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Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 05, 2003 5:27pm PDTHrm yes, sure is nice to actually be running at full power again, was a painful few days running at half power. If you didnt notice.. then good! If you did notice, then uh.. yeah everyone thank all those crazy Speakeasy engineers and our buddies Brian and Sander for keeping things afloat. Good thing we've got so much redundancy, cuz we sure needed it.
- iTunes is making sales - Thong biker, so hot - Fapathon - The new space race - Korea has broadband Thanks /.Lastly, I think we're caving in and gonna watch X2 again, there are certainly some annoying parts to the movie, but the action is just so much darn fun to watch.
Last night only 3 of us started out, me, Bobtheninja, and fatalsync our fearless leader. We started out in our own little galaxy heading to ishunder, capping some towers along the way from the Terran Republic Warp Gate at the south part of the continent. http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/main/misc/continents/ishundarcont.jpg
http://www.planetside-universe.com/media/main/misc/continents/lscape_shots/ishundarlscape.jpg
As we made our way through the Vanu towers, we head up to the northern 3 points of the planet (right south of the Vanu Warp gate, you should see them on the map). Fatalsync tells us that we are to try and take a tower right south of Irkalla (the right most one of those three). HUGE BATTLES! ensue, but we never give up. I actually hack the base but die instantly because my squadmates got run over :). We finally take over the tower with much assistance. We now have a staging point for taking over Irkalla. Probably one of the largest fights I've seen since playing this game ensues.
Unbelivable, how many people are trying to attack and defend this base. The vanu are holed up well and we can't get through. Finally after about 30 minutes of trying to breach the walls, I decide a new strategy is in store. I go infilitrator and don my invisible suit and start to scout a way into the base. I take us around a ridge that runs to the east and the north side of the base, making a complete circle around the base. Fatalsync since he's CR1 can place waypoints on our map that glow like large beams of light in the distance. We sneak our way into a less contested area and proceed to weaken up the defenses. In doing so, we begin the stages of bringin irkalla down. Finally after about 2 hours of battling, irkalla loses all of it's nanites and the base powers down, we make our move and harvord hacks the base. 15 minutes later it is ours and we win!
The vanu are being pushed back to their warpgate and we start to take over the other base directly to our north, but for the vanu the war on Ishunder is completly lost for them. They give up and retreat back to their warp gate and the safety of their sanctuary. Ishuder = locked!
Fun times by everyone last night, was a freakin' blast and some of the most fun I've had yet!
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(fridge's absolutely empty)
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I come home tonight to find a Squirrel outside my office window gnawing on this big sausage:
http://www.ohnos.com/squirrel/sausage1.JPG
http://www.ohnos.com/squirrel/sausage2.JPG
I don't know what the hell is going on in this town but something is not right. He wasn't afraid of me at all, and I'm a vegetarian... he was looking at me as if he was like "huh wut wut, you ain't got shit, MMM MEAT, you hippie!"
God I hope that's a sausage and not some poor joey's member.
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From: MATHER
Subj: Increase the size of your mangina
May 5 1k
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/raver.html
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Having said that, I just upgraded my Jukebox 1 (got it free, though admitedly only because I bought my sister a newer one (a 20 gig Zen)) to a 20 gig laptop drive I salvaged out of an old, dead laptop from my Dad's work. Um, yay. I'd kill for a new 30 gig iPod but for an essentially free MP3 player this'll do.
KHAN
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Can the comics one teleport himself and other people along with him?
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Electronic prosthetic eye technology, currently displays 16 pixels of 'vision'. Shooting for 1000 pixels, but that would require DSP of the gigahertz range.
http://www.eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030505S0013
Second, TI announces gigahertz DSP!
http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20030505S0021
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Spent 10 minutes watching her do nothing at all in her underwear.
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hrmm, wonder what this is going to be. Splinter Cell 2 announcement?
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It sucks, I can't buy a lot of cheap domestic (Canadian) beers because they taste like crap. I love Kilkenny and Guiness is good too. I also like Harp. My favorite is a medium bodied cream ale. A local brewery makes a decent one, too, which is fairly cheap.
Anybody know where I can do a little reading on beer?
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Anyone up for another game tonight? Well, here's hoping...
SHACKBATTLE Announcement for 5-5-03! Ashkie's BF1942.EOF.NET server, 9:00 P.M. E.S.T. until whenever we quit (usually around 11:30 P.M. E.S.T.), feel free to join whenever you can, and KEEP THE TEAMS EVEN!
Iam wating uuuuuuu, Gerbils, hamsters, etc.
I don't know if it will be Desert Combat or Vanilla BF1942 + RtR.
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Essentially this means it's "no diet day" you can eat anything you like.
is it gonna die?
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i dunno if anybody here reads Clive Cussler, but I can't see Matthew McConaughey fitting the role of Dirk Pitt. he's a good actor, but... not the Pitt type...
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So any time you guys want to spank your monkey/choke the chicken, I'll be getting some money. I'll be richer than Bill Gates in three months from money collected only at this place. Hahaha!
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PRARIE DOGS for sale.
Is it me, or is this a BAD idea.?
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todays pa made me giggle.
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so i watched the ring last night.
mini review: decent, but an innocent victim of shack hype. :(
it had been built up to be the end-all-be-all of scary. in the end, it wasn't really that scary to me. i think the main problem was that the movie was rated pg13. there was some decent tension in the beginning and the finale, but you never got to see the results of what happened, so for most of the movie, i was like "i don't get it, wtf actually happens to people?". instead of being afraid of the unknown, i was more disappointed that they cut away from the death scenes. in addition, only like three characters died in the whole goddamn movie, and one of those was by suicide. it was interesting watching all the investigation going on between the intro and the finale, but it was far from scary. now, to be honest, samarah coming out of the well, shambling towards the camera and then crawling out of the tv was awesome and very scary, but shit, i waited an hour and forty minutes for that. :( so yeah, as a whole it was decent, but not near what the shack built it up to be.
some questions:
1. so like, the tape was obviously generated by samara down in the well. so, like, were the first group of kids the source of the "urban legend" told at the beginning and it had just circulated around to the other chick in the beginning? if so, how did samara's father seem to know what it was? him saying that the rachael's son would die but not specifically saying she would seemed to mean that he knew making a copy would save someone. so, how does samara's father know about the tape?
2. so let me get this straight. samara wants to be "heard", so therefore the physical act of making a copy of the tape saves you because you're supposedly trying to spread the tape? that seems kind of lame and totally random to me. am i right in interpreting it this way? :(
3. if they weren't supposed to help her, what were they supposed to do? nothing? i guess that makes sense. did finding her body make any difference at all in anything? it didn't seem to make her stronger or weaker or anything. so all the effort and investigation was useless (except for the physical act of copying the tape and the fact that they somewhat understand the source of it all)?
i'm sure i have more questions, but that's all i can think of for now.
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Burritos will be eaten
Pics + Divx will be fapped to
Shack women will be fantasized over
Old threads will be bumped
New threads will die
and I will sleep until tomorrow
when I rejoin the mayhem once again
same shack channel
same shack time
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http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=37633
Nice article about the steep angle of the Soyuz' entry and its effects of the crew.
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http://www.planetfortress.com/
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rosewood is generally a:
(a) interesting person whose posts amuse and inform
(b) whiny jackanape who should shut up
(c) other
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And play through FFX again. Holy shit, I fucking love that game.
my cat makes it harder to love her with each passing day
yesterday she woke me up batting some plastic thing around. i didnt know what it was but i confiscated it, told her to piss off and went back to bed
i wake up and go in the bathroom and one of the plastic caps for the bolts that holds the toilet down is gone. she somehow took this off and was playing with it.
so i put it back.. i get home from work and shes now removed BOTH which i found under the couch, and she totally trashed my bathroom. so im keeping the door to it closed from now on >_<
she's also shut my computer off like 8000 times by stepping on the switch to my power bar, which ive now turned upside down to minimize the risk of that happening. she managed today however to unplug my printer and pull my quickcam down on the floor.
if this keeps up i may put all her toys and food in the laundry room with her litter box and lock her in there while im at work >_< no i wouldnt im not that cruel i just wish she would STOP :(
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