Well, the Techno-Talking Babes have tried to fix reality and returned to their own future, but they will not be able to see the alternative reality that we are living in because of the "Real Millennium Bug" reacting with the effects of the chrono-tidal wave that whipped the TTB's back in their world (?). The Geek did have a problem with his abacus, after all. --
Upgrade more of the parts in my computer (next stop: CPU, graphics card, and motherboard in that order).
Find the right woman who shares my intrests, hang out with her, and dump her because she doesn't like one of my favorite actresses from the Theatre District. (Time required: five minutes, from first contact to the dump, give or take a "Slashdot/Quake3/Ruthie Henshall 0wnz" reference). Don't tell Roblimo about this. I can't take hearing him and his nice little lady of a wife.
As I have heard of the "Tree of Knowledge" plan for the United Nations from your speech in the Bazaar's "Future of Free Software" discussion, where can I read up on this?
What should be the proper steps in introducing Linux to academia (ranging from computer labs, to teaching StarOffice or Applixware, to GCCs in non-Unix boxes for the CIS majors)?
"Wowing" a college administration to give Linux a chance would involve the use of calling Free Software "Free [Beer] Software," but that was never the purpose of "Free [Speech] Software." What should I keep in mind to make a compromise to discuss the ideals of both of these meanings of the word "free" to the administration?
Have you taken the offer to play the role of Santa Claus this month?
I know Tribes does not have its source code published under the GPL, but how does the Tribes engine work out the "who's the nearest player" information sent from the server to the client? --
I went to the Bazaar last Tuesday (the 14th) and Thursday (the 16th). I did a little shopping in the LinuxMall booth, chatted with the folks from Linuxnewbie, and saw Illiad from User Friendly. If I had brought a camera, I could've had a picture taken with Rob and Jeff.
I knew the finals week was in the way for the big chunk of people who would've gone to the Bazaar, but it's better this way because I didn't have to be trampled by them. I think the LinuxWorld Expo would require more space in the Javits Convention Center for college folks to move around. I wish I could buy a Slashdot t-shirt from Copyleft
From now on, we shall call Jeff Bates "Cute Little Hemos!"
I can't wait for LWE! --
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So either the crew would have to jury-rig something up, or NASA would have to set up a "love-room" or something
Hmmm... The room has to be sealed (from bodily fluids as mentioned from posts above and below), but how about the amount of life support (air) required in the room? Sex is a very intense activity to the heart (and the lungs, which would I guess need a lot of air). (Oh, great! The room has a busted CO2 filter!)
birth in space?
For health reasons, it's better not to have a pregnant woman in space to give birth. If the lack of gravity can weaken the adult body (weakens the bone structure and all -- the reason people worried about John Glenn in space in November 1998), what would zero gravity do to the newborn's body? --
Okay, the Linux package of Quake 3 will have SuSE Linux 6.3. However, the Linux drivers for my 3D graphics card (the 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 -- OC'd to 166MHz in Windoze) from 3dfxgamers.com are in RPM format. Is the installation routine for these drivers going to be a pain (from all of them dependency messages) for non-RedHat Linux distributions? I don't want to miss even one thing that I have to install.
I know that I can get the RPM program from the Linux distro installation routine, but I'm not sure about what to download, what to update, and what to install yet. I don't feel right typing in the "nodeps" option in RPM if I'm not sure I have everything right. I have yet to know how to work with the/dev/3dfx module idea, for as I feel more comfortable with a monolithic (module-less) kernel.
Will there be any extra instructions included for Linux newbies like myself to work with the software necessary for running Q3A in the first place?
Did anyone here remember the big-ass LCD monitor mentioned last month? I'd go for one, assuming the three monitor segments works with standard 15-pin monitor interfaces and does not require specific video cards that I wouldn't use.
I also want three 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 graphics cards for each one of the three sections of that big-ass monitor. Okay, I'll wait for the Voodoo4/5 stuff to come out...
A date with Ute Lemper. As long as I can learn something out of hanging out with a woman (which I'll be unable to do on my own without royally screwing up, I'll be fine).
A hands-on lesson on Linux from a Linux Users Group. Sure I can get the lastest Slackware distro or anything else of the matter, but using it is tough to me. Perhaps some time allocated to learning how to take care of my computer while using Linux will be great! I'd even bring my computer for such a thing.
Ticket to see my favorite shows: Chicago: The Musical, Contact, Putting it Together, Y2K, and so on.
An Airsoft (BB gun) replica of the Beretta 93R pistol -- the one modified as the gun used in Robocop. What!? Can't I find how's it like shooting 3 BB's at once?
A copy of Quake 3 Arena is always cool.
It's about time I need an optical mouse to play Q3A as well.
I don't see myself as capable of going to LV for Comdex (I'm too busy in college in New York), but what can I do for fun in LV if I was?
The only thing I can see myself doing in LV is to see Chicago: The Musical in the Mandalay Bay hotel, being that I did the same a few times in Broadway.
If anybody's going to Mandalay Bay during their trip to Comdex in LV (the hotel is 4.5 miles away from the Las Vegas Convention Center), can somebody tell actress Charlotte D'Amboise (from that Chicago show) that I (Kit Lo, a geek from Broadway who asked about her father) said hello?
If I were to bring my computer along (a self-assembled Pentium II/333 OC'd to 400MHz), I guess I can find out how can I make my Linux experience easier... and play Q3Test or something...
Besides, I am underage so I can't drink or gamble and stuff (I'm 19).
1. I noticed the Linux World Expo ad, and I can't help but to hear how the name "Linus Torvalds" is pronounced "Lee-nus Torvalds."
2. About Rob showing his radio butt: Well, if he actually eats tacos, don't let him do it! Either way, just don't let him do it!
3. Duhhhh... do I get any memory benefits if I listen to Eminem? Dr. Dre did a piece called "Guilty Conscience" with Eminem in the Slim Shady LP. That was cool, and stuff.
It's obvious that Jon's writings are getting farther and farther from making sense as with the essay from the Beamon kid.
[Regarding the essay:] Maybe it's better for this mess be written than the kid saying "SERENITY NOW!!!" If he were to be picked on. Perhaps the essay was made as an allegory for the results of being a messed-up SOB. The essay had nothing to do with being in a school setting, excepting the mention of the teacher. That reference just popped out of nowhere.
Call me back if someone writes a school shooting story in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Even better, a solution to the nerd (proletariat)/jock (bourgeois) wars written in the style of Marx.
[Regarding the Hellmouth situation in the long run:] This has nothing to do with the big picture of the nerd/jock wars that happened in our lives. That Beamon kid and his essay didn't represent me.
Watch what you say, or safer yet, don't speak at all.
Uh-uh. We have to tell the truth. Let my homies go.
1. Let's see... I would have to use three graphics cards for the three monitor segments... Does this mean I can use one video card with a TV tuner to watch TV in one screen? Has anybody at least tried a multi-monitor setup with one TV tuner/video card? Write an essay, watch Letterman, and read/. at the same time...
2. From the Panoramtech web page: composite video inputs require a video to RGBS interface. I'm not familiar with the RGBS interface. Is that the interface with the separate red, green, blue, and sync wires all ending with the BNC connectors?
3. Does anybody know where would somebody get a good wallpaper picture for multiple monitors?
4. I wonder who does the photos in the ads for Chicago: The Musical (especially the old NYC bus ad with superdiva Ute Lemper)? I can imagine a big-ass photo of Ute sprawling onscreen, reaching the length of all three screens (I think her legs can reach one screen and a half). The picture of her co-star Ruthie Henshall in the same show from a few years ago is a good example of what I'm talking about... Imagine that on the PV290!
Speaking of ATAPI, has anybody seen any SCSI DVD-ROM drives lately besides the HiVal offerings (with the drive made by Pioneer)? I'm more of the "give-me-SCSI-or-give-me-death" user. Are those drives bootable as well?
No, I am not using the Creative Labs stuff. IDE drives give me the chills...
I might have to look for a separate decoder some day. Something that has to work with Linux and Windoze...
As I browsed the After Y2K page, I saw a picture of what is supposed to be Illiad. Is that what Illiad is supposed to look like? What is the source picture Nitrozac for that drawing anyways?
Is it Just me, or is everybody in any given area or situation is showing off how they love each other in the most "in-your-face" of ways as a conspiracy? I have seen too many people "bragging" about how they have someone to love by doing anything short of making out in public to make me bitter about myself? Oh well, here goes the things for Roblimo to read...
Regarding Roblimo's words:
Don't Waste Your Time on Geek Girls:
How am I supposed to do so, while a big chunk of the women in the college I attend mistakens me for somebody more messed-up or they're more messed-up themselves. None of them will recognize me as a computer enthusiast or a budding theatre person, but only as a "freak for the ZBT fraternity guys to pick on." Either that, or they're too young for me to like (they're freshmen, and I'm a junior!? Ecch!).
There's More to Life Than Computing:
I don't know... I really don't know how to take the (if conflicting) interests of others. I am a person who is into a bit of anything (theatre, computers, computer games, and other forms of art), but I don't take certain things well (day-time and evening soap operas, pop artists with three-day half-lives, etc.).
Teenagers Take Heart: It Gets Better:
It's a great idea to put this in, for the fact that no one should assume anything about anybody else too hastily. This golden rule is too late for me nowadays, because I have been picked on by everybody in a "Hellmouth" long enough to have my blood made bitter. Wait a minute, I do have an admiration thing for women like Ute Lemper, Wendy Liebman, and so on to "protect" the semblance of my mind... I have to fix that as well.
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And now: Something from the creative side of my brain:
For my brain's source code -- a worklog of sorts:
Note: The "person" object in these worklogs only apply for person.gender == "female," for my sexual_orientation == "heterosexual" && gender == "male". The functions are within the categories of things to do for finding the right woman.
1. The source code for the Just_dont_give_a_fsck(person) function for the use of people who pissed me off is somewhat working, written after having a fascinating conversation with some actress by the name of Ruthie Henshall and gaining a moment of clarity right at the corner of 45th and Broadway. With a little bit of tweaking, it can be fully utilized for anybody else. 2. The function bob_bastard(void) (Invoked when ask_out_to_date(person) returns a "no" answer from said person -- written after watching the Dilbert TV show with the character of the same name), which changes the person.likes_you value to "no" for all persons in an array (from the college, from the whole city, from the whole planet, etc.), must be removed from source code ASAP. Anything else that bob_bastard will change should be taken care of. 3. The threshold within women_i_would_love_to_hang_out_with might've been cranked up too high (last known to be an "unreachable" person like "Ute Lemper," "Wendy Liebman," or "Ruthie Henshall"). This problem must be addressed as well quickly! 4. Figure out how free() is used for any of the malloc(sizeof(person)) instances to "forget" about the person who rejected me. If not, use Just_dont_give_a_fsck(person) to do a more thorough method to free() memories of said person. Otherwise, the leaked memory might cause bob_bastard to act even worse. 5. A better social skills-related API should be used. Something that is as thorough as the API used to make talking with Ruthie Henshall possible, but with more scope in terms of the types of persons that one can talk to (besides people who is known to be "unreachable") and does not involve the use of irrational fears. 6. Resist the tempation to edit the if/then clause for the determine_age(person) function in the determine_if_my_type(person) function. I ain't datin' anybody younger than myself!!! 7. If necessary, fix the bug that makes a person.age to be subtracted ten years if they're around my age. A young woman (18, 19 whatnot) should not be mistaken for 8- to 9-year old girls. 8. Last, but not least, leave the ethical subroutines alone!!! Most men ditch this stuff, but I shouldn't.
1. Read this little thing I made for the Gamecenter.com people. It's a reader-submitted thing, so I added a little something of a game that I wish I could see in stores.
2. Hemos posted this "How Not to Attract Geeks" crap!? Shame on you, Hemos! Does Rob have to get the paddle for bad posts?
3. Will nerds/geeks like us will ever get the proper training to talk to a girl? I can talk to "re-he-heally up there" women like singer/dancer/actress/painter/writer Ute Lemper, but not some girl in the educational equivalent of Siberia.
Will you guys plan to do an episode of "Geeks in Space" in a convention (as opposed to after the Atlanta Linux Showcase)? I noticed that the list of "Invited Community Projects and Nonprofits" in The Bazaar for New York City mentions/., so I'm planning to drop by and see the gang.
A moment of silence is in order for the copy of "Baldur's Gate" that was burnt in Hemos' home.
An obligatory plug for the Broadway show Chicago: The Musical should be here, but I don't know how to "wow" the guys so they will see the show.
Given the chance (1 in a billion) that if I have a child, I would wish him/her to be smart or as smarter as me. However, I would not wish the child to have any physical or developmental problems (be it autism or otherwise). Would Gary Chapman wished a child to have Asperger's syndrome in order to be smart? I better hope not.
Besides, I was not "born a geek" or something of the sorts. I sometimes think of myself as being "tempered" to be a nerd or a geek. Let's just say my older brother's computer from years ago was the anvil.
Asperger's syndrome patients, who usually develop their traits at a young age, often have these tendencies: excellent rote memory; fascination with fantasy worlds and arcane facts; facility with math and science; physical awkwardness or clumsiness and sometimes an unusual gait; hyperactivity but with an ability to focus on interesting problems for hours at a time; poor social understanding; hyper-verbal activity but without the ability to make contextual connections in conversations; and an appearance of insensitivity and eccentricity. They are commonly victims of teasing in school.
Okay, so I suck at math. I'm more interested in working with a computer than calculus. I don't feel or see myself as physically awkward. I do have an appearance of insensitivity (because of the so-called "normal folk"). I think the more-popular jocks (frat types and otherwise) and the girls (who can be easily described with a license plate that says "PMS 666") are the ones with the poor social understanding.
[Note: I got the "PMS 666" license plate thing from comedienne Wendy Liebman. Afterwards, nobody ever tried to cut her off when she's driving.]
Will O'Reilly and Associates have any plans to publish more computer humor books? I have been struck with the User Friendly Productivity Virus, and I also have read a few humor web pages along the way (mostly segfault.org). I would love to read something in the line of a compilation of the best stuff from the best of the funnies I have bumped into while reading/.
I am one more nerd/geek (can't decide which side) who is hard to categorize towards the "sci-fi enthusiast/code slinger" type. I have a healthy amount of t-shirts from computer shows and stuff, but I am the one who feels better in a suit and tie.
While most of the media thinks that geeks/nerds are reclusive, I have more of a jonesin' to leave the house (and it's not only for some big movie like something in the "Star Wars" series). I feel better watching shows on- and off-broadway.
I guess this stereotyping crap came after WWII, from the folks who want their kids to be more like the athletic type to be ready for something like a draft for some war in the future. I guess they [the old-school stereotypical 1950's parents you might've heard of somewhere in a little corner of you mind] would have the desire for the boys to be the brawny type after WWII, but not a desire for the brainy type (boys and girls who pursue the intellectual pursuits). It's like the need to add the first two digits of the year in computer information, leading to the Y2K crap that some people are fearing. The majority doesn't know they need it [the year digits in computer info AND the respect towards what the people called "geeks" or "nerds"], until at the last minute.
We should find more different nerd/geek types. It should be like the crew of "Star Trek" meeting new lifeforms and new civilizations or something...
[Sometimes, I question myself if I was ever a nerd or geek, but I'll try this writeup anyways...]
What makes me a nerd:
I built my own computer, and knows what to do to make it run as long as possible.
I work in the "internet café" in my college, as an assisstant if somebody has some problems with the computers
I occasionally play computer games. I have to get back to "Starsiege: Tribes" more often.
What makes me "not nerdy enough:"
I haven't try Linux officially yet. I'll install everything when I get home from my vacation... I have the RedHat distribution CD-ROM's already.
I hated programming class and calculus in college. I'm more into the hardware aspects of a computer than the software.
My job (in its current schedule) gives me time to relax in the weekends. I can see myself working on assignments, fencing, TV/Radio stuff next semester...
If you can see my wardrobe, you can see a healthy amount of computer-product-related t-shirts (a few from a Java convention), a Novell anti-piracy shirt, and so on. But you will also see a business suit. I'm not going to treat that suit as an interview-only suit, but something to be work in my regular wardrobe rotation.
I should lay off the "in the privacy of my own home" sex stuff often.
What makes me "not nerd-like at all:"
I'm into getting out of the house more often. I live in New York City, so I can drop by in Manhattan, and do anything to my heart's content.
I have a budding interest of watching shows in and outside Broadway. I am recently getting flak from a few "outsiders" for being into computers and the performing arts without being gay or something. It's like they're forcing me back into my home office or something...
I think I am the only person who can survive listening to showtunes and metal.
Well, do I have any hope in finding a gf? Will I? Am I too reclusive? Are my interests too limited? Who knows?
[Note: I just saw American Pie today. After the movie, I felt a sense of hope for my disused-since-birth love life -- for a millisecond.]
I still can't see why the hell "American Pie" has something to do with the Columbine killings. It's obvious that question has no answer, but the idiotic politicians (and the multiplex managers) have this done to a T. [mumbling: damn PHB's...]
The kind of jerks who are happened to be portrayed in American Pie (The Sherman kid and that Stiffler character), being the typical crap that I might have faced in my Hellmouth days (and would've been shot in an alternative universe), got their just desserts (no pun intended). They lost, and the four kids (even the Finch kid -- kinda reminds me of myself) finally got the chance to do what they wanted to do without killing any of the jerks in revenge.
[Note: when I get back to college, I am going to face a few of those aforementioned turds again. I have to face a pathological liar of a girl who asked me out on a date (and "forgets" that she has a bf), and a Jewish yenta-type who calls me every name on the book. As ED-209 [from the movie Robocop] would say, "I am authorized to use physical force."]
[Regarding the Atlanta killings with that Mark Barton freak:]
Well, day trading sounds like a messy proposition to me. I guess folks in companies really hate it when investors put in money, only to see it taken away a few seconds later. It's not like it's making a movie about a few guys in a learning experience as they try to get laid.
Even worse, the killer [Mark Barton] killed his family because of this idiotic idea to make money. As opposed to the Hellmouth situations [leading to the Columbine incident], Mark did this day-trading-to-killing-everybody stuff all on his own, and blamed everybody else "that greedily sought his destruction." or something. One strike for "mature, responsible adults" out there who do day trading as an extreme sport.
[Regarding the alternative of setting up home theater stuff than going to the multiplex:]
How much is a DVD-ROM drive and the video decoding stuff costs anyways? I can't wait to see "Saving Private Ryan" in my home office. The violence can be unsettling (duh), but we know what's it for, right [being that the movie takes place in WWII]? Should I wait for Plextor to make any SCSI DVD-ROM stuff first?
1. Is he [Katz] advocating that a.) one should boycott big multiplex-style movie theaters, b.) find bootlegs over the Internet instead of going through the theaters, or c.) let "them youngens" watch the "South Park" movie? Can't he make up his mind?
2. What kind of an audience is the movie (and the TV show) made for anyways? Isn't it for anybody *who can take the Uncle F'er thing without cursing like Terrence & Phillip in Real Life?* I think the 14- to 15-year olds would do that, as opposed to the more "mature" types.
3. Does anybody have the news article on something about some teens beating up a ticket seller after the ticket seller refused to let them teens in to watch "American Pie?" I just heard about that from a TV show ("Late Night with Conan O'Brien"), but I want to see a news article or something of the sorts.
4. I think I should stick to watching plays and/or musicals. My fave musical ("Chicago: The Musical" on Broadway) is about a woman who becomes famous for killing a lover and getting away with it. However, I do see little kids watching the big show with their parents. Uh-oh...
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Well, the Techno-Talking Babes have tried to fix reality and returned to their own future, but they will not be able to see the alternative reality that we are living in because of the "Real Millennium Bug" reacting with the effects of the chrono-tidal wave that whipped the TTB's back in their world (?). The Geek did have a problem with his abacus, after all.
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I know Tribes does not have its source code published under the GPL, but how does the Tribes engine work out the "who's the nearest player" information sent from the server to the client?
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I should've gotten a tape recorder during "The Bazaar." You would've had yourself an action figure that will say "Cute Little Hemos!"
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I knew the finals week was in the way for the big chunk of people who would've gone to the Bazaar, but it's better this way because I didn't have to be trampled by them. I think the LinuxWorld Expo would require more space in the Javits Convention Center for college folks to move around. I wish I could buy a Slashdot t-shirt from Copyleft
From now on, we shall call Jeff Bates "Cute Little Hemos!"
I can't wait for LWE!
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Hmmm... The room has to be sealed (from bodily fluids as mentioned from posts above and below), but how about the amount of life support (air) required in the room? Sex is a very intense activity to the heart (and the lungs, which would I guess need a lot of air). (Oh, great! The room has a busted CO2 filter!)
birth in space?
For health reasons, it's better not to have a pregnant woman in space to give birth. If the lack of gravity can weaken the adult body (weakens the bone structure and all -- the reason people worried about John Glenn in space in November 1998), what would zero gravity do to the newborn's body?
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Okay, the Linux package of Quake 3 will have SuSE Linux 6.3. However, the Linux drivers for my 3D graphics card (the 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 -- OC'd to 166MHz in Windoze) from 3dfxgamers.com are in RPM format. Is the installation routine for these drivers going to be a pain (from all of them dependency messages) for non-RedHat Linux distributions? I don't want to miss even one thing that I have to install.
/dev/3dfx module idea, for as I feel more comfortable with a monolithic (module-less) kernel.
I know that I can get the RPM program from the Linux distro installation routine, but I'm not sure about what to download, what to update, and what to install yet. I don't feel right typing in the "nodeps" option in RPM if I'm not sure I have everything right. I have yet to know how to work with the
Will there be any extra instructions included for Linux newbies like myself to work with the software necessary for running Q3A in the first place?
Well, that's about it.
I don't see myself as capable of going to LV for Comdex (I'm too busy in college in New York), but what can I do for fun in LV if I was?
The only thing I can see myself doing in LV is to see Chicago: The Musical in the Mandalay Bay hotel, being that I did the same a few times in Broadway.
If anybody's going to Mandalay Bay during their trip to Comdex in LV (the hotel is 4.5 miles away from the Las Vegas Convention Center), can somebody tell actress Charlotte D'Amboise (from that Chicago show) that I (Kit Lo, a geek from Broadway who asked about her father) said hello?
If I were to bring my computer along (a self-assembled Pentium II/333 OC'd to 400MHz), I guess I can find out how can I make my Linux experience easier... and play Q3Test or something...
Besides, I am underage so I can't drink or gamble and stuff (I'm 19).
1. I noticed the Linux World Expo ad, and I can't help but to hear how the name "Linus Torvalds" is pronounced "Lee-nus Torvalds."
2. About Rob showing his radio butt: Well, if he actually eats tacos, don't let him do it! Either way, just don't let him do it!
3. Duhhhh... do I get any memory benefits if I listen to Eminem? Dr. Dre did a piece called "Guilty Conscience" with Eminem in the Slim Shady LP. That was cool, and stuff.
It's obvious that Jon's writings are getting farther and farther from making sense as with the essay from the Beamon kid.
[Regarding the essay:]
Maybe it's better for this mess be written than the kid saying "SERENITY NOW!!!" If he were to be picked on. Perhaps the essay was made as an allegory for the results of being a messed-up SOB. The essay had nothing to do with being in a school setting, excepting the mention of the teacher. That reference just popped out of nowhere.
Call me back if someone writes a school shooting story in the style of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Even better, a solution to the nerd (proletariat)/jock (bourgeois) wars written in the style of Marx.
[Regarding the Hellmouth situation in the long run:]
This has nothing to do with the big picture of the nerd/jock wars that happened in our lives. That Beamon kid and his essay didn't represent me.
Watch what you say, or safer yet, don't speak at all.
Uh-uh. We have to tell the truth. Let my homies go.
1. Let's see... I would have to use three graphics cards for the three monitor segments... Does this mean I can use one video card with a TV tuner to watch TV in one screen? Has anybody at least tried a multi-monitor setup with one TV tuner/video card? Write an essay, watch Letterman, and read /. at the same time...
2. From the Panoramtech web page: composite video inputs require a video to RGBS interface. I'm not familiar with the RGBS interface. Is that the interface with the separate red, green, blue, and sync wires all ending with the BNC connectors?
3. Does anybody know where would somebody get a good wallpaper picture for multiple monitors?
4. I wonder who does the photos in the ads for Chicago: The Musical (especially the old NYC bus ad with superdiva Ute Lemper)? I can imagine a big-ass photo of Ute sprawling onscreen, reaching the length of all three screens (I think her legs can reach one screen and a half). The picture of her co-star Ruthie Henshall in the same show from a few years ago is a good example of what I'm talking about... Imagine that on the PV290!
Speaking of ATAPI, has anybody seen any SCSI DVD-ROM drives lately besides the HiVal offerings (with the drive made by Pioneer)? I'm more of the "give-me-SCSI-or-give-me-death" user. Are those drives bootable as well?
No, I am not using the Creative Labs stuff. IDE drives give me the chills...
I might have to look for a separate decoder some day. Something that has to work with Linux and Windoze...
As I browsed the After Y2K page, I saw a picture of what is supposed to be Illiad. Is that what Illiad is supposed to look like? What is the source picture Nitrozac for that drawing anyways?
Is it Just me, or is everybody in any given area or situation is showing off how they love each other in the most "in-your-face" of ways as a conspiracy? I have seen too many people "bragging" about how they have someone to love by doing anything short of making out in public to make me bitter about myself? Oh well, here goes the things for Roblimo to read...
Regarding Roblimo's words:
Don't Waste Your Time on Geek Girls:
How am I supposed to do so, while a big chunk of the women in the college I attend mistakens me for somebody more messed-up or they're more messed-up themselves. None of them will recognize me as a computer enthusiast or a budding theatre person, but only as a "freak for the ZBT fraternity guys to pick on." Either that, or they're too young for me to like (they're freshmen, and I'm a junior!? Ecch!).
There's More to Life Than Computing:
I don't know... I really don't know how to take the (if conflicting) interests of others. I am a person who is into a bit of anything (theatre, computers, computer games, and other forms of art), but I don't take certain things well (day-time and evening soap operas, pop artists with three-day half-lives, etc.).
Teenagers Take Heart: It Gets Better:
It's a great idea to put this in, for the fact that no one should assume anything about anybody else too hastily. This golden rule is too late for me nowadays, because I have been picked on by everybody in a "Hellmouth" long enough to have my blood made bitter. Wait a minute, I do have an admiration thing for women like Ute Lemper, Wendy Liebman, and so on to "protect" the semblance of my mind... I have to fix that as well.
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And now: Something from the creative side of my brain:
For my brain's source code -- a worklog of sorts:
Note: The "person" object in these worklogs only apply for person.gender == "female," for my sexual_orientation == "heterosexual" && gender == "male". The functions are within the categories of things to do for finding the right woman.
1. The source code for the Just_dont_give_a_fsck(person) function for the use of people who pissed me off is somewhat working, written after having a fascinating conversation with some actress by the name of Ruthie Henshall and gaining a moment of clarity right at the corner of 45th and Broadway. With a little bit of tweaking, it can be fully utilized for anybody else.
2. The function bob_bastard(void) (Invoked when ask_out_to_date(person) returns a "no" answer from said person -- written after watching the Dilbert TV show with the character of the same name), which changes the person.likes_you value to "no" for all persons in an array (from the college, from the whole city, from the whole planet, etc.), must be removed from source code ASAP. Anything else that bob_bastard will change should be taken care of.
3. The threshold within women_i_would_love_to_hang_out_with might've been cranked up too high (last known to be an "unreachable" person like "Ute Lemper," "Wendy Liebman," or "Ruthie Henshall"). This problem must be addressed as well quickly!
4. Figure out how free() is used for any of the malloc(sizeof(person)) instances to "forget" about the person who rejected me. If not, use Just_dont_give_a_fsck(person) to do a more thorough method to free() memories of said person. Otherwise, the leaked memory might cause bob_bastard to act even worse.
5. A better social skills-related API should be used. Something that is as thorough as the API used to make talking with Ruthie Henshall possible, but with more scope in terms of the types of persons that one can talk to (besides people who is known to be "unreachable") and does not involve the use of irrational fears.
6. Resist the tempation to edit the if/then clause for the determine_age(person) function in the determine_if_my_type(person) function. I ain't datin' anybody younger than myself!!!
7. If necessary, fix the bug that makes a person.age to be subtracted ten years if they're around my age. A young woman (18, 19 whatnot) should not be mistaken for 8- to 9-year old girls.
8. Last, but not least, leave the ethical subroutines alone!!! Most men ditch this stuff, but I shouldn't.
1. Read this little thing I made for the Gamecenter.com people. It's a reader-submitted thing, so I added a little something of a game that I wish I could see in stores.
2. Hemos posted this "How Not to Attract Geeks" crap!? Shame on you, Hemos! Does Rob have to get the paddle for bad posts?
3. Will nerds/geeks like us will ever get the proper training to talk to a girl? I can talk to "re-he-heally up there" women like singer/dancer/actress/painter/writer Ute Lemper, but not some girl in the educational equivalent of Siberia.
- What equipment is used for recording the show?
- Will you guys plan to do an episode of "Geeks in Space" in a convention (as opposed to after the Atlanta Linux Showcase)? I noticed that the list of "Invited Community Projects and Nonprofits" in The Bazaar for New York City mentions
/., so I'm planning to drop by and see the gang. - A moment of silence is in order for the copy of "Baldur's Gate" that was burnt in Hemos' home.
An obligatory plug for the Broadway show Chicago: The Musical should be here, but I don't know how to "wow" the guys so they will see the show.Given the chance (1 in a billion) that if I have a child, I would wish him/her to be smart or as smarter as me. However, I would not wish the child to have any physical or developmental problems (be it autism or otherwise). Would Gary Chapman wished a child to have Asperger's syndrome in order to be smart? I better hope not.
Besides, I was not "born a geek" or something of the sorts. I sometimes think of myself as being "tempered" to be a nerd or a geek. Let's just say my older brother's computer from years ago was the anvil.
Asperger's syndrome patients, who usually develop their traits at a
young age, often have these tendencies: excellent rote memory;
fascination with fantasy worlds and arcane facts; facility with math and
science; physical awkwardness or clumsiness and sometimes an unusual
gait; hyperactivity but with an ability to focus on interesting problems for
hours at a time; poor social understanding; hyper-verbal activity but
without the ability to make contextual connections in conversations; and
an appearance of insensitivity and eccentricity. They are commonly
victims of teasing in school.
Okay, so I suck at math. I'm more interested in working with a computer than calculus. I don't feel or see myself as physically awkward. I do have an appearance of insensitivity (because of the so-called "normal folk"). I think the more-popular jocks (frat types and otherwise) and the girls (who can be easily described with a license plate that says "PMS 666") are the ones with the poor social understanding.
[Note: I got the "PMS 666" license plate thing from comedienne Wendy Liebman. Afterwards, nobody ever tried to cut her off when she's driving.]
Will O'Reilly and Associates have any plans to publish more computer humor books? I have been struck with the User Friendly Productivity Virus, and I also have read a few humor web pages along the way (mostly segfault.org). I would love to read something in the line of a compilation of the best stuff from the best of the funnies I have bumped into while reading /.
I am one more nerd/geek (can't decide which side) who is hard to categorize towards the
"sci-fi enthusiast/code slinger" type. I have a healthy amount of t-shirts from computer shows and stuff, but I am the one who feels better in a suit and tie.
While most of the media thinks that geeks/nerds are reclusive, I have more of a jonesin' to leave the house (and it's not only for some big movie like something in the "Star Wars" series). I feel better watching shows on- and off-broadway.
I guess this stereotyping crap came after WWII, from the folks who want their kids to be more like the athletic type to be ready for something like a draft for some war in the future. I guess they [the old-school stereotypical 1950's parents you might've heard of somewhere in a little corner of you mind] would have the desire for the boys to be the brawny type after WWII, but not a desire for the brainy type (boys and girls who pursue the intellectual pursuits). It's like the need to add the first two digits of the year in computer information, leading to the Y2K crap that some people are fearing. The majority doesn't know they need it [the year digits in computer info AND the respect towards what the people called "geeks" or "nerds"], until at the last minute.
We should find more different nerd/geek types. It should be like the crew of "Star Trek" meeting new lifeforms and new civilizations or something...
What makes me a nerd:
What makes me "not nerdy enough:"
What makes me "not nerd-like at all:"
Well, do I have any hope in finding a gf? Will I? Am I too reclusive? Are my interests too limited? Who knows?
B) Leave the Jews alone.
Sure. It's just that one jerk of a girl I should face.
[Note: I just saw American Pie today. After the movie, I felt a sense of hope for my disused-since-birth love life -- for a millisecond.]
I still can't see why the hell "American Pie" has something to do with the Columbine killings. It's obvious that question has no answer, but the idiotic politicians (and the multiplex managers) have this done to a T. [mumbling: damn PHB's...]
The kind of jerks who are happened to be portrayed in American Pie (The Sherman kid and that Stiffler character), being the typical crap that I might have faced in my Hellmouth days (and would've been shot in an alternative universe), got their just desserts (no pun intended). They lost, and the four kids (even the Finch kid -- kinda reminds me of myself) finally got the chance to do what they wanted to do without killing any of the jerks in revenge.
[Note: when I get back to college, I am going to face a few of those aforementioned turds again. I have to face a pathological liar of a girl who asked me out on a date (and "forgets" that she has a bf), and a Jewish yenta-type who calls me every name on the book. As ED-209 [from the movie Robocop] would say, "I am authorized to use physical force."]
[Regarding the Atlanta killings with that Mark Barton freak:]
Well, day trading sounds like a messy proposition to me. I guess folks in companies really hate it when investors put in money, only to see it taken away a few seconds later. It's not like it's making a movie about a few guys in a learning experience as they try to get laid.
Even worse, the killer [Mark Barton] killed his family because of this idiotic idea to make money. As opposed to the Hellmouth situations [leading to the Columbine incident], Mark did this day-trading-to-killing-everybody stuff all on his own, and blamed everybody else "that greedily sought his destruction." or something. One strike for "mature, responsible adults" out there who do day trading as an extreme sport.
[Regarding the alternative of setting up home theater stuff than going to the multiplex:]
How much is a DVD-ROM drive and the video decoding stuff costs anyways? I can't wait to see "Saving Private Ryan" in my home office. The violence can be unsettling (duh), but we know what's it for, right [being that the movie takes place in WWII]? Should I wait for Plextor to make any SCSI DVD-ROM stuff first?
1. Is he [Katz] advocating that a.) one should boycott big multiplex-style movie theaters, b.) find bootlegs over the Internet instead of going through the theaters, or c.) let "them youngens" watch the "South Park" movie? Can't he make up his mind?
2. What kind of an audience is the movie (and the TV show) made for anyways? Isn't it for anybody *who can take the Uncle F'er thing without cursing like Terrence & Phillip in Real Life?* I think the 14- to 15-year olds would do that, as opposed to the more "mature" types.
3. Does anybody have the news article on something about some teens beating up a ticket seller after the ticket seller refused to let them teens in to watch "American Pie?" I just heard about that from a TV show ("Late Night with Conan O'Brien"), but I want to see a news article or something of the sorts.
4. I think I should stick to watching plays and/or musicals. My fave musical ("Chicago: The Musical" on Broadway) is about a woman who becomes famous for killing a lover and getting away with it. However, I do see little kids watching the big show with their parents. Uh-oh...