I worked a summer job in a laundry. One day midweek, I looked up from the %meaningless task% I was doing to see the owner of the entire chain helping fold sheets.
I asked how often he does this, to which he replied "Whenever I feel like a change".
The girls on the line really liked it. He didn't have his own table at mealtimes, didn't have his own parking space, and you could call him "dave".
Ace fella. And even though the job was shit, most people were happy at it.
I actually think he has a point. These days, if you don't like the rut Sony et al have carved for you, there's another alternative rut created by someone else for you to fall into.
I used to think I was being different back in the 80's with my goth clothes and my Bauhaus CDs, but really I was only conforming to another stereotype.
Today, you see kids desparately trying to cling onto some form of individality, but they're fighting a loosing battle. All they can do is stick another anthrax patch on their rucksack.
>Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
I reckon you are yes.
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>human interaction I receive there is important.
Yeah, I sort of agree. But I always prefer machines, I'd love them in my local %establishment% for one reason :
I stammer. Many times I've felt like a coffee/sandwich/whatever and gone without for a while because I'm having a bad stammer day.
But a smile and (on good days) a friendly "hello" is nice, my local stores know that it may take me a while to get what I want out, and if somedays I just point, they know why.
You could try a TYT based player. I use a Scan SC2000. They're pretty good, and (with hacked firmware blown to it) I can press "menu" and skip FBI / Ad / Coming attractions bollocks and go straight to the main menu. Also handy if the menus are swooshy! (like LotR)
Dunno, I had a Creative Dxr2 in an early home made DVD PC, and that could only be changed 5 times until it locked. Good old remote selector saw to that tho.
That Dxr2 drive must be knocking on for 4 years old now.
In the UK, if you get stopped by the police for anything, speeding/jaywalking/shoplifting anything, and they find a lock pick set on you, you're going down with another charge :
When I used to work in a games store, we'd get the pluggers in every other week. He'd turn up with T shirts and mugs for everybody, and show us screenshots, fucking screenshots, and ask us what we thought of the game.
He rapidly gave up on me, because I'd just answer "I don't know, I've only seen a still" He didn't seem to be able to understand that, and kept asking me what I thought about the game. My supply of Tees and mugs dried up right about then, but colleagues who were willing to humor him still got rewarded. Guess I learnt not to hit the red button with my beak.
Slurp! The sound of me drinking out of my old Team17 mug on my desk.
>It's a pile of crap like most of Blair's other Millennium Projects
Actually, the preceding Tory goverment ok'd the Dome, it was John Major's lot that dropped us in it originally. Granted, Labour mismanaged it, but you've got the Conservatives to thank for the actual thing.
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I worked a summer job in a laundry. One day midweek, I looked up from the %meaningless task% I was doing to see the owner of the entire chain helping fold sheets.
I asked how often he does this, to which he replied "Whenever I feel like a change".
The girls on the line really liked it. He didn't have his own table at mealtimes, didn't have his own parking space, and you could call him "dave".
Ace fella. And even though the job was shit, most people were happy at it.
Or even www.peterson.af.mil/GPS_Support
sorry about replying to my own posts.
For all your GPS news and status.
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/default.htm
The stuff coming out of Color Kinetics
They do a lot of colour changing LED gear.
purty cool.
I'll vote for him if I can write in my vote -- with a Newton stylus!
Yeah, "Erect Hobs"
Maibatsu Monstrosity!
The Richard Nixon Model!
I actually think he has a point. These days, if you don't like the rut Sony et al have carved for you, there's another alternative rut created by someone else for you to fall into.
I used to think I was being different back in the 80's with my goth clothes and my Bauhaus CDs, but really I was only conforming to another stereotype.
Today, you see kids desparately trying to cling onto some form of individality, but they're fighting a loosing battle. All they can do is stick another anthrax patch on their rucksack.
Could have done without the linux rant tho.
>Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?
I reckon you are yes.
>human interaction I receive there is important.
Yeah, I sort of agree. But I always prefer machines, I'd love them in my local %establishment% for one reason :
I stammer. Many times I've felt like a coffee/sandwich/whatever and gone without for a while because I'm having a bad stammer day.
But a smile and (on good days) a friendly "hello" is nice, my local stores know that it may take me a while to get what I want out, and if somedays I just point, they know why.
When come back, install pie.
wanker
Get children used to wearing trakcing devices early. That way, it'll just be the norm when they're grown up.
Tin hats on people.
You could try a TYT based player. I use a Scan SC2000. They're pretty good, and (with hacked firmware blown to it) I can press "menu" and skip FBI / Ad / Coming attractions bollocks and go straight to the main menu. Also handy if the menus are swooshy! (like LotR)
Try asking at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Scan2000/
Hope that helps
bowdie
hehe, I was walking around my local masonic lodge last weekend, and could not get that song out of my head!
;)
Thanks for putting it back in...
Dunno, I had a Creative Dxr2 in an early home made DVD PC, and that could only be changed 5 times until it locked. Good old remote selector saw to that tho.
That Dxr2 drive must be knocking on for 4 years old now.
In the UK, if you get stopped by the police for anything, speeding/jaywalking/shoplifting anything, and they find a lock pick set on you, you're going down with another charge :
"Going Equipped for burglary"
And you don't want that.
Weird, whenever I try to download it, my kazaa client just dies after about 20k, restart client, get another 20k, restart another.
Weird, but then I am using W2k.
dude, you forgot about Amy! She fine too!
Try the L'espion. It's a keyring sized digital camera, CIF format, it's not going to win any prizes, but the pix are ok.
20 shots @ 352 x 288 resolution
80 shots @ 176 x 144 resolution
http://www.digitaldreamco.com/shop/espion.htm
When I used to work in a games store, we'd get the pluggers in every other week. He'd turn up with T shirts and mugs for everybody, and show us screenshots, fucking screenshots, and ask us what we thought of the game.
He rapidly gave up on me, because I'd just answer "I don't know, I've only seen a still" He didn't seem to be able to understand that, and kept asking me what I thought about the game. My supply of Tees and mugs dried up right about then, but colleagues who were willing to humor him still got rewarded. Guess I learnt not to hit the red button with my beak.
Slurp! The sound of me drinking out of my old Team17 mug on my desk.
Try filming that!
* The number I'm thinking of right now?
69 Dude!
Sorry.
>It's a pile of crap like most of Blair's other Millennium Projects
Actually, the preceding Tory goverment ok'd the Dome, it was John Major's lot that dropped us in it originally. Granted, Labour mismanaged it, but you've got the Conservatives to thank for the actual thing.
hehe, I own dotcomforwardslash.com
And I run a couple of subdomains off it : onetwosevendotzerodotzerodotone and dotdotbackslashdot
I got it mostly for shits and giggles.
Yeah, but by the look of SoW, you'd only have to bend one of those swing arms, and it would probably shake itself stupid.