Have you been on vacation? I haven't seen you in a month! I was afraid you'd been killed by a guy wearing a black turtle neck. Anyway, good to see you.
I think that must be the same deal for Mike Bombich, who wrote some very nifty software (as donationware) before he was hired by Apple. I used to hang out on a forum where he and his wife frequented, and he was always helpful and friendly to others. Nice guy as well as a great mac geek. I remember how excited they were when Mike got hired by Apple. It was a dream come true. Hell, I think the entire forum was tickled that one of our own was going to join the mother ship.
No, that's just it. He was never into RPG. He just played vector games with pencil and graph paper. He was a physics student at Berkeley for a semester but dropped out because he was too poor and he never bothered to load up on the loans and grants. He had a pretty good mind, but he was always sort of naive. . . naive isn't the right word. ..distracted.
I think the closest he came to playing RPGs is one summer when our group played Hitman, which was I guess what you would call a proto-LARP. He and I played a lot of chess, but he liked chess problems even more.
Having worked in warehouses with concrete floors for over 20 years, good shoes are imperative.
Oh, hell ya. I've worked movie production for the last 23 years, and between the concrete floors of most stages and going on location where I'm constantly jumping down from lift gates carrying heavy equipment, good foot wear is absolutely essential. Very early in my career, I had major problems with shin splits and my feet. I asked a number of experienced people what they did, and found that there are a lot of solutions, but none of them worked for me. One was Having five different pairs of shoes and wearing a different pair each day. Another was padded sole inserts (in the days before gel inserts).
What finally worked for me were Wolverine Durashocks, that actually have shock absorbers built into the sole of the boot. I also started wearing really thick merino wool mountaineering socks. When I started riding motorcycles, I needed a pull on boot rather than one with laces, so I found a pair of Woverines in Wellington style, which looks almost like engineer boots, but lacking the buckle. I've found they're also suitable for horse back riding (although I do have a pair of riding boots).
One last thing. The steel toes are indispensable in a work boot. If they don't have steel toes, don't even bother.
Don't you think this would lead to a lot of soiled clothing, as people (some people, ahem) would find the "images of interest" before they've managed to unbutton their trousers?
Why keep it anonymous? If this was done on a micro-level (as opposed to macro) and combined with GPS, this could be quite useful for a teen who has to tell his or her parent that he/she wrecked the family car. "I'll just wait until Dad is in his happy place."
This could also be useful for timing when to ask your boss for a raise, breaking up with someone, etc.
Buy an Apple iPod! It's Apple's version of the, uh, iPod!
Apple (currently) is defining the MP3 player market.
MS took that away from Apple a long time ago in the computing market, and has it still. Apple isn't "reinforcing the idea" that Windows PCs dominate the market, they're accepting reality (RDF non-withstanding). There's nothing wrong with marketing something as better than the competition. Companies do it successfully all the time.
Exactly! Just last night I was looking at a website with pictures of women inserting vegetables manually! It's had to believe that we haven't automated this process yet.
Yeah, remember the good old days when we played pong with pencil and paper? =)
To be fair, I had a friend who actually played artificial life games with a pencil and graph paper because he was too poor to buy a computer. He'd also play space games, drawing vectors for the space ships, etc. It was a matter of extremely smart + extremely creative + extremely too much time on his hands.
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Have you been on vacation? I haven't seen you in a month! I was afraid you'd been killed by a guy wearing a black turtle neck. Anyway, good to see you.
You didn't bother clicking on my link, did you? =)
Silly aftk2!
I think that must be the same deal for Mike Bombich, who wrote some very nifty software (as donationware) before he was hired by Apple. I used to hang out on a forum where he and his wife frequented, and he was always helpful and friendly to others. Nice guy as well as a great mac geek. I remember how excited they were when Mike got hired by Apple. It was a dream come true. Hell, I think the entire forum was tickled that one of our own was going to join the mother ship.
I can't believe they left out Jason Kottke! I think the voting was rigged!
No, that's just it. He was never into RPG. He just played vector games with pencil and graph paper. He was a physics student at Berkeley for a semester but dropped out because he was too poor and he never bothered to load up on the loans and grants. He had a pretty good mind, but he was always sort of naive. . . naive isn't the right word. . .distracted.
I think the closest he came to playing RPGs is one summer when our group played Hitman, which was I guess what you would call a proto-LARP. He and I played a lot of chess, but he liked chess problems even more.
Yo mama so fat, when Capt. Hook tried to bury her booty, he needed a steamshovel!
Yo mama so fat, when she try to figure out her dress size, she violates the DMCA!!
Yo mama so fat, when the RIAA sue her, they get the case thrown out and have to pay the attorneys' fees!!
They're only locking out the developers who used the password "tux".
Well, ideally you're still on your feet while you're grabbing your ankles.
Having worked in warehouses with concrete floors for over 20 years, good shoes are imperative.
Oh, hell ya. I've worked movie production for the last 23 years, and between the concrete floors of most stages and going on location where I'm constantly jumping down from lift gates carrying heavy equipment, good foot wear is absolutely essential. Very early in my career, I had major problems with shin splits and my feet. I asked a number of experienced people what they did, and found that there are a lot of solutions, but none of them worked for me. One was Having five different pairs of shoes and wearing a different pair each day. Another was padded sole inserts (in the days before gel inserts).
What finally worked for me were Wolverine Durashocks, that actually have shock absorbers built into the sole of the boot. I also started wearing really thick merino wool mountaineering socks. When I started riding motorcycles, I needed a pull on boot rather than one with laces, so I found a pair of Woverines in Wellington style, which looks almost like engineer boots, but lacking the buckle. I've found they're also suitable for horse back riding (although I do have a pair of riding boots).
One last thing. The steel toes are indispensable in a work boot. If they don't have steel toes, don't even bother.
Zee firzt game for the Zune will be Duke Nukem: Real Zune Now. Zis iz exziting newz!
Don't you think this would lead to a lot of soiled clothing, as people (some people, ahem) would find the "images of interest" before they've managed to unbutton their trousers?
The first commercialization of any new medium is always porn. Therefore, we can look forward to visions of computers coupling with our cortex. Yay!
Why keep it anonymous? If this was done on a micro-level (as opposed to macro) and combined with GPS, this could be quite useful for a teen who has to tell his or her parent that he/she wrecked the family car. "I'll just wait until Dad is in his happy place."
This could also be useful for timing when to ask your boss for a raise, breaking up with someone, etc.
- I'm feeling crazy enough to be in Finland.
- The last time I felt such overwhelming fear, I was in Paris.
- You didn't vote? Are you totally apathetic? No, I'm an American.
When the guy gets drunk, does he still say, "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"?
Whenever you guys get the grammar resolved, I (for one) will be ready to welcome our camping and fragging roach overlords.
We have to develop this before some other country does. We cannot allow a bubble gap!
OK, I actually R-ed TFA. It appears he is also bitter about his directing career.
=)
He's just bitter that Wikipedia doesn't use a 3D VR interface.
Buy an Apple iPod! It's Apple's version of the, uh, iPod!
Apple (currently) is defining the MP3 player market.
MS took that away from Apple a long time ago in the computing market, and has it still. Apple isn't "reinforcing the idea" that Windows PCs dominate the market, they're accepting reality (RDF non-withstanding). There's nothing wrong with marketing something as better than the competition. Companies do it successfully all the time.
Exactly! Just last night I was looking at a website with pictures of women inserting vegetables manually! It's had to believe that we haven't automated this process yet.
Big diff. There is no Swiss Bikini Team. So I vote for Sweden, since their Bikini Team will help the hadron collider achieve greater uptime.
It would be even worse than that. I've been meaning to tell you: sex is even better when you have it with another person! =)
You're supposed to fast forward to get to the sexy parts. So, don't blink, or you'll miss the guy with the tremendous hadron.
Yeah, remember the good old days when we played pong with pencil and paper? =)
To be fair, I had a friend who actually played artificial life games with a pencil and graph paper because he was too poor to buy a computer. He'd also play space games, drawing vectors for the space ships, etc. It was a matter of extremely smart + extremely creative + extremely too much time on his hands.