A Very Special Episode

... the first line of the first post of each month-- it's the Year End Meme (last year's was here )! January : Well, I have awoken, January 1st, and lo! February : (The Friday Catblogging Collective assimilates another member) March : Hey, Geek Pop '08 is happening! April : "The song is called She's gone [sic], wen [sic] i [sic] was younger I thought it was called Cheese scone... I could ...

The 25 Best Books I read in 2008: #5

... with his illustrations, right down to the way he gives us the kind of cracking you see on old photographs. As our nameless protagonist journeys through the city, he meets other immigrants, and he assimilates culturally by listening to their own stories of what it was like to emigrate from their homelands to this wonderful city where all of them have ended up. Tan tells a universal-- clichéd, ...

Character Essays 2: Through a saga darkly, or Pharazon the un-hero

.... Or perhaps that just gives us a place to start: Elendil, Miriel, and Pharazon belong to the same generation.  There may be differences of age within -- it depends on how one takes and assimilates Helge's argument about Miriel -- but they are the cohort who will succeed Palantir, Amandil, and Gimilkhad.  (That gives us a tricky point in the published Silm, where Christopher and Guy Kay seem to ...

Restaurant POS

...keyboards or touch-screen line displays as input devices, while others use electronic cash registers as both input and output devices. Acting as sophisticated cash registers, the restaurant POS assimilates and disseminates information according to customer demands, with printers and monitors in different, but convenient locations and connected through an interface to the server at the back office....

Fast Tuna Weight Privation Diet

...of blood vessels and reducing deposits in the arteries while restoring their elasticity. It also strengthens the circulatory system and helps to lower cholesterol. The kelp plant extracts and assimilates vital minerals from ocean water and miraculously converts them from unavailable inorganic substances to available organic minerals that our bodies can then use for overall health. There is little...

Sega should have know better than to make Perfect Chaos a giant tentacle monster...

... by possessing her body. He claims that he needs her body and she can have his powers. That sounds like a really, really, sucky deal for Chaos: her puny mortal body for his god powers. Nice. He assimilates with her by climbing into her vagina. Chaos reveals his evil plot: he's going to use Amy to kill all the other canon characters, saving Sonic for last. Why go through all that trouble? Why not ...

Was or is the aborigen people of Russia the protoplasm?

... the more recent historical period we find the opposite phenomenon. An elite consisting of some of the most active, energetic, enterprising and disciplined members of the society emigrates abroad and assimilates the culture and historical experiences of the most advanced countries of the West, without however losing the most essential characteristics of its own nationality, that is to say without ...

... drawing her attention back. Attius' reply causes flames of red to colour her cheeks, and she looks away, embarrassment written across her face. "Not since then, I reckon." Janus's eyes widen as he assimilates the information. "A month? That's a long time gone." His eyes dart over to Etienne momentarily, then light on Atticus instead. "Why'd it take so long before ya got worried?" His hands come ...

...have it thrown in my face regularly. Another of my "friends", who is a hypocrite, a liar, consistently insults everybody around him except those he is trying to suck up to (upon whom he assimilates their interests and qualities - what a surprise) despite the fact that if anyone ever tries to defend themselves against his personal attacks, he in turn acts offended as if he is high chancellor of the...

Restaurant POS

...keyboards or touch-screen line displays as input devices, while others use electronic cash registers as both input and output devices. Acting as sophisticated cash registers, the restaurant POS assimilates and disseminates information according to customer demands, with printers and monitors in different, but convenient locations and connected through an interface to the server at the back office....