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Merry Christmas
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.
Jake and the Fatman?
...uh...I mean for the kids...yeah..
1P?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
..that celebrates christmas!
- and wishes of peace, harmony and tolerance towards all that do not.
Have a nice year!
to be jolly! fa la la la la, la la la la.
Over in the UK we did the present unwrapping hours ago... waiting for some christmas lunch now.... I can smell it so it must be almost ready! YAY!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!
--dan
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.
I got two business shirts (I'm 16) and a waterproof mobile phone bag... Though I can't really complain, as I sort of got an early christmas present in the form of an athlon CPU and motherboard (if only goddam Win98 would accept my hardware, though Linux is still working fine for me).
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.
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
That would be Santa Claus.
Off from work, that's for sure.
A working phone line (beware moving the week before christmas)
Internet Connectivity (ditto)
Laid
Over this stupid flu
Letter from Credit Card Companies saying "Hey, that's okay.. don't worry about that $15k you owe us, we'll call it even."
On the other hand, if I can get my ass up in 3 hours, my mom has invited me over for free food! Fuck socks, money, and cheap Walmart bullshit, I want turkey! To hell with Chef Boyardee for a day! woohoo!
Merry xmas to everyone!
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
...to all the Slashdot staff and readership too!
Down here in the Netherlands we've done the gifts already on the 5th, but for those that do at Christmas, I wish you get your hearts' desires.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year all!
Mart"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
New shirt, Adema's new CD, a Best Buy Gift Cert, and a tweed cap I've wanted all year. I can't complain.
:/
AND I got a turkey as a tip last night at work, along with $40 bucks. W00T!
Now if only I didn't have to work tonight...
Merry Christmas folks, hope it's a great holiday for everyone.
Well I got The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, and now I can't decide whether to finish the 6th book or read it first... I think I'll hold off on it until I've finished the series I guess.
And I got "Spooky: The Thing what Squeeks" (from I Feel Sick by Jhonen Vasquez), and a couple of doujins. All in all, quite a good Christmas!
Cole's Axiom: The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant. The population is growing
Stationed in Puerto Rico, the family and oldest friends are inaccessable. "That Guy" from GTA3 is AWOL as my PS2 managed to eat the disk! BUT - I did get myself a printer, and a Marine buddy of mine got me good and drunk. What more could you really ask for?
Happy holidays!
Christmas Eve dinner out: $250
/. at 5am on Christmas: worthless
12 beers: $50
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>Who be he? A dumass?
Alexander Dumas?
.signature: Command not found
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!)
My Journal
I don't know why but Christmas makes me feel depressed, at least, heineken still loves me...
drinking for me has always seemed to take the pain away
Same here. Plus, I'm busy enough trying to ignore Xmas, just like every year. Just curious: with so little people really being religious these days, why is hardly anyone consistent enough as to replace the holidays by, say, a years' end celebration week?
A World in a Grain of Sand / Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the Palm of your Hand / And Eternity in an Hour.
I got my Christmas gift, they turned off my DirectTV. I called in, they said I was past due, damn NFL ticket is over, price jumped from 45 to 90 bux a month! Oh well, at least they turned the service back on.
Cant sleep, back to some more perl coding and watching sci-fi.
I bet it would be pretty hard to get modded "insightful" for a reply to this topic? This makes me sad. :( ;)
I got cash and clothes, btw. Merry Christmas.
Albuquerque PC
The moral of this story? Go to college.
My girls got me Quicken 2002. It's not Linux, but I can always dual boot.
Now I can get rid of that DOS version...
Merry Christmas to all...
Joe Dougherty, Florida, USA
The words I thought I brought, I left behind. So, never mind.
> I hope you all have the ability to spend the holidays with the ones who mean the most to you:
:-) I'm about to leave to get together with the family, as most of us are, but I thought I'd give a big "Merry Non-Denominational Winter Vacation" to the whole /. community first.
:-(
> even if those are friends like Solid Snake or Rikku
Hmm. Does a bowl of Jell-O, a copy of *Divi Dead*, and a DVD of *Virtual Porn Sex with Asia* count? Hehe.
No, no sulking alone with masturbatory foods and computer games today.
That said, who here saw the Christmas episode of *Futurama* on Sunday, the one which the execs at Fox refused to air last year? Pretty hilarious. Pity what dicks the executives were in not showing it in the first place.
Merry Christmas!
Chasing Amy
(We all chase Amy...)
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws"-Tacitus
I've been up all night downloading mp3's and ripping CD's that I've yet to rip in order to fill up the new mp3 jukebox I'll be getting. But...now that I think about it, the damn thing hasn't come in the mail yet >_ It's in Jacksonville according to the tracking number and I'm Miami. Does the mail run on xmas day?
Let's not get fooled by the fanatic followers of Mr. Christ who are trying to pervert a perfectly fine pagan feast into some kind of superstitious x-tian celebration.
Happy Winter Solstice!
Merry christmas to everyone... Ive had some nifty presents (part from the usual clothes & chocolates) - a Sony 19" HMD silver flatscreen monitor & half a gig of ram. 1280x1024 has never looked so good for me
:D
Hope that you all have had a good christmas day (even if you havent woken up yet!)
mod this comment +1 Jealous
;-)
Merry Christmas All
So my mother tells me that I shouldn't expect much for Christmas. This is fine, I guess I can understand if she leaves it at that, because they built a house and all that jazz. But then she gives her reason:
"The (new) pool table and basketball goal are your presents!"
I hate to mention it to her (no, I enjoyed it), but I live in flipping Ireland and the only time I get to play with the pool table is for the next two weeks of my vacation. And the basketball goal isn't here yet! So she got really mad at me for pointing that out as annoyingly as I did (I would much prefer honesty to excuses; if it's not my gift, don't 'give' it to me as a token gift).
That said, I still got three new shirts, a pair of trousers, some candy, and $150. Go me!
Merry christmas!
-knewter
I stole a car, got into a shootout with the police, ran over countless pedestrians, and flipped a semi in front of the police station.
Grand Theft Auto 3 for PS2. What a game!
Been at work since 0600 EST. Someone must tend the server farm. Double time pay is nice though. Happy holidays, even if it is focused on commercialism.
Marduk
Well that's what I got from Santa & Co.: :))
1xDVD: Cranberries, Beneath the Skin, live in Paris (nice cover: iceberg with a mainboard under the ice
1xDVD: U2, Rattle and Hum
3x audio CD's
1x William Grant's Whisky from my boss,
and most of all I'm spending Christmas with my
folks, as every year, with the most delicious
traditional food.
Yeah, no junk food for a couple of days...
The fatman generously provided me with a new Titanium PowerBook. Unfortunately, the fatman did his shopping before Apple changing to the combo (DVD & CDRW) drive, so just DVD for me.
Now, get off Slashdot and go spend time with your loved ones.
I was afaid she might think it was like getting her a bowling ball with my name on it but she dug it. Chicks *DO* dig linux.
We really need your help
http://www.gofundme.com/help-sherry
Really? What about all those atheists who were involved in either World War who "believed in freedom enough to die for it"? Or is it only people with a religious alignment (i.e. those who are courageous enough to make any decision) who are stupid for having ideals?
Get over it, man. An intelligent argument needs not this kind of banter.
Hope you guys came out with an equally huge haul.
Hopefully, my Xmas present will arrive today at around 3pm.
My sweetie has been at work (nurse at a senior's home) since 6:30am today. I just hope she gets home safely.
In the end, that is a far better Xmas present than anything anyone can give me.
Well... everyone knows that retailers love Christmas, and turkeys hate it ;)
;)
But.. when I woke up this morning (approx 11am), I found my mobile phone memory had been exhausted with text messages - all wishing me merry christmas etc..
It just made me wonder how much the mobile phone companies are making out of Christmas now? Text messages are extremely popuplar (at least here in the UK), but people seem to have gone mad today... or is it just the people I know?
I'm up to 23 purely Christmas related text messages now, and there's another 10 hours to go...
--- Everything under the Sun is in tune, but the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon ---
My amazon.co.uk wishlist has been my saviour this year. Throughout the year, when I've seen cool stuff, I just added to it, then when I sent out christmas cards, I included the url ;-)
I've got Bill & Ted on DVD, The Lord of the Rings boxed set, and, what every geek should want for Christmas this year, Linux Mandrake 8.1 (thanks, Dad!). It's a testament to Mandrake that I can have it installed on Christmas morning by 11am (with a stinking hangover, too!) with about three mouseclicks. However, the one book that's going to get me through all the holiday season parties, Bartending for Dummies, I can't thank you enough, mum!
Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone, here's to peace and happiness to you all.
--jon
Cleanstick.org: Dumb weblog about nothing
No no no... that would be CmdrTaco.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Yeah I've suspected for a while that Santa is really CowboyNeal.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Your Servant, B. Baggins
Just wanna wish a Merry Christmas from upstate New York (Albany) and hope everyone had at least one Christmas wish come true.
/.'ers
As for what I got.. The wife bought me a Campbells Soup gift set. Caouple soup bowls, soup packets and crackers. That'll last like 2 weeks.. hehe. Now it's off to my parents then hers for more gifts.
Merry Christmas fellow
-=:( Mobster ):=-
P.S. Did Alvin ever get that Hula-Hoop?
---- You have been programmed by the Illuminati to not see the word ""!
we went to the mall after celebrating with my family and...
:(
:(
:( but at least the food was good and it was our first time there :)
i saw a very good pair of shoes from rockport but i don't have any size
i saw a lavander sweatshirt from dockers and the only one left has a stain in it
my family went to this resto because i am craving for a food. we went there but it was unavailable
oh well...
what a day
merry christmas to all of you.
have a happy new year.
(well at least i had lots of good gifts)
Live your life each day as if it was your last.
Despite plans to go to Amsterdam and Berlin for xmas/nye, I've ended up working, due to other staff being unavailable. I'm not bitter though :)
:) So now I get to work on it sitting here in a warm, stationary office, vs. on a bumpy train with a GSM modem.
I'm working on some code which should be very interesting in 4-6 months...bigger than HavenCo!
My girlfriend left me alone for Christmas.
She went to the bahamas! Is this a sign?
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead by now.
In a real emergency, we would have all fled in terror, and you would not have been notified.
nvidia gforce2 graphics card...sweet
Here's to you, Pierette, may all your dreams come true
with love from paul
I'd have the pool table and the basket ball goal shipped to Ireland...
Karma: Good. I'm hoping in the same way as pizza is 'good'...
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.
think for yourself, you won't like the results if others do it for you.
When the rest of the house gets up in a couple minutes, all I want to see when I'm unwrapping is a bunch of animal books.
I got most of my thinkgeek wishlist. The eclipse light is awesome. I also love my Internet 2001 map. Anyone else get alot off stuff from thinkgeek?
Um, this is my sig.
So, my last-minute gift to him is a copy of the new OpenBSD 3.0.
I inscribed it:
Time since last remote root exploit:
OpenBSD: 4.5 years
Microsoft Windows: 4.5 days.
Merry Christmas! My condolences for you guys that have to work.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
... iPod ...
Love it! This is going to replace carrying a large CD case back and forth to work every day and get the boom box off my desk.
Enjoy some Christmas music!
:)
Merry Christmas! And may the new year bring us all 1 MB kernels with support for every single hardware device ever made!
because that would be logical, and there's enough religious people out there to stop logic from entering our lives.
"when life gets complicated, I like to take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner" - Hobbes.
Really? What about all those atheists who were involved in either World War who "believed in freedom enough to die for it"? Or is it only people with a religious alignment (i.e. those who are courageous enough to make any decision) who are stupid for having ideals?
You unfortunately mistake self-defense for a religion. Dying for the sake of your own twist on the belief of a higher power is a far cry from dying to protect your homes, families and way of life. To equate the two is ignorant.
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
Speaking as one who lost much last year at this time (day after x-mas), I think we should all be grateful that we *can* spend time with our loved ones. And yes, that even means putting up with bickering, complaining, and fighting.
We never miss those things until they're gone.
Happy Holidays all! I hope this year does a lot better for all of us...
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
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...
IE: 550MHZ or 667MHZ you can get it upgraded to DVD CD-RW.
Since I never got around to ordering my college class ring, that's all I asked for this year.
;-)
The women of the family were extactic that I finally asked for something non-electronic/non-utilitarian! Anyway, it was put on order earlier in Dec and is not here yet. Johston's looks like they can use some help on taking orders too, but I got the customer copy of the order to hold until the ring arrives.
On the other hand, I got my son a copy of "The Federalist Papers" (along with other things), reversing his technique of giving me CDs that HE wants to hear
Merry Christmas and all of the other hollidays too!!!
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
The practice of giving gifts on Christmas comes from an older, more magical tradition. From "The Magikal Year" (ISBN: 0877288828), in the pagan world, the person who did not give generously during this time of year would not have good luck in the coming new year. (Could this be the true origin of, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" and other seasonal aphorisms?). Later, Christians adopted the practice in order to remember and honor "God's great gift to mankind" or something like that.
/.ers!! May Health, wealth, Peace, Goodwill, and lots of nifty gadgets be yours now and always ;).
For some more informative Christmas and pre-Christmas links, check out the Wikipedia's Christmas entry.
Merry Holy Days to my fellow
"It is never to late to be what you might have become."
Yep, it's true. After nearly 3 three years of fighting we are talking again. Her boyfriend moved out and went back to his wife. (He told her he was divorced.) He even had my parents and kids convinced he was a Great Guy.
So... for the past week, she and I have been talking instead of yelling. It turns out that there were a lot of misunderstandings.
No hope of getting back together (not that I would want too), but at least we are friendly now.
I guess there really is a Santa Claus!
I know what the Internet is, what the hell is this Interweb business?!
Santa's Rebuttal
NORTH POLE, SANTA'S VILLAGE - For Immediate Release
It has come to the attention of Santa's workshop that there have been disparaging remarks made in the press recently about Santa's very existence. Several key points are overlooked by this callous, amateurish, so-called study.
As was admitted by the skeptics, there is only a very small probability of finding a flying reindeer. That is precisely because they are all located at the Workshop. Your very argument against Santa is proof of his existence! As is widely known (Re: the excellent historical documentaries "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") the flying reindeer are not a separate species, but were in fact given the power of flight due to eating magic acorns, which is passed on in their offspring.
A series of cascading assumptions have been relied upon to show the "impossibility" of delivering all presents in one Christmas. For example, there was assumed a uniform distribution of children across homes. Toronto/Yorkville, or NYC/SOHO, or other yuppie neighborhoods, have less than the average (and don't forget the DINK/SINK homes (Double Income No Kids, Single Income No Kids)), while the Catholic (the predominant Christian denomination) families with 10 children would skew that derived 15% of homes down a few percent.
You've also assumed that each home that has kids would have at least one good kid. Let us assure you that anti-selection applies, and homes with good kids tend to have more than their share of good kids? Still other single-child homes are notorious for spoiled "naughty" children and average 55% delivery on a good year. Let's drop that number of homes down a few more percent.
A simple history lesson reminds us that, the first major schism in the Church split the Eastern Churches, centered in Byzantium, from the Western, which remained centered in Rome, prior to the Gregorian correction to the Julian calendar. The Eastern "Orthodox" Churches do not recognize the Gregorian correction for liturgical events, and their Christmas is, as a result, several days after that of the Western Churches'. Thus, Santa's schedule is not as tight as previously indicated.
Santa does indeed FedEx a number of packages ahead of time, since he is not be able to fly into Air Force Bases, or into tower- controlled areas near airports. He's certainly not into dodging SCUD missiles over the no-fly zones in Iraq, so he uses DHL there. Subtract some more homes.
In regards to speed and time, we can't reveal all the details, but let us remind you of basic relativity theory: The faster you go, the slower time progresses. Do you think StarTrek came up with the idea of warp drive? So, if Santa could go faster than light, then he can easily visit all the good children which are not uniformly distributed by either concentration in each home or by number of children per household, and get home before he left so he can digest all those stale cookies and warm milk. (Has anyone thought of ice cubes?)
Aha, you say, Enterprise has matter-antimatter warp engines, Santa only has reindeer, where does he get the power to move that fast? The answer is right before your skeptical eyes! The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy. Per second. Each. This is an ample supply of energy for the maneuvering, acceleration, etc., that would be required of the loaded sleigh. The reindeer don't evaporate or incinerate or get crushed because of this energy; they accelerate! What do you think they have antlers for, fighting over females? Think of antlers as furry shield generator arrays.
The issue of weight constraints and delivery methods also shows a shocking lack of knowledge of basic matter/energy relations and beginning quantum physics. (Picture a two dimensional complex function mapped to the surface of a sphere with approximately 9000 nodal surfaces, and 18 million regions of relatively high amplitude.) Assuming this is getting way ahead of most people's conceptual limits, we'll just say that Captain Kirk wasn't the first to say "beam me down." Transporters, replicators, and holo-projections have been standard equipment in some workshops and certain aerospace vehicle way before the 24th century.
If that's not enough, watch the news on the 24th at 11 o'clock. NORAD (one of the few government agencies with more than 3 initials in it's name and therefore more trustworthy than the rest) tracks Santa every year and displays radar shots of him approaching from the North Pole. They haven't bombarded him yet, so they must believe too, right?
We certainly hope this clears up any damage caused by the bad press. Santa dead, indeed--some people will twist any statistic model to "prove" their cynical theory.
2 Pounds Kauai Expresso Beans and a couple Gavalia flavored coffees
10 pack of microbrews
1 lb. Almond butter candy
Jar of Wheatnuts and a tree ornament
Bought for myself:
Slinky Jr.
Spinning top which plays tune (Wild Irish Rose?) and has weapon, wand and shield stickers on it. (Pretty darn cool!)
Boba Fett Pez dispenser (getting a lot of use)
Pretty good, but quiet as family is 2500 miles away, friends all busy or traveling and no GF to hassel me. Probably go out for a bike ride or hike later. Hope everyone is doing at least as well if not better.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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Here's what Santa managed to leave behind at my humble abode:
1.5G RAM
17" LCD monitor
iPod
Awesome...now, if he'd only take away the car payments.
Merry Christmas ya'll!
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
Didn't CmdrTaco just say he was going out to visit the family? He is still posting stories! That guy has some serious dedication to this site if he is posting stories while visiting his family.
Not that I'm not grateful, I'm at work bored out of my mind... slashdot is great entertainment at [-1|nested]
Merry Christmas!!!
Merry christmas from Okinawa! Got some practical gifts from the woman and burnt a $20 phone card talking to her for 2 hours which was good enough for me. All my Okinawan friends had to work today, but they promise new years will make up for it.
To all my fellow Marines, Airmen, Soldiers and Sailors who also spent christmas with thier loved ones via phone or internet:
Semper Fidelis, Merry Christmas, and thanks for helping keep the world a safer place!
I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
Avalanche shovle
2 litre Camelback
telescope poles
so Im set to go for some serious backcountry soon. If I dont die from too much algebra..
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Minidiscs are fantastic. Pity my R91 no longer records and has trouble reading some discs now, but you get that. Bought it in April 2000 and have used it literally every day since. It goes wherever I go.
As for the realtime bit, perhaps your next MD unit should be NetMD compatible (USB transfer) - there'll be some info over at minidisc.org
-t.
I'm disappointed that there seem to be so many pessimistic and/or inflammatory comments in the thread. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas or aren't a Christian, have a little heart and be pacific towards those who do. Enjoy the day and the fact that you're alive, it's a great time to be thankful for that, especially in light of recent events!
To my fellow Christians, benedictum Nomen Sanctum eius, benedictus Iesus Christus, verus Deus et verus homo! And to our Jewish brethren, Happy Chanukah! And to those who celebrate another religion or none, peace, joy, happiness and good tidings!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Looking out my window, I see green grass. REALLY green, like it's spring. I live near Toronto, Canada.
We haven't had ANY snow this year, although everything to the north, south, east and west has gotten some. Maybe a few snowflakes a few days ago, but nothing that stayed on the ground for longer than a couple of hours. I don't even know if the snowthrower works yet (haven't started it up at all). Shovel hasn't left the wall yet. It's like we live in a bubble around here. Sorta throws the Canadian weather stereotypes in the trash, I suppose.
Merry Christmas to all!
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
i received a stuffed monkey for christmas, he meditates in the corner and throws jello at me.
As much as I respect other's celebrations, I myself do not celebrate christmas, however, I am of the christian faith. I just decided to look into the events of christmas, and ask what each means.
Everything, from the christmas tree, to wreaths, to mistletoe, to burning yule log, to holly, to santa clause, to the date on which it is celebrated has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus Christ. Most are pagan rituals, with a dash of druidism and lots of superstition. Even the word 'christmas' is the joining of 'christ' and the pagan ritual of Mass.
I find it ironic that supposedly "christian" people would celebrate pagan rituals. But they will hate you for even mentioning any of this.
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
My mother got into a car accident in march of this year and has been in therapy for chronic back damage , my step dad damaged the disks in his lower back. As such, both have been a little tight for money recently. So my gifts to them this year were:
(1) Fixing their car for them
(2) Lending them money for 3 months.
(3) A little P2-266 for step sister who has never owned a computer before. She almost hyper ventilated when she got it. Sometimes the joy is in seeing something I take for granted, like technology, even old technology, greatly appreciated by someone who is not surrounded by it 24/7.
(4) One of those green bankers lamps for my girlfriend, every time we watch Law and Order she comments on how cool those lamps look
No I didn't get much, I don't want much, if I need something in the world of tech, I buy it for myself. The gifts that mean most to me are the ones where the person gives you a unique gift based upon something you love.
Example, my girlfriend gave me National Geographics 100 Best Pictures of All Time and Gladiator on DVD. Not high in monetary value, but very high meaning for me.
My girlfriend was listening to me all year, and picked on up on stupid little comments I had made months ago! The listening is a gift I appreciate...it's just one of those things that keeps on giving all year long.
No SGI box stocking stuffer for me. :)
:) these speakers are NICE!!
I did get a set of klipsch promedia 4.1 speakers, and have been busy finding the resonance frequency of my house.
- This isn't the sig you're looking for. Move along, move along..
I remember working at NORAD during Christmas Eve on several occasions. The operator would patch over phone calls from children all over the states. The head officials at NORAD had a transcript prepared for the current events of Santa Claus. Over the course between 5:00pm to about 10:00pm, our office would receive hundreds of phone calls. Most of the callers were shy and very young kids that didn't say more then a few words over the phone. We'd also get the adults calling up either drunk or curious if the whole system was even working.
the fanatic followers of Mr. Christ
"Hey there, Paizan, when the Christ talks, you listen, Capiche? And don't be talkin' smack about his business unless he invites you for a sit down."
"... Aaaaaand thats a Mr. Christ, ta you. Got it?"
Bada-Bing.
Merry Christmas, you heathens.
Christmas has taken on a new meaning for a lot of people.
No, I'm not talking about consumerism.
You dno't have to be celebrating any particular religious events, but it is a good time to get together with friends and family, and celebrate what _is_ important to you. Maybe you can call people you haven't talked to in a while, or apologize to someone you have been neglecting. Maybe you just want to feel good about something so you can make a donation, or think of a gift for something who needs it.
There's a lot to feel good about and celebrate besides a faith you may or may not partake in.
A GeForce2 no less. Yay! I can finally listen to MP3s and scroll through webpages AT THE SAME TIME! Under my previous card--a Jaton-137 Blade3D Trident chipset 8MB pile of turd--that wasn't possible without the MP3 skipping. Oh, and I can run Celestia smoothly too. Yay!
The coolest voice ever.
wow
where did you get the SGI for $399?
The Most Interesting Item: Mandrake 8.1 Gaming Edition
The Most Useful Item: 8 pairs of socks
The Most Strange Item: an "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" T-Shirt (yes, they sell these)
The Coolest Item: DiskOnKey.
What about You? This article cross-linked to my journal.
Everything is mainstream now.
I got a Makita 14.4v cordless Drill. MMMmmm... power tools. Got anything I can screw?
Krispy Cream is people
A couple of years ago I ran across this song by Dar Williams called "Christians and Pagans". It's hilarious (+1) and insightful (+1), and it's been my favorite "Christmas" song ever since (except, perhaps, for John McCutcheon's "Christmas in the Trenches").
:). Plus, what's not to celebrate about the days getting longer.
So back in 1998 my brother and I started to throw "solstice" parties. We looked into various holiday and solstice traditions around the world. No real attempts at sorcery, bachannals, or blood, which I suppose some might expect. We wassail an apple tree, we make radish and butter carvings, we light and extinguish and light candles and talk about what we've done the last year and what we hope to do again. We have the "Urn of Fate" assign friends for the year. We sing "here comes the sun" and "christians and pagans". I'm sure any serious pagan would laugh at us, but it's our little chance to do things a little bit differently, remember there's other cultures and traditions in the world, and perhaps find magic/life/spirit in an unexpected place or two.
I'm still a reasonably solid Christian. OK, I occasionally go for bouts of rational agnosticism, but for the most part, I've found that Christianity as a spiritual practice seems to have something to it. So still I'm a little uncomfortable singing that line from Dar's song "sending hope for peace on earth to all their Gods and Goddesses". But I like this new tradition of looking at other traditions and fashioning new ones from it, and we're going to keep it up, as well as gathering on Christmas day and reading Luke 2 (stopping before we have to explain circumcision to the kids
Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.
Sitting at work waiting to clock off and get drunk..... Merry christmas everyone!!!!!
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
Oh well... :(
if that's not "getting much" I can't wait til next year
Well, maybe you surround yourself with too many non-religious people. The rest of us will be spending the day celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus! It's a joyously wonderful day. Yes I know, he wasn't really born on December 25th but it's symbolic. Happy Birthday Jesus! :-)
Thank God Santa Bot didn't launch a bike at me this year ;-)
Look out! Santa's through the perimeter!
Merry X-mas.
"Tend the server farm"? Are you running Windows? Is there something you need to be sitting at work doing to keep them constantly running or else they'll fail? My Sun boxes run fine without anyone there and I know when I get back they'll be humming along just like I left them serving up data. Anyway, that's what terminal servers, serial consoles, and pagers are for. :-)
This year I asked for the old economy back.
This one is for all my poor dot-commie brothers in San Francisco this Christmas.. [ pours out the 40 ]
- My Blog - http://www.memestreams.net/users/rattle/
Being the way cool girlfriend that she is, my significant other got me an iPaq 3870. Somehow she just knew that I didn't spend enough time screwing around with linux on my desktop. Unfortunately, it's back ordered until January'ish. Anyone else have similar woes with their iPaq's? It's teasing to get a confirmation printout in your stocking.....
there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
I Got everything I wanted this christmas.
Quick list of what i got
Xbox
Halo for Xbox
I90c Phone.
hope everyone else got what they wished for, Now i'm off to Veg-Out playing Halo for the next few hours...:)
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all; and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2002, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures, and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishes.
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
Error: PANTS NOT FOUND. Press <F1> to continue.
Why doesnt slashdot post anything on channuka? There are jews on slashdot too!
I'd settle for being modded up to +5:Funny!
Quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Anything said in Latin, sounds profound.
Merry Christmas, God bless.
-William
haha... me, too!
:)
and the phone has not rang *once* today. me and one of my employees are sitting here actually *reading* our spam.
great geek xmas for me!
- mp3 player
- tux polo shirt
- minidisc player/recorder
- dvds: akira, spawn, and a punk rock documentary
and a set of lincoln logs for the little boy in me
peace to all...
Most interesting thing so far is a Logitech cordless keyboard and cordless optical mouse. Also an independent CD, various clothes, money, etc. My sister and I gave our parents a DVD player.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Woo hoo! A CD Burner! Now i'm finally caught up with... oh wait, everyone's getting DVD burners now. Dangit...
I shouldn't expect much for Christmas. This is fine, I guess I can understand if she leaves it at that, because they built a house and all that jazz.
OK
That said, I still got three new shirts, a pair of trousers, some candy, and $150. Go me!
What a selfish bastard you are, you dont think thats a lot? You are the kind of person that gives a bad name to americans!
- USB 100MB ZIP drive (Comes with Linux drivers
:)
- 100GB Western Digital HD, w/ 8 MB cache 7200rpm
- Kylix 2 professional. (For those that don't know, its Delphi 6 for Linux)
- 1GB RAM for my server
:)
- Bunch of other misc goodies
Merry Chirstmas!until (succeed) try { again(); }
Up yours Santa,
you dirty old pratt,
I spent a fortune on presies,
and god sod all back !
I max-d out my credit card,
I traded in my soul,
but Santa's littl' 'elpers
went and put me in the hole !
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Unless you're in Oz, where they're now getting shorter.
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4 Bags of assorted curry spices (you know the type - right ?)
:D
Radiohead - Amnesiac - I'm not sure about this one - Kid A was ok computer, but I got the bends ?
A red shirt with long sleeves - a wine red shirt, dark and forboding like blood - almost purple
4 pottery lessons
A bag of assorted nuts !
I like that - assorted nuts !
The pottery lessons sound awesome !
Merry wobblingbumtummy sickasadogism xmas!
And a happy new vomitingthroughthenosewhilepuking year !
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
I got a book from my wife and a chocolate bar from my younger son. Both given with love, and much appreciated. We're having dinner at my sister's - see the family, always a pleasure. Most important, my son who's in the USMC has been stationed to California rather than Afghanistan: we're all very happy about that Peace on Earth to all you ./ers.
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Got a lego pen! - anyone knew they made them? .... to watch when i get back from the mountain and am too tired to do anything else, should be a fun winter!
also a seasons pass to snowboard up at mount seymour, and the short circuit dvd
"Nyquil - The stuffy, sneezy, why-the-hell-is-the-room-spinning medicine."
That was what the communists did in fact... at least in East Germany they did - but failed miserably...
You mean CowboyNeal?
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
As what is commonly reffered to by your ilk as heathen scum, I must say that I expected more.
Why anyone would choose to celebrate a false, meme infected comsumerist holiday is far beyond me..
Merry f***in' jesus's unbirthday corrupt the harmless pagan so that they may fall befor the christian empire day.
The haul I made out with this year:
(1) VW Sideview Mirror
(1) VW Jetta Factory Service Manual
(1) VW Replacement Floormats
(4) Wolfsburg edition wheels!
(1) Apartment Catalog from my parents, hint?
Hope everyone had a merry xmas, and shouts to all the people who don't celebrate xmas, hope you had a wonderful day today.
-===- "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserver neither" -===-
Hehe, oops, yes, I do mead CowboyNeal.
:)
Too much wine, I suppose.
Merry Christmas!
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Wu dang, i wish i got a haul like that
I got a pepper grinder, a bottle of pepper corns, a sweater from Target, a $8 box of legos, some printer paper and a $10 gas card. You ask me you...you made out damn well.
Now the real treat is all those holiday return policies that stores have. A word to all you Microsoft beta testers. You know that retail boxed copy of Windows XP Pro you got in the mail a couple weeks ago?
It's exactly the same as the ones on the shelf at CompUSA. hint hint.
Ok, you have a problem with the universe existing by itself, so you have to come up with that "god" thingie to solve this intellectual problem?
Well, guess what, I have just as big a problem with you "god" existing in the first place. Who created god? A meta-god?
So why not just stick with the simplest explanation -- there is no tooth fairy.
- i sent my mom DHEA and a bunch of other bone-decay-and-other-menopause-symptoms-fighting dietary supplements which the french customs seized and are sending back to me. Next time i'll write "christmas candies" on the box. duh.
Dad gave me an iPod. sweet little toy. I had been wanting to buy one for myself, but was still on the fence. He read my mind.
Mom gave me a leather jacket! She pittied me when i showed up in Paris for the holiday in that dinky little jacket i wear in l.a. . Wait 'till my girl sees it when i get back huhuhuhu.
Extraordinary Vacations. Exceptional Prices
hey, turd monkey. I think that's a lot. I just said that SHE said it wasn't a lot. That would explain the 'Go me!' comment. Way to jump at calling me a selfish bastard though, context-free one.
-knewter
First - Merry Christmas to all may all your holiday wishes come true. Not being a big time
gamer, Mrs. Clause upgraded me from a 4mb PCI to a GeForce 2 mx400 64mb with TV out for my desktop, and 1 gig of ram for my sever, and some Oracle Database books and the 3rd edition of the UNIX System Administrators book.!!! sweet!! Thanks!! and happy holidays...(now time to install)
So why was is at -1??? This is as good if not better than anything 1 or above at the moment.
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
My thoughtful son who bought a pair of tickets to ="http://csny.net/"> see Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young soon. I've never seen the four of them together - it should be a very cool experience.
db
Cig:
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Here's what I received :
;)
Leather jacket (to replace the one I ripped in November)
Nautica & Adidas cologne
Silver 3-ring ring
Tickets for "RENT" on Broadway
Shirt
Sweater
Digital Camera
PC Cam
Headphone/Mic headset
Gift Certificates
Poetry
Calvin Klein boxers
Socks
Beanie Babies
Electric toothbrush (translucent)
Better job opportunities
And best of all, someone new to spend 2002 with!
Wishing all of you nothing but prosperity in 2002
- d1verse
d1verse@yahoo.com
Too much christmas cheer :-p
happy holidays to all!
db
Cig:
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...Which I plan on taking back to Fry's. It's a neat toy, but not yet practical- I rarely drive out of my metropolitan area. I fly or ride my motorcycle. No need to listen to a radio station cross-country.
I drive a fairly nice car and I don't want to hack it up to wire this thing in.. besides, the receiver looks really ugly stuck to your dash. I already keep my Garmin GPS V on my dash...
I think I'll trade up to an Envision 17" LCD. Does anyone have one of these? The reviews look good, I'm just wondering if any of you have real-world experience. My 17" Trinitron has been in use for at least 4 years and I've never really desired anything bigger...
My wife gave me the best christmas ever, hopefully next year i'll be flying us to visit family
Hope everyone has a wonderful christmas!
Oh yea, and i got an xbox haha
now back to halo
I got 2000 AOL cds. Looks like my little brother and his friend went around to the 3 Sears stores close to us, and looted all their AOL CD's... Well, at least it was a Christmas to remember...
5 moderator points! Merry Christmas Slashdot! :-)
Ok, well 10 mins of Christmas left here in the UK, so I'll tell you what I got:
It's not been the best year I've had but it's taught me a lot. I look forward to 2002 and thanx to /. and everyone for giving me somewhere to escape to when things got crappy.
Anyway, I'll go now before I start getting all philosophical; must be the drink!
and a very fun show late on Channel 5.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
i didn't say that religions were illogical. at least I didn't mean to.
what I meant to say was something more along the lines of: stop telling me what I should do, you crazy zealots. that goes for zealots of all kind.
"when life gets complicated, I like to take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner" - Hobbes.
Real moral of this story: UNION YES!
dictionary.com defines pagan as:
... Frankly I find it both an insulting and bizarrely self-insulting use of the word "pagan".
pagan, adj: not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam [syn: heathen, heathenish]. noun: a person who does not acknowledge your God [syn: heathen, gentile, infidel]
Can someone tell me *why* this group of Aleister Crowley worshippers call themselves "pagans" when that is in fact a vague and derrogatory word? Even if you don't take it to mean "heathen", it simply means a non-Judeo-Christian, so it could mean Hindu, Sikh, Apache
#include
void main()
{
printf("Merry Christmas Slashdot");
}
My xmas gift this year. a book on how do code in C
rrdejay
Gone but not... ummm
"Merry Christmas, Snake. Snake? SNAAAAAAAKE!"
PRESENTS~!
tons of wrapped boxes under the tree filled with silicon containing items!
ok I admit, im not a computer expert, but im getting closer.
Today for christmas I received all the parts I asked for to build my first 'semi-dream' machine
Tyan tiger MP motherboard
2 AMD 1800 MP processors
1.5 gigs of ram
dvd drive
cdrw drive
2 60gig 7200 rpm hard drives
and a case (oh and like 5 fans and an ethernet card)
Im Building it without any real experience, or true know how. I saw it done once, now im setting off to leave DELL behind, making my way into the world of machines that DONT deal with Intel
Im using only the manual (yes, Im RTFM) and my general yet iffy knowledge.
now what do I do after I clean the motherboard with soap and water? *evil grin*
Merry christmas everyone maybe I can have this machine built by next year...
Any tips E-mail me
Steve Hoffman
DivReon@yahoo.com
Worked a Friday night Cosmic Bowling and a Sunday night Country Cosmic Bowling shift at Timber Lanes.
Got rear-ended at a stop-light in front of the bowling alley on Saturday afternoon.
Saw Ocean's Eleven.
Played Super Monkey Ball and Super Smash Bros. on my brother's Game Cube he brought home from college.
Checked my college grades for updates, ended up with a 3.51 first semester (freshman year).
Rebuilt a PC infested with MP3s and viruses (not mine).
Watched The Godfather for the first time.
Sat around on the computer.
I like it so far. Want to go skiing soon, though...
www.tealeaves.org "All you need is love." -
Christmas Eve I ran into a woman from high school that I hadn't seen in 10 years...hopefully I'll be hearing from her again soon :). On the other hand, after having been up for 24 hours building a new computer (my gift to myself) I make the luser mistake of *not* backing up my windows partition before re-installing Win98...at least all I lost where some not-so-important email addresses :|.
Got a brand spanking new pair of Dr. Martins! I feel empowered to kick luser ass now! :)
You've gotten better at reading inane comments (300)!
1 Roget's Thesaurus :)
1 "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" - Douglas Adams
1 Uniden 2.4GHz DSS cordless phone w/ caller ID
1 pair pajama pants
14 socks from mom and dad
2 pair pants
2 sweaters
1 pair tennis shoes
1 Swiss Army knife
6 socks from grandparents
1 $20 bill
2 pair boxer shorts
new socks = cozy feet = best gift
HOORAY!!
If bad puns were like deli meat, this would be the wurst
My list:
1. Several shirts and pants, and a sweater (needed the shirts n' pants for work - sweater is nice, too).
2. The TAB Build Your Own Robot Kit - coolness!
3. VHS copies of Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Wild Palms.
4. A gift certificate to Barnes and Noble.
5. $25.00 cash.
6. This strange "key fob" thing that "transforms" from an eliptical shape into a small pair of pliers (with phillips and standard screwdrivers, too) - plus it was engraved w/ my initials...
My gifts to myself (hey, who says you can't or shouldn't?):
1. A General Reality CyberEye CE-200M HMD, with a CyberTrack II 3DOF headtracker (ultra-coolness, and the most excellent deal off of eBay).
2. A Radio Shack ProbeScope oscilloscope.
3. An IBM Model M "clicky" keyboard (found one cheap in a local computer recycling store - couldn't resist).
Merry Christmas, all!
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
This year for Christmas I got:
1) An iBook.
2) A kidney stone.
*sigh*
I've been thinking lately that I don't get as excited when Christmas came as i used to be when i was a little kid (I'm 22 now, maybe i'm just old and planning when my future kids will wake me up at 6am. :)
;)
:D
:D
....
:D )
;)
:D
I'm not a Grinch about Christmas, (although I could do without the hassles of Christmas shopping..but who couldn't?
But I love it when i actually get the people I love WHAT THEY WANT
Okay, enough philosophy...time to brag
i got
to go to the KROQ almost accoustic Xmas (kick ass show
a $50 Tower Records Gift Card
a $50 Hot Topic gift certificate
a $5 In-N-Out Gift Certificate
some colonge
The Akira DVD set
A motion-activated 18" Ash (from Army of Darkness)
And some nice booze
I made out like a bandit
Merry Christmas people!
Join the TWIT army now!
Just because there is no war on american soil doenst mean that there isnt war in many other places on earth....
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Lego Mindstorms Robot Invention Kit 2.0!!
Since September, here I finally made the only adult decision of my life and left windows behind, I've been thinking about getting a set of mindstorms components.
I've done some research and it looks like Not Quite C, ( http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/nqc/ ) is going to be my best bet for building programs to power the unit from linux.
My next big project I think, will be to build a stoopid gui for building bricks akin to the windows methods, only using NQC instead of the binary format that the windows application uses. Should be a nice learning experience.
My girlfriend and I finally spent a christmas together after being together on and off for the last 8 years... That was pretty exciting, although I missed my family a good deal, and look forward to next year.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
-mh
Microsoft's version of sprituality:
"Double-click the lifestone to attune your spirit to the lifestone"
Ok - it's boxing day and now it's finally snowing in Toronto. I can still see the grass, but it looks like by the time the day is through it might be covered.
One can hope, anyway.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
As we know, Christmas is a holiday to celebrate the birth of Christ and the church made it dec 25th in order to usurp a pagan holiday.
However, Santas criteria is "Naughty" and "Nice", religion(for santa) doesn't enter into it.
know that I can quickly make up some numbers that show Santa needs to visit 100% of home with children, where at least one child is good.
If what I know about children is any indicator, then I can say Santa visits, at most, 1 child.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Santa's just a PR figure. It's like HP's CEO chick, we NEVER see upper mgmt and the REAL people driving the company, we just see HER all the time. All the work is done by the elves and Santa's employees. But with the recent economic turn, I expect layoffs.
(Note that the reindeer are major shareholders, that's why we never actually see them.)
Well, let's see:
That adds up to $250. No, that's not that much, for someone living in the civilised world. That's a fortnight's rent on a cheap single bedroom flat here in Denver. That's enough for two to go out to dinner three or four times.
But it's certainly appreciated--that was obvious from the poster's tone.
Think of it this way, you get the machine earlier than the combo drive machines and you end up paying only around $100 more for the drive. Doens't sound to bad to me.