Is Frankenstein technically a Zombie?Follow

Wiki article says they can be visible ghosts or animated corpses. Because this debate also got me lost in wiki articles, it seems the primary difference between a large variety of monsters is their behavior and their origin.

Zombies generally refer to largely mindless, anonymous creatures--in most pop culture, zombies don't have personal connections to their targets.

Revenants, on the other hand, seem to rise specifically to target those who they were close with in life (though that's a later addition to the folklore).

Draugr (Norse for "ghost) are, ironically, animated corpses. But the concept is that they guard their own graves from robbers, as Norse burial send them into the afterlife with a great deal of wealth. Draugr would, on occasion, leave their crypts at night to attack the living (almost always leading to horrific killings), but it seems this was usually out of revenge or jealousy. But it doesn't necessarily say this is personal, like with the Revenant, but rather suggests that all Draugr end up loathing the living. They share the feature of an insatiable appetite (perhaps a symbol of their desire for life) with modern zombies.

There are WAY more, of course. Because many, many (if not most, or even all) cultures have legends of the dead returning. I just chose these because they are the ones I see most frequently in media.

We told our biggest client over the summer they needed a diesel generator capable of at least 8 hours installed, because they have several hundred thousand dollars of IT equipment at this point, and last time they had a bad power outage it almost completely wrecked their brand new VMware cluster.

Generator was installed earlier this month. Although our impact from this storm is unlikely to be more than a lot of rain, we're prepared!

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We lost power about ten last night. It was still out when I came into work this morning. I didn't get to shower. I feel dirty.

Didn't lose power at all, which is strange because hour house is all Swiss Family Robinson-style in the woods and we usually do lose it in any large storm.

Glad you guys got off light. We lost power around 7 PM yesterday and are still out, but we were entertained with the soothing melody of every transformer in a 2 mile radius nearly exploding at the same time.

Edit: Just got power back around 4 PM.

Edited, Oct 30th 2012 4:09pm by Shaowstrike

Thankfully, my power stayed on the whole time. Whew!

Maybe you should let a few hookers slide past; you know, stress relief for the overworked staff.

Just fine! PM me if you need a hotel room, I'm people who knows people.



I only stop the hookers that are idiots. Ya know, the ones that aren't discreet, or solicit in the bar, or don't know the ******* NAME of the person they're here to see, or if they've setup shop in the hotel for incalls. Or if I suspect they're hookers taking in calls & I can find their picture on backpages.com or they're "accepting appointments in Boston" on their personal **** star website. All of which I've done at one point or another.

Edited, Oct 31st 2012 6:58am by Omegavegeta

They usually don't even know their first names, if they even speak english. I found one wandering a floor once searching for a room we didn't have & no name once and was nice enough about getting her to leave & she broke down, slumped to the floor, & started wailing in Mandarin.

Another time, the girl couldn't get in without a key after hours, so she buzzed the intercom but didn't know the name on the room, so we couldn't let her in. Her madam called, I transferred her to the guest's room, & I guess he changed his mind so he called down & refused further calls. She called back, I informed her he refused her call (you can't dial direct to rooms without going through me), & she didn't take no for an answer.

She must of been a telemarketer on the side, as she proceeded to call bomb the hotel, tying up all of the lines going in, & literally frying our telephone system, which of course set of the fire alarm.

Good times.

We never lost power, but our furnace just quit out. Probably ran out of fuel.

I was a ***** in my youth. Paid well, but the benefits sucked.

Two...two...two jokes in one!






If you don't get that reference remove yourself from mah lawn!