Yup, they didn't do much to the engines of the busses, as far as I know, to run the new deisel. This is a much better fuel alternative than the one UBC was using a few years back. They ran a John Deere tractor, constantly, for 7 months (like, 24 hours a day in a shop) on a biodeisel made, uinfortunately, from fish byproducts and waste. Apparently, the entire shop had to be refinished (the walls actually removed) because the smell could not be gotten rid of.
If we mixed the two deisels, would we get a sort of fish-and-chip byproduct?
I don't blame anyone for thinking I was a troll or a joke, since it seems odd to picture someone following a bus around, sticking his head up to the exhaust, inhaling, and saying "Mmmmmmmm, nummy." It seems wierd to me, too, but as a Canadian, I think it's time we found a good use foer all this damn Canola we got laying around. Canola kills cows, and poisons the soil, so the land that currently grows Canola has to keep on growing it. NOTE: they spray the entire field with Round-Up to kill weeds, because Round-Up doesn't harm Canola in the slightest. They also don't wash the Canola properly, so there's still trace amounds of industrial herbicides in most Canola products. Mmmm. I ain't eatin it, but I'll sure run my car on it (as soon as I get a car.)
Ditto with the Biodeisel being tested in Vancouver, BC, Canada in the transit system, made from Canola (yes, it's incredibly toxic as a plant, but we have a million acres of the stuff, might as well use it!).
It was a magic phrase at my school. When computer class would start, the faster kids would bolt for the door in order to have access to the shiny new white "Apple two-gee-ess". We had over a dozen little gray machines with crappy color, and they were slow. Eventually we went from one machine to four, and the teachers reserved one for me. Yes, I am aware of how pathetic that is.
I was making Choose-Your-Own-Adventures where Turtle would redraw the screen every time you made a selection. I worked out the grid on graph paper and coded on paper, debugged it, and entered it at school the next day. I also made a fighting game composed of two little bitmaps (I forget what they're even called) on top of eachother, one for punching, one for kicking.
My son already uses our computer, but most of his interest is "Wanna watch Magical Trevor!" or "Wanna watch Weebl pie! Pie pie pie pie pie! PIE! Wanker!" We do have a little screen saver, though, which is tamper-proof and lets him type away. If he hits a letter, it comes up on the screen in 164-point font, and it says the name of the letter, and it has a sample word under it (our son also head headphones so we don't go batshit fucking loco).
I am trying to find something to let him explore computers, since he'll soon be at the half-way decent typing skill level. Anyone know how to run Logowriter on a mid-range (1.3 GHz) computer?
My Grandpa, as a railroad engineer, collected a pension from the US and Canadian branches of the company, and as one dollar fell, the other pension grew in value. Both were willable, and now my Gramma gets three pensions. I love economics.
As it is, I have to work a full time job and four contract jobs just to get by. God bless the modern age.
I am past it. I thought that was abundantly apparent by my post, but I guess I have to use smaller words. I'll even type slow just so you get this:
I am not dwelling on things as a boy. They have shaped the development of my mind, and now, as a man, with a wife and a child, my violent urges are overcome by my rational thoughts. Every now and then, though, my low frustration tolerance gets a little bit overcome, and I hit things. I've never hit anyone who didn't deserve it.
Are you kidding? Of course I have mental issues. It takes just about all the effort and energy I can muster just to act normal throughout the day, and I don't need to pay hundreds of dollars to be told I have to "reduce the stress in my life". Besides, the principal thought it was hilarious that me, the quiestest and most picked on kid in the school knocked out one of the biggest bullies with a keyboard. He was laughing when he suspended me.
... but instead of smashing my computer, which was brand new, I smashed the wall. This knocked off a hanging shelf, and smashed several valuable fossils and other assorted brickabrack.
I've done this many other times, all pointedly avoiding the computer but hitting something else in the area. Only time I hit the computer was in high school, where I picked up the keyboard, hit the table with it, hit the monitor with it, then hit the kid that was picking on me. Now thats debugging.
It's the least Slashdot could do, since PA's readership tripled with that first link a month or so back, and when 6000 people go through 6 years of archives all at the same time, ISP's tend to get pretty pissed off. PA plans to get a much higher-bandwidth provider in the New Year with whatever they can embezzle from the poor sick kids.
Mostly because it's just fun to say... Phobos... Phobos! Go on, try it!
Seriously, though, you can set people up anywhere, provided you invest enough. You can get oxygen from moonrocks, energy from solar (which on the moon would be quite efficient), you can grow fairly limitless amounts of crappy food in BGA tanks with a steady supply of energy (see solar). As a race, we can set up shop pretty much anywhere.... if we wanted to. We just don't want to.
I know there's actually some intelligent stuff out there, but it just so happens that I don't like, or even understand it. It's a personal thing. I'm not saying people who do are dumb / crazy / etc... hell, I know a lot of people who don't like my kind of music, and they're smarter than me.
K-Os, I have to say, is frighteningly catchy, and despite my best efforts, I like his stuff. It's actually music, not just swearing and ebonics put to a drum machine. That doesn't help that the majority of hip-hop that makes it to the mainstream media (MuchMusic, MuchVibe, local radio) is bling bitch gangbang bust-a-cap-tastic.
I think it's "urban", as opposed to "metropolitan". You know, white people with nice cars and cel phones and briefcases. Dey is, uh, from da hood, yo. 'n stuff.
This goes back to another post of mine from some other article, about conformity and acceptance. People's social habits change, their clothing, mode of speech and taste in music, in response to that they are told is cool. "You are free to do as we tell you" mentality. Read whatever insensitive cloddity and racism into that as you see fit.
I mostly question their choice of venue... "hip hop". I mean, sure, they're trying to drive home the point that games can be cool, but you don't need to use a friggin anvil to do it. Secondly, most people in my experience who play enough video games to watch the awards most decidedly do not listen to rap music, or "urban", or whatever they're calling themselves this week. Rappists should stick with their existing, large, and vocal fanbase, and stop trying to expand and "bring deir music to da people."
Sophisticated in what way? Advertising is simply saying "Look, here's our product! Here's famous and/or attractive people we paid to hawk our products! Don't they make you want to emulate them?"
Personally, I'd me MUCH more inclined to buy something if a famous and/or attractive person endorsed the product, instead of shilled for it.
Bullying / being bullied by other high school students (although the latter may not be so much an 'interest' as an 'unavoidable symptom of unpopularity')
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If we mixed the two deisels, would we get a sort of fish-and-chip byproduct?
I don't blame anyone for thinking I was a troll or a joke, since it seems odd to picture someone following a bus around, sticking his head up to the exhaust, inhaling, and saying "Mmmmmmmm, nummy." It seems wierd to me, too, but as a Canadian, I think it's time we found a good use foer all this damn Canola we got laying around. Canola kills cows, and poisons the soil, so the land that currently grows Canola has to keep on growing it. NOTE: they spray the entire field with Round-Up to kill weeds, because Round-Up doesn't harm Canola in the slightest. They also don't wash the Canola properly, so there's still trace amounds of industrial herbicides in most Canola products. Mmmm. I ain't eatin it, but I'll sure run my car on it (as soon as I get a car.)
Biodiesel in Vancouver and
the Biodiesel Project.
Bonus: the exhaust smells like French fries.
I was making Choose-Your-Own-Adventures where Turtle would redraw the screen every time you made a selection. I worked out the grid on graph paper and coded on paper, debugged it, and entered it at school the next day. I also made a fighting game composed of two little bitmaps (I forget what they're even called) on top of eachother, one for punching, one for kicking.
My son already uses our computer, but most of his interest is "Wanna watch Magical Trevor!" or "Wanna watch Weebl pie! Pie pie pie pie pie! PIE! Wanker!" We do have a little screen saver, though, which is tamper-proof and lets him type away. If he hits a letter, it comes up on the screen in 164-point font, and it says the name of the letter, and it has a sample word under it (our son also head headphones so we don't go batshit fucking loco).
I am trying to find something to let him explore computers, since he'll soon be at the half-way decent typing skill level. Anyone know how to run Logowriter on a mid-range (1.3 GHz) computer?
Shiny.
As it is, I have to work a full time job and four contract jobs just to get by. God bless the modern age.
I am not dwelling on things as a boy. They have shaped the development of my mind, and now, as a man, with a wife and a child, my violent urges are overcome by my rational thoughts. Every now and then, though, my low frustration tolerance gets a little bit overcome, and I hit things. I've never hit anyone who didn't deserve it.
Those poor birds, crushed by fast-moving cars before they had a chance to appear on a stamp, or something.
Are you kidding? Of course I have mental issues. It takes just about all the effort and energy I can muster just to act normal throughout the day, and I don't need to pay hundreds of dollars to be told I have to "reduce the stress in my life". Besides, the principal thought it was hilarious that me, the quiestest and most picked on kid in the school knocked out one of the biggest bullies with a keyboard. He was laughing when he suspended me.
Audubon? It was lined with endangered birds?
I've done this many other times, all pointedly avoiding the computer but hitting something else in the area. Only time I hit the computer was in high school, where I picked up the keyboard, hit the table with it, hit the monitor with it, then hit the kid that was picking on me. Now thats debugging.
You Democrat-hippy, don't tell me how to vote.
"May SCO die of gonorrhea and rot in Hell. Would you like a cookie?
Just works better if they're subscripted, like H20 is supposed to be.
H2G2 is Hitchs to Guide to. Uhm.... personally, I'd rather see the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
The summary on the Front Page said "lastest", not "latest", and certainly not "last"
For reals this time!
It's the least Slashdot could do, since PA's readership tripled with that first link a month or so back, and when 6000 people go through 6 years of archives all at the same time, ISP's tend to get pretty pissed off. PA plans to get a much higher-bandwidth provider in the New Year with whatever they can embezzle from the poor sick kids.
And also, my wife realllly wants to make one of these now... crap.
And finally, yes, a /.'er has a wife. Nothing more chaotic than that!
Mostly because it's just fun to say... Phobos... Phobos! Go on, try it!
Seriously, though, you can set people up anywhere, provided you invest enough. You can get oxygen from moonrocks, energy from solar (which on the moon would be quite efficient), you can grow fairly limitless amounts of crappy food in BGA tanks with a steady supply of energy (see solar). As a race, we can set up shop pretty much anywhere.... if we wanted to. We just don't want to.
K-Os, I have to say, is frighteningly catchy, and despite my best efforts, I like his stuff. It's actually music, not just swearing and ebonics put to a drum machine. That doesn't help that the majority of hip-hop that makes it to the mainstream media (MuchMusic, MuchVibe, local radio) is bling bitch gangbang bust-a-cap-tastic.
This goes back to another post of mine from some other article, about conformity and acceptance. People's social habits change, their clothing, mode of speech and taste in music, in response to that they are told is cool. "You are free to do as we tell you" mentality. Read whatever insensitive cloddity and racism into that as you see fit.
I mostly question their choice of venue... "hip hop". I mean, sure, they're trying to drive home the point that games can be cool, but you don't need to use a friggin anvil to do it. Secondly, most people in my experience who play enough video games to watch the awards most decidedly do not listen to rap music, or "urban", or whatever they're calling themselves this week. Rappists should stick with their existing, large, and vocal fanbase, and stop trying to expand and "bring deir music to da people."
Sophisticated in what way? Advertising is simply saying "Look, here's our product! Here's famous and/or attractive people we paid to hawk our products! Don't they make you want to emulate them?"
Personally, I'd me MUCH more inclined to buy something if a famous and/or attractive person endorsed the product, instead of shilled for it.
Bullying / being bullied by other high school students (although the latter may not be so much an 'interest' as an 'unavoidable symptom of unpopularity')