I grew up on reading the science fiction of an older time, and while I was well aware that people like Asimov, Heilein, or Clarke (and not to forget Jack Williamson!) were either hella old or dead, it never occured to me that people like Jerry Pournelle, Dean Ing, or Ursula K. LeGuin were in their mid-60's to early 70's.
Jebus, I'm going to slink off and feel really old, yet really young at the same time.:-(
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes started coming over to Britain in the 500's or so, after the Roman legions had retreated. William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, was the one who invaded England in 1066, bringing Norman French.
This is why English, though it is a Germanic language and has a Germanic structure, has a lot of French in it's vocabulary.
Move to Olympia.:-) We get great DSL here. It's a much more pleasant town than Seattle and environs, anyway. (I say this after commuting up there every day for six months.)
Unless you live in the boondocks here, you're good to go for DSL. If you do live in the boondocks, you should still be able to get cable.
I made the mistake of putting a time cube story on my web site. After that, a couple of my friends were so obsessed with Time Cube that they decided to start a church! Ack!
On the plus side, they decided I was the "Moses" of their church, because I brought them the Word, but still...
There's also evidence that Japanese may be related to Korean (not directly to modern Korean, but through older, now extinct dialects), which would mean that Japanese, Turkish, and Finnish would be related.
Admittedly, knowing Finnish probably wouldn't give you any extra leg up on learning Japanese, but it's interesting anyway.
I tried using a recent pre-release of Slash 2.0, but it brought my poor machine to it's knees and I couldn't do a damn thing. Thus, I moved over to Scoop-0.6, and it works beautifully.
Slash is nice and all, but it doesn't seem to work well if you have to do ghetto-style computin'.
Have you ever been to the Muetter Museum in Philadelphia? As far as museums with mummies and/or other dead (and real) people go, it is the best. I'm not sure it it's still there, but it was still around when I went to Philly in '97. Unfortunately, I don't get out back East terribly often, so I have no idea if it's still open.
Oddly enough, the same friend I visited that year lives in Georgia now, and has been trying to get me to go visit. Still debating about taking her up on the offer...
On the plus side, the religion in Dune makes a bit more sense than Co$. Maybe Herberts should have started a religion -- at least its copyrighted texts would be better written.
What about Adventure? That's the game that got me interested in computers, and it's one of the oldest video games of all, PC version or otherwise.
I really think that their list is too slanted towards 90's games. It isn't like games made in the nineties just appeared one day -- the fine games of the seventies and eighties made these snazzy new games possible.
I wonder how many of the games on this list will still be played 20, 30 years into the future? People still play Adventure, and it was written circa 1968...
They have a pretty big presence where I live, actually (Olympia, WA). I've thought about getting my DSL from them, now that they've bought out the biggest local ISP, but I haven't got around to it. I haven't heard anything bad about them, though.
On another note, though, I'm reminded of a quote that I heard once: "We don't care.
We don't have to. We're the phone company."
Unfortunately, these moons seem relatively unimpressive.
It does give a whole new spin on the whole "When the Moon / hits your eye / Like a big pizza pie" when the moon in question isn't that much larger than some pizza pies, though.
In the article, it says:
The Penn State researchers conclude that the reduced carbon was not produced by high heat and then incorporated into the soil as it formed nor was it deposited after the soil formed by migrating petroleum.
I didn't realized petroleum migrated. Would that explain the giant moving pools of oil that slime over my hometown twice a year? Does oil spend the summer in Alaska and go to Saudi Arabia every fall?
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Yeah, muthafuckas. Use that for evil.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the Emperor probably won. Just a guess, though.
I grew up on reading the science fiction of an older time, and while I was well aware that people like Asimov, Heilein, or Clarke (and not to forget Jack Williamson!) were either hella old or dead, it never occured to me that people like Jerry Pournelle, Dean Ing, or Ursula K. LeGuin were in their mid-60's to early 70's.
Jebus, I'm going to slink off and feel really old, yet really young at the same time. :-(
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Somebody let Alex Chiu know about this!
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This is why English, though it is a Germanic language and has a Germanic structure, has a lot of French in it's vocabulary.
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Unless you live in the boondocks here, you're good to go for DSL. If you do live in the boondocks, you should still be able to get cable.
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On the plus side, they decided I was the "Moses" of their church, because I brought them the Word, but still...
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I just couldn't remember what the Ruffles slogan is. :-/
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Can't Install Just One!(tm)
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Admittedly, knowing Finnish probably wouldn't give you any extra leg up on learning Japanese, but it's interesting anyway.
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Slash is nice and all, but it doesn't seem to work well if you have to do ghetto-style computin'.
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Oddly enough, the same friend I visited that year lives in Georgia now, and has been trying to get me to go visit. Still debating about taking her up on the offer...
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BTW, you gonna be able to make it back to k5 while in Mexico, or do we have to wait until you get back?
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*sigh* Well, someday I'll get it right. :-(
I've done it before...
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Wasn't "kerbango" the stuff the Psychlos always chewed on in a certain book by a certain Scientology founder? Hmm, coinicedence?
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On the plus side, the religion in Dune makes a bit more sense than Co$. Maybe Herberts should have started a religion -- at least its copyrighted texts would be better written.
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What about Adventure? That's the game that got me interested in computers, and it's one of the oldest video games of all, PC version or otherwise.
I really think that their list is too slanted towards 90's games. It isn't like games made in the nineties just appeared one day -- the fine games of the seventies and eighties made these snazzy new games possible.
I wonder how many of the games on this list will still be played 20, 30 years into the future? People still play Adventure, and it was written circa 1968...
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Actually, at least for Uranium-238 (the most common isotope) has a half-life of about 4.5 billion years. Just a tad longer than Carbon-14.
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They have a pretty big presence where I live, actually (Olympia, WA). I've thought about getting my DSL from them, now that they've bought out the biggest local ISP, but I haven't got around to it. I haven't heard anything bad about them, though.
On another note, though, I'm reminded of a quote that I heard once:
"We don't care.
We don't have to.
We're the phone company."
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Unfortunately, these moons seem relatively unimpressive.
It does give a whole new spin on the whole "When the Moon / hits your eye / Like a big pizza pie" when the moon in question isn't that much larger than some pizza pies, though.
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In the article, it says:
The Penn State researchers conclude that the reduced carbon was not produced by high heat and then incorporated into the soil as it formed nor was it deposited after the soil formed by migrating petroleum.
I didn't realized petroleum migrated. Would that explain the giant moving pools of oil that slime over my hometown twice a year? Does oil spend the summer in Alaska and go to Saudi Arabia every fall?
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I've heard about them, but since I've never not been colorblind, I'd probably get really confused, or something. Could be interesting, though.
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Yeah, but the problems you'd have if you were XXY (Kleinfelter's Syndrome) would more than balance out any benefits of being tetrachromatic. shudder
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Just colorblind. My grandfather figured out a way to cheat on the colorblindness test during WWII somehow, though, so maybe I *am* stupid. :-/
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