I'm curious where you get your information about the pyramids being full of heiroglyphs.
There was a series of PBS documetaries about ancient egypt that came out in the late 80's. They had shown some of the earliest pictures ever taken inside the giza pyramids. They were full of sand, debris, and plaster chippings. The sterile look the insides of the pyramids have now is a result of the clearing of debris and conservation efforts.
In the same series, they blamed much of the destruction of ancient egyptian text on the fact that catholic priests destroyed much of the visible hyroglyphs between the 5th and 11th centuries, condemed as 'pagan symbols'. The narrirator of the show kept lamenting about how so much egyptian history/text was destroyed by the romans and the catholic church. Most existing hyroglyphs today are only in excavated monuments and a few temples that the egyptians managed to keep secret from the romans.
There is also wide speculation that the Church killed many of the egyptian priests and artist that could read and write hyroglyphs at the same time they were supressing gnostics (2nd - 6th centuries). The Church also destroyed most Greek texts at the time that would have provided translations. That is why no one could read hyroglyphics until the Rosetta Stone was found in the 18th century; that had Hyroglyphic, Greek, and Coptic writing on it. You can thank a forward thinking egyptian priest for stashing that little gem in a temple wall.
The "gang" graffiti of heiroglyphics that Hawass showed is in fact the only writing found in the pyramids.
That is a misleading statement. Your statement should read, "The graffiti of heiroglyphics that Hawass showed is in fact the only ANCIENT writing STILL left in the pyramids."
The great pyramids were full of hyheiroglyphs till the end of the 8th century, when they were all chipped away by catholic priests to remove "pagan" writings from the world. In fact, all priests in North Africa at the time, were required to make a pilgramige to Giza to help remove the "pagan" text.
Also, there were large amounts of plaster debris inside the pyramids that was removed during restoration in the 20th century. This plaster is what was used to paint the heiroglyphs on. It provided a smooth surface to paint on. This plaster debris is ALL that is left of the heiroglyphs.
And it is possible that it was done by Egyptologist that got to that level to justify the expense of his expedition.
No. The chambers above the kings tomb with the graffiti in them, were first exavated by a British explorer looking for teasure in the 19th century. He was not there for science or justification for the exedition. He was there for loot. It even stated so on the show last night.
Let me guess, you think that the Apollo missions were faked, and that the face on mars is a giant antenna.
Hmmmm...I wonder if we will keep seeing chip speeds double every 18 months, or if the ChipMakers(tm) will only offer consumers faster chips when slower chips see lost sales?
Your post reminded me of something...the fact that Fox's new show "Firefly" seems to be ripped off from the "Lexx" format.
"Spaceship full of misfits, engage in raunchy space meyhem"
Firefly has a Pilot - Lexx had a pilot, Stanly Tweedle: Deputy Assitant Back-up Courier
Firefly has a tuff guy - Lexx had a tough guy, Kai: Divine Assasin
Firefly has a whore - Lexx had a whore, Xev & Zev: Love Slave from B3K
Firefly has girl in a box - Lexx had a girl in a box(well, girl in a plant) - Lykka: Carnivorous Humanoid Space Plant
Firefly has a spaceship named after a bug - Lexx had a spaceship that IS a bug, Lexx: The Most Powerful Weapon of Destruction in the Two Universes
I'm bitter cuase Sci-Fi cancelled Lexx, damn you Sci-Fi Channel! Plus Jos Wheaton kinda fsck'd up Buffy too, so I hope he doesn't screw up Firefly with morals and ethics and stuff. Keep it to the sex and aliens, I get enough preaching from Star Trek.
Jos should've called the TV buffy version, "Daria The Vampire Slayer", cause Sarah just doesn't convey the stuck-up cheerleader role well. Buffy the movie was funny, Buffy the TV show is too serious, though slightly campy.
That "town meeting" you refer to will be tommorrow(9/12/02), at the U.N. Only the town is made up of delagations from other nations. However, all Americans are free to watch the telecast and figure out "what Bush is up to".
I'm not trying to defend Bush. I think he is a sneaky fuck. He thinks he can treat America like Yale students, being the elite 'Bonesman' that he is. But hopefully, at the address, he'll drop the "good vs. evil" retoric and give the US citizens, and the rest of the world, HARD evidence for an attack on Iraq.
Ever since '91, I've wanted to make a wine goblet out of Saddam's skull.
I agree. Soon, using your computer to listen to music and watch movies will be impossible unless you Pay-Per-View. Isn't that what killed DIVX?
I've been saying for months that Microsoft shot themselves in the foot with 2k, cut off their left arm with XP, and are about to hang themselves with Palladium. I've started playing with Linux on the desktop and still use NT4, becuase agreeing to XP EULA's is basically giving them ownership of your HDD, and it's only going to get worse. Over the next 2 years millions more are going to do the same thing I did. By 2005 I think Linux will have 30% share of desktops, provided the game support is there by then.
I don't pirate mp3's, movies, or software(anymore) off the net, mainly becuase the quality is horrible. I'm not really seeing this as a concern in for general computing, but for file-sharing it's death.
I can't see how this will alter the legit OSS/Shareware programs out there. If you don't have the DRM code in your app, then it won't use the DRM hardware, right? Or what if your like me and your home PC is not connected to the net(i buy dead-tree pr0n). How will I authorize my OS and Software to run?
I'm perfectly happy to let music and movies migrate off my PC and back into my Entertainment Cabinet. But this won't stop me from being able to incorprorate multimedia into my apps.
I know the difference between stealing and fair-use/sampling, and I can still hate the RIAA.
Have you ever read any Julian May? IMHO she is a better writer than Tolkein. The stories and characters are more focused, and the scientific details in her books are amazing! She wrote encyclopedia articles(over 20,000) before she started writing fiction, and it really shows in the detail of her work. Granted, she didn't create new languages for her books, but that's about all Tolkein has on her. Julian May would explain a Tom Bombadil type character and have them do something other than confuse the story.
Read the 9 book 'Pliocene Exile/Galatic Milleu' saga. It's a cross between LOTR, Star Wars, The Lawnmower Man(the metaphysical aspects of that flick), and MZB's Darkover stuff. Take every Sci-Fi/Fantasy plot aspects you can imagine and throw them together in one Saga, amazing man!
I've read Azimov, Herbert, Zelazny, Bradly, and Tolkein's works. They are some of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century, but May's work surpasses them all in scope, detail, and characters. Dune is close though.
How can you be so sure your not ALREADY locked in the garage and have been given a second chance to be let out? God doesn't want anyone to suffer in hell, that's why the keys to the planet are in Jesus's hands now instead of Satans.
Close...but no cigar, your concept of the Trinity is a little off. It's easy to understand why, especially if you went to church as a kid and stopped going. The "I believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost", line right? Well, in the Bible it clearly says that the 3, are not the same.
The Bible says that:
God(father) is the creator and the only one to be worshipped.
Jesus(son) is our judge and lord on earth(in that we are his charges like in fiefdom), he took that role from Satan when he died on the cross and went to hell. He deserves our gratitude, he saved us from Satan's judgement. "Jesus the Savior", so that's where that comes from. Now we can sin and ask for forgivness, instead of automatic condemnation from Satan for sinning. Jesus is a cool guy huh?
The Holy Spirit(spirit) is divine power to communicate directly with God. Jesus gave this power to his diciples at Pentacost after his resurection(He can do that now that he is judge of the earth), and it is spread from those diciples to others through baptism. Before the holy spirit, humans communicated to god through priests in a tabernacle, and Satan would judge whether a priest was worthy of communicating to God.
The Jews believe in the Son(messiah) of God. They just don't believe it was Jesus. That is why the Jews killed Jesus by crucifiction. He went against Levetical(Moses's) Laws by proclaiming to be the messiah, and the punishment for that was death.
The muslims believe Jesus was a prophet. The MOST important prophet as a matter of fact. The muslims don't believe in the holy spirit(feel sorry for them) though. They believe in angels that watch over the earth for God. They pray 5 times a day in hopes that the angels will see them praying and tell god that they have been obidient. They don't believe THEY can have the power to communicate with God. Which is true if they've never been baptised.
So while it's true that Christians belive in a Trinity, they don't worship all 3 as the same thing. OK, some do, but they are morons who haven't read the Bible, just certain verses, and just go to services.
And it takes more than just believing in God to get to heaven. Satan belives in God, but I don't think he's going back to heaven anytime soon. It takes belief, faith, and love in God...hey another trinity!
Uh, I've never met any Christians that believed God was omnibenevolent. All-loving doesn't mean omnibenevolent, nor is it implied in the Bible that God is benevolent. If that was the case, we wouldn't need salvation through Christ. God is merciful and loving, but he has an ego too.
Parents are All-loving of their children, but parents still punish children and make them do things that they don't like for their own good.
Your right, the Bible isn't self-contradicatory. Your concept of God is derived from your human point-of-view of what is good and evil. That is why the Bible was written, so we don't let hearsay and misobservation cloud our understanding of Gods intentions for us. Do yourself a favor and read the Bible, I'm not saying convert or anything, but a little education never hurt anyone.
If you read the bible(it's really not that bad, just don't try to read it cover to cover), it says that God is a jealous god and has a temper. That's why we have the commandment not to worship other gods before him...it pisses him off.
He also flooded the world and killed millions of people, leaving only a few left alive. So this "omnibenevolent god" you are reffering to, clearly isn't the god the christians, jews, and muslims worship. It sounds more like the one on Star Trek that kicked Q out of the continuum.
Your statement smacks of ignorance, not athiesm...mind the ClueBat(tm) please.
Good point. The humans are an ineffcient energy source. I thought it was a lot better than a human reduced to energy and sucked inside a computer to battle his way out. Both movies have pretty rediculous plots, but are fun to watch anyway.
I own a copy of Tron, but not The Matrix...ahhh nostalgia.
Suspension of disbelief is not the same as introducing a plot device and then pretending it's not there, but I'll address your argument anyway...cause I'm a geek.
Fusion is not a renewable energy resource, you need fuel (like duetirium which comes from space/moon), the machines didn't have it. So they figured out a way to use humans as a renewable energy source to power the fusion reaction.
It doesn't have to be scientifically sound, any explaination to keep the disbelief going. At least they bothered to explain that the machines need humans for power in the first place. If it were Tron, we would've just been told machines were using humans as slaves and then there would've been a fight. I would be wondering why the machines needed human slaves. See the difference?
And the human city was deep underground, away from the machines enclaves, not on the surface.
If you wanna go into why the machines couldn't go and attack the city...because of the EMP cannons they couldn't even get close to the city. They couldn't drop a bomb on it either, it's underground. The only way to stop the human revolution is to stop them from hacking the Matrix by shutting down the Zion mainframe. The machines can't attack the humans directly(EMP weapons), and the humans can't attack the machines directly(outnumbered).
Dude, Tron wasn't good...the story execution sucked. It was eye candy.
It didn't make any sense until the 15th time you watched it. And it was full of unexplained plot fillers. Kinda like that other great cult-sci-fi film of the 80's...Buckaroo Banzai! Only there was supposed to be a sequel to Buckaroo Banzai that would explain some of the goings on in the first movie, but it never got made and I still have questions damnit! So I'm looking forward to Tron 2, it needs to be made. I mean shit, what ever happened to Tron and Yori anyway? Did they have bits? Did Tron become THMFIC of the mainframe with the MCP gone? Did he figure out a way to make it into the real world? Did Flynn turn his Arcade into a Starbucks after he got the CEO job at Digicom?
The Matrix on the other hand was well explained/executed and the only question I had leaving was what the Oracle was.
...when scientific visualization and 3D animation were driving the High-End PC market?
At least the Media (4th branch of gov) is finally shedding these last bits of falsehood from the general public's mind about computers.
I mean, everybody knows that computers are for playing games, and the internet is for looking at pr0n. Trying to mislead the public into thinking that computers are empowering the public with knowledge and information is just wrong.
I think your right. I tried the 2 suggestions above yours. Limiting my desktop speed up the menus a little, and my DNS was already set properly, but its still a slug.
I have no idea how to rebuild XFree, but I have some O'Rielly books that might help me get an idea for it. Thanx.
Ani does have a music ethic, which is something to respect. Most bands want to "get signed and be famous", instead of "playing music for fans".
I think we need to blame greedy(fame) "artist" and greedy(money) record execs on this issue though. If "artists" weren't so concerned with getting on the radio and selling albums, there would be a lot better music out there. It's the boot lickin' ass kissers that are fuckin it all up by taking hand outs from record companies.
Look at pop acts, they suck, but KIDS buy their shit becuase authority figures (record marketing grown-ups) tell them to. It's not like they keep listening to that shite when they grow up and have their own opinions. People like Britney do that job becuase they want to be "Idolized", not becuase they want to share their talent(or lack of).
It's ego with no talent/vision that is killing music. (i.e. Bowie: ego + talent*vision = good music)
Ani is cool, but she should be more provocative. Guys like that. She seems to be about her music and little else, except pretentious, but most good musicians are.
I just started using KDE, and it's a little clunky. I used to have 98 on the same machine, and KDE seems to open apps slower than 98. Konsole alone takes up to 30 secs to open. Granted the machine is a crappy celeron with a quantum bigfoot drive, but I at least thought I'd get a noticable performance boost.
I haven't rebooted it in over a month though, the matrix screen saver is Kool, and Kandalf isn't half as annoying as Clippy.
I stopped playing vids when I started doing web dev a couple years ago. I didn't set out to stop playing games, I just got sick of looking at computer screens all day.
Occasionally I still play a round of AOEII or fire up a console and play some nostalgia games (Blaster Master anyone?), but I haven't bought, or played, a new PC game in a couple years. I'm just not excited about games like I used to be.
The only game I'm still a 'fan' of is Zelda, becuase the game play is always cutting edge. Maybe that's it, I'm sick of strategy and 1st person shooter games. Adventure dammit, where's Lara when you need her?
I got more excited about the PS2 dev kit than any game for it (I actually have a PS2 and no games for it). I like violent games (GTA3 was fun...for like an hour), but they aren't even interesting anymore. They all seem to be around the same, blow something up, watch blood fly. We need a "Capture & Torture - Taliban Edition" game. At least that's original, and the game play would have to be.
Getting old sucks, soon I'll be 30. Seems like only beer and boobies get me excited these days. I miss the thrill of youth and discovery, when intellectual pursuit wasn't interfering with nap time.
A friend and I back in college got our hands on 6 old trs80 terminals. We cannabalised them for eprom chips. Turns out you can't do much anymore with a 32k eprom, so we decided to take them apart to see if we could get the chips out.
Out of the dozen we cracked open, we had 3 intact chips. They are really fragile, but I'm sure a person who is not stoned and using a screwdriver, could probably harvest more.
Point is, I think semi-conductor-chips are way prettier than diamonds. The have all those cool colors that refract off of em in tiny patterns...trippy! Any geek chick whose worth her salt would like the eprom more, astetically anyway.
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There was a series of PBS documetaries about ancient egypt that came out in the late 80's. They had shown some of the earliest pictures ever taken inside the giza pyramids. They were full of sand, debris, and plaster chippings. The sterile look the insides of the pyramids have now is a result of the clearing of debris and conservation efforts.
In the same series, they blamed much of the destruction of ancient egyptian text on the fact that catholic priests destroyed much of the visible hyroglyphs between the 5th and 11th centuries, condemed as 'pagan symbols'. The narrirator of the show kept lamenting about how so much egyptian history/text was destroyed by the romans and the catholic church. Most existing hyroglyphs today are only in excavated monuments and a few temples that the egyptians managed to keep secret from the romans.
There is also wide speculation that the Church killed many of the egyptian priests and artist that could read and write hyroglyphs at the same time they were supressing gnostics (2nd - 6th centuries). The Church also destroyed most Greek texts at the time that would have provided translations. That is why no one could read hyroglyphics until the Rosetta Stone was found in the 18th century; that had Hyroglyphic, Greek, and Coptic writing on it. You can thank a forward thinking egyptian priest for stashing that little gem in a temple wall.
That is a misleading statement. Your statement should read, "The graffiti of heiroglyphics that Hawass showed is in fact the only ANCIENT writing STILL left in the pyramids."
The great pyramids were full of hyheiroglyphs till the end of the 8th century, when they were all chipped away by catholic priests to remove "pagan" writings from the world. In fact, all priests in North Africa at the time, were required to make a pilgramige to Giza to help remove the "pagan" text.
Also, there were large amounts of plaster debris inside the pyramids that was removed during restoration in the 20th century. This plaster is what was used to paint the heiroglyphs on. It provided a smooth surface to paint on. This plaster debris is ALL that is left of the heiroglyphs.
And it is possible that it was done by Egyptologist that got to that level to justify the expense of his expedition.
No. The chambers above the kings tomb with the graffiti in them, were first exavated by a British explorer looking for teasure in the 19th century. He was not there for science or justification for the exedition. He was there for loot. It even stated so on the show last night.
Let me guess, you think that the Apollo missions were faked, and that the face on mars is a giant antenna.
Hmmmm...I wonder if we will keep seeing chip speeds double every 18 months, or if the ChipMakers(tm) will only offer consumers faster chips when slower chips see lost sales?
I'm bitter cuase Sci-Fi cancelled Lexx, damn you Sci-Fi Channel! Plus Jos Wheaton kinda fsck'd up Buffy too, so I hope he doesn't screw up Firefly with morals and ethics and stuff. Keep it to the sex and aliens, I get enough preaching from Star Trek.
Jos should've called the TV buffy version, "Daria The Vampire Slayer", cause Sarah just doesn't convey the stuck-up cheerleader role well. Buffy the movie was funny, Buffy the TV show is too serious, though slightly campy.
I'm not trying to defend Bush. I think he is a sneaky fuck. He thinks he can treat America like Yale students, being the elite 'Bonesman' that he is. But hopefully, at the address, he'll drop the "good vs. evil" retoric and give the US citizens, and the rest of the world, HARD evidence for an attack on Iraq.
Ever since '91, I've wanted to make a wine goblet out of Saddam's skull.
If he couldn't control his ding-ding, it would've been Divine Brown under his desk and not Lewinsky.
I've been saying for months that Microsoft shot themselves in the foot with 2k, cut off their left arm with XP, and are about to hang themselves with Palladium. I've started playing with Linux on the desktop and still use NT4, becuase agreeing to XP EULA's is basically giving them ownership of your HDD, and it's only going to get worse. Over the next 2 years millions more are going to do the same thing I did. By 2005 I think Linux will have 30% share of desktops, provided the game support is there by then.
I don't pirate mp3's, movies, or software(anymore) off the net, mainly becuase the quality is horrible. I'm not really seeing this as a concern in for general computing, but for file-sharing it's death.
I can't see how this will alter the legit OSS/Shareware programs out there. If you don't have the DRM code in your app, then it won't use the DRM hardware, right? Or what if your like me and your home PC is not connected to the net(i buy dead-tree pr0n). How will I authorize my OS and Software to run?
I'm perfectly happy to let music and movies migrate off my PC and back into my Entertainment Cabinet. But this won't stop me from being able to incorprorate multimedia into my apps.
I know the difference between stealing and fair-use/sampling, and I can still hate the RIAA.
Read the 9 book 'Pliocene Exile/Galatic Milleu' saga. It's a cross between LOTR, Star Wars, The Lawnmower Man(the metaphysical aspects of that flick), and MZB's Darkover stuff. Take every Sci-Fi/Fantasy plot aspects you can imagine and throw them together in one Saga, amazing man!
I've read Azimov, Herbert, Zelazny, Bradly, and Tolkein's works. They are some of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century, but May's work surpasses them all in scope, detail, and characters. Dune is close though.
I heard them and The Onion are trying to start a grass roots campaign to get ethical reporting back into mainstream media.
How can you be so sure your not ALREADY locked in the garage and have been given a second chance to be let out? God doesn't want anyone to suffer in hell, that's why the keys to the planet are in Jesus's hands now instead of Satans.
The Bible says that:
The Jews believe in the Son(messiah) of God. They just don't believe it was Jesus. That is why the Jews killed Jesus by crucifiction. He went against Levetical(Moses's) Laws by proclaiming to be the messiah, and the punishment for that was death.
The muslims believe Jesus was a prophet. The MOST important prophet as a matter of fact. The muslims don't believe in the holy spirit(feel sorry for them) though. They believe in angels that watch over the earth for God. They pray 5 times a day in hopes that the angels will see them praying and tell god that they have been obidient. They don't believe THEY can have the power to communicate with God. Which is true if they've never been baptised.
So while it's true that Christians belive in a Trinity, they don't worship all 3 as the same thing. OK, some do, but they are morons who haven't read the Bible, just certain verses, and just go to services.
And it takes more than just believing in God to get to heaven. Satan belives in God, but I don't think he's going back to heaven anytime soon. It takes belief, faith, and love in God...hey another trinity!
Parents are All-loving of their children, but parents still punish children and make them do things that they don't like for their own good.
Your right, the Bible isn't self-contradicatory. Your concept of God is derived from your human point-of-view of what is good and evil. That is why the Bible was written, so we don't let hearsay and misobservation cloud our understanding of Gods intentions for us. Do yourself a favor and read the Bible, I'm not saying convert or anything, but a little education never hurt anyone.
If you read the bible(it's really not that bad, just don't try to read it cover to cover), it says that God is a jealous god and has a temper. That's why we have the commandment not to worship other gods before him...it pisses him off.
He also flooded the world and killed millions of people, leaving only a few left alive. So this "omnibenevolent god" you are reffering to, clearly isn't the god the christians, jews, and muslims worship. It sounds more like the one on Star Trek that kicked Q out of the continuum.
Your statement smacks of ignorance, not athiesm...mind the ClueBat(tm) please.
Doctrines are the diving boards to jump off, and swim away from.
I own a copy of Tron, but not The Matrix...ahhh nostalgia.
Fusion is not a renewable energy resource, you need fuel (like duetirium which comes from space/moon), the machines didn't have it. So they figured out a way to use humans as a renewable energy source to power the fusion reaction.
It doesn't have to be scientifically sound, any explaination to keep the disbelief going. At least they bothered to explain that the machines need humans for power in the first place. If it were Tron, we would've just been told machines were using humans as slaves and then there would've been a fight. I would be wondering why the machines needed human slaves. See the difference?
And the human city was deep underground, away from the machines enclaves, not on the surface.
If you wanna go into why the machines couldn't go and attack the city...because of the EMP cannons they couldn't even get close to the city. They couldn't drop a bomb on it either, it's underground. The only way to stop the human revolution is to stop them from hacking the Matrix by shutting down the Zion mainframe. The machines can't attack the humans directly(EMP weapons), and the humans can't attack the machines directly(outnumbered).
It's more art novella than comic book, and the story is a weird mix of sex, violence, and religious themes. Kinda like life. I thought it was deep.
It didn't make any sense until the 15th time you watched it. And it was full of unexplained plot fillers. Kinda like that other great cult-sci-fi film of the 80's...Buckaroo Banzai! Only there was supposed to be a sequel to Buckaroo Banzai that would explain some of the goings on in the first movie, but it never got made and I still have questions damnit! So I'm looking forward to Tron 2, it needs to be made. I mean shit, what ever happened to Tron and Yori anyway? Did they have bits? Did Tron become THMFIC of the mainframe with the MCP gone? Did he figure out a way to make it into the real world? Did Flynn turn his Arcade into a Starbucks after he got the CEO job at Digicom?
The Matrix on the other hand was well explained/executed and the only question I had leaving was what the Oracle was.
At least the Media (4th branch of gov) is finally shedding these last bits of falsehood from the general public's mind about computers.
I mean, everybody knows that computers are for playing games, and the internet is for looking at pr0n. Trying to mislead the public into thinking that computers are empowering the public with knowledge and information is just wrong.
I have no idea how to rebuild XFree, but I have some O'Rielly books that might help me get an idea for it. Thanx.
My toolbox is full of hammers!
I think we need to blame greedy(fame) "artist" and greedy(money) record execs on this issue though. If "artists" weren't so concerned with getting on the radio and selling albums, there would be a lot better music out there. It's the boot lickin' ass kissers that are fuckin it all up by taking hand outs from record companies.
Look at pop acts, they suck, but KIDS buy their shit becuase authority figures (record marketing grown-ups) tell them to. It's not like they keep listening to that shite when they grow up and have their own opinions. People like Britney do that job becuase they want to be "Idolized", not becuase they want to share their talent(or lack of).
It's ego with no talent/vision that is killing music. (i.e. Bowie: ego + talent*vision = good music)
Ani is cool, but she should be more provocative. Guys like that. She seems to be about her music and little else, except pretentious, but most good musicians are.
I haven't rebooted it in over a month though, the matrix screen saver is Kool, and Kandalf isn't half as annoying as Clippy.
Occasionally I still play a round of AOEII or fire up a console and play some nostalgia games (Blaster Master anyone?), but I haven't bought, or played, a new PC game in a couple years. I'm just not excited about games like I used to be. The only game I'm still a 'fan' of is Zelda, becuase the game play is always cutting edge. Maybe that's it, I'm sick of strategy and 1st person shooter games. Adventure dammit, where's Lara when you need her?
I got more excited about the PS2 dev kit than any game for it (I actually have a PS2 and no games for it). I like violent games (GTA3 was fun...for like an hour), but they aren't even interesting anymore. They all seem to be around the same, blow something up, watch blood fly. We need a "Capture & Torture - Taliban Edition" game. At least that's original, and the game play would have to be.
Getting old sucks, soon I'll be 30. Seems like only beer and boobies get me excited these days. I miss the thrill of youth and discovery, when intellectual pursuit wasn't interfering with nap time.
"If it weren't for my penis and my hands, I'd have no friends at all."
Out of the dozen we cracked open, we had 3 intact chips. They are really fragile, but I'm sure a person who is not stoned and using a screwdriver, could probably harvest more.
Point is, I think semi-conductor-chips are way prettier than diamonds. The have all those cool colors that refract off of em in tiny patterns...trippy! Any geek chick whose worth her salt would like the eprom more, astetically anyway.