Prompt tables are fun! Comment with 2 sets of 3 randomly chosen words and I'll see what I can do.

001.	Beginnings.	002.	Middles.	003.	Ends.	004.	Insides.	005.	Outsides.
006.	Hours.	007.	Days.	008.	Weeks.	009.	Months.	010.	Years.
011.	Red.	012.	Orange.	013.	Yellow.	014.	Green.	015.	Blue.
016.	Purple.	017.	Brown.	018.	Black.	019.	White.	020.	Colourless.
021.	Friends.	022.	Enemies.	023.	Lovers.	024.	Family.	025.	Strangers.
026.	Teammates.	027.	Parents.	028.	Children.	029.	Birth.	030.	Death.
031.	Sunrise.	032.	Sunset.	033.	Too Much.	034.	Not Enough.	035.	Sixth Sense.
036.	Smell.	037.	Sound.	038.	Touch.	039.	Taste.	040.	Sight.
041.	Shapes.	042.	Triangle.	043.	Square.	044.	Circle.	045.	Moon.
046.	Star.	047.	Heart.	048.	Diamond.	049.	Club.	050.	Spade.
051.	Water.	052.	Fire.	053.	Earth.	054.	Air.	055.	Spirit.
056.	Breakfast.	057.	Lunch.	058.	Dinner.	059.	Food.	060.	Drink.
061.	Winter.	062.	Spring.	063.	Summer.	064.	Fall.	065.	Passing.
066.	Rain.	067.	Snow.	068.	Lightening.	069.	Thunder.	070.	Storm.
071.	Broken.	072.	Fixed.	073.	Light.	074.	Dark.	075.	Shade.
076.	Who?	077.	What?	078.	Where?	079.	When?	080.	Why?
081.	How?	082.	If.	083.	And.	084.	He.	085.	She.
086.	Choices.	087.	Life.	088.	School.	089.	Work.	090.	Home.
091.	Birthday.	092.	Christmas.	093.	Thanksgiving.	094.	Independence.	095.	New Year.
096.	Your Choice.	097.	Your Choice.	098.	Your Choice.	099.	Your Choice.	100.	Your Choice.

From Fannish5: Which five canons would you not want to live in, and why?

Battlestar Galactica pops into my head first, especially since I favor the Cylons. There's not a single season I think would be a good time to live in. Living conditions are squalid, there's not enough supplies, I don't like Roslin or how she ran the government, and I would be wretched at forsaking a standard of living that included sophisticated AI for a return to hunting and gathering in the end.

Song of Ice and Fire: Actually I wouldn't want to live in most medievalish fantasy series, but this series is particularly war-torn and prone to killing off large swaths of the population. Also, it will never resolve the civil war since the next book will never come out.

Supernatural: Females pretty much exist in this show to die.

Discworld: All the downsides of a medievalish fantasy setting wrapped within a satire of modern society. Hilarious to read, but hardly someplace I'd want to live. I'd be too tempted to explore Bloody Stupid Johnson's garden maze or something.

And, finally, Maverick, because if you thought women didn't have much freedom of roles in medievalish fantasies, you haven't watched westerns. The medicine is slightly better, and there's a dime-store novel market available, and you're much less likely to be killed, but that's because you don't even get to walk into taverns.

It's not something I often talk about, but my childhood differed from many of my peers, computer-wise. When I was young, the computer in our household was an Amiga. When Amiga went out of business, we moved to Macs. The first PC to enter our home was the one required for college, and I think my first encounter with a command line prompt was sophomore year of college. I was embarrassed at my inexperience with something even my computer-illiterate friends seemed to know.

I also have no experience with video game consoles. We had an Atari 5200 but it stopped working sometime around junior high. I must admit I didn't really see the point of them when I had a perfectly good computer to play games on.

But now I have a Wii and no idea what games/companies are good. I've gotten a few (and could've done without the realization that there's a GameStop right by work).
Lego Star Wars: don't care for
No More Heroes: ok, but not thrilled yet
Resident Evil 4: like so far
Mini-Ninjas: not yet tried but looks cute

Any suggestions?

"The amazing thing about language is how imprecisely we use it and still manage to get away with it. SHRDLU [an artificial-intelligence computer program] uses words in a "metallic" way, while people use them in a "spongy" or "rubbery" or even "Nutty-Puttyish" way. If words were nuts and bolts, people could make any bolt fit into any nut; they'd just squish the one into the other, as in some surrealist painting where everything goes soft. Language in human hands becomes almost like a fluid, despite the course grain of its components."

First lines from stories that I'm working thinking about.

Elfland 'verse
Every autumn when the leaves began to rival the red of roses and the yellow of sunflowers, a dryad came to the village of Blackbourne.

Blind Oracle (working title)
The letter came with breakfast, a slender roll of parchment wedged between the plate of eggs and the side of toast.

Sea Salt
The weathered bones of broken ships marked the mouth of the passage south.

Mirror House
They jacked me with the good drugs before carting me out to meet the police man.

Flip (not the title)
I've never bothered advertising; it's not hard to find me.

Ghost Garden (working title)
In the garden the children were playing catch-me and weaving through the beds of bluebells and lavender.

List five characters you'd want on your side in any kind of trouble. Bonus points for assembling an "Action Team" with complementary skills.

A number of my first thoughts would probly be more likely to get me in trouble than out - Bester, for example, whose presence is more likely to spark hostilities and who wouldn't spare a thought (literally) to helping. Let's see...

1) Lucas Buck (American Gothic) - as an officer of the law, he can smooth over a number of issues. He believes in making sure an enemy is destroyed, is very hard to kill (or at least keep dead), and has magic powers. Plus, if he's not on your side, you're in real trouble.

2) Elim Garak (ST:DS9) - great at improvising, skilled with weapons, computer systems, and words, gives enemies just enough rope to hang themselves with, understands necessity but prefers to avoid messes.

3) Merlin (Merlin) - if he can keep Arthur alive, he can do anything.

4) the Doctor (Doctor Who) - there's nothing he can't do or hasn't seen, he knows everything about everything, and he's got a time machine. I think I'd prefer Six, although Five or Ten would be good. Seven is tricky and plays his cards awfully close to his question-mark vest.

5) Hardison (Leverage) - any of the Leverage team would be good, but Hardison's computer skills are beyond compare

If I were going to create an "Action Team" and not worry about getting out of trouble, I'd choose Bester, Garak, Methos, Hardison, and Maybourn (SG1)

In no particular order:
1) Camelot (BBC Merlin) - who could resist watching Merlin's and Arthur's destiny play out in front of them? There's no internet or climate control, medicine's hit-or-miss, but it's one of the few medieval-ish settings with every possibility of chocolate, books and literacy appear fairly common, hygenie is acceptable, and primarily only knights get wantonly slaughtered.

2) BAU(Criminal Minds) - serial killer profiling with a team of smart, good people. What's not to like? It's set in current-day, so I'd have all the modern conveniences. I would need a regular cat-sitter, though, for all the traveling.

3)SD6/CIA (Alias) - spy missions with a team of smart, good people (albeit led by a smart, evil person). What's not to like? Also set in current-day, but with special spy!tech gadgets for extra fun. Mind, there would probly be the occasional kidnapping/hostage situation, but every job has its risks.

4) Deep Space Nine (ST: DS9) - I can't really see myself as a Federation officer, but DS9 had a sizable civilian presence. I think I'd like to design holodeck games.

5) Atlantis (Stargate: Atlantis) - I don't like this series as much as the original, but it definitely has a cooler workplace than under a mountain.

Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice:
Hmm, every episode twice? American Gothic. Of course, there's not that many episodes.

Name a (current) show you can't miss:
I don't think there's any show I watch real-time every week, and most of them get watched within a day or two of recording. Also, most of my shows aren't currently running new eps.

Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show:
Nathan Fillion

Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show:
Not sure

Name a show you can, and do, quote from.
Firefly

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Went to Panera for lunch (around 2:30). Ordered a chicken noodle bread bowl. They were out of bread bowls, did I want the soup in a cup? No, not really. Most of the fun is in scraping out the soup-soaked insides of the bread bowl. So I decided to try the chicken fontega sandwich advertised in their display pictures. Would I mind waiting 5 minutes, they don't have any of the bread ready. I go take a seat. Few minutes later, umm, they don't have any of the fontega chicken. There is an already assembled half-sandwich, though, if I'm interested. I'm not. I end up with my regular smoked turkey panini and a full refund. I'm not sure if God was trying to help my diet by pushing me to have the soup without the bread, but if so it backfired.

Also, the Yankee Candle kitchen line was on sale at Giant and the apple cobbler candle is *delicious* smelling.