I know you can sell/exchange it, but you can't trade it for groceries at the local Gas'n'Go... is gold even consider "money" anymore, or is it just pretty stuff with a historical sigificance that we still attach some value to?
Everyone knows Easter is when Jesus came out of the tomb, saw his shadow, and decided there would be six more weeks of winter.
Okay, I got to make my Easter joke, I'm happy. Going over to the soon-to-be-in-laws's house for Easter dinner, though. Mosdt of them are pretty religious, it makes it fun when I start telling them about the new Easter Barbie: you open up the box and there's nothing inside.
If it weren't for the weather, the beaches, the girls, the parties, and the fact that my car is old enough to not need a smog check, I'd consider moving. San Diego's an awesome place to live, but sometimes this state really pisses me off. Did you know there are beaches around here that you can't even drink on anymore? I live in Ocean Beach, and you can still drink on the beach here, but no kegs! If you're courteous, the cops are more forgiving than you'd expect, but that's not the point... And cost of living, don't even get me started! Median house-price around here is like $650,000. I got lucky and am marrying into home-ownership, but Good Lawd, dassa lotta money!
Still, though, wouldn't trade it. So you have to look somewhere else for the violent video games. Don't give me that, "One freedom at a time..." diatribe either, because it doesn't apply here. In the long run, making it harder to get games would probably be better for all the little chunkers running around, anyways. Go to the beach and {swim,surf,dive,fish,sail} for fuck's sake, it's a gorgeous day! Only pick the controller up when it's DARK OUT, kids. Seeing real bikinis is better than those PS2-generated-volleyball-whoores anyways. The physics of bouncing breasts just can't be simulated quite right yet.
And now I'm all riled up. Well, have fun picking this post apart, there's plenty of contention here.
On top of that, I highly recommend scuba diving to anyone who's close to some body of water (doesn't necessarily mean the ocean, there're some great unique diving opportunities in lakes & rivers.
Lots of expensive gear that calculates how long you can safely stay underwater, calculates your ascent rates, surface intervals etc., and also keeps you alive while you hang out under 3 or 5 atmospheres of pressures. Go for it! It's fun.
Yeah, I've done successful kernel upgrades on various other distros, but I think I just bonered the X config getting the "new mouse" to work and continued to knee-jerk my way through the upgrade rather than stop, take a deep breath, and think about it.
It probably also had to do with the fact that this was the first one on this particular computer, so I wasn't entirely sure which modules needed to be built, things like that. *shrug* No skin off of my ass, and now I know better.
I'd heard great things, but then I wasted one hard drive trying to make kernel 2.6 work with Fedora 1. I mean, it worked, but only by stretching definitions.
I'm not horribly ign'nt, but I'm obviously no genious either. Somewhere along the line/dev got all dicked up and stuff stopped working. So to stop the bitching, it's great to see a faster-than-average turnaround by the Fedora guys. Will be installing this (and checking config files to see where I went wrong-- LEARN from your mistakes, people) tonight.
I just think the alliteration doesn't work. I'm all for assonance, but "E INK" just sounds like a stutter. What's next, "i-Eye" for a camera? "e-Eel" for your pet electric eel? Ok, that was a stretch, but you get the point.
Yeah, it seems like it'd have a very high Coolness Factor, which usually bears an inverse relationship to the Usefulness Factor.
The first example that comes to mind is the CD thing mentioned in the blurb. Why the hell would I want to flip through CDs? That's the EXACT REASON I ripped them to my computer to start with, was so I could see a nice, flat list rather than hundreds of individual CDs.
Flipping a window around to put a note on the back seems like the kind of dumbass thing I'd do with my homework, and then I'd forget I wrote the note and totally ignore it anyways. Come on, on the back??
Like I said, sounds very cool, if not all that useful. I'd rather put that extra 3D rendering power into some badass games, personally. Offtopic, but I was playing through Freespace again last night (for about the fourth time). What a great game! I love the "spaceships fly like airplanes" genre and there just haven't been enough recently. That's what we need... not "easy as a Mac," but "as fun as a PC."
Brings up an interesting (to me, at least) point: which came first, the idea of zero, or of infinity?
I don't think this is as simple as a monkey-case of "I have ALL the food" versus "I'm starving," but more of a rigorously defined "This is mathematical zero" and "This is mathematical infinity." I'd be interested in hearing from a (certified?) Mathematical Historian about when/where/under-what-circumstances each of these ideas evolved.
Yeah, it's getting to be a pain in the ass. Here's a typical exchange:
Airport Guy:Sir, we recommend you take your shoes off and pass them through the x-ray machine. Me:They're rubber flip-flops. They'll be fine. Airport Guy:Sir, please step step over here and remove your shoes. Uncooperative security check ensues, and tempers begin to flare Airport Guy:Sir, there's no need to get angry, I'm just doing my job. Me:Okay, what part of your job involves talking to me? Keep waving your little wand, monkey-boy. Airport Guy(into microphone):Assistance at station 6a please. Me:Um, can I have my shoes back now? Further uncooperative security checks ensue, eventually confirming that there is, in fact, nothing in my half-inch-thick rubber flip-flops but rubber. Airport Guy:Thank you sir, have a good flight.
It's getting to be routine. Vicious circle indeed.
I just picked up a book by a guy named Rees called Before the Beginning which does a fabulous job of explaining the basics of cosmology and astronomy. I'm only about a hundred pages in, but am absolutely fascinated.
Is anyone else kept up at night thinking about the immensity and unknowability of the universe? I toss and turn, switching between two modes of thought, one being "Man, this place is huge and everything we do is pretty much inconsequential! I wish I could live long enough to hear answers to the cool questions, and this paltry 80 years we're dealt just doesn't cut it. The injustice!" And the other mode of thought being, "Yeah, but this shit's cool! I don't need to know it all, just enough to keep my brain churning. The wonder!"
What does this have to do with the article? Well, it seems pretty obvious to me that each of those 88 million objects is unique and interesting in its own way, and even though I feel like we're amoebas piggybacking on a brontosaurus (borrowed metaphor), it's cool that we're getting to know our little patch of dirt. Fun stuff, and nicely done.
Because it mentions rappers, who are for the most part black, as well as Roots, and the casting of white people in said movie. It is therefore quite obviously racist, and the moderators are trying to ease their guilty consciences by down-modding something which, although they don't have a problem with, might be seen as objectionable by the easily excitable thereby ameliorating any latent guilt they may have.
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Hey, where's my rimshot!??!
I know you can sell/exchange it, but you can't trade it for groceries at the local Gas'n'Go... is gold even consider "money" anymore, or is it just pretty stuff with a historical sigificance that we still attach some value to?
How much for your rock?
Okay, I got to make my Easter joke, I'm happy. Going over to the soon-to-be-in-laws's house for Easter dinner, though. Mosdt of them are pretty religious, it makes it fun when I start telling them about the new Easter Barbie: you open up the box and there's nothing inside.
Fight 1
In the red corner we have tar; in the blue corner we have zip. Touch gloves, let's have have a fair fight, now come away clean!
Tar: 15,800,000
Zip: 41,600,000 By a landslide!
Fight 2
In the red corner, may I present tarball; in the blue corner, his challenger zipfile. Come away clean, and fight!
Tarball: 510,000
Zipfile: 132,000
I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
Still, though, wouldn't trade it. So you have to look somewhere else for the violent video games. Don't give me that, "One freedom at a time..." diatribe either, because it doesn't apply here. In the long run, making it harder to get games would probably be better for all the little chunkers running around, anyways. Go to the beach and {swim,surf,dive,fish,sail} for fuck's sake, it's a gorgeous day! Only pick the controller up when it's DARK OUT, kids. Seeing real bikinis is better than those PS2-generated-volleyball-whoores anyways. The physics of bouncing breasts just can't be simulated quite right yet.
And now I'm all riled up. Well, have fun picking this post apart, there's plenty of contention here.
Late.
Lots of expensive gear that calculates how long you can safely stay underwater, calculates your ascent rates, surface intervals etc., and also keeps you alive while you hang out under 3 or 5 atmospheres of pressures. Go for it! It's fun.
She looks at him, and answers, "A hundred bucks."
Well, dude yanks down his pants and start jerkin' off... the hooker, surprised, says, "Hey, what gives?"
And the guy says, "For a hundred bucks, I'm not giving you the easy one!"
It probably also had to do with the fact that this was the first one on this particular computer, so I wasn't entirely sure which modules needed to be built, things like that. *shrug* No skin off of my ass, and now I know better.
I'm not horribly ign'nt, but I'm obviously no genious either. Somewhere along the line /dev got all dicked up and stuff stopped working. So to stop the bitching, it's great to see a faster-than-average turnaround by the Fedora guys. Will be installing this (and checking config files to see where I went wrong-- LEARN from your mistakes, people) tonight.
Thunder, thunder, thunder THUNDERCA -- oh, sorry.
Damn it {drool}... Bridgid O'Shaugnessy in The Maltese Falcon. Mary Astor, right? Gotta watch that one again tonight.
The first example that comes to mind is the CD thing mentioned in the blurb. Why the hell would I want to flip through CDs? That's the EXACT REASON I ripped them to my computer to start with, was so I could see a nice, flat list rather than hundreds of individual CDs.
Flipping a window around to put a note on the back seems like the kind of dumbass thing I'd do with my homework, and then I'd forget I wrote the note and totally ignore it anyways. Come on, on the back??
Like I said, sounds very cool, if not all that useful. I'd rather put that extra 3D rendering power into some badass games, personally. Offtopic, but I was playing through Freespace again last night (for about the fourth time). What a great game! I love the "spaceships fly like airplanes" genre and there just haven't been enough recently. That's what we need... not "easy as a Mac," but "as fun as a PC."
I don't think this is as simple as a monkey-case of "I have ALL the food" versus "I'm starving," but more of a rigorously defined "This is mathematical zero" and "This is mathematical infinity." I'd be interested in hearing from a (certified?) Mathematical Historian about when/where/under-what-circumstances each of these ideas evolved.
Nevermind, it was pricelessware.com, no s. Got it. Thanks for the tip.
That URL doesn't work. What did you mean to type in? I'm curious now.
Airport Guy:Sir, we recommend you take your shoes off and pass them through the x-ray machine.
Me:They're rubber flip-flops. They'll be fine.
Airport Guy:Sir, please step step over here and remove your shoes.
Uncooperative security check ensues, and tempers begin to flare
Airport Guy:Sir, there's no need to get angry, I'm just doing my job.
Me:Okay, what part of your job involves talking to me? Keep waving your little wand, monkey-boy.
Airport Guy(into microphone):Assistance at station 6a please.
Me:Um, can I have my shoes back now?
Further uncooperative security checks ensue, eventually confirming that there is, in fact, nothing in my half-inch-thick rubber flip-flops but rubber.
Airport Guy:Thank you sir, have a good flight.
It's getting to be routine. Vicious circle indeed.
I just picked up a book by a guy named Rees called Before the Beginning which does a fabulous job of explaining the basics of cosmology and astronomy. I'm only about a hundred pages in, but am absolutely fascinated.
Is anyone else kept up at night thinking about the immensity and unknowability of the universe? I toss and turn, switching between two modes of thought, one being "Man, this place is huge and everything we do is pretty much inconsequential! I wish I could live long enough to hear answers to the cool questions, and this paltry 80 years we're dealt just doesn't cut it. The injustice!" And the other mode of thought being, "Yeah, but this shit's cool! I don't need to know it all, just enough to keep my brain churning. The wonder!"
What does this have to do with the article? Well, it seems pretty obvious to me that each of those 88 million objects is unique and interesting in its own way, and even though I feel like we're amoebas piggybacking on a brontosaurus (borrowed metaphor), it's cool that we're getting to know our little patch of dirt. Fun stuff, and nicely done.
Wow, that lady has a HUGE hand. Freakish.
"Evocative" and "aesthetic" used that often and in those ways make it sound like you're trying to be smarter and deeper than you really are. Stop it.
Is that you?
Because it mentions rappers, who are for the most part black, as well as Roots, and the casting of white people in said movie. It is therefore quite obviously racist, and the moderators are trying to ease their guilty consciences by down-modding something which, although they don't have a problem with, might be seen as objectionable by the easily excitable thereby ameliorating any latent guilt they may have.
WHy isn't Freespace 2 on sale anywhere for less than like $50? People are asking $79 and $99 on amazon.com's used pages. What gives?
Tiny pieces of The Hubble Telescope, coming to a backytrd near you!