For even more fun, don't forget about the Jesus actor in the Passion of Christ being struck by lightning during the filming. The assistant director was hit twice. Probably a pissed off God -- mad that it's supposed to be realistic, what with the Aramaic and all, but Mel Gibson used a white Jesus.
And then there's Roy Sullivan. A quick google turned this up:
Roy Cleveland Sullivan was a Forest Ranger in Virginia who had an incredible attraction to lightning... or rather it had an attraction to him. Over his 36-year career as a ranger, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times - and survived each jolt, but not unscathed. When struck for the first time in 1942, he suffered the loss of a nail on his big toe. Twenty-seven years passed before he was struck again, this time by a bolt that singed his eyebrows off. The next year, in 1970, another strike burned Sullivan's left shoulder. Now it looked as though lightning had it out for poor Roy, and people were starting to call him The Human Lightning Rod. He didn't disappoint them. Lightning zapped him again in 1972, setting his hair on fire and convincing him to keep a container of water in his car, just in case. The water came in handy in 1973 when, seemly just to taunt Sullivan, a low-hanging cloud shot a bolt of lightning at his head, blasting him out of his car, setting his hair on fire and knocking off a shoe. The sixth strike in 1976 injured his ankle, and the seventh strike in 1977, got him when he was fishing, and put him in the hospital for treatment of chest and stomach burns. Lightning may not have been able to kill Roy Sullivan, but perhaps the threat of it did. He took his own life in 1983. Two of his lightning-singed ranger hats are on display at Guinness World Exhibit Halls.
It's not just music. Ulink.net shut down part of my site when I was still hosted by them after receiving a complaint from the Beverly Hills police department for "displaying children with pornography". It was a background picture of the Trix rabbit saying "tits are for kids". Didn't bother telling me about either. It was shut down for days before I noticed and sent them an email asking what was going on.
Ulink quote: We have been contacted by authorities regarding your displaying of a child star on a page with pornography. For your own protection we had to take down that page or you could be in serious trouble. In the future, please do not display pornography and children together. It is against the law and Ulink policies.
Going after the money would be more effective. Sure, we can't go into China and Russia, but we can make life HELL for USA spammers. If we make it unprofitable here and send more of them to jail, that'll stop most of the jerks. Even if it's just Scott Richter that goes to jail, that'll put a major dent in the action.
A ha (get it?), I'll mock you for mocking him. The Monkees were from the 60s but did a rehash in the 1980s. Who's noobing who? (get it?). Damn, I need a third 80s joke. I'd buy that for a dollar!
Man, I'd love to try this when I'm riding round the world on a tiny (250cc) motorcycle. Can't power anything with the bike's magneto though. It'd be great to have a webcast run through a satellite phone. That way/.'ers could watch me die of thirst in the Outback while bitching about my connection and what version of linux I should've been using.
My sister manages a large retail store. When someone calls to complain, the employee CANNOT hang up on them.
She uses that to her advantage when she calls other companies. Help lines, just like support lines, are motivated to get off the line as fast as possible. If you don't hang up, just keep repeating your question letting them answer it over and over. It makes the person answering the phone look bad because their call time increases. Usually, but not always, they'll go out of their way to get you off the phone.
Back when I was working on cars, the diagnostics charge were for jerks, annoying people (separate from jerks) and, sorry to say, women. Nothing like getting shot down quickly when you say, "Man, that sucks".
But that's just on the stuff you can figure out quickly. Something confusing, like an electronic problem, will be billed hourly. And no one likes to hear, "I might find the problem in 30 seconds and I might find it in 4 hours."
All in all, be nice to mechanics and clean and wash your car before going in. People with clean & nice cars don't get nickle & dimed as much as slobs (like me) with dirty cars.
Man, that's the funniest. Laughing out loud at work when you're by yourself is great. And then laughing even harder when it's modded "Insightful".
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Part of that is because the US dollar tanked. I've read that in the EU gas has risen 2-4% so while it's gone up in the EU it's not nearly as bad as the US.
You should try reading William Clark's essay. It's about the US dollar vs the Euro being used by oil producing countries.
Are you saying PETA destroyed any credibility with "holocaust on your plate"? That's where PETA compared bacon to millions of dead Jews, Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, Slavs (Poles, Russians, and others), Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. If so, you're crazy. It's obviously the same thing, as any Hannibal Lector will tell you.
I dropped eBay after being sniped out of more than a dozen auctions where I was leading until the last 15 seconds.
Without this meaning to sound as snotty as it will -- huh? What are you talking about? It's an AUCTION. You bid the most you're willing to pay and then ignore the auction until it's over. If it tops what you're willing to pay, you've lost nothing.
Of course, a lot of the time, you get stuff at a lower price if you make your bid in the last 10 seconds of an auction. And eBay should extend an auction by another 5 minutes when someone bids in the last 30 seconds. But if you want to boycott eBay because you aren't bidding enough, you're loony. The loony part was meant to sound snotty, not the other part.
That sounds like the best idea if you don't want paper. I looked into it too. Old PDA that runs off AA rechargebles and a fold-up keyboard.
Although after screwing with it, I figure a paper notebook would be better. I like having something to screw around with. Easy to flip through, insert stuff into and something permanent. Electronic copies just aren't as neat as paper.
When I type my travel reports, I'll be able to edit them down.
I like Austin too, but I was expecting to. I think I was just surprised at how nice Denton was. I've been there a couple times. I've been to Texas 3 or 4 times and drove across it once. At some point I'll make it to Corpus Christi. I've always been curious about what Texas is like that deep.
They started selling Shiner Bock up here. I'd love to tour their brewery.
Jesse Lucious from the band Blatz was arrested for playing naked and had to register as a sex offender. Or maybe that's just a rumor. It's hard to tell with East Bay bands starting their own rumors.
Yeah, life's fun like that. I'm pretty cautious. 10 years of motorcycle riding and I haven't gone down yet. I know it's coming though. The best train of thought is to assume everyone is out to get you, and no matter where you are, someone's going to turn in front of you.
But veering as you said, I'm just looking for a reliable way to load photos onto my site from an internet cafe. No idea what sort of computers are around the world, so I figure burn 'em onto a cd. It'd be the easiest way of loading them, I think.
The photos look pretty nice. I don't think most internet cafes are going to let me load drivers onto their computers. Which is a big reason of why I'd like to burn the pictures onto a cd.
I'm leaning towards an Addonics MFR, but I'm still looking around.
Thanks for warning me about problems with vibration. I've started doing some research on the Sony Mavica CD cameras and haven't found anything about how well they hold up. But I'm looking for something that runs off AA batteries because I'll rig up a solar recharger on my bike.
I wish there was an "adventure photographer" site where I could find out what works and what doesn't work. I'm not sure how modern most internet cafe computers are. That's why I'm uncertain what method to use for uploading pictures to my site.
Old Ducatis are 6 volt typically running with a 40 or 60 watt alternator. This bike will be updated with a 12 volt system and a (Honda or Yamaha) electronic ignition instead of points. I'm not sure how many watts the alternator will put out.
When I asked about trickle charging a laptop battery before, it wasn't working out. It got a lot of "you're an idiot" type responses, but the helpful ones said even if it works, trickle charging is hell on laptop batteries.
I forwarded the good responses to an electronic engineer who restores old Ducatis. He was going to build something for me, but it didn't seem like it'd work out based on his knowledge and training and the helpful posts from slashdot.
Part of why it's going to be a long trip is I'll be looking for under the table jobs. The US dollar tanking took away most of the money I was going to travel on. The price of my bike has gone way up. And I'm 34 which is basically middle aged, with the average American male living to be 75.
Filthy rich is what Ewan MacGregor is. Him and a pal are riding round the world with brand new BMW bikes. While being followed by a film team in 4x4 trucks. They're doing their trip in 3 1/2 months.
I'd thought about doing this for years, but kept postponing it. It took a couple near death experiences to get me off my lazy ass. I'm now epileptic thanks to the last time I was nearly murdered. Still have a problem remembering nouns and it took a month before I could follow the plot on sitcoms.
I want to document the trip, as I'm doing it. Sort of a letter home so that family and friends will know what's happening.
Thanks for the Austin offer, it's almost as nice as Denton (most of the places I've been in the US have been in a band and Denton is great). I love Shiner Bock. Is LocalAustin your site? I'll file it and next time I'm there (3 years more or less), I'll email you.
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For even more fun, don't forget about the Jesus actor in the Passion of Christ being struck by lightning during the filming. The assistant director was hit twice. Probably a pissed off God -- mad that it's supposed to be realistic, what with the Aramaic and all, but Mel Gibson used a white Jesus.
And then there's Roy Sullivan. A quick google turned this up:
Roy Cleveland Sullivan was a Forest Ranger in Virginia who had an incredible attraction to lightning... or rather it had an attraction to him. Over his 36-year career as a ranger, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times - and survived each jolt, but not unscathed. When struck for the first time in 1942, he suffered the loss of a nail on his big toe. Twenty-seven years passed before he was struck again, this time by a bolt that singed his eyebrows off. The next year, in 1970, another strike burned Sullivan's left shoulder. Now it looked as though lightning had it out for poor Roy, and people were starting to call him The Human Lightning Rod. He didn't disappoint them. Lightning zapped him again in 1972, setting his hair on fire and convincing him to keep a container of water in his car, just in case. The water came in handy in 1973 when, seemly just to taunt Sullivan, a low-hanging cloud shot a bolt of lightning at his head, blasting him out of his car, setting his hair on fire and knocking off a shoe. The sixth strike in 1976 injured his ankle, and the seventh strike in 1977, got him when he was fishing, and put him in the hospital for treatment of chest and stomach burns. Lightning may not have been able to kill Roy Sullivan, but perhaps the threat of it did. He took his own life in 1983. Two of his lightning-singed ranger hats are on display at Guinness World Exhibit Halls.
It's not just music. Ulink.net shut down part of my site when I was still hosted by them after receiving a complaint from the Beverly Hills police department for "displaying children with pornography". It was a background picture of the Trix rabbit saying "tits are for kids". Didn't bother telling me about either. It was shut down for days before I noticed and sent them an email asking what was going on.
7th Heaven sarcasm
Ulink quote:
We have been contacted by authorities regarding your displaying of a child star on a page with pornography. For your own protection we had to take down that page or you could be in serious trouble. In the future, please do not display pornography and children together. It is against the law and Ulink policies.
Unlike the dumb Italian teamstears who beat people with baseball bats
Hey, You're leaving the mobsters from the USA out of that.
Sin-cerely,
Jimmy Hoffa
Going after the money would be more effective. Sure, we can't go into China and Russia, but we can make life HELL for USA spammers. If we make it unprofitable here and send more of them to jail, that'll stop most of the jerks. Even if it's just Scott Richter that goes to jail, that'll put a major dent in the action.
A ha (get it?), I'll mock you for mocking him. The Monkees were from the 60s but did a rehash in the 1980s. Who's noobing who? (get it?). Damn, I need a third 80s joke. I'd buy that for a dollar!
Man, I'd love to try this when I'm riding round the world on a tiny (250cc) motorcycle. Can't power anything with the bike's magneto though. It'd be great to have a webcast run through a satellite phone. That way /.'ers could watch me die of thirst in the Outback while bitching about my connection and what version of linux I should've been using.
My sister manages a large retail store. When someone calls to complain, the employee CANNOT hang up on them.
She uses that to her advantage when she calls other companies. Help lines, just like support lines, are motivated to get off the line as fast as possible. If you don't hang up, just keep repeating your question letting them answer it over and over. It makes the person answering the phone look bad because their call time increases. Usually, but not always, they'll go out of their way to get you off the phone.
Back when I was working on cars, the diagnostics charge were for jerks, annoying people (separate from jerks) and, sorry to say, women. Nothing like getting shot down quickly when you say, "Man, that sucks".
But that's just on the stuff you can figure out quickly. Something confusing, like an electronic problem, will be billed hourly. And no one likes to hear, "I might find the problem in 30 seconds and I might find it in 4 hours."
All in all, be nice to mechanics and clean and wash your car before going in. People with clean & nice cars don't get nickle & dimed as much as slobs (like me) with dirty cars.
http://www.vintagepork.com/ isn't working, damn it. What's it about?
Man, that's the funniest. Laughing out loud at work when you're by yourself is great. And then laughing even harder when it's modded "Insightful".
Part of that is because the US dollar tanked. I've read that in the EU gas has risen 2-4% so while it's gone up in the EU it's not nearly as bad as the US.
You should try reading William Clark's essay. It's about the US dollar vs the Euro being used by oil producing countries.
Are you saying PETA destroyed any credibility with "holocaust on your plate"? That's where PETA compared bacon to millions of dead Jews, Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, Slavs (Poles, Russians, and others), Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. If so, you're crazy. It's obviously the same thing, as any Hannibal Lector will tell you.
You chose one at random, preferably one without a gallery picture because those sell for more, and bid your budget on that one.
If there's a dozen items of the same thing that all end at the same time, there's got to be others out there.
I dropped eBay after being sniped out of more than a dozen auctions where I was leading until the last 15 seconds.
Without this meaning to sound as snotty as it will -- huh? What are you talking about? It's an AUCTION. You bid the most you're willing to pay and then ignore the auction until it's over. If it tops what you're willing to pay, you've lost nothing.
Of course, a lot of the time, you get stuff at a lower price if you make your bid in the last 10 seconds of an auction. And eBay should extend an auction by another 5 minutes when someone bids in the last 30 seconds. But if you want to boycott eBay because you aren't bidding enough, you're loony. The loony part was meant to sound snotty, not the other part.
That sounds like the best idea if you don't want paper. I looked into it too. Old PDA that runs off AA rechargebles and a fold-up keyboard.
Although after screwing with it, I figure a paper notebook would be better. I like having something to screw around with. Easy to flip through, insert stuff into and something permanent. Electronic copies just aren't as neat as paper.
When I type my travel reports, I'll be able to edit them down.
I like Austin too, but I was expecting to. I think I was just surprised at how nice Denton was. I've been there a couple times. I've been to Texas 3 or 4 times and drove across it once. At some point I'll make it to Corpus Christi. I've always been curious about what Texas is like that deep.
They started selling Shiner Bock up here. I'd love to tour their brewery.
Jesse Lucious from the band Blatz was arrested for playing naked and had to register as a sex offender. Or maybe that's just a rumor. It's hard to tell with East Bay bands starting their own rumors.
Yeah, life's fun like that. I'm pretty cautious. 10 years of motorcycle riding and I haven't gone down yet. I know it's coming though. The best train of thought is to assume everyone is out to get you, and no matter where you are, someone's going to turn in front of you.
But veering as you said, I'm just looking for a reliable way to load photos onto my site from an internet cafe. No idea what sort of computers are around the world, so I figure burn 'em onto a cd. It'd be the easiest way of loading them, I think.
The photos look pretty nice. I don't think most internet cafes are going to let me load drivers onto their computers. Which is a big reason of why I'd like to burn the pictures onto a cd.
I'm leaning towards an Addonics MFR, but I'm still looking around.
The alternator doesn't put out enough power. Even on newer bikes, there's often problems with powering heated suits.
Thanks for warning me about problems with vibration. I've started doing some research on the Sony Mavica CD cameras and haven't found anything about how well they hold up. But I'm looking for something that runs off AA batteries because I'll rig up a solar recharger on my bike.
I wish there was an "adventure photographer" site where I could find out what works and what doesn't work. I'm not sure how modern most internet cafe computers are. That's why I'm uncertain what method to use for uploading pictures to my site.
No, they're still a bit early with the press release. Being 40 days late for an April Fool's joke seems to be too early for John Carmack.
But who's going to sign it?
Howdy Tau Zero,
Old Ducatis are 6 volt typically running with a 40 or 60 watt alternator. This bike will be updated with a 12 volt system and a (Honda or Yamaha) electronic ignition instead of points. I'm not sure how many watts the alternator will put out.
When I asked about trickle charging a laptop battery before, it wasn't working out. It got a lot of "you're an idiot" type responses, but the helpful ones said even if it works, trickle charging is hell on laptop batteries.
I forwarded the good responses to an electronic engineer who restores old Ducatis. He was going to build something for me, but it didn't seem like it'd work out based on his knowledge and training and the helpful posts from slashdot.
Part of why it's going to be a long trip is I'll be looking for under the table jobs. The US dollar tanking took away most of the money I was going to travel on. The price of my bike has gone way up. And I'm 34 which is basically middle aged, with the average American male living to be 75.
Filthy rich is what Ewan MacGregor is. Him and a pal are riding round the world with brand new BMW bikes. While being followed by a film team in 4x4 trucks. They're doing their trip in 3 1/2 months.
I'd thought about doing this for years, but kept postponing it. It took a couple near death experiences to get me off my lazy ass. I'm now epileptic thanks to the last time I was nearly murdered. Still have a problem remembering nouns and it took a month before I could follow the plot on sitcoms.
I want to document the trip, as I'm doing it. Sort of a letter home so that family and friends will know what's happening.
Thanks for the Austin offer, it's almost as nice as Denton (most of the places I've been in the US have been in a band and Denton is great). I love Shiner Bock. Is LocalAustin your site? I'll file it and next time I'm there (3 years more or less), I'll email you.
--Dave