Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Dec 16, 2005 6:00pm PSTIs it time yet? Good luck on the late Christmas shopping everyone. I'll take one of them newfangled 30" Dell LCD thingies if you dont mind. I'll split shipping costs with ya!
- Heard about the Blackberry case? - AOL + Google - Cure cancer with your PC - Intel + BMWLastly, Blockbuster changing its mind again on late fees. Cant.. stop... losing... money...
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And the details are in reply.
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http://www.lastlife.net:8000/listen.pls <-- listen here
http://shackcast.viscidity.com/index.v <-- Sign up/check schedule here
Currently playing: The Bravery - An Honest Mistake
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Hopefully something that hints at my arms and the V-shape of my torso. I put on my suit, but the shoulders look ridiculous since it was fitted when I was a skinny bastard. I live near D.C., so most well-known clothiers are nearby. I'd prefer to go tieless.
Help me multisync, you're my only hope.
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King Kong wich is probably the biggest movie to come out sense starwars ep 3 is doing nothing at the box office. People just don't like going to the movies anymore. What do you guys think it is? I mean I havn't gone to the movies in MONTHS. I think people can get better entertainment in their home with On Demand/TIVO/netflix/Internet/VIdeo games that there is no reason to go to the movies anymore. ANd also who has time to sit for 3 hours? I can just find enough time to watch a 30 minute tv show. I also think TV is getting better... look at LOST and 24 these have the production value of a good movie, only take 60 minutes to watch and you don't have to go to the movies, drive 10 minutes pay 25 dollars and get some lousy popcorn and a 56OZ drink for another 20 bucks.
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mmm
http://www.deviantart.com/view/26502092/
TASTY OPTERON GOODNESS...
MMMMM
*waves at Rosewood*
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:(
We woke up this morning ready to go and hit the road for ol' KC, but as we went to get our coffee (hot chocolate for the wife) there was a big surprise... 2'' of snow in the last 3 hours with possible 4-6'' today and tomorrow. Those would be the days we would be on the turnpike.
I've driven on the turnpike before in this kind of weather and it sucks when you get your blazer stuck in the ditch and have to wait for a tow truck! Nothing against Mr. Sleepy but black ice SUCKS! So unfortunately there is a wasted hotel reservation in KC today :-( and we won't be able to join in the gay festivities. I expect pics. + divx fuckers! :{
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http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8402&hl=
The taskbar is mostly nice and minimalist except for the ugly fat blue start button. The different sizes, flat buttons in the top right of the windows (maximise, close etc.) suck too. Bleh.
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Marie Antoinette
Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola
http://progressive.stream.aol.com//aol/us/moviefone/movies/2005/marieantoinette_023756/marieantoinette_trlr_01_fhywet_dl.mov
of Lost in Translation fame.
A period piece, but it looks really cool. Plus, the juxtoposition of the music to the film is brilliant, IMO. Should be an interesting look into her life really. I'm a Hisotry guy though, so I might be biased.
Also, Kirsten Dunst in stockings and little else. pervs
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183790/
Though Sophia and Dunst being back together again might make it worth seeing.
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http://laura.mitblogs.com/archives/2005/12/yay_a_hack.html
tl;dr: MIT turned into a Mario level by reality hackers!
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Just finished PoP: The Two Thrones this morning, and the final boss battles were just awesome. So happy with how they finished off this trilogy. The second-to-last Boss Battle was about as difficult as they get, and requires you to basically use everything you have learned to defeat it.
Minus the boss battles, it's the easiest of all 3 games imo; probably the buggiest (I think the scope of the gameplay was a bit too much for the developers to complete and it was maybe rushed out a little too soon); but definitely the best gameplay of all 3.
If you loved SoT, then go back and finish WW (no seriously) and then play TTT and you will have a greater appreciation for it.
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I need some software that will pull files off a bad drive. a power outtage rendered the GF's 250GB HDD unuseable, and i have put it in a external USB2 enclosure to try and pull files off it before formatting it or junking it..
Any suggestions?
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K, Thx.
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I have 300 pictures that are like 2300 x 1700 and 3 megs each. What's a program that can batch resize them to something reasonable? I know this was asked like 100 times but I didn't pay attention to the post until I needed it.
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Holy shit I've never seen a party of this magnitude before, and I've been to some amazing parties all over the world. There was like 6 different rooms, each one of them huge. There was at least 6000 people there, open bar in every room, food in every room. They had the Simpsons on huge movies screens playing. One room called the sports area or something had cheerleaders dancing that were pretty much strippers in Newscorp cheerleader outfits. Another room had video games and it was all some console I never heard of called NDS (not nintendo).
Tons of hot women that were all drunk and easily bangable for the lucky guys who were single. I can't imagine any other company being able to top their holiday party.
I ended up having to leave early because I was pounding Vodka like an idiot and I was one drink away from vomitting.
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Can someone help me understand this? Did the Beatles blow all of their money on hookers and blow or something? Shouldn't they already be rich out of their fucking minds? You could make an argument for going after their label after an audit (even then $50 million is pretty damn high), but the suing Apple over a trademark infringement clause by entering the music business with iTunes..
Is it for the kids and grandkids? Because I know they must be sitting on a huge nest at this point.
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I suck at regular expressions. I've got a text file, a log file from a program compile, and I want to capture every path/file such that they can be "labeled" in our source code control system. Each line kinda looks like this:
Some end in .v, some .vr, some .vrh, some .h, and some .vrp. I wish to exclude the ones with vrp. So... I do this to get all unique file path/names
What would I add to the regexp to exclude .vrp (where .vrp are the last 4 characters of $1). If I were doing a command line pipe thing I'd use "grep -v .vrp", but... :( Help?
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http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20051209.html
http://img495.imageshack.us/my.php?image=breakfast7de.jpg
The snouts add the extra flavor.....
I think i've pin-pointed what it is i don't like about geometry wars:
It's too random.
The enemies don't spawn in same way from game to game which means getting a good score is somewhat just plain luck. Also they spawn kill me :(
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New ArmA Trailer!
Check it out here:
http://www.easy-sharing.com/154123/arma_trailer.rar.html
Also see this post in the OFP forum for more new screens & info:
http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?s=9ab21fd24b742c8979a239b811359a4b;act=ST;f=64;t=49697;st=0
Note that Armed Assault is only the working title of the game.
Also note that it's going to kick ass.
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