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CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man
So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years. Now, it's payback time. That's right, our very own CmdrTaco is turning 30 today. I highly encourage you to drop him an e-mail at (remove the spam parts) maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org. And of course, birthday presents of single malt scotch can be sent c/o of me. I'll...uh...make sure he gets them.
Hmm, seems Taco was right.
Birthday presents of single malt scotch can be sent c/o of me. I'll...uh...make sure he gets them.
Ok. But are you sure this label is going to work?
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Hopefully, with age comes wisdom. The jury is still out, but we'll let you know. :-)
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
Who is CmdrTaco?
"So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years."
How long does it take to proofread a ~30 word post?
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
heres looking for 30 hurays!
moo
Happy Birthday, CT! Renew! Renew!
Listen Sonny, you've got no idea what old is! Why, when I first learned to program, I had to carry my punch cards in a paper bag through the snow, on foot, 10 miles, uphill, in both directions! We didn't have these fancy keyboards -- we had to use a telegraph key. Monitors! Feh! We had to use an Etch-a-Sketch!
Anyway, Happy Brithday.
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
I for one welcome our new paunchy middle aged slash/overlords....
Three Squirrels
So now we're going to slashdot CmdrTaco?
Renewal! Renewal! Renewal!
Do not disturb. Already disturbed. http://www.teaaddictedgeek.com
... feels like 29. now, when you turn 31 you start thinking ... 'holy maturity Batman, I've been 30 for a year!'
+1 fashionably cynical
You want his email inbox to be flooded don't you?
Let me be one of the first to congratulate you Rob! You guys have a great team and built up a great website. Hopefully the dupes, spelling mistakes wont go up as you get older! Hey I'm allowed to dream am I not :p
don't be an idiot.
...but I'll wait for the dupe of the article and then consider it ; )
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
... at least allow us to img src the goatse guy in this story. It's for Taco, dammit!
Trolling is a art,
30 years old and still making (good?) money from a college project. Life can't get much easier than that.
And 30 feels the same as 29 I assume....?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Message, Spock?"
"None that I'm conscious of. Except of course, Happy Birthday, surely the best of times.
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
If you can make it to my house, you're welcome to all the Springbank you can drink.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
No need to ask me twice!
News for merdes. Shit that matters.
Ask me about my sig.
It is all downhill from here by the way. At least until you hit 40, when it is more of a "plunging off a cliff" aging process; just think of your 30s as the hill before the plunge. I can see the edge of the cliff already.....
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
nt
I wish I had mod points.
"They're Cats!" - Peter Ustinov
-- www.globaltics.net
Political discussion for a new world
What's the geek version of the bumps? Maybe it's slashdotting his sit.... oh wait, I see a slight problem... How do we slashdot slashdot..?
I like muppets.
Happy Birthday Rob, many happy dups! *ducks*
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Congratulations Taco, you now join Hemos as just another old fart.
:)
Of course, you're still both just rotten kids to all of us 40 somethings!
"So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years."
Sorry. I didn't need to know that.
As a guy many years older than him, it is depressing to see my hardworked, carefully thought-out story submissions heartlessly rejected on a regular basis by a bunch of barely 30-year old millionaire kids.
But that is the way of things I guess.
30 yro and nothing to show for
And next week, I'll send him another birthday greeting!
So, are you saying we should all send our email to hemos at slashdot.org and you'll forward them onto Rob?
I hit 41 yesterday.
Best Slashdot Co
It has come to my attention that this is a legendary first post. As such, I suggest you mod the parent of the parent up, and them proceed to mod the parent up as well, as it informs you that you should mod the parent of the parent (it's parent) up as well. Thank you.
birthday
-Sj53
Hope you get , like, loads of Ponies!!!
This was posted on DIGG on Tuesday morning!
HAH! CmdrTaco is ancient! Not like us 29 year 364 day old people!
"maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org"
Argh, I'm just not figuring this out. I've got the malda part, but am having trouble with the last part. I keep getting "slashdot.org" but I've never heard of that before. This SPAM stuff just confuses me.
On a serious note, are spammers really thwarted by foobar_AT_barbaz.com (apologies to the person with that e-mail address) and foobarNOSPAM@NOSPAMbarbaz.com? I mean, really, s/_AT_/@ isn't exactly rocket science.
I'm sure this has been posted before.
Honestly, it's getting worse here.
~the keyboard is mightier than the pen.
with someone as high profile as Rob Malda, you'd think you don't have to put a spam filtered e-mail up, since he probably gets thousands of spam messages a day anyway, which are probably fairly well filtered.
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
Dupe?
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Taco,
Happy Birthday to you
Huray!
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
...that malda[at]slashdot.org has been blackholed to /dev/null for years now. Rob is much to busy polishing his monocle to answer email.
Wait a minute, that's not right...
I guess that maybe the "OMG P0N13S" stories from April Fools Day weren't so tongue-in-cheek.
At 30 years, I would have instead put the (man) in parenthesis! :-)
Who knew I shared the same birthday as The Taco? He's 4 years older than I, but woo! I have a new "Who do you share birthday's with?" answer!
Happy Birthday CmdrTaco!
Th
Does the idiot submitter actually think spambots are fooled by inserting SPAM two times in the email address? How many people actually have "spam" in their email address? Come on now, use some brains and remember that this isn't 1998 anymore, and your stupid tricks are ineffective.
slashdot is run by the few elite who decide what is newsworthy. Who cares if someone is turing 30? Stories like this would never make it to front page of a user run news community site like DIGG.
thanks for pointing this out. I couldn't figure out why I like Slashdot much more than DIGG, but now I realize it's because DIGG is stale and boring while Slashdot isn't afraid to show some personality.
happy birthday! and keep up the good work!
There'd better not be a dupe for this! /Happy B-day, Rob.
Heh, sucks to be you Taco. I got a whole year before I'm an old fart at 30. Yep feelin pretty spry... 'sept for my back of course. Dammit, those kids are on my lawn again, I'll have to cut this short to go yell at them.
Didn't he already get a year older 12 months ago?
Happy Birthday CmdrT!
In honour of this gracious occasion, I will prepare the following:
SPAM(TM) Tacos
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 SPAM® Classic (12-ounce) can cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 12 small new potatoes sliced 1/8-inch thick
- 1 Anaheim chile chopped
- 8 corn taco shells
- 2 cups torn romaine lettuce
- shredded cheddar cheese
- chopped tomato
- sour cream
- salsa
- standard keyboard & internet connection
Directions
In skillet over medium heat, combine SPAM®, potatoes, and chile. Cover. Cook 15 to 20 minutes, turning occasionally, until potatoes are tender. Fill each taco shell with about 1/4 cup SPAM(TM) mixture and 1/4 cup lettuce. Top with cheese, tomato, sour cream, and salsa. Eat while posting, emailing, or whatever!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Now, could we get to some real news please? I know, I'll go over to http://www.foobies.com/ and look at foobies. Yes, foobies. I'm not kidding about foobies. Foobies are great. Unless you are a leg man...
http://www.hiddenagenda.org/teddyrabbits/HappyBirt hday.mp3
Crow T. Trollbot
does he run Linux?
You can send me lots of beer and vodka and I'll make sure Taco gets it. Trust me.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
Back in the day, people with AIDS usually only lived a year or two.
I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
...for posting his email address on the front page.
I salute you.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. - Edward R. Murrow
This is just a dupe of a birthday announcement for him about a year ago. Slashdot needs better dupe checking.
I Actually wanted to get a t-shirt that read "I'm not 30, I'm 29.95" saw one the other day but I couldn't find the place that sold 'em in time. I can't believe I am 1 day older than commander taco. I think I was destined to have the enlightenment and wisdom that he got, it's just that I took a long nap after being born. Gimme back my birthright mr taco, it's mine...mine I tell ya..mine....all mine.
CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man
And now he's even older.
And now he's even older.
And now he's even older still...
*ahem* *ahem*
:D I'm 31 in 2 months! woo hoo!!! :D *whistles*
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to express my dearest congratulations for our founder, CmdrTaco.
(And now that it's been said...
I'm older than Taco!! Yay!!!!!
)
*ahem ahem*
(puts on tuxedo)
Thank you very much for allowing me to contribute. Have a nice day.
I remember when I hit 30...30 freaking years ago!!I thought it was over. Then I slammed into 40. All is lost! When I careened over 50, I was a living fossil. No hope here. I am now on the verge of 60 and staring at my own mortality. 30 years old today. Damn you, senorTaco, damn you....
I would just set up an e-mail redirect to hemos for the day!
is that we all work in such an ageist occupation. 30+ years at the coalface means nothing nowadays. Oh, yes, and I can't make love quite as often as I used to!
init 11 - for when you need that edge.
Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly.
When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do.
Your twenties are a blur.
Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?"
Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother.
Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery.
Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway.
Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?"
By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama.
Any questions?
(tough guy) Old Man, you seek the Spell of Mastery!
... you have come to late, my efforts have already met with success....
...
(old man mubling)
(tough guy) If that is the case, you must be stopped!
(old man) (mumbles some more)
*lightning*
You may mod this OT, but those of us over 30 know EXACTLY what I'm talking about...
(er wait, I'm over 30...)
Never trust anyone over 40!
(Uh oh, I'm 41...)
Never trust anyone over 50! Those bastards always keepin' us down! Down with The Man! I'm keepin' it real.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Looks like that taco is a year closer to its expiration date...:-P
I turn 40 tomorrow, Kid! :)
Actually I just tell people I am almost 30 years and 84 months old; works great for me.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I thought you could only get AIDS from another person...
Honesty may be the best policy, but by process of elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
a *man*?
never realized it before - we share a birthday.
Happy birthday, Rob
Inconceivable!
Or some Cola Light and Mentos for next experiment. PS: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6807159483 537170629
Nonsense, life doesn't even begin until 40, at least if you've done it right.
I'm only 35 now (will be 36 this summer) but already I'm starting to believe kfg's assessment. All my life, I've heard this crap about how the 20s are the best years of your life and 40 is when everything goes to hell. I now believe that's a bunch of crap. Actually, I believe that common perception is probably true for common people. For geeks like us, I think the 30s and 40s are much better than our 20s.
Maybe my experience was a little more extreme than most people's since my 20s were dominated with grad school in an institute with a terrible male-female ratio, but I look back on my 20s and think of them as years where I was busy building up my capabilities. My ability to take care of myself. My ability to cook things other than spagetti and ramen noodles. My ability to prove myself capable of independent, in-depth research. All along I thought I knew what I was going to do when I finished my dissertation (become a professor) but that turned out not to be correct at all.
Now midway through my 30s, I've got a much stronger sense of who I truly am and what my strengths are. I'm still struggling to develop new capabilities and broaden my horizon, but I'm starting to take a little more time to appreciate what I've built so far. Financial decisions that I made back in my 20s because I thought they were the right thing to do are starting to pay off for me now. I'm still very busy but I'm starting to see things in a broader scope than I did when I was so fixated on one or two things in my 20s.
I imagine that my 40s is when I'll truly be content. By then, I imagine I'll be pretty damn comfortable with the person I turned out to be. I'll be able to see how everything fits together in my life much better.
People think of 40s as "over the hill" largely because of physical issues. Yeah, perhaps its true that if you don't take care of yourself that age will start to catch up with you then. But if you eat right and exercise, I think your 40s can be some of your best active years. You shouldn't still be putting in 60-hour weeks in your 40s so you'll have more time for exercising, spending time with the family, and just plan enjoying life. Regarding sports, you might have to take a few more days of layoff between workouts or slow down a bit on the court, but you will find that your increased understanding of tactics, planning, and strategy will make up for it. Yes, even for stuff like weight-training. You'll start to realize that going into the gym 4-6 days a week and blasting your muscles to failure every time in a pathetic attempt to put a half-inch on your arms in time for summer just isn't the smartest approach.
Like kfg says, your 40s should be the best years of your life if you've done it right (e.g., made careful financial decisions, ate healthy, gotten plenty of non-destructive exercise, not completely dedicated yourself to your job). That's how I see it anyhow.
GMD
watch this
MESSAGE ACKNOWLEDGED -- The Pershing II missiles have been launched.
:(
Now that's just mean.
...you old fart! :P
Join the TWIT army now!
Happy Birthday Cmdr. I didn't get you anything, but if you want you can go watch duckpins.
At 30 computers are hard to handle
Mark my words - at 40 they hit back.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
You're posting a comment on some guy's blog saying that his birthday doesn't matter? Then don't post on his blog!
We can import an H-1b to take over ownership of Taco's stock, right?
Seastead this.
May 10,
National Abacus Day in Japan.
"Today is National Abacus Day in Japan. By manipulating beads, the user of an abacus can perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division."
Get your tagline off my lawn.
Happy Birthday CmdrTaco!!! can you make my kharma good now? :D
cheers :)
'sig' deleted due to the stupidity of it's 'nature'
"MESSAGE ACKNOWLEDGED -- the Pershing II missles have been launched."
Happy birthday!
Oh, fsck it.
... but turning 31? For whatever reason, that caused me to have a meltdown.
But that water has long since been under the bridge.
In the course of every project, it will become necessary to shoot the scientists and begin production.
Happy birthday Rob, benevolent overlord with snazzy first name!
Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
Holy crap! I never knew that I was born on the exact same day as CmdrTaco! Huh... somehow I thought he'd be older...
Buy him windows as a gift.
Of course, I was born in 1978, not 1976, so maybe I stole his.
Happy birthday CmdrTaco. Enjoy the presents.
Now what if I took a spam-reply address such as admin_jxgny@globalnet.hr and left to the data-miners.. The auto-reply would reply to an auto-reply which would then auto-reply back and loop, in a slow burn of spamming resources.
So remember add some auto-reply bots to your sigs..
Storm ________ sp4mbot address acdftigy@ntlworld.com
I expect a majority of /. readers are familiar with the movie.
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to conviction
Logan 5: What other food?
Box: Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I'm ready. And you're ready. It's my job. To freeze you. Protein, plankton...
~~~~Mommy!!!!
Your lame joke? YES!
there's a crossover point for anyone under around 70 years-old where exponentially advancing technology will slow, stop, then reverse the biological aging disease.
It's pig's bladder - read Damon Knight's Forever.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I'm trusting he has a good sense of humor and will allow my account to continue.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, cMDRtACO!!111
--Theadora Lau, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes
-FL
Actually, digg posts about Taco hit more than you would think.
This recent redesign competion has caused his journal to be dugg quite heavily where we haven't heard anything about it here.
liqbase
I was told I had malignant cancer on my 30th birthday. And here I am about 300 years later still running round the front yard in my underwear scaring all the kids.
76 was a good year
I eat Karma for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's why I don't have any.
or octal?
The 40's Rocked for me too! #1 the kids were grown and had flown the nest #2. I discovered that "empty nest syndrome" is but an ugly rumor started by unemployed teenagers. It was time for 'grown-up toys' and grown-up trips,(end destinations which did not cater to cotton candy booths),Para-sailing in Mexico, flying stunt kites in Canada, U.S. and Mexico, and learning to snow ski.
By the 50's, falling down on one of these escapades wasn't all that bad, but the 'Getting up' was becoming a B#tch.
Unfortunately 60's SUCK! Spare parts are not readily available and Full body transplants have a huge back-order list.
However, 'Old' beats the only available alternative, I guess!
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It simply wastes your time and truely annoys the pig"
That's what example.com is for.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
Happy Birthfay CmdrTaco! Hope its a good one and remember you are only half way up the hill so it ain't too bad yet.
WTF?
You insensitive clod!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Does good ol CmdrTaco turn 31?
insert inflammatory anti-microsoft comment here
This is great, but who cares that he's turned 30? What we want to know is, how many Vulcanian years old is he? Romulan is accepted too.
Full Tilt
Does he have a personnal website? :)
What could be the url?
oups, I just accidently google is name, and cut-paste is url in this reply
http://cmdrtaco.net/
No sig for now.
Despite the fact that CowboyNeal is missing a chromosome he is still considered a person.
Only on slashdot does a quick "wish so-and-so a happy birfday" message get a reply like "no way- you spelled 'birthday' wrong. Sheesh.
Give 'em hell Taco- a whole MONTH of pro-M$ rants and DUPES of said rants. That'll learn 'em good.
barack to the future?
Remember the slogan "Don't trust anyone over 30!"?
I understand the guy who coined it was over 30 at the time.
So the slogan says you shouldn't trust the slogan.
And this sentence is false. B-)
Happy birthday, C.T.
(And wish me one in return... Sigh. I have almost twice as many to try to forget. B-( )
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Happy birthday and this is coming from someone that posted 6 years ago at 18 and hopes he'll get there were you are now in 6 years.
In Kathleen.
(Or someone with similar gender.)
30 is still just 5 bits. It is not until 32 that you need to add a sixth bit, which gets you all the way to 63. So you are still not that different than a 16 ywar old - for another year or two...
---
I type this every time
CmdrTaco
ME
Richard Patrick (from the band Filter)
Sid Vicious (sex pistols' late bassist)
John Wilkes Booth (oddly enough)
and sadly:
Rick Santorum
And may your birthday be duped many a time.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
I couldn't figure out why I like Slashdot much more than DIGG, but now I realize it's because DIGG is stale and boring while Slashdot isn't afraid to show some personality.
D00d, if you're gonna brown nose at least post with an account and not as an AC.
You young kids never seem to catch on...
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
My first thought is, how many people who posted "Who is CmdrTaco?" actually weren't being intentionally funny? For those who don't know, CmdrTaco is the guy who wrote all the bits of Slash that don't work well.
My second thought is to congratulate both CmdrTaco and Hemos on their alma mater winning the NCAA Basketball Championship!
My third thought is that, given the advancing age of the proprietors of the site, banner ads for Metamucil and Levitra ought to be showing up here any day now.
Eventually, I got around to thinking to say "Happy Birthday!"
Save Maine's economy: write stuff down. All comments are exclusively my own, not my employer.
Mr. CmdrTaco a very Happy Birthday to you Sir.
..?
... Happy Birthday Sir!
May you enjoy life as much as Ollie.
May you prosper as well as Spock.
May you never give a moose FARQs.
The drugs of my youth in the "1960s".
Compare poorly with my drugs today.
You got some great drugs to look
forward to when you get to your
sextities as your body, mind and
spirit slip into "dang dumb ass",
why did I pass that up.
Yep, you always regret more what you
passed up, then what you fucked up.
Then the drugs really help you forget.
Well, I guess you best get on with
your life. By the time you get to 137yo
What was I saying
> You chose well, so choose well.
J.D.10101
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
I got married at 30 also.
Now I'm 32 and I've been married 357 years.
Autonomous Retard -- Is your camp safe? UnsafeCamp.com
Once upon a time, when Usenet still ran wild, I helped send newgroup messages for several related alt.archery groups. I had no interest in particular, it's just that I could and the person asking me had done all the right prerequisites, so why not? Unbeknownst to me, a collection was taken up whereby each Scotch drinker in the group was asked to send a baby food jar or two with a sample of their favorite type(s). These were then labeled with numbers and sent to me as a care package. The catch was that I was not told what any of them were until I had reviewed them. It took a while to properly sample 12 baby food jars full of Scotch, though I certainly enjoyed it.
For those who have well-stocked liquor cabinets, you might bear this in mind as a gift idea, though they certainly don't all have to be single-malt Scotch. A handful of varieties each of rum, vodka and/or gin, and whiskey should do the trick. The recipient may find there is some cheap hooch that is palatable that he otherwise never would have tried -- or he may find out that the good booze is expensive for a reason.
If you feel too weird about using baby food jars, you can get a sampler set of those little one-shot "airplane size" bottles, though these are all likely to be similar in class and price range.
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
From the Department of Redundancy Department... "So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years."
Don't forget to have a second helping half an hour later.
Binary of course
I have patented the process (patent pending) of turning 30 years old on May 10, 2006. You, sir, will be hearing from my lawyer.
You are missing the "and we liked it!", I would have used that insted of "in both directions!" which is clearly impossible.
16,777,216 comments ought to be enough for any forum!
I guess in Soviet Russia your birthday celebrates you and
OOG PASSING OUT AT YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY WHEN HE SEES
Nataly Portman naked and petrified pouring hot grits down your pants, she knows that
All your base are belong to us!
So again, Happy Birthday and may you always get the
Frist Psit.
You can't handle the truth.
At least that's what my subject heading was... hopefully the spam filter sucks..
Becoming an older man is always better than the alternatives.
;-)
Happy Birthday. Your blog has was precious years of my life away.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Happy birthday to you,
Happy goatse.cx dear The Violation of Rob Malda,
Happy birthday to you!
You could have shared your birthday with me if you had been a little more inpatient and got out a day earlier!
The Poetry of Google Voice is very strange.
gv-poetry.com
He and I share the same birthday, except I age is 1.4 x his... doh.
I'm guessing this means no new meds yet, huh?
Oh - update your schtick - I'm divorced.
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
His over abundance of ego is also getting old. Wait, it was also old when I met him ten years ago. Some things just don't change.
Know everything, that is. Nobody wears bellbottoms anymore.
I18N == Intergalacticization
People here doesn't matter with small details. A message sent to maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org returned. omfg... SPAMslashdot.org dont exists!!! The correct address is malda@slashdot.org. Anyway, in order to help /. users, I'm building a small script to send "happy birfday - enl4rge y0ur pen1s" to him.
This is ... Truly News For Nerds!!!!
That's future President Santorum.
I'm three days younger than cmdrtaco. This probably means nothing.
Time's not so bad out here, once you've been freezed to death and nearly dismembered whilst gettin' on with what is yours, seeing it all being stolen by those that made you run...
drop him an e-mail at (remove the spam parts) maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org.
You mean like this? malda@slashdot.org
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Remember to sign up for Medicare part D before Monday May 15 or you will loose your prescription benefits. Also you need to send in you AARP membership dues.
Guess who's sleeping on the sofa tonight? ...
Bastard.
http://www.TheGamerNation.com/Forums
perl -le 'print qq|Happy birthday $_| for (q|to you!|, q|CmdrTaco,|)[0,0,1,0]'
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
when the mailbox fills and taco server explodes, that noise you hear will be the cheers of sysadmins throughout the internet whose servers have similarly been reduced to puddles of still-sparking melted plastic.
I'm sure I read something like this last year... :D
Does this new version of CmdrTaco come with any new features?
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Cheers!
Is he an Islay or Speyside man? I think we should be told :-)
Can't send a bottle, but a few personal recommendations of some slightly more obscure distilleries he might not have tried:-
The Balvenie. Superlative Speyside. An American friend of mine seems to import this into NYC in near industrial quantities after being introduced to it when over here.
Scapa. Second most northerly distillery and for years overshadowed by Highland Park (itself a superb dram). I once had a bottle of 25 year old (1963) which was pure distilled heaven. The 14 year old is less good, but I've seen various older bottlings on sale.
Springbank. Cambelltown malts tend to get overlooked. Worth seeking out though.
The Talisker. OK hardly obscure, but if you're a west coast man then you have to have tried this. Possibly my personal favourite.
Of course all are recommended as best appreciated sitting outside a bar on the west coast of scotland at sunset. Applecross topping my personal list :-)
This means we can no longer trust him. Of course, I'll be 30 in a year, so will I be able to trust myself?
Hey Guys, Happy Belated B-Day to CmdrTaco! 30 . . . A milestone birthday. Welcome to middle age . . . ;0)
K, I'll bite . . . I work for the agency http://www.pmacanada.com/ that represents William Grant's & Son's http://www.williamgrant.com/ (i.e. - Glenfiddich / The Balvenie) across Canada . . .
Next time you're near Hogtown (Toronto/Greater Toronto Area) . . . fire me an e-mail, let me know when and where you'll be and I'll personally get that bottle to you. You'll have to show up in person (cause I'm currious and want to meet you.) That . . . and Canadian law prohibits the transfer of alcohol across provincial boundries.
Again - Happy Birthday CT!
May you have many more.
M
And take longer for each session.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.