We've only had them about 6 months, but they see a lot of use, and they look and feel exactly like they did the day we bought them. (They have a wood frame and are covered in vinyl with foam padding, and in Minneapolis cost about $80 apiece.)
I looked at the picture you posted again, and I'm pretty sure I have the exact same chairs. If you don't like the ones you see locally, google for "video rocker" and you'll find plenty of them for sale.
We have two of these chairs. They make excellent console gaming seating, additional movie night seating, extra seating for board games around the coffee table... The only caveat is that they have staples in the bottom which are insufficiently countersunk. If not padded, these can scratch a hardwood floor.
We got them at a local eclectic furniture store, but I have seen them at the big box stores as well.
If they actually make A Princess of Mars into a movie, it will be worth seeing. Edgar Rice Burroughs deserves to be known for more than Tarzan. His Martian Tales are great adventure novels.
For those who haven't read A Princess of Mars, it goes a bit like this...
John Carter is a calvary captain of the former Confederacy, prospecting in the hills of Arizona in 1866. A strange force draws him across the "trackless immensity of space" to Mars.
He first falls in with a warrior tribe of green Martians. They capture a lovely woman of the more human-like red Martians, with whom Carter falls in love. A rollicking adventure ensues, complete with radium-powered propulsion-ray personal hovercraft, arena combat, princesses and ransoms, treachery and last-minute heroics and a cliff-hanger ending to leave you weeping...
Burroughs spins a fine yarn,and his tech and storylines are already so cinematic that adaptation shouldn't be too difficult. The only thing that they probably will change is that generally the characters wear jeweled harnesses and not much else.
This project has been discussed on/. before, but it deserves to stay on the radar because it is interesting (not just because they use linux, but also because of the distributed computing aspects). Here's
the research group's website,
and here is an article in the U of MN's CS dept
newsletter about the project.
I graduated in CS from the U, and I used to give departmental tours of various projects, including this one. Nikos & company are doing some good work here.
Filtering based on a title containing a major-label artist's name will also block covers, remixes, and other versions which refer to the "banned" artist.
And what about song titles containing similar strings with no artist name attached? Or artists whose names are similar to others?
The real reason to use the hyphen in e-mail is so that you can sound like the esteemed publisher of The Onion:
"It has been brought to my attention that I should advise my tallow-headed readership on the importance of occupying the voting-stalls in the coming months."
--rea, who calls it 'mail'. (The paper stuff is called 'bills'.)
Electoral College system - but your vote matters.
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So, what will actually get one of these jokers in
office is winning electoral votes on a state-wide level. If you look at your state's polls, and it seems that the greater of two evils is ahead, then hold your nose and vote for the lesser.
I saw today that Bush is ahead in Minnesota, a traditionally liberal Democratic state. Since I am female, and the next president will be appointing supreme court justices, this one is a no-brainer. I don't want to give my vote to a candidate I actually like, only to find that I've helped to give Bush MN's electoral votes.
And even if he is a goon, and wants censorship, at least Gore recognizes the Net's potential and doesn't think it turns hearts to darkness or some such nonsense.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have been working on bouncing robotic scouts for some years now for the US Department of Defense. They pair the scouts with "ranger" units which transport them and then launch them. Potential applications include scouting behind enemy lines, counting the number of terrorists with guns and transmitting to a nearby helicopter, etc. Fascinating stuff.
I fought this battle at my previous job. Someone had complained about the names of one cluster of computers, since they were named after (mostly European) explorers. (Not PC enough in today's American university climate.)
The powers that be wanted to change the names to sgi[1-n] or somesuch. Other clusters, from sea creatures to birds to cartoon characters, were also at risk.
I argued that the admin staff could remember that whale had a bad hard drive and that grouse's monitor was in for repair and that wilma was crashing intermittently, but that a numbering scheme would obfuscate the individual mnemonics for those machines.
The decision makers were convinced that we could better do our jobs within a human friendly naming scheme. Tragedy narrowly averted.:)
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We've only had them about 6 months, but they see a lot of use, and they look and feel exactly like they did the day we bought them. (They have a wood frame and are covered in vinyl with foam padding, and in Minneapolis cost about $80 apiece.)
I looked at the picture you posted again, and I'm pretty sure I have the exact same chairs. If you don't like the ones you see locally, google for "video rocker" and you'll find plenty of them for sale.
We have two of these chairs. They make excellent console gaming seating, additional movie night seating, extra seating for board games around the coffee table... The only caveat is that they have staples in the bottom which are insufficiently countersunk. If not padded, these can scratch a hardwood floor.
We got them at a local eclectic furniture store, but I have seen them at the big box stores as well.
If they actually make A Princess of Mars into a movie, it will be worth seeing. Edgar Rice Burroughs deserves to be known for more than Tarzan. His Martian Tales are great adventure novels.
For those who haven't read A Princess of Mars, it goes a bit like this...
John Carter is a calvary captain of the former Confederacy, prospecting in the hills of Arizona in 1866. A strange force draws him across the "trackless immensity of space" to Mars.
He first falls in with a warrior tribe of green Martians. They capture a lovely woman of the more human-like red Martians, with whom Carter falls in love. A rollicking adventure ensues, complete with radium-powered propulsion-ray personal hovercraft, arena combat, princesses and ransoms, treachery and last-minute heroics and a cliff-hanger ending to leave you weeping...
Burroughs spins a fine yarn,and his tech and storylines are already so cinematic that adaptation shouldn't be too difficult. The only thing that they probably will change is that generally the characters wear jeweled harnesses and not much else.
The TV Guide article is here.
The place I got these links as well as the repository of all B5 info is here.
This project has been discussed on /. before, but it deserves to stay on the radar because it is interesting (not just because they use linux, but also because of the distributed computing aspects). Here's
the research group's website,
and here is an article in the U of MN's CS dept
newsletter about the project.
I graduated in CS from the U, and I used to give departmental tours of various projects, including this one. Nikos & company are doing some good work here.
Filtering based on a title containing a major-label artist's name will also block covers, remixes, and other versions which refer to the "banned" artist. And what about song titles containing similar strings with no artist name attached? Or artists whose names are similar to others?
(Inkubus Sukkubus - pagan goth band. Incubus - hardcore-funk band.)
This attempt at a fix will end up making no one happy.
Well, looks like Florida made the difference after all. This should be interesting.
"It has been brought to my attention that I should advise my tallow-headed readership on the importance of occupying the voting-stalls in the coming months."
--rea, who calls it 'mail'. (The paper stuff is called 'bills'.)
I saw today that Bush is ahead in Minnesota, a traditionally liberal Democratic state. Since I am female, and the next president will be appointing supreme court justices, this one is a no-brainer. I don't want to give my vote to a candidate I actually like, only to find that I've helped to give Bush MN's electoral votes.
And even if he is a goon, and wants censorship, at least Gore recognizes the Net's potential and doesn't think it turns hearts to darkness or some such nonsense.
See the Center for Distributed Robotics website for lots of info, demos, etc. Or read this article from the UMN CS Dept Newsletter featuring this project.
The powers that be wanted to change the names to sgi[1-n] or somesuch. Other clusters, from sea creatures to birds to cartoon characters, were also at risk.
I argued that the admin staff could remember that whale had a bad hard drive and that grouse's monitor was in for repair and that wilma was crashing intermittently, but that a numbering scheme would obfuscate the individual mnemonics for those machines.
The decision makers were convinced that we could better do our jobs within a human friendly naming scheme. Tragedy narrowly averted. :)