I'd much rather have Duckman on than Family Guy. Duckman did a lot of risky stuff censorwise (s&m, and others). I was glad that the USA channel was showing it. I spent many Saturday nights drinking cheap beer and watching it. Or taping it and going to a punk rock show (I'm not a complete geek).
Duckman - Sorry, I didn't hear you, I was staring at your breasts.
There's so many people complaining that a phone call is 50 cents.
The businesses that operate payphones are going out of business. So, the call is 50 cents trying to keep the place from going under. It's not going to work, because too many people say "50 cents? Screw that". I know I did, but at least now I understand why it's 50 cents, so next time I use a payphone, I'll understand.
It's a double edged sword (kinda like/. hates micro$oft but loves the xbox).
That story seemed a little too pro-micro$oft for me. Luckily four articles ahead, there's a micro$oft = satan article. I was getting confused there for a minute, and thought I was in Bizarro World.
That one in RosEVILle was pretty good. Great big boom, and no one killed.
They still find bombs from that and detonate them where they find them. Me and a friend went to the last one (98 I think), snuck past the safety line (but still plenty far back), and watched 'em go off. It was pretty neat seeing bombs that big go off. Much better than the bombs we'd make in high school with match heads.
You'd see the flash of light and a second later hear the explosion.
And it fits into the earliest memory thing. I turned 3 a month before and I remember riding out with my dad to evacuate my grandmother. Her house was fubared -- all the windows were busted.
I was about 4 and it seemed like a good idea. I remember Herfy my dog picking it up and running away with eat until he ate it.
I also remember watching the Vietnam war on teevee, but I thought it was just a teevee show so it wasn't happening in real life.
I remember kindengarden really well, but after that my memory isn't so good. I must've used it all up. Wait, where are my pants and what universe is this?
Yoshihiro Hattori wasn't acting threatening. He's some Japanese kid who didn't speak English and when the guy yelled "Freeze" he didn't know what was going on.
The kid, dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, stopped to ask for directions. They pulled up in a Volvo. There was no reason for that guy to shoot him.
He was not threatening the guy's wife. She freaked out because there were strangers out front, so the husband stepped out and shot the kid with a.44 magnum.
I like guns, but some numb nuts walking out of his house and killing a 16-year-old kid for standing in his driveway is nutty. Rodney Peairs should not have gotten off for that criminally. In a civil court, he was ordered to pay $653,077 to Hattori's parents.
I sure hope when some redneck shoots me when I ask for directions, he has to pay my parent's some cash. "Oh, sorry about that. Here's $600,000 I'll try not to let it happen again"
My girlfriend and I just watched Bad Taste. I haven't seen it in about 13 years, and it's as funny as I remembered.
I'll try to figure out a roadtrip to go to Fullerton for the science fiction exhibit. I've been planning on getting a huge back tattoo of art deco type sci-fi. Some sort of Alex Raymond/Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon type thing. If anyone has ideas email them to me gorn at nokill dot com. A friend of mine is a great tattoer and she said she'd do it for free. No one sees my back anyway.
After Fullerton I'll try to get to Vegas to see the Guggenheim motorcycle exhibit before it closes.
In an hour off to Davis to eat, drink and open Xmas presents at my sister's house.
Usually, I spend Xmas eve at a bar or drinking booze in a cheap hotel. This year was different.
The meter maids are out today. Man, they're worthless. A ticket on Xmas.
MCI called me up last summer and offered me a much better deal on local service. Plus some swag (I think it was free Blockbuster rentals for 6 months or so). I was for it, spent about 8 minutes answering questions. And at the end, I said "Hey, I have DSL, that's okay, isn't it?"
They said no. Which suprised me because for some unknown reason, I don't trust corporations much.
Dang kids can't play fair.
Merry Xmas, I'm about to get suckered into fixing relatives computers all day. Lots of "The reason why your Windows 98 crashes so much is because it's Windows 98". Neverending circle that one is.
I wasn't home. But when one kicked open the back door, the dog scared him off.
I wouldn't kill someone for taking my teevee, because it's just a teevee. But if he walked towards me when I was pointing a gun at him, he'd take one of my Ted Nugent (made by CorBon) rounds through the chest.
I'm not from Texas where they kill you for walking on their land, or from Louisiana where they killed that Japanese kid for walking up to the house thinking there was a halloween party going on. I value life more than that.
I don't like the "smart gun" because I like sharing my guns with strangers at a shooting range. I have an FAL which a lot of people haven't shot. I like trading shots so I can play with a Model 97 (nifty shotgun from WW1), and neat guns like that.
And at home, if I got shot or stabbed by a 2-legged predator, I'd like to have my girlfriend shoot back.
I live in midtown Sacramento and you can't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting a half-way house. My apt. has been broken into 4 times in the last 3 years.
Trying to ban guns in the US when there's what? 200 million of them? ain't going to happen.
You're right. I can't stand to see funny articles on/. Especially around Christmas time.
You knew from the title that you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting an Enron joke, but the modded shredder was funny. But I also think the 3 Stooges are funny. You should probably avoid them too.
Merry Christmas though! I'm about to take off and eat pizza with friends. Take care.
I followed your link thinking it'd be something funny, but no go. I was fooled by your "not interesting at all" assuming you were kidding.
I don't understand what's so funny about the Knights Who Say Nee. There's no point in modding a personal nee when a professional model is readibly available for anyone who needs to say nee.
When I purchase things from the internet, I use a hotmail account. It's the account I set up because I knew it'd get spam. So, it's weird -- I don't really count the spam I get there as spam, because it's expected.
The yahoo account I use for mailing lists gets no spam. I'm sure at some point, some spammer will find the address, but in the last year of using it, no spam at all. It's kind of creepy to have an email with no spam. Especially when it's just used for mailing lists.
And me, being a dumb-ass, just put my email on my site. And I figure that now that I get so much spam, there's no point in hiding my email on the site.
I really like screwing with telemarketers, I'm still fond of the time I made one cry. But in the last year or so, I've just been saying "Take me off your list, and send me a written copy of your do-not-call policy". Which usually means being hung up on.
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30-50? That's pretty good. Between work and home, I get around 175 spams a day. It's nice taking a vacation, and checking my email for the first time in a week. There's about 800 messages at home, plus another hundred at work.
And I have a hotmail account that's used for when I buy stuff from businesses I expect spam from. Places that don't use the double opt-in and sell my name to others. I often change my name to see the spam spread. But I don't really count that email as spam because that's what it's for.
My yahoo accounts don't get much spam, and that's what I use when I sign up for mailing lists.
I've never signed up for anything under my domain name, that's bots scanning sites. I use servercentral as my webhost, and I get around 50 spams a day that are addressed to servercentral-user@spam.com
And lately, I've been getting bounce backs from servers from spam that's sent under my domain name. It's having a domain name that gets me so much spam.
I've been using MailWasher (bounces email saying I don't exist), but that's going to change I think. After a vacation, MailWasher doesn't work because there's so much spam. And besides, who sends spam without faking the From address? It's effective about 95% of the time - about 5% false-positives.
Ah, that was good. I hit preview, and got a call from a telemarketer.
You're right. It was a call to me. I just didn't want/.ers to make fun of me.
I'm also 6'5", weigh 300 pounds and quarterback for an NFL team in San Francisco. But once again, I didn't want to say that so you geeks don't make fun of me and hurt my feelings.
I can't even read or write, my personal assistant reads the posts, I answer them, and he transcribes them. It's so you geeks will like me because I can use a computer. Just like how it worked for Wil Wheaton.
I've got a few of the Atari ones done by Mystique.
The best/worst is Custer's Revenge. You're General Custer and you rape a squaw tied to a cactus. Arrows come from off screen and if they hit you, your boner shrinks and you die.
You play it and think, "man I can't believe they did that". But I guess back then, National Lampoon was a funny magazine in their non-pc way.
Another one was "Beat 'em and Eat 'em" where a guy is rockin' it on top of a building and you're three nekkid girls trying to catch the spooge.
The other 2 I have are Bachelor Party & Bachelorette Party knock-offs of Breakout.
They did a few others, but my all time favorite Atari game is still Yar's Revenge.
No, I'm just the dumb bass player and the geek who wanted to do a Star Trek band. We started out as a Hogan's Heroes band. That was the guitar player with weird sound effects on his voice. I sound like a 12-year-old girl when I sing.
MP3.com changes how much they owe us (both up and down), and I can't figure out how many cds they've sold (I really wish people wouldn't buy those by the way). I've sent them 6 or 7 emails asking for info, and always get the automated reply that says "we'll contact you in 7-10 business days".
I think my first email was around 9/1/02. I send them something once a month, but I'm going to start sending stuff more often.
I'm not in a popular band, I mean, who cares about a Star Trek punk rock band. But on our site on mp3.com, I say don't purchase the cd, just burn your own copies. We're not trying to make money with our songs. And so far, mp3 hasn't offered us any money for the cds they've sold and they won't answer my email.
When I was in another band, signed to a label, we received nothing. It was repressed twice, and another label printed 2 different 7"s we made. Our label received a few hundred for free and sold them, and the paperwork from our label said it cost the label to sell them. Yes, selling free records cost them money.
I know the RIAA wouldn't have made money from us on an independant label, but still. Try to buy records/cds/shirts from the band, that way they'll receive some money.
Yeah, I've quit watching teevee before a few times (sounds like I'm quitting cigarettes, since I keep going back).
It's kind of neat watching teevee when you haven't watched it for a year. It's amazing how dumb 99% of shows are, but once you start watching it, you get used to it.
There's way better things to occupy your mind (playing music, writing, old cars, vintage bikes, working on my dumb website). I'd visit a friend's house on Sunday to watch Simpsons/Futurama though. I also like listening to a conversation where you say "I don't have a teevee, so I don't know what you're talking about". Just what I do with modern radio. I wouldn't recognize J-Lo if she bit me in the ass.
I started watching it again a couple years ago, when I had my head knocked in. I think brain damage really helps to appreciate teevee. After I got out of the hospital, I just sat around my apartment fazing in and out. At first I couldn't pay attention to something as short as a commercial. But now that things mostly make sense, I'll probably quit watching teevee again. My site has been really neglected. I had great plans to put stuff up about Sacramento, but now I just flop on my ass in front of the teevee and wish the seizures didn't mean I can't have a beer.
The average SUV driving, my favorite sports team is whoever is winning, Starbucks drinking, windows using, Average Joe is going to switch to digital when the media tells them to.
My prediction is there will be about 100,000 people in the US who won't switch. A year later, it'll be 2,000 people who haven't switched. 2 years later, it'll be 100 people.
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Nevermind. Duh. I haven't had any coffee yet.
It's still not letting me save them. At least by save as quicktime movie or save as source. Do I have to wait 100 hours for them to completely load?
I'd much rather have Duckman on than Family Guy. Duckman did a lot of risky stuff censorwise (s&m, and others). I was glad that the USA channel was showing it. I spent many Saturday nights drinking cheap beer and watching it. Or taping it and going to a punk rock show (I'm not a complete geek).
Duckman - Sorry, I didn't hear you, I was staring at your breasts.
There's so many people complaining that a phone call is 50 cents.
The businesses that operate payphones are going out of business. So, the call is 50 cents trying to keep the place from going under. It's not going to work, because too many people say "50 cents? Screw that". I know I did, but at least now I understand why it's 50 cents, so next time I use a payphone, I'll understand.
It's a double edged sword (kinda like
That story seemed a little too pro-micro$oft for me. Luckily four articles ahead, there's a micro$oft = satan article. I was getting confused there for a minute, and thought I was in Bizarro World.
That one in RosEVILle was pretty good. Great big boom, and no one killed.
They still find bombs from that and detonate them where they find them. Me and a friend went to the last one (98 I think), snuck past the safety line (but still plenty far back), and watched 'em go off. It was pretty neat seeing bombs that big go off. Much better than the bombs we'd make in high school with match heads.
You'd see the flash of light and a second later hear the explosion.
And it fits into the earliest memory thing. I turned 3 a month before and I remember riding out with my dad to evacuate my grandmother. Her house was fubared -- all the windows were busted.
Hey thanks. I'll remember that next time. I just let it set a cookie, then removed the cookie after I read the article.
I was about 4 and it seemed like a good idea. I remember Herfy my dog picking it up and running away with eat until he ate it.
I also remember watching the Vietnam war on teevee, but I thought it was just a teevee show so it wasn't happening in real life.
I remember kindengarden really well, but after that my memory isn't so good. I must've used it all up. Wait, where are my pants and what universe is this?
I remember I was born in 1970.
I hit no when it asked to set a cookie, and now, right after the page loads, I get kicked over to: http://www.law.com/law/bad_cookie.html
Dango.
I'm sure no one is reading this, but...
.44 magnum.
Yoshihiro Hattori wasn't acting threatening. He's some Japanese kid who didn't speak English and when the guy yelled "Freeze" he didn't know what was going on.
The kid, dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, stopped to ask for directions. They pulled up in a Volvo. There was no reason for that guy to shoot him.
He was not threatening the guy's wife. She freaked out because there were strangers out front, so the husband stepped out and shot the kid with a
I like guns, but some numb nuts walking out of his house and killing a 16-year-old kid for standing in his driveway is nutty. Rodney Peairs should not have gotten off for that criminally. In a civil court, he was ordered to pay $653,077 to Hattori's parents.
I sure hope when some redneck shoots me when I ask for directions, he has to pay my parent's some cash. "Oh, sorry about that. Here's $600,000 I'll try not to let it happen again"
How stupid are people?
My girlfriend and I just watched Bad Taste. I haven't seen it in about 13 years, and it's as funny as I remembered.
I'll try to figure out a roadtrip to go to Fullerton for the science fiction exhibit. I've been planning on getting a huge back tattoo of art deco type sci-fi. Some sort of Alex Raymond/Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon type thing. If anyone has ideas email them to me gorn at nokill dot com. A friend of mine is a great tattoer and she said she'd do it for free. No one sees my back anyway.
After Fullerton I'll try to get to Vegas to see the Guggenheim motorcycle exhibit before it closes.
In an hour off to Davis to eat, drink and open Xmas presents at my sister's house.
Usually, I spend Xmas eve at a bar or drinking booze in a cheap hotel. This year was different.
The meter maids are out today. Man, they're worthless. A ticket on Xmas.
MCI called me up last summer and offered me a much better deal on local service. Plus some swag (I think it was free Blockbuster rentals for 6 months or so). I was for it, spent about 8 minutes answering questions. And at the end, I said "Hey, I have DSL, that's okay, isn't it?"
They said no. Which suprised me because for some unknown reason, I don't trust corporations much.
Dang kids can't play fair.
Merry Xmas, I'm about to get suckered into fixing relatives computers all day. Lots of "The reason why your Windows 98 crashes so much is because it's Windows 98". Neverending circle that one is.
I wasn't home. But when one kicked open the back door, the dog scared him off.
I wouldn't kill someone for taking my teevee, because it's just a teevee. But if he walked towards me when I was pointing a gun at him, he'd take one of my Ted Nugent (made by CorBon) rounds through the chest.
I'm not from Texas where they kill you for walking on their land, or from Louisiana where they killed that Japanese kid for walking up to the house thinking there was a halloween party going on. I value life more than that.
I don't like the "smart gun" because I like sharing my guns with strangers at a shooting range. I have an FAL which a lot of people haven't shot. I like trading shots so I can play with a Model 97 (nifty shotgun from WW1), and neat guns like that.
And at home, if I got shot or stabbed by a 2-legged predator, I'd like to have my girlfriend shoot back.
I live in midtown Sacramento and you can't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting a half-way house. My apt. has been broken into 4 times in the last 3 years.
Trying to ban guns in the US when there's what? 200 million of them? ain't going to happen.
You're right. I can't stand to see funny articles on /. Especially around Christmas time.
You knew from the title that you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting an Enron joke, but the modded shredder was funny. But I also think the 3 Stooges are funny. You should probably avoid them too.
Merry Christmas though! I'm about to take off and eat pizza with friends. Take care.
Duh, I don't get it.
I followed your link thinking it'd be something funny, but no go. I was fooled by your "not interesting at all" assuming you were kidding.
I don't understand what's so funny about the Knights Who Say Nee. There's no point in modding a personal nee when a professional model is readibly available for anyone who needs to say nee.
When I purchase things from the internet, I use a hotmail account. It's the account I set up because I knew it'd get spam. So, it's weird -- I don't really count the spam I get there as spam, because it's expected.
The yahoo account I use for mailing lists gets no spam. I'm sure at some point, some spammer will find the address, but in the last year of using it, no spam at all. It's kind of creepy to have an email with no spam. Especially when it's just used for mailing lists.
And me, being a dumb-ass, just put my email on my site. And I figure that now that I get so much spam, there's no point in hiding my email on the site.
I really like screwing with telemarketers, I'm still fond of the time I made one cry. But in the last year or so, I've just been saying "Take me off your list, and send me a written copy of your do-not-call policy". Which usually means being hung up on.
30-50? That's pretty good. Between work and home, I get around 175 spams a day. It's nice taking a vacation, and checking my email for the first time in a week. There's about 800 messages at home, plus another hundred at work.
And I have a hotmail account that's used for when I buy stuff from businesses I expect spam from. Places that don't use the double opt-in and sell my name to others. I often change my name to see the spam spread. But I don't really count that email as spam because that's what it's for.
My yahoo accounts don't get much spam, and that's what I use when I sign up for mailing lists.
I've never signed up for anything under my domain name, that's bots scanning sites. I use servercentral as my webhost, and I get around 50 spams a day that are addressed to servercentral-user@spam.com
And lately, I've been getting bounce backs from servers from spam that's sent under my domain name. It's having a domain name that gets me so much spam.
I've been using MailWasher (bounces email saying I don't exist), but that's going to change I think. After a vacation, MailWasher doesn't work because there's so much spam. And besides, who sends spam without faking the From address? It's effective about 95% of the time - about 5% false-positives.
Ah, that was good. I hit preview, and got a call from a telemarketer.
You're right. It was a call to me. I just didn't want
I'm also 6'5", weigh 300 pounds and quarterback for an NFL team in San Francisco. But once again, I didn't want to say that so you geeks don't make fun of me and hurt my feelings.
I can't even read or write, my personal assistant reads the posts, I answer them, and he transcribes them. It's so you geeks will like me because I can use a computer. Just like how it worked for Wil Wheaton.
A call my friend got 2 days ago:
So yesterday evening i'm eating dinner and watching tv when the phone rings. i answer it.
phone: Hi, is lisa simpson there?
me: whos calling?
phone: this is so-and-so from California Financial, can i speak with lisa simpson?
me: no
i then hang up.
a few seconds later the phone rings again.
me:hello?
phone:why'd you hang up in my face?
me:what?
phone:why'd you hang up in my face, bitch?!
they hang up. i laughed and tried to *69 them but it didnt work.
I've got a few of the Atari ones done by Mystique.
The best/worst is Custer's Revenge. You're General Custer and you rape a squaw tied to a cactus. Arrows come from off screen and if they hit you, your boner shrinks and you die.
You play it and think, "man I can't believe they did that". But I guess back then, National Lampoon was a funny magazine in their non-pc way.
Another one was "Beat 'em and Eat 'em" where a guy is rockin' it on top of a building and you're three nekkid girls trying to catch the spooge.
The other 2 I have are Bachelor Party & Bachelorette Party knock-offs of Breakout.
They did a few others, but my all time favorite Atari game is still Yar's Revenge.
No, I'm just the dumb bass player and the geek who wanted to do a Star Trek band. We started out as a Hogan's Heroes band. That was the guitar player with weird sound effects on his voice. I sound like a 12-year-old girl when I sing.
MP3.com changes how much they owe us (both up and down), and I can't figure out how many cds they've sold (I really wish people wouldn't buy those by the way). I've sent them 6 or 7 emails asking for info, and always get the automated reply that says "we'll contact you in 7-10 business days".
I think my first email was around 9/1/02. I send them something once a month, but I'm going to start sending stuff more often.
I'm not in a popular band, I mean, who cares about a Star Trek punk rock band. But on our site on mp3.com, I say don't purchase the cd, just burn your own copies. We're not trying to make money with our songs. And so far, mp3 hasn't offered us any money for the cds they've sold and they won't answer my email.
When I was in another band, signed to a label, we received nothing. It was repressed twice, and another label printed 2 different 7"s we made. Our label received a few hundred for free and sold them, and the paperwork from our label said it cost the label to sell them. Yes, selling free records cost them money.
I know the RIAA wouldn't have made money from us on an independant label, but still. Try to buy records/cds/shirts from the band, that way they'll receive some money.
Yeah, I've quit watching teevee before a few times (sounds like I'm quitting cigarettes, since I keep going back).
It's kind of neat watching teevee when you haven't watched it for a year. It's amazing how dumb 99% of shows are, but once you start watching it, you get used to it.
There's way better things to occupy your mind (playing music, writing, old cars, vintage bikes, working on my dumb website). I'd visit a friend's house on Sunday to watch Simpsons/Futurama though. I also like listening to a conversation where you say "I don't have a teevee, so I don't know what you're talking about". Just what I do with modern radio. I wouldn't recognize J-Lo if she bit me in the ass.
I started watching it again a couple years ago, when I had my head knocked in. I think brain damage really helps to appreciate teevee. After I got out of the hospital, I just sat around my apartment fazing in and out. At first I couldn't pay attention to something as short as a commercial. But now that things mostly make sense, I'll probably quit watching teevee again. My site has been really neglected. I had great plans to put stuff up about Sacramento, but now I just flop on my ass in front of the teevee and wish the seizures didn't mean I can't have a beer.
The average SUV driving, my favorite sports team is whoever is winning, Starbucks drinking, windows using, Average Joe is going to switch to digital when the media tells them to.
My prediction is there will be about 100,000 people in the US who won't switch. A year later, it'll be 2,000 people who haven't switched. 2 years later, it'll be 100 people.