Not having a fit surfer bod or an outgoing dispossition, I can only conclude that all the women I've been involved with were mainly due to an intellectual attraction. Geek girls rule.
It goes both ways, too. I'm more attracted to a woman who is not made up or even plain looking, by current popular standards. The tanned, fit blond will be looked past every time for the pale, bookish geek girl. Even though my wife was a professional belly dancer, it wasn't until we got into a discussion about the migration of proto-Celtic people into pre-historic China that we became interested in each other. The cool thing is that she turned out to be a unix sys-admin who really wanted to be a research librarian. The only real problem has been the combination of our libraries. Not enough wall space!
Bill Cosby says so. After getting married 3 years ago and having our child a year later, I think it's true. My wife and I both are less creative artistically, though our tech support jobs help keep our problem solving edges sharp. I doubt the 2 years of sleep deprivation have anything to do with it, nor the lack of REM sleep.
On the plus side, we're both much happier now than when we were single geeks. Could be that the satisfaction imbuing our general life leaves us with less creative/neurotic energy.
One of the reasons that laptop sales are increasing, relative to desktop sales, across the board, is that for the majority of users (personal and business), desktop machines are good enough. A new version of office isn't the slowddown that it once was, not to mention that the slow economy has people and businesses deciding to stick with older versions that still do what they need. When it comes to basic office productivity software, 2-3 year old computers fill the bill. People are now picking up laptops as secondary machines, hence the increase in sales.
Once you get past the basic Office/Web/Email users and start looking at workstations (graphic, programing, engineering, etc.), then it makes sense to get the latest and greatest as speed of machine has impact on earnings. For the rest, is anyone out-typing a 1 GHz machine? So, yeah, desktop sales are holding steady or declining and laptop sales are expanding.
It's not quite up to EarthSea quality, but it's still really good. The EarthSea series is really about the best of the magic school type of books. I like the explainations on the types of magic as well as the dangers behind magic. Harry Potter uses magic as window dressing but doesn't really focus on it. It's more of a venue for standard kid/teen angst stories.
"fdgw" is one floppy version of NetBSD/i386. [1] It can run on old machine without HDD:-). You can use it as small router, natbox or ADSL router. It is a minimal operating system.
For example, old pc (e.g. IBM PC110) becomes: pretty ADSL router pretty router natbox your home psuedo firewall...
This system also supports DHCP and syslog.
This is similar to router product, off course. The extension is easier and better than router product.
Since the floppy size is very limited, we cannot build all-in-one box. So, "fdgw" provides several models for several purposes. Each model has different built-in applications and kernel configurations. For example, simplest model, "natbox" model supports IPv6 but ADSL router model not support v6 since ADSL router needs more programs, such as pppd and rp-pppoe, than natbox model.
El Mariachi was around $25k. The director/lead actor/writer, etc. even spent several months as a lab test subject in order to raise the money for his movie. Dedication, I guess?
The question still remains, though, how exactly is Pippin (? - could be Merry, can't remember right now) going to kill the Witch King without the magic toothpick from the barrows?
Where would Aragorn lay hands on blades of Westernese manufacture?
And just where did the hobbits come from? They seem very human, but with a dash of elvish blood in them (quiet, disappere in the wink of an eye, sharp of eye and ear, etc.). Maybe they're the result of a union of Dwarf and Elf (lot's of beer and wine at that party)?
The only info is that they started out as hole dwellers along the Anduin, fishing and eating eggs, raw. Are they Muskrats that evolved?
As for Dwarve's death, I thought there was mention that they believed they had their own halls of Mandos to go to.
'Seems that whenever someone is given the choice, they then 'are' that race. Elrond's brother, Elohir, chose to become human. He and his decendents were given lifespans three times that of the rest of men, if they went to Numenor. This was reported to be over 500 years for some, so it seems that the Edain (three tribe/clans who came to Beleriand) already had a longer life span. This could be due to the fact that men were still fairly new in the world or that contact with the Elves helped extend their lives (lots of stories in western lit about people finding time has passed them by while they were with the elves or in fey lands).
That's right. I was getting Shelob confused with Ungoliant. I thought Ungoliant was another Maia that went native, in a bad way. Didn't Morgoth go and find her in the southern mountains of Aman? From her sprang all the giant spiders that were in the Mirkwood, as well as Shelob and the spiders on the border of Melian's land?
As for Bombodil, first there were the Valar who entered Arda and then the lesser spirits that kind of aligned themselves with Valar that matched their power or orientation. Bombodil could have been aligned with Yahvanna, being the green earth goddess. After the destruction of the first continent (overthrow of the towers of light), didn't the Valar move to Aman and leave Middle Earth alone. Only Yahvanna and Oromà went over; she to plant and heal and Oromà to hunt fell things? I imagine that maybe Bombodil stayed in Middle Earth, just grooving with the trees and such.
Goldberry, was the daughter of the river. Didn't Ãoelmo send maia up the rivers to keep watch on the lands over there and help out? I suppose Goldberry was the daughter of one of the river maia that stayed there too.
All these things would have happened before the sun and the moon, so it's hard to apply any type of time frame to this but it was likely several ages of the world as it was measured later. Bombodil would likely be 10's of thousands of years old. Even over 100,000?
By 'people', I meant someone born of the world. The Istari (wizards), Maia (demi-gods), Vanya (God-like caretakers of the world), balrogs, Schlob(corrupted Maia), Bombodil (Maia gone native?) and such came from out of the world. While not really mortal, the elves are still not divine in the sense that those from out of the world of Arda are.
And Galadrial was born in Valinor and is likely one of the oldest 'people' in Middle Earth. Yeah, Bombodil is the oldest (Maya that went native?) and the Ents were placed by Yahvanna to protect the woods after elves were awoke (dwarves awoke?).
Wished FotR had stressed more how Elrond was the banner carrier to the last Elvish High King, Gil-Galad and how Elendil (with his sons) had come from Numenor. Oh well. Maybe in the Ãoeber Box set, there will be the story of Numenor. Would be cool if there was some shot of Arwen being around then, just so people'll realize how old she is in relation to Aragorn.
Guess how much Apple would charge for an X86 based Mac? The same as they do for their current Macs. Apple enjoys the highest margins of any major computer maker. One reason they do this is because they have a major research/development department. What was the last major innovation that came out of Dell or Gateway or Compaq?
You can get WiFi cards or Ethernet cards for them as well as ATA drivers and use compact flash (much cheaper and more storage than Linear Flash cards) with it. The screen is big enough for real note taking as well as sketches and such and you can get a keyboard for it as well. The Newton also docks with PC's as well as Macs and can print via IR. Here's what my recent purchases cost:
Newton 2100: 45.00 Keyboard: $10.00 Ethernet Card: $13.00 MP 120, 130: Free from friends no longer using them. Serial adapter for Mac: $28.00 (Apple repair shop). Army surplus Newton belt pouch: $13.00
The Newton runs Newtworks, which has word processor, spreadsheet. Also has several databases which can interact with Excel and desktop databases. There's even software that let it sync with Outlook Express/Entourage. Oh yeah, it can also sync with iTunes and play MP3's. I haven't used my year old Handspring for the last month. Will have to put it up for sale on eBay soon.
The first beer I bought was a Guinness at the Harp and Thistle (dearly missed). I was 16 and my friends were ordering Guinness so I said "Me too." When the beer arived, I didn't want to look lame and took a big 'ole swig. Tasted like used motor-oil. Smelled like roofing compound. "That's good!" I said. By the third swallow, my tongue was numb and I was able to finish the pint. Two more that night and I was hooked. Several years later, I was up to two or three pitchers of Guinness a night but quickly ran out of cash, not to mention waking up in strange places on the beach, the next day.
The Harp is gone and I haven't found another pub to replace it so I now make my own concoctions, attempting to replace Guinness at home.
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Not having a fit surfer bod or an outgoing dispossition, I can only conclude that all the women I've been involved with were mainly due to an intellectual attraction. Geek girls rule.
It goes both ways, too. I'm more attracted to a woman who is not made up or even plain looking, by current popular standards. The tanned, fit blond will be looked past every time for the pale, bookish geek girl. Even though my wife was a professional belly dancer, it wasn't until we got into a discussion about the migration of proto-Celtic people into pre-historic China that we became interested in each other. The cool thing is that she turned out to be a unix sys-admin who really wanted to be a research librarian. The only real problem has been the combination of our libraries. Not enough wall space!
Bill Cosby says so. After getting married 3 years ago and having our child a year later, I think it's true. My wife and I both are less creative artistically, though our tech support jobs help keep our problem solving edges sharp. I doubt the 2 years of sleep deprivation have anything to do with it, nor the lack of REM sleep.
On the plus side, we're both much happier now than when we were single geeks. Could be that the satisfaction imbuing our general life leaves us with less creative/neurotic energy.
One of the reasons that laptop sales are increasing, relative to desktop sales, across the board, is that for the majority of users (personal and business), desktop machines are good enough. A new version of office isn't the slowddown that it once was, not to mention that the slow economy has people and businesses deciding to stick with older versions that still do what they need. When it comes to basic office productivity software, 2-3 year old computers fill the bill. People are now picking up laptops as secondary machines, hence the increase in sales.
Once you get past the basic Office/Web/Email users and start looking at workstations (graphic, programing, engineering, etc.), then it makes sense to get the latest and greatest as speed of machine has impact on earnings. For the rest, is anyone out-typing a 1 GHz machine? So, yeah, desktop sales are holding steady or declining and laptop sales are expanding.
I've never posted on usenet concerning NetBSD. Please add in my five servers (two at home and three at work). Thanks!
but we want MORE books about ordinary kids doing magic.
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Check out A College of Magics
It's not quite up to EarthSea quality, but it's still really good. The EarthSea series is really about the best of the magic school type of books. I like the explainations on the types of magic as well as the dangers behind magic. Harry Potter uses magic as window dressing but doesn't really focus on it. It's more of a venue for standard kid/teen angst stories.
But at $2000, plus monitor, that's beyond reasonable.
Yeah, my Quadra 650 (33MHz, FPU, 12MB RAM, 230MB HD, no CD-rom cost me $2300.00 back in '93. Damn them for not charging $7000 like they used to (FX)!
What is "fdgw" ?
:-). You can use it as small router, natbox or ADSL router. It is a minimal operating system.
...
"fdgw" is one floppy version of NetBSD/i386. [1] It can run on old machine without HDD
For example, old pc (e.g. IBM PC110) becomes:
pretty ADSL router
pretty router
natbox
your home psuedo firewall
This system also supports DHCP and syslog.
This is similar to router product, off course. The extension is easier and better than router product.
Since the floppy size is very limited, we cannot build all-in-one box. So, "fdgw" provides several models for several purposes. Each model has different built-in applications and kernel configurations. For example, simplest model, "natbox" model supports IPv6 but ADSL router model not support v6 since ADSL router needs more programs, such as pppd and rp-pppoe, than natbox model.
Ambrosia and Freeverse. Two companies that have been doing the shareware thing for close to 10 years and making it. Fun stuff!
When was the last time you heard "this" group go on about how a spec for MS Word should be opened up to include other software?
It hurts! It stings!
El Mariachi was around $25k. The director/lead actor/writer, etc. even spent several months as a lab test subject in order to raise the money for his movie. Dedication, I guess?
What do you mean, that epic movies are supposed to be larger than life?
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics young lady!
The question still remains, though, how exactly is Pippin (? - could be Merry, can't remember right now) going to kill the Witch King without the magic toothpick from the barrows?
Where would Aragorn lay hands on blades of Westernese manufacture?
And just where did the hobbits come from? They seem very human, but with a dash of elvish blood in them (quiet, disappere in the wink of an eye, sharp of eye and ear, etc.). Maybe they're the result of a union of Dwarf and Elf (lot's of beer and wine at that party)?
The only info is that they started out as hole dwellers along the Anduin, fishing and eating eggs, raw. Are they Muskrats that evolved?
As for Dwarve's death, I thought there was mention that they believed they had their own halls of Mandos to go to.
or Gandalf for President. When are we going to see those bumper stickers again?
'Seems that whenever someone is given the choice, they then 'are' that race. Elrond's brother, Elohir, chose to become human. He and his decendents were given lifespans three times that of the rest of men, if they went to Numenor. This was reported to be over 500 years for some, so it seems that the Edain (three tribe/clans who came to Beleriand) already had a longer life span. This could be due to the fact that men were still fairly new in the world or that contact with the Elves helped extend their lives (lots of stories in western lit about people finding time has passed them by while they were with the elves or in fey lands).
That's right. I was getting Shelob confused with Ungoliant. I thought Ungoliant was another Maia that went native, in a bad way. Didn't Morgoth go and find her in the southern mountains of Aman? From her sprang all the giant spiders that were in the Mirkwood, as well as Shelob and the spiders on the border of Melian's land?
As for Bombodil, first there were the Valar who entered Arda and then the lesser spirits that kind of aligned themselves with Valar that matched their power or orientation. Bombodil could have been aligned with Yahvanna, being the green earth goddess. After the destruction of the first continent (overthrow of the towers of light), didn't the Valar move to Aman and leave Middle Earth alone. Only Yahvanna and Oromà went over; she to plant and heal and Oromà to hunt fell things? I imagine that maybe Bombodil stayed in Middle Earth, just grooving with the trees and such.
Goldberry, was the daughter of the river. Didn't Ãoelmo send maia up the rivers to keep watch on the lands over there and help out? I suppose Goldberry was the daughter of one of the river maia that stayed there too.
All these things would have happened before the sun and the moon, so it's hard to apply any type of time frame to this but it was likely several ages of the world as it was measured later. Bombodil would likely be 10's of thousands of years old. Even over 100,000?
By 'people', I meant someone born of the world. The Istari (wizards), Maia (demi-gods), Vanya (God-like caretakers of the world), balrogs, Schlob(corrupted Maia), Bombodil (Maia gone native?) and such came from out of the world. While not really mortal, the elves are still not divine in the sense that those from out of the world of Arda are.
It was pity that stayed him...
"It's a pity I've run out of bullets" said Dildo.
And Galadrial was born in Valinor and is likely one of the oldest 'people' in Middle Earth. Yeah, Bombodil is the oldest (Maya that went native?) and the Ents were placed by Yahvanna to protect the woods after elves were awoke (dwarves awoke?).
Wished FotR had stressed more how Elrond was the banner carrier to the last Elvish High King, Gil-Galad and how Elendil (with his sons) had come from Numenor. Oh well. Maybe in the Ãoeber Box set, there will be the story of Numenor. Would be cool if there was some shot of Arwen being around then, just so people'll realize how old she is in relation to Aragorn.
Guess how much Apple would charge for an X86 based Mac? The same as they do for their current Macs. Apple enjoys the highest margins of any major computer maker. One reason they do this is because they have a major research/development department. What was the last major innovation that came out of Dell or Gateway or Compaq?
You can get WiFi cards or Ethernet cards for them as well as ATA drivers and use compact flash (much cheaper and more storage than Linear Flash cards) with it. The screen is big enough for real note taking as well as sketches and such and you can get a keyboard for it as well. The Newton also docks with PC's as well as Macs and can print via IR. Here's what my recent purchases cost:
Newton 2100: 45.00
Keyboard: $10.00
Ethernet Card: $13.00
MP 120, 130: Free from friends no longer using them.
Serial adapter for Mac: $28.00 (Apple repair shop).
Army surplus Newton belt pouch: $13.00
The Newton runs Newtworks, which has word processor, spreadsheet. Also has several databases which can interact with Excel and desktop databases. There's even software that let it sync with Outlook Express/Entourage. Oh yeah, it can also sync with iTunes and play MP3's. I haven't used my year old Handspring for the last month. Will have to put it up for sale on eBay soon.
Don't forget the librarian chicks in thongs!
Reminds me of Arnold, in Pumping Iron or whatever body building flick he started out in.
Do you drink a lot of milk? asked the interviewer.
Milk is for babies. Drink beer! replied Arnold.
The first beer I bought was a Guinness at the Harp and Thistle (dearly missed). I was 16 and my friends were ordering Guinness so I said "Me too." When the beer arived, I didn't want to look lame and took a big 'ole swig. Tasted like used motor-oil. Smelled like roofing compound. "That's good!" I said. By the third swallow, my tongue was numb and I was able to finish the pint. Two more that night and I was hooked. Several years later, I was up to two or three pitchers of Guinness a night but quickly ran out of cash, not to mention waking up in strange places on the beach, the next day.
The Harp is gone and I haven't found another pub to replace it so I now make my own concoctions, attempting to replace Guinness at home.