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How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation?
Embedded Geek asks: "Instead of just spending Christmas break (or slowdown if you don't actually get time off) fixing up your house/car/server, are there any neat activities or events in your neck of the woods that you've been putting off? A museum exhibit? A cool new restaurant? An attraction in your hometown you usually only see with out of town relatives? Share your ideas with your fellow Slashdot readers! I, for one, plan to check out Barsoom to Blade Runner: Science Fiction in Southern California in my hometown."
And I'm doing that right now...
Have imeadiate family but it's bleah for christmas. So my biggest thing is trying to stay connected to this server on Neverwinter Nights as a dwarf wearing a tuxedo. Ahh the Dryads love a sharp dressed Dwarven Fighter! :)
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
The long nights with the kids in bed and no need to rise early are just perfect for rewriting the text of an Internet-Draft that will become an RFC that registers a new top-level MIME media type.
Get a hooker, you deserve it.
... wrapped around my right wrist an I can power a city for 30 seconds to several minutes depending on the quality of the photo gallery.
I think that if CCNP certification and building a slashsite are higher up on your list than finding a girlfriend, you are probably going to be single for a looooooooooooooooong time ;)
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
Projecting Slashdot onto the wall and spending time with my Family reading slashdot
Ask them if they can figure out what the acronyms mean!
Ask grandma if she knows who Jack Velenti is, and if so, did they ever have an affair? (seriously, I think if we all do this we may dig up some dirt)
Fun for the whole family!
And don't forget to check out Think Geek to see what you didn't get for X-Mas!
I'm spending my -day- off assembling toys that have been purchased or 'delivered by Santa' for my son. Mr phillips-head, Mr Duracell, and Mr Band-Aid are treating me poorly as I discover new and even more ingenious ways to bind toys that are in no way assembled to the cardboard boxes they came in. The joys of Christmas are truly without number. Twist-ties and styrofoam bricks provide a nice seat for me while I curse with reckless abandon the SOB who figured that GI Joe vehicles should practically be through-bolted to their respective boxes. Soon, I will get the portable propane torch and ignite the remaining boxes with the goodies still in them. The boy gets what survives the inferno. I like to think of this as Christmas Darwinism. Amusingly, of the many and expensive toys he received from various family, he is most taken with the $15 helicopter so far.
after opening all of my gifts i go to throw my new video card into my computer. 3 hours later i leave the hospital with 6 stitches from my case-o-death :-(
For my time off of work I vow not to go on the Internet ... o crap ...
man
No manual entry for
We're all unemployed remember? ... tech crash ... :D
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
I spent my Christmas POSTING TO SLASHDOT with my family
So you were the dick that bought all the pasta! Thanks for spreading the joy asshole, I had to drive all the way across town to get pasta!
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
me- "Hi, can I buy you a drink?"
her- "I don't know, can you?" *wink*
...one drink later...
her- "So, what operating system do you use?"
Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I play the truth card ("you know, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, I'm into the group thing") and have been laid more times than I can count in the last month alone.
Chicks dig unix.
Fully licensed blockchain psychiatrist
A little "ho, ho, ho" for your Christmas spirits...
If you don't understand anything I post, please accept that I ate paste as a small boy...