Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 07, 2002 5:30pm PSTSo I somehow ended up at the mall today with the woman, and the opportunity arrised to pay $3.00 for some fries. It was a difficult choice, because at $3.00 those must be some really good fries, but I passed. It's not often that I am presented with such difficult decisions. I'll probably spend a lot of time this evening going over and over that choice in my head, wondering if I did the right thing. Hopefully you guys can understand my pain? Oh here:
- The science of fear - Seattle monorail about to get some updating - Fiberoptics or gigabit? - Egad, Jurassic Park 4 coming - Some reactions to that internet root server attack from a while ago - Alien fish invasions! - Microsoft and internal Linux memosLastly, computers are in fact the devil and kill your motivation.
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
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Background: If anyone else has ever seen Trading Spaces on TLC, there's an episode where the designers find a sexy pic of one of the homeowners in skimpy black leather on a white couch, so they blow it up big and hang it up on the wall. Now, as Caroline (my wife) and I watched this back in July, I joked "I want one of those" and she said "you can't have one" (she's pretty notoriously non-sexual/self-conscious, for various reasons).
Anyway, as it turns out, she secretly went about scheming how to to something similar for me (of herself, of course). She was going to keep it a secret till Christmas, but due to how much it costs (photographer + prints are several hundred bucks), she ended up bringing it up early this week to make sure it was OK. I gave her the go-ahead (I wanted some music composition stuff this Christmas, but I think that can wait 6 months or so :) ). So yesterday she left in the morning and had a couple hour session with a woman photographer who specializes in this kind of photo (!?). She had some expensive lingerie outfit she wouldn't let me see, and I guess the woman did her hair and makeup, and took all kinds of different shots of her doing different things, etc. (none of them tasteless... it's not a porno photo shoot).
So the upshot is, I come back last night and Caroline says things went REALLY well, she didn't feel self-conscious at all, and that she saw some of the photos (the digital ones), and they were REALLY good, like magazine-quality. She says it'll be hard to pick one or two out of all of them because they're all good. Anyway, she gets a CD with her digital photos on them, plus the woman took a bunch of film-based shots too so those will be developed soon. Anyway, I agreed to let Caroline keep all the outfit, pictures, etc. secret until Christmas, but it sounds like I'll have a special treat then :).
Now for the shack-related part: she says that I can post pics + divx, that at least a lot of them she wouldn't feel horribly self-conscious about :). So I'm eagerly awaiting the chance to make you all jealous :D. Maybe I can somehow work this around to getting her to post on the shack too...
Anyway, women out there, it's pretty cool when you do something totally unexpected and cool like this to surprise your man... um... that's all.
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www.bmwfilms.com
oh how i love news bloopers.
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Under the hood he's got a 2.5L with forged pistons, triple intercooler core, and a hybrid T4/T3 turbo. 33 psi of boost. The crowd's reactions are priceless.
(And if that's not enough, he's also got a Caravan with 219,000 miles on it that he's modded similarly...)
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My computer won't turn on. When I hit the power switch, it powers up for about 2 seconds, then shuts off. Nothing comes up on the screen. Anyone had this problem? Any suggestions? The only time I've seen this happen is when my CPU fan wasn't plugged in, and turned it on, it immediately shut off when the CPU overheated. But the CPU fan (volcano 7+) is working fine.
It's an athlon xp 1700, 512 ram in two sticks, K7VTA3 rev 2 MB, geforce 4 4400.
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I hate Earth.
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Bad news: We had a network outage and I didn't get home till 12:30.
So I sit here with the box on my desk just waiting.
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\m/ dude! LIKE WHATEVAR! \m/ :)
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WHAT THE FUCK? >:(
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www.gogamer.com - $19.42 for the full game (minus box/instructions), ~26 bux delivered 2 days. You have 48 hours!
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Check out the user comments. I roofled.
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I bought some snakewood, amazing looking stuff, first time I've seen it and I flipped out... bought three pieces.
But it's so outrageous it just looks wrong for what I was making (sword stand). Plus it's harder than ebony, almost impossible to saw and work with hand tools.
/me stares at $500 worth of snakewood and doesn't know what to do with it :-(
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http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-44330.html?lang=en_US&page=brand&brand=IBM+NetVista%7CNetVista+personal+computer%7C6579%7CPCU&doctype=Hot+news&subtype=All&up=unknownuser1004106089
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http://www.artbell.com/letters88.html
Supposedly the Pentigon is pissed they were released. Do they realise Art Bell's other pics are of aliens and bigfoot?
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0520: arrive at rochester institute of technology
0540: Detachment 538 AirForce ROTC cadets bus to Unniversity of Rochester to meet up with Nave midshipmen, and Army cadets for warrior run in honor of Veterans day.
0815: back home (you know is bad when you see school busses doing their routs on your way HOME from something)
now i got my vanila coke with ice cubes (2) and a fresh bag of Orivel Redenbocker (spell?) popcorn, and im gonna not move any muscle other then the nessasary shacking ones. c'mon werd post!