My family in the USAF were allowed to drink on base, and weren't THAT close to the Mexican border - Lackland for basic training IIRC, and various bases across the south as he trained on aircraft mechanics.
You're in trouble. Trollish funny posts are the bane of a concerned citizen.;)
You're going to get -1 troll and +1 funny, sinking your karma to new depths.
I salute your bravery, sir. (someone salute mine for my offtopic karma burn!)
The investigation won't be involved around nuances in the English language, and will instead incorporate the investigative techniques he's probably been trained for. Just a hunch, though. I wasn't trained on that sort of thing. Ironic, no?
And it shows in their programming. As everphilski indicated, shows like "The War At Home" will stick around for a long time. (In its defense, the pilot episode for War At Home, or perhaps the following one about marijuana, were extremely funny episodes. Since then it's just sucked. All the characters are one trick ponies)
Personally I think it's reaping what you sow. Fox panders to the low intelligent demographic, the trailer trash so to speak. Their endless parades of reality programming, their low-brow humor.
Any show that would require an audience or word of mouth is dead at inception on that network.
And it's basically been cancelled by Fox after three seasons. Like Futurama they really didn't give it much of a shot:
Cancelling episodes in season 2
Cutting back to 13 episodes in season 3 and yanking it from sweeps
ABC and Showtime have both made overtures of interest, so naturally Fox hasn't said "it's cancelled". I wish they would; it's obvious they can't market the show worth a damn.
But how would you? It's smart, funny, and many of the jokes require knowledge of current events. And it's on Fox. What's going to lead in to it, Meet Your New Mommy? Reality Makeover Tour?
Anyone who was a Simpsons fan when it was a good show abandoned it a long time ago so it couldn't even hold viewers in a Sunday 8:30 timeslot.
To paraphrase David Cross: A show that wins critical acclaim and multiple awards that can't keep viewers. Perhaps the problem isn't the show, but the people in marketing who don't know how to sell it.
It was much nicer the way I put it.
Basically Fox needs to drop it so Showtime or ABC can pick it up and give it the chance it should have.
It's funny; any hard core Seinfeld fanatic I know picked up on Arrested Dev immediately and have loved it from the get-go. Fox never understood that.
For your awful tags.
?? Are you serious? Man, it wouldn't even work in UBB where it would have to be [url].
Oy vay. That's the problem with geek chic. Too little geek, too much chic.
The one book I'd heartily recommend is Winning Chess.
She could probably start reading it around 8-10 and be ok with it; until then I think it's best to just let her play for fun and don't beat her up too badly.
I started playing around 6 as well, and the one thing that kept me going was playing with my father; I was given many computer programs/games to use but they weren't what made me want to continue. Playing with my dad was the draw.
Just some food for thought.
Yes, I made up a complete fabrication to improve on my already excellent karma. Soon I will have more points than the rest of you losers! Take that, nerds!
I may be a filthy liar, but it ain't for this post. You should read my status reports. Then you'll know filthy lying.
Perhaps I explained poorly.
I receive email addressed to mikerobert@gmail.com as well as email correctly addressed to mike.robert@gmail.com.
For obvious reasons, I'm unsure if he receives my e-mail.
And as a final P.S., I used e.g. correctly, as my name is neither Mike nor Robert. (It's Speedy Gonzales)
I addressed this w/Gmail a long time ago. I have two first names (e.g. Mike Roger) and mikeroger@gmail.com was taken. . . so I grabbed mike.roger@gmail.com
It's a damn shame mikeroger doesn't have a racier life, it would be awesome.
Google's response, btw, was that I'd secured both mikeroger@gmail.com and mike.roger@gmail.com and could switch between the two as I wanted.
Obviously, this is incorrect.
The bright side is I seem to have blown the original email user away w/volume; he used to receive about 1 email every 3 days as opposed to my 20-30 (not including spam).
The down-side is he subscribed to XM ENTERTAINMENT's porn newsletter.
Not trolling, not trying to start a flame war, not even trying to just piss my opinion all over the net.
I really want to get into him. Anyone, anything to be an (in)adequate replacement for Douglas Adams' sensibilities. God I miss that guy.
I've read Kingdom For Sale and attempted to read one other novel by him. Oh, and I read Good Omens (w/Gaiman) and it was OK. GO really bugged me though; it was such a meaty bone, and I feel like they nibbled on it and threw it to the dogs. So much more they could have done; it was a topic that lent itself to humor. Compared to Inferno by Niven and Pourneille, for instance, it was weaksauce.
So here's my question:
If I were to give Pratchett another shot, what books should I pick up? What are his top two? I'm unsure if he writes series, but if so don't provide me with two books in the same series, give me something more broad. (If I like the first book I'll burn through the rest; I'm loyal like that)
I'd really like to fill the void of humorous fiction; I'm assuming I've picked crappy books and that's my issue. I can't believe I'm missing the boat because it's too subtle or too British, but maybe that's the case. Anyway, insights are very welcome.
yeah but books, to me, are special. It's irrational but I prefer the idea that they rise above most of the crass consumerist marketing that occurs elsewhere. And for the most part, this is true.
I think she's been quite true to the story. If anything, I think she's had to make difficult decisions on the nature of the story - it was a children's story that has taken on adult themes.
Now the marketing juggernaut of Harry Potter is another thing entirely, but that's not Rowling's creature. It's instructive to look at Rushdie's book Fury and the whole Little Brain sequence of events. It's very similar to what Rowling is going through, I'd imagine.
Your creation takes on a life of its own, a puppet master to soulless marketeers who have no connection nor empathy to the creation, only viewing it as a money making tool.
Clancy on the other hand. . . yeah. His Op Center stuff and the other crap he's been pulling (Tom Clancy presents. . ..) is really annoying. Shameful, even. Which is a shame, as some of his books (Without Remorse, Red Storm Rising to name two) are absolutely fantastic.
I'd look at Robert Jordan as another author who seems to be interested in the dollar rather than the story. That or he's simply lost control. Either way it amounts to the same thing, a story that gets progressively weaker and one I've lost any interest in reading. Give me the cliff's notes. I'll read the reviews about the final book and if it's overwhelmingly praised I'll consider reading the rest.
I'd agree with you re: metalink on the database side.
And I do agree with you on the remainder of your post - the WHY is more important than the fix.
On the Oracle Applications side, though. . . metalink often only points you in the right direction for a diagnosis. Oracle Apps is a sumbitch, and the error documentation rarely points to the WHY of a problem. But it does make a fantastic search phrase to start your work from:)
God I hate Oracle.
An problem isn't a problem if you already know the solution.
You're asserting he uses Groups to do 90% of his job. I read it as he solves 90% of his problems with it.
I'm the same way with Oracle's Metalink - most of the time I know what to do but when I don't, I go there.
I have system administrator rights to the production system of my client.
I can bring down their website and completely trash their entire ERP with my trust level.
Why? Because I administer the system for them.
But I don't have local administrator.:)
Hilarious. I'm considering rooting my own box just to grant it to me, but everyone will get all huffy even though (suckers) they never made me sign any sort of computer usage agreement.
Your value system may be changing with age but:
Kids are still punished for their desire to learn in school
Jocks are still lauded throughout society, not just high school
BUT as we age, those things that were derided early on (book l'arnin', etc) allow "us geeks" to rise up much farther than the fat-head jock wrestlers who had their moments of glory in high school.
Geeks peak later.
And for grins, I'm posting the lyrics to Friends Forever by the Old 97s because it's a fantastic nod to the outcasts in high school. (of which, by geek definition, 95% of us were such)
Friends Forever
I was a debater
Was not a stoner nor an inline skater
Was not a player nor a player hater
I was just a bookworm on a respirator
Who's to say that's wrong
I was in the chess club
Didn't have a swimming pool much less a true love
Didn't have a dalliance much less a hot tub
I was just a brain whose brain never let up
Who's to say that's wrong
The twelve years after five
Are years we're lucky to survive
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away
Went out for the football team
Found out the hard way that you can't live your Dad's dream
Had pretty thin skin to be in the machine
Then I found a guitar and the rest's a fanzine
Who's to say that's wrong
The moral of the song
Is that the high school kids are wrong
You know they have been all along
Come graduation day you'll be gone
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away (end)
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My family in the USAF were allowed to drink on base, and weren't THAT close to the Mexican border - Lackland for basic training IIRC, and various bases across the south as he trained on aircraft mechanics.
Enlisted servicemen can drink at 18 when on base. Some pubs will look the other way for them, as well. Depends on the bar, though.
You're going to get -1 troll and +1 funny, sinking your karma to new depths.
I salute your bravery, sir. (someone salute mine for my offtopic karma burn!)
The investigation won't be involved around nuances in the English language, and will instead incorporate the investigative techniques he's probably been trained for. Just a hunch, though. I wasn't trained on that sort of thing. Ironic, no?
Personally I think it's reaping what you sow. Fox panders to the low intelligent demographic, the trailer trash so to speak. Their endless parades of reality programming, their low-brow humor.
Any show that would require an audience or word of mouth is dead at inception on that network.
And it's basically been cancelled by Fox after three seasons. Like Futurama they really didn't give it much of a shot:
Cancelling episodes in season 2
Cutting back to 13 episodes in season 3 and yanking it from sweeps
ABC and Showtime have both made overtures of interest, so naturally Fox hasn't said "it's cancelled". I wish they would; it's obvious they can't market the show worth a damn.
But how would you? It's smart, funny, and many of the jokes require knowledge of current events. And it's on Fox. What's going to lead in to it, Meet Your New Mommy? Reality Makeover Tour?
Anyone who was a Simpsons fan when it was a good show abandoned it a long time ago so it couldn't even hold viewers in a Sunday 8:30 timeslot.
To paraphrase David Cross: A show that wins critical acclaim and multiple awards that can't keep viewers. Perhaps the problem isn't the show, but the people in marketing who don't know how to sell it.
It was much nicer the way I put it.
Basically Fox needs to drop it so Showtime or ABC can pick it up and give it the chance it should have.
It's funny; any hard core Seinfeld fanatic I know picked up on Arrested Dev immediately and have loved it from the get-go. Fox never understood that.
For your awful tags.
?? Are you serious? Man, it wouldn't even work in UBB where it would have to be [url].
Oy vay. That's the problem with geek chic. Too little geek, too much chic.
She could probably start reading it around 8-10 and be ok with it; until then I think it's best to just let her play for fun and don't beat her up too badly.
I started playing around 6 as well, and the one thing that kept me going was playing with my father; I was given many computer programs/games to use but they weren't what made me want to continue. Playing with my dad was the draw.
Just some food for thought.
I may be a filthy liar, but it ain't for this post. You should read my status reports. Then you'll know filthy lying.
I receive email addressed to mikerobert@gmail.com as well as email correctly addressed to mike.robert@gmail.com.
For obvious reasons, I'm unsure if he receives my e-mail.
And as a final P.S., I used e.g. correctly, as my name is neither Mike nor Robert. (It's Speedy Gonzales)
It's a damn shame mikeroger doesn't have a racier life, it would be awesome.
Google's response, btw, was that I'd secured both mikeroger@gmail.com and mike.roger@gmail.com and could switch between the two as I wanted. Obviously, this is incorrect.
The bright side is I seem to have blown the original email user away w/volume; he used to receive about 1 email every 3 days as opposed to my 20-30 (not including spam).
The down-side is he subscribed to XM ENTERTAINMENT's porn newsletter.
That'll do it, won't it! *dons coruntham*
I really want to get into him. Anyone, anything to be an (in)adequate replacement for Douglas Adams' sensibilities. God I miss that guy.
I've read Kingdom For Sale and attempted to read one other novel by him. Oh, and I read Good Omens (w/Gaiman) and it was OK. GO really bugged me though; it was such a meaty bone, and I feel like they nibbled on it and threw it to the dogs. So much more they could have done; it was a topic that lent itself to humor. Compared to Inferno by Niven and Pourneille, for instance, it was weaksauce.
So here's my question:
If I were to give Pratchett another shot, what books should I pick up? What are his top two? I'm unsure if he writes series, but if so don't provide me with two books in the same series, give me something more broad. (If I like the first book I'll burn through the rest; I'm loyal like that)
I'd really like to fill the void of humorous fiction; I'm assuming I've picked crappy books and that's my issue. I can't believe I'm missing the boat because it's too subtle or too British, but maybe that's the case. Anyway, insights are very welcome.
That was very funny. Well done sir.
yeah but books, to me, are special. It's irrational but I prefer the idea that they rise above most of the crass consumerist marketing that occurs elsewhere. And for the most part, this is true.
That's why I considered it annoying. . . it's passed off as "Tom Clancy" but it's not really his.
Now the marketing juggernaut of Harry Potter is another thing entirely, but that's not Rowling's creature. It's instructive to look at Rushdie's book Fury and the whole Little Brain sequence of events. It's very similar to what Rowling is going through, I'd imagine.
Your creation takes on a life of its own, a puppet master to soulless marketeers who have no connection nor empathy to the creation, only viewing it as a money making tool.
Clancy on the other hand. . . yeah. His Op Center stuff and the other crap he's been pulling (Tom Clancy presents. . . .) is really annoying. Shameful, even. Which is a shame, as some of his books (Without Remorse, Red Storm Rising to name two) are absolutely fantastic.
I'd look at Robert Jordan as another author who seems to be interested in the dollar rather than the story. That or he's simply lost control. Either way it amounts to the same thing, a story that gets progressively weaker and one I've lost any interest in reading. Give me the cliff's notes. I'll read the reviews about the final book and if it's overwhelmingly praised I'll consider reading the rest.
And I do agree with you on the remainder of your post - the WHY is more important than the fix.
On the Oracle Applications side, though. . . metalink often only points you in the right direction for a diagnosis. Oracle Apps is a sumbitch, and the error documentation rarely points to the WHY of a problem. But it does make a fantastic search phrase to start your work from :)
God I hate Oracle.
You're asserting he uses Groups to do 90% of his job. I read it as he solves 90% of his problems with it.
I'm the same way with Oracle's Metalink - most of the time I know what to do but when I don't, I go there.
how could you possibly be an editor? For shame.
I can bring down their website and completely trash their entire ERP with my trust level.
Why? Because I administer the system for them. :)
But I don't have local administrator.
Hilarious. I'm considering rooting my own box just to grant it to me, but everyone will get all huffy even though (suckers) they never made me sign any sort of computer usage agreement.
Kids are still punished for their desire to learn in school
Jocks are still lauded throughout society, not just high school
BUT as we age, those things that were derided early on (book l'arnin', etc) allow "us geeks" to rise up much farther than the fat-head jock wrestlers who had their moments of glory in high school.
Geeks peak later.
And for grins, I'm posting the lyrics to Friends Forever by the Old 97s because it's a fantastic nod to the outcasts in high school. (of which, by geek definition, 95% of us were such)
Friends Forever
I was a debater
Was not a stoner nor an inline skater
Was not a player nor a player hater
I was just a bookworm on a respirator
Who's to say that's wrong
I was in the chess club
Didn't have a swimming pool much less a true love
Didn't have a dalliance much less a hot tub
I was just a brain whose brain never let up
Who's to say that's wrong
The twelve years after five
Are years we're lucky to survive
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away
Went out for the football team
Found out the hard way that you can't live your Dad's dream
Had pretty thin skin to be in the machine
Then I found a guitar and the rest's a fanzine
Who's to say that's wrong
The moral of the song
Is that the high school kids are wrong
You know they have been all along
Come graduation day you'll be gone
Hang in there friends forever
In memory far away
(end)
Cheers, bitches. :)
Obviously things need to change from turn based to RTS, but I'd like to see it. Maybe a combination of SF Battles and Pirates! That would rock.
Cubs tickets are cake to get if they're below
If they're ABOVE
I am unsure if prices fluctuate, but it runs over $15 for a bleacher seat, IIRC. (I haven't been to a Cubs game since 2002)
But AIM is still ActiveX so the original point halfway stands.