While I smiled when I heard this on the radio, and thought it was very cool, we here in southeast Wisconsin also need to get the regional transit authority (RTA) bill passed. Bus service in Milwaukee County has been reduced by 20% over the past several years, and we're about to lose a full third more if this doesn't go through. With our incumbent county executive who's got a penchant for starving government, we won't see any progress without the RTA. As I doubt my state legislators are reading/., I'll be calling them instead of just posting on here and hoping it gets done.
Yeah. Remember this? Part of my recovery from the crash (now just over ten years ago) was learning to deal with having a damaged eye. Part of the damage that drunk f-head did to me was to jam my head through the windshield of my car. (This is what happens when huge SUVs hit tiny cars!) While the eye surgeon could save my left eye, they had to remove the lens to do so. So the eye still receives light, but it's all a blur -- literally. My peripheral vision and depth perception have been greatly reduced, though I've regained some depth perception over the past decade simply by living with it. (My life has been very good in the past five or six years, BTW. Not completely ruined by that calamitous night ten years ago.)
I'd like to see "Clash of the Titans," perhaps at the cheap seats, if only so that I can compare it to the 1981 "Clash" and complain about how much better movies were when I was a kid.;-)
A.k.a. "Minefield." Despite the name, it's been completely stable for me. In fact, I'm using it right now. Works fine. I sometimes miss the History function, though it remembers the sites I've visited. So I have no complaints. The speed gain over 3.5 is phenomenal. Between Mac OS X 10.6 and Minefield, I'm a happy camper.
Not that I want any advertising blasted onto my retinas as it is... but this event saw to it that my left eye became pretty well useless for this application. No pun intended.
While I am impressed with the project and its accomplishment, I must agree with your comments. As a happy owner of an '06 VW TDi, I often drive over 400 miles while using just one-half tank of fuel. And as it uses synthetic oil, the oil doesn't need changing all that often (8,000-10,000 miles), which makes the going long even easier. It's quieter than the '70s and '80s Diesel cars and trucks, and it looks awful purty on top of that. It's great!
Yes yes. I have an '06 VW Jetta TDI 5-speed, and I love it. It's not one of the new Clean Diesels, but even so, it's much cleaner and quieter than what most people conceive of a "diesel" vehicle. And it looks sleek and goes like hell with the Rocket Chip upgrade to the fuel computer!
With even a little biodiesel in the tank, I usually get about 630-650 miles per tank. (That works out to be about 44 MPG.) I could probsbly push it closer to 660 or 675, but I haven't had the nerve or the spare fuel on hand to risk it.;->
So, as a proud Diesel-Fahrer, I await seeing how the Volt stacks up in the real world. The buzz must be great for GM -- this is the company that made the Chevy Tahoe, the accursed behemoth that nearly took my life back in March 2000, as documented on here. (It FAILED.) I got the TDI because I needed to do a lot of highway driving, and it's generally been great, aside from when diesel fuel was above $4/gal. (Europeans laugh at this...) We'll see. It would be a bit of a change to go from thinking Chevys were hideous monsters to wanting to buy one. But the Volt, if it's as good as they say it is, just might do that.
Now if it had a Diesel motor....
Yyyyup. Can't tell by the looks of this here rocking chair, but it just seemed like last week that you couldn't buy one of these here "sticks" of RAM. No sir-ee, you had to buy "SIMMs," which if my memory serves me correctly stood for "single in-line memory module." Yyyyup, I remember when the Mack-Twooo came out, and by golly, you could put not just one or two, or even four, but you could put a whopping EIGHT whole SIMMs in that baby! Hooo-wee, did she fly after that! Boy I tell ya, those Flying Toasters flew like you'd greased their wings with cod liver oil, I tell you what!
O' course then they had to make those "DIMM" things, and they says it was even better than the Sims... but dat was before we had SimThis and SimThat. No, we just had SimCity on my old black and white Mac SE... and we liked it! Don't need all these fancy colors or big honkin' screens... just give me my eight megahertz and a nine inch screen and I'll be happy, I tells ya...
Now, the SE, yeah, that could only fit I tink mebe four of them DIMMMMMs er SIMMMses or whatever you called them.....
When I saw this post, I immediately thought of the The Sword and the Shield and the follow-up book, The World Was Going Our Way, which was about the KGB's Third World plans. But it turns out this was not from Vasili Mitrokhin. As an amateur historian, I look forward to exploring this stuff.
It's ludicrous at this point to assume that the former stores will be turned into anything other than Yet Another Big Box Store. But, should that model ever wind up dying on the beach, what will come of the buildings? I'd love to turn the top of any one of them into a giant rooftop garden facility. Better yet, let me tear down the buildings and use the space for micro-farms. (I won't even touch the accompanying "waste" issues. This is a pipe dream, you insensitive clod.)
I would much rather have hallucinations than worsening memory loss. Hell, having to re-learn five times in a row that my mother has died was bad enough...
I tried to see where they were going to build this "Southern New Mexicoâ(TM)s Spaceport America," which puts it near Alamogordo or Las Cruces. While I'm happy for New Mexico, I just hope for the sake of all the people who will be working there at the great new headquarters of "Southern New Mexicoâ(TM)s Spaceport America" that they manage to be there in southern New Mexico... perhaps the advent of this new space center will bring Stuff To Do to southern New Mexico. (They can always visit the Owl Bar & Cafe in scenic San Antonio, NM! Good burgers there.) But given how the economy is going, I wouldn't be too surprised if this is quietly put on the back burner this summer.
I've thought about something like this. I'd like to buy a small ranch house with a southern exposure, deck out the roof with solar panels, and rent it. It may not make sense in the strictest capitalist sense, but that's not the point.
I've also had a similar idea about home-made energy sources. But what I think composting is a better use of people organic waste. If we had a victory garden (or three) in every backyard, that would do more to save energy and improve the food supply than anything involving biodiesel ever could -- and this is coming from a guy who loves his biodiesel.
If only, A) I remembered the password, and B) it would be a way for us to get biodiesel sooner rather than later. Biodiesel *is* the bomb (although it's non-explosive), but I'm somewhat skeptical about these things. That said, I can see how this would be a good way to get biodiesel, and for once doesn't involve fry grease!
Security through obscurity = bad. Peer verification of architecture = good. Old news, but it's all on my blog.
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I was sitting on this very low-to-the-ground chair, when my then-one-year-old daughter, with a huge smile on her face, started to crawl up on my lap. I smiled right back, entranced with the huge, loving smile on her face. Our gazes were locked, and my smile only wavered when I saw that her hands, her dainty child's hands, were planted on either side of my PowerBook G4's screen, pulling it down and back...
I'll have to visit the complainant the next time I'm in Tyler. (Which should be in January.) Somewhere I saw a scan of the filling, which looked like it was written on the back of napkins. I wouldn't have much confidence in the suit, but IAMNAL.
My late mother had a bone marrow transplant (BMT) to treat her pre-leukemic condition and try to prevent it from becoming full-bore leukemia. To do this, they blasted her whole body with radiation (sorry, don't know which frequency), which killed her existing bone marrow. They then inserted/transplanted his sister's bone marrow. Now, I am not a doctor, so I'm probably leaving out a lot of important steps here. But because of the radiation dosage, she lost her hair, a lot of weight, and the ability to keep food in her for any length of time.
Yes, we knew this was coming. In fact, she had worked as a radiation oncologist for decades before her diagnosis with myelodysplasia. The irony abound.
Unfortunately, either the transplant didn't take or the weakness was too much for her. She passed away on November 16, 1999. Two weeks after I'd gotten married. And some of you may remember my then-wife from what happened five months later. Yeah, life kinda sucked.
I do want to see the HIV/AIDS pandemic curbed, and I do what I can to help people who have it live a little better. But a BMT is a major, major procedure. It's not guaranteed to be a death sentence, but it's not guaranteed to work, either. Is it worse than HIV/AIDS? That question is beyond my pay level to try and answer. I just have one story from one BMT that unfortunately did not go well. I am thankful that no one in my family has had HIV/AIDS. But I just don't know if this is the best way to deal with it once someone is infected.
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While I smiled when I heard this on the radio, and thought it was very cool, we here in southeast Wisconsin also need to get the regional transit authority (RTA) bill passed. Bus service in Milwaukee County has been reduced by 20% over the past several years, and we're about to lose a full third more if this doesn't go through. With our incumbent county executive who's got a penchant for starving government, we won't see any progress without the RTA. As I doubt my state legislators are reading /., I'll be calling them instead of just posting on here and hoping it gets done.
I'd like to see "Clash of the Titans," perhaps at the cheap seats, if only so that I can compare it to the 1981 "Clash" and complain about how much better movies were when I was a kid. ;-)
A.k.a. "Minefield." Despite the name, it's been completely stable for me. In fact, I'm using it right now. Works fine. I sometimes miss the History function, though it remembers the sites I've visited. So I have no complaints. The speed gain over 3.5 is phenomenal. Between Mac OS X 10.6 and Minefield, I'm a happy camper.
Not that I want any advertising blasted onto my retinas as it is... but this event saw to it that my left eye became pretty well useless for this application. No pun intended.
While I am impressed with the project and its accomplishment, I must agree with your comments. As a happy owner of an '06 VW TDi, I often drive over 400 miles while using just one-half tank of fuel. And as it uses synthetic oil, the oil doesn't need changing all that often (8,000-10,000 miles), which makes the going long even easier. It's quieter than the '70s and '80s Diesel cars and trucks, and it looks awful purty on top of that. It's great!
Yes yes. I have an '06 VW Jetta TDI 5-speed, and I love it. It's not one of the new Clean Diesels, but even so, it's much cleaner and quieter than what most people conceive of a "diesel" vehicle. And it looks sleek and goes like hell with the Rocket Chip upgrade to the fuel computer! With even a little biodiesel in the tank, I usually get about 630-650 miles per tank. (That works out to be about 44 MPG.) I could probsbly push it closer to 660 or 675, but I haven't had the nerve or the spare fuel on hand to risk it. ;->
So, as a proud Diesel-Fahrer, I await seeing how the Volt stacks up in the real world. The buzz must be great for GM -- this is the company that made the Chevy Tahoe, the accursed behemoth that nearly took my life back in March 2000, as documented on here. (It FAILED.) I got the TDI because I needed to do a lot of highway driving, and it's generally been great, aside from when diesel fuel was above $4/gal. (Europeans laugh at this...) We'll see. It would be a bit of a change to go from thinking Chevys were hideous monsters to wanting to buy one. But the Volt, if it's as good as they say it is, just might do that.
Now if it had a Diesel motor....
White Knight... White Knight... wasn't that a BBS?
Er, never mind.
Yyyyup. Can't tell by the looks of this here rocking chair, but it just seemed like last week that you couldn't buy one of these here "sticks" of RAM. No sir-ee, you had to buy "SIMMs," which if my memory serves me correctly stood for "single in-line memory module." Yyyyup, I remember when the Mack-Twooo came out, and by golly, you could put not just one or two, or even four, but you could put a whopping EIGHT whole SIMMs in that baby! Hooo-wee, did she fly after that! Boy I tell ya, those Flying Toasters flew like you'd greased their wings with cod liver oil, I tell you what!
O' course then they had to make those "DIMM" things, and they says it was even better than the Sims... but dat was before we had SimThis and SimThat. No, we just had SimCity on my old black and white Mac SE... and we liked it! Don't need all these fancy colors or big honkin' screens... just give me my eight megahertz and a nine inch screen and I'll be happy, I tells ya...
Now, the SE, yeah, that could only fit I tink mebe four of them DIMMMMMs er SIMMMses or whatever you called them.....
eh, where's my cane?
When I saw this post, I immediately thought of the The Sword and the Shield and the follow-up book, The World Was Going Our Way, which was about the KGB's Third World plans. But it turns out this was not from Vasili Mitrokhin. As an amateur historian, I look forward to exploring this stuff.
It's ludicrous at this point to assume that the former stores will be turned into anything other than Yet Another Big Box Store. But, should that model ever wind up dying on the beach, what will come of the buildings? I'd love to turn the top of any one of them into a giant rooftop garden facility. Better yet, let me tear down the buildings and use the space for micro-farms. (I won't even touch the accompanying "waste" issues. This is a pipe dream, you insensitive clod.)
I would much rather have hallucinations than worsening memory loss. Hell, having to re-learn five times in a row that my mother has died was bad enough...
I tried to see where they were going to build this "Southern New Mexicoâ(TM)s Spaceport America," which puts it near Alamogordo or Las Cruces. While I'm happy for New Mexico, I just hope for the sake of all the people who will be working there at the great new headquarters of "Southern New Mexicoâ(TM)s Spaceport America" that they manage to be there in southern New Mexico... perhaps the advent of this new space center will bring Stuff To Do to southern New Mexico. (They can always visit the Owl Bar & Cafe in scenic San Antonio, NM! Good burgers there.) But given how the economy is going, I wouldn't be too surprised if this is quietly put on the back burner this summer.
as (s)he said over here, this made my holiday a very happy one indeed.
Merry War on Christmas, everybody!
So I was sitting here trying to figure out how there could be a sixth religion, much less any religion, in the magnetosphere.
Further proof, as if any were needed, that I am a Dork.
I've thought about something like this. I'd like to buy a small ranch house with a southern exposure, deck out the roof with solar panels, and rent it. It may not make sense in the strictest capitalist sense, but that's not the point.
I've also had a similar idea about home-made energy sources. But what I think composting is a better use of people organic waste. If we had a victory garden (or three) in every backyard, that would do more to save energy and improve the food supply than anything involving biodiesel ever could -- and this is coming from a guy who loves his biodiesel.
If only, A) I remembered the password, and B) it would be a way for us to get biodiesel sooner rather than later. Biodiesel *is* the bomb (although it's non-explosive), but I'm somewhat skeptical about these things. That said, I can see how this would be a good way to get biodiesel, and for once doesn't involve fry grease!
This is the sort of breaking news that I know I can only rely on /. for.
Security through obscurity = bad. Peer verification of architecture = good. Old news, but it's all on my blog.
I was sitting on this very low-to-the-ground chair, when my then-one-year-old daughter, with a huge smile on her face, started to crawl up on my lap. I smiled right back, entranced with the huge, loving smile on her face. Our gazes were locked, and my smile only wavered when I saw that her hands, her dainty child's hands, were planted on either side of my PowerBook G4's screen, pulling it down and back...
*kerrrr-ack!*
"Oh........"
I'll have to visit the complainant the next time I'm in Tyler. (Which should be in January.) Somewhere I saw a scan of the filling, which looked like it was written on the back of napkins. I wouldn't have much confidence in the suit, but IAMNAL.
My late mother had a bone marrow transplant (BMT) to treat her pre-leukemic condition and try to prevent it from becoming full-bore leukemia. To do this, they blasted her whole body with radiation (sorry, don't know which frequency), which killed her existing bone marrow. They then inserted/transplanted his sister's bone marrow. Now, I am not a doctor, so I'm probably leaving out a lot of important steps here. But because of the radiation dosage, she lost her hair, a lot of weight, and the ability to keep food in her for any length of time.
Yes, we knew this was coming. In fact, she had worked as a radiation oncologist for decades before her diagnosis with myelodysplasia. The irony abound.
Unfortunately, either the transplant didn't take or the weakness was too much for her. She passed away on November 16, 1999. Two weeks after I'd gotten married. And some of you may remember my then-wife from what happened five months later. Yeah, life kinda sucked.
I do want to see the HIV/AIDS pandemic curbed, and I do what I can to help people who have it live a little better. But a BMT is a major, major procedure. It's not guaranteed to be a death sentence, but it's not guaranteed to work, either. Is it worse than HIV/AIDS? That question is beyond my pay level to try and answer. I just have one story from one BMT that unfortunately did not go well. I am thankful that no one in my family has had HIV/AIDS. But I just don't know if this is the best way to deal with it once someone is infected.
If I could grow that on trees, I might as well be growing money.
Geezus, I am getting old.
You beat me to it..... and were funnier about it too. WEll done.
She's now six years old -- I gave it to her many years ago.