Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Feb 12, 2002 5:08pm PSTJust too many things going on today to keep track of. My apologies to those of you who are waiting on responses from me for some emails... Seems everything just started happening at once suddenly. Been typing all day and still got a big old backlog of stuff to sort through. Good news is that it's good stuff!
- CPL has announced their Summer event. - Here comes the human clones! - Some stuff about SafeWeb - More on the stupid hyperlink patent. more here - Crackdown on spam = good. - Network security flaw could be affecting everyone.Lastly, the Oscar nominations have been released. As you'd expect Lord of The Rings is kicking butt. No mention of Glitter, write your congressman!
Steel Battalion Heavy Armor demo now on Xbox Live
Civilization V getting free Steam weekend
Report: Average Old Republic server has less than 350 players online
Xbox limitations led to annual Magic: The Gathering games
New Pandaren mounts revealed for World of Warcraft
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/ulillillia/index.html
FOUND IN SA GOLDMINE
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Whether famous or infamous, they made their mark on the shack...
I also move that those who've been subject to repeated long term bans be admitted on a "they'll be perma-banned soon" basis.
Similary, "Fallen Moderators" will be included in the memorial hall and given full honours befitting a lost shacker.
My memory is not what it used to be, and I am disgracefully ignorant about lore from the elder days of the shack...
If you know of anyone who belongs on this list, please reply and let me know
My current list of memorial hall residents, in alphabetical order:
[andromeda]
barbarian
Boogieman
Clay
Dognose
Firebone
4portUSBhub
Freshview
Horizon
jedi_27
Klerck
The Kool-Aid Man
Madgrad
Morgin
Ominous
Ratbastard
RMSZero
.spunky.
Wazootyman
Wunderbred
Xvdl
Zoesch
For each entrant in the memorial hall, we will eventually have a paragraph describing their posting activities, a description of the circumstances of them leaving, and ideally a "last words".
I'm not that big on webspace or bandwidth, so for the moment I'll be keeping it limited to text... though each entry will have a link to the shack profile and possibly the shack pics entry...
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direct cd is installed and i've shared the disk, lets see if i can drag drop via the lan
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What is that song?
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To avoid confusion here is my definition of rock n roll music, as i see it. Ballsy, blues music, freeform music that can follow any path or draw itself a new one. No holds barred, raw unrehearsed underproduced music using any instrument under the sun, that feels "right." I dont beleive there has been any rock n roll music in the last 15 years mentioning. I dont classify 'rock' and 'rock n roll' as the same thing. Rock music is the harsher elements that combined with soul and blues, goto make up rock n roll music. So modern rock is just one side of the rock n roll coin. So many modern bands that could qualify as good rock bands, really arnt rock n roll...
So what would you say is your favourite RNR tune? Mines Stray Cat Blues by the stones. The combination of accoustic, electric guitars, the mouth organ, thumping bass, sassy vocals and pounding pinao strokes just sum up everythign rock and roll stands for me.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CY67/ref%3Dmk%5Fpb%5Fecl/002-2947004-4689666
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A few days late, but already a classic
The quality isn't the greatest, and the last few seconds are missing, but here's a link to Pixar's For the Birds:
http://download.render.ru/movie/ForTheBirds%5B1%5D.mpeg
February 12, 2002 - THQ's little ol' wrestling game shipped today. It should be hitting store shelves as early as Wednesday. In case you haven't heard, Raw is one sweet wrestler. So take a hammer to your Pikachu piggy bank and skip on down to the local mall. Not sure if Raw is right for you? Check out our review and decide for yourself.
It better be there today. >:(
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http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=2779294
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They have the breezeway between the main corporate building and the cafeteria closed for a meeting...for three hours!
A large sign proclaiming "CARPE DIEM!" indicates to me that the corporate cheerleaders believe they are hip and cool..but in fact are a sad cliche.
Fucking place drives me nuts sometimes.
At least I'm in IT and half of the drones around here have no idea what we do. So we are excluded from the BS lots of times.
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Just so you know it..
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Night shack!
These are the people who come waddling in from the night, saying they tripped and fell on the zucchini, the lightbulb, the Barbie doll, and the billiard balls, the struggling gerbil.
See also: The pool cue.
See also: The teddy bear hamster.
They slipped in the shower and fell, bull's-eye, on a greased shampoo bottle. They're always being attacked by a person or persons unknown and assaulted with candles, with baseballs, with hard-boiled eggs, flashlights, and screwdrivers that now need removing. Here are the guys who get stuck in the water inlet port of their whirlpool hot tub."
Damn this book is good.. (Choke by Chuck Palahniuk)
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Enough is enough people...lets wake up and re-evaluate.
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what's the deal with our aircraft? every day you read about a new one ramming into a mountain
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Bah, like I would have done it.
BLAST!
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Heres an exert :
"The Fat Growth on Eric Hearble."
One fat morning Eric Hearble wake up with an abnor-man fat growth a bombly on his head. 'Oh crumb,' said Eric hearble, who was very very suprised. Anyway he carried on as Norman for why should he worried? All of a suddenly he heard a small little voice calling him by name, 'Eric ... Eric Hearble' it seemed to say though i couldn't say for sure.
That night the very same voice spoke saying 'Eric, i am a growth on your very heard, help me, Eric.' Soon eric became very attached to his far growth friend.
'Call me Scab' the voice said and he was/
'Call me Eric' Eric said naturally as he could . From then on you never saw Eric without big fatscab growth on his head. And that's why Eric Hearble lost his job teaching spastics to dance.
'Were not having a cripple teaching our lads' Said headmaster.
Its a hilarious book i recomend picking it up...
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I must be sick
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