We have episodes of Bob the Builder and Dora the Explorer on DVD, but Maisy? And I _know_ Play with Me Sesame is out.
Ah well, time to ebay. OTOH, maybe the little one watches too much TV and this is the perfect opportunity to wean her off a few shows. The gripping hand is it's not like it's my choice...
... I just put something in my.sig and left it at that.
Oh, and I put up some baby pics in my cube.
I'm sure your little one is cute, but I don't walk around inflicting my family photos on random strangers, and you shouldn't either.
And to the guy who keeps posting that people with families aren't actual Slashdot readers: Married ten years, daughter is two and a half. And I call myself Moody Loner. If there's hope for me, there's hope for anybody.
Some of this advice is going to sound familiar, but bear with me. My fellow Slashdotters have left out a few important steps in the process.
Step 1. Wet yourself.
You heard me. Just open the mains door, take a few steps back, take a good look at that nightmare, and let that bladder go. This is important in that the professional electrician (see step 3) seeing the trail of urine from here to the main power switch (step 2) will be relieved to discover that you have some grasp of the gravity of the situation.
Step 2. Turn all the power off.
All of it. There should be a big switch or something. Turn it off. If there is some way of keeping people away (lock, armed guard, rabid rottweiler) use it.
Step 3. Call an electrician.
Yes, you've heard it before, and when this question gets posted again you'll hear it again. A sign of wisdom is realizing when a job is too much for your skills and you, good Sir, are in over your head. All the instruction manuals for wiring say that there are times to call a competent electrician, someone who does this for a living and has been certified and everything. Guess what time it is?
There are an insane number of posts replying to this question, and the overwhelming majority involve you calling an electrician. Slashdot speaks with one voice on no other subject, but on this, good Sir, we beseech you. Call an electrician!
M4d pR0Pz to Atlantis Fantasyworld in Santa Cruz. My wife and I have been buying comics there for ten years, even after we moved over the hill. Joe worked a mail order deal for us, he probably can for you too.
Okay, bought two weeks of food and water and juice and etc. Went by the local cheap department store sporting goods racks looking at the shotguns.
Mmmmm. Shotguns.
Area effect to make up for lack of gun skills (at least compared to everybody else that plays ^%$*$# Unreal Tournament Deathmatch. @^##@^&$$!!!)
But, alas, it was not to be. My lovely wife reminded me that paranoid, short-tempered people shouldn't be allowed access to firearms. Can't imagine how paranoia and short temper came up, unless it was that little "And when I'm finished blowing the heads off the aliens that are using Y2K to take over, I can put them on Tiki Torches in our front yard!!" comment.
That was my mistake. She hates Tiki Torches.
So, all I have to face the New Year is a razor-sharp Highlander katana replica. There can be only one, and with all the firearms out there, it probably won't be me...
Well, Rob, much as I agree with some of what you said (particularly "women are more complicated than computers"), in my experience the magic rules can be summed up fairly easily.
There are no magic rules.
This, of course, is for the edification of the lonely geek guys who didn't notice the foot logo and are poring desperately through the responses looking for some way to meet someone to play Quake with on Friday nights. To be fair, there may also be geek grrlz poring through this desperately trying to find out how to get him to do something besides Quake, or get better at it at least, but I digress.
I have had the amazing good fortune to have been married for six years to a lovely woman who shares many of my hobbies and interests (for the person who posted that you won't find a woman interested in RPG's, I will remember you with amusement during her Changeling game tonight. Again, I digress.) and, to this day I don't know why.
We are all unique individuals. There are no hard and fast rules for dealing with the opposite gender (well, besides Try not to spit but who knows, there may be someone out there who finds that attractive. Again, I digress) that will magically endow you with the ability to attract and keep your dream significant other. It won't happen easily. Instead of easy rules, there are hard choices. On the bright side, if somebody who is so fscked up about his past that after six years of marriage he still calls himself MoodyLoner can find someone, you can too.
Those Hamburg patent lawyers Hauck, Graalfs, Wehnert let protect the word label " Linux " with the German patent office. This acknowledged today a coworker of the partnership on request of c't. also the German label page specifies the trademark protection. In number 36 of 9.9.1999 (page 9919) Linux under the document reference 399 36 517,6 in the category software is listed.
Which aims at trademark owner Roy Boldt with the log-on, is unclear. The managing director Hamburg system houses and the management consultation of the ChannelOne was by telephone not attainable today despite several attempts. Whether it concerns a new case of Markengrabbing, or whether Boldt wants to concern unselfishly like a Austrian Linux trademark owner , remains for the time being in the dark.
However Boldt of the label cannot be safe " Linux " yet. After US right the trademarks are situated since 1997 with Linux father Linus Torvalds. Torvalds had itself the rights however only before court firstrides.
The output of a comparable law case in Germany would be meanwhile uncertain. After information of the German patent office the trademark law at the respective state borders ends. How it continues here to country will only show up, in the next weeks. To 9.12.99 the contradiction period runs against word label " Linux ". Up to then everyone can make a " relative protection obstacle in such a way specified " valid. The patent office is already prepared for such a case. The form " W7202 " designated for any objections has already a fixed workstation in the Internet.
I never said "friendship", I said "courtesy". He has the right not to like Star Wars. He does not have the right to be abusive and bitter to the people that made him rich.
This is not an "either, or" proposition. I would like to think there is a choice between pandering to the masses and being an insufferable, arrogant jerk.
He owes me his share of 100 movie tickets I bought to see him, money that I paid HIM because I liked his performance and he got a share of the profits.
And for that money, which has made him a wealthy man, he can't even be bothered to read, much less return, a simple letter?
A letter in which I told him I may never have watched "Bridge over the River Kwai" if I hadn't seen "Star Wars" first?
He owed that 12- year- old kid too. He owed him something more than "Never see it again" for the money that that kid paid him.
Celebrities and authours DO owe the fans, because without the fans' appreciation and money they would be working in the Burger Pit with the rest of us.
And no, celebrities don't owe us every frigging petty detail of their lives.
After all, I usually login to/. when I get to work, and just refresh it occasionally throughout the day. I only log in once, but I'm here for eight hours.
Personally, I think that having the moderation visible to everyone but only applying when you have points will seriously cut down on moderation; why moderate if you don't know you're having an effect?
According to my Slashdot Karma, I'm coming back as a FLATWORM!
I write my congress-ppl whenever portions of my government do something that alarms me.
When I get no reply or a form letter, I go on to vote against that person in the next election.
That's what I'm supposed to do, right?
So why doesn't it work? When I wrote my congress-ppl to tell them to lay off Steve Jackson Games, I don't remember the Secret Service saying, "Well, we thought you were aiding and abetting computer crime, but that letter from that Mundstock fellow straightened us out in a hurry. Why, if more citizens performed their civic responsibilities with his diligence..."
I do everything htat they tell us to do in high-school civics, and I see no effect at best.
No, I don't honestly believe that all of our elected leaders get secretly inducted into the "Let's Destroy the Lives of Our Citizens" club, but I'm beginning to wonder...
I have yet to see people in my government, even people in my government that I am ostensibly a constituent of, act in my interests over the interests of the people that donate scads of $$$ to their elections. If that's how democracy is supposed to work, I can't afford it.
As far as ol' what's-his-name goes, IF he is proven guilty, it would be of poor taste and stupidity. God knows I had poor taste and I was stupid when I was 19. The last thing he and script kiddies like him need is the Fedz coming down on him like they did Kevin Mitnick. After all, one of those script kiddies might grow up to become the next (insert name of 'leet hacker/coder/open source operating system guru here)
Okay, rant off. You ppl in the NSA reading this, go ahead and take me away, I really don't care anymore.
I believe that is where the "presumption of innocence" falls, but I am not certain as I am no Constitutional lawyer. Once I'm off work, I'll be sure to ask my friend who is:)
Okay, a quick phone call should clear this up, and I'll even look up the phone number on the Web!
(20 min. of grappling with search engines and refusing cookies later...)
Okay, I have the phone number. Let's place the call.
(Quick conversation with a pleasant and courteous law-enforcement professional later) (I mention this as I have had few encounters with pleasant, courteous law-enforcement officials)
Okay, I have spoken with Officer Stebbins directly and he verifies the story (while seeming vastly amused by the idea). Welcome to the new journalism!
Of course, either
a) he bought half the WWW to place a false phone number to mislead me (highly unlikely)
or
b) I'm in on it (admittedly a lot more likely)
but I believe it, and one of the editors can quickly reproduce my small efforts at verification, should it be deemed necessary.
Thanx once again to Officer Stebbins and the St. George, Utah PD for letting me bug them while they're working.
I keep threatening to build one, but my wife either a) doesn't want to be seen in public with a synth-pop cyborg b) is wary of any project of mine that involves soldering irons or c) all of the above.
Considering all the electronics I'd have to learn, this might be a good thing...
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Try chasing a toddler through a crowded amusement park sometime.
Now that's funny.
Found this when I Googled for vision replacement systems. See if that helps.
This is the first thing that came up when I used Google .
Try http://www.webrpg.com/
Yeah, the killer on this is Noggin.
We have episodes of Bob the Builder and Dora the Explorer on DVD, but Maisy? And I _know_ Play with Me Sesame is out.
Ah well, time to ebay. OTOH, maybe the little one watches too much TV and this is the perfect opportunity to wean her off a few shows. The gripping hand is it's not like it's my choice...
I actually got a Nielsen rating book... for the week after they cancelled Firefly.
Words (save for certain badly-mispronounced Mandarin phrases) fail me...
... I just put something in my .sig and left it at that.
Oh, and I put up some baby pics in my cube.
I'm sure your little one is cute, but I don't walk around inflicting my family photos on random strangers, and you shouldn't either.
And to the guy who keeps posting that people with families aren't actual Slashdot readers: Married ten years, daughter is two and a half. And I call myself Moody Loner. If there's hope for me, there's hope for anybody.
Some of this advice is going to sound familiar, but bear with me. My fellow Slashdotters have left out a few important steps in the process.
Step 1. Wet yourself.
You heard me. Just open the mains door, take a few steps back, take a good look at that nightmare, and let that bladder go. This is important in that the professional electrician (see step 3) seeing the trail of urine from here to the main power switch (step 2) will be relieved to discover that you have some grasp of the gravity of the situation.
Step 2. Turn all the power off.
All of it. There should be a big switch or something. Turn it off. If there is some way of keeping people away (lock, armed guard, rabid rottweiler) use it.
Step 3. Call an electrician.
Yes, you've heard it before, and when this question gets posted again you'll hear it again. A sign of wisdom is realizing when a job is too much for your skills and you, good Sir, are in over your head. All the instruction manuals for wiring say that there are times to call a competent electrician, someone who does this for a living and has been certified and everything. Guess what time it is?
There are an insane number of posts replying to this question, and the overwhelming majority involve you calling an electrician. Slashdot speaks with one voice on no other subject, but on this, good Sir, we beseech you. Call an electrician!
Obviously timothy isn't a parent, of a toddler at least.
I mean, if you were outside my house, I might OK temporary access for you to download drivers. Hell, I might go ahead and download them for you.
Of course, I set up WEP once it occurred to me that providing free broadband for my hostile neighbors was not what I wanted to do with my free time.
Maybe the guy's deliberately sharing his broadband. Maybe he hasn't figured out how to secure it. Wouldn't kill you to ask, would it?
M4d pR0Pz to Atlantis Fantasyworld in Santa Cruz. My wife and I have been buying comics there for ten years, even after we moved over the hill. Joe worked a mail order deal for us, he probably can for you too.
Contact information is at the Atlantis site
Considering all the "Cat got your tongue?" messages I got trying to post it before I gave up, I'm surprised to see it at all.
Google doesn't cache images. Yeah.
Guess I'm not the only one to dream of owning a nuke-resistant bunker.
Here's the Google cache of the site map to salivate over...
Good news if you're back east or in the Bay Area, bad news otherwise.
Say, wonder if Mrs. Moody would mind running a home daycare out of one of these?
I'd be happy if they had regular Dr. Pepper instead of just diet, but I've given up trying to get it and just bring my own.
Besides, the baby makes sure I don't get any sleep anyway...
Okay, bought two weeks of food and water and juice and etc. Went by the local cheap department store sporting goods racks looking at the shotguns.
Mmmmm. Shotguns.
Area effect to make up for lack of gun skills (at least compared to everybody else that plays ^%$*$# Unreal Tournament Deathmatch. @^##@^&$$!!!)
But, alas, it was not to be. My lovely wife reminded me that paranoid, short-tempered people shouldn't be allowed access to firearms. Can't imagine how paranoia and short temper came up, unless it was that little "And when I'm finished blowing the heads off the aliens that are using Y2K to take over, I can put them on Tiki Torches in our front yard!!" comment.
That was my mistake. She hates Tiki Torches.
So, all I have to face the New Year is a razor-sharp Highlander katana replica. There can be only one, and with all the firearms out there, it probably won't be me...
Well, Rob, much as I agree with some of what you said (particularly "women are more complicated than computers"), in my experience the magic rules can be summed up fairly easily.
There are no magic rules.
This, of course, is for the edification of the lonely geek guys who didn't notice the foot logo and are poring desperately through the responses looking for some way to meet someone to play Quake with on Friday nights. To be fair, there may also be geek grrlz poring through this desperately trying to find out how to get him to do something besides Quake, or get better at it at least, but I digress.
I have had the amazing good fortune to have been married for six years to a lovely woman who shares many of my hobbies and interests (for the person who posted that you won't find a woman interested in RPG's, I will remember you with amusement during her Changeling game tonight. Again, I digress.) and, to this day I don't know why.
We are all unique individuals. There are no hard and fast rules for dealing with the opposite gender (well, besides Try not to spit but who knows, there may be someone out there who finds that attractive. Again, I digress) that will magically endow you with the ability to attract and keep your dream significant other. It won't happen easily. Instead of easy rules, there are hard choices. On the bright side, if somebody who is so fscked up about his past that after six years of marriage he still calls himself MoodyLoner can find someone, you can too.
{begin translation}
" Linux " soon no longer freely?
Those Hamburg patent lawyers Hauck, Graalfs, Wehnert let protect the word label " Linux " with the German patent office. This acknowledged today a coworker of the partnership on request of c't. also the German label page specifies the trademark protection. In number 36 of 9.9.1999 (page 9919) Linux under the document reference 399 36 517,6 in the category software is listed.
Which aims at trademark owner Roy Boldt with the log-on, is unclear. The managing director Hamburg system houses and the management consultation of the ChannelOne was by telephone not attainable today despite several attempts. Whether it concerns a new case of Markengrabbing, or whether Boldt wants to concern unselfishly like a Austrian Linux trademark owner , remains for the time being in the dark.
However Boldt of the label cannot be safe " Linux " yet. After US right the trademarks are situated since 1997 with Linux father Linus Torvalds. Torvalds had itself the rights however only before court firstrides.
The output of a comparable law case in Germany would be meanwhile uncertain. After information of the German patent office the trademark law at the respective state borders ends. How it continues here to country will only show up, in the next weeks. To 9.12.99 the contradiction period runs against word label " Linux ". Up to then everyone can make a " relative protection obstacle in such a way specified " valid. The patent office is already prepared for such a case. The form " W7202 " designated for any objections has already a fixed workstation in the Internet.
{end translation}
I guess we will have to disagree.
I never said "friendship", I said "courtesy". He has the right not to like Star Wars. He does not have the right to be abusive and bitter to the people that made him rich.
This is not an "either, or" proposition. I would like to think there is a choice between pandering to the masses and being an insufferable, arrogant jerk.
Okay, I'm done too. Sorry.
He does owe us.
He owes me his share of 100 movie tickets I bought to see him, money that I paid HIM because I liked his performance and he got a share of the profits.
And for that money, which has made him a wealthy man, he can't even be bothered to read, much less return, a simple letter?
A letter in which I told him I may never have watched "Bridge over the River Kwai" if I hadn't seen "Star Wars" first?
He owed that 12- year- old kid too. He owed him something more than "Never see it again" for the money that that kid paid him.
Celebrities and authours DO owe the fans, because without the fans' appreciation and money they would be working in the Burger Pit with the rest of us.
And no, celebrities don't owe us every frigging petty detail of their lives.
They do owe us courtesy, though.
After all, I usually login to /. when I get to work, and just refresh it occasionally throughout the day. I only log in once, but I'm here for eight hours.
Personally, I think that having the moderation visible to everyone but only applying when you have points will seriously cut down on moderation; why moderate if you don't know you're having an effect?
According to my Slashdot Karma, I'm coming back as a FLATWORM!
Look, I vote.
I write my congress-ppl whenever portions of my government do something that alarms me.
When I get no reply or a form letter, I go on to vote against that person in the next election.
That's what I'm supposed to do, right?
So why doesn't it work? When I wrote my congress-ppl to tell them to lay off Steve Jackson Games, I don't remember the Secret Service saying, "Well, we thought you were aiding and abetting computer crime, but that letter from that Mundstock fellow straightened us out in a hurry. Why, if more citizens performed their civic responsibilities with his diligence..."
I do everything htat they tell us to do in high-school civics, and I see no effect at best.
No, I don't honestly believe that all of our elected leaders get secretly inducted into the "Let's Destroy the Lives of Our Citizens" club, but I'm beginning to wonder...
I have yet to see people in my government, even people in my government that I am ostensibly a constituent of, act in my interests over the interests of the people that donate scads of $$$ to their elections. If that's how democracy is supposed to work, I can't afford it.
As far as ol' what's-his-name goes, IF he is proven guilty, it would be of poor taste and stupidity. God knows I had poor taste and I was stupid when I was 19. The last thing he and script kiddies like him need is the Fedz coming down on him like they did Kevin Mitnick. After all, one of those script kiddies might grow up to become the next (insert name of 'leet hacker/coder/open source operating system guru here)
Okay, rant off. You ppl in the NSA reading this, go ahead and take me away, I really don't care anymore.
No, but the words "due process" do.
:)
6th amendment, perhaps?
I believe that is where the "presumption of innocence" falls, but I am not certain as I am no Constitutional lawyer. Once I'm off work, I'll be sure to ask my friend who is
Okay, a quick phone call should clear this up, and I'll even look up the phone number on the Web!
(20 min. of grappling with search engines and refusing cookies later...)
Okay, I have the phone number. Let's place the call.
(Quick conversation with a pleasant and courteous law-enforcement professional later)
(I mention this as I have had few encounters with pleasant, courteous law-enforcement officials)
Okay, I have spoken with Officer Stebbins directly and he verifies the story (while seeming vastly amused by the idea). Welcome to the new journalism!
Of course, either
a) he bought half the WWW to place a false phone number to mislead me (highly unlikely)
or
b) I'm in on it (admittedly a lot more likely)
but I believe it, and one of the editors can quickly reproduce my small efforts at verification, should it be deemed necessary.
Thanx once again to Officer Stebbins and the St. George, Utah PD for letting me bug them while they're working.
I keep threatening to build one, but my wife either
a) doesn't want to be seen in public with a synth-pop cyborg
b) is wary of any project of mine that involves soldering irons
or c) all of the above.
Considering all the electronics I'd have to learn, this might be a good thing...