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Neville's past will be revealed in the fifth movie. Actually, I wonder if anyone caught the little blurb about Crouch Jr. using the Cruciatus Curse on the Longbottoms, i.e. Neville's parents.

Well, Harry's strength in the books is that he's good on the broom. At fourteen, he's not really supposed to know all that much. Even the Patronus Charm he learned was out of school. In later books, he's supposed to learn more. Wonder if you've noticed that the only thing Harry had to use against Voldemort was Expeliarmus.

Can't think of any Gundam reference with the eye. Anyone watched "Another Ending"? I'm twenty minutes in and my sides are about to split.

Funny you should say that, because the first time I read Sorceror's Stone, I got a distinct Roald Dahl feel, which was nice. The later books.. not so much. Someone I talked to said some interesting things about the movie. The standard "they cut too much out of the movie" was expected, but she was looking for more character development. I gotta go back and read the book again. Maybe that will change my thoughts on the film.

You don't need immediate sanding to melt plastic. Styrene glue plus styrene equals automatically melted plastic. That's how the pieces bond together.

And how long does that money last?

Milliput is a two-part putty. Mix equal parts of A and B (both included in one pack) thoroughly and it dries and hardens. It can then be carved, machined, sanded, filed, drilled, etc... It's just sticky, and it doesn't melt anything. Solscud: Sometimes plastic parts have microfractures at stress points, and if paint solvents get into those cracks, the plastic crumbles. I've had it happen to me before when I stripped the paint from a Gundam kit by soaking it in paint thinner.

White glue is not great for stresses. Don't use white glue to glue heavy model parts. The white glue Penguin used was probably for thin wires. So lesson learned. Don't use Squadron or any gap filling putty to pack a crevice. Get some epoxy putty. I like Milliput myself.

Anyone who builds models (particularly Honda and NSX fans. Bashers need not apply) will be thrilled that Tamiya is releasing 2005 JGTC NSX's. http://www.hlj.com/product/TAM24286 Remolds? New molds? I don't care. It's 2005 JGTC NSX.

Saw it twice already. Freakin' AWESOME movie. Best of the four, definitely, even though Chamber of Secrets was already so awesome. Funny how Cho had only three lines in the entire movie. Ralph Fiennes is a PERFECT Voldemort. Deliciously evil, that guy seemed.

Luxeon LED's light up a blade all the way from one end to the other?? Amazing! Maybe it's worth it to look into these after all.

The Testarossa is THE Ferrari I fell in love with all those years ago. AOne, which Skyline are you talking about? The new GT-R? The new GT-R looks nothing like the G35.

Testarossa 512TR or Ferrari 512BB?

Naturally. I can't wait until I hold those keys to the NSX... PS: The director for Fast and Furious 3 directed Better Luck Tomorrow. Alright. This'll be interesting.

Bills suck, don't they? When you have a chance, you should definitely pick those manga up. I'm still waiting for a Yotsuba& anime.

You mean you haven't picked it up already??

http://tyatyamaru.chu.jp/soramimiyotubatoremixhi.swf Right click, save as?

Not even the Aquaman who was on Smallville. Hah.

Some people overdose on awesomeness and died from head explosion. Racing is racing, but swerving at him to cut him off is just rude.

Plain Cobalt. The SS should be much better, but I didn't have time. I wanted to get the passenger course over with so I can get to the performance course with the Corvettes. I didn't like the build quality of those cars at all. The H2 and H3's door handles felt like they would rip right off. Same with the shifter. Lots of things on the other GM cars felt very flimsy. The Hummer course has lots of things set up, including a pretty steep climb and descent. It should be interesting driving that course tomorrow. They also have competitor cars there, like BMW 325 and others.

Did anyone go to the Autoshow in Motion at Great America this weekend? I went for about an hour earlier today with a few of my friends and got banned from driving because I took the corners without braking. Damn GM cars and squealing tires. Didn't have time to take the Hummers on their obstacle course or drive the Corvettes, but I'm coming back tomorrow morning to drive some more. Drove a Chevy Cobalt. Slow, handles like a shopping cart. Drove a Z71 truck. Not sure what it was... Fast acceleration, great brakes, handles like a shopping cart. Drove a Pontiac Grand Prix. Has HUD, very cool! The course didn't let me test the sequential shift, since I never got out of first gear... But handles like a shopping cart and got me banned. I'll be sure to slow down and brake tomorrow so I can make it to the Hummers' course. Also sat in the H2 and H3. I understand why people want to buy the H2. It's so spacious and luxurious! H3 sucked though.

If they still use transistors. I wouldn't be surprised that whatever technology the machines come up with to replace transistors will be highly resistant to power surges, and generally much better than current digital technology. Besides, modern technology already has safeguards so that power surges don't even get to transistors in the first place.

Dude. Don't bring god into this.

That's the multiverse time travel idea.

That's news to me. The special relativity I learned in physics was that as the speed of travel approaches the speed of light, time, mass, and dimensions become distorted. Mass approaches infinity, length approaches zero, and time stands still. It places the universal speed limit at the speed of light. It also makes Newtonian physics useful only for everyday life at speeds much less than the speed of light and low precision. General relativity says that accelerating reference frame and gravitic reference frame are the same. Within a closed box, one would not know if the box is accelerating in empty space free of gravity or if the box is standing still inside a gravity well. There is a thought experiment that can be done to show that space is curved. Also, a particle not only exists in three dimensional space but also a time as well. A particle's position can be described best as a physical location (x, y, z) and time t. What I take this to mean for time travel is that with time dilation, travelling into the future is possible but not into the past. Also, with sufficient mass, space can be made to curve in on itself so that a particle may occupy two places at the same time. The multi-verse idea. I've heard of this before. But this is the first time I've seen the theory of relativity explicitly say that there is only one timeline. However, I don't see anything in relativity that restricts us to only one universe.