Aanchir

No, I don't have "The Secrets of ASOUE." Sorry, I do. I forgot. Plus, you have one word two many before the last word of your coded message. But I do have "The Unauthorized Autobiography," from which I got the info on Sebald code and Dr. Sebald. I also have "The Puzzling Puzzles," a strange cross between book and movie canon, that teaches Sebald Code, how to make Puttanesca sauce (Which tastes good, although I prefer to put it in a food processor. It turns out brown and weird-looking, but it is smoother and still tastes good.), and many other skills that can prove beneficial to the training of a potential volunteer. With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Time

OMG! For a second I thought I had actually cleared up a topic enough for it to be closed! Amazingly, I "cleared things up" just a few minutes ago. This is a very unusual incident. Does it qualify as spam? If this gets added to a Spam Library, I could be immortalized. Of course, it would feel better if I had actually concluded a topic well enough to have it closed, but even I know that my post was in no way conclusive, but rather in anticipation of the topic staying alive for a long, long time. EDIT: That is a bad misspelling of "sightings". I'm amazed it wasn't filtered, except it isn't the proper spelling of what it looks like, either. -

Aye! ... But could you tell me what it really means? I know it's Maori or some similar Polynesian language. -

Fo' shizzle!

I found this member back before this club even started. I doubt they're still around, but Lyichir thought it would be good to post it here. Be sure to check his sig. Here's another, though I doubt they have ever been an active member, since they have zero posts. In other words, they exist merely to keep us from getting control of that wonderful username. Lemons Forever! -

Sorry about that. Anyway, your text is lemon-colored. Don't think I didn't notice. -

Hello. If you are reading this then you are not only in a large minority intent on self-inflicted misery, but you may also be a reader of my epic, Frost Rising. Regardless, you are probably interested in finding the answer to one question: What is Sebald Code? Let's begin with a little history. Sebald code is named for its inventor, a volunteer named Dr. Gustav Sebald. Dr. Sebald was a reputed filmmaker who is well known for his production of movies such as Ghosts in the Desert, Goblins in the Garden, Mummies in the Jungle, Lions in the Mountains, Vampires in the Retirement Community, Leeches in the Lake, Werewolves in the Rain, Surgeons in the Theater, Gorillas in the Fog, Bats in the Train Station, Ants in the Fruit Salad, Zombies in the Snow, Hypnotists in the Office, Bigfoot in the Mall, Alligators in the Sewer, Realtors in the Cave, and The Littlest Elf. He was rarely featured in popular media besides his own, possibly due to his participation in the Volunteer Fire Department, yet his participation also earned him recognition on both sides of the schism that rocked its foundations. The Sebald Code was a method he invented to hide secret messages in his films, which were to be viewed by fellow volunteers to alert them of impending danger. Sadly, Dr. Sebald passed away for unknown reasons. Criminal activity such as arson or drowning is suspected, specifically from members from the opposite side of the schism. The Sebald Code is an obcure code, yet a simple one to master. The Sebald Code is present in passages or films where it is introduced by the ringing of bell. The word immediately following the bell as well as every eleventh word afterwards are all code words. The coded message ends when another bell is rung. Therefore, if the passage in question was... ...then the secret message is "Bionicle Rex likes cheese," and you know that the Evil Lord Survurlode is planning an attack. However, if the passage was... ...then the secret message is "brakelattabasaasta feed me," and you know that there is a villainous spammer who is out to get you. With this knowledge in hand, please post comments in this entry, and practice your newfound skills decoding the secret message in Chapter Six of Frost Rising. With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Time

I can recite the quadratic formula really fast ever since my Algebra 1 teacher drilled it into my head. "Opposite of "b" plus or minus the square root of "b" squared minus four "ac" over two "a"." Phew... It's a lot harder to type than it is to say. -

Glad to know you're not leaving! Lyichir told me that you might leave last night and I thought I might cry! Well, not really, but I sure felt like crying if you really did leave. Keep in mind that you are one of the artists who gives hope to newer members--- If not for you, I never would have thought that a member could so quickly join the elite ranks of BZP artists. That gives me hope, even if my CGing skills are sub-par and my artwork topics never stay alive as long as yours. Just remember that there's a reason you're so popular, and it's not just the fact that other esteemed artists have represented you in nearly all media. It's because you are an example of how great a member can become in the course of a few years. It is the wish of all loyal BZPower members that great artists like you continue to inspire us all. With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Time

This is absolutely fascinating, while disturbing at the same time. I am glad to know you are okay, and I hope that someday you will get better for good. It makes me feel glad to know that I don't have any condition as dangerous as yours, and sorry that a great artist and BZPower member such as you has to live life with such a condition. I have a couple conditions that affect me at home and at school, but nothing as frightening as you. Here's hoping that you eventually get better. -

It took a while to figure out, but I finally found a way to give my readers on BZPower access to a sample of Endless Night, the song featured in my SSC3 entry. Copy and paste the following URL into your address bar and it should open it up in Windows Media Player or a similar program. Sorry I can't provide a direct link, but the brackets in the URL prohibit me from doing that. I can't link to the source either, because it has forums. http://lebom.com/audio/The%20Lion%20King%20[Original%20Broadway%20Cast]/Ensemble_Endless_Night.mp3 The song is from the Broadway stage production of The Lion King, and is not featured on any CDs (to my knowledge) except for two: The original broadway cast recording and a CD you can buy at the play that contains just five songs. I have the five-song version. If this song influences your enjoyment of my songfic, post comments there. General comments about the song go in this entry. Share and enjoy! -

Here's some background advice: Check out this lovely artwork. The artist's name escapes me, *cough*me*cough* but I heard that he made his by Googleing for New Zealand scenery, which demonstrates the widespread variety of environments on Mata Nui, and found two pics. He used a program, which is coincidentally the same photo-editing program you have, and edited the people out of a beach picture, then pasted in a cliff picture he had found and edited. He found the clone tool particularly useful for covering up any unwanted people or scenery, or for painting in identical textures to ones already on the drawing, including sand and sky. When he was finished, this [shamelessego]artistic genius[/shamelessego] edited it using one of the fine art functions in the dropdown effects menu to make the background relatively similar to the style of the artwork. This artist is said to be a major fan of your artwork, and I am certain that he would be completely willing to give you advice, assuming that he hasn't already. With all due respect, Aanchir, Rachira of Time

You forgot one PBS show of great importance... BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY! *Starts singing theme song* Seriously, that was great educational television. It spoofed just about everything (especially in one of the two space episodes (You know, the one with the Star Wars theme and text in the end credits (It spoofed Wayne's World, Star Wars, and H2G2 (before it was even a movie (I really need to close all of these parentheses))))). Once in science class in the eighth grade, my teacher brought in Star Wars: Episode Five (We were learning about energy and force at the time (Other teachers watched X-Men and X-Men 2 instead (Gaaahh! More parentheses!))). Every one hated that he would include that as part of the curriculum (But everyone hated him anyway (Except for me (Die, parentheses!!!))). However, students of all ages lend their voices gladly to a rousing chorus of BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY! Bill... Nye... the Science Guy BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY! (Inertia is a property of matter) BILL! BILL! BILL! Bill! Bill! Bill Nye the Science Guy BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! (T minus 9 seconds) BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY! Sorry, lost control there. But remember to never leave Bill Nye out of your list of the 90s' most memorable moments. With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Time (and annoying overused parentheses.)

Just be sure to save some bitter apples for me... They might come in handy. O.k., it's ASOUE humor. You made a nice entry that conveniently fits in with Book the 13th. Whoop-dee-doo. Have you read ASOUE? If not, you ought to so that you know what I'm railing on about. With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Time

Is anything ever certain? No. Can we assume the most likely and well-supported theories to be near-certain? Yes. Therefore, when Quigley theorizes in Book the Tenth that he believes V.F.D.'s meaning to be Volunteer Fire Department, we can use that and Mr. Snicket's allusions to a Volunteer Fire Department in later books as evidence towards the true meaning of V.F.D. Also, given the fact that the pages of the Quagmire notebooks featured in Book the Seventh read Volunteer Fire Department, it is almost undeniable that either V.F.D.'s true meaning is such a phrase, or that every noble person in the Baudelaires' lives has been decieved for quite some time. Please tell me if this ought to be in spoiler tags.

I didn't see the float, but I saw their performance in the parade. My dad was amazed how much some of the performers resembled the original Pythons! The Thanksgiving Day parade was really neat, and Julie Andrews was in it! (She's the actress who played Mary Poppins and Maria from The Sound of Music.) I didn't realize she still made public appearances! I'm sorry to say that I haven't seen Spamalot, although I have seen MPATHG. Have you seen the scene on the Special Edition DVD that they did in Lego? That was one of the most amazing LEGO movies I've ever seen! By the way,when I saw the first question on your Blog, I thought MPATHG was some Spamese word. By the second question I clued in. -

This Shakespearean sonnet is another excerpt from my commonplace book: The V.F.D., we are a noble group Concerned with many villainous affairs. The misery, it threw us for a loop; We mostly volunteer because we're scared. Our mission is as righteous as the day--- To rid the world of destructive fire. If arsonists and villains get their way, Then chances are we never will retire. Of secrets we would like to keep a few; Much agonizing truth we must restrain, And many we shall even keep from you Until the world is quiet once again. The villainy of man is what we fear, And that, my friend, is why we volunteer. Check back for more posts and content blocks extracted from my commonplace book.

Tish is not a club, tish is a religion! Anyway, I used to eat lemon slices whole at restaurants (not counting the rind of course!) my family used to laugh at me when they saw me squint and pucker up. You know, my blog, The Sugar Bowl, is centered around Lemony Snicket, the most lemonesque author around. Sugar and lemons... they are indefinitely intertwined... especially when tea is involved. Am I eligible to be in the club yet? With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Lemons Yes. Yes you can. -S

I take Latin 3, and I know what you mean. One time, Mr. Blosser (my teacher) was teaching about the battle of Phillipi, and as he wrote the name of the battle on the board, someone tried to guess it before he finished writing it. Eventually it came down to: Buck: Philanthropy! Luca: Battle of Philanthropy? Buck:I'm going to donate more than you! Luca:Not if I kill you first! I have to say, Latin is my funniest class. In the margins of homework and classwork from last year, I have created an archive of funny quotes from my classmates. I may share them in my blog someday. Hic Aanchir erat

Everyone is so upset about the colopr change! Honestly, dous it make any more sense to make Vakama Dark Red as a Toa? Not really. Keep in mind that the tan on Po-Matoran was actually changed to be more yellow in the movies. The feet are indeed a bit odd, but you made one complaint that I will not allow: You complained about practical pistons. As you may be aware, there are two types of piston: Practical, which would actually assist the poseability of the sets if replaced with a real piston, and impractical, which exists only for decoration. Practical pistons were at their peak in 2001, as is evidenced in the Toa Mata torsos and legs, and in 2006, on the Piraka torso, which is one of the most effective uses to date. The pistons on Hewkii's chest armor are practical: an implied pliability along the supporting frame of his center column allows them to compress the abdomen, allowing it to bend from side to side, or (since there is a 360 degree pivot on the upper end of the piston) backwards and forwards. Alas, the best practical pistons on the Inika are on the shoulders and underarms, allowing the shoulder joint to pivot up and down. I agree that Carapar would be better in brown (or even copper, as is seen in the Wookie Catamaran set). However, keep in mind that it is hard to use brown for MOCing in any of its three forms, whereas yellow-orange is in a multitude of sets. With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Time EDIT: You know what set really should have been brown? Vezon & Fenrakk. We need more brown Titans, and the dinky little brown piece on V&F just doesn't suffice.

Don't be surprised about meeting such people. Trust me, I would have died to get a chance to meet members like you, Schizo, Lady K, the admins, Hahli Husky, Omicron, etc. at Brickfest, even though I was not yet a member. If only some members had shown up on Saturday and Sunday who I could recognise... Omicron even lives in the same state as me and I don't know him! Seriously, that is one lucky kid. -

Dear Readers, Seeing as its been 11 days since that special day we call Halloween, it's high time I give my unfortunate readers an update on the Halloween festivities. My family's celebrations were premature, a word which here means "occurring earlier than is normal for such occasions." We went to a Halloween party at a friend's house on the 29th, and to celebrate the release of Book the 13th, Lyichir and I dressed up as two prominent characters from the novel, Olaf and Ishmael. You would probably rather not click the following links: The World Is Quiet Here Someone once stated that a picture is worth a thousand words, and so it is unnecessary for me to give you punctilious details such as "one eyebrow," "tattoo," "insignia," "bad hygiene," "no socks," "striped pants," "look out," or any of the other four thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight words that I could have used, if I had the villainous goal of making this entry an even more unpleasant experience than it already is. About a year ago I had a similar but far more detailed costume that I wore on Celebrity Day at my school, which conveniently ran hand-in-hand with the release date of Book the Twelfth. I will try to find pictures of that costume as soon as possible. Please check back for new entries and content blocks which may serve as reimbursement, a word that here means "repayment," for any grief you have sustained in reading this entry. With all due respect, Aanchir: Rachira of Time

Holy shrimp! That's the exact same program I use! The only problem is that it's hard to create intricate backgrounds without creating a new layer, and getting the new layer to show up requires erasing every bit of white space. Needless to say, it gets annoying. But anyway, I'm glad to know you're back. It's becoming hard to drag myself to visit the beloved Artwork forum without seeing the magnificent updates to topics by veteran artists such as Lady Kopaka and you. As soon as Lyichir has created a face piece for me, I will request pics of myself by all of the great artists of BZPower, and you can expect to be near the top of that list. Being a Rachira, I have a specially molded head as opposed to a mask, and seeing as Lyichir designed the character, it is up to him to create that face. Let me stop myself before I completely drift away from the topic at hand. Happy Birthday, Nikira. We've all missed seeing your wonderful art work. My birthday is in march, so I'll probably save my cookie until then. -

Gosh, Seran, I'm flattered! When I said your name was a bit long to type, I only wanted to know if there was a nickname by which I could call you... I never expected that you would actually change your name! Despite the unexpected reaction, it makes me feel good to know that a respectable BZPower citizen values my opinion so much. -

Hooray for lemons! You know what I say we do? I say we throw a LEMON PARTY! Great new title, Seranikai! Off Topic: Do you know a nickname I can call you by? Seranikai is kind of long and hard to type. - Seran. That's a lot easier. -S