I have made it clear to my family that the meatsack is an organ farm once I'm done with it. My wife feels the same way, and as tragic as it would be, I would do the same for my kids.
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A Geek Funeral
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I want nothing left of my corpse.
Give any useful organs away. Let a child see a sunset through my corneas; let my heart break again in the ribcage of a teenager; let my lungs have their breath taken away when holding a new infant.
My skeleton can inspire and educate biology students. My brain can shed new light on diseases, either ones I don't know I have yet or as a control group.
When I'm dead, I'm done with the meatsack. Anyone who wants it can have it.
When my daughter was very little, I would use what I called "The Neverwinter Nights mobile". I'd play, she'd sit in the crook of my left arm, and she'd sleep for hours.
For the gf -> wife upgrade, all you have to do is procure the right parts when you first start putting together the system. If you do that correctly you not only have good success with maintaining hobby levels but you can spawn new processes that enjoy playing games.
I engineered my child process carefully and now video games are "daddy-daughter" time.
For comparison's sake, I SCUBA dive about twice a month, and that costs about $15 US for the air fills. I get about an hour and a half of underwater time for that. (There is pre and post dive chatter, gear cleaning, etc.)
Boom Blox? We got that from the library and turned it off after about 30 minutes. It was terrible and repetitive.
Excite truck was $50 used (it's not available new) but it is a fun game. It sure would have been nice if they finished it rather than releasing a tech demo.
Therin lies the problem. Most games reviewed as great are awful and then you've wasted $60 and you never get it back.
I'll take a look at the other titles later; thanks for the info.
I think the person you're looking for is a "maid".;) The maid pathway is cheaper and more efficient than the girlfriend -> wife pathway. This is especially true if she decides to spawn a new process after a "memory leak". (FTR, both my kids were planned by both of us.)
You do have to spend a lot of time with your family, so that's why he thinks you've got all the time in the world. Frankly, you do have more time. Try cooking for four and cleaning for four and laundry, etc. Plus you'll have to get a bigger place, which means more attrition and cleaning. Kids also require ATTENTION NOW
and, uh... by the time you get back from helping them, you've forgotten what you were doing.
You think your logistics are tough? Add in 2 kids and a wife. I've got other hobbies too; notably SCUBA diving, which takes about 4 hours for a dive. (Pre-dive, kitting up, the dive, post-dive, cleaning, storage.) My wife plays field hockey and lacrosse. I work out by biking to work; it's the only way I could fit it in. Sunday is housework. She shops; I clean.
We tend to find some time in the evenings after dinner or a little bit on the weekends. The kids like Guitar Hero and Lego Star Wars. I mostly "play" Wii Fit since I can jog while we watch a TV show. Long gone are the days when my wife and I would stay up playing Diablo II or Age of Empires over the LAN.
I'd like to see a Final Fantasy and a Gran Turismo on the Wii. (Provided I can save and quit when I want, because there's nothing as awesome as waiting another 45 minutes looking for a save point.) What I get is Cooking Mama and Wario Ware. At least my library loans games out so I don't waste $60 to find out that Gamespot just got a bribe to say the game was awesome.
Maybe we're not in the target market anymore. "Eh, we've got lots of cash from Beardo. He can go do something else."
I've found that the game library for the Wii is terrible and THAT is its greatest weakness.
The better games - like Smash brothers - aren't even Wii games (How much motion control is in it?) which shows that Nintendo knows how much their control scheme is lacking. There's no Zelda for Wii (it's a Gamecube port) and Mario Galaxy was meh at best. Mario Kart is a decent party game, but it requires you to race so much in single player that you honestly can't play a pickup game against your friends. The guy who unlocked everything is going to dominate.
The motion controls, while innovative, are move confusing than enjoyable. Otherwise decent games end up frustrating because you don't have the right kind of control. Now there's a motion plus sensor, which for $100, lets you and your wife have the control that they should have put into the controls in the first place.
There isn't a decent native RPG or racing game in their library, and if I'm wrong, I'd love to hear the titles. Look at the all-time ratings on Gamespot; half the top games are games you got tired of playing 10 years ago.
It's been great to lose 20 pounds with the fitness games, but the two I've used (Wii Fit and EA Active) are fucking terrible. I imagine the interview process at EA was like this:
"Have you ever played a game -- any EA games in particular?"
"No."
"Hmm, what do you think makes a game fun?"
"Absolute precision, interrupting gameplay for no reason, and a repetitive soundtrack."
"Hmm, have you ever exercised before?"
"Does shaving count?"
"You're hired."
I've never had a problem with the graphics on the Wii; perhaps that's because one of the first games I played was a black square racing down a blue path surrounded by orange. It was called "speedboat". If I want immersion, I'll go outside.
All of these products were genetically modified by people long before we knew what genes were. In its natural state, wheat blows away in the wind, leaving no food to eat. Mutant strains kept the seeds, and we cultivated those. Mutant strains developed by Borlaug in the 1950s saved millions from death and billions from starving.
Cows are domesticated from aurochs, now extinct. Wild corn is an inch long and hard as a rock.
Everything we've eaten for millenia has been genetically modified for maximum yield and higher efficiency.
We just have different tools now. What if they'd used phenotype selection to create a super-sweet beet instead? Would that be a problem? Eventually Mostanto could create a roundup-ready corn using artificial selection, the same way we've been doing it since we dug furrows in Mesopotamia.
Would that be fine? Is it just the tool that's the problem or is it hysteria at anything that's genetically modified and labelled as a Frankenfood by enivronmentalists?
The US "doomsday device" is a network of planes, ships, subs, and remote sites than can destroy any given target. That's been public knowledge since I was a kid.
Basically, it's impossible to take them all out and what's left would still burn you, your ancestors, and your descendants into radioactive ash.
That's kind of his point, isn't it? Posting with an account would be counter to his ideals; anyone with an Internet connection can take a look at what he's posted and trace it back to that account. He's saying that they can grab a profile on Beardo based on my/. posts, and perhaps an email sig with a close match.
So they tie in those two accounts and look at who I've been emailing. Everything's been accessed from an IP address within these geographic restrictions. There's a high rate of email between myself and "Betty Bearded". Let's assume she's on Facebook All. The. Time. They can then take a look at the publicly available photos and with a little crunching...
Here's someone in a lot of her photos, so we can infer with some certainty that this is Beardo's real life name and what he looks like. Given that assumption, they can look at the writing style and either confirm or reconsider the match.
I've been trying to tell you this for years, and NOW you care? (see sig)
You have to remember that this is the government we're talking about here. There's so much infighting and beaurocracy that by the time they find out what's going to happen, CNN is already showing the footage on a 24/7 loop.
What normal person wouldn't spend a few years at Club Fed for those bad boys?
I don't think you go to Club Fed when the victim of your crime was Uncle Sam himself. He can be a rather unforgiving sort. I'd imagine you go to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for this sort of stupidity.
Wait.
Club Fed... Federal PMITA.
Club Fed... Federal PMITA.
They won't send you to Federal prison; they'll send you to Federal prison...
Well yes, most of us have a tacet understanding that most -- if not all -- of the images in a magzine are photoshopped.
My wife likes fitness magazines. The way the models get six-packs is via digital editing, and they're claiming that if you follow some ridiculous regimen like eating papaya or eating while standing on your head, "you too can look like meeeee!"
She's always complaining about her body image. I keep telling her that if she had a $5000 makeup job, a $1500 outfit, a professional photographer, and a team of photo editors, she'd look like that too. (Hey, they could make ME look pretty!)
That's the problem -- they're selling a product that's impossible to attain using the methods they suggest, and then telling you that you're the problem.
Slashdot Mirror
That means there's a message waiting for you. It might be a system update, it might be an incoming email from a friend.
Usually it's Nintendo advertising something.
You're welcome.
I have made it clear to my family that the meatsack is an organ farm once I'm done with it. My wife feels the same way, and as tragic as it would be, I would do the same for my kids.
Age of Empires was kind of fun.
I want nothing left of my corpse.
Give any useful organs away. Let a child see a sunset through my corneas; let my heart break again in the ribcage of a teenager; let my lungs have their breath taken away when holding a new infant.
My skeleton can inspire and educate biology students. My brain can shed new light on diseases, either ones I don't know I have yet or as a control group.
When I'm dead, I'm done with the meatsack. Anyone who wants it can have it.
When my daughter was very little, I would use what I called "The Neverwinter Nights mobile". I'd play, she'd sit in the crook of my left arm, and she'd sleep for hours.
I'd have... no choice... but to keep playing.
My wife and I have a policy about our hobbies:
I don't ask about how much her yarn stash cost and she doesn't ask how much the dive gear costs.
Separate bank accounts -- the key to happiness.
For the gf -> wife upgrade, all you have to do is procure the right parts when you first start putting together the system. If you do that correctly you not only have good success with maintaining hobby levels but you can spawn new processes that enjoy playing games.
I engineered my child process carefully and now video games are "daddy-daughter" time.
For comparison's sake, I SCUBA dive about twice a month, and that costs about $15 US for the air fills. I get about an hour and a half of underwater time for that. (There is pre and post dive chatter, gear cleaning, etc.)
$150?
Fuck that. I just screwed all my components into a scrap piece of plywood.
Five years, no failures.
Unless it's using a different definition of dB than I'm used to, 3dB is a doubling, not 5.
Shaw uses the cable lines.
Telus uses phone.
Where does the cable start going through the phone?
Yes. I SCUBA dive so I was using three meanings of immersion.
Sharp eye, son. Sharp eye.
Boom Blox? We got that from the library and turned it off after about 30 minutes. It was terrible and repetitive.
Excite truck was $50 used (it's not available new) but it is a fun game. It sure would have been nice if they finished it rather than releasing a tech demo.
Therin lies the problem. Most games reviewed as great are awful and then you've wasted $60 and you never get it back.
I'll take a look at the other titles later; thanks for the info.
I think the person you're looking for is a "maid". ;) The maid pathway is cheaper and more efficient than the girlfriend -> wife pathway. This is especially true if she decides to spawn a new process after a "memory leak". (FTR, both my kids were planned by both of us.)
You do have to spend a lot of time with your family, so that's why he thinks you've got all the time in the world. Frankly, you do have more time. Try cooking for four and cleaning for four and laundry, etc. Plus you'll have to get a bigger place, which means more attrition and cleaning. Kids also require ATTENTION NOW
and, uh... by the time you get back from helping them, you've forgotten what you were doing.
I wasn't aware that "BLACK and HISPANIC" was a sexual orientation. Thanks for the clarification.
You think your logistics are tough? Add in 2 kids and a wife. I've got other hobbies too; notably SCUBA diving, which takes about 4 hours for a dive. (Pre-dive, kitting up, the dive, post-dive, cleaning, storage.) My wife plays field hockey and lacrosse. I work out by biking to work; it's the only way I could fit it in. Sunday is housework. She shops; I clean.
We tend to find some time in the evenings after dinner or a little bit on the weekends. The kids like Guitar Hero and Lego Star Wars. I mostly "play" Wii Fit since I can jog while we watch a TV show. Long gone are the days when my wife and I would stay up playing Diablo II or Age of Empires over the LAN.
I'd like to see a Final Fantasy and a Gran Turismo on the Wii. (Provided I can save and quit when I want, because there's nothing as awesome as waiting another 45 minutes looking for a save point.) What I get is Cooking Mama and Wario Ware. At least my library loans games out so I don't waste $60 to find out that Gamespot just got a bribe to say the game was awesome.
Maybe we're not in the target market anymore. "Eh, we've got lots of cash from Beardo. He can go do something else."
I've found that the game library for the Wii is terrible and THAT is its greatest weakness.
The better games - like Smash brothers - aren't even Wii games (How much motion control is in it?) which shows that Nintendo knows how much their control scheme is lacking. There's no Zelda for Wii (it's a Gamecube port) and Mario Galaxy was meh at best. Mario Kart is a decent party game, but it requires you to race so much in single player that you honestly can't play a pickup game against your friends. The guy who unlocked everything is going to dominate.
The motion controls, while innovative, are move confusing than enjoyable. Otherwise decent games end up frustrating because you don't have the right kind of control. Now there's a motion plus sensor, which for $100, lets you and your wife have the control that they should have put into the controls in the first place.
There isn't a decent native RPG or racing game in their library, and if I'm wrong, I'd love to hear the titles. Look at the all-time ratings on Gamespot; half the top games are games you got tired of playing 10 years ago.
It's been great to lose 20 pounds with the fitness games, but the two I've used (Wii Fit and EA Active) are fucking terrible. I imagine the interview process at EA was like this:
"Have you ever played a game -- any EA games in particular?"
"No."
"Hmm, what do you think makes a game fun?"
"Absolute precision, interrupting gameplay for no reason, and a repetitive soundtrack."
"Hmm, have you ever exercised before?"
"Does shaving count?"
"You're hired."
I've never had a problem with the graphics on the Wii; perhaps that's because one of the first games I played was a black square racing down a blue path surrounded by orange. It was called "speedboat". If I want immersion, I'll go outside.
The highest-rising infected group is heterosexual women in their 20s.
Look it up.
Have you eaten wheat? Corn? Beef? Chicken?
All of these products were genetically modified by people long before we knew what genes were. In its natural state, wheat blows away in the wind, leaving no food to eat. Mutant strains kept the seeds, and we cultivated those. Mutant strains developed by Borlaug in the 1950s saved millions from death and billions from starving.
Cows are domesticated from aurochs, now extinct. Wild corn is an inch long and hard as a rock.
Everything we've eaten for millenia has been genetically modified for maximum yield and higher efficiency.
We just have different tools now. What if they'd used phenotype selection to create a super-sweet beet instead? Would that be a problem? Eventually Mostanto could create a roundup-ready corn using artificial selection, the same way we've been doing it since we dug furrows in Mesopotamia.
Would that be fine? Is it just the tool that's the problem or is it hysteria at anything that's genetically modified and labelled as a Frankenfood by enivronmentalists?
For the record, I am a vegetarian.
If it was my kids, it would be worse:
"Excuse me. If you're sick, you can have my sandwich if that will make you better."
Imagine it with the 5-year-old lisp.
Yep, my vote is a kid who reads too many comics.
The US "doomsday device" is a network of planes, ships, subs, and remote sites than can destroy any given target. That's been public knowledge since I was a kid.
Basically, it's impossible to take them all out and what's left would still burn you, your ancestors, and your descendants into radioactive ash.
Holy shit, what if Perimeter factored into Petrov's decisions?
"Nah, they wouldn't send just five... would they?" ...
"Well, if I'm wrong, Perimeter will take care of it."
That's kind of his point, isn't it? Posting with an account would be counter to his ideals; anyone with an Internet connection can take a look at what he's posted and trace it back to that account. He's saying that they can grab a profile on Beardo based on my /. posts, and perhaps an email sig with a close match.
So they tie in those two accounts and look at who I've been emailing. Everything's been accessed from an IP address within these geographic restrictions. There's a high rate of email between myself and "Betty Bearded". Let's assume she's on Facebook All. The. Time. They can then take a look at the publicly available photos and with a little crunching...
Here's someone in a lot of her photos, so we can infer with some certainty that this is Beardo's real life name and what he looks like. Given that assumption, they can look at the writing style and either confirm or reconsider the match.
I've been trying to tell you this for years, and NOW you care? (see sig)
You have to remember that this is the government we're talking about here. There's so much infighting and beaurocracy that by the time they find out what's going to happen, CNN is already showing the footage on a 24/7 loop.
What normal person wouldn't spend a few years at Club Fed for those bad boys?
I don't think you go to Club Fed when the victim of your crime was Uncle Sam himself. He can be a rather unforgiving sort. I'd imagine you go to Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for this sort of stupidity.
Wait.
Club Fed... Federal PMITA.
Club Fed... Federal PMITA.
They won't send you to Federal prison; they'll send you to Federal prison...
Okay then.
Well yes, most of us have a tacet understanding that most -- if not all -- of the images in a magzine are photoshopped.
My wife likes fitness magazines. The way the models get six-packs is via digital editing, and they're claiming that if you follow some ridiculous regimen like eating papaya or eating while standing on your head, "you too can look like meeeee!"
She's always complaining about her body image. I keep telling her that if she had a $5000 makeup job, a $1500 outfit, a professional photographer, and a team of photo editors, she'd look like that too. (Hey, they could make ME look pretty!)
That's the problem -- they're selling a product that's impossible to attain using the methods they suggest, and then telling you that you're the problem.