So you're saying that if your girlfriend sent an email to you with her picture on it from England that you would be angry?
Depends on who else was in the picture, I'd bet!
It's just a novelty concept, really. Nobody but wacky tourists who wanna say "Hey, ma, I'm at the airport! Here's a picture!" will think of plunking down exorbitant prices to say, well, essentially "Hey, ma, I'm at the airport!"
Those truly subversive enough will devise signs 'n things to place in the view of those webcams. Little penguins or whatnot to be displayed around the world. Have at it.
One question that wasn't asked... Where was the kid heading?
When I was 3 I wriggled out under a fence surrounding my nursery school and set off across the parking lot, where I was intercepted by a teacher who had arrived late.
My reason for leaving was that "I wanted to go to McDonald's".
Since then I've matured greatly with regards to cuisine choice, but not so with wanting to get around fences.
I remember when it was stunning - printed on gorgeous thick paper, with a graphic design adventure on every page. The only problem is that many of those beautiful pages were virtually impossible to read. I emailed Andrew Anker of the magazine to ask "I think there are some great articles in Wired, but I can't read them. Could you tone down the design a bit?"
I still remember his reply. "Read the online version, then".
I would read Wired via gopher in the early days before the web took hold. Having the information presented to you in all text on an amber VT320 felt so good. Did away with the eye candy of the magazine (which, admittedly, was pretty to look at) but kept the information clear. Something about sittin in the University library on the public terminals reading Wired was a bit of a thrill in those days. I dunno; can't really explain.
Wired published one of my songs once; a piece called "The Flamer" to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer". They published it in their 'Net Surf' column and attributed an outdated email address of mine. There were also inexplicable changes to the lyrics which pissed me off, but I'm not sure if it was the work of Wired or whichever source they got the song from. It sure wasn't me, cause I was never asked.
So that's my story with Wired. It served its purpose for quite some time, and will be missed. But we move on to other things.
Many people have also complained that Jar Jar has a Jamacan accent is a complete screw up and therefor is a racist statement by Lucas.
I agree Jar Jar is a complete screw-up. I agree he has somewhat of an island accent and Gullah-like speech patterns. But to claim that it's a racist portrayal just doesn't make sense to me. One character out of an entire fictitious alien race is a screw-up so it stands to reason that the Gungans are a racist stereotype of Jamaicans/islanders? A fellow can be a screw-up regardless of his ethnicity, and his screw-upedness doesn't necessarily reflect on his race. The Gungans seemed to have been a noble, if slightly arrogant group -- remember, they kicked Jar Jar out for being a screw-up.
I saw more of a narsty racial stereotype in the slanty-eyed "Ah So" monopolistic Trade Federation aliens than I did in a simple bumbling idiot. Bash Jar Jar for the character's true faults -- lame unnecessary slapstick humor, incomprehensible speak, and the idiocy of saying "How wude!" every 5 minutes or so. Just don't assume the Gungans are the biggest racial stereotypes in the movie based on the stupid actions of one dumb character.
(that said, I sure would shed no tears if Jar Jar didn't show up in Episode 2.)
Why is it that we're so hung up on not giving films an NC-17 rating? It just keeps the damned kids out and lets mature adults laugh at the hilarity without the brats sitting behind us being stupid. Unfortunately it's also the kiss of death since you'll never get it into one of the megaplexes.
NC-17 being the "taboo rating" is extremely ironic, seeing as how it was devised solely to give an "acceptable" rating for movies for mature audiences without using an "X" rating, which by then had become synonymous with pornography and considered "taboo".
But now NC-17 is considered taboo as well, because it deals with "mature content". Sure, it's not hardcore porn, but we Americans really don't care to make such classifications. Mature content means not for kids and since kids must be protected, this mature content sure must be bad, sick and wrong. When was the last time you saw an NC-17 film in regular distribution on major theater chains?
I get rather upset when I realize that not only do we Americans like to pander to the lowest common denominator, but also to the youngest common denominator as well.
So who is CMGI? I'm surprised I haven't heard much about them before, but then again, this cubicle can be a nice dark cave sometimes.
What worries me is that CMGI is also thinking about purchasing Lycos as well. Would they be pondering pushing Altavista and Lycos together into one Big Ugly Portal Site? *sigh*
I wish some folks would learn to leave well enough alone. It was painful enough to watch DejaNews do this, I don't want to see it happen to a halfway-decent search engine, even if it's been bedeviled with ads and 'placement' fees in recent times.
I'm conflicted with these developments. On one hand, there's a distinct difference between kids being denied nudie pictures (gotta admit, it's kinda stupid to go looking for pr0n like that in a public library) and kids being denied other kinds of information which someone has deemed "unfit" for their consumption.
But do you think I trust the government to deem what's fit and unfit for viewing publically? What if I think the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools and other public areas is unfit for kids? I daresay this omnipotent ability swings both ways.
I'm rather unhappy with this. And I know that there'll be kids gettin ready to defeat the blocking mechanisms from the word go. Information must be free, and all that.
Bah. Dumb govermnent.
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If they 'only' use $41 million of my tax dollars,
Whoah, man. How much tax do you pay a year?
PBS has had to go for corporate sponsorship already. Masterpiece Theater is now known, at least when they say it at PBS, "Mobil Masterpiece Theater", and not cause it's some form of travelling road show.
I'd rather my tax money (quite less than $41M) go towards PBS than paying the salary of some windbag Senator I can hardly stand.
I really don't care too much about Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I've watched the show every now and then if I happen to catch it on TV and there's nothing else decent on. I don't follow the storyline and I don't consider myself a fan.
However, as soon as I heard that there was an episode that was deemed unsuitable for air in the United States yet was aired in Canada at that time, I really knew I wanted to see it. Why?
Because I wanted to see for myself exactly what was so bad about this episode that the WB felt necessary to keep it from American eyes.
Because I wanted to see for myself.
To me, it's not about wanting to see how Buffy and her pals turn out. It's not about feeling upset because I can't see my favorite TV show. It's about being able to view, for myself, the episode in question, and make a decision as to whether or not the material I saw was objectionable. The fact that it was shown in Canada at the appropriate time also furthers my desire to want to be able to judge for myself -- if those in Canada could, why not me?
And besides, what of those who live near the border and can pick up Canadian television?
I guess it's a personal first for me -- to be denied the ability to view or experience something because I'm American. Still doesn't keep me from seeking out the mechanisms already in place to view what has been denied me.
*shrug*
Didn't care too much for the episode once I viewed it, anyhoo.
"Under the proposed rules, ICANN would stablish a list of protected "famous or well-known marks" that would not be available for registration to the average Internet user."
I too had to take a long hard look at this sentence. I don't like the phrase "average Internet user" at all, and such a proposal would only serve to create more of a rift between the corporate entities intent on turning this communications medium into Glorified Television and the "average user" who just wants to be able to communicate freely and get their ideas across.
"Register what?! I'm sorry, you're not a company, you can't do that on the Internet."
Of course, from what I've gathered, the "average" Internet user only wants to see stock quotes 'n tits nowadays, so they're safe from all this. But I don't want to feel like a prole in this medium. Not when the devices are in place to allow me to make what I want of it.
Latest news reports that the kids involved in the shooting apparently made a film for a class several months ago in which they were shown going through school killing athletes. For a class. Meaning people other than themselves obstensibly watched it. People like teachers. And, oddly enough, nobody apparently thought anything of it or perceived it as a possible warning that these kids could seriously snap and actually do such damage.
And the media is quick to blame video games for this? I already saw one story where it was revealed the two kids were.WAD makers for DOOM as well, and claimed one level they made was "a good killing level". This of course was jumped upon by the hysterical reporters.
Granted, there's no single explanation for what happened in Colorado. However, some contributing factors would appear to weigh more than others, and I think it appropriate to rank the inattentiveness and inactivity on the parents' part and the teachers' part higher than video game violence. But I guess as the aftermath of the Arkansas shooting shows, it's much easier to sue manufacturers of video games (those game designers sure do have deep pockets) rather than take a long look at one's own faults.
I'm really really getting fed up with the sensationalistic American media. Sigh.
I can't figure out if the fellow is parodying those who take Star Wars seriously, or if he's taking hating Star Wars seriously because so many people are loving Star Wars seriously. It's all so confusing and my head is going to explode now.
But on the other hand, if you read every page of www.ihatestarwars.com in the voice of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons, it becomes wackily funny. Try it!
Silicon Graphics just changes its name to SGI, much like Kentucky Fried Chicken went to a hipper "KFC" a few years ago?
Sure, it avoids the incredible exclusiveness of the "Graphics" in "Silicon Graphics", but is that all there is? Granted, they didn't go with anything embarassingly buzzwordish, but still. I just don't see the big deal of it all.
The new "g" does look funky, though.
I'll be damned if I get it...
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The regular contributors to the Dysfunctional Family Circus at www.spinnwebe.com were the ones who started the Amazon reviews. They submitted reviews for almost every single Family Circus book they could find. Most of 'em include sly references to DFC injokes and such, but some of them were pure works of art. I'm surprised Amazon let 'em go on for as long as it did.
I didn't think Sid had anything to do with Railroad Tycoon 2, since he's gone on to Firaxis now.
I couldn't play RT2 because it insists on 1024x768 resolution, and I've a very old monitor on the Windows machine that barely does 800x600 if you ask it nicely.
Sid Meier is one of my favorite game designers, period. Civ was my original "Oh, look, the sun's coming up" game and Railroad Tycoon kept me happy for hours watching the stupid little trains go running around. Chris Sawyer took that and made it better, IMHO, with Transport Tycoon, and now if he got his act together and ported Rollercoaster Tycoon to Linux I'd never have to use Windows again.
Alpha Centauri for Linux would make me very happy indeed.
"This article is automatically bad just because it's posted on MSNBC."
C'mon folks. We have to do better than that.
The article is subtly written. Such phrases as "...inferior to commercial operating systems, such as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT" on the large slug at the top, and "Linux will begin moving to the desktop world dominated by Microsoft" give a hint as to which side the article's already on. Try to ponder if the writing would have stayed the same if there was no "MS" in "MSNBC".
The other operating systems which Linux is apparently inferior to aren't even mentioned until the last two paragraphs. There's a definite Microsoft slant in this article, and it's sorely unfounded.
Personally, I put UserFriendly on the same level of humor as I do Dilbert and Doonsbury. Both are humorous, perhaps, 10% of the time. But thats just me. Pokey had VERY STRANGE HUMOR.
User Friendly / Sluggy Freelance / Goats / etc. are entirely different from Pokey. Pokey didn't try to be a newspaper-worthy daily strip, and it never tried too hard. I can't say the same for UF or Goats, where you can tell a convoluted storyline coming a mile away.
Also, Pokey didn't feature twentysomething geeks living with talking animals/weird things. That right there set it apart from the current crop of web comics.
I shall miss Pokey, whose insights made me laugh, cry, and, every now and then, taught me something about myself.
Well, shoot. Right when you get into the habit of reading something..
Indeed. I'd only known Pokey for a few months now, but his amazing adventures and wonderful friends shall haunt me for the rest of my life, much like a flashback would.
Ok, ok, it was funny as hell and you can always recognize a Pokey fan by the non sequiturs they will spout, mostly in all caps.
Just doing a quick search on dejanews, I found about 50 posts by skyroket@aol.com...but they were all from 1997, and all on sex newsgroups. It looks like he was a spammer. Most likely the virus' author was a regular on one of those newsgroups and has an aversion towards spammers (who doesn't?)
Spreading a virus now because of some bits of spam received two years ago? That sounds like a highly intensive grudge to me.
The only Wendy's in Boston, I believe, is the one in Downtown Crossing that scares me beyond belief every time I visit. Closest one I can find to any North Shore suburbs is in Tewksbury; I wouldn't even know where to look in the south (Quincy/Braintree MUST have one nearby.) It's a damn shame there aren't any closer to Metro Boston. Those spicy chicken sandwiches are damn good.
Chicken sandwiches in a vending machine? Heck, why not?
With a big event like Star Wars its no fun if everyone just rents a theatre and watches it privatly...
Man, I just love big-ass lines and a crowd in the movie theater when I'm waiting for a flick. When the Special Edition came out, a group of friends and I went to see the midnight showing on the first night. We waited in the main lobby for an hour just to buy tickets, and then the management herded us all into the side hallway to wait for the theater to open up. We stayed in this cattle herding area for another 45 minutes or so, then they dropped the rope and everybody freakin' RAN to the theater. Never mind that we already had our tickets, or our tickets had already been checked by the pimplyfaced theater usher. No, everybody still had to run down this narrow hallway to get a seat they had already been guaranteed.
A friend of mine, already claustrophobic, freaked out and was almost trampled when she tried to move out of the way. Yeah. Real nice. Near-riot for a movie most of us had seen this flick many times before.
I'm just speaking from personal experience here, but count me in as someone who doesn't think waiting in extra-long lines with tons of people enhances the movie-going experience.
Quake II in the palm of my hand? Fighting a deathmatch against other people on the bus with a laplink? These are the noble goals of technology.
I daresay we're gonna get Quake-quality graphics from a 3D Gameboy. I mean, heck. Took Nintendo long enough to come out with a color handheld (and even then I'm not so sure of the whole thing). If we're lucky, we'll see some DOOM-like games in the handheld first. Still, the prospect of deathmatching on a bus isn't all -that- bad...
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So you're saying that if your girlfriend sent an email to you with her picture on it from England that you would be angry?
Depends on who else was in the picture, I'd bet!
It's just a novelty concept, really. Nobody but wacky tourists who wanna say "Hey, ma, I'm at the airport! Here's a picture!" will think of plunking down exorbitant prices to say, well, essentially "Hey, ma, I'm at the airport!"
Those truly subversive enough will devise signs 'n things to place in the view of those webcams. Little penguins or whatnot to be displayed around the world. Have at it.
One question that wasn't asked...
Where was the kid heading?
When I was 3 I wriggled out under a fence surrounding my nursery school and set off across the parking lot, where I was intercepted by a teacher who had arrived late.
My reason for leaving was that "I wanted to go to McDonald's".
Since then I've matured greatly with regards to cuisine choice, but not so with wanting to get around fences.
I remember when it was stunning - printed on gorgeous thick paper, with a graphic design adventure on every page. The only problem is that many of those beautiful pages were virtually impossible to read. I emailed Andrew Anker of the magazine to ask "I think there are some great articles in Wired, but I can't read them. Could you tone down the design a bit?"
I still remember his reply. "Read the online version, then".
I would read Wired via gopher in the early days before the web took hold. Having the information presented to you in all text on an amber VT320 felt so good. Did away with the eye candy of the magazine (which, admittedly, was pretty to look at) but kept the information clear. Something about sittin in the University library on the public terminals reading Wired was a bit of a thrill in those days. I dunno; can't really explain.
Wired published one of my songs once; a piece called "The Flamer" to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer". They published it in their 'Net Surf' column and attributed an outdated email address of mine. There were also inexplicable changes to the lyrics which pissed me off, but I'm not sure if it was the work of Wired or whichever source they got the song from. It sure wasn't me, cause I was never asked.
So that's my story with Wired. It served its purpose for quite some time, and will be missed. But we move on to other things.
Many people have also complained that Jar Jar has a Jamacan accent is a complete screw up and therefor is a racist statement by Lucas.
I agree Jar Jar is a complete screw-up. I agree he has somewhat of an island accent and Gullah-like speech patterns. But to claim that it's a racist portrayal just doesn't make sense to me. One character out of an entire fictitious alien race is a screw-up so it stands to reason that the Gungans are a racist stereotype of Jamaicans/islanders? A fellow can be a screw-up regardless of his ethnicity, and his screw-upedness doesn't necessarily reflect on his race. The Gungans seemed to have been a noble, if slightly arrogant group -- remember, they kicked Jar Jar out for being a screw-up.
I saw more of a narsty racial stereotype in the slanty-eyed "Ah So" monopolistic Trade Federation aliens than I did in a simple bumbling idiot. Bash Jar Jar for the character's true faults -- lame unnecessary slapstick humor, incomprehensible speak, and the idiocy of saying "How wude!" every 5 minutes or so. Just don't assume the Gungans are the biggest racial stereotypes in the movie based on the stupid actions of one dumb character.
(that said, I sure would shed no tears if Jar Jar didn't show up in Episode 2.)
Why is it that we're so hung up on not giving films an NC-17 rating? It just keeps the damned kids out and lets mature adults laugh at the hilarity without the brats sitting behind us being stupid. Unfortunately it's also the kiss of death since you'll never get it into one of the
megaplexes.
NC-17 being the "taboo rating" is extremely ironic, seeing as how it was devised solely to give an "acceptable" rating for movies for mature audiences without using an "X" rating, which by then had become synonymous with pornography and considered "taboo".
But now NC-17 is considered taboo as well, because it deals with "mature content". Sure, it's not hardcore porn, but we Americans really don't care to make such classifications. Mature content means not for kids and since kids must be protected, this mature content sure must be bad, sick and wrong. When was the last time you saw an NC-17 film in regular distribution on major theater chains?
I get rather upset when I realize that not only do we Americans like to pander to the lowest common denominator, but also to the youngest common denominator as well.
So who is CMGI? I'm surprised I haven't heard much about them before, but then again, this cubicle can be a nice dark cave sometimes.
What worries me is that CMGI is also thinking about purchasing Lycos as well. Would they be pondering pushing Altavista and Lycos together into one Big Ugly Portal Site? *sigh*
I wish some folks would learn to leave well enough alone. It was painful enough to watch DejaNews do this, I don't want to see it happen to a halfway-decent search engine, even if it's been bedeviled with ads and 'placement' fees in recent times.
Just don't touch Google, CMGI. That's all I ask.
Besides, I don't see many libraries carrying playboy or penthouse. Is that discrimination or censorship too?
Put it this way -- would you want to borrow a copy of Penthouse that someone else had already "borrowed" and returned?
"Excuse me, where's the Librarian? I can't seem to open this magazine."
I'm conflicted with these developments. On one hand, there's a distinct difference between kids being denied nudie pictures (gotta admit, it's kinda stupid to go looking for pr0n like that in a public library) and kids being denied other kinds of information which someone has deemed "unfit" for their consumption.
But do you think I trust the government to deem what's fit and unfit for viewing publically? What if I think the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools and other public areas is unfit for kids? I daresay this omnipotent ability swings both ways.
I'm rather unhappy with this. And I know that there'll be kids gettin ready to defeat the blocking mechanisms from the word go. Information must be free, and all that.
Bah. Dumb govermnent.
If they 'only' use $41 million of my tax dollars,
Whoah, man. How much tax do you pay a year?
PBS has had to go for corporate sponsorship already. Masterpiece Theater is now known, at least when they say it at PBS, "Mobil Masterpiece Theater", and not cause it's some form of travelling road show.
I'd rather my tax money (quite less than $41M) go towards PBS than paying the salary of some windbag Senator I can hardly stand.
This may sound weird, but it's how I feel.
I really don't care too much about Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I've watched the show every now and then if I happen to catch it on TV and there's nothing else decent on. I don't follow the storyline and I don't consider myself a fan.
However, as soon as I heard that there was an episode that was deemed unsuitable for air in the United States yet was aired in Canada at that time, I really knew I wanted to see it. Why?
Because I wanted to see for myself exactly what was so bad about this episode that the WB felt necessary to keep it from American eyes.
Because I wanted to see for myself.
To me, it's not about wanting to see how Buffy and her pals turn out. It's not about feeling upset because I can't see my favorite TV show. It's about being able to view, for myself, the episode in question, and make a decision as to whether or not the material I saw was objectionable. The fact that it was shown in Canada at the appropriate time also furthers my desire to want to be able to judge for myself -- if those in Canada could, why not me?
And besides, what of those who live near the border and can pick up Canadian television?
I guess it's a personal first for me -- to be denied the ability to view or experience something because I'm American. Still doesn't keep me from seeking out the mechanisms already in place to view what has been denied me.
*shrug*
Didn't care too much for the episode once I viewed it, anyhoo.
"Under the proposed rules, ICANN would stablish a list of protected "famous or well-known marks" that would not be available for registration to the average Internet user."
I too had to take a long hard look at this sentence. I don't like the phrase "average Internet user" at all, and such a proposal would only serve to create more of a rift between the corporate entities intent on turning this communications medium into Glorified Television and the "average user" who just wants to be able to communicate freely and get their ideas across.
"Register what?! I'm sorry, you're not a company, you can't do that on the Internet."
Of course, from what I've gathered, the "average" Internet user only wants to see stock quotes 'n tits nowadays, so they're safe from all this. But I don't want to feel like a prole in this medium. Not when the devices are in place to allow me to make what I want of it.
Grah.
Latest news reports that the kids involved in the shooting apparently made a film for a class several months ago in which they were shown going through school killing athletes. For a class. Meaning people other than themselves obstensibly watched it. People like teachers. And, oddly enough, nobody apparently thought anything of it or perceived it as a possible warning that these kids could seriously snap and actually do such damage.
.WAD makers for DOOM as well, and claimed one level they made was "a good killing level". This of course was jumped upon by the hysterical reporters.
And the media is quick to blame video games for this? I already saw one story where it was revealed the two kids were
Granted, there's no single explanation for what happened in Colorado. However, some contributing factors would appear to weigh more than others, and I think it appropriate to rank the inattentiveness and inactivity on the parents' part and the teachers' part higher than video game violence. But I guess as the aftermath of the Arkansas shooting shows, it's much easier to sue manufacturers of video games (those game designers sure do have deep pockets) rather than take a long look at one's own faults.
I'm really really getting fed up with the sensationalistic American media. Sigh.
I can't figure out if the fellow is parodying those who take Star Wars seriously, or if he's taking hating Star Wars seriously because so many people are loving Star Wars seriously. It's all so confusing and my head is going to explode now.
But on the other hand, if you read every page of www.ihatestarwars.com in the voice of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons, it becomes wackily funny. Try it!
Silicon Graphics just changes its name to SGI, much like Kentucky Fried Chicken went to a hipper "KFC" a few years ago?
Sure, it avoids the incredible exclusiveness of the "Graphics" in "Silicon Graphics", but is that all there is? Granted, they didn't go with anything embarassingly buzzwordish, but still. I just don't see the big deal of it all.
The new "g" does look funky, though.
The regular contributors to the Dysfunctional Family Circus at www.spinnwebe.com were the ones who started the Amazon reviews. They submitted reviews for almost every single Family Circus book they could find. Most of 'em include sly references to DFC injokes and such, but some of them were pure works of art. I'm surprised Amazon let 'em go on for as long as it did.
I didn't think Sid had anything to do with
Railroad Tycoon 2, since he's gone on to Firaxis now.
I couldn't play RT2 because it insists on 1024x768 resolution, and I've a very old monitor on the Windows machine that barely does 800x600 if you ask it nicely.
Sid Meier is one of my favorite game designers, period. Civ was my original "Oh, look, the sun's coming up" game and Railroad Tycoon kept me happy for hours watching the stupid little trains go running around. Chris Sawyer took that and made it better, IMHO, with Transport Tycoon, and now if he got his act together and ported Rollercoaster Tycoon to Linux I'd never have to use Windows again.
Alpha Centauri for Linux would make me very happy indeed.
"This article is automatically bad just because it's posted on MSNBC."
C'mon folks. We have to do better than that.
The article is subtly written. Such phrases as
"...inferior to commercial operating systems, such as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT" on the large slug at the top, and "Linux will begin moving to the desktop world dominated by Microsoft" give a hint as to which side the article's already on. Try to ponder if the writing would have stayed the same if there was no "MS" in "MSNBC".
The other operating systems which Linux is apparently inferior to aren't even mentioned until the last two paragraphs. There's a definite Microsoft slant in this article, and it's sorely unfounded.
Personally, I put UserFriendly on the same level of humor as I do Dilbert and Doonsbury. Both are humorous, perhaps, 10% of the time. But thats
just me. Pokey had VERY STRANGE HUMOR.
User Friendly / Sluggy Freelance / Goats / etc. are entirely different from Pokey. Pokey didn't try to be a newspaper-worthy daily strip, and it never tried too hard. I can't say the same for UF or Goats, where you can tell a convoluted storyline coming a mile away.
Also, Pokey didn't feature twentysomething geeks living with talking animals/weird things. That right there set it apart from the current crop of
web comics.
I shall miss Pokey, whose insights made me laugh, cry, and, every now and then, taught me something about myself.
I'd even bookmarked my favorite Pokey cartoon.
I've always been partial to 1036 myself, but see the big winner so far is 822... oh, sigh.
Well, shoot. Right when you get into the habit of reading something..
Indeed. I'd only known Pokey for a few months now, but his amazing adventures and wonderful friends shall haunt me for the rest of my life, much like a flashback would.
Ok, ok, it was funny as hell and you can always recognize a Pokey fan by the non sequiturs they will spout, mostly in all caps.
POKEY I AM A SPACE NINJA!
Just doing a quick search on dejanews, I found about 50 posts by skyroket@aol.com...but they were all from 1997, and all on sex newsgroups. It looks like he was a spammer. Most likely the virus' author was a regular on one of those newsgroups and has an aversion towards spammers (who doesn't?)
Spreading a virus now because of some bits of spam received two years ago? That sounds like a highly intensive grudge to me.
Sorry - the e-mail address is skyroket@aol.com (without the 'c' in 'rocket').
Man, if that's the case, I'd doubly hate to be skyrocket@aol.com tonight.
The only Wendy's in Boston, I believe, is the one in Downtown Crossing that scares me beyond belief every time I visit. Closest one I can find to any North Shore suburbs is in Tewksbury; I wouldn't even know where to look in the south (Quincy/Braintree MUST have one nearby.) It's a damn shame there aren't any closer to Metro Boston. Those spicy chicken sandwiches are damn good.
Chicken sandwiches in a vending machine? Heck, why not?
With a big event like Star Wars its no fun if
everyone just rents a theatre and watches it privatly...
Man, I just love big-ass lines and a crowd in the movie theater when I'm waiting for a flick.
When the Special Edition came out, a group of friends and I went to see the midnight showing on the first night. We waited in the main lobby for an hour just to buy tickets, and then the management herded us all into the side hallway to wait for the theater to open up. We stayed in this cattle herding area for another 45 minutes or so, then they dropped the rope and everybody freakin' RAN to the theater. Never mind that we already had our tickets, or our tickets had already been checked by the pimplyfaced theater usher. No, everybody still had to run down this narrow hallway to get a seat they had already been guaranteed.
A friend of mine, already claustrophobic, freaked out and was almost trampled when she tried to move out of the way. Yeah. Real nice. Near-riot for a movie most of us had seen this flick many times before.
I'm just speaking from personal experience here, but count me in as someone who doesn't think waiting in extra-long lines with tons of people enhances the movie-going experience.
*shrug*
Quake II in the palm of my hand? Fighting a deathmatch against other people on the bus with a laplink? These are the noble goals of technology.
I daresay we're gonna get Quake-quality graphics from a 3D Gameboy. I mean, heck. Took Nintendo long enough to come out with a color handheld (and even then I'm not so sure of the whole thing). If we're lucky, we'll see some DOOM-like games in the handheld first. Still, the prospect of deathmatching on a bus isn't all -that- bad...