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Merry Christmas

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tis-the-season-falalalala dept.

I'm off to visit the fam... I hope you all have the ability to spend the holidays with the ones who mean the most to you: even if those are friends like Solid Snake or Rikku, or actual family. Merry Christmas to you all, if you made a good haul this year from the fatman, feel free to share.

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  1. blar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just got home at 4:40am from a friend's house, and what do I do?? Reload slashdot of course! ;)

    Merry christmas everyone, may you all be sleeping in warm beds tonight.

  2. Re:Tis the season... by SmasKenS · · Score: 2, Informative

    well in sweden we did the present unwrapping yesterday. so its all over now *pheew*

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  3. It's been weird by XoXus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it's been weird in Australia today... stinking hot, and some bushfires got started (deliberately) today unfortunately.

    Hmmm... now *that's* something I can't blame on Microsoft.

  4. loot! w00t! by altan · · Score: 2, Informative

    6 t-shirts, 2 sweatshirts + caffeine cany from ThinkGeek
    New PC next week!
    I hope you all got something as great as i did...
    merry xmas

  5. Re:Who be da fatman? by XoXus · · Score: 2, Informative

    That would be Santa Claus.

  6. Cool Christmas by samael · · Score: 3, Informative

    I got an Archos 6 Gig jukebox.

    And DVDs of Bladerunner (Director's Cut, of course) and The Wall

    Oh, and I'm hanging with my family, which is pretty damn cool (they're both geeks too!)

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    1. Re:Cool Christmas by Raul+Acevedo · · Score: 3, Informative
      Regarding the Archos...
      1. Make sure the battery is fully charged. It can give weird errors (e.g. "Hard Disk Error") when the battery is running low.
      2. Get the latest firmware from Archos web site. Lots of bugs have been fixed.
      3. Check out the FAQ for the Archos at Fun MP3 Players .
      Have fun!
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  7. Re:Happy Winter Solstice! by ichimunki · · Score: 2, Informative

    Never mind that the pagans stole it from the astronomers in the first place! Although admittedly back in them days one didn't know a priest from an astronomer nearly so well... kind of like that Asimov "Foundation" quote (misquote?) "Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

    An interesting article on the solstice. And a happy longest/shortest day of the year to all! (Yes, I know I'm late by a few days, but so is this article... *grin*)

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  8. What I got for gift-giving day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    What I got for gift-giving day:
    1. Yet another day that my applictions for a job are unanswered / unread
    2. One more day's worth of my severance pay eaten away
    3. Another day I have to live through while listening to my family complain at me about not joining the military or giving them a share of my large-but-now-dwindling and much-needed severance pay
    4. Another day I have to live through this nasty tonsil infection, using 350 dollar / month antibiotics (versus the ludicrously expensive costs for a tonsilectomy without medical insurance)

    Hope you guys came out with an equally huge haul.
  9. Re:Happy Winter Solstice! by ex0teric · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually, i do believe that's arthur c clarke. i don't think i've ever seen it attributed to asimov, anyway. wish i knew where exactly it was from, but i'm fairly certain that it's clarke.

    chesh.

  10. I got jack shit. by hyehye · · Score: 2, Informative

    A package of 12 pairs of black socks and 6 white undershirts, and my neighbor gave me a pII-400 128mb 20gb box which sounds cool except everything's integrated on the motherboard. Yay. Fuck christmas.

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  11. FYI by mahmud · · Score: 2, Informative
    Russians celebrate X-mas on 7th of January.

    31st December is New Year's eve, which in fact is the time when people in Russia give each other presents.
    X-mas is more of a religious thing there, like easter...

  12. Re:Happy Winter Solstice! by Idolatre · · Score: 2, Informative

    Clarke says that quote in the Rama serie, but he
    says it's from Asimov