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Both rock. Pine on screen 0, centericq on screen 1, epic4 on screen 2.
To make it even better, I have a screen feature called "caption" enabled in screenrc. That makes a status bar at the bottom of the screen session. Use the speaker for the sound device, and whalla, notifications at the bottom of the screen. Its pretty nice.
His "obsession" as you call it comes from his origional inspiration for Firefly and the Buffyverse: the Uncanny X-Men. His favorite comic book character is a character named Shadowcat, who is young, troubled, etc. Buffy is pretty much a duplicate of Shadowcat, as is River and Kaylee in a much lesser degree. If you enjoy Wheldon's work, check out Astonishing X-Men which has been running for about 2 years now.
Wheldon is a master story teller, and I am really enjoying his work. I saw Firefly last weekend and immediatly went on a hard target search for Firefly this weekend. Watched the entire series, and am blown away. I never know TV could be this good. Too good to continue I guess:(
The only concern that I would have with this is in the future, will the fences be removed? I could only immagine some poor farmer in nebraska being stalked and eaten by a tiger.
Still, it would be cool to go RVing to a park in this country and see live elephants. Maby even make a "fan-documentary" of roaming herds of elephants.
Anime is a medium like any other. To say that it all sucks really shows your ignorance. For me, I'm really into Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Rayearth, and Ah My Goddess. The writing on these shows is exceptional, and animation breathtaking, overall they are great shows.
There are other Anime that I can't stand that most people love like Ghost in the Shell, Armitage, Akira, but thats just a matter of personal taste. I know a ton of people that are downright annoyed by the SD stuff they do on Rayearth, I personally like it. Some people like Fanservice (gratutious content thats usually sexual in nature) however I don't, and I know a large part of the Anime community are just plain annoyed by shows that are excessive in fanservice. I've never watched DBZ, Yu Gi Oh!, or Street Fighter Alpha. Its like Novels, I don't read Romance novels, but love Tolkien and Rowling type stuff. If its not your bag, don't watch it.
Don't even get me started on Fansubs. How else is Anime supposed to get exposed to this market? I would have never heard of Erementar Gerard if it wasn't for Fansubs. They are not killing the market. Its giving what little market Anime has life. Besides, once an Anime gets released over here, Fansubbing stops immediately, and most responsible Anime fans won't download stuff thats been released.
Sorry, but AKAImBatman your just plain ignorant if you think all Anime is about oversexualized girls and macho men. One of the most popular shows in Japan is Ah My Goddess, and the main character who the Goddess is in love with is a Dork.
Wil Wheaton definatly is more interesting than Margaret Cho. Talk about a self-hating asian. I've never seen a chick talk more about dicks than when I watched one her comedy special, or I should say the few minutes I watched it.
Yeah sure, IV to VI are far better than I and II, but its still far better than most of the crap that gets realeased nowadays. Lets have a look at the box office shall we?
The Pacifier
Be Cool
Hitch
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Million Dollar Baby
Constantine
Cursed
Man of the House
Because of Winn-Dixie
The Jacket
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather see any of the prequels over any of these movies any day.
Thats where I am most productive. Bind ^Meta1-space to wmterm, ^Meta1-m to firefox, ^Meta1-o to OpenOffice.org, and all my other commonly used apps to other things. ^Meta1-{1-0} bind themselves to the current window, allowing me to switch back to said window quickly. Simple interface (only need a close button and iconify), monitors, multiple desktops, etc. Root menus and appicons are far better for me than the stupid taskbar and start menu. Window Maker has always just felt right to me.
Tron was such a classic. I always thought the movie aged "pretty" well considering. It would be interesting to see who they get to play Tron. Anybody but Orlando Bloom.
For me its Magic the Gathering. I play the game using the physical cards, but also play the game online. Its pretty bad when you can find opponents at 3AM, or enter a sealed tournament at 5AM.
Heck, there's a whole sub-industry with trading the cards and purchasing them using Tix, the so-called currency in the MTGO universe. You see, you don't pay to gain access, you buy the cards. There's never been a monthly fee associated with the access, or membership fees. Once you have your "decks" built, your pretty much done, however they keep releasing more and more! Its insane!
They call the physical cards paper crack, so I supposed the digital ones are digital crack;) I need help.
I really should write down a HOWTO on my system at home, cause its soo l33t. I have a basic Athlon based system with a fat HDD, an Happuage WinTV card, and a few scripts I downloaded over the 'net. I use streamer to grab my fav programming, and mencoder to put it into Divx format. I have a record-tv.sh script that runs through Cron for scheduled, and at for one time programming grabs.
I make use of my "grabs" with a Radeon 7000 TV out card patched into my entertainment system. For real l33tness, every night before bed I sync my "vcr" directory to my laptop, and carry my Trek/Spike TV and adult swim with me throughout the day. And if I want to save my TV programming, which I do save alot, a standard CD-R holds 2 hours of Divx in the bitrate I encoded it in, which is a decent bitrate for broadcast. Right now I have about six 50 CD spindles of Spike TV and Adult Swim programming.
Proof that I married the right person: all I have to do is make the ISO's. My wife burns them in her spare time;) Oh, she cooks, cleans, pays bills, and runs Debian Sid with WindowMaker, and doesn't care when I go out gaming, and hardly spends a dime on non-essential girly stuff. Great in the other "wifely" duties areas too.
I really should write a HOWTO on how I put it together. Its quite cool. On a side note, I should write a HOWTO on how I found the perfect Geek wife.
You've obviously never met a Terrier. I had a West Highland terrier that almost tore the neck out of an aggressor once. And you don't easily recover from a terrier bite. They more rip and shread than bite.
However Terriers do come in one large breed, the Airedale. It was a war dog during the wars. First dog to be used for police work in Brittan. Nice dogs, fiercly loyal. An aweful lot of attitude for a big dog. You don't own a terrier, they more own you.
I don't know about Geek style home defense, but I have my own system.
1. Own a gun of some sort. If someone is in your house at 3 AM and you don't know them, they are up to no good. Sorry, but they are dead. I respect all life, but the most precious ones are protected first, that is my wife and daughter.
2. Own a big dog of some sort. My dog of choice is a Labrador Retriever. You don't need a mean dog with a bad rep. From a distance and in a crisis situation nobody is going to know a Black Labrador from a Rotwieler. A Labrador is a great family pet, and Lab will be as mean in that sort of a situation, even meaner. I've had repairmen backed into a corner before because they made the wrong gesture to me, and it wasn't even threatening. However I would trust a Labrador with my family's life, she doesn't have a mean bone in her body twords us, but cross our family however, and watch it.
3. For home deterrent, use a automatic on/off light switch (or leave a light on) and a TV with an alarm. My TV comes on every day at 4pm and goes off at 2am. Most burglars are going to break into a house with no lights on, or a house that looks like nobody is home. Burglars are essentially lazy and just want the goods.
4. Move to a safer neighborhood or MAKE it safer. I know, probably not an option, however I won't live in a dangerous neighborhood. I'd rather drive 45min to a half hour. If the 'hood goes to crap, I pack and move. The 'hood I live in hasn't had a burglary in about 7 years. If you have to live in a risky neighborhood, organize a neighborhood watch.
I hate its piss poor systems design. Everythings a damn gui, and the stupid thing crashes constantly.
As far as Linux goes, I simply love it. I love that everything just works. I love Windows Maker. I love XFree86. I love Mozilla Firefox, in all its speedy glory. I love not having to reboot every other day. I love Debian's apt-get. I love Red Hat/Fedora's easy as hell systems administration/UNIX on the cheap.
My wife loves not having viruses and adware. She also loves Window Maker and ROX-Filer.
My 4 year old hates windows and only wants to play GCompris and fiddle about in Gedit.
Most of all I love Linux because its fed my little family for 10 years.
You could always use an old backpack, aloung with some Eggcrate padding for your laptop. You can get Eggcrate at your local thrift store / (Wal/K) Mart, or whatever you have in your area.
I saw the writing on the wall over two years ago when Red Hat started EOLing their distros. I switched to Debian and interestingly enough, I'm still running off the same install. I've been apt-get dist-upgrade-ing from one version to the next without any problems
I've only worked for familys so far actually. I'm a likeable and social person, so it works out usually. However I've seen it go sour. Sometimes people bring "it" into the office, so watch out for that.
My wife and I have worked together on two seperate occiasions at two seperate companies. We both moved on, however we worked well together, but then again we are the best of friends before lovers. I think in the seven years we've been together we've only gotten into three or four fights, and two of those were in our first year of marriage.
I'm working for a couple as their CTO. There is two other "full" time people right now, the CEO and CFO, and my wife who helps out way less than part time. I make a decent living for my area. Anyhoo, we get aloung because we all have similar interests. It works out great. I'm almost up to my first year with this company, and not a bad day has happened, and I've never once hated my boss(s). One of the conditions of my employment was that me and the boss got aloung. Its almost an uncle/nephew relationship really. I immagine if we didn't get aloung my job could be at jeopardy, but I don't see any reason why we wouldn't.
However the last company I worked for were married. They bickered constantly since they had NOTHING in common. Most of the time they took their frustrations out on the rest of the employees. Everyone hates it there because the CTO is cranky all the time and the CEO is not very knowledgeable in the companies primary asset. When I worked for them I've had several customer compaints about both their attitudes. To this day I'm not sure how they stay in business, except they have the market pretty much cornered.
I know of an ebay business right now that works out great with three people. The owners are husband and wife. The Wife works during the day and the Husband works at night. They have a less-than-part time employee (their son) who checks stuff into inventory. They work GREAT together, and are one of the more successful businesses on EBay right now.
One of my best friends owns my usual hang-out. Its "the" major comics and tabletop gaming outlets in the Flint Michigan area. Half the people who work there are family, while the other half are employees. They work for obvious reasons: the product is fun. Its hard to bicker and fight over something as enjoyable as comics and gaming, unless of course your arguing over who would win in a fight, Batman or Captain America.
Anyhow, it should work, as long as your all mature and have a good time and a healthy relationship. If you don't, well it won't.
Seems like common sense really, but if your all family, you can't exactly fire your wife, or could you? Just kidding, thats a bad idea. I gotta fly, Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law is on.
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Both rock. Pine on screen 0, centericq on screen 1, epic4 on screen 2.
To make it even better, I have a screen feature called "caption" enabled in screenrc. That makes a status bar at the bottom of the screen session. Use the speaker for the sound device, and whalla, notifications at the bottom of the screen. Its pretty nice.
Wheldon is a master story teller, and I am really enjoying his work. I saw Firefly last weekend and immediatly went on a hard target search for Firefly this weekend. Watched the entire series, and am blown away. I never know TV could be this good. Too good to continue I guess :(
Well, with Debian you can download an iso image thats right around 50 megs, and everything else is installed via the web. Similar concept, no?
....to Rip it into DIVX.
You bastards, you killed Wizards of the Coast!!!
No news on Ravnica, the next Magic:TG cycle? I'm sure Wizards leaked some stuff there.
Still, it would be cool to go RVing to a park in this country and see live elephants. Maby even make a "fan-documentary" of roaming herds of elephants.
Too bad MST3K went off the air. Fresh meat.
There are other Anime that I can't stand that most people love like Ghost in the Shell, Armitage, Akira, but thats just a matter of personal taste. I know a ton of people that are downright annoyed by the SD stuff they do on Rayearth, I personally like it. Some people like Fanservice (gratutious content thats usually sexual in nature) however I don't, and I know a large part of the Anime community are just plain annoyed by shows that are excessive in fanservice. I've never watched DBZ, Yu Gi Oh!, or Street Fighter Alpha. Its like Novels, I don't read Romance novels, but love Tolkien and Rowling type stuff. If its not your bag, don't watch it.
Don't even get me started on Fansubs. How else is Anime supposed to get exposed to this market? I would have never heard of Erementar Gerard if it wasn't for Fansubs. They are not killing the market. Its giving what little market Anime has life. Besides, once an Anime gets released over here, Fansubbing stops immediately, and most responsible Anime fans won't download stuff thats been released.
Sorry, but AKAImBatman your just plain ignorant if you think all Anime is about oversexualized girls and macho men. One of the most popular shows in Japan is Ah My Goddess, and the main character who the Goddess is in love with is a Dork.
Wil Wheaton definatly is more interesting than Margaret Cho. Talk about a self-hating asian. I've never seen a chick talk more about dicks than when I watched one her comedy special, or I should say the few minutes I watched it.
Actually I thought they were being built at the same time. Wasn't there a third in the novels?
This is one cute little critter. Too cute. I'm sure it will wind up in exotic pet shops soon.
- The Pacifier
- Be Cool
- Hitch
- Diary of a Mad Black Woman
- Million Dollar Baby
- Constantine
- Cursed
- Man of the House
- Because of Winn-Dixie
- The Jacket
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather see any of the prequels over any of these movies any day.Thats where I am most productive. Bind ^Meta1-space to wmterm, ^Meta1-m to firefox, ^Meta1-o to OpenOffice.org, and all my other commonly used apps to other things. ^Meta1-{1-0} bind themselves to the current window, allowing me to switch back to said window quickly. Simple interface (only need a close button and iconify), monitors, multiple desktops, etc. Root menus and appicons are far better for me than the stupid taskbar and start menu. Window Maker has always just felt right to me.
Tron was such a classic. I always thought the movie aged "pretty" well considering. It would be interesting to see who they get to play Tron. Anybody but Orlando Bloom.
Oh yeah, and f/p
Heck, there's a whole sub-industry with trading the cards and purchasing them using Tix, the so-called currency in the MTGO universe. You see, you don't pay to gain access, you buy the cards. There's never been a monthly fee associated with the access, or membership fees. Once you have your "decks" built, your pretty much done, however they keep releasing more and more! Its insane!
They call the physical cards paper crack, so I supposed the digital ones are digital crack ;) I need help.
I make use of my "grabs" with a Radeon 7000 TV out card patched into my entertainment system. For real l33tness, every night before bed I sync my "vcr" directory to my laptop, and carry my Trek/Spike TV and adult swim with me throughout the day. And if I want to save my TV programming, which I do save alot, a standard CD-R holds 2 hours of Divx in the bitrate I encoded it in, which is a decent bitrate for broadcast. Right now I have about six 50 CD spindles of Spike TV and Adult Swim programming.
Proof that I married the right person: all I have to do is make the ISO's. My wife burns them in her spare time ;) Oh, she cooks, cleans, pays bills, and runs Debian Sid with WindowMaker, and doesn't care when I go out gaming, and hardly spends a dime on non-essential girly stuff. Great in the other "wifely" duties areas too.
I really should write a HOWTO on how I put it together. Its quite cool. On a side note, I should write a HOWTO on how I found the perfect Geek wife.
You've obviously never met a Terrier. I had a West Highland terrier that almost tore the neck out of an aggressor once. And you don't easily recover from a terrier bite. They more rip and shread than bite.
However Terriers do come in one large breed, the Airedale. It was a war dog during the wars. First dog to be used for police work in Brittan. Nice dogs, fiercly loyal. An aweful lot of attitude for a big dog. You don't own a terrier, they more own you.
I don't know about Geek style home defense, but I have my own system.
1. Own a gun of some sort. If someone is in your house at 3 AM and you don't know them, they are up to no good. Sorry, but they are dead. I respect all life, but the most precious ones are protected first, that is my wife and daughter.
2. Own a big dog of some sort. My dog of choice is a Labrador Retriever. You don't need a mean dog with a bad rep. From a distance and in a crisis situation nobody is going to know a Black Labrador from a Rotwieler. A Labrador is a great family pet, and Lab will be as mean in that sort of a situation, even meaner. I've had repairmen backed into a corner before because they made the wrong gesture to me, and it wasn't even threatening. However I would trust a Labrador with my family's life, she doesn't have a mean bone in her body twords us, but cross our family however, and watch it.
3. For home deterrent, use a automatic on/off light switch (or leave a light on) and a TV with an alarm. My TV comes on every day at 4pm and goes off at 2am. Most burglars are going to break into a house with no lights on, or a house that looks like nobody is home. Burglars are essentially lazy and just want the goods.
4. Move to a safer neighborhood or MAKE it safer. I know, probably not an option, however I won't live in a dangerous neighborhood. I'd rather drive 45min to a half hour. If the 'hood goes to crap, I pack and move. The 'hood I live in hasn't had a burglary in about 7 years. If you have to live in a risky neighborhood, organize a neighborhood watch.
God I love america. Someone comes into my house in Michigan USA I'm fully within my rights to use my Remington 870 Express 12 gauge on them.
Once I actually had an intruder. All I had to do was rack my Remington and they knew the jig was up. They couldn't leave the house fast enough.
I hate its piss poor systems design. Everythings a damn gui, and the stupid thing crashes constantly.
As far as Linux goes, I simply love it. I love that everything just works. I love Windows Maker. I love XFree86. I love Mozilla Firefox, in all its speedy glory. I love not having to reboot every other day. I love Debian's apt-get. I love Red Hat/Fedora's easy as hell systems administration/UNIX on the cheap.
My wife loves not having viruses and adware. She also loves Window Maker and ROX-Filer.
My 4 year old hates windows and only wants to play GCompris and fiddle about in Gedit.
Most of all I love Linux because its fed my little family for 10 years.
You could always use an old backpack, aloung with some Eggcrate padding for your laptop. You can get Eggcrate at your local thrift store / (Wal/K) Mart, or whatever you have in your area.
I saw the writing on the wall over two years ago when Red Hat started EOLing their distros. I switched to Debian and interestingly enough, I'm still running off the same install. I've been apt-get dist-upgrade-ing from one version to the next without any problems
My wife and I have worked together on two seperate occiasions at two seperate companies. We both moved on, however we worked well together, but then again we are the best of friends before lovers. I think in the seven years we've been together we've only gotten into three or four fights, and two of those were in our first year of marriage.
I'm working for a couple as their CTO. There is two other "full" time people right now, the CEO and CFO, and my wife who helps out way less than part time. I make a decent living for my area. Anyhoo, we get aloung because we all have similar interests. It works out great. I'm almost up to my first year with this company, and not a bad day has happened, and I've never once hated my boss(s). One of the conditions of my employment was that me and the boss got aloung. Its almost an uncle/nephew relationship really. I immagine if we didn't get aloung my job could be at jeopardy, but I don't see any reason why we wouldn't.
However the last company I worked for were married. They bickered constantly since they had NOTHING in common. Most of the time they took their frustrations out on the rest of the employees. Everyone hates it there because the CTO is cranky all the time and the CEO is not very knowledgeable in the companies primary asset. When I worked for them I've had several customer compaints about both their attitudes. To this day I'm not sure how they stay in business, except they have the market pretty much cornered.
I know of an ebay business right now that works out great with three people. The owners are husband and wife. The Wife works during the day and the Husband works at night. They have a less-than-part time employee (their son) who checks stuff into inventory. They work GREAT together, and are one of the more successful businesses on EBay right now.
One of my best friends owns my usual hang-out. Its "the" major comics and tabletop gaming outlets in the Flint Michigan area. Half the people who work there are family, while the other half are employees. They work for obvious reasons: the product is fun. Its hard to bicker and fight over something as enjoyable as comics and gaming, unless of course your arguing over who would win in a fight, Batman or Captain America.
Anyhow, it should work, as long as your all mature and have a good time and a healthy relationship. If you don't, well it won't.
Seems like common sense really, but if your all family, you can't exactly fire your wife, or could you? Just kidding, thats a bad idea. I gotta fly, Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law is on.
Comcast is actually playing catch-up right now. Charter Communications has been doing this since last november.