I performed a reading of "The Pedestrian" my senior year in high school for the Wisconsin state forensics program. I apparently did well enough with it that I went on to finals, for which I performed a cutting of "A Clockwork Orange" -- complete with the Russian bits -- and won the gold medal! Between that and the antics of my underground newspaper (we printed the notes from the school's meeting about a proposed dress code -- at Middleton High School!!!1!)*, I went from the geeky dweeb who everyone picked on to just about Thee Coolest Guy in School. It was a very good year. 8-)
* Lesson: Never let the nice kid set up the Science Department's AppleTalk network. You never know where a backdoor may be left open....
In my younger days, I played Wasteland, the de facto predecessor to Fallout and Fallout 2! And before that was Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, the game that basically shaped my moral code. dunno if that makes me old school or just old.
For me, the exercise-at-home thing just doesn't work. Rather than getting lost in the long long thread about bike to work, I'll say that I've been biking just a few miles around Milwaukee every other day or so, with one long 15 mile ride on Saturday. It's far better than trying to ride an indoor bike, which is frustrating to me, as it doesn't go anywhere. Whereas on the real bicycle, I get fresh air, which is possible even in The City, and much more satisfying exercise. Those bike machines are useless to me now. I'd rather walk or run around an indoor track a dozen times than sit atop a bike machine going nowhere. At least on the track, the scenery slightly changes with every step.
My Jetta TDI gets over 650 miles per tank. If you drive a Prius very well, you can get close to that. If you hack it, you can get better than that. But if you hack a TDI, you can increase its mileage to around 60 MPG, up from the EPA rating of 42, which is actually below what it'll do once you've broken it in and it starts getting 48-50 MPG highway.
Of course the new '09 TDIs are going to get about 60 MPG highway straight from the factory!
I can tell you from personal experience what happens when you're hit by a speeding SUV while you're driving a very small car.... suffice to say most folks can't tell nowadays that I ever had a brain injury.:-\
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Oh, I now drive a Volkswagen Jetta TDI, which gets over 650 miles per tankful of fuel! It is also significantly larger than the Honda Civic that I was in on March 10, 200 -- and it has airbags.
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It was just over eight years ago that Slashdotters and LinuxPPC users came out in massive support for me when a drunk driver in a Chevy Tahoe tried to kill me. I still have the folder full of cards you sent -- it's half a foot thick! Thanks.:-)
The article on the Nt'l Geo site makes no mention of K-129, the Soviet sub that sank in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean about 200 miles from Hawaii. I suppose it's not directly related to the story. But the sub sank due to an unknown reason, and apparently released a lot of plutonium into the oceans. Note what the person leading the funeral service in the Google Video said the Soviet sailors died in the service of their nation during Cold War hostilities. He also said their remains were recovered six years later, corresponding to 1974, which is when Project Jennifer recovered the Soviet submarine.
Does the pastor say it's Soviet submarine engine number (?) #722? That's different from the designation K129, which is what I learned of the ship as being named.
Fixed it properly. The Windows monopoly is very strong, and Intel has been caught cooperating with them before in some unsavory market manipulations. AMD is interesting and useful, but show no signs of bucking against thei particular "feature".
thanks for the clarification. I distinctly remember Fairlight's demos on various C64 games. In fact, I can't specifically remember which games they were, but the demos stand out. (I didn't even remember they were called "demos" until reading the above comment!)
Those were the days -- raw artistic talent that would crush 90% of the crap you see on YouTube nowadays.
(ahhh, crap, I'm gunna get Rickrolled® for that, huh?)
Ya know, me an' my buddy were just a sayin', ya know, whatever happen ta GenCon? An' he was like, oh, geez, well I tink they went southa here, ya know, not Chicaaago, but Indiaaana. An I was like, wha? Wha the heck dey go to Indiana fur? Oh geez. Nothin' down der but... well, cornfields, an de Indy five huntert. Shucks. I dunno why da heck dey'd leave Wisconsin!
Looking at this, I was wondering how or why there would be talk at Black Hat about a multifunction printer being a security risk. "What, would terr'ists sneak in and use the printer to scan jihadist documents are very slowly print them out -- only to fax them!!" No, it's a little more elevated than that. Still not anything I need to worry about right now though.
My dear daughter, age five, loves video games. She's been raised with them from an early age. They made a great thing to do while she was little. She'd sit there in wonder and awe while her Papa made the pretty colors move around and make funny sounds. Now they're more directly part of her life. We love to play Gish, and she tries her hand at it occasionally. We also like to play Gish IRL -- I'll be Gish, she'll play a piglet, something like that, and it involves a lot of wrestling ("rassling") and monkeying around.
Recently, her step-grandmother got her a Gameboy DS, which has proven a bit of a bane in my house. I've dealt with this by enforcing its non-use while she's with me. Her mother (my now ex-wife whom long-time/.ers will remember as a hero(ine)) recently asked for it back after I made it "disappear" over a visit. Honestly, do not like her (my daughter) sitting there and playing with her "intendo" while she ignores us. It's actually very different from if she and I are sitting together and playing Gish or Zuma, and htose of course are very different from playing old-fashioned board games, or better yet, engaging in some good old fashioned horseplay. But it's part of her life, as it was part of my life from about her age, which for me is now... uh...:::calculate::: over 25 years. Wow.
Actually, the other day I was thinking about having her play Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. While it has very dated gameplay in terms of graphics and whatnot, I believe the message and values at the core of it remain largely unparalleled. It literally shaped my life and character for the better. I'd like her to get the same message, that Truth, Love, and Courage can change your life and the world. I guess it's a good thing I fall back U4 more than Wasteland or Snack Attack.;->
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Reading the patent, it specifices a magnification effect on the icon the mouse is over.
It's good to be specific. Thank you.
ya see, know that I'm is going to cawlleg, I'z reel smart. s-m-r-t smart!
Good thing no one asked me, huh?
Happy birthday, Ray!
I performed a reading of "The Pedestrian" my senior year in high school for the Wisconsin state forensics program. I apparently did well enough with it that I went on to finals, for which I performed a cutting of "A Clockwork Orange" -- complete with the Russian bits -- and won the gold medal! Between that and the antics of my underground newspaper (we printed the notes from the school's meeting about a proposed dress code -- at Middleton High School!!!1!)*, I went from the geeky dweeb who everyone picked on to just about Thee Coolest Guy in School. It was a very good year. 8-)
* Lesson: Never let the nice kid set up the Science Department's AppleTalk network. You never know where a backdoor may be left open....
In my younger days, I played Wasteland, the de facto predecessor to Fallout and Fallout 2! And before that was Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, the game that basically shaped my moral code. dunno if that makes me old school or just old.
For me, the exercise-at-home thing just doesn't work. Rather than getting lost in the long long thread about bike to work, I'll say that I've been biking just a few miles around Milwaukee every other day or so, with one long 15 mile ride on Saturday. It's far better than trying to ride an indoor bike, which is frustrating to me, as it doesn't go anywhere. Whereas on the real bicycle, I get fresh air, which is possible even in The City, and much more satisfying exercise. Those bike machines are useless to me now. I'd rather walk or run around an indoor track a dozen times than sit atop a bike machine going nowhere. At least on the track, the scenery slightly changes with every step.
I didn't know Atari was still in business.
Apparently the VW diesel hybrid never made it past the concept car stage... but check other sources, as I hope like hell that I'm wrong about that!
My Jetta TDI gets over 650 miles per tank. If you drive a Prius very well, you can get close to that. If you hack it, you can get better than that. But if you hack a TDI, you can increase its mileage to around 60 MPG, up from the EPA rating of 42, which is actually below what it'll do once you've broken it in and it starts getting 48-50 MPG highway.
Of course the new '09 TDIs are going to get about 60 MPG highway straight from the factory!
I can tell you from personal experience what happens when you're hit by a speeding SUV while you're driving a very small car.... suffice to say most folks can't tell nowadays that I ever had a brain injury. :-\
Oh, I now drive a Volkswagen Jetta TDI, which gets over 650 miles per tankful of fuel! It is also significantly larger than the Honda Civic that I was in on March 10, 200 -- and it has airbags.
It was just over eight years ago that Slashdotters and LinuxPPC users came out in massive support for me when a drunk driver in a Chevy Tahoe tried to kill me. I still have the folder full of cards you sent -- it's half a foot thick! Thanks. :-)
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vorpal bunny!!! Radical Castle!! yes!!!
ah, memories...
did you know there's a vorpal bunny FAQ?
Yeah, the old stuff is really cool and historic, but it's not precisely useful.
Unless you have a Performa and need to read some old Macintosh floppies, of course.
At last, an actual use for a Performa!The article on the Nt'l Geo site makes no mention of K-129, the Soviet sub that sank in 1968 in the Pacific Ocean about 200 miles from Hawaii. I suppose it's not directly related to the story. But the sub sank due to an unknown reason, and apparently released a lot of plutonium into the oceans. Note what the person leading the funeral service in the Google Video said the Soviet sailors died in the service of their nation during Cold War hostilities. He also said their remains were recovered six years later, corresponding to 1974, which is when Project Jennifer recovered the Soviet submarine.
Does the pastor say it's Soviet submarine engine number (?) #722? That's different from the designation K129, which is what I learned of the ship as being named.
Interesting. Mighty interesting.
The TPM website says absolutely about this. What are they hiding??!!!1!11!!
Fixed it properly. The Windows monopoly is very strong, and Intel has been caught cooperating with them before in some unsavory market manipulations. AMD is interesting and useful, but show no signs of bucking against thei particular "feature".
And I thought DRM was going to be bad..........thanks for the clarification. I distinctly remember Fairlight's demos on various C64 games. In fact, I can't specifically remember which games they were, but the demos stand out. (I didn't even remember they were called "demos" until reading the above comment!)
Those were the days -- raw artistic talent that would crush 90% of the crap you see on YouTube nowadays.
(ahhh, crap, I'm gunna get Rickrolled® for that, huh?)
While it could be TCP resets, as I see someone talking about in a comment above, Time Warner being pricks is so much more attractive...
cuz I sure could've used this about thirteen years ago.
we better sue to stop it, FAST!
The difference is, they're doing something with it.
Ya know, me an' my buddy were just a sayin', ya know, whatever happen ta GenCon? An' he was like, oh, geez, well I tink they went southa here, ya know, not Chicaaago, but Indiaaana. An I was like, wha? Wha the heck dey go to Indiana fur? Oh geez. Nothin' down der but ... well, cornfields, an de Indy five huntert. Shucks. I dunno why da heck dey'd leave Wisconsin!
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And in other news, my bid for the Milwaukee County Board may wrap up today on primary day. We'll see.
Looking at this, I was wondering how or why there would be talk at Black Hat about a multifunction printer being a security risk. "What, would terr'ists sneak in and use the printer to scan jihadist documents are very slowly print them out -- only to fax them!!" No, it's a little more elevated than that. Still not anything I need to worry about right now though.
Now goatse-laden printers, that's scary.
My dear daughter, age five, loves video games. She's been raised with them from an early age. They made a great thing to do while she was little. She'd sit there in wonder and awe while her Papa made the pretty colors move around and make funny sounds. Now they're more directly part of her life. We love to play Gish, and she tries her hand at it occasionally. We also like to play Gish IRL -- I'll be Gish, she'll play a piglet, something like that, and it involves a lot of wrestling ("rassling") and monkeying around.
/.ers will remember as a hero(ine)) recently asked for it back after I made it "disappear" over a visit. Honestly, do not like her (my daughter) sitting there and playing with her "intendo" while she ignores us. It's actually very different from if she and I are sitting together and playing Gish or Zuma, and htose of course are very different from playing old-fashioned board games, or better yet, engaging in some good old fashioned horseplay. But it's part of her life, as it was part of my life from about her age, which for me is now... uh... :::calculate::: over 25 years. Wow.
;->
Recently, her step-grandmother got her a Gameboy DS, which has proven a bit of a bane in my house. I've dealt with this by enforcing its non-use while she's with me. Her mother (my now ex-wife whom long-time
Actually, the other day I was thinking about having her play Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. While it has very dated gameplay in terms of graphics and whatnot, I believe the message and values at the core of it remain largely unparalleled. It literally shaped my life and character for the better. I'd like her to get the same message, that Truth, Love, and Courage can change your life and the world. I guess it's a good thing I fall back U4 more than Wasteland or Snack Attack.