. ect. Until I finish the presentation, I don't want to spoil everything, but a cruise is one of the better ideas out there for several reasons. 1. A cruise does not have to be expensive. Although people are talking about $1,000 cruises here, they can go down to as low as $250 to $500 which is more than reasonable. 2. Cruises are great for large groups. You have the people who want to lay on the deck, the people who want to gamble, and the people who want to swim. A cruise has it all, and no one can get lost as it is a boat and there is no where you can go. 3. I'm still looking into the details... but a passport may/may not be required, pending on the cruise. There are many weekend cruises to "nowhere" which would be perfect. I have been on cruises before and they are wonderful. Most trips are not relaxing, as you are still connected through computers, wireless internet, cell phones... the advantage of a cruise is your cell doesn't work, you have no internet, and in order to get any sort of comp/phone usage you have to spend money, so, you are officially cut off. You are literally forced to leave your other life behind and relax. When I finish collecting data I'll post my full results here on the forum.

Pure Nerd 78 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 8% Dork For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd. The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

Posh, don't be closeted. Be yourself. Scary enough you'll find many many people who are trekkies. Or at least, many people who will get a kick out of your trek uniform. :lol:

I love the Intrepid class. That's what I'd pick. Otherwise, I'd have a Defiant class.

GARNOOPY Chief Engineering Officer USS Manticore, NCC-5852 Stardate 50508.27 “VISION” Garnoopy looked around sickbay, noticing that for the first time in several months he could make out objects in the room. He could read panels that before only looked like a washed out photo. After an hour surgery his vision had been returned by Dr. Mele. Of course, it wasn’t quite the same vision as he remembered. To be honest, it was nothing like he remembered. The optical implants which connected directly to his occipital lobe did not compute images the way normal eyes did. Instead his vision was a mixture of colors and light shades. Somehow his brain was managing to make sense of it, though at times he felt as though he would never understand the world around him. The implants also had the ability to see the chemical composition of gasses and items around the room. Right now Garn couldn’t tell what exactly was what, but he could already tell gases from metals. In time he would be able to make out more details. As grateful as he was though, it was troubling to thank Mele. As helpful as he had been this was not his vision, it was a substitute. Something that was only there because he was unable to restore the original vision Garn had been born with. It was troubling to remember what a sunrise was, when he could no longer see one. Part of him felt like it was missing and although there was a replacement, it wasn’t the same. He only hoped that in time that the realization he could never see the way he used to would become less painful. For now though the implants would allow him to see. That was something he deeply had wanted. As much as he enjoyed the company of the good doctors in sickbay he was ready to get back to engineering. The feeling of uselessness had been getting to him, eating away at him like a dog on a bone. To the observer of course his eyes looked the same, unless you got close in. Then you could see some of the optical fiber running underneath the sclera. The pigments in his eyes were blue, for now. Mele had informed him that he could change colors at any point without any trouble. For now Garn felt that returning to his previous eye color would be the best thing, perhaps in time another color would come to his attention. A few of the doctors had suggested polka dots or stripes. The experience had brought new attention to who Garn was. In the time that he couldn’t see there had been much time that reflected on who he had been. There was no mistaking it, the experience had changed him. His entire view on the world had changed, he no longer viewed it from the limited perspective of vision, but he heard things now that he had never heard before. His hearing still seemed to be heightened and his sense of smell was amazing. At times he still had flashes of colors when people spoke, almost seeming to detect their moods. It was confusing and hard to pin what exactly triggered them. At times he felt lost by them and at other times they made him understand what the other person might be feeling. It was good to have his vision back. To see never felt quite so good, even if it isn’t quite the same.

"E85 is the term for motor fuel blends of 85 percent ethanol and just 15 percent gasoline. E85 is an alternative fuel as defined by the U.S. Department of Energy. Besides its superior performance characteristics, ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline; it is a completely renewable, domestic, environmentally friendly fuel that enhances the nation's economy and energy independence." Source: http://www.e85fuel.com/e85101/faqs/e85.php

I was interested to see how prices compared across the globe so I did some searching and came up with this chart. I apologize for its layout, the forum won't let me even move text over so it's in somewhat set up columns. All prices are in US Dollars per gallon. The prices were last updated in March, 2005. I know it's a bit old, but at least you get a perspective. Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48 Norway Oslo $6.27 Italy Milan $5.96 Denmark Copenhagen $5.93 Belgium Brussels $5.91 Sweden Stockholm $5.80 United Kingdom London $5.79 Germany Frankfurt $5.57 France Paris $5.54 Portugal Lisbon $5.35 Hungary Budapest $4.94 Luxembourg $4.82 Croatia Zagreb $4.81 Ireland Dublin $4.78 Switzerland Geneva $4.74 Spain Madrid $4.55 Japan Tokyo $4.24 Czech Republic Prague $4.19 Romania Bucharest $4.09 Andorra $4.08 Estonia Tallinn $3.62 Bulgaria Sofia $3.52 Brazil Brasilia $3.12 Cuba Havana $3.03 Taiwan Taipei $2.84 Lebanon Beirut $2.63 South Africa Johannesburg $2.62 Nicaragua Managua $2.61 Panama Panama City $2.19 Russia Moscow $2.10 Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74 Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91 Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78 Egypt Cairo $0.65 Nigeria Lagos $0.38 Venezuela Caracas $0.12