I'm getting a mental picture of something 70's, a red crushed velvet suit covered in hideous tufts like Don King's hairstyle, these tufts could be dyed ginger. Don't wear a full face mask, the scowl needs to be visible on the offchance perps don't think you mean bidness.
I agree about the Aikido breathing but I am struggling to get a handle on it myself during training, it is hard remembering to empty my lungs before I hit the ground. One interesting side effect, my wife tells me I no longer snore.
Why don't you try cross-training? At a guess you are Dan ranked in one of the striking arts, why not look into Aikido to compliment your offensive skills with defensive abilities.
You may discover more peace of mind if you can diffuse a random attack by disabling the perp without punching a hole in him.
If this advice is unpalatable to you, you could always knock up a fancy costume and take to the streets as an arch-villan - we need a name - how about The Cunt? Hollywood might choke on their chins if your adventures get serialised though:-)
I don't think you need to be hardcore to justify spending copious amounts. For years I would buy a video card that was several rungs down the ladder, not necessarily because money was an overriding factor but because other vices had a stronger claim on my wallet.
I finally got sick of playing games on substandard hardware, deciding to buy top notch goods the next time I built a machine. I paid around $650 for my G4 Ti4400 128mb card and this was at dealers rates. One drawback of running quality product at home is every customer's computer I worked on later seemed to suck the root. Slow boot times and glacial app performances
had me looking for problems that really existed in the configurations themselves, all on PCs still under warranty.
The video card should not be overlooked in configuring a PC for sale. If a `retired' couple want a computer so they can receive pictures of their grandkids, its a fair bet that one day those grandkids will turn up on the doorstep and shortly Grandad is going to want to know from the dealer why the new game he bought Johnny won't play on his 6 month old PC.
My current beast cost me $2500+ (inc 19" Viewsonic) to build and it purred through Unreal 2 with all options maxed, if Doom 3 (the reason I built it in the first place) makes it choke then I will upgrade certain parts to see the game as it should be seen.
I do not earn high wages btw, I just moved my computing needs further up the ladder.
Agree with you about the Hyperion series. I have long searched for an artistic representation of the Shrike that does justice to the mental picture I have of it. I am yet to discover another entity that caused me to daydream while reading as much as the Shrike did.
Much of Dan Simmons non-SF work is excellent reading as well.
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I'm getting a mental picture of something 70's, a red crushed velvet suit covered in hideous tufts like Don King's hairstyle, these tufts could be dyed ginger. Don't wear a full face mask, the scowl needs to be visible on the offchance perps don't think you mean bidness. I agree about the Aikido breathing but I am struggling to get a handle on it myself during training, it is hard remembering to empty my lungs before I hit the ground. One interesting side effect, my wife tells me I no longer snore.
Why don't you try cross-training? At a guess you are Dan ranked in one of the striking arts, why not look into Aikido to compliment your offensive skills with defensive abilities. You may discover more peace of mind if you can diffuse a random attack by disabling the perp without punching a hole in him. If this advice is unpalatable to you, you could always knock up a fancy costume and take to the streets as an arch-villan - we need a name - how about The Cunt? Hollywood might choke on their chins if your adventures get serialised though :-)
I don't think you need to be hardcore to justify spending copious amounts. For years I would buy a video card that was several rungs down the ladder, not necessarily because money was an overriding factor but because other vices had a stronger claim on my wallet. I finally got sick of playing games on substandard hardware, deciding to buy top notch goods the next time I built a machine. I paid around $650 for my G4 Ti4400 128mb card and this was at dealers rates. One drawback of running quality product at home is every customer's computer I worked on later seemed to suck the root. Slow boot times and glacial app performances had me looking for problems that really existed in the configurations themselves, all on PCs still under warranty. The video card should not be overlooked in configuring a PC for sale. If a `retired' couple want a computer so they can receive pictures of their grandkids, its a fair bet that one day those grandkids will turn up on the doorstep and shortly Grandad is going to want to know from the dealer why the new game he bought Johnny won't play on his 6 month old PC. My current beast cost me $2500+ (inc 19" Viewsonic) to build and it purred through Unreal 2 with all options maxed, if Doom 3 (the reason I built it in the first place) makes it choke then I will upgrade certain parts to see the game as it should be seen. I do not earn high wages btw, I just moved my computing needs further up the ladder.
Agree with you about the Hyperion series. I have long searched for an artistic representation of the Shrike that does justice to the mental picture I have of it. I am yet to discover another entity that caused me to daydream while reading as much as the Shrike did. Much of Dan Simmons non-SF work is excellent reading as well.
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