A while ago I got the following letter from Sheridan Brinley (the heir of the late author of MSC) regarding the republication:
To the Mad Scientists' Club Fans:
The book will be published by Purple House Press www.purplehousepress.com, a
publisher created expressly to bring back to you and millions of others the
books they remember reading as children. The text will be based on the
original manuscripts of the stories, so there will be some differences in
words from the Macrae Smith and Scholastic editions. And, passages have been
restored that were edited out of certain stories. I have done this to
reflect more accurately the style and syntax my father used.
Please let other fans know about this development and encourage them to
visit the Purple House Press Web site.
Thank you for your long devotion to my father's works. He wrote these
stories for you and for himself, because he was as imaginative and
adventurous as the seven characters he brought to life as the Mad
Scientists' Club.
Instead of being a speaker junkie, be a headphone junkie! The best headphones ever made sound better than a $50k speaker system, and they're $12k at headphone.com. And get yourself a HeadRoom Max/Blockhead and some Sennheiser HD600s and you've got the equivalent of the world's best dynamic speaker system in the space of a an old color inkjet, for maybe $4k. If you change the Max to a Cosmic then the whole thing is portable and is maybe $1.5k if you spend a lot on a CD player. If you are interested in getting some good headphones check out the nice folks at headwize.com, a nonprofit site dedicated to the high-end headphone community, with forums poplulated by experts. And despite the ad-like wording of my post, I don't profit from any of the aforementioned sites.
Is it true that a 12Hz tone can induce a woman to sponaneous orgasm? It's probably not, but since this is a thread dedicated to vibrating devices I thought I'd mention it...
Anyway, what does the vest use to induce shock? Can you tell, is it just a motor with an offset weight or is it a proper dynamic-speaker-like assembly that can create sudden shocks etcetera?
You could always set up a Seattle Wireless-type setup by doing an 802.11b point-to-point link from your office building (if you have line of sight) or get a few neighborhood friends to buy some access points & wireless cards, attach dialup modem proxies to the newly-created network, modify some open proxy software to somehow combine the multiple dialup connections into an equivalent of a DSL, OR find a nearby company with a fat pipe and an unsecured network and use a laptop connected to 2 wireless cards to act as a repeater stashed in a nice waterproof box and some directional antennas between you and the fat pipe. OR, you could just get a cable modem.
If this keeps going on, I will not be allowed to take math anymore! Woohoo!
Because learning about math lets people violate copyright > less people learn math = less broken copyright = population dumb enough to fall under rule of MPAA & RIAA & Clams = Me moving to Canada
Re:Rampant homophobia? Not necessarily.
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Ok, ok. I was referring to men, just as gay usually referrs to men.
Re:Rampant homophobia? Not necessarily.
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If "gay" implies that the the person has sex with men (or wants to), what's wrong with this? "straight" implies that the person has sex with women! (or wants to)
Amazing! That's how I do it. Only one small issue, that since I figured this out at a very early age, it now takes me forever to multiply simple integers, such as 7*8 or etc. I never took the time to memorize multiplication tables, so this method was actually a handicap. However, I can remember 4 IP's, three locker combinations, and who-knows-how-many passwords with few cheat-sheets. (I figured out how to hide my locker combination in plain sight, just in case)
Imagine using one of these to play [Quake/UT/Cstrike]! Talk about the ultimate controller, as many buttons and doo-dads as you could physically control, with much less delay than you'd have if you actually had to move your finger. Also, I could touch-type at 300wpm with one of these...
HOWEVER, you might run into a few problems while looking at pr0n...
At the end of the article that this article links to, it mentions that Microsoft(Office) having been split from Microsoft(Windows) would move to support.NET on other OSes in order to remain competitive! Although the fact that Office.NET is a crappy and obvious way for them to rob you blind, the $ALTERNATIVE_OS support would at leas make many people look at $ALTERNATIVE_OS that would not if they couldn't use Clippy on them.
Similar to the laptop mentioned is the Itronix XC-6250 Pro. I have an older version
that I bought suplus for $40, and it is sweet. I can stand on it without any
damage! Also, the XC6250 can withstand more
drops (54) than the one the article talks about(20something).
No, I am not associated with Itronix!
Don't forget: no gifted child should be politically naieve. (sp?)
Make sure to give him a copy of Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (Abbie Hoffman's autobiography), make sure he reads Slashdot (and Jon Katz's VFTH), and give him a lifetime subscription to 2600 (if you can afford it). And copies of the New Hacker's Dictionary, Voices from the Open Source Revolution (I think that's the title), and any other books you find edifying. Also, DO make sure he learns a bit about S*ientology (*'ed to avoid copyright lawsuits), and the 'conservative' viewpoint.
Sometimes the best argument against something is the argument(s) for it.
I suggest you check out such sites as http://www.l0pht.com , as I believe they have a PPTP sniffer availible in the L0phtcrack section, including, and limited to, the source code.
Music is alot like many other buisnesses. If you don't have variety, nothing sells. MP3's just encourage artists to put out more and different songs, instead of relying on a few top-sellers. In order to make an MP3, SOMEONE must buy the cd, right? Like in one of the SF stories I read years ago about matter duplicators availible free to anyone. The companies had to come up with a soulution, since people could duplicate everything instead of buying it. What did they do? The same thing thing the hardware industry has been doing for years. Continually put out newer and better products, so that you could still get stuff for free, but to get the latest and greatest you had to buy it. Not sue everyone in sight.
Ignore the other one, i forgot break tags. Here it is again, properly:
Drive "3M" is not ready: Abort, retry, Unroll? Can't access drive; Unable to find beginning of roll! Don't become unglued! Invalid media, insert single-sided tape only! And the number one user complaint of the future: "I inserted double-sided tape, and it stuck! I thought I could get twice the storage..."
Drive "3M" is not ready: Abort, retry, Unroll? Can't access drive; Unable to find beginning of roll! Don't become unglued! Invalid media, insert single-sided tape only! And the number one user complaint of the future: "I inserted double-sided tape, and it stuck! I thought I could get twice the storage..."
The tubular shape of the proposed drive would allow faster read access, because you don't need to move the read head as far. Also, the multi-layer properties of Tesa multi-film is much like a DVD, which suggests that in the future any movies you buy will be used as tape when they wear out. Talk about recycling! Maybe they will come out with HDTape, Premium tape, or Scotch Movies:)
Even Bill Gates' Fireworks Show did not cost as much. For those non-Seattleites (I know that's around 99.9999%) Bill gates put on a VERY LONG, VERY Spectacular fireworks show on Y2K Eve. This oughta make his show look like a bottle rocket in comparison, if price means anything:)
If they can easily spy on multinational corporations for the benefit of American corporations, how much do you bet that they are spying on other "economic dissedents" hampering the success of other corporations... Namely, whoever those corporations don't like. And since the MPAA, Microsoft, and other major/. enemies are BIG multinational corporations, I'll bet privacy among us open-sorcerers, anti-WTO'ers, DeCSS distributers, and the occaisional Anachist is compromised whenever they feel like it. If you really think that Uncle Sam won't give Mr. Gates a hand in economics just because of a little antitrust trial...
Who would have thought that cell phones also contributed to the revealing of personal info on the net? Web browsers allow cookies. They give out referrer fields, etc. Cell phones don't have the memory space for cookies. They aren't advanced enough for referrer fields and they don't run Windows. But giving out your PHONE NUMBER to anyone??? That's even worse, IMHO. Of course, you can't actually surf the web, yet. But in a few years, cell phones will go the way of the Palm Pilot, with color screens, and proper browsers. THEN anyone with a web page need only go through the server logs and get phone numbers to sell to telemarketers. Or maybe telemarketers might set up pages with popular content people might access from their phones...
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A while ago I got the following letter from Sheridan Brinley (the heir of the late author of MSC) regarding the republication:
To the Mad Scientists' Club Fans:
The book will be published by Purple House Press www.purplehousepress.com, a publisher created expressly to bring back to you and millions of others the books they remember reading as children. The text will be based on the original manuscripts of the stories, so there will be some differences in words from the Macrae Smith and Scholastic editions. And, passages have been restored that were edited out of certain stories. I have done this to reflect more accurately the style and syntax my father used.
Please let other fans know about this development and encourage them to visit the Purple House Press Web site.
Thank you for your long devotion to my father's works. He wrote these stories for you and for himself, because he was as imaginative and adventurous as the seven characters he brought to life as the Mad Scientists' Club.
Sheridan Brinley
Instead of being a speaker junkie, be a headphone junkie! The best headphones ever made sound better than a $50k speaker system, and they're $12k at headphone.com. And get yourself a HeadRoom Max/Blockhead and some Sennheiser HD600s and you've got the equivalent of the world's best dynamic speaker system in the space of a an old color inkjet, for maybe $4k. If you change the Max to a Cosmic then the whole thing is portable and is maybe $1.5k if you spend a lot on a CD player. If you are interested in getting some good headphones check out the nice folks at headwize.com, a nonprofit site dedicated to the high-end headphone community, with forums poplulated by experts. And despite the ad-like wording of my post, I don't profit from any of the aforementioned sites.
Is it true that a 12Hz tone can induce a woman to sponaneous orgasm? It's probably not, but since this is a thread dedicated to vibrating devices I thought I'd mention it... Anyway, what does the vest use to induce shock? Can you tell, is it just a motor with an offset weight or is it a proper dynamic-speaker-like assembly that can create sudden shocks etcetera?
You could always set up a Seattle Wireless-type setup by doing an 802.11b point-to-point link from your office building (if you have line of sight) or get a few neighborhood friends to buy some access points & wireless cards, attach dialup modem proxies to the newly-created network, modify some open proxy software to somehow combine the multiple dialup connections into an equivalent of a DSL, OR find a nearby company with a fat pipe and an unsecured network and use a laptop connected to 2 wireless cards to act as a repeater stashed in a nice waterproof box and some directional antennas between you and the fat pipe.
OR, you could just get a cable modem.
So attaching a device that runs Windows to a network can decrease the performance of that network? We've known that all along...
If this keeps going on, I will not be allowed to take math anymore! Woohoo! Because learning about math lets people violate copyright > less people learn math = less broken copyright = population dumb enough to fall under rule of MPAA & RIAA & Clams = Me moving to Canada
Ok, ok. I was referring to men, just as gay usually referrs to men.
If "gay" implies that the the person has sex with men (or wants to), what's wrong with this? "straight" implies that the person has sex with women! (or wants to)
Amazing! That's how I do it. Only one small issue, that since I figured this out at a very early age, it now takes me forever to multiply simple integers, such as 7*8 or etc. I never took the time to memorize multiplication tables, so this method was actually a handicap. However, I can remember 4 IP's, three locker combinations, and who-knows-how-many passwords with few cheat-sheets. (I figured out how to hide my locker combination in plain sight, just in case)
Imagine using one of these to play [Quake/UT/Cstrike]! Talk about the ultimate controller, as many buttons and doo-dads as you could physically control, with much less delay than you'd have if you actually had to move your finger. Also, I could touch-type at 300wpm with one of these...
HOWEVER, you might run into a few problems while looking at pr0n...
At the end of the article that this article links to, it mentions that Microsoft(Office) having been split from Microsoft(Windows) would move to support .NET on other OSes in order to remain competitive! Although the fact that Office.NET is a crappy and obvious way for them to rob you blind, the $ALTERNATIVE_OS support would at leas make many people look at $ALTERNATIVE_OS that would not if they couldn't use Clippy on them.
Similar to the laptop mentioned is the
Itronix XC-6250 Pro. I have an older version
that I bought suplus for $40, and it is
sweet. I can stand on it without any
damage! Also, the XC6250 can withstand more
drops (54) than the one the article talks about(20something).
No, I am not associated with Itronix!
Don't forget: no gifted child should be politically naieve. (sp?)
Make sure to give him a copy of Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (Abbie Hoffman's autobiography), make sure he reads Slashdot (and Jon Katz's VFTH), and give him a lifetime subscription to 2600 (if you can afford it). And copies of the New Hacker's Dictionary, Voices from the Open Source Revolution (I think that's the title), and any other books you find edifying. Also, DO make sure he learns a bit about S*ientology (*'ed to avoid copyright lawsuits), and the 'conservative' viewpoint.
Sometimes the best argument against something is the argument(s) for it.
Apparently Micro$oft will fire on the spot any employee caught trading MP3's, period. No buts. (from Micoshaft employee)
I suggest you check out such sites as http://www.l0pht.com , as I believe they have a PPTP sniffer availible in the L0phtcrack section, including, and limited to, the source code.
(Yet More Questions For The Great And Honored Douglas Adams)
What inspired you to write the Hitchiker's Guide series?
Can you go into some detail on Eccentrica Galumbus? (did I spell the name right?)
Music is alot like many other buisnesses. If you don't have variety, nothing sells. MP3's just encourage artists to put out more and different songs, instead of relying on a few top-sellers. In order to make an MP3, SOMEONE must buy the cd, right? Like in one of the SF stories I read years ago about matter duplicators availible free to anyone. The companies had to come up with a soulution, since people could duplicate everything instead of buying it. What did they do? The same thing thing the hardware industry has been doing for years. Continually put out newer and better products, so that you could still get stuff for free, but to get the latest and greatest you had to buy it. Not sue everyone in sight.
Where can you get Wrapster, anyway? I can't find a link to it.
Ignore the other one, i forgot break tags. Here it is again, properly:
Drive "3M" is not ready:
Abort, retry, Unroll?
Can't access drive; Unable to find beginning of roll!
Don't become unglued!
Invalid media, insert single-sided tape only!
And the number one user complaint of the future:
"I inserted double-sided tape, and it stuck! I thought I could get twice the storage..."
Drive "3M" is not ready: Abort, retry, Unroll? Can't access drive; Unable to find beginning of roll! Don't become unglued! Invalid media, insert single-sided tape only! And the number one user complaint of the future: "I inserted double-sided tape, and it stuck! I thought I could get twice the storage..."
The tubular shape of the proposed drive would allow faster read access, because you don't need to move the read head as far. Also, the multi-layer properties of Tesa multi-film is much like a DVD, which suggests that in the future any movies you buy will be used as tape when they wear out. Talk about recycling! Maybe they will come out with HDTape, Premium tape, or Scotch Movies :)
Even Bill Gates' Fireworks Show did not cost as much. For those non-Seattleites (I know that's around 99.9999%) Bill gates put on a VERY LONG, VERY Spectacular fireworks show on Y2K Eve. This oughta make his show look like a bottle rocket in comparison, if price means anything :)
Now I can encode my pet snake's offspring with all my passwords, if I can get a good deal on the rather pricey process.
If they can easily spy on multinational corporations for the benefit of American /. enemies are BIG multinational corporations, I'll bet privacy among
corporations, how much do you bet that they are spying on other
"economic dissedents" hampering the success of other corporations...
Namely, whoever those corporations don't like. And since the MPAA, Microsoft,
and other major
us open-sorcerers, anti-WTO'ers, DeCSS distributers, and the occaisional Anachist
is compromised whenever they feel like it. If you really think that Uncle Sam won't
give Mr. Gates a hand in economics just because of a little antitrust trial...
Who would have thought that cell phones also contributed to the revealing of personal info on the net? Web browsers allow cookies. They give out referrer fields, etc. Cell phones don't have the memory space for cookies. They aren't advanced enough for referrer fields and they don't run Windows. But giving out your PHONE NUMBER to anyone??? That's even worse, IMHO. Of course, you can't actually surf the web, yet. But in a few years, cell phones will go the way of the Palm Pilot, with color screens, and proper browsers. THEN anyone with a web page need only go through the server logs and get phone numbers to sell to telemarketers. Or maybe telemarketers might set up pages with popular content people might access from their phones...