The place in Addison is called...damn, can't think of the name. It's on Beltline between Midway and the Tollway, west of the railroad tracks, on the east side of a shopping mall, next to a tatoo place. Or at least it was a few years ago when I last went there. Pop Kulture? Maybe that was the name?
Also there used to be a Planet Anime west of the mall on Preston and 635, near a Target. Did it move to Plano?
Cliff's comics used to rent anime, they have a shop on Mockingbird and another behind the 7-11 at Midway and Trinity Mills, although the other shop is called Atomic Age, and is only open Wednesday through Saturday.
Fort Worth- Lone Star Comics off of Hulen after the mall, next to a good Indian food place.
Cliff's comics on Berry just east of Paschal High School. Wait. Is Cliff's the place in Ft Worth or in Dallas? hmmm...well, either way, there is a comic shop there.
In the Wedgewood area next door to Harbour Freight is Y2K comics. The guy that runs the place is suprisingly friendly and helpfull.
And of course, every May/June is A-kon. http://www.a-kon.com [a-kon.com]
Something I've been wondering about for a while, if we do decide to not eat cows and pigs and chickens and turkeys, what do we do with all the ones we have?
Do we just let them free? Do we kill large portions of them so that there aren't as many to deal with? What do we do? I doubt there would be too many ranchers out there who'd keep feeding them and raising them if there was no market.
I know I sound like a troll, but seriously, what would we do with them?
-gandalf23
"Give me an army of West Point grads and I'll win the battle. Give me a handfull of Aggies, and I'll win the war!" -Gen. George Patton, the Armor God
I picked up the soundtrack a few years ago when I was in San Fransico. IIRC it was about $20. It's got an email address on it somewhere...here it is: sonmay@c2.hinet.net
I've been told that it's a Chineese bootleg, but it looks very nice, the liner notes are professionally done, and I've had no problems with the cd. It is missing the U2 song from the closing credits, "One Minute Warning," but everything else is there.
If you are in the greater Dallas area this weekend, head over to Project A-Kon 2K the southwest's largest Anime convention.
Well, I tend to listen to lots o' stuff. Right now, at work, I'm listening to this playlist, but from time to time I chage it around, adding and removing stuff from the pretty big mp3 list here at work.
Sometimes when I code, I just really like to hear only female voices. Don't know why. Go-go's, Tori, Sinead, Poe, Fiona, Sarah McLaughlan, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lushious Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, etc. Some projects they are all I listen to.
At the casa (do lots of coding there as well as lots of Q2) I did listen mostly to CDs, but a few weeks ago I moved the stereo out of the computer room and into the living room. So, now I end up either blasting the stereo loud enough to hear at the other end of the house (which tends to annoy both my dog and my neighbors) or I use mp3s. Have a decent collection of tunes. Haven't updated the list in a while. May do so when I get home tonight.
Last few CDs in my changer? (love throwing in 5 cds and hitting random/shuffle)Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook and Jazz Masters something or another, Tori Amos To Jupiter and Back and Little Earthquakes, New order's Substance, Crystal Method's Vegas, Beastie Boys one with Sabotage (shit, going blank on the name. Ill Communication?)and David Bowie's Earthlings.
Slight tangent. Went to the Tori Amos concert up in Dallas a few weeks ago. Damn! Very, very good. Went out and bought the new albulm on the drive back. Also very, very good.
If they want to do that, it's their business, their money, and their lives.
But it's not usually their money. It's my money and your money. Medicaid, Medicare, and the county pays for most of the cost of keeping people alive. Most people just can't afford a kid who's too sickly or ill to survive on his own. Physical therapy, treatments, medication, surgery, hospitalization, x-rays, tests, and time all add up.
I used to work with the Mentally Handicapped/Mentally Retarded (MHMR). All but one of the families could not afford to take care of the "clients", so they dumped them on the county's door (the one exception was very rich and very kind and often donated money to help keep us afloat). "The State can afford him, they've got money. We don't," was said many, many times. And these were clients who were, for the most part, healthy! There was another section that handled the seriously ill clients, many of whom had been with the state since birth.
I know a very sweet family that goes to the same church as my parents. Nice people, real salt of the earth types, but they are fucked up genetically. 5 kids: 2 blind, 1 severely retarded. Last time I checked 9 grandkids, all either blind, retarded, or both. But they keep trying because they are hoping for a "normal" kid. Meanwhile the rest of us are picking up their tab. Special schooling, transportation, clothing (several of the kids have to be restrained most of the time because they are violent to themselves and others), live-in help, medicine, treatments, therapy. I don't think I would be exaggerating here to say that this one family has cost the rest of us millions of dollars.
I think that we definitely need some sort of prenatal genetic screening. If the parents choose not to abort, or if there is no treatment that can be made prenataly, then they should have to pay for everything themselves.
I love being able to taunt other players (some nights, after a particularly vicious day at work, that's about all I do). Very early on I put a script in my.cfg so that I could taunt/talk shit about other players with out having to sit there and type it out (I tend to get killed when I type). However, this is rather impersonal. I'd like to be able to do bind something like: say "{person I'm looking at} WTF are you shooting me???? We are on the same #$@@#$% team!!!!" or say "{person I just killed} was Skulded!" or say "I will hunt {person who just killed me} down and kill you slowly" to a key. Are there any plans for doing something like this in Q3?
Also, any plans to bring back the axe from Q1? Or some sort of melee weapon?
BTW, loved Wolfenstein, Doom 1 and 2, Quake and Q2. Keep up the awesome work!
-Gandalf23 usually play Q2 as Skuld [1433] or the Horny Monk
btw, I'm using swbell.net for my isp. They have _really_ good support for non-windows tcp/ip based machines (they don't even ask
That's changed. It's been a little over a year since I worked there (well, actually I worked at Stream who was hired to do SBIS/PacBell/NevadaBell support), but we did not support anything that was not win X or Mac >7.5. First thing out of our mouths was supposed to be "What's your username?" followed by "And what operating system are you using?" (supprisingly, this usually took some explaining. Most common response was along the lines of "IBM Aptiva") Hell, we'd get bitched at by the company (SBIS) reps if we gave out the info to people on non-supported OSs. I remember once one of them came running over to my cube and was screaming "We don't support NT!" over and over while I was trying to give the customer our DNS numbers. The customer got pretty pissed at her and ended up canceling. Then she has the gall to bitch my ass out for losing a customer!
rrrrrrrrr.
But I digress. The ISP I work at now does not care what you use to connect. however, most, >80%, of our customers use windows 95 or 98, so we prefer to walk the customer through inetwiz. It's easy and it's already on their computers. We've been talking about not supporting win3.x becasue the machines that still run it tend to be slow as crap and those customers tend to call a lot wondering why they are going so slow and they never believe you when you say it's gonna be slow on a 386 sx with less than 8mb ram and a 9600 modem. Nah, it's gotta be the isp, couldn't be the hardware, I'll just wait a few minutes and call again. aaaaiiiieeeeeee!!!! but I see that I've gone off topic a bit, so I'll stop.
-"It's my lucky day. I'll take The Rapists for $200."
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The place in Addison is called...damn, can't think of the name. It's on Beltline between Midway and the Tollway, west of the railroad tracks, on the east side of a shopping mall, next to a tatoo place. Or at least it was a few years ago when I last went there. Pop Kulture? Maybe that was the name?
Also there used to be a Planet Anime west of the mall on Preston and 635, near a Target. Did it move to Plano?
Cliff's comics used to rent anime, they have a shop on Mockingbird and another behind the 7-11 at Midway and Trinity Mills, although the other shop is called Atomic Age, and is only open Wednesday through Saturday.
Fort Worth-
Lone Star Comics off of Hulen after the mall, next to a good Indian food place.
Cliff's comics on Berry just east of Paschal High School. Wait. Is Cliff's the place in Ft Worth or in Dallas? hmmm...well, either way, there is a comic shop there.
In the Wedgewood area next door to Harbour Freight is Y2K comics. The guy that runs the place is suprisingly friendly and helpfull.
And of course, every May/June is A-kon. http://www.a-kon.com [a-kon.com]
-Gandalf23
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reload
It's about 24 MB
480x224e d_teaser_1_480.mov
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reload
and 320x144e d_teaser_1_320.mov
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wbonline/reload
-gandalf23
Do we just let them free? Do we kill large portions of them so that there aren't as many to deal with? What do we do? I doubt there would be too many ranchers out there who'd keep feeding them and raising them if there was no market.
I know I sound like a troll, but seriously, what would we do with them?
-gandalf23
"Give me an army of West Point grads and I'll win the battle. Give me a handfull of Aggies, and I'll win the war!"
-Gen. George Patton, the Armor God
sonmay@c2.hinet.net
I've been told that it's a Chineese bootleg, but it looks very nice, the liner notes are professionally done, and I've had no problems with the cd. It is missing the U2 song from the closing credits, "One Minute Warning," but everything else is there.
If you are in the greater Dallas area this weekend, head over to Project A-Kon 2K the southwest's largest Anime convention.
-gandalf23
Sometimes when I code, I just really like to hear only female voices. Don't know why. Go-go's, Tori, Sinead, Poe, Fiona, Sarah McLaughlan, Bjork, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Lushious Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, etc. Some projects they are all I listen to.
At the casa (do lots of coding there as well as lots of Q2) I did listen mostly to CDs, but a few weeks ago I moved the stereo out of the computer room and into the living room. So, now I end up either blasting the stereo loud enough to hear at the other end of the house (which tends to annoy both my dog and my neighbors) or I use mp3s. Have a decent collection of tunes. Haven't updated the list in a while. May do so when I get home tonight.
Last few CDs in my changer? (love throwing in 5 cds and hitting random/shuffle)Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook and Jazz Masters something or another, Tori Amos To Jupiter and Back and Little Earthquakes, New order's Substance, Crystal Method's Vegas, Beastie Boys one with Sabotage (shit, going blank on the name. Ill Communication?)and David Bowie's Earthlings.
Slight tangent. Went to the Tori Amos concert up in Dallas a few weeks ago. Damn! Very, very good. Went out and bought the new albulm on the drive back. Also very, very good.
-Gandalf23
But it's not usually their money. It's my money and your money. Medicaid, Medicare, and the county pays for most of the cost of keeping people alive. Most people just can't afford a kid who's too sickly or ill to survive on his own. Physical therapy, treatments, medication, surgery, hospitalization, x-rays, tests, and time all add up.
I used to work with the Mentally Handicapped/Mentally Retarded (MHMR). All but one of the families could not afford to take care of the "clients", so they dumped them on the county's door (the one exception was very rich and very kind and often donated money to help keep us afloat). "The State can afford him, they've got money. We don't," was said many, many times. And these were clients who were, for the most part, healthy! There was another section that handled the seriously ill clients, many of whom had been with the state since birth.
I know a very sweet family that goes to the same church as my parents. Nice people, real salt of the earth types, but they are fucked up genetically. 5 kids: 2 blind, 1 severely retarded. Last time I checked 9 grandkids, all either blind, retarded, or both. But they keep trying because they are hoping for a "normal" kid. Meanwhile the rest of us are picking up their tab. Special schooling, transportation, clothing (several of the kids have to be restrained most of the time because they are violent to themselves and others), live-in help, medicine, treatments, therapy. I don't think I would be exaggerating here to say that this one family has cost the rest of us millions of dollars.
I think that we definitely need some sort of prenatal genetic screening. If the parents choose not to abort, or if there is no treatment that can be made prenataly, then they should have to pay for everything themselves.
-gandalf23
I love being able to taunt other players (some nights, after a particularly vicious day at work, that's about all I do). Very early on I put a script in my .cfg so that I could taunt/talk shit about other players with out having to sit there and type it out (I tend to get killed when I type). However, this is rather impersonal. I'd like to be able to do bind something like: say "{person I'm looking at} WTF are you shooting me???? We are on the same #$@@#$% team!!!!" or say "{person I just killed} was Skulded!" or say "I will hunt {person who just killed me} down and kill you slowly" to a key. Are there any plans for doing something like this in Q3?
Also, any plans to bring back the axe from Q1? Or some sort of melee weapon?
BTW, loved Wolfenstein, Doom 1 and 2, Quake and Q2. Keep up the awesome work!
-Gandalf23
usually play Q2 as Skuld [1433] or the Horny Monk
That's changed. It's been a little over a year since I worked there (well, actually I worked at Stream who was hired to do SBIS/PacBell/NevadaBell support), but we did not support anything that was not win X or Mac >7.5. First thing out of our mouths was supposed to be "What's your username?" followed by "And what operating system are you using?" (supprisingly, this usually took some explaining. Most common response was along the lines of "IBM Aptiva") Hell, we'd get bitched at by the company (SBIS) reps if we gave out the info to people on non-supported OSs. I remember once one of them came running over to my cube and was screaming "We don't support NT!" over and over while I was trying to give the customer our DNS numbers. The customer got pretty pissed at her and ended up canceling. Then she has the gall to bitch my ass out for losing a customer!
rrrrrrrrr.
But I digress. The ISP I work at now does not care what you use to connect. however, most, >80%, of our customers use windows 95 or 98, so we prefer to walk the customer through inetwiz. It's easy and it's already on their computers. We've been talking about not supporting win3.x becasue the machines that still run it tend to be slow as crap and those customers tend to call a lot wondering why they are going so slow and they never believe you when you say it's gonna be slow on a 386 sx with less than 8mb ram and a 9600 modem. Nah, it's gotta be the isp, couldn't be the hardware, I'll just wait a few minutes and call again. aaaaiiiieeeeeee!!!! but I see that I've gone off topic a bit, so I'll stop.
-"It's my lucky day. I'll take The Rapists for $200."