Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jul 07, 2003 5:37pm PDTWell wasnt today just painful. We kinda anticipated some problems and they delivered! More things going on at once today than I care to have going on for sure. Lets just get on with the ER shall we?
- Free art - Lotto = true love! - Cell phones are wild fun - Strange math - Distributed computing economics Thanks /. - The history of a spammerLastly, its good to see money being spent on studies like this
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
Carmageddon ploughing into GOG
Harry Potter for Kinect announced
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http://www.juvik.org/index.php?show=pic&listdir=images/Forskjellig/Bilder%20av%20Gro/
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we saw a black man being kept down by the man (think of those big comes as the real life version of the PRL)
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/arrest.jpg
fun with funnel cake:
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/goatse1.jpg
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/goatse2.jpg
this is all of us after getting off that raft ride where you get wet. we are attempting to take the HW title away from maarten (i'm the sexy dork in the vice city t-shirt)
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/HWdognose.jpg
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/HWkeith.jpg
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/HWmofo.jpg
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/vice.jpg
just thinking of steve: (keith and mofo at least)
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/nutz.jpg
the ones that were brave enough to get on the ride:
http://www.rapedbear.com/shack/ride.jpg
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and then I get to chill on the shack while I slowly finish the drink!!
TUMMY RUMBLING!!!!!!
1) how many servings per day should I take?
2) should I take it only on days that I work out?
3) what's the best substance to mix with?
I run and lift anywhere from 3-5 days a week, and i've been very consistently at 150lbs. for about five years. Anything else I should know please inform me :D
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1096248,00.html
A Sudanese airliner has crashed shortly after take off, killing 105 passengers and 11 crew on board, according to reports.
The plane had just left Port Sudan airport on the Red Sea - only a two-year-old child survived.
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*Group Hug*
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http://www.turnofthecrank.com/misc/cute.jpg
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She wants you
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The main issue: Frank. I was having little trouble understanding Frank until he got out of that car that ran over Donnie's chick -- which, by the way, made me audibly curse, it caught me so off guard. At this point, I've come to the conclusion that Frank is both a schizophrenic delusion and a time-traveller in one sense of the word thusly: Frank is definitely an hallucination, as he can only be seen by Donnie and tells him to do classically schizophrenic things -- flood his school, burn a house down, etc. HOWEVER, he also does certain things that are, by any definition, prophetic -- telling Donnie the exact time that "the world will end", having him burn Cunningham's house down not only because it fits Donnie's psyche to do so, but to bust an undercover child porn ring, and, finally, the very fact that Donnie sees him in that form and calls him by that name at all is prophetic, as Frank eventually kills the only nice part about Donnie's life, and is then killed by the aforementioned schizoprenic by having a bullet shoved through his right eye, which is seen both when Donnie is stabbing the mirror (right where Frank's right eye is) with his knife, and when he sees Frank's face at the theatre.
However, Frank can't be a time traveller in the classical sense, because by the time the portal opens, he's been dead for several hours. So how does this compute?
Near as I can tell, Donnie is a singularity in the Time part of space/time in the same way that singularities exist in the Space portion. Something about him -- maybe he's messed up in just the right way to cause these "malfunctions" in time, maybe it's something else -- creates a disturbance in Time. Also note the predominating sense that he is not in control over his fate: His science teacher "happens" to have a book about the whole subject, the contents of which have been coming true for Donnie for a while now, written by Grandma Death, who told him that "every living creature on this planet dies alone." He "happens" to fall into many clues leading towards the space/time portal, the most obvious of which is Frank's prophecy about the exact time in which it would occur -- which can only cause Donnie to kill himself (in a sense). However, getting back to my original point, Frank cannot be a true time traveller, but, perhaps, a part of his consciousness, a part of his memory, was -- in the same way that Donnie was a disturbance in Time, perhaps his tie in with Frank's death spurned a part of Frank, including some basic memories and his appearance at the time of death, to go back into the original timeline.
Also, I did like the final message of the movie -- Donnie did go back in time and take all the pain and darkness and replace them with something better: a death caused by that of his own family.
Very, very twisted movie. 10/10.
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Newegg picture to see before.
http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/13-138-227-03.JPG
http://mywpages.comcast.net/djohnson873/DSC00116.jpg
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Homeworld 2
Tron 2.0
savage
The two towers
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Here's a question.
I just finished playing through the first part of the single player campaign of Frozen Throne.
The Naga... they have heros, structures, a hierarchy of units.. they are a completely robust race, not liek the creeps..
And yet, you can't play them?
It seems like all the pieces are there. Every building and every unit. Why... can't you play? Anyone?
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Is it me, or is it now a common trend to simply jump to labeling a kid as ADD?
My godson is now on ritalin (sp?) and it pisses me off. The parents want the kid to stay still ALL the time. Its a fucking kid! Kids have a lot of natural energy. I was the same way. My dad never put me on drugs to try and sedate me. He tossed my ass into karate and channeled all the excess energy into something useful. Most of the time I would come home tired from all the training and would mellow out at home playing video games or something.
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Any good horror or comedy movies you've seen lately you can reccomend?
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its council cleanup time in sutherland(suburb in sydney)
its a time of year where we put stuff on the nature stip out the front that we want the council to collect and dispose of (like washing machines and old lounges etc)
when you throw a fridge out your sposed to take the doors of so stupid kids that play around junk dont get stuck inside (like that ep of punky brewster)
well, out the front of my apartment block there are no less than 6 washing machines, and 4 fridges all of them still have doors on.
fucking idiots -xian
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"go back to" + some website
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When I press delete, the emails don't get moved to the "Deleted Items" folder. When I save a draft, it gets saved locally instead of on the IMAP server, and so on. Is there something special I must do to get this working in Outlook? Is it perhaps a server problem? (I'm running my own Mailtraq IMAP server, but I'm fairly certain it's set up correctly)
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A tale of a pimping trip(harrrrrrr!)
That started from the seas, I put aboard this pimping ship(harrrrr!)
Aboard this pimping ship.....
http://www.bungie.com/products/pimps/pimpsatsea.htm
I can't wait! :-)
Pretty Girls Make Graves and Broken Social Scene are playing a free (!!) show Thursday night, on Pier 54 (along the Hudson). More info:
http://www.giantstep.net/shows/viewshow.asp?showid=336
if you see me there with a really hot girl, don't say hi!
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BATTLE OF BRITAIN
http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield1942/editorial/battleofbritain.jsp
Shackbattle tonight on this map?
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This bit is making me want to vomit.
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The geforce fx 5900 is just insanely, insanely expensive. And the 9700 pro should have come down by now. I want them both, but damn, that's a lot of bling bling for video games. To top it off, I picked up a 5200 for $75, thinking hey it's a directx 9 card. And it does provide a purty picture. Downside? I seriously doubt it's faster than my old geforce 3 ti200 was...
/rant
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