NASA browncoats boost the signal into space
POSTED BY: artcat81
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 16:42
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CaliforniaKaylee:
Actually (getting way off topic now), it'd be interesting to make a great big chart of Browncoats, trace back who converted who, all the way back up to... those who saw it when it was originally on, I suppose
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I'm a convert, second degree (kids saw it on
TV -- I don't have one, so had to do the DVD
thang).
What a nifty idea: Browncoat "genealogy!"
I can imagine it would look like the branching
of a computer program which I saw laid out all
over a (huge) wall during a big conversion
project some years ago.
Or the Anne Rice description of the genealogy
on the wall in one of her books, a little hairier
and more sinuous.
ßun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
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I'm a convert of the third degree at the very least. I know who converted the people who converted me, but I'd have to go to her and see if she saw the show when it was on, or if she herself was converted by someone else.
It would be a messy, messy genealogy. Probably more akin to vampire sires than to actual genealogy! 
Quite tempting to try though...
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Very, very intriguing.
Wish I'd not thought of that computer chart,
though. That was a nightmare time I'd tried
with modest success to over-write out of
memory. Large two-story room. Hung all over
the East wall, a covering of fanfold greenbar.
Against the wall, a ladder. Mechanical
pencils, straight-edges, an erasing
machine. On the paper, a great, branching
chart, all the "where does it go"s with
notes on the "what does it do"s in miniature lettering.
Trying to stitch together dozens of
pre-existing modules (custom-tweaked, natch)
into a functioning whole, said whole intended
to replace something *which already worked.*
Running through the project like a gold
thread in a tapestry was the deep conviction
of the underlings that here there were blind leading blind.
Still not sure how we survived it, but we
did. Heh.
ßun
(trembling)
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Hammer2 over at the SCI-FI board was able to take the print out and hand it to Joss at Comic-con. How shiny is that!
Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse
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Originally posted by Browncoatette:
It is. "Keens," that is, the gist being that you'll know something is wrong before she tells you about it.
Just want to be anal here, and point out that, to us in the UK, 'keens' is an old word for crying, so most appropriate when rain is lashing down on the windows like tears.
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"Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?"
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(Being anal right back atcha....) Yep, the definition Webster's gives for the noun "keen" is "a lamentation for the dead uttered in a loud wailing voice or sometimes in a wordless cry." The verb form is the uttering of same. I've seen other dictionaries that define it as a "mournful wail," which I think is probably the closest to how it's being used here.
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