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ryuzaki0
on from the first-it-was-a-screwdriver dept.
weighn writes "The SMH has this story about an eccentric Frenchman who carries about 1300 useful items attached to his body by various means. A digital camera is mentioned, so I guess there may be some form of computing device nearby. Anyone else a bulging pocketed geek-scout?"
-- In Soviet Russia, articles before post read *you*!
Who wants to bet...
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Anonymous Coward
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That one of those items ia a white flag?
badda-bing!
Thanks! I'll be here all night!
Re:Who wants to bet...
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Anonymous Coward
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Someone mod this up.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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Anonymous Coward
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That's the best line I've heard all night! Please, does no one get this? Mod this up.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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Anonymous Coward
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I don't get it.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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Who wants to bet that one of those items is a white flag?
Only if he's Polish and his family name is Army-on-horseback-got-run-over-by-German-tanks.
badda-boom!
I'll probably be here all night too, due to the overwhelming amount of homework I have.
-- I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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I never get those french-surrender jokes.
This is solely based on that time when they surerndered to Nazi Germany right? Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
What I don't get is why the joke is that France always surrender...bah, chuck it up to general xenophobia I guess.
Go swear stuff to a flag while I kiss my karma goodbye...
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Re:Who wants to bet...
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that couldn't be farther from the truth, damn french cowards, they have no honor and are natural assholes.
I dunno about that one. The french had a fairly good army which is why the 8 day invasion was so surprising. France also did not see most of the army as Germany considered the invasion of France to be tying up loose ends as they went for Russia. Most of the troops in France (which includes the ones we fought later) were 80% teenage boys and 35+ year old men. Im not saying they couldn't do anything but the true force of germany got caught in Russia (blah blah land war in Aisa). This is also why we Americans met a lot less resistance coming in. Once we got to germany they quickly took the western invasion more seriously so we took 4 years to win.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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At the time of Germanys invasion of the Rhineland, France had 50 tank divisions within a 2 days travel. Germany had 6, in total. Germany also had many officers convinced Hitler was mad and waiting for the counter-attack to start so they could kill Hitler. They missed a Big Chance.
France also had a naive millitary command, and very little resistance.
That said, who can blame them? WWII was still a very nasty memory, and none could face the prospect of war again. It was very easy to belive that Hitler only wanted a little bit of Europe, and then he'd be happy. England managed to muster a fight through blind jingoism, and the U.S. had time to wake up to the fact that they were going to have to fight. I don't envy anyone of the time who had to make the big desisions.
Oh yeah... the other reason for the 'France surrenders' joke is the american feeling that they saved Europes asses. Probably true, but they were next, and the war couldn't have been won without Churchill, Turing, DeGaull and thousands upon thousands of young men who gave their lives in the mud.
-- "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
I'm no historian, but I do remember why our country chose to surrender in 1940. (I'm from the Netherlands) This was not a simple question of being overpowered, it was about the will of the Germans to turn on the population. They bombed Rotterdam and threatened to bomb the other large cities. The Dutch government then surrendered to prevent a massacre in the larger cities. So, even though the (much smaller) Dutch army would not have been a match for the German army in a longer engagement, the short war leading up to the surrender was not decided on the battlefield.
As I said, I am not a historian but it seems probable to me that the Germans used more of the same strategy in France.
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Re:Who wants to bet...
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Scrameustache
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Hey, you're right...I hadn't thought of that...
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Re:Who wants to bet...
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You wrote: France also did not see most of the army as Germany considered the invasion of France to be tying up loose ends as they went for Russia. From my recollection of history, France was invaded by the Nazi attack that began on May 10th, 1940. (France surrendered June 10th.) The German invasion of Russia did not begin until the 22nd of June 1941. I don't know where you got the idea that the German army was tied up with the Russans while they invaded France, but really, it's wrong. France had surrendered a year before the invasion of Russia.
true the surrender of the Dutch was done to save the lives of many and to keep the fight for another day.
another note, most people don't understand why Switzerland was never invaded. let me make a quick point.
prior and durring WWII the average men of Switzerland can outshoot at long distances more than most folks. They are a nation of sharpshooters. Estimations of death ratios for an invation were pegged at 8 to 1 to 15 to 1 ( Nazi's killed before they got to the shooter ) by the top commaders, it was that fear, along with other thoughts that the Nazi's said nope.
If you ever get a chance to hike the mountains and villages of switzerland you'll notice that the country leads itself to being on hell of a fortress. cross fire kill zones abound everywhere where a six man team could keep 3 KM of roads stopped for almost all the time if they really wanted to. not a place that I would enjoy trying to break the defenses.
But france was never their main goal. They didn't commit their entire army to france because they were getting ready to go to russia. They would have gone to Russia a whole lot sooner but all sorts of political events and attempted assasinations slowed them down. France still did not get the worst of the German army. Also Russia lost over 10 times as many people as france did.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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You're talking through a hole in your head. Germany could not attack Russia sooner mainly because of the weather and because of the need to subdue the balkans. What were these "all sorts of political events and attempted assasinations " that you are talking about ? Germany had a non-aggression pact with Russia throughout the short period when they attacked France. France got just enough of the German army as was needed to defeat them. Certainly Hitler always intended to attack Russia at some stage in the future but he wanted to first remove the threat from Britain. Only when it became clear that this could not happen did he turn against Russia.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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The balkins did slow them down but it was NOT the weather. They waited too long and the weather was a problem. How can everyone get history so wrong and argue so much? What happened is simple. There was an almost sucessful assassination attempt on Hitler and he had many top military people killed.
Re:Who wants to bet...
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YOu fucking retard, the assasination attempt on Hitler that resulted in him killing the "many top military people" happened almost at the end of the war, years after he invaded Russia. Why don't you read some history as well as a unix manual (your stupid sig - theres no such command as unmount)
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric
Interesting pickup lines...
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MacOS_Rules
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Must be an embarrassment for the poor guy.
"Is that a ruler in your pocket or are you happy to see me?"
"Actually, it IS a ruler."
-- If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
-Thackeray, William
Re:Interesting pickup lines...
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric - -
No Picture!?!?!
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The story is about a guy who basically has a bunch of tools attached to him, who calls himself "Crazy Eric" (go figure). The whole story is just about how crazy this guy looks, and there is NO PICTURE! What's up with that?
Mark
Re:No Picture!?!?!
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its the smh - they only put pictures in if it sports stars, kylie minogue or skimpyly (sp) clad models...
Re:No Picture!?!?!
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Yeah, it's not like he didn't have a camera on him!
is the Post still going? they'd prolly do that too. since i moved out of my parents place, i dont have access to my dads collection of these mags anymore...
Re:No Picture!?!?!
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric -
Re:No Picture!?!?!
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>I found some pictures on his site: > >http://ericlefou.1.online.fr/MES_TRUCS/ MESobjets/ M on_equipement/Mon_equipement.htm
Anyone remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose? His buddy wore a trenchcoat, and was already prepared. Each time he whipped out an item you heard the sound of separating velcro.
This guy in the story should design suits for certain professions, with neatly designed inner pockets, outer pockets(like on the Ps1 game "P'Oed" featuring the chef with sidearm cooking utensil) and so forth and then sell them.
I only wish I had more coat pockets and such, but my trendy Dockers will have to do. Carries everything but a handgun in the pockets.
Was Parker Lewis NOT one of the best shows on TV?!?!?
Seriously. Maybe just one of the best of its time, but no one seems to hav syndicated it, so there's no good way to compare.
But it was a kickass show.
In the meantime, I still like cargo shorts (damned winter! cuz cargo pants just look silly). the huge knee-side pockets rock for carrying just about anything. Right now I mainly just carry my danger/t-mobile sidekick. But I carried my Libretto in my cargo shorts on many occasions.
I had a friend in college who used to carry a pair of pruning shears in his backpack. If he was walking along a path and a tree branch was hanging in his way, he'd stop, pull them out, and trim it off. I thought he was crazy, but it was obstructing him! Right on!
I find that Dockers don't last too long. If I might recommend: Tilley Endurables Their washing instructions are "Give 'em hell!", and they don't need ironing.
I'm giving them a plug because I had a pair of pants that the zipper failed on after a few years. I figured what the hell, and took the pants back to get the zipper fixed. And they did it -- free of charge! (I guess they really do mean "Guaranteed for life".)
The shorts have enough capacity to handle a six-pack. (To hell with all those gadgets!) And there's a secret pocket too. They cost a bit more, but will last waay longer than Dockers under geek washing conditions. Besides, they have this neat stone head outside their Toronto store, can't go wrong! The Big Head
-- One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The article says he does have a clothing line. But no plug? The guy even refused to give his last name. I guess he really isn't in America. Shit, over here, people'll plug their dog's new novel at the planning stage, when they're still thinking about teaching the animal how to type. If you're on a talk show (or many times, in a news article), it's beacause you have something to sell, not because you have something interesting to say.
I have to admit, my first reaction to the story was "freak." My second was "clothing line? Where can I get some?"
I always considered that guy a precursor (whether chronologically correct or not) to silent bob. My favorite was when he whipped out a pizza box and some duct tape to make a cardboard dummy.
Holy crap, they're $102US for Tropical weight slacks. For that price I could buy about 5 or 6 pairs of Old Navy Tropical weight slacks. I could buy 4 or 5 pair of Dockers. That means, if these things last me 5 years, they would have JUST paid for themselves, they'd have to last 6 or 7 years to begin to save me a penny; because I can get a solid year's wear out of a pair of kakhis.
Their socks however, might be a decent idea. I might be ordering a pair of those.
Re:Parker Lewis
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Carries everything but a handgun in the pockets
He doesn't need a gun - he has scissors and a torch. He can cut someone up, fry 'em and eat 'em!
Dockers are $20 US? Even allowing for the exchange rate, that's a lot better than around here. As for lifespan, I'd count on ten under normal use. The nice thing is that they don't degrade -- I've got endless Dockers where my wallet has rubbed a hole in the pocket, the knee has gone, or they just plain started to fall apart. They aren't bad enough to throw out, but are no good except for mucking about in the apartment. Just ordinary washing gradually destroys them.
It's like Commander Vimes in Men at Arms when he's griping about how the rich can afford to save money. He buys cardboard boots each year, the rich buy one pair of good boots. After 20 years, he's spent more money on boots.
I haven't tried the tropical weight stuff. How hot does it get in Wyandotte MI anyway?:^)
-- One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I've got endless Dockers where my wallet has rubbed a hole in the pocket, the knee has gone, or they just plain started to fall apart. They aren't bad enough to throw out, but...
Yes they are!
Re:Parker Lewis
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Hah! Go get one of these and you'll not only have enough capacity to handle a six-pack but you'll also have enough intrigue to attract the laydees...
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric - -
Wonder if the change of clothes is recursive? if the change of clothes is recursive? the change of clothes is recursive? change of clothes is recursive? of clothes is recursive? clothes is recursive? is recursive? recursive? ?
"Hey, where'd Eric go?!? He said he was just going to change his clothes..."
Any ledge or a plastic cigarette lighter will do the trick; you don't need to carry a bottle opener. (Just don't use the ledge in the kitchen at home, it's a great way to drink the rest of your six-pack in the doghouse once the wife sees the wood shavings on the floor)
You can always open the bottle on a table's edge. Hold the crown cap on the edge and hit on it with your palm. May leave some scratches on the table. You can also use your eye socket as an opener, but some people watching this may be offended. May produce some scratches under your eye-brow. You can also use a coiled up magazine as a lever. They are a lot of ways to open the bottle.
Honestly we started using an MS EULA in QA testing to make sure large amounts of data could be correctly handled. I hope there's nothing in there that prohibits using the EULA for testing purposes.
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haha you are so creative this is such a funny joke b/c microsoft sux so any joke about them must be relaly really funny. microsoft sux. that was a joke, but its funny b/c it's true. hahahhahaha microsoft sux!
I tried fitting in a particular airline EULA, and guess what my jacket tore. After that I took the pledge that I wont carry anything heavier than a tank ever ever in my pocket.
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At least he didn't say anything about Open Source pants being better. (Sorry, GnuPants.) I'm not sure if having a General Public Licence on my pants would be a Good Thing.
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I'd hate to be behind him at an airport security checkpoint.
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they wouldnt stop him, wave him through
just like the guys with fake badges, with uzis strapped to their chests. post 9/11 mind you.
Re:I'd hate to be behind him...
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric --
On a somewhat related note, I was a bulging pocketed geek-scout in high school. Our school made us wear uniforms, and I had mine completely packed. Let's see if I can remember all the stuff I stuffed in there...
Pens & Pencils (with a pocket protector, of course)
Overhead markers
White-board markers
Chalk-board, uh, chalk
Minutes from the latest Yearbook meeting
1 hole punch (I couldn't figure out how to fit the 3 hole in there)
Wallet (with about $20 worth of coins in a stretched change compartment)
Key to the yearbook room
Keys to my house
And the pizza des resistance (excuse my lack of French):
Graphing Calculator (not just any graphing calculator, mind you, but the biggest available -- a TI-92)
The word is 'nerd', not 'geek'. 'Geek' is far too soft a word to describe your condition. You are some kind of supernerd, made up from parts of lesser nerds.
And by the way, it's "piece de resistance". Use some common sense. (pizza? what the hell were you thinking?)
Well, the whole comment was meant to be humour at my expense. So I was thinking that my very limited knowledge of French could be offset with some pure silliness. Looks like it didn't come out quite right.
Thanks for the clarifications! I especially like your tribute to "Triumph the Comic Insult Dog". That guy always cracks me up.
"And by the way, it's "piece de resistance". Use some common sense. (pizza? what the hell were you thinking?)"
He, if you want to be pedantic about French, make sure that one (me) isn't going to read your post.
It's "plat de resistance" (although there may be a spelling mistake on top of missing accent(s)). Plat is the French word for a dish, it means main course/dish.
Oh, and by the way "eccentric Frenchman" seems redundant to me;)
-- "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy
way to factor large prime numbers."
Bill Gates,
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric - --
Oh, I've got a bulging pocket alright...
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This reminds me of stories I've heard about the MIT cyborgs, these guys at MIT who used to walk around with a portable 386 with simitransparent goggles and 4-button handheld keypads. They would walk around campus coding. Anybody know these guys?
Re:MIT cyborgs
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I don't know any of them, but I rode in the elevator with one in the Media Lab back when I was working there as a research assistant a few years back. Fucking spooky when you hear a guy quietly clicking away with his one-handed keyboard-thingie while staring straight ahead. It was like he had no awareness of my presence or any other people around him.
Frankly, that kind of thing isn't good for humankind. I'm all for connectedness, but when we are so connected we lose our connections to the immediate world around us and the people right under our noses so we can email, check weather, and write code all the time - well, we truly lose some of what makes us human. And that's sad.
Seeing that at MIT is fine - seeing that in the mall is another story. And I'll take technozombies over warmongering any day.
-- must... stay... awake...
Re:MIT cyborgs
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It was like he had no awareness of my presence or any other people around him.
This has nothing to do with technology. Have you ever gone to a grocery store?
A surprisingly large number of people are completely unaware that that they are blocking the aisle when they have there cart on one side of the isle, themselves on the other, and yet they don't realize that you're coming despite your driving of the loudest shopping cart in the store.
Apparently choosing a spaghetti sauce takes a large amount of conentration and puts people in a trance like state.
I don't know about you, but I think I'd prefer not actualy noticing people in an elevator rather than the usual tight quarters I'm trying to pretend you're not there gig.
I call this 'environmental obliviousness'. When someone is mostly oblivious of their surroundings. My ex-girlfriend had a serious case of this, and got herself in some dangerous traffic situations... and she always had to have things pointed out to her.
Ah well, glad I don't have to deal with her any more. It scared me at times.:-)
Fucking spooky when you hear a guy quietly clicking away with his one-handed keyboard-thingie while staring straight ahead. It was like he had no awareness of my presence or any other people around him.
The borg don't consider you a threat if you ignore them. Had you attacked him, we would have noticed!
-- Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
An elevator is probably the site of the *least* amount of stranger-to-stranger contact in the world. You're so crammed together that nobody does anything but stare at the little floor indicator over the door. Next time you're in an elevator, just stand in the back and observe the other people, its fascinating really.
I do something similar, but I would have noticed if I were in the way. I basically ignore, to the point of not noticing, everyone. I have some pretty severe phobias about being around people I don't know, and that's one way I handle it. Unless they are a threat to my person, or could become a threat, they don't exist. In other situations I, uh, use an herbal self-remedy to help out.
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jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
That herbal self remedy could be part of the problem. Ever hear of uh, herbal induced paranoia. I used to suffer from this now I just wait till I get home before inducing paranoia.
I guarantee you one item he doesn't need to carry
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FearUncertaintyDoubt
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...is a condom.
I have two words for this guy
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jokercito
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Metal detector...
Re:I have two words for this guy
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His metal detector is in the upper left back shoulder pocket.
bulging pocketed geek-scout
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ackthpt
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Uh... if you're doing XML while you clean yourself, don't drop the SOAP in the shower...
I'm not sure i agree.. if you RTFA it says he sleeps outside alot.. i'm assuming he's homeless. if you have no home you carry whatever you own with you.. think of him as a creative shoping cart guy..just no shopping cart.. it is a tad extreem but it's a rough world out there and u gotta be ready for anything..
Hope that frenchman is still able finding his Penis under all the 1300 Items. It must hurt if he wants to go peeing and can't find the Dick just in time:)
Re:So ?
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Anonymous Coward
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Like he mentioned in the article, he removed his penis because he found he never used it.
Reminds me of the dilbert series where Dilbert has a gadget rivalry with one of his co-workkers. The two finally meet in a hallway and have a stand-off, western style. Both draw at the same but, but Dilbert's rival wins (rings all of Dilbert's gadgets) because his gadgets have speed dial.
Re:Dilbert...
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mhesseltine
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OK, the first of the comics setting up the meeting with Techno-Bill was 12/28/1992. The series runs through 12/31/1992 when Bill beats Dilbert. It's page 49 in "Dilbert Gives You the Business."
Re:Dilbert...
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Self-respect?
I'm one of those vexed at the Scott Adams sellout years ago. His work (if he even draws it -- many cartoonists have assistants) no longer feels fresh and subversive, and is going the route of "Garfield." Yes, it's nice he's gotten rich, but I don't have to respect him for that, or forgive (originally endearing) his stick figures. A polar opposite might be Bill Watterson, who is a talented artist, refused to use assistant cartoonists, and refused to merchandise Calvin and Hobbes to the point of nearly losing his job. (Perhaps this was too extreme; I'd love to have a Hobbes stuffed tiger for my kids.;-)
It may just be my romantic notion of art over profit. Or maybe I'm just bored with the stagnancy of Dilbert, where it used to be such a terrific strip.
In case you haven't hit the link in my sig, I'm a cartoonist myself, who has been trying to improve the execution of his art over the past three years. My comic has a small audience but I enjoy doing it (when I can find the time anymore).
But Scott Adams Didn't create a comic strip with self-expression and self-improvement as his primary goal. He created the Dilbert strip to make money. There is no emotional or moral loading in that statement; art and cartoons are largely irrelevant to him except for Dilbert's profitability. With Dilbert and co. kept relatively unchanging, the strip becomes far more profitable because their faces become instantly recognizable trademarks. Whether you like that or not is a matter of taste. Of course, millions of people still do love the strip.
Yep, I understand his moves have been calculated to make money. That's what most of us do (within reason) but it does make his work less interesting to me. It's also a little odd given his theme of making fun of droid-driven capitalism.
I do think he changed. I remember when Dilbert was quietly passed around the interet to people whose papers didn't carry it, and it was innovative that he put his email on his strips so people could suggest ideas. Now Dilbert is standard-issue in every office and does ads. When he explained why he launched his online store, "It makes money. We like money."
You say millions of people still love the strip. Well, millions of people love professional wrestling. So what's your point?;-)
I'll check out your work. Who are your cartoonist heros, anyway?
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Yes, but does he have his towel?
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Discopete
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He makes mention of sleeping in some unusual places, but he never mentions a towel!
Re:Yes, but does he have his towel?
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Anonymous Coward
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whenever sleeping in odd places, dont forget to bring a towel!
Re:Yes, but does he have his towel?
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smilingirl
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Lol... any good hitchhiker in this galaxy must carry a towel... it's all-purpose usefullness is astounding.
-- The Present is the point at which time touches eternity. - C.S. Lewis
Re:Yes, but does he have his towel?
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Anonymous Coward
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... Do you want to get high?
Re:Yes, but does he have his towel?
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isorox
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He makes mention of sleeping in some unusual places, but he never mentions a towel!#
A credit to the geek name
Re:Yes, but does he have his towel?
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Anonymous Coward
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he's french. shame on you for not reading the article.
Re:Yes, but does he have his towel?
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Anonymous Coward
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I just emailed my boss last night about a water leak over his desk. The subject line was "Did you bring a towel?"
Coincidence? I think not!
Re:Yes, but does he have his towel?
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric -__
I know something useful he doesn't have...
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jokercito
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A sex life...:P
Re:I know something useful he doesn't have...
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No+Such+Agency
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So what's your point? I don't have one either, but at least this guy can fix his bike whenever he wants to;-)
-- Freedom: "I won't!"
When, oh when....
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djupedal
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...do we get to moderate submissions? Given the last 24 hrs around here, it can't happen too soon.
The pain...oh, the pain of a slow news day.
Re:When, oh when....
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Anonymous Coward
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I just want to moderate editors. That way they get their privileges taken away for a month. We can at least all be happy when one of those fucks stops posting for a month.
Kinda like being w/o Jon Katz... He is dead right?
He was on NPR a while back talking about how he fell in love with two border collies. Apparently he moved to Utah and married them both. The happy trio is expecting over 30 puppies by Christmas. Trouble is, they won't know if they are katz or dogs.
-- We can neither love nor pity nor forgive.
If you make a slip in handling us you die!
Re:Artist's conception!
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric __
ok so your swiss army knife is for cleaning out the resin in your pipe. I got that what is the palm for? and of course you forgot the dimebags. And what about things like a cellphone or wallet;)
I'd like to see a complete list of every object he supposedly carries. In fact can he even rattle off all 1300 from memory? Probably not. Lets not even get into space considerations.
-- Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Re:I guarantee you one item he doesn't need to car
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garcia
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especially after he runs up to a woman and screams, "go go gadget erection" and a freaking cold-shower showers down on both of them.
I Now Have A New Hero...
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Nameis
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I don't go anywhere without a Leatherman , a hanky, and duct tape. I'm always looking for new handy stuff to carry. At one time I also carried a face shield for CPR, a laser pointer, and a mini-torch. You can never have too many pockets!
I hope this guy starts his own clothing line. Over 1300 items...ah, that'd get me chicks.
Re:I Now Have A New Hero...
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zaren
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Quite right you can never have too many pockets. I purchased two demin vests from clearance racks because they were loaded down with pockets, and I use one of them during the summer when it's too warm to wear either the trenchcoat (with it's almost elbow-deep pockets) or the jean jacket (two chest pockets, two inside pockets, two outside pockets, always holding at least one item each).
The vest came in really handy when I sprained my ankle and had to hobble around the house on crutches and yet still take care of the kids - in addition to the lefhanded Swiss Army knife / pill bottle / hankie / belt knife / pager I lugged around in or on my jeans, the vest came in handy for carrying a juice cup (covered), a bottle of milk, cordless phone, diapers, and a box of baby wipes (in the large pocket on the back), occasionally all at the same time.
Re:I Now Have A New Hero...
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Lag+Master
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I wear a trench coat when its cold, and this vest/backpack when it is warm.
The vest/backpack is really comfortable (sp?), and useful (for me atleast). I tried googling for a site that has a picture of the vest, but I couldnt find one. The name of the brand is MacGear, so um, yea.
So you're the guy who actually thinks this is useful. If you actually think it probable that a random unconscious person you encounter in time to save them will randomly have some deadly, communicable disease, probable enough that you should carry the mask, you ought to be buying lottery tickets nonstop.
--
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
Apparently plans to produce a First Person Shooter game based on this frenchman were cancelled after prelimenary versions had gamers sitting there for 2 hours pressing "[" to cycle through inventory items.
Actually, this guy has proven possible half the first person shooters on the market today. "Lets check my inventory. Pistol, shotgun, rocket launcher, minigun, chainsaw, flamethrower, railgun, 6 ft claymore sword, M1A1 Abrams, deck mounted battleship cannon, small country, and 15 trillion rounds of ammunition for each... all of it fits conveniently into my armor/trench coat/pants pockets. MWHAHAHA."
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric .
I carry quite a bit in mine, but I make sure to keep it small. Ugh. Carrying anything more than a watch bothers me.
Perhaps it's some kind of hidden luddite thing, but being laden down with gadgets isn't my idea of fun. I have enough friends who constantly carry mobile phones, a PDA (and a backup dead tree address book), security-blanket-water-bottle, not to mention a digimon keyring, auto keyless entry gadgetry, twenty keys and then the array of various jewelry-like bling.
I swear if it weren't for stretchmarks I'd probably be running around as naked as the day I was born, and happy.
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric .
excuse not to bathe
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Anonymous Coward
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"It takes too long to get out of this thing. I'll bathe tomorrow." (Yes, I work with smelly french people.)
Re:I guarantee you one item he doesn't need to car
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You know you've got problems when people on slashdot start making fun of your sex life...
The only useful part attached to his body might be his DICK !!
How looks your geek suit?
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Anonymous Coward
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Does it have many pocket?
Possible Hoax
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kaosrain
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This sounds a lot like a hoax to me...he refuses to give his last name, and it seems like a story based completely on how "crazy" he looks would at least include a picture. I could be wrong, but I suspect we've been had.
He also claims to use a brush to brush off random beds he sleeps in. Sounds like a not-so-well-thought-out hoax to me. Honestly do you use a brush when you sleep someone not at home or just pass out wherever.
Well on the other hand the guiness book of records does check the records.
Question is, of course, whether he really carries all that junk, all the time.
Re:Possible Hoax
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Walt+Dismal
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The article says 1300 items, and the weight is about 12 to 15 kilograms. So, on average, each of his items weighs roughly 10 grams. That is pretty lightweight. For example, a nickel weighs about 5 grams. So each of his objects is roughly equivalent to two metal nickels. That is really not much substance. And for every heavy object like a PDA, there would have to be undersized objects to balance. I smell a fish. Or a rat. Or possibly a lot of tools made out of paper or wire.
On the other hand, Harpo Marx carried complete dinner settings for 500...
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I can just see the next step in scoping out insecure networks:
WarHugging
OTOH, I wouldn't mind, ehrm, "exchanging" information in that fashion with several people I know...
yeah
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Anonymous Coward
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I dumped a bucket of salt water on him and called him a complete douchebag.
Oh no,
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Anonymous Coward
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New pointless product ideas for ThinkGeek.
I'd like to see him...
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Pig+Hogger
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I'd like to see him pass airport security just once.
Re:I'd like to see him...
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Kelerain
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More likely, he will probably slip right through before you, and you get stoped because of a filling. Kinda like this User Friendly commic (Apr 19, 1998).
Re:I'd like to see him...
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if terrorists can pass airport security with bazukas and handgrenades, then he can...
When my company (Compaq Federal LLC a Hewlett packard company) sends me around the country I typically have the following on my person or as carry-on:
laptop, pair of cat-5 cables, netgear 5 port switch, pair of ipaq usb wireless adapters, linksys pcmcia wireless adapter, my ipaq with backpacks, cf memory/adapter cards, mini flashlight, keys with remote for avalanche, ink pens, small screwdriver, allen wrench, cdroms both blank and copies of my games/software, music cds, my cd-player, headsets, spare contact lenses, glasses for when I rest my eyes from the contacts, bottle of aspirin, light change of clothes, static grounding strap, lanyards/badges, quick snack for my hypoglycemia if the airline doesn't do meal service, books, pocket change, wallet, drum key and guitar picks, listerine pocket pack (hey who knows I might meet a cute waitress or airline attendant), steel toed shoes, pager, spare batteries, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple things.
I got through security just fine, just took a while and the attendant made a crack about the people behind me not expecting to get stuck behind MacGuyver.
Re:I'd like to see him...
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric _.
Re:I'd like to see him...
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Pig+Hogger
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Vous avez de la chance que je sois français...:):)
Gross-modo, un "geek", c'est une "tronche"...
Si vous voulez que je vous traduise spécifiquement un commentaire précis dans la discussion à votre sujet, demandez-moi le moi en spécifiant le numéro juste après la date (par exemple, votre message auquel je répond a le numéro 4687266) et je vous ferai ça...:)
Re:I'd like to see him...
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CRAZY+ERIC
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C'est trop gentil de votre part ; bon j'ai compris en gros que les gens sont assez incrédules (et je les comprends car l'article initial ne donne pas assez de détails) et d'autre part ils en profitent pour se foutre plus ou moins de ma gueule (parfois méchamment mais dans ce cas l'auteur ne fait que se rabaisser lui-même). Je ne veux pas vous déranger en vous demandant de traduire, en plus la plupart du temps ça vaut pas trop la peine. J'aurais juste voulu répondre à ceux qui soulèvent des questions pertinentes (poids moyen des articles, passages à l'aéroport, et bien d'autres), mais je ne le ferai pas dans le vide. C'est vrai que je m'en fous un peu de ce qu'on pense, mais d'un autre côté je n'aime pas voir mon amie la Vérité martyrisée. Apparemment ils sont venus s'exprimer, voire cracher leur fiel, et maintenant ils doivent avoir oublié (soulagés) et sont sûrement bavarder ou s'acharner sur autre chose. Ce qui me fait marrer c'est la façon dont on parle de moi, comme si je n'existais pas vraiment ou comme si, en tant qu'Américains, ils étaient totalement inacessibles ou protégés du reste du monde : ils ne se doutent pas un seul instant que je pourrais tomber sur leurs bavardages. Je ne veux pas non plus tomber dans la généralisation, mais tout ceci m'a trop fait penser à l'image marrante "the world according to America"... Pour "geek", on me dit que c'est une personne qui est à fond dans son truc et qui s'en fout totalement de ce que les autres peuvent penser. Pour moi une "tronche" c'est quelqu'un qui est très intelligent. Je suis donc plus "geek" que tronche. Merci beaucoup pour votre message sympa:-) Eric
Sidney Coleman (way cool physicist) had the biggest Swiss Army knife I ever saw. That thing must have weighed 15 kg by itself. He had carried it with him for years, and he told me... (dramatic drum roll) ..that he had actually had occasion to use all but one of its 99-googol blades in his bike-riding, rock-climbing, etc. activities.
Not satisfied with this imperfect record, he sought out an expert to find out what he could do with that single unused blade. The expert replied, "Remove stones from horses' hooves."
Hey, not every story has a happy ending.
-- Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
Re:Swiss Army knife pr0n
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Cpt_Kirks
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Sharper Image used to carry a swiss army knife called the "Macgyver" that had over a hundred tools.
They are replacing it with the "O'Neil" version. It is pretty much the same thing but includes an MP5.
Re:Swiss Army knife pr0n
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toxcspdrmn
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I always thought that was "remove Boy Scouts from horses' hooves".
-- "E pur si muove!" - attributed to Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
Re:Swiss Army knife pr0n
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric _-_
What has it got in it's nassty pocketsses?
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sbaker
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My father used to work for the airlines doing Radio and Radar repair. He carried a little kiddies pencil case containing a Swiss Army Knife and an expensive Fountain Pen. The case was labelled "747 Repair Kit" and he swore those were the only tools he ever used. He also remarked that he used the fountain pen more than the knife.
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
Then of course there is my mother's handbag...
-- www.sjbaker.org
Re:What has it got in it's nassty pocketsses?
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You can get a swiss army knife with a small led flashlight in it now IIRC.
-- "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Re:What has it got in it's nassty pocketsses?
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ZBM-2
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My father used to work for the airlines doing Radio and Radar repair. He carried a little kiddies pencil case containing a Swiss Army Knife and an expensive Fountain Pen. The case was labelled "747 Repair Kit" and he swore those were the only tools he ever used. He also remarked that he used the fountain pen more than the knife.
LOL,when I used to work A-10's on the flightline,80% of my work was done with a comm headset and a pencil. Sure,you can adjust radio squelches from the cockpit. C-N-D,what's that?;-)
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight.
I carry a mini Swiss Army too,but those red LEDs on the Midnight series are too dim. I carry a white Photon instead. Much brighter,and you see everything in true color.
-- ====
Warning:this poster contains subject matter that may be offensive.
Flaming discretion is advised.
Re:What has it got in it's nassty pocketsses?
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Anonymous Coward
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FYI I got a hawkbill knife sex change kit that is very compact.
Re:What has it got in it's nassty pocketsses?
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric...
Re:What has it got in it's nassty pocketsses?
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric __--
pffft... useful?
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The_dev0
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Everybody knows the towel is most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
-- Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
Bulging-pocketed geek-scout
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c0d3h4x0r
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Anyone else a bulging pocketed geek-scout?
Um... if they were, do you think they would tell you? Pervert!
-- Moderator hint: a comment is neither "Flamebait" nor "Troll" if it is true.
Eccentric frenchman?
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xchino
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"An eccentric Frenchman who goes by the name of Crazy Eric.." All Frenchmen are eccentric. If this guy goes by the name Crazy Eric, Maybe he's not eccentric but actually crazy.
-- Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Re:Eccentric frenchman?
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Anonymous Coward
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All Americans are dumb. Ha Ha
This guy is homeless. . .
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Anonymous Coward
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. . Or maybe just camping long-term. Let's not make fun of those less well off, please. That being said, he seems to be quite self-sufficent. As an 1800's era trapper, he would have been stylin'!
"I use the brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
Elsewhere he carries a shaving kit, comprehensive first aid gear, a mini-saw, blow-up mattress, spare batteries, a change of clothes, a water-pouch, a water-filtering unit, soldering iron, tape-measure, digital camera...
Re:This guy is homeless. . .
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outofpaper
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I was thinking the same thing a I read the article.
Did somone steal the story?
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AcquaCow
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I did some searching and apparently the Australian Broadcasting Company is also running the same story. Its not exactly the same, but there are direct quotes between the two.
Does anyone know if SMH is a partner company? Same company?
Does anyone know who had the story first?
-- AcquaCow
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up 12 days, 22:30, 2 users, load averages: 993.20, 994.21, 994.56
*makes note to limit user processes...
Re:Did somone steal the story?
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Anonymous Coward
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The ABC is the Australian equivalent of the BBC and is part of the government not a company. Therefore no.
Re:Did somone steal the story?
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cranos
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Just a little Info
the ABC is the Government funded but independantly run media organisation while the SMH is part of a fully privatised newspaper group called The Fairfax group
So they are completely different organisations
Re:Did somone steal the story?
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thanks
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Re:Did somone steal the story?
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AcquaCow
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aah..cool...
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Re:Did somone steal the story?
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Tsuzuki
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The ABC is a government owned and publicly funded company, and SMH is owned by Fairfax. Considering that they're often at each other's throats over journalistic methods and political leanings, it's fairly safe to say that they're not affiliated in any way.:)
The SMH article credits the AFP, which I can only assume stands for Associated French Press... so both papers have just gotten their story from the same news agency, explaining the common quotes. Happens all the time!
1300 is a bit of overkill...
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Masami+Eiri
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All I need is my cell phone, PDA, wallet, and swiss army knife.
That is... until I manage to get myself a katana:D
Re:1300 is a bit of overkill...
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Malc
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What, you don't have any keys?
Keys, wallet, handkerchief. Anything else just adds to life's clutter.
Re:1300 is a bit of overkill...
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Cyno01
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Re:1300 is a bit of overkill...
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Anonymous Coward
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A friend carries: - Dual-band Cell Phone - Two $100 bills - Pistol (caliber depends on day of week)
He figures one of them will get him out of whatever trouble he's in.
I for one think that he's pretty cool
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outofpaper
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Un like most of the people ranting about how this man can't get laid and how uncool he is I think that his outfit sound rather cool. From what I understood his clothing is extreamly neat, due to the fact that is probaly has obsesive compulsive disorder. His tools are probably laid rather evenly over most parts of his body that wont be presed up aginst stuff as he goes about his day to day buisines.
I also liked the idea that I got when I heard of the velcro leg pockets. I thought of removable pockets that velcroed on to witchever pants he was going to ware today. For them to work all you would have to do is sew soft velcro patches onto all your pants and then when you got home take of the pockets and that way you don't have to resort your pockets.
If I was going to designe cooltool pants I would just take some strong comphy pants sew velcro on them(the soft fuzzy part), probably as larg patches on the thighs and calves. Then I would find some of that strong synthetic denim stuf that overalls are made of (probaly in black or posibly that realy spiffy blackand white hounds tooth patern), with this fabric I would make my pockets. They would have litle deviders in them so as to seperat all my diferent tools(you know mini renches from philips screw drivers). I might also alow for some sort of modular inter wireing so that I could just plug things into my pants for power and alow sound sent to by shirt where I could have a plug up by my neck for head phones.
Re:I for one think that he's pretty cool
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Lag+Master
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Right on man. If only there were something that will generate power for the devices when you walk....
What Eric most often thinks....
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krazyninja
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Now, in which pocket did I put that "human-swiss-knife-organiser"???:)))
-- "Do something man. Right now."
Gargoyle
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Anonymous Coward
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That's nothing man. I was on the bus a few weeks ago somewhere near Liverpool St. (London), and a gargoyle walked onto the bus.
(For those of you unfamiliar with the term, this means a dude decked out in computer gear).
He had a beltpack computer plus battery, a HUD, a wrist mounted keyboard, and a webcam on his right shoulder, and was covered in cables linking all these things up to each other (and no, despite my efforts I couldn't find any open bluetooth or wi-fi connections).
It was quite cool. He looked a bit of an idiot, but it would offer some funky opportunities.
Just think... with a decent cam, a powerful computer and some clever 3D rendering, you could get the HUD to display a world just like the real one, except where all the ladies are naked......or you could just check your email the whole time. Which is probabaly what I'd do. Sigh.
There is actualy an experiment going on at a university I cant rember where that was providing people with a HUD so that they could se where they where and what buildings where what and so on. Popular Science had and article about it a few months back it was called reality 2.0 i think. Though the article didn't go in to detal about how the scientis where going to get naked bodies to be rendered over the people that you were looking at it did talk about having it so that your comuter would show you a persons name and so on if you had met them before, I ges that would be rather usfull for picking up people in a bar. I mean youv probaly met them before but you dont remember their name or how, luckily your whereing your trusty Viso mack. Now you won't have to worry about being drunk and not knowing who your girl-friend/boy-friend is your computer will tell you.
Re:Gargoyle
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah, but you might wake up the next morning with Klez.
where he carries a brush to dust the ground for when he sleeps.
-- Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
Re:I like the part
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TiMac
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Indeed. For those that didn't read, the quote is:
"I use the [paint]brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
But what I'm wondering is...if he carries a blow-up-mattress (as mentioned in the NEXT PARAGRAPH)...then why is he sweeping up the dust on the ground to sleep? Why not just blow up the mattress?
So, you're one of them! Those who never limp under beds or anything, and keep religiously the dust under the carpet. Certainly you just wash your face and your hands, and may be doesn't even wipe your ass! unless you walk naked?
...a shaving kit, comprehensive first aid gear, a mini-saw, blow-up mattress, spare batteries, a change of clothes, a water-pouch, a water-filtering unit, soldering iron, tape-measure, digital camera.
Guess he will not be requiring a showering kit...
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"Duffman says a lot of things, OH YEAH!" - Duffman
On a daily basis, I carry my Victorinox Cybertool (wanky name, but very useful tool, perfectly designed with nerds in mind; only thing it's missing that I'd like in a pocketknife is a saw), and a small pill container with some breath mints, painkillers and antihistamines. After that just the general stuff like a handkerchief, watch, change, mobile phone, notepad and a biro (even though the pocketknife has a small biro for emergencies).
I eventually got a belt pouch for the pocketknife because it is quite large and heavy, and was just *ruining* the cut of my cargo pants.:)
Other than that, everything I now keep in my pockets is of a comfortable weight, and I rarely seem to need anything extra.
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SofaMan -- Occasionally Battling Evil With His Mighty Powers Of Indolence.
... but I also have an inflatable mattress with me
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Hektor_Troy
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Wanna fuck?
-- We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
I'm a big leatherman toting boyscout geek.
one extension of this was to cover the entire surface of the back of my laptop screen in velco. Most useful thing i've ever done. mounted my wifi card case, my earbuds, cables, wardriving can-tenna etc.
There are all kinds of ways one can extend such storage capacity.
Re:I guarantee you one item he doesn't need to car
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krazyninja
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maybe...but what he DOES need to carry, is a "pocket-human-swiss-knife-organiser"!:)
"But if I don't need something, I don't bring it. I used to carry a pedometer, for example, but I've just taken it off. I never found I needed it."
At least no one can call him a packrat now. He stopped carrying something with him everywhere.
-- Why not fork?
Hey, don't be so quick to judge...
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Final+Sacrifice
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Now he's got two less things to worry about... 1.) being caught unprepared in a sticky situation AND 2.) friends
The real way of the geek ...
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mboedick
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... is not to have a lot of tools, but to use the same tool for many different tasks, like those old 101 uses for a Zippo lighter ads.
Re:The real way of the geek ...
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isorox
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Yes. All you need is a hammer, works every time.
Re:The real way of the geek ...
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric._.
eccentric Frenchman?
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Anonymous Coward
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Shouldn't that be -1 Redundant?
I've been bested!
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Engelbot
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Or, to be more accurate, completely outclassed. I'm still in the game, however.
Early on in college, I got diabetes, which I ended up treating with an H-Tron Plus insulin pump, from Disetronic. After trying a few different schemes for securing it to my person, I decided to park it on my belt.
Shortly thereafter I switched to a different blood glucose meter, which I discovered had a belt loop on its pouch. This made carrying it around much easier and more reliable. Sometime in here I found I needed my Leatherman more often than I happened to have it around. On the belt it goes.
The Palm and its belt case came shortly thereafter, rounding out the utility belt. It's served me well, but I'm not a student any more, and it's starting to get a bit awkward. (Yes, I probably ought to have realized this sooner.)
I'm hoping to consolidate, using a Visor and a FreeStyle Tracker for the meter (coolest device ever), but I'm also looking at a wireless telephone . . . maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest instead. Hmm.
Oh--yes, going through airport security is a royal pain.
maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest [tilley.com] instead
Completely off topic, but just went to that site. Clicked international, and looked at the price - $350. OK, way too expensive for a shirt with pockets, but hey.
Ha! I think I've got you beat.
Sometime back in college I realized I was tired of having a wallet in my pocket and a knife, and other cruft, so I started carrying a fanny pack. (Actually, I rarely wear it in the back, so technically I believe it is a scrotum bag)
On this I attach my leatherman, and a pager (company pager).
Into it I fit:
Counter-intuitively it makes going through airport security easier because I just take it off, toss it on the xray machine, and pick it up on the other side. None of the "Do you have keys, change, a tinfoil covered cucumber in your pants?"
lets see, inventory time... I have a (utility) belt of course.
Belt: swiss army knife (swiss champ, the big 'un), pager, digital camera. All three have their own holster/belt clip.
Pockets: wallet, green laser pointer, digital audio recorder, pen, keys, car alarm remote.
Then of course my watch. (w/metal band)
All in all, more then enough to scare the metal detectors into ringing when I approach. Metal detectors generally stink because I have to take off my belt to remove all the attachments and I can't help but wonder if people think I'm gonna strip completely for the stroll through the gates...
All of this is actually cut down a bit... I used to carry a second set of keys and an attached mini swiss army knife too but that was proving too much of a load for the pockets which were tearing out.
-- I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
I went to college with a very smart guy who also had diabetes. His senior project was a program called GlucoPilot that took data directly from his glucose meter and fed it into his palmpilot, compiled it and produced graphs and stuff.
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric __.
Follow-up /. story...
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ngkabra
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I am just waiting for somebody to use him for a case-mod...
Re:Follow-up /. story...
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric.---
I used to do that, just whip out my wire cutters and kill branches along my path. I mean, if I'm going to walk by there 3 times a day, I'm not putting up with branches. I ususally carry a leatherman wave (although recently switched to a Juice XE6), and my car keys (along with keys), currently carries a Swiss army knife (flashlight, tweezer, file, knife, scissors), a tape measure, bottle opener, carpenter's level, and a kokopelli for good luck.
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
Personally, I don't think it's about carrying 1300 devices, but making do with the 30 or so you do carry around.
-- This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."
Don't forget in Goonies the one kid that had the variety of items on his person. The oil in shoes, the light, the mini-wench, his father's camera pop of belt thing. I haven't seen that movie in such a long time, I have this feeling there are some more I have forgotten about.
The mini-wench was attached to a suction cup arrow and Data also had the jaws that grabbed onto something above to prevent him from being impaled when he fell through the floor over some spikes or something like that, and the boxing glove that pops out and punches one of the bad guys.
I have about 1300 portable MP3 players. Each one of them has a feature that the other did not. My best advice -- rechargable batteries are your friends.
-- (+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
You're right. No picture on this story = Big Tease
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ArcSecond
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Although he sounds more like he is following in the footsteps of the "One Man Band Maniac" tradition, rather than the "MIT Media Lab Maniac" tradition, this guy sounds like he is miles ahead of most self-styled cyborgs (Mann, et al) in the integration of technology into his person. I would doubt this guy takes great pleasure with the efficiency with which he can perform various necessary tasks. And he no doubt wears it almost all the time.
We all know the geeks with a tool belt from hell, but it only makes sense that it will move into the realm of tactical vests and load-bearing harnesses, or truly functional clothing that has been engineered with sensors, processors, power systems, etc. into it. Eric most likely doesn't have a real good digital rig going, but that's beside the point: it's functional integration. We shouldn't be biased against low-tech, in particular the need for powered systems should not be the criteria a definition of "cyborg".
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I've got a bad attitude and karma to burn. Go ahead. Mod me down.
Is that 1300 things in your pockets?
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Sex_On_The_Beach
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You're a fucking IDIOT!!
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Kip+Diamond
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Homeless?! What the fuck! How the hell is the guy going to afford 1300 items, plus the velcro, a back pack, and other necessities he's used!.
Get some fucking sense before posting a dumbass remark like that!
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YEAH I SAW SPARKS FLY!! FROM THE CORNER OF MY EEEYYYEEE!!!
Re:You're a fucking IDIOT!!
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Obyron
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Homeless?! What the fuck! How the hell is the guy going to afford 1300 items, plus the velcro, a back pack, and other necessities he's used!.
Yeah, because as we've all learned from Napster, the latest download sites for the new Harry Potter movie, and Winona Ryder; everyone pays for everything they have!
Here's betting that if he's a real geek? He went Dumpster Diving for most of it.
I was going to ask if he carried a condom, but then I realized that it said in the article that he only carried things that he would use... and most guys who walk around with 1,300 usefull tools... well, point taken
I remember that!! I used to carry my McGuyver around at college. It's actually a bike tool made by a company called Topeak. I don't think it has over 100 tools... [whipping it out] lessee...
8mm wrench, 9mm wrench, 10mm wrench, 15g, 14g, P#1 flathead, straight blade, saw, mini pliers, scissors, magnefying glass, ruler, scaler, bottle opener, miniflathead, can opener, 6 hex wrenches, nail file, tweezers, mini phillips, #2 phillips, fork, awl.... I think officially its only got 33 on there...
There's probably a few I've missed, since this thing looks like a porcupine with all the tools sticking out.
-- This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."
Wonder if his kit can serviceeverything at once? Combined with a headsup display, never again would one have to dread waiting for a bus or other boring stationary activities. Might raise a few eye-brows at an airport though. At least he wouldn't have to worry too much about confiscation. Heh.
Mod this racist joke down!
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Kip+Diamond
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It's pitiful that this post should even be considered to be modded up!
Racism is not funny, and I support the outlawing of racism!
If you're going to mod this joke, which is obvious at making fun of French, you might as well mod up any of the troll posts about Niggers and Jews!!!
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YEAH I SAW SPARKS FLY!! FROM THE CORNER OF MY EEEYYYEEE!!!
Re:Mod this racist joke down!
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mdechene
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Yeah, but it's funny because french people surrender so they can go home to their hot wives, whereas other rascist jokes are just mean. If I had a hot wife and it was between fighting some silly war or going home to her, I'd surrender too.
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Karma: Not Particularly Funny.
Re:Mod this racist joke down!
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Anonymous Coward
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Yes, outlaw racism! Because we all know that the only way to get rid of something we don't like is to make it illegal, instead of question why it's there in the first place..
Congratulations, you're another sheep. Good thing I like lamb chops..
Re:Mod this racist joke down!
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Anonymous Coward
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you might as well mod up any of the troll posts about Niggers and Jews!!!
I always do, at least the funny ones. So? There's a shitload of old and boring nigger and jew jokes out there. New and creative ones deserve to be modded upo. It's +1, funny. Laugh.
Re:Mod this racist joke down!
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Anonymous Coward
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I'm glad not everyone thinks like you... ya yellow belly coward!
With hate, Anonymous Coward
Re:Mod this racist joke down!
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p4ul13
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Foo. Please complain about the right thing (if you really must). There is no French 'race'. Your beef is with an attack on national stereotypes. Yeah, its a nitpick, but to compare some national good natured ribbing to full blown racism either blows your complaint way out of proportion, or severly minimizes the impact of racism.
P.S. I fart in your general direction, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!!!
Here's a trick for dealing with the isle hogs... *cough, cough, cough, cough, cough* If you sound like you're going to be buried next week or at least like you're going to cough up a lung, people scurry to get out of your way. For added detail, you can wipe your hands on your clothes and make sure you handle lots of products before you put them back on the shelf.
argh no no no
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nomadic
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Well, the thing is France crumbled almost immediately. And they shouldn't have.
Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
That's what the high school textbooks say. Unfortunately, like many things in the high school textbooks it's not quite accurate. France had a very large army, well-fortified, and after the invasion of Poland Britain also stationed troops in France.
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
So we have two well-equipped, sizeable forces in France, expecting an attack.
So what happens? The Germans flank the French, ignore the Maginot line, smash both the French and the British armies, and have reached the English channel in 8 days.
Yes, the constant insults about French courage are unfair, but they didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in 1940. Ditto for the British. It also doesn't help that the French have absolutely no sense of humor about themselves. Neither do the Germans, but the Germans at least have the excuse that they don't have a sense of humor about anything.
Plus france got its head handed to it in ww1 as if i remember my mediocre historical education
-- Why not fork?
Re:argh no no no
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MacAndrew
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Germans can have a great sense of humor! It just tends to be a little... dark. I find Kafka a riot.:)
I don't condone stereotypes, but the French do have other surrenders. But in fairness these should at least be counted against the many French victories -- Napolean and all that. They also gave the fledgling U.S. one heck of a boost during its Revolutionary War. Finally, the (Nazi) Germans were the final surrender, and isn't THAT the one that counts?
So what happens? The Germans flank the French, ignore the Maginot line, smash both the French and the British armies, and have reached the English channel in 8 days.
It really is worth mentioning why it was so easy to flank the French lines.
All of the big French artillery guns were literally buried into position facing in the direction that the Germans were supposed to come. When the Germans decided that walking into a killing field would be silly, the French couldn't turn their guns!
This thread reminds me of a few years back when some really big commemarative event was happening in Normandy. Presidents and Prime Ministers attending kinda big, along with soldiers who had fought on that beach. A number of Germans were also looking to attend, which the French opposed. One commentator noted...
"Yeah right. Like they could keep them out!"
-- The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
Let's not forget the fact that Vichy France had its troops fight against the British and Americans in North Africa.
Thankfully they soon turned changed sides and joined De Gaulle's Free French army.
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Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit? | Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
Re:argh no no no
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Anonymous Coward
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A number of Germans were also looking to attend, which the French opposed.
Is that true? If so, fuck those French politicians. Veterans are veterans, they were all soldiers. Those politicians apparently tried to deny some veterans and relatives the right to visit the place where they fought and died for their country.
I bet they're the same politicians who banned Internet auctions of German WW2 memorabilia...
Germans can have a great sense of humor! It just tends to be a little... dark. I find Kafka a riot.:)
That doesn't say anything about the german sense of humor. Kafka wasn't german. He was born in Prague when that was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. So he was Czech. Maybe austrian or hungarian, but definitely not german.
All of the big French artillery guns were literally buried into position facing in the direction that the Germans were supposed to come.
Anyone else think of the National Missile Defence project when they hear of the Maginot line?
IMO it's a direct comparison - looks good, sounds good, and against an enemy with an ounce of sense is absolutely useless. Anyone also imagine that the Maginot line was completed in a project which resulted in a *lot* of money making it into private industry, and profits for big gun and emplacement and construction firms?
We keep making the same mistakes.
Re:argh no no no
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Metrol
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Anyone else think of the National Missile Defence project when they hear of the Maginot line?
I'm thinking of marking myself off topic for replying to this. Oh well, moderate away.
Your comparison falls short on one major point. The Maginot line was literally the only defense that France put up to the invading Germans. One they walked around it, it was not much more than a contest between artillery and small arms. We all know how that ended.
In contrast, nobody is suggesting that missile defense is the only line of defense we maintain. It's meant to be a means to close a huge opening in the variety of defenses we do have in place.
Yes, even with missile defense there remain other means to move a nuke. Those means aren't totally unstoppable, as missiles are today though. It forces any potential enemy to work a LOT harder to get through to us. It gives our intelligence agencies at least a chance to stop delivery.
Far as I'm concerned, missile defense is worth exactly the cost of having one major city destroyed, and all the people in it killed. Haven't heard many opponents quote that cost into an argument.
-- The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
That's absolutly false. I just asked a friend of mine who is fond of WW2 history to be sure I wasn't mistaking. German tanks were better than anything that existed at the time.
Damn! You took my line! The actual place in the joke is the Champs Elysees which ironically leads directly to the Arc du Triomphe. I've been there 3 of the last 8 weeks on business. I told that joke two weeks ago. Right there. To a German guy. He hissed.
Two hours later, he asked me to repeat it so he can get it right when he returned home.
Actually, the late-war German tanks were the best. For the French attack the Germans had the Panzer I (Two machine guns. MACHINE GUNS), Panzer II (If I recall correctly, a 38cm Gun), and Panzer K38(I think, but it wasn't even a German tank, it was a Czech one that had enormous quality problems...the Germans wrote off a couple hundred due to wear-and-tear during marches, not actual combat).
The reason the German tanks were feared was that they were used in a psychologically effective way (deep behind enemy lines, striking soft targets like infantry). When the Germans fought Allied tanks, they used their anti-tank guns. In the few cases that German tanks encountered French and British tanks, they generally got their asses handed to them.
Well, to draw the analogy in the other direction, flogging it as I go:
I think the ABM program is worse than the Maginot line because it addresses a threat than does not exist. No one but the Russians has the technology to deliver ICBM nukes, and we wouldn't be able to stop them. Any lesser nation that has surmounted the technical problems in developing a nuke would be nuts to next throw itself into the numerous complexities of a major rocket problem, re-rentry vehicles, etc. They may be crazy, but they're not stupid. And for countries that can develop the technology (the Chinese or the Koreans?), massive retaliation and assured destruction should still be adequate. An ICBM would be exceedingly easy to trace back to its origin, hence suicidal for an entire government.
This doesn't even touch on the monumental technical hurdles of an ABM system. To say that "just one city" would cost more overlooks the nearly zero probability that even a brilliant trillion-dollar system would head off that feared one-nuke attack. I worry a great deal about someone trying to use a nuclear weapon to advance terrorism, but not for a second about them delivering their precious weapon via an unreliable rocket. I'd launch it from a submarine or boat or airplane or freight container or truck... well, you get the idea... not an 8,000-mile lob by a missile. ICBM's were intended for the Cold War, deterrence, and the fear of being unable to counterstrike, not first-strike (up until they started making lots of MIRV's, maybe).
I could go on, but... I don't feel there is much actual debate going on with this topic, which is unfortunate as it means breaking the ABM treaty, alienating allies, sparking an arms race, and spending a whole lot of money for nothing. These billions could be used to isolate or disarm the enemy more easily.
Your argument presumes that no radical group will be able to seize an ICBM installation; that the Russian, Chinese, etc security is rock solid.
Your evidence for this is?
I hate to burst your bubble of complete and utter ignorance, but China ALREADY HAS ICBMS THAT CAN HIT THE UNITED STATES. Moron. Besides, since the Soviet Union broke up there is plenty of technology for sale to the highest bidder. It is not that tough for a country to develop ICBM technology. The only reason that it is not more prolific is that most of the countries that have developed nuclear weapons have a specific target in mind (e.g. India and Pakistan toward each other, Israel toward the Arabs countries, etc etc), so they don't need to hit a target 10,000 miles away. Russia and the US on the other hand, did. Now China has developed weapon capable of hitting its potential enemy, the US. So, don't be suprised when countries like Iraq and North Korea start testing long range missile systems of thier own..oh that's right they already are.
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Re:argh no no no
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Ummm.... actually no. The best tanks in the war were of the russian variety. The T-34/76 and T-34/85 were hands down the best tanks of the war, everything considered. Even better than the Panther. One could make an arguement that the JS series of tanks were better, but the consensus is that the T-34 was overall a better tank.
(1) probability, including that you can't just rush a compound and press the big red button, it takes expertise/time to prepare and codes to launch the missile -- note this is not a scenario seriously pushed by the ABM proponents; and (2) we wouldn't be able to shoot down such a missile anyway, given the huge technological hurdles and that the Russian, Chinese, etc. will install cheap and easy countermeasures as we develop our system (without which their rockets would be useless).
It's nice to dream of a Star Wars shield, and it gives me the willies that we are unprotected from a bomb we know is coming, but that's how it is. There are much better ways to spend the money that will get results, like disarmament and gathering intelligence on groups that might attept such a thing. We'd save more lives curing cancer or AIDS with the money spent preparing for a long-shot threat. And to say we will achieve a meaningful 24/7 ABM anytime in the near future, one so precise that it could known out a single unexpected bomb, is a lie -- and we need protection now.
Wrong on all counts. A few minutes of research proves it.
Neither the Long March nor any other Chinese missile is capable of greater than 8000 km or so. If I'm wrong, provide a cite. A word to the wise -- when the alarmists cite Chinese or North Korean missiles able to reach the "United States" they mean Alaska or maybe Guam. Not that I don't care about Alaska, but they are being deliberately misleading as to the state of the technology, by implying that out enemies can strike anywhere at will.
It is VERY tough to develop ICBM's, or even medium-range, technology. Lots of countries are trying, besides the Chinese and North Koreans. If we're afraid of these countries having nukes we should be afraid of a short-range low-tech delivery that SDI can't address.
Iraq? A long range missile? Ha! The Scuds in the Gulf War were their effort to enhance 1950's Soviet tech to get a few extra miles of range, and we saw how pathetic and unreliable they were. their range was no better than several hundred miles, and they have only a few left. (This doesn't mean the Israelis have nothing to fear, and they know already they can't rely on Patriot... perhaps their Arrow will do better.)
Anyway, the existence or nonexistence of the missile is beside the point. The current ABM tech doesn't yet exist, won't for a long time, will cost a fortune, and can't possibly deliver the level of security advertised. We could never fend off a Soviet attack, especially with SLBM's. Whatever technology we come up with will be easy to work around, until perhaps we have a space-based laser capable of attacking during the launch phase. Don't hold your breath, or bet national security on it.
As throughout the Cold War, the threat of massive retaliation is more than sufficient to deter an easily-traced missile attack. Even Saddam wants to live. If the nuclear of biological attack comes -- and I do fear that it will -- it will be by other deniable means, and we had better focus our work there, rather than the exotic.
"It also doesn't help that the French have absolutely no sense of humor about themselves."
Maybe you will say that I am an exception but I am French and I certainly have a sense of humor about French people in general and me in particular. More than once I have given rope to my (non-French) friends to joke about me, even needing to complete it because they didn't see it ("Oh! I thought you would say...").
"Neither do the Germans, but the Germans at least have the excuse that they don't have a sense of humor about anything."
Not true, otherwise how could "the funniest joke in the world" have worked on their troops?
More seriously, my German teacher al ways said that in French you laugh just after the middle of the joke whereas in German you laugh at the end because the positionment of the words in the sentence are such that the meaning of the joke comes only with the last word, the verb, so you can't get it before.
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What do you know, as stated in this article 3 or 4 times, China does have the capability of hitting the US, and by hitting the US they mean Los Angeles, not Alaska (though a hit on the pipeline would definitely hurt us a lot). Let me quote the article.
" According to the report, China has about 20 missiles capable of "targeting the United States" and is increasing the number to 30 by 2005 and possibly as many as 60 by 2010."
The flaw in your dangerously outdated argument against ABM is that you base your conclusion (which you have stated twice now)on the idea that the system would never be able to destroy a full launch by the former Soviet Union. I hate to burst your bubble, but the Soviet Union no longer exists and Russia is a bit more friendly to the US. The likely culprits in a nuclear launch against the US and its allies are China, North Korea, and assorted terrorists (the terrorists having had to seize control of a silo or two in Russia or the aforementioned states). So, max, right now, we are looking at having to deal with 20 to 30 ICBMs, and maybe as much again SLBMs. Well a decent ABM system should easily be able to deal with 30 incoming ICBMs, even if that means we have to launch 10 kill vehicles per warhead. Considering the cost of losing a city, we still come out ahead. The key to stopping SLBM's is a combination of ABM (perhaps like the new Arrow missile or newer laser systems) and a pro-active defense with newer, faster attack subs co-ordinating with satellite and air based observation. We are not dealing with MAD anymore, they cannot destroy us completely (though we can destroy them). The greatest threat is the rogue launch of a missile or two, or a submarine going off on its own. These are easily taken care of if we only develop the technology. Its idiots like you who are going to cost the US and its allies millions of lives due to your blind adherence to a policy that ceased being relevant in 1991.
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The story by the Washington Times and Pentagon report were about Taiwan, on an island called Formosa off the coast of mainland China that, yes, China can easily attack. The comments about striking the U.S. were peripheral and forward-looking and probably inaccurate (the Pentagon is not perfect) -- China does not have that capability now. But even if they do, it doesn't matter.
Of course China and others have and will continue to develop ICBM's. The point is that ABM's are not the answer. And, as was understood when the anti-ABM treaty was signed, building ABM's actually accelerates nuclear proliferation. Counter ABM methods such as decoys are easy and cheap to implement; no one has a good answer. If we somehow develop the perfect ICBM defense, well, no one's going to attack us with ICBM's -- they'll use one of the other 500 ways of doingit. If ABM's are our only defense and someone wants to nuke us, we had best move somewhere else.
You really think we can ring the country with Patriot-type batteries to stop intermediate-range missiles with transit times of may five minutes? How many thousands of miles of coastline? How many billions of dollars? How long before a battery accidentally shoots down a jet? Not even the administration has proposed such a thing.
"Well a decent ABM system should easily be able to deal with 30 incoming ICBMs" -- well I suppose that's true, but it begs the question we don't have and won't for a long time such a decent ABM system. We can't even shoot down one warhead. Developing such a system would be staggering achievement, and a collosal waste of money.
There are other ways of dealing with the threat, methods that will work without sparking an arms race, alienating our allies, wasting a collosal amount of money, and increasing the risk of war.
Last, you really dropped the ball on this: "We are not dealing with MAD anymore, they cannot destroy us completely (though we can destroy them)." We can destroy them has always been the whole point of MAD. It's called deterrence.
this guy is a freak!
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That is so messed up. 1300 things on him? Why haven't the authorities taken him into protective custody yet? That guy should be locked up for his own good. He's fucking crazy.
I hate to break the news to you Eric, but there's a bowling alley opening up down the street from your place. Sorry man.
Surrendering offensively?
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Many French people will take any joke about them surrendering offensively!
How can you 'surrender offensively'?
I would think that at best it would be a defensive tactic.
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i think he meant surrendering, offensively.
he must be french
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How can you 'surrender offensively'?
Well, if the invading force was somewhat honourable, and were low on resources, surrendering en-masse and forcing them to take care of you might be considered an offensive tactic, maybe..
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How can you 'surrender offensively'
A lot of offense can be caused by eating too much garlic, smoking Gitanes and not brushing your teeth. Not as powerful as chemical warfare, but has psychological impact nonetheless.
But the real question is
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Does he have his towel?
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I'm working my way up to that...
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As an active student who's far to busy, I found that I tend to need an odd range of things constantly. After killing several blazers and doing a weekend shuffle to get everything out of my school uniform into normal clothing, I gave in and got a 3/4 length fishing vest.
The thing is surprisingly comfortable, and it holds everything I need. If you were to catch me during the day, on hand I'll have:
Handspring Visor Stowaway Keyboard for above Wallet Half dozen other assorted copy cards, ect. Pens, pencils, fountain pen... Keys Multi-tool (Leatherman Wave) Electrical Tape A spare roll of film or two Link cable for TI-83+ Assorted blank paper, old paper and forms Spare AA batteries Maglight Pager
One really nice thing about the 3/4 length is that it doesn't hinder movement or sitting like the full length vests do, and hides nicely under a blazer or fleece vest for less obtrusive ware.
I would happily recommend the Simms Mesh Vest to anyone who wanted to keep stuff on hand. It's lasted me two years of consistant (12/7) usege with minimal wear and no problems. You should be able to find it at a local outdoors or fishing shop.
Evan
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How about a backpack you fucking moron.
If crazy Eric goes skiing...
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... and gets caught in an avalanche, his friends better tell the rescue team to bring a metal detector...
Re:If crazy Eric goes skiing...
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Or they could just say he's got everything under control.
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric - - --
nm it was said far b4 i said it
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Geez, I wouldn't use it that way. The "German race" reminds me of you-know-what. And it really doesn't work in an age when people move across state boundaries so fluidly.
Point taken. But I don't like it and wouldn't use it. Rather, the "French people." And I don't like "impact" used to be "have an effect on" either. So there!
Are you an idiot? Western Europe isn't some seething mass of amalgamated culture - the cultures of each country (and the people that perpetuate them) are all very, very different. At the very least they're deservant of being classified by race.
And if the phrase "German race" makes you think of Nazis, or the Holocaust, then you are a racist. Do you have any idea how offended the average modern German would be if you told them that the collective name of their race reminds you of such things?
Actually the word you are looking for is probably ethnicity. The textbook definition of "race" is such:
"A human group having some biological features that set it off from other human groups" - Sociology, Rodney Stark
An ethnic group is one that share historical or cultural bonds.
Okay, so that really just makes it an ethnic joke. Not really all that much better though. Most people can laugh at these things realizing that they are only jokes.
I know plenty of Germans. I think they tend to see their culture as far more cosmopolitan than in the 19th century, and reject teh loaded term "race." Among other things, more and more Germans are immigrants. The unifying and mythical "German race" concept was a central tenet of the nazis.
Try searching google for "German race." Aside from car races, almost all references will be to the eugenics and slaughter of the 30's and 40's, and to Hitler or war criminals.
Oh I agree; I'm not some brittle liberal. As I just explained in a parallel thread, "German race" is strongly evocative of the Nazi depredations and like the Confederate flag isn't easily redeemed even if the user intends something entirely different. Race used to denote biological traits is problematic enough; using it to mean culture and such can be confusing. How about calling them "Germans"? That conveys nationality and culture very clearly.
A more embarassing example was the girl I remember from high school who though "Jap" was accepted shorthand for Japanese, and used it throughout an oral history report... until the history teacher interrupted.:)
"I think they tend to see their culture as far more cosmopolitan than in the 19th century,"
That might be because that was over 100 years ago.
"Among other things, more and more Germans are immigrants,"
Immigrants represent a tiny, tiny portion of the German population. Have you ever been to Germany? You'll find that if you actually talk to Germans that live in Germany about their culture, that they feel very strongly about it. They have a strong sense of racial identity. The fact that they welcome immigrants has no impact on this whatsoever.
"Try searching google for "German race." Aside from car races, almost all references will be to the eugenics and slaughter of the 30's and 40's, and to Hitler or war criminals."
Probably because it's probably the single most significant event of the last century. Of course there are thousands upon thousands of documents that refer to it. In a list of documents, any other references to the "German race" are insignificant beside those referring to WW2. This is because back then the idea of a German race was to do with the unification of Germans living everywhere. This is not the case now, in today's world.
"Speaking of words, there's no "deservant." Study up. Advice from an educated liberal."
Eat a dick, you pompous pedant. What is it exactly that I'm supposed to study? Who cares if you're a liberal? If anything, that fact only serves to make you look like more of a fool.
Just think a tab a day keeps the obsession about 1500 widgets away.
My kit
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I only carry a trusted Leatherman tool and a small flashlight on my keyring - and people often call me the gagdet man!
Well, not exactly true, because my pockets often also contain a mobile phone and an ipaq, and since I'm living in "some" African country, a 9mm Parabellum in my waistband. Some are geek tools, and some are just plain survival tools.
This is all held on with a single quick-release clasp in case I fall in deep water!
By way of explaination I'm a volunteer First Responder occasionally known to the brigade as "Gadget".
Vik:v)
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you... wear a fanny pack...?
Re:Guilty as charged - and some
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So where did you get the beta light!?! I have been searching for a useful one ever since I read the SAS Survival Handbook back in the mid-eighties!!!
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Of course. Would you want to dig all that lot out from your pockets every time you changed trousers or put on a firefighter's uniform?
Vik:v)
Re:Guilty as charged - and some
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A fishing shop in the UK. They attach them to the tops of fishing floats at night.
Vik:v)
On the contrary
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Germans have quite a sense of humor, especially about themselves. Their humor is ten times more self-depricating than American humor. And as another poster said, their dark humor is quite good.
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Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
I'm just guessing here, but... he had no need to carry condoms, right?
Since we have filed for U.S. and international patents on our adaptation of the Technology Enabled Clothing(TM) System and related technology, any attempt to copy or replicate any of the unique features of our adaptation of the Technology Enabled Clothing(TM) system, including, without limitation, any use of the lining or other areas to accommodate wires for a device not included with the garment, will be considered an infringement of our intellectual property rights and will be acted upon in accordance with all applicable laws.
Hmm, I'm sure I've modded a few jackets/coats as prior art to fit my walkman.
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Yes, but if they outlast several pairs of Dockers? As for black, oh well. Go for that Goth Geek look.:^)
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Something similar
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I have a friend who, many years ago, owned a trenchcoat with (a) a well-sewn liner and (b) missing or ruined pockets. Thus she'd typically fill her coat with: All the day's required textbooks and coursepacks, a dozen paperbacks, lunch, notepad, pens, a stapler, a flask, a math set, chemistry goggles, kleenex, and (IIRC) half a dozen moist towelettes. The thing is, most of the above are relatively flat, and so if stacked carefully added absolutely nothing to the coat's outline. Your first clue would be Jen reaching into her pocket and pulling out item after large absurd item...
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I guess I'll bite too . . .
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Canon S110 digital camera (digital elph): It's in a small pouch attached to the shoulder strap of my laptop bag
Nokia 3360 cellphone: I don't carry this as often, since I don't like cellphones, but if I'm carrying it, it's in the interior jacket pocket.
Panasonic CD player: I have a little cd carrying bag that I sometimes lug around with me if it's a long walk to where I'm going.
Yeah, I like my toys to be small.
Well, my big problem with newer gadgets is that people seem to care more about extra features rather than making them smaller. I have no interest in a PDA that can play MP3s or has 64MB of memory. On the other hand, if you can shrink one down to just the size of the screen (plus a small border) and make them half an inch thick, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Also, make more small phones without movable parts. I don't want to waste my time pulling out an antenna or flipping open my phone. And stop putting features in my phone! I don't need an MP3 player in my phone.
I want small specialized products.
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This is the kind of gear I consider essential. Except I don't go for the pda thing - I would rather use a dead tree pad and use the laptop when I want (full) computer functionality.
I work during the day and go to school at night, so I have reverted to using a backpack for my textbooks. In it, I also carry:
checkbook, pens, mechanical pencils, eraser, stamps, toothpaste, toothbrush, miniature philips screwdriver, business card holder, notepad, hand towel, batteries, Olympus digital voice recorder, cell phone, pager and the laptop is in my trunk if I need it:)
Searching on Guiness' site for "most practical suit of clothing" or even just "practical" yields no record along these lines. Given that there's no picture in the article, I'd say this is a hoax. Can anyone substantiate it if it's not?
Disclaimer on the Guinness Web site: "Can't find what your looking for? This site features only a selection of the 40,000 records in the Guinness World Records database."...followed by a link to Amazon to buy the book.
since the original criteron for a cyborg was any self governing system which used sensory feedback to adapt to its environment. whether that feedback loop interaction is "it's too hot, better cool off with this fan" or "you have a instant message. you'd probably want to turn on the car autopilot while you respond..." is just a matter of scale.
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
Then of course there is my mother's handbag...
Your repair kit includes your mother's handbag?
sicko.
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The British Expeditionary force, stationed in France and fighting both there and in Belgium was not a "great fighting force".
They had little armour (only 100 infantry tanks - and 200 "light" tanks which were far inferior to the German tanks) or anti tank capabilities, the support of only a portion of the British Royal Air Force, and were comprised of only around 240,000 fighting men.
Useful drinking tip
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Gee, have you never heard about doors? Open the door, now you can see a convenient bottle opener in the frame (where the thingie latches behind the whatchamacallit).
The trick is opening the bottle sideways without spilling anything - but its not that hard.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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One of the greatest generals in the history of warfare was French. France, at one time, ruled most of Europe.
Those French surrender jokes best describe American ignorance - or stupidity, just repeat whatever joke you heard on Jay Leno last night.
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Actually, Napoleon was Corsican. One of the funniest parts of the joke is that history's greatest French general wasn't even French.
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1870 ring any bells? Perhaps the 1918 mutinies where French units were ordered decimated (every tenth man executed) as a punishment? De Gaulle giving up Algeria? As for the Frogs folding in 1940, note their post-surrender cooperation with Hitler (Petain, Laval, etc), their refusal to surrender their fleet to the Allies (we had to sink it) and their resistance to our landings in Operation Torch where they killed quite a few Allied troops.
Oh yeah German's have a great sense of humour. And to show how funny everything is German's will clap to indicate how funny it is. (Seriously, watch german comedians and the audience claps) I would have thought that people would laugh if the comedian is funny. Oh yeah I forgot the comedian is not funny!
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"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
Cue to summer 1940. Bomber formation approaching the northern uk from the east. Frontgunner in plane cries out: "There they are again! The last 50 Spitfires!"
It's even better in german: "Dort sind sie wieder, die letzten 50 Spitfeuer!".
germans _do_ laugh about jokes, they don't clap to applaud the jokes. they clap to applaud themselves once they have finally got the joke, which can be a painfully long process. it's an indicator for the comedian that he can stop explaining and try the next one.
So that is why they do it? Gee being a half breed (German born, but Canadian mentality) I always thought that if you got the joke you laugh! Oh wait, I forgot German comedian's are not funny!
I keeping seeing why even though I am German, I will never be German. Having been raised in Canada and the US there are certain mental differences.
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"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
Hey that is not true, I am from Germany myself and we have some damn funny comedians and shows here: "Die Bully Parade" "Quatschkomedieclub" and "Axel". This shows are a lot funnier then some stupid commerial show in America like Jay Leno.
Bully is not funny, Quatschkomedieclub is only 25% funny, sieben tage sieben koepfe is NOT funny. Axel is semi-funny. The only person I find funny is Stephan Rabbe and his assistant Elton. Stephan Rabbe brought quite a bit of originality to comedy. With his in-your-face comedy, it is something that would even be funny for North American's or British. The other German comedian's are simply not original. Even the "American" woman who talks German English. SHE IS NOT FUNNY!!! What I also found funny is the short excerpt of the German version of Trigger Happy TV. That guy in that context was not bad. Ok parts of it are from Trigger Happy TV, but he was alright.
The problem with German comedy is that it often tries too hard. It tries to be funny and wastes time trying to setup the comedy. Stephan Rabbe and Elton are succesful because they make simple events interesting. They are smart asses!!!
In the latest case of TV Total Stephan Rabbe tries to make the guy from the sex channel interesting because he gave a stupid answer. That is comedy entertainment. Or his erst waehler check, or even his boxing and speed skating with a woman. Where he went stupid is when he tried to be funny on the Premiere football game with Bully. That was not funny, it was simply stupid.
Elton I find funny because he is so sarcastic and his on the road missions are funny because he does what people do not expect.
Jay Leno is NOT the typical American comedian. If you want REALLY funny get Robin Williams stand-up comedy. Or get some stuff from Lewis Black (he is a fast talking New Yorker), Billy Conly or Eddie Izzard. These people are funny... That is true comedy.
You also have to realize that most good North American and English comedy is not on TV. It is stand up that you either watch live or buy on TV. Once comedians hit TV in the form of a series their comedy is watered down so that the "viewing" public does not get offended.
As a suggestion use Kaaza and search for the people I mentioned and listen to their comedy. If you can buy it. For example Robin Williams recently did an HBO session at Broadway. It is on Kaaza and really funny!!! The only problem a non-English speaker may have is that Robin Williams is a fast speaker.
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"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
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No argument here... What, just because Jay Leno's on the air you think Americans find him funny? What the networks think and what Americans think can be very different things, you know!
...the Guinness book of records, which in its last edition grants Eric a slot as owner of the world's "most practical suit of clothing".
Eric's outfits weigh 15kg...
Hmmm... this must be some new meaning of the
word "practical" that I was hitherto unaware of.
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youd surrender too
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If you country had lost 3/4 of a million men and most of it had been turned into one big muddy field only 20 years previously, youd think twice about fighting to the last. France had been bled dry before, and wasnt about to do it again.
If you country had lost 3/4 of a million men and most of it had been turned into one big muddy field only 20 years previously, youd think twice about fighting to the last. France had been bled dry before, and wasnt about to do it again.
Three quarters of a million? Are you taking the piss? If France had got away with losing such a small number they'd have been positively ecstatic. Casualties were in the millions; ISTR it was something like three or four million each for Britain and France, six million for Germany and something ghastly for Russia.
-- Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
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Re:marauding pruner (Score:5, Funny)
by orthogonal on Wednesday November 13, @02:00AM (#4657433)
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Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
I'm just guessing here, but... he had no need to carry condoms, right?
Now if only I could get a five for repeating someone elses line.
Welcome home from the stoneage
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dk.r*nger
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A digital camera is mentioned, so I guess there may be some form of computing device nearby.
Right, sure! We all know that the most important thing to have with you if you carry a digital camera is a computer.
Elsewhere he carries a shaving kit, comprehensive first aid gear, a mini-saw, blow-up mattress, spare batteries, a change of clothes, a water-pouch, a water-filtering unit, soldering iron, tape-measure, digital camera...
That should create an interesting dilemma for this person, not unlike the dilemma faced by the barber who would only shave people that didn't shave themselves.
-- Being well balanced is overrated. -- John Carmack
Should Be : Go GO Gadget Obsessive Compulsive !
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RembrandtX
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"I use the brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
he doesnt worry about where he sleeps, but he worries wiether it is clean or not.
and always want to be prepaired.
Sounds like a little OCD.. wonder if one of his pockets contains 100mg tablets of Paxal ?
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2 wire saws and a partridge in a pear tree.
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wift
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What flavor pez?
-- ....... Thus ends my attempt at wit or whatever
Re:2 wire saws and a partridge in a pear tree.
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vik
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Cola usually. Wish they made 'em with caffeine in.
Vik:v)
All that gear needs a good pouch
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bugpit
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Check out New Sun pouches, they are the best way I've found to carry a Wave, PDA, maglight, Solo windproof lighter (must have fire!), guitar picks, bandaids, and sharpening stone.
Also, Benjy Feen keeps a list of geek gifts that includes a nice selection of such items.
-- We have found the enemy and he is us. - Pogo
Re:argh no no no-French Tanks
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Actually the Char Bis 1 www.wwiivehicles.com/html/france/char_b1.html Was an excellent tank with heavy armor and a (then) powerful 75 mm. The problem, as stated before, is how it was used. The French tended to commit the tanks piecemeal as infantry support, while the Germans used then massed to punch a hole in the French lines. Also note that many of the German tanks were lighter panzers, or captured Czech tanks. Also, while German is seen as a highly mobile army in WWII, in fact a large part of it was horse drawn. Take away the panzer divisions and the planes, and a lot of the German Army in 1940 looked like Grant's Army in 1865. -Drew
Beat This !!
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I really do carry (and use) all this stuff on a daily basis.
-- Sharp Zaurus 5500 PDA
-- 2 SD Cards -- One for work, one w/ MP3's
-- Big CF card
-- Mini Digital Camera with yet another CF card so I can take a picture and pop it in my Zaurus. (It was the same price as the Zaurus CF Camera and has better resolution). Camera has Video Out and will show any jpeg I put on the card. (Instant Presentation System)
-- 802.11 CF card
-- USB CF Card Reader, so that I can use my CF card like a USB flash drive. (an SD reader would be smaller, but somebody gave me the CF reader)
-- Motorola Timeport GSM/GPRS phone. (Links to Zaurus via IR for 'Net access)
-- Leatherman Supertool
-- Off brand cheap imitation of Leatherman Micra (Since the supertool has no scissors)
-- Yaesu VX-1 Mini Ham Radio w/ DC to daylight receive
-- Watch with WWVB receive
-- Ear buds for Zaurus
-- Mini-Headset for Phone
-- PDA Stylus with Blk Pen, Red Pen and Pencil
-- LED Pen style Flashlite
-- "Spare" LED light on keychain
I intend to consolidate a little by purchasing the following from ThinkGeek:
PDA Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Victornox Cybertool
(Yes, that was an attempt to get moderated up, but it's true.)
How do I carry it?
BDU (Battle Dress Uniform) pants Home-made belt made of Ballistic Nylon
Zaurus, Phone, Radio and Leatherman all in Ballistic Nylon Belt cases.
*sighs*
Somebody just e-mailed me about this... I want his outfit!
Here's what I generally carry:
2 flashlights... one mini-mag-lite, one medium mag-lite... if there was a way to get the mega one on me I would!
11 Dice. I'm a gamer... often over lunch these are needed for some game or another with my friends.
Swiss Army Knife. The brand says it all.
Small buck knife... can never have too many knives!
Mini-leatherman scissors, etc. This thing has screwdrivers, knives (more knives!) and can opener to name a few.
Pens of varying colors (Red, Green, Black.)
Mechanical Pencil.
Notecards... how many times have you needed paper when you didn't expect it?
Glasses screwdriver.
Fingernail clippers.
Those are all just on my person... I carry with me in my school bag along with books:
A plastic cup.
An umbrella.
A Handspring Visor (cheap product plug!)
A graphic calculator.
A Visor keyboard (this way I don't need a laptop.)
A deck of cards (just regular cards... poker cards, one could say, though that's not usually the game I play.)
Highlighter.
-- I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
However Kafka was a "member of the German-speaking minority in the Czech city Prague" an is readily identified with German culture. It's no coindcidence he wrote in German. His work is routinely considered part of the German literature. He was definitely not "definitely not German" in a culture as opposed to citizenship. (And I studied him in German class, so there.)
Franz Kafka was born in Prague, now in the Czech Republic but then part of Austria. His father was Hermann Kafka, an owner of a large dry goods establishment, and mother Julie (Löwy) Kafka, who belonged to one of the leading families in the German-speaking, German-cultured Jewish circles of Prague. Hermann Kafka was a domestic tyrant, who directed his anger against his son. Kafka also had three sisters, all of whom perished in Nazi camps. Often Kafka's stories dealt with the struggle between father and son, or a scorned individuals pleading innocence in front of remote figures of authority. In Letter to His Father (1919) Kafka admitted: "My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast. It was an intentionally long-drawn-out leave-taking from you."
Kafka grew up in an atmosphere of familial tensions and social rejection that he experienced as a member of Prague's Jewish minority. His attitude to his Jewish heritage was ambivalent. In a diary he wrote: ''What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.'' Kafka was educated at the German National and Civic Elementary School and the German National Humanistic Gymnasium.
He still was definitely not German. The German language is spoken in places outside Germany as well. Citizens of the U.S. aren't English, just because they happen to speak that language, are they_
That's why I wrote "however." And the point was that his "culture" was German. It works both ways: foreigners who live in Germany don't typically think of themselves as German. He was Austrian, I think, and later moved to Berlin.
Back when I did bulding maintenance and HVAC work I carried a toolbelt which carried several types of pliers; lineman, waterpump, locking, needle nose, several screwdrivers, and nutdrivers, an ohm meter, tape, utility knife, and a few custom tools - brake cable (makes a nice AC drain snake) and several other things that I can't remember now.
Plus on my regular belt: a Nextel phone, pager, big ass retractable key ring (chain not cable) with 30+ keys and an SOG geared multi-tool.
ya, i've got half a dozen tool belts hanging in my garage from my construction days. I always wanted to find a use for them. i'd hate to displace all those poor black widow families though.
Unfair advantage
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Being French, he has an unfair advantage; No need to bathe.
But my kit was of a different flavor and somewhat trimmed down from yours; Sewen into my jean jacket, (the "Magic Jacket"), so that it was entirely invisible unless I got patted down, I had. ..
1 Cat's Paw mini-crowbar, 1 Mini-Leatherman (still the coolest and most comfortable set of folding pliers EVER), 1 Mini-torch (when they were new and cost all of your allowance for three solid months.), 1 Set of lock picks, 1 Japanese laminated steel knife, 1 Thumb-sized single shot.22 mini-gun I made myself from bar-stock and a spring, 1 Mini-jar of granulated pepper, (This was before pepper spray was a 'thing'), 1 Highly polished silver Zippo lighter (suitable for cheating at poker), 1 Credit-card sized Freznel lense, (in case a bear ate my Zippo), 1 Extending pen-pointer I rigged with a rare-earth magnet, (1 month's allowance back then when hard drives sucked.) 4 Mini-biners people use for key-chains but which are stress tested at 220 kg, 1 Six foot loop of mountain climbing tape suitable for whipping into a harness, and. .,
(This was the trophy piece. ..)
40 meters of super-thin mountain climbing cord (rated at 600 kg) fire-hose packed for quick release into the double back of the jacket. (The double-back being the original back from another jean jacket one size-smaller.)
I was ready to save princesses from burning buildings and play 007 and all kinds of silly stuff. And the funniest part is that I was so proud of my 'secret' jacket, that I showed it off to pretty much everybody at school. If anybody ever ended up with a.22 bullet in their stomach, the cops would have been knocking on my door first thing. --Though, (silly police), I could ever so cleverly steal their keys when the guard's back was turned with my funky extend-a-pointer and rare-earth magnet gizmo.
Ahh. The wonders of sexual frustration! Those were the days!
already been done. we covered a guy in noodles years ago in Sacramento.
Two things came to mind...
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First "Swiss Army Knife" isn't appropriate since he's French. But I keep thinking "what would a French Army Knife" be made of? Something that breaks really easy?
Also, why bother with the copious quantities of tools? Wouldn't it be better to be resourceful enough to carry practically nothing and use what's around you. I suppose the moral could easily become "if you don't have it, you can't lose it before you need it."
-- In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them. --VonNeumann
Re:Two things came to mind...
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Also, why bother with the copious quantities of tools?
In this case I would guess the guy feels two things. (1) need for clean. He said he needs to brush off his surroundings before he goes to sleep. (2) need to have tools 'just in case', which may be another anxiety problem. The comment about not needing a pedometer any more shows he may be helped by REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy) where finding rational reasons for the compuslions can help defeat them.
Personally, I feel sorry for the guy.
-- //TODO: Think of witty sig statement
And I thought I was bad...
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...since I almost always have on my person
a writing utensil and my little red-and-black book
gym clothes
shampoo, conditioner, and soap
an extra pair of underwear
a book
my portable music and a few CDs
a bottle of water
an extra pad (if you don't know, guys, don't bother asking) -- because You Just Never Know
two sets of keys
food/junk food
and various and sundry odds and ends that might come in handy, which vary depending on where I'm going, the time of year, and what I might be doing, most of the time.
Granted, I usually carry a backpack and sometimes a shoulder "forage bag," and keep only keys, wallet and watch in pockets (I love these jeans: they have a watch pocket for my pocket watch, natch!).
I don't carry around a lot of tools or that kind of thing, because as anyone who knows me knows, put tools into my hands and I become dangerously destructive!:)
We have been asked that question often. We addressed this question in our last newsletter, see http://www.scottevest.com/htmlemail/nov2002/nov_20 02.html.
There's been concern expressed by some that the magnets located in the wind flap of the SCOTTeVEST Version 2.5 could cause damage to memory storage devices. For this month's inVESTigative report, we went behind the scenes to find out the exact answer to the burning question: "What's up with the magnets, dude?" Like any good inVESTigator, we went to a higher source. According to SanDisk, the "world's leading supplier of flash data storage products in consumer, OEM and industrial markets," magnets will not harm storage mediums. As a matter of fact, major companies are even using magnets for PDA cases. But still we weren't satisfied, so we hit the SeV laboratory for some testing. For 24 straight hours, we left a floppy disk with a short MP3 file, a PDF and a JPG file sandwiched between two magnets (mmm...magnet sandwich...mmm). One day later, all the files were fine. Additionally, we placed a compact flash card with JPG files into our magnet sandwich, and sure enough, all was well 24 hours later. So in conclusion, as much as people are attracted to the SCOTTeVEST, it doesn't quite possess the kind of animal magnetism that can leave your equipment damaged, so to speak.
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Re:Hm. Not bad, but. . .
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That is enough these days to get you kicked out of school 10 times over.
*All* your generalisation are belong to /bin/false
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"France also had a naive millitary command, and very little resistance. That said, who can blame them? WWII was still a very nasty memory, and none could face the prospect of war again. It was very easy to belive that Hitler only wanted a little bit of Europe, and then he'd be happy."
I know. It's so terrible how that zombie Hitler came back and invaded France again! Damned nazi supermen:-(
-- -- Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
"Thermos, sandwiches, corn-plasters, telephone money, dandruff brush, animal footprint chart and one triple-thick condom! You never know!"
-- -- Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
obligatory Dr Strangelove Quote
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c0bw3b
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All I need is one of these:
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
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kicked out of school. . ?
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Well, with the exception of the.22 stinger, that's still not yet true up here. Even the knife, so long as you stay in a certain head-space about it, just isn't an issue. --If you only use it to sharpen those big honking art-class pencils, the teachers don't even notice. I'm a Canadian, eh, and people up here just don't flip out over stuff like that so much.
As Michael Moore put it recently. .,
"Guns don't kill people. Americans kill people."
Mind you, while statistically speaking this may be true, it doesn't seem to apply to any of the many Americans I've met whenever I'm south of the border. I think it might be some sort of demographic sorting. --I tend to gravitate towards people who exude the right brand of 'cool', which is to say, people who don't go wetting their pants over guns and knives like a bunch of easily excited Resevoir Twits.
-Fantastic Lad
it is a wonderful thing to be the guy who's ready
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Where my wife works, I was at one time known as The Lesbian's Dream- it seemed like every time I was around some random person, generally a lesbian, that she worked with would need something fixed, and I was always the one with the tools. The highlights:
Parking lot gate is locked, car inside. Solution: lockpick set.
Bracelet chain broken. Solution: leatherman.
High heel breaks off shoe. Solution: superglue.
Other favorites:
My boss shows up at work and starts to take off his motorcycle leathers, only to realize he forgot to put any pants on first, back at home. Solution: spare pair of shorts.
A radio station is giving stuff away to people who can answer questions or produce odd items. They ask for a chicken bone. Solution: rubber chicken (keychain).
My wife and I loose our luggage flying from Paris to Tel Aviv on our honeymoon. Solution: complete toiletries kit (incidentally, I think it very cool that the Air France "lost luggage kit" includes a condom. Very French).
Random woman asks for a lighter. Solution: pocket torch.
Countless times the day has been saved by the duct tape, WD40, micro torch, candle, tape measure, digital camera, handspring with attached cell phone, trash bag, toilet paper, water balloons, post-it notes, floppy disk, GPS receiver, spare shorts, sewing kit, leatherman, maglite, pens, pencils, marker, tablet of paper, spoon, compass, transit map, deodorant, toothbrush, comb, or calipers I always have in my backpack.
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"What good is science if no one gets hurt?!" - Professor Chromedome
On work days, I typically carry my backpack. On my belt I usually have my Buck knife or some other tool knife. On my keys I have a small, nearly worthless key-fob folding pliers thing (it has helped on occasion). In my backpack, though...
Let's see: Notebook with a ton of graph paper, telephone address book, business card book, a floppy, a package of bandaids, bottle of aspirin, bottle of newskin, bottle of no-doz, bottle of aleve, bottle of ibuprofen, bottle of eyrithromicin (sp?), 2 bottles of eyedrops, container of carmex, bottle of pepper seeds (don't ask), handy folding "port-a-cup" with cotton and aspirin inside, a combo pen-sized telescope/microscope, a mechanical pencil, a keychain tetris (great when you are bored), two pocket mini-torches, security cards for work, folding multi-tool pocket knife, laser pointer, mini-mag flashlight, mini-110 camera and film, dental floss, mini-AM/FM radio and 2 AAA batteries, and a few old sticks of "StayAlert" caffeine gum (yum!).
Now, if I am tooling around in my truck, I have even more stuff in there - various tools (wrenches, pliers, wire cutters, socket sets, screwdrivers, etc), bunches of tape, a poncho, a spool of wire, a tape measure, two car jacks, a tarp, various hoses, duct and electrical tape, a hammer, a crowbar, a haynes book for the truck, my CB with PA, rope, various bungee cords and ratcheting tiedowns, electric air pump, two cans of fix-a-flat, plus probably a few other things I have forgot to mention.
does he have a chainsaw attached to one of his arms? Comes in handy if you ever have to fight the minions of the undead...
--Gaz
-- "I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives."
Re:Hm. Not bad, My Belt
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I'm 16, my collection of stuff on my belt is steadily growing.
-leatherman -keys, home and school(for sound and lighting boxes, cupboards, storeage etc) -cellphone -PRS radio -Often a CB depending on where i am. -Cresent (shifting spanner) ----Comming soon----- 2cell AA maglite 802.11b battery powered(hack) wlan - wired bridge going into a small VoIP phone. So i can use the phone out and about. In my bag will possibly be a small yagi so i can be further away from home if i need to.:D ----When im at theatres better than school--- Theatre coms unit. (sometimes wireless) 4cell D maglite in holder. handy hooks for carrying gell frames etc.
of course in my bag I keep spare batteries for all battery powered things above.
I'd probably get expelled if I wasn't so invlolved with extracuricular activities in my school. If they kick me out. they loose ALL their techies for sound/light.
Hmm, a report from 1998 stating that China had ICBM's targeted on 5 US cities? Boy, you are right. I guess I was wrong. China has no capability of hitting the US, I was just being alarmist. Maybe you should use sources that are from this decade before you make an ass of yourself
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - Gen George S Patton
Generally on my person I carry a torch, a leatherman, and a lighter. In my bag I have another pair of pilers, a rool up saw, candle, block o magnesium, fishing line and hook and sinker, caffenated mints, normal mints, pain killers, antihistamines, safety pins, and the normal uni stuff, calculator, water bottle, pencil case etc
tobes
Does someone want to know the truth ?
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello...
I am "the poor guy"...
First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA...
Second, please excuse me about my bad english language.
I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek").
I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour.
There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people.
But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here.
That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers.
Good night or good day, Americans !
Eric
Re:I guarantee you one item he doesn't need to car
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CRAZY+ERIC
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric __ __
Re:Hm. Not bad, but. . .
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Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric...__
Hi Eric--welcome to Slashdot. I worry that other people won't see your post, and I don't want you to get zero replies! I am glad you are not taking the jokes personally--when people are trying to be funny, they are not thinking about you personally but about what funny thing to say next. Geeks are people who don't mind being strange because they have something they are really interested in other than worrying about what people think. So, being a geek is good in my book. Best wishes and good luck.
Hello and thank you very much ! I agree with everything. And the definition of "geek" is exactly what I am and you decribe it very well. It's sad that the other people won't answer, because many things I've read are wrong (and I don't speak about the jokes of course). And there were interesting subjects to develop. It seems that the people here do not imagine that the rest of the world ALSO has internet, and that "the poor guy" might read them. When I read all this, at first I could believe it was all about me, and then I immediately thought to the picture "the world according to America"... (probably you know it).I've been very amused to see how incredible (hoax) I am. The newspaper does not say enough, and this explains some misunderstandings. Thank you for your kindness. CU... Eric
issues
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LOL..
This guy has issues. It's all in the name of geek fun! lighten up.
You seem to take pleasure considering that people do not even exist, by not responding directly to me but continuing talking about "the guy" when I write you...
It's very interesting.
The guy asks you if you can be more explicit. "Issues"= "problems" ?
what means "lighten up" ?
It's easy to criticize and joke but when reality is here, nobody anymore...
Ultra ag Light HOWTO
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Two men came before Nasrudin when he was magistrate. The first man said, "This man has bitten my ear -- I demand compensation." The second man said, "He bit it himself." Nasrudin withdrew to his chambers, and spent an hour trying to bite his own ear. He succeeded only in falling over and bruising his forehead. Returning to the courtroom, Nasrudin pronounced, "Examine the man whose ear was bitten. If his forehead is bruised, he did it himself and the case is dismissed. If his forehead is not bruised, the other man did it and must pay three silver pieces."
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Resistance is Futile.
In Soviet Russia, articles before post read *you*!
That one of those items ia a white flag?
badda-bing!
Thanks! I'll be here all night!
Must be an embarrassment for the poor guy.
"Is that a ruler in your pocket or are you happy to see me?"
"Actually, it IS a ruler."
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. -Thackeray, William
he's a swiss army guy. get it. hahahaha
The story is about a guy who basically has a bunch of tools attached to him, who calls himself "Crazy Eric" (go figure). The whole story is just about how crazy this guy looks, and there is NO PICTURE! What's up with that?
Mark
Anyone remember Parker Lewis Can't Lose? His buddy wore a trenchcoat, and was already prepared. Each time he whipped out an item you heard the sound of separating velcro.
This guy in the story should design suits for certain professions, with neatly designed inner pockets, outer pockets(like on the Ps1 game "P'Oed" featuring the chef with sidearm cooking utensil) and so forth and then sell them.
I only wish I had more coat pockets and such, but my trendy Dockers will have to do. Carries everything but a handgun in the pockets.
I mean, he carrys a change of clothes on him at all times.
In Soviet Russia, articles before post read *you*!
as I never leave home without my trusty keyring bottle-opener.
I will never be caught flat-footed by a non-twist top beer again!
I tried to fit my Microsoft EULA in my pocket but it was to heavy.
[n8.r0n] http://petesweb.spymac.net/
I thought standing behind someone in the supermarket paying with cheques was bad... imagine being behind this guy in airport security!
I'd hate to be behind him at an airport security checkpoint.
Pfft, frenchmen... I may be a geek, but I don't need any artificial means to be bulging.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
... but not from gadgets...
Hoowah!
This reminds me of stories I've heard about the MIT cyborgs, these guys at MIT who used to walk around with a portable 386 with simitransparent goggles and 4-button handheld keypads. They would walk around campus coding. Anybody know these guys?
My site: Free Nature Pictures
...is a condom.
Metal detector...
How's this for something else amusing?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I could also carry a great number of "useful" items on my body, but why would anyone want to do that.
Carrying 15kg of items on yourself not only makes you look like an idiot, but also shows that you DO want self publicity.
There is no other reason to wear 1300 items. Does it look cool.....no. Is it helpful? Hell no, not when you are cluttered with 1300 different items!
This guy either just an idiot, an extremely paranoid idiot, or a 30 year-old virgin trying to get self publicity to get laid.
Fuck you Crazy Eric!
--- YEAH I SAW SPARKS FLY!! FROM THE CORNER OF MY EEEYYYEEE!!!
Hope that frenchman is still able finding his Penis under all the 1300 Items. It must hurt if he wants to go peeing and can't find the Dick just in time :)
Reminds me of the dilbert series where Dilbert has a gadget rivalry with one of his co-workkers. The two finally meet in a hallway and have a stand-off, western style. Both draw at the same but, but Dilbert's rival wins (rings all of Dilbert's gadgets) because his gadgets have speed dial.
"Speed Dial. Fool."
Can someone find that cartoon?
He makes mention of sleeping in some unusual places, but he never mentions a towel!
A sex life... :P
...do we get to moderate submissions? Given the last 24 hrs around here, it can't happen too soon.
The pain...oh, the pain of a slow news day.
This guy gives a new meaning to the "Be Ready" motto the boyscouts have adopted.
Too bad he "often ends up sleeping in odd places", thats kinda scary.
Here is a police artist's sketch of the guy!
We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die!
Between my victorinox cybertool, my PalmV and my pipe, I don't need to carry anything else! Pretty impressive, though.
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
Penis.
One wrong move with that mini-saw...
I'd like to see a complete list of every object he supposedly carries. In fact can he even rattle off all 1300 from memory? Probably not. Lets not even get into space considerations.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
especially after he runs up to a woman and screams, "go go gadget erection" and a freaking cold-shower showers down on both of them.
I hope this guy starts his own clothing line. Over 1300 items...ah, that'd get me chicks.
Apparently plans to produce a First Person Shooter game based on this frenchman were cancelled after prelimenary versions had gamers sitting there for 2 hours pressing "[" to cycle through inventory items.
It's still 200 items short of the number the average woman carries in her purse.
"It takes too long to get out of this thing. I'll bathe tomorrow." (Yes, I work with smelly french people.)
You know you've got problems when people on slashdot start making fun of your sex life...
The only useful part attached to his body might be his DICK !!
Does it have many pocket?
This sounds a lot like a hoax to me...he refuses to give his last name, and it seems like a story based completely on how "crazy" he looks would at least include a picture. I could be wrong, but I suspect we've been had.
I can just see the next step in scoping out insecure networks:
WarHugging
OTOH, I wouldn't mind, ehrm, "exchanging" information in that fashion with several people I know...
I dumped a bucket of salt water on him and called him a complete douchebag.
New pointless product ideas for ThinkGeek.
I'd like to see him pass airport security just once.
(dramatic drum roll)
..that he had actually had occasion to use all but one of its 99-googol blades in his bike-riding, rock-climbing, etc. activities.
Not satisfied with this imperfect record, he sought out an expert to find out what he could do with that single unused blade. The expert replied, "Remove stones from horses' hooves."
Hey, not every story has a happy ending.
Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
My father used to work for the airlines doing Radio and Radar repair. He carried a little kiddies pencil case containing a Swiss Army Knife and an expensive Fountain Pen. The case was labelled "747 Repair Kit" and he swore those were the only tools he ever used. He also remarked that he used the fountain pen more than the knife.
...
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
Then of course there is my mother's handbag
www.sjbaker.org
Everybody knows the towel is most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
Anyone else a bulging pocketed geek-scout?
Um... if they were, do you think they would tell you? Pervert!
Moderator hint: a comment is neither "Flamebait" nor "Troll" if it is true.
"An eccentric Frenchman who goes by the name of Crazy Eric.." All Frenchmen are eccentric. If this guy goes by the name Crazy Eric, Maybe he's not eccentric but actually crazy.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
. . Or maybe just camping long-term. Let's not make fun of those less well off, please. That being said, he seems to be quite self-sufficent. As an 1800's era trapper, he would have been stylin'!
"I use the brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
Elsewhere he carries a shaving kit, comprehensive first aid gear, a mini-saw, blow-up mattress, spare batteries, a change of clothes, a water-pouch, a water-filtering unit, soldering iron, tape-measure, digital camera ...
I did some searching and apparently the Australian Broadcasting Company is also running the same story. Its not exactly the same, but there are direct quotes between the two.
Does anyone know if SMH is a partner company? Same company?
Does anyone know who had the story first?
-- AcquaCow
up 12 days, 22:30, 2 users, load averages: 993.20, 994.21, 994.56
*makes note to limit user processes...
That is... until I manage to get myself a katana :D
Un like most of the people ranting about how this man can't get laid and how uncool he is I think that his outfit sound rather cool. From what I understood his clothing is extreamly neat, due to the fact that is probaly has obsesive compulsive disorder. His tools are probably laid rather evenly over most parts of his body that wont be presed up aginst stuff as he goes about his day to day buisines.
I also liked the idea that I got when I heard of the velcro leg pockets. I thought of removable pockets that velcroed on to witchever pants he was going to ware today. For them to work all you would have to do is sew soft velcro patches onto all your pants and then when you got home take of the pockets and that way you don't have to resort your pockets.
If I was going to designe cooltool pants I would just take some strong comphy pants sew velcro on them(the soft fuzzy part), probably as larg patches on the thighs and calves. Then I would find some of that strong synthetic denim stuf that overalls are made of (probaly in black or posibly that realy spiffy blackand white hounds tooth patern), with this fabric I would make my pockets. They would have litle deviders in them so as to seperat all my diferent tools(you know mini renches from philips screw drivers). I might also alow for some sort of modular inter wireing so that I could just plug things into my pants for power and alow sound sent to by shirt where I could have a plug up by my neck for head phones.
Now, in which pocket did I put that "human-swiss-knife-organiser"??? :)))
"Do something man. Right now."
That's nothing man. I was on the bus a few weeks ago somewhere near Liverpool St. (London), and a gargoyle walked onto the bus.
...or you could just check your email the whole time. Which is probabaly what I'd do. Sigh.
(For those of you unfamiliar with the term, this means a dude decked out in computer gear).
He had a beltpack computer plus battery, a HUD, a wrist mounted keyboard, and a webcam on his right shoulder, and was covered in cables linking all these things up to each other (and no, despite my efforts I couldn't find any open bluetooth or wi-fi connections).
It was quite cool. He looked a bit of an idiot, but it would offer some funky opportunities.
Just think... with a decent cam, a powerful computer and some clever 3D rendering, you could get the HUD to display a world just like the real one, except where all the ladies are naked...
where he carries a brush to dust the ground for when he sleeps.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
...a shaving kit, comprehensive first aid gear, a mini-saw, blow-up mattress, spare batteries, a change of clothes, a water-pouch, a water-filtering unit, soldering iron, tape-measure, digital camera.
Guess he will not be requiring a showering kit...
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"Duffman says a lot of things, OH YEAH!" - Duffman
On a daily basis, I carry my Victorinox Cybertool (wanky name, but very useful tool, perfectly designed with nerds in mind; only thing it's missing that I'd like in a pocketknife is a saw), and a small pill container with some breath mints, painkillers and antihistamines. After that just the general stuff like a handkerchief, watch, change, mobile phone, notepad and a biro (even though the pocketknife has a small biro for emergencies).
:)
I eventually got a belt pouch for the pocketknife because it is quite large and heavy, and was just *ruining* the cut of my cargo pants.
Other than that, everything I now keep in my pockets is of a comfortable weight, and I rarely seem to need anything extra.
SofaMan -- Occasionally Battling Evil With His Mighty Powers Of Indolence.
Wanna fuck?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
I'm a big leatherman toting boyscout geek. one extension of this was to cover the entire surface of the back of my laptop screen in velco. Most useful thing i've ever done. mounted my wifi card case, my earbuds, cables, wardriving can-tenna etc. There are all kinds of ways one can extend such storage capacity.
maybe...but what he DOES need to carry, is a "pocket-human-swiss-knife-organiser"! :)
"Do something man. Right now."
"But if I don't need something, I don't bring it. I used to carry a pedometer, for example, but I've just taken it off. I never found I needed it."
At least no one can call him a packrat now. He stopped carrying something with him everywhere.
Why not fork?
Now he's got two less things to worry about...
1.) being caught unprepared in a sticky situation
AND
2.) friends
Shouldn't that be -1 Redundant?
Early on in college, I got diabetes, which I ended up treating with an H-Tron Plus insulin pump, from Disetronic. After trying a few different schemes for securing it to my person, I decided to park it on my belt.
Shortly thereafter I switched to a different blood glucose meter, which I discovered had a belt loop on its pouch. This made carrying it around much easier and more reliable. Sometime in here I found I needed my Leatherman more often than I happened to have it around. On the belt it goes.
The Palm and its belt case came shortly thereafter, rounding out the utility belt. It's served me well, but I'm not a student any more, and it's starting to get a bit awkward. (Yes, I probably ought to have realized this sooner.)
I'm hoping to consolidate, using a Visor and a FreeStyle Tracker for the meter (coolest device ever), but I'm also looking at a wireless telephone . . . maybe I should just give up and get a nice vest instead. Hmm.
Oh--yes, going through airport security is a royal pain.
I am just waiting for somebody to use him for a case-mod...
Is this guy the elusive Secret Squirrel ?
I never expected in anywhere other than a dating service for this type of comment to be "Informative"...
Heck, mods. Let's go with the trend. Somebody quickly mod him for insightful!
Karma: Non-Heinous
he's an assassin! That's why the call him Craaazy Eric. 1300 instruments of death and mayhem. (and a torch to light the ladies' cigarettes.)
Bet the professional never thought of using a screwdriver.
I used to do that, just whip out my wire cutters and kill branches along my path. I mean, if I'm going to walk by there 3 times a day, I'm not putting up with branches. I ususally carry a leatherman wave (although recently switched to a Juice XE6), and my car keys (along with keys), currently carries a Swiss army knife (flashlight, tweezer, file, knife, scissors), a tape measure, bottle opener, carpenter's level, and a kokopelli for good luck.
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
Personally, I don't think it's about carrying 1300 devices, but making do with the 30 or so you do carry around.
This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."
Why is everybody always so incredibly quick to point out lack of a sex life on a website entitled "News for Nerds"?
Something about this reeks of overcompensation. Do you by chance drive a big car?
Karma: Non-Heinous
Reminds me of Scott's eVest
Don't forget in Goonies the one kid that had the variety of items on his person. The oil in shoes, the light, the mini-wench, his father's camera pop of belt thing. I haven't seen that movie in such a long time, I have this feeling there are some more I have forgotten about.
I have about 1300 portable MP3 players. Each one of them has a feature that the other did not. My best advice -- rechargable batteries are your friends.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
Although he sounds more like he is following in the footsteps of the "One Man Band Maniac" tradition, rather than the "MIT Media Lab Maniac" tradition, this guy sounds like he is miles ahead of most self-styled cyborgs (Mann, et al) in the integration of technology into his person. I would doubt this guy takes great pleasure with the efficiency with which he can perform various necessary tasks. And he no doubt wears it almost all the time.
We all know the geeks with a tool belt from hell, but it only makes sense that it will move into the realm of tactical vests and load-bearing harnesses, or truly functional clothing that has been engineered with sensors, processors, power systems, etc. into it. Eric most likely doesn't have a real good digital rig going, but that's beside the point: it's functional integration. We shouldn't be biased against low-tech, in particular the need for powered systems should not be the criteria a definition of "cyborg".
I've got a bad attitude and karma to burn. Go ahead. Mod me down.
... or are you just happy to see me?
Quit Slashdot Today!
Just as funny I thought, from the SMH news site. Porn fans trigger terror alert.
Quit Slashdot Today!
www.scottevest.com :)
They're delightful.
Homeless?! What the fuck! How the hell is the guy going to afford 1300 items, plus the velcro, a back pack, and other necessities he's used!.
Get some fucking sense before posting a dumbass remark like that!
--- YEAH I SAW SPARKS FLY!! FROM THE CORNER OF MY EEEYYYEEE!!!
I was going to ask if he carried a condom, but then I realized that it said in the article that he only carried things that he would use... and most guys who walk around with 1,300 usefull tools... well, point taken
I remember that!! I used to carry my McGuyver around at college. It's actually a bike tool made by a company called Topeak. I don't think it has over 100 tools... [whipping it out]
lessee...
8mm wrench, 9mm wrench, 10mm wrench, 15g, 14g, P#1 flathead, straight blade, saw, mini pliers, scissors, magnefying glass, ruler, scaler, bottle opener, miniflathead, can opener, 6 hex wrenches, nail file, tweezers, mini phillips, #2 phillips, fork, awl.... I think officially its only got 33 on there...
There's probably a few I've missed, since this thing looks like a porcupine with all the tools sticking out.
This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."
Wonder if his kit can serviceeverything at once? Combined with a headsup display, never again would one have to dread waiting for a bus or other boring stationary activities. Might raise a few eye-brows at an airport though. At least he wouldn't have to worry too much about confiscation. Heh.
"Hrm, mabey all that hardware's for making coleslaw!"
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It's pitiful that this post should even be considered to be modded up!
Racism is not funny, and I support the outlawing of racism!
If you're going to mod this joke, which is obvious at making fun of French, you might as well mod up any of the troll posts about Niggers and Jews!!!
--- YEAH I SAW SPARKS FLY!! FROM THE CORNER OF MY EEEYYYEEE!!!
my god, he's right, this frenchman has finally answered the question of where the guy puts the rocket launcher
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
They're not picking on the French... They're making fun of the French Government. Big difference.
I'm not crazy,I'm actively irresponsible.
But that's because you're crazy too!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
They annoy me too!
- Eric, InvisibleRobot.com
Well, the thing is France crumbled almost immediately. And they shouldn't have.
Well, maybe you didn't notice, but the Nazis were the most powerfull force in history at the time (they didn't start conquering the world on a double dare you know).
That's what the high school textbooks say. Unfortunately, like many things in the high school textbooks it's not quite accurate. France had a very large army, well-fortified, and after the invasion of Poland Britain also stationed troops in France.
Textbooks (well high school ones) also make a big deal about the German panzer divisions, but sometimes forget to mention that the French tanks were superior. The Germans just knew how to use them better.
So we have two well-equipped, sizeable forces in France, expecting an attack.
So what happens? The Germans flank the French, ignore the Maginot line, smash both the French and the British armies, and have reached the English channel in 8 days.
Yes, the constant insults about French courage are unfair, but they didn't exactly cover themselves with glory in 1940. Ditto for the British. It also doesn't help that the French have absolutely no sense of humor about themselves. Neither do the Germans, but the Germans at least have the excuse that they don't have a sense of humor about anything.
That is so messed up. 1300 things on him? Why haven't the authorities taken him into protective custody yet? That guy should be locked up for his own good. He's fucking crazy.
Hmm, I just carry VISA - that way I can just buy what I need, and the weight doesn't kill me ;)
what goes up must come down, ask any sysop / sig11
I don't have 1300 useful items in my whole house.
I hate to break the news to you Eric, but there's a bowling alley opening up down the street from your place. Sorry man.
Many French people will take any joke about them surrendering offensively!
How can you 'surrender offensively'?
I would think that at best it would be a defensive tactic.
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Does he have his towel?
Damn the man!
As an active student who's far to busy, I found that I tend to need an odd range of things constantly. After killing several blazers and doing a weekend shuffle to get everything out of my school uniform into normal clothing, I gave in and got a 3/4 length fishing vest.
The thing is surprisingly comfortable, and it holds everything I need. If you were to catch me during the day, on hand I'll have:
Handspring Visor
Stowaway Keyboard for above
Wallet
Half dozen other assorted copy cards, ect.
Pens, pencils, fountain pen...
Keys
Multi-tool (Leatherman Wave)
Electrical Tape
A spare roll of film or two
Link cable for TI-83+
Assorted blank paper, old paper and forms
Spare AA batteries
Maglight
Pager
One really nice thing about the 3/4 length is that it doesn't hinder movement or sitting like the full length vests do, and hides nicely under a blazer or fleece vest for less obtrusive ware.
I would happily recommend the Simms Mesh Vest to anyone who wanted to keep stuff on hand. It's lasted me two years of consistant (12/7) usege with minimal wear and no problems. You should be able to find it at a local outdoors or fishing shop.
Evan
... and gets caught in an avalanche, his friends better tell the rescue team to bring a metal detector...
sorry should have gessed!
Damn the man!
Post the URL to this cyborg, and we'll slashdot him!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
noooo
Race is a noun meaning
"A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race"
www.dictionary.com
--- YEAH I SAW SPARKS FLY!! FROM THE CORNER OF MY EEEYYYEEE!!!
How about YOU?
TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.
Just think a tab a day keeps the obsession about 1500 widgets away.
I only carry a trusted Leatherman tool and a small flashlight on my keyring - and people often call me the gagdet man!
Well, not exactly true, because my pockets often also contain a mobile phone and an ipaq, and since I'm living in "some" African country, a 9mm Parabellum in my waistband. Some are geek tools, and some are just plain survival tools.
From the article:
:-P
"But if I don't need something, I don't bring it. I used to carry a pedometer, for example, but I've just taken it off. I never found I needed it."
Well yeah, once you start wearing a 15 kg jacket, you sure as hell won't need one
"The ones who dont do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down" -- Henry Rollins
The six items I carry are more than enough.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
OK, I think I can match that. I'm currently carrying in my bum-bag/utility belt:
:v)
Symbol SP17000 PalmOS PDA with laser barcode scanner, sunglasses, hair ties, cable ties, Leatherman wave, whistle, resusci-shield breathing mask, laser pointer, universal key, pen, surgical gloves, mini-blowtorch, lock-knife, magnifier/torch, cellphone, pager, 10m parachute cord, tape measure, various medications (figures, huh?), syringe, insulating tape, lockpicks, paperclips, magnesium flint block, mini-leatherman, wire probes, pins, needles, safety pins, wire saw, compass, fishing tackle, betalight, antiseptic, plasters, steristrips, pencil, waterproof matches, salt, snow-marker, comb, rescue shears, 2 marlin spikes, antiseptic wipes, wire saw, binder, Pez, cash and a major credit card.
This is all held on with a single quick-release clasp in case I fall in deep water!
By way of explaination I'm a volunteer First Responder occasionally known to the brigade as "Gadget".
Vik
Germans have quite a sense of humor, especially about themselves. Their humor is ten times more self-depricating than American humor. And as another poster said, their dark humor is quite good.
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
I'm just guessing here, but... he had no need to carry condoms, right?
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Of course he was unaware of you. The Borg assimalate cultures not individuals.
(-1, User Friendly comic)
Hmm, I'm sure I've modded a few jackets/coats as prior art to fit my walkman.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Similar gripe with their belts (Khaki and Navy) and ankle socks (khaki and white)
I do not deploy Linux. Ever.
I have a friend who, many years ago, owned a trenchcoat with (a) a well-sewn liner and (b) missing or ruined pockets. Thus she'd typically fill her coat with: All the day's required textbooks and coursepacks, a dozen paperbacks, lunch, notepad, pens, a stapler, a flask, a math set, chemistry goggles, kleenex, and (IIRC) half a dozen moist towelettes. The thing is, most of the above are relatively flat, and so if stacked carefully added absolutely nothing to the coat's outline. Your first clue would be Jen reaching into her pocket and pulling out item after large absurd item...
- undoware.ca
I carry the following:
Palm IIIc: Front left pants pocket
Dell X200 Laptop: Ultra-portable laptop (12")-- I carry this in a RoadWired messenger bag which I take almost everywhere.
Canon S110 digital camera (digital elph): It's in a small pouch attached to the shoulder strap of my laptop bag
Nokia 3360 cellphone: I don't carry this as often, since I don't like cellphones, but if I'm carrying it, it's in the interior jacket pocket.
Panasonic CD player: I have a little cd carrying bag that I sometimes lug around with me if it's a long walk to where I'm going.
Yeah, I like my toys to be small.
Well, my big problem with newer gadgets is that people seem to care more about extra features rather than making them smaller. I have no interest in a PDA that can play MP3s or has 64MB of memory. On the other hand, if you can shrink one down to just the size of the screen (plus a small border) and make them half an inch thick, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Also, make more small phones without movable parts. I don't want to waste my time pulling out an antenna or flipping open my phone. And stop putting features in my phone! I don't need an MP3 player in my phone.
I want small specialized products.
1300 useful items attached to his body by various means... that's got to make him popular with the opposite sex, don't you think?!?
Oh... 1301.
-- Terry
I must have these fine products; a million thanks for the referral!
Searching on Guiness' site for "most practical suit of clothing" or even just "practical" yields no record along these lines. Given that there's no picture in the article, I'd say this is a hoax. Can anyone substantiate it if it's not?
wow, imagine a beowu.........
You actually had me LOLing there - Thank you!
Of course the moderators will mark down a "Funny" post to "Troll" or Offtopic" or something. Don't feel bad, they're morons.
since the original criteron for a cyborg was any self governing system which used sensory feedback to adapt to its environment. whether that feedback loop interaction is "it's too hot, better cool off with this fan" or "you have a instant message. you'd probably want to turn on the car autopilot while you respond..." is just a matter of scale.
And they could all be replaced by a towel or two. =)
Of course there's no picture. 'Eric' is just a pseudonym he uses when fighting crime in France.
Well, he probably doesn't need protection to please the ladies. I bet he's got a dildo somewhere in there.
My Swiss Army knife (a top-of-the-range one) includes a small ballpoint pen - so I don't need the fountain pen...but I have a tiny LED flashlight. That's the software guy's PC repair kit.
...
Then of course there is my mother's handbag
Your repair kit includes your mother's handbag?
sicko.
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
The British Expeditionary force, stationed in France and fighting both there and in Belgium was not a "great fighting force".
They had little armour (only 100 infantry tanks - and 200 "light" tanks which were far inferior to the German tanks) or anti tank capabilities, the support of only a portion of the British Royal Air Force, and were comprised of only around 240,000 fighting men.
Gee, have you never heard about doors? Open the door, now you can see a convenient bottle opener in the frame (where the thingie latches behind the whatchamacallit).
The trick is opening the bottle sideways without spilling anything - but its not that hard.
One of the greatest generals in the history of warfare was French. France, at one time, ruled most of Europe.
Those French surrender jokes best describe American ignorance - or stupidity, just repeat whatever joke you heard on Jay Leno last night.
Eehm, would redundant items count ? I mean 1 digital camera, 3 pieces of clothing and 1000+ toothpicks would be covered by the description as well.
beauty is only a light switch away
Oh yeah German's have a great sense of humour. And to show how funny everything is German's will clap to indicate how funny it is. (Seriously, watch german comedians and the audience claps) I would have thought that people would laugh if the comedian is funny. Oh yeah I forgot the comedian is not funny!
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
maybe you should switch to one of these World Class Inflatable Utility Vest and Jacket with manual inflate thingies,
:)
lest you find yourself on a desert island without a Symbol SP17000 PalmOS PDA with laser barcode scanner, sunglasses, hair ties, cable ties, Leatherman wave, whistle, resusci-shield breathing mask, laser pointer, universal key, pen, surgical gloves, mini-blowtorch, lock-knife, magnifier/torch, cellphone, pager, 10m parachute cord, tape measure, various medications (figures, huh?), syringe, insulating tape, lockpicks, paperclips, magnesium flint block, mini-leatherman, wire probes, pins, needles, safety pins, wire saw, compass, fishing tackle, betalight, antiseptic, plasters, steristrips, pencil, waterproof matches, salt, snow-marker, comb, rescue shears, 2 marlin spikes, antiseptic wipes, wire saw, binder, Pez, cash or even a major credit card.
My favourite quote from the article:
Hmmm... this must be some new meaning of the word "practical" that I was hitherto unaware of.
#exclude <ms/windows.h>
If you country had lost 3/4 of a million men and most of it had been turned into one big muddy field only 20 years previously, youd think twice about fighting to the last. France had been bled dry before, and wasnt about to do it again.
A digital camera is mentioned, so I guess there may be some form of computing device nearby.
Right, sure! We all know that the most important thing to have with you if you carry a digital camera is a computer.
"I used to carry a pedometer, for example, but I've just taken it off. I never found I needed it."
So, no pedos in his neighborhood, or have they employed devious countermeasures to his meter?
And remember kids: Never trust a computer you can actually lift.
He was last seen near a cave by the ocean mumbling something about "One Eyed Willy"
lets do some maths here:
Total Number of items = 1300
Total Weight of items = 12kg
= 12000g
Average weight of stuff = 12000/1300
= 9.23g
Now you how many things do you know that weight 9.23 and are usefull?
I carry 10001 usefull things around with me every day. 100 packets of 100 zippy ties, plus some duct tape.
Heh
A friend of mine makes a point of grabbing 20 - odd tubes of hemeroid cream / pregnecy testing kits when grocery shopping.
He drops one these in the carts people leave blocking the aisles.... (dons't take long to get through the whole stack on a busy saturday)
Quite ammusing to watch them get to the checkout :-)
Elsewhere he carries a shaving kit, comprehensive first aid gear, a mini-saw, blow-up mattress, spare batteries, a change of clothes, a water-pouch, a water-filtering unit, soldering iron, tape-measure, digital camera ...
That should create an interesting dilemma for this person, not unlike the dilemma faced by the barber who would only shave people that didn't shave themselves.
Being well balanced is overrated. -- John Carmack
"I use the brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
.. wonder if one of his pockets contains 100mg tablets of Paxal ?
he doesnt worry about where he sleeps, but he worries wiether it is clean or not.
and always want to be prepaired.
Sounds like a little OCD
--Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum, non erravi pernicose!
What flavor pez?
....... Thus ends my attempt at wit or whatever
Check out New Sun pouches, they are the best way I've found to carry a Wave, PDA, maglight, Solo windproof lighter (must have fire!), guitar picks, bandaids, and sharpening stone.
Also, Benjy Feen keeps a list of geek gifts that includes a nice selection of such items.
We have found the enemy and he is us. - Pogo
Actually the Char Bis 1
www.wwiivehicles.com/html/france/char_b1.html
Was an excellent tank with heavy armor and a (then) powerful 75 mm. The problem, as stated before, is how it was used. The French tended to commit the tanks piecemeal as infantry support, while the Germans used then massed to punch a hole in the French lines. Also note that many of the German tanks were lighter panzers, or captured Czech tanks. Also, while German is seen as a highly mobile army in WWII, in fact a large part of it was horse drawn. Take away the panzer divisions and the planes, and a lot of the German Army in 1940 looked like Grant's Army in 1865. -Drew
I really do carry (and use) all this stuff on a daily basis.
-- Sharp Zaurus 5500 PDA
-- 2 SD Cards -- One for work, one w/ MP3's
-- Big CF card
-- Mini Digital Camera with yet another CF card so I can take a picture and pop it in my Zaurus. (It was the same price as the Zaurus CF Camera and has better resolution). Camera has Video Out and will show any jpeg I put on the card. (Instant Presentation System)
-- 802.11 CF card
-- USB CF Card Reader, so that I can use my CF card like a USB flash drive. (an SD reader would be smaller, but somebody gave me the CF reader)
-- Motorola Timeport GSM/GPRS phone. (Links to Zaurus via IR for 'Net access)
-- Leatherman Supertool
-- Off brand cheap imitation of Leatherman Micra (Since the supertool has no scissors)
-- Yaesu VX-1 Mini Ham Radio w/ DC to daylight receive
-- Watch with WWVB receive
-- Ear buds for Zaurus
-- Mini-Headset for Phone
-- PDA Stylus with Blk Pen, Red Pen and Pencil
-- LED Pen style Flashlite
-- "Spare" LED light on keychain
I intend to consolidate a little by purchasing the following from ThinkGeek:
PDA Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer
Victornox Cybertool
(Yes, that was an attempt to get moderated up, but it's true.)
How do I carry it?
BDU (Battle Dress Uniform) pants
Home-made belt made of Ballistic Nylon
Zaurus, Phone, Radio and Leatherman all in Ballistic Nylon Belt cases.
Everything else in BDU pants pockets.
At least one person thinks I look cool -- Me !
*sighs* Somebody just e-mailed me about this... I want his outfit! Here's what I generally carry: 2 flashlights... one mini-mag-lite, one medium mag-lite... if there was a way to get the mega one on me I would! 11 Dice. I'm a gamer... often over lunch these are needed for some game or another with my friends. Swiss Army Knife. The brand says it all. Small buck knife... can never have too many knives! Mini-leatherman scissors, etc. This thing has screwdrivers, knives (more knives!) and can opener to name a few. Pens of varying colors (Red, Green, Black.) Mechanical Pencil. Notecards... how many times have you needed paper when you didn't expect it? Glasses screwdriver. Fingernail clippers. Those are all just on my person... I carry with me in my school bag along with books: A plastic cup. An umbrella. A Handspring Visor (cheap product plug!) A graphic calculator. A Visor keyboard (this way I don't need a laptop.) A deck of cards (just regular cards... poker cards, one could say, though that's not usually the game I play.) Highlighter.
I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
However Kafka was a "member of the German-speaking
minority in the Czech city Prague" an is readily identified with German culture. It's no coindcidence he wrote in German. His work is routinely considered part of the German literature. He was definitely not "definitely not German" in a culture as opposed to citizenship. (And I studied him in German class, so there.)
More:
Back when I did bulding maintenance and HVAC work I carried a toolbelt which carried several types of pliers; lineman, waterpump, locking, needle nose, several screwdrivers, and nutdrivers, an ohm meter, tape, utility knife, and a few custom tools - brake cable (makes a nice AC drain snake) and several other things that I can't remember now.
Plus on my regular belt: a Nextel phone, pager, big ass retractable key ring (chain not cable) with 30+ keys and an SOG geared multi-tool.
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eeww, I'll have a crab juice.
Being French, he has an unfair advantage; No need to bathe.
But my kit was of a different flavor and somewhat trimmed down from yours; Sewen into my jean jacket, (the "Magic Jacket"), so that it was entirely invisible unless I got patted down, I had. .
1 Cat's Paw mini-crowbar,
1 Mini-Leatherman (still the coolest and most comfortable set of folding pliers EVER),
1 Mini-torch (when they were new and cost all of your allowance for three solid months.),
1 Set of lock picks,
1 Japanese laminated steel knife,
1 Thumb-sized single shot
1 Mini-jar of granulated pepper, (This was before pepper spray was a 'thing'),
1 Highly polished silver Zippo lighter (suitable for cheating at poker),
1 Credit-card sized Freznel lense, (in case a bear ate my Zippo),
1 Extending pen-pointer I rigged with a rare-earth magnet, (1 month's allowance back then when hard drives sucked.)
4 Mini-biners people use for key-chains but which are stress tested at 220 kg,
1 Six foot loop of mountain climbing tape suitable for whipping into a harness, and. .
(This was the trophy piece. .
40 meters of super-thin mountain climbing cord (rated at 600 kg) fire-hose packed for quick release into the double back of the jacket. (The double-back being the original back from another jean jacket one size-smaller.)
I was ready to save princesses from burning buildings and play 007 and all kinds of silly stuff. And the funniest part is that I was so proud of my 'secret' jacket, that I showed it off to pretty much everybody at school. If anybody ever ended up with a
Ahh. The wonders of sexual frustration! Those were the days!
-Fantastic Lad
I want to get in a news story, ... Dec. 2nd I will glue noodles to my body and walk around Seattle. - the NOODLE MAN!!! woot
First "Swiss Army Knife" isn't appropriate since he's French. But I keep thinking "what would a French Army Knife" be made of? Something that breaks really easy?
Also, why bother with the copious quantities of tools? Wouldn't it be better to be resourceful enough to carry practically nothing and use what's around you. I suppose the moral could easily become "if you don't have it, you can't lose it before you need it."
In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
--VonNeumann
a writing utensil and my little red-and-black book
gym clothes
shampoo, conditioner, and soap
an extra pair of underwear
a book
my portable music and a few CDs
a bottle of water
an extra pad (if you don't know, guys, don't bother asking) -- because You Just Never Know
two sets of keys
food/junk food
:)
and various and sundry odds and ends that might come in handy, which vary depending on where I'm going, the time of year, and what I might be doing, most of the time.
Granted, I usually carry a backpack and sometimes a shoulder "forage bag," and keep only keys, wallet and watch in pockets (I love these jeans: they have a watch pocket for my pocket watch, natch!).
I don't carry around a lot of tools or that kind of thing, because as anyone who knows me knows, put tools into my hands and I become dangerously destructive!
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
We have been asked that question often. We addressed this question in our last newsletter, see http://www.scottevest.com/htmlemail/nov2002/nov_20 02.html.
There's been concern expressed by some that the magnets located in the wind flap of the SCOTTeVEST Version 2.5 could cause damage to memory storage devices. For this month's inVESTigative report, we went behind the scenes to find out the exact answer to the burning question: "What's up with the magnets, dude?" Like any good inVESTigator, we went to a higher source. According to SanDisk, the "world's leading supplier of flash data storage products in consumer, OEM and industrial markets," magnets will not harm storage mediums. As a matter of fact, major companies are even using magnets for PDA cases. But still we weren't satisfied, so we hit the SeV laboratory for some testing. For 24 straight hours, we left a floppy disk with a short MP3 file, a PDF and a JPG file sandwiched between two magnets (mmm...magnet sandwich...mmm). One day later, all the files were fine. Additionally, we placed a compact flash card with JPG files into our magnet sandwich, and sure enough, all was well 24 hours later. So in conclusion, as much as people are attracted to the SCOTTeVEST, it doesn't quite possess the kind of animal magnetism that can leave your equipment damaged, so to speak.
http://www.scottevest.com/htmlemail/nov2002/magnet s.html
Scott Jordan, President www.SCOTTeVEST.com
Scott Jordan, CEO www.scottevest.com
That is enough these days to get you kicked out of school 10 times over.
nichtlustig
Humour français (sur les français)
Oh well I'm sure you knew that all generalisations are wrong...
Nothing beats a sturdy pair of Carhart jeans. I have a pair of Dickies that have lasted quite some time as well.
VOS/Interreality project: www.interreality.org
I can think of one thing not mentioned that every Frenchman could use...
soap anyone?
Anyone think of anything else?
"France also had a naive millitary command, and very little resistance. That said, who can blame them? WWII was still a very nasty memory, and none could face the prospect of war again. It was very easy to belive that Hitler only wanted a little bit of Europe, and then he'd be happy."
:-(
I know. It's so terrible how that zombie Hitler came back and invaded France again! Damned nazi supermen
--
Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
"Thermos, sandwiches, corn-plasters, telephone money, dandruff brush, animal footprint chart and one triple-thick condom! You never know!"
--
Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
All I need is one of these:
"Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."
||:|::
As Michael Moore put it recently. .
"Guns don't kill people. Americans kill people."
Mind you, while statistically speaking this may be true, it doesn't seem to apply to any of the many Americans I've met whenever I'm south of the border. I think it might be some sort of demographic sorting. --I tend to gravitate towards people who exude the right brand of 'cool', which is to say, people who don't go wetting their pants over guns and knives like a bunch of easily excited Resevoir Twits.
-Fantastic Lad
Other favorites:
Countless times the day has been saved by the duct tape, WD40, micro torch, candle, tape measure, digital camera, handspring with attached cell phone, trash bag, toilet paper, water balloons, post-it notes, floppy disk, GPS receiver, spare shorts, sewing kit, leatherman, maglite, pens, pencils, marker, tablet of paper, spoon, compass, transit map, deodorant, toothbrush, comb, or calipers I always have in my backpack.
*******
"What good is science if no one gets hurt?!" - Professor Chromedome
Christ, I do not want to be behind this guy going through airport security...
Cthulhu Barata Nikto
B.
So many messages, but only TWO mentions of Steve Mann so far.
C'mon, people! The comparisons are so OBVIOUS!
Somebody should put these two in a room and see what comes out!
Let's see: Notebook with a ton of graph paper, telephone address book, business card book, a floppy, a package of bandaids, bottle of aspirin, bottle of newskin, bottle of no-doz, bottle of aleve, bottle of ibuprofen, bottle of eyrithromicin (sp?), 2 bottles of eyedrops, container of carmex, bottle of pepper seeds (don't ask), handy folding "port-a-cup" with cotton and aspirin inside, a combo pen-sized telescope/microscope, a mechanical pencil, a keychain tetris (great when you are bored), two pocket mini-torches, security cards for work, folding multi-tool pocket knife, laser pointer, mini-mag flashlight, mini-110 camera and film, dental floss, mini-AM/FM radio and 2 AAA batteries, and a few old sticks of "StayAlert" caffeine gum (yum!).
Now, if I am tooling around in my truck, I have even more stuff in there - various tools (wrenches, pliers, wire cutters, socket sets, screwdrivers, etc), bunches of tape, a poncho, a spool of wire, a tape measure, two car jacks, a tarp, various hoses, duct and electrical tape, a hammer, a crowbar, a haynes book for the truck, my CB with PA, rope, various bungee cords and ratcheting tiedowns, electric air pump, two cans of fix-a-flat, plus probably a few other things I have forgot to mention.
I am such a geek [whimper]...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
does he have a chainsaw attached to one of his arms? Comes in handy if you ever have to fight the minions of the undead...
--Gaz
"I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives."
I'm 16, my collection of stuff on my belt is steadily growing.
:D
-leatherman
-keys, home and school(for sound and lighting boxes, cupboards, storeage etc)
-cellphone
-PRS radio
-Often a CB depending on where i am.
-Cresent (shifting spanner)
----Comming soon-----
2cell AA maglite
802.11b battery powered(hack) wlan - wired bridge going into a small VoIP phone. So i can use the phone out and about. In my bag will possibly be a small yagi so i can be further away from home if i need to.
----When im at theatres better than school---
Theatre coms unit. (sometimes wireless)
4cell D maglite in holder.
handy hooks for carrying gell frames etc.
of course in my bag I keep spare batteries for all battery powered things above.
I'd probably get expelled if I wasn't so invlolved with extracuricular activities in my school. If they kick me out. they loose ALL their techies for sound/light.
--SharkDog
GEEK VIRGIN???
Man, my wife would never touch me if I were like this:
Eric's outfits weigh 15kg - 12 kilos of which are gadgets of every kind.
"I use the [paint] brush a lot because I often end up sleeping in odd places and this is the best way I have found for removing dust," he says.
Here is yet another link, the second from top on Google (wow that was hard to find)
A report from 1998
Hmm, a report from 1998 stating that China had ICBM's targeted on 5 US cities? Boy, you are right. I guess I was wrong. China has no capability of hitting the US, I was just being alarmist. Maybe you should use sources that are from this decade before you make an ass of yourself
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - Gen George S Patton
but our IS tech at work has about 10 gadgets hanging from his belt. Except for his short height and large waistline, he'd be just like Batman!
That's because he's already got a blow-up doll in there.
Generally on my person I carry a torch, a leatherman, and a lighter. In my bag I have another pair of pilers, a rool up saw, candle, block o magnesium, fishing line and hook and sinker, caffenated mints, normal mints, pain killers, antihistamines, safety pins, and the normal uni stuff, calculator, water bottle, pencil case etc tobes
"has entered the record books"
Which?
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric __ __
Hello... I am "the poor guy"... First, impossible to find out easily in which part of the world this site (Slashdot.org) is located, then I guess it is in the USA... Second, please excuse me about my bad english language. I did not understand everything because there are many words I've never learnt at school (like "geek"). I've been very amused to read all that was written about me ; even if sometimes it was not fair, I can however understand humour. There are many things to answer, and I see that some people are interested to know more about my "thing", which at first was very personal, rather intimate, and never intended for other people. But I see that the number of comments about me has not changed (451) since yesterday, so maybe it's finished, and maybe the writers only needed to express themselves, and maybe they will not come back here. That's why I'm just waiting and seeing if my current message has answers. Good night or good day, Americans ! Eric ...__
Hi Eric--welcome to Slashdot. I worry that other people won't see your post, and I don't want you to get zero replies! I am glad you are not taking the jokes personally--when people are trying to be funny, they are not thinking about you personally but about what funny thing to say next. Geeks are people who don't mind being strange because they have something they are really interested in other than worrying about what people think. So, being a geek is good in my book. Best wishes and good luck.
Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
LOL..
This guy has issues. It's all in the name of geek fun! lighten up.
1) Go to Home Depot
Two men came before Nasrudin when he was magistrate. The first man said,
"This man has bitten my ear -- I demand compensation." The second man said,
"He bit it himself." Nasrudin withdrew to his chambers, and spent an hour
trying to bite his own ear. He succeeded only in falling over and bruising
his forehead. Returning to the courtroom, Nasrudin pronounced, "Examine the
man whose ear was bitten. If his forehead is bruised, he did it himself and
the case is dismissed. If his forehead is not bruised, the other man did it
and must pay three silver pieces."
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