"Hello, Fox execs? Yes, I'd like to pitch a new game or reality show entitled 'Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee." What? Come on, it's not like you've got anything else worth watching, especially with the writer's strike."
Hurricanes, obviously not. Tornadoes don't often occur in that part of New Mexico, but it is possible. (There was a near-tornado in Las Cruces last summer.)
Heck, if we're considering low-probability events, I suppose there could be a massive earthquake from the Rio Grande Rift. There was a 5.8 earthquake in the Soccoro area back in 1906, after all.
I've never seen a point for a laptop in any of the classes I've taken, especially the higher level. When I'm taking a chemistry class, or a physics class, or a math class, or so on, there is no good way to quickly take notes when you need to write equations or draw structures. Even when I was taking English and German and other humanities classes, I still would never have used it. The only time I can think of using it would be those awful, large lectures that has a guy droning on at a PowerPoint for an hour, because then I could at least take notes inside the program if I could get the presentation beforehand.
Most of the books I own are used, so there have been at least two readers. So the stores I bought them from get paid, but not the publisher. Libraries, while great resources, don't always have what I want to read available and for fiction I don't like to submit an ILL request (unlike journal articles, dissertations, reviews, and other technical writing) because if it's a 30 year OOP novel that I'm looking for, it's easier to find it somewhere either online or in used book stores. Yes, of course the library could finally find it, but personally I don't like using ILL for personal pleasure.
Agreed. There is practically nothing between TorC and Cruces. Heck, there is practically nothing between Socorro and TorC for that matter. If they had to ditch the craft they could try putting it in one of the lakes instead of the desert. For that matter, there's practically nothing to the east until you get past White Sands to Alamogordo and basically nothing at all in New Mexico to the west and still not much until you cross into Arizona and eventually get to Phoenix.
And traffic on I-25? You've gotta be kidding me. You can drive for a long time between Cruces and Albuquerque and have whole sections where the only car you can see on the road is the one you're in. The biggest bottleneck would be that Border Patrol checkpoint north of Cruces and maybe they couldn't easily expand the highway through that S-curve south of TorC and crossing that canyon north of TorC (Nogal?).
What's kinda funny is that there have been signs on I-25 for years now at the approximate spot. "Future Site of the New Mexico Spaceport." I just figured it was some local pipe-dream. Still, I'll believe it when I see it. New Mexico has a history of losing companies that started there.
This bit of the article makes me worry a bit:
"An enhanced high-bandwidth version of the service will feature 70 XM stations for around $5 USD per month, although specific pricing has not yet been set. XM plans to replace its current Web radio offering, which became free to subscribers last week, with the AOL-powered service when it launches."
XM just upped the monthly fee by 3 dollars for "free" Web radio. Quite frankly, I almost never use it. If I'm at my computer, I have the actual receiver going into my computer. If I'm somewhere else on the network, sometimes I will use it if I'm at a computer with speakers. When I'm at home, I can't really use it because of the limitations of dial-up. Does this mean that for the extra 3 bucks that XM subscribers will still get the 70 XM channels plus all the AOL stuff? Or would I have to shell out even more (which I can tell you right now is not going to happen) or do I get the option to drop the Web radio and get back to the old monthly cost?
They also cut out the "although they killed our Lord" from the Wish Upon a Weinstein episode. And the Osama Bin Laden references are cut of adult swim and the dvd.
The Osama references were cut at the request of the creator. Apparently, he was almost killed on 9/11 and thus had it pulled.
I think it's a shame, because that bit was really freaking funny, but it's harder to get pissed at that cut than at a lot I've seen.
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"Hello, Fox execs? Yes, I'd like to pitch a new game or reality show entitled 'Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee." What? Come on, it's not like you've got anything else worth watching, especially with the writer's strike."
Hurricanes, obviously not. Tornadoes don't often occur in that part of New Mexico, but it is possible. (There was a near-tornado in Las Cruces last summer.) Heck, if we're considering low-probability events, I suppose there could be a massive earthquake from the Rio Grande Rift. There was a 5.8 earthquake in the Soccoro area back in 1906, after all.
Dude, don't ever call New Mexico part of Texas. Especially not if you're in New Mexico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot _Plant The WIPP site is outside Carlsbad, NM.
Wouldn't it just be faster these days to indicate who isn't running for President?
First step: Convince Bush that Moonraker was actually a documentary.
Office 97? I'm still using Office 95.
I see a new ad campaign. "Hungry? Why wait?"
I wonder if I can go back to using my old phone with the AT&T chip in it.
I've never seen a point for a laptop in any of the classes I've taken, especially the higher level. When I'm taking a chemistry class, or a physics class, or a math class, or so on, there is no good way to quickly take notes when you need to write equations or draw structures. Even when I was taking English and German and other humanities classes, I still would never have used it. The only time I can think of using it would be those awful, large lectures that has a guy droning on at a PowerPoint for an hour, because then I could at least take notes inside the program if I could get the presentation beforehand.
Most of the books I own are used, so there have been at least two readers. So the stores I bought them from get paid, but not the publisher. Libraries, while great resources, don't always have what I want to read available and for fiction I don't like to submit an ILL request (unlike journal articles, dissertations, reviews, and other technical writing) because if it's a 30 year OOP novel that I'm looking for, it's easier to find it somewhere either online or in used book stores. Yes, of course the library could finally find it, but personally I don't like using ILL for personal pleasure.
We are fighting the octopodes there so that we don't have to fight them here!
Agreed. There is practically nothing between TorC and Cruces. Heck, there is practically nothing between Socorro and TorC for that matter. If they had to ditch the craft they could try putting it in one of the lakes instead of the desert. For that matter, there's practically nothing to the east until you get past White Sands to Alamogordo and basically nothing at all in New Mexico to the west and still not much until you cross into Arizona and eventually get to Phoenix. And traffic on I-25? You've gotta be kidding me. You can drive for a long time between Cruces and Albuquerque and have whole sections where the only car you can see on the road is the one you're in. The biggest bottleneck would be that Border Patrol checkpoint north of Cruces and maybe they couldn't easily expand the highway through that S-curve south of TorC and crossing that canyon north of TorC (Nogal?). What's kinda funny is that there have been signs on I-25 for years now at the approximate spot. "Future Site of the New Mexico Spaceport." I just figured it was some local pipe-dream. Still, I'll believe it when I see it. New Mexico has a history of losing companies that started there.
Don't forget that two of the four planes hijacked on 9/11 took off from Logan. If that doesn't scream incompetence I don't know what does.
Probably nothing, as long as no one complains.
This bit of the article makes me worry a bit: "An enhanced high-bandwidth version of the service will feature 70 XM stations for around $5 USD per month, although specific pricing has not yet been set. XM plans to replace its current Web radio offering, which became free to subscribers last week, with the AOL-powered service when it launches." XM just upped the monthly fee by 3 dollars for "free" Web radio. Quite frankly, I almost never use it. If I'm at my computer, I have the actual receiver going into my computer. If I'm somewhere else on the network, sometimes I will use it if I'm at a computer with speakers. When I'm at home, I can't really use it because of the limitations of dial-up. Does this mean that for the extra 3 bucks that XM subscribers will still get the 70 XM channels plus all the AOL stuff? Or would I have to shell out even more (which I can tell you right now is not going to happen) or do I get the option to drop the Web radio and get back to the old monthly cost?
They also cut out the "although they killed our Lord" from the Wish Upon a Weinstein episode. And the Osama Bin Laden references are cut of adult swim and the dvd. The Osama references were cut at the request of the creator. Apparently, he was almost killed on 9/11 and thus had it pulled. I think it's a shame, because that bit was really freaking funny, but it's harder to get pissed at that cut than at a lot I've seen.