Nethack is great in theory, but I can never get anywhere. Every game ends up like,
Start game
Take three steps
Wipe face
>Oh no! You wiped your face off! You die!
The Force is the ultimate plot device, and it's such an obvious plot device that even the characters themselves realize that their actions are being controlled by this plot device, so it becomes a post-modern plot device.
First line of TFA:
"Gas canisters exploded inside the Mountbatten building on Salisbury Road, Highfield, which was engulfed by a 100ft plume of smoke on Sunday morning."
Yeah, I wonder why the sprinkler system didn't take care of that.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken
*sigh*:(
Well, there goes that. I guess it was good while it lasted.
this slashdot effect enabled astronomers to further pinpoint the mass of the black hole, which is confidently estimated to be somewhere in the server room
Well, Yahoo! advertises HEAVILY in Japan, and they hold a big chunk of the market. In fact, the biggest home broadband provider is YahooBB. They know what they're doing, too; they always hire the cutest girls to hand out the tissues, bags, and free modems at the busy train stations and electronics stores.
Another thing that's knid of surprising, Excite is still a very popular search engine in Japan. A surprising number of people here who have never even heard of google use it every day.
Well, in Japan MSN Messenger is far away the most popular, followed by Yahoo messenger. Merging the two together will easily give them close to 90% of the market here.
ATM was to set the built in speaker, and there were alternate INIT commands like ATW and stuff. You could even get most old modems to dial rotary-style.
Ah I miss the BBS days. Dialing up long distance to download grainy 16 color images of Cindy Crawford and deliver my Qmail packet for the day. Hmm. OK actually no I don't miss it much. But it was fun.
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Science [sai-ens]: (n) Crazy moon gibberish.
So, what's the difference between this and Google Video? ;)
Or should I RTFA?
Nethack is great in theory, but I can never get anywhere. Every game ends up like,
Start game
Take three steps
Wipe face
>Oh no! You wiped your face off! You die!
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Wow. Apparently our reputation precedes us.
The Force is the ultimate plot device, and it's such an obvious plot device that even the characters themselves realize that their actions are being controlled by this plot device, so it becomes a post-modern plot device.
Cue fanfare and applause.
I've been emitting high-pitched squeals whenever attractive women come near me for years. Why does nobody call it a "song" then? ;(
First line of TFA:
"Gas canisters exploded inside the Mountbatten building on Salisbury Road, Highfield, which was engulfed by a 100ft plume of smoke on Sunday morning."
Yeah, I wonder why the sprinkler system didn't take care of that.
It turns out the proposal was made by Bill the Janitor.
Nothing to see, move along, false alarm.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
:(
- H. L. Mencken
*sigh*
Well, there goes that. I guess it was good while it lasted.
Wasn't there already a Rockie movie about that?
(Wow, I'm full of lame jokes lately)
this slashdot effect enabled astronomers to further pinpoint the mass of the black hole, which is confidently estimated to be somewhere in the server room
But.. this IS my day job! :(
See, this is the problem with nanotechnology. No matter what great advances you make, there are always so many people who just want to split hairs.
*ba-dum-dum-pshh*
Just teach them to use bittorrent.
Yeah because DRR players are all in excellent shape
transparent aluminium.
What is with that, anyway?
This handle was partly inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was perhaps the second greatest writer of all time.
With the first greatest writer being, of course, Mr. Anonymous Coward
.. but what about the ROUSes?
"14/f ne1 wanna cyber?"
to
"18/f (looks 14) ne1 wanna cyber?"
Another thing that's knid of surprising, Excite is still a very popular search engine in Japan. A surprising number of people here who have never even heard of google use it every day.
Well, in Japan MSN Messenger is far away the most popular, followed by Yahoo messenger. Merging the two together will easily give them close to 90% of the market here.
ATM was to set the built in speaker, and there were alternate INIT commands like ATW and stuff. You could even get most old modems to dial rotary-style.
Ah I miss the BBS days. Dialing up long distance to download grainy 16 color images of Cindy Crawford and deliver my Qmail packet for the day. Hmm. OK actually no I don't miss it much. But it was fun.
Uh yeah I remember doing exactly that on AOL like 6 or 7 years ago.
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no spaces.
Much appreciated!
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