I find that I can increase my productivity by switching to St. John's Wort tea after my 3rd mug of coffee, it calms the jitters and keeps me from punching cabinets when I'm on rough call.
Of course, since I'm doing overnights this week my caffeine intake has tripled.
To each his own, I had to force myself to finish Infinite Jest in a reasonable pace, while I have trouble putting Gravity's Rainbow down, and continuing in a pomo vein, I've never finished the very thin "Carpenter's Gothic" by Gaddis.
I don't know if it requires a high IQ to get through Gravity's Rainbow or just a strange, paranoid worldview with a warped sense of humor and a love of puns.
Maybe I should pick up Cryptonomicon, I've been scouring garage sales for the Big U once I realized how much it was worh (I read my roommates copy in college, thought it was mildly amusing but not earth shattering).
It's so cool looking sitting on top of my monitor. I don't know if I'll buy the X-wing or Tie Fighter, as they're a little too pricy for my Lego jones, but the Landspeeder was the right price.
Now I just need a few pounds of brown to make a sand crawler.
>what is to stop someone from buying bulk postage >& blanks and making profit?
Nothing really, though if it gets out on r.m.gd, you get lots of flames and presumably it's harder to get nice tapes from 'heads with huge collections who buy into the no profit thing.
Curiously though, people selling off analogs for about $2.00 a piece (usually upgrading to DAT) get far fewer flames, $2 being the apparent marker price for blanks and postage.
>Some people feel that trading for the cost of >the tapes is fair. So you send me a 2-tape show, >I send you $11 -- $4 / tape and $3 for shipping. >Is that sales? Probably not, if you're just >breaking even.
Dude, if you're buying analog tapes for $4 a piece get in touch with me. I'll get them for about $2 a piece, and sell you them for $3, amd we'll both gouge people.
Of course, if you're talking DAT, forget I said anything.
Shhh, I enjoy my 20 minute commute, and decent housing 100k that lets my wife stay home with our daughter. Let's not push Rochester until I can get my lakeside cottage.
I thought the SAC base there had lots to do with Omaha being wired, I remember reading in the Straight Dope that lots of telemarketers take advantage of the surplus of phone lines that SAC needs.
>Did anyone manage to work out what that metal >thing is inside the gut of the (female?) x-ray >at top-right of the web page? Looks like an IUD >but it seems quite high up. Would you want a >bunch of hairy big-assed airport thugs knowing >if your wife/ gf/ s.o. had one of these fitted?
Huh? Are they going to rape her because they know she's safe from pregnancy, or because she must be a wanton woman who's using birth control? Or would it be the leering looks and remarks, "ooh, someone has sex, ooh."
geez, people in relationships have sex, get over it.
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I find that I can increase my productivity by switching to St. John's Wort tea after my 3rd mug of coffee, it calms the jitters and keeps me from punching cabinets when I'm on rough call.
Of course, since I'm doing overnights this week my caffeine intake has tripled.
George
Hmm, magic carpet ride? I better pick up a six pack, maybe mix it with a little St. John's wort and ginseng and enjoy.
George
Congrats, thanks for all the hard work Rob and Jeff
George
To each his own, I had to force myself to finish Infinite Jest in a reasonable pace, while I have trouble putting Gravity's Rainbow down, and continuing in a pomo vein, I've never finished the very thin "Carpenter's Gothic" by Gaddis.
I don't know if it requires a high IQ to get through Gravity's Rainbow or just a strange, paranoid worldview with a warped sense of humor and a love of puns.
Maybe I should pick up Cryptonomicon, I've been scouring garage sales for the Big U once I realized how much it was worh (I read my roommates copy in college, thought it was mildly amusing but not earth shattering).
George
That's my favorite SF trilogy, on odd days. The first three Dune books and the Foundation trilogy duke it out on even days.
And if you want to join the fun, check out the Mars Society, http://www.marssociety.org/
George
I do a lot of my tape labels in PostScript, as well as the occasional mailing label, and a neato script to generate X numbers of PS output.
I generally use vi or echo though.
George
It's so cool looking sitting on top of my monitor. I don't know if I'll buy the X-wing or Tie Fighter, as they're a little too pricy for my Lego jones, but the Landspeeder was the right price.
Now I just need a few pounds of brown to make a sand crawler.
George
>what is to stop someone from buying bulk postage >& blanks and making profit?
Nothing really, though if it gets out on r.m.gd, you get lots of flames and presumably it's harder to get nice tapes from 'heads with huge collections who buy into the no profit thing.
Curiously though, people selling off analogs for about $2.00 a piece (usually upgrading to DAT) get far fewer flames, $2 being the apparent marker price for blanks and postage.
George
>Some people feel that trading for the cost of >the tapes is fair. So you send me a 2-tape show, >I send you $11 -- $4 / tape and $3 for shipping. >Is that sales? Probably not, if you're just >breaking even.
Dude, if you're buying analog tapes for $4 a piece get in touch with me. I'll get them for about $2 a piece, and sell you them for $3, amd we'll both gouge people.
Of course, if you're talking DAT, forget I said anything.
George
Shhh, I enjoy my 20 minute commute, and decent housing 100k that lets my wife stay home with our daughter. Let's not push Rochester until I can get my lakeside cottage.
I thought the SAC base there had lots to do with Omaha being wired, I remember reading in the Straight Dope that lots of telemarketers take advantage of the surplus of phone lines that SAC needs.
>Did anyone manage to work out what that metal >thing is inside the gut of the (female?) x-ray >at top-right of the web page? Looks like an IUD >but it seems quite high up. Would you want a >bunch of hairy big-assed airport thugs knowing >if your wife/ gf/ s.o. had one of these fitted?
Huh? Are they going to rape her because they know she's safe from pregnancy, or because she must be a wanton woman who's using birth control? Or would it be the leering looks and remarks, "ooh, someone has sex, ooh."
geez, people in relationships have sex, get over it.
George
Count me in on funny, but tasteless.