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Morning Squidussion
by Alice O'Connor, Jun 23, 2009 7:00am PDTEveryone welcome Nick back from his unusually busy vacation. The poor soul just wanted some rest and relaxation, but no matter where he went--the Orient express, an English manor house, New York, a sleepy Maine fishing village--murders and mysteries were abound. He ended up spending his time dashing around questioning suspects and searching for clues rather than burning to a crisp and wearing straw hats daubed with amusing slogans as he should have been. Bless his little white cotton socks.
I've never set this stuff up. I do not want email contacts invading my phone contacts, I need the two to remain separated. If I add an account that has contacts, will it keep them isolated? What about multiple accounts, how does that work? Do they all feed into the one inbox or can you select?
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I like the comment I heard somewhere that it gets the job done unless you actually think about what the job was meant to do. It is a 2 hour movie that progresses absolutely nothing, zero in terms of character, zero in terms of overall plot arc and zero for the mythos.
That said, stuff went boom pretty good. And some of the lines were okay. It had that overall pace that somehow had me not thinking about how supremely fucking retarded some of the events unfolded on screen were.
One thing I couldn't help but notice was that Bale was fucking uniformly TERRIBLE. It's a combo of script, director and actor in this instance, I think. He has obviously no real regard for the previous incarnations of Connor and how that might influence his version (though, to be honest, John Connor has always been an annoying prick) but it seems like they decided to neatly sidestep how the whiny bitchfuck John Connor became the military leader type John Connor, which was probably one of the more compelling things that we could find out about the character.
So yeah, other than that some of the PG13 cuts were painfully obvious and where the hell was that underwater chain gun terminator I remember seeing early in production? I think an unrated DVD will be more fun, but ultimately it can't rescue the really poor script or the really dumb bits (and boy were there a lot of dumb bits: usb ports on motorbikes, getting punched in the face by a terminator doesn't apparently hurt much, setting off a nuke 2ft above ground zero, ipod white shodan like control room for skynet the list goes on...).
Using the laptop on your lap to both re-heat and thrust your flatulence at a 90 degree angle toward your gf via the exhaust.
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Guess they couldn't turn out something very good in time for the movie's premier and Activision didn't want to hold off until the DVD release to polish it up. Boo-urns.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoMDq4AyLc
High enough to see the curve of the Earth and higher than 95% of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Drove all the way out to Tysons and after finding the guy near the theater, I walked over to him only to find him standing there talking to some other dude and his girlfriend. The dude was asking a ton of stupid questions, including but not limited to:
- "How bag is the gas tank? 16 gallons?"
and
- "Will you come down on the price if I pay in cash?"
I inspected the car myself (he didn't say much at all) and here's what I found:
- Front seats were in pretty good shape. No cracks or rips.
- Rear seats were, as to be expected, in perfect condition
- Floor mats definitely need to be replaced
- Lots of curb rash on 3, maybe all 4 of the wheels (18" oem)
- Tires are at ~60% tread
- Inspection I performed a couple weeks ago (oil change, yadda yadda)
- Inspection II was sort of performed (he took it to the dealer, BMW wanted $2900 for parts and labor, ended up buying the parts and having his mechanic do the work)
- Couldn't tell me about the Inspection III (pretty sure it hasn't been done)
I ended up not driving it far because traffic was terrible and being the klutz I am, I found myself switching from 2nd to 3rd instead of 1st a lot (gotta give me a break here since I only drive a stick every once in a good while).
tl;dr: I drove the M3 like 2 miles and came back to the parking deck. The owner is trying to get rid of it so he can get a condo with his wife. Owner was wearing ugly ass sunglasses that made him look like a pussy. Owner also doesn't have a copy of the Carfax that he says is clean.
Paint seems to be in great shape. I didn't hear any strange noises or see any fluids leaking. Windows worked and all that jazz. I told him if he didn't get rid of the car that I'd contact him Friday about driving it on Saturday.
I'm also not sure how I feel about the red. It's a great color, but blue (LSB even) or steel gray are far more interesting to me. Plus I simply didn't like the owner one bit.
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-IGN review of the Conduit
Uh...
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http://www.webguild.org/2009/06/google-dreams-turn-to-nightmare-for-many.php
Infidels must be purged.
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I'm 8 for 8 (even though the chances of winning are supposed to be 1 in 8).
http://pepsi.yahoo.com
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nearing last chance to reply with interest
I know there will be some shack leagues this year. I will be organizing one. It will be a money league. Would you be interested in playing? If so, what kind of pay-in? $20? I find that in free fantasy leagues, a good 1/3 of people quit before the season is halfway over for whatever reason. That sucks. This has been posted a few times now and over a dozen people have expressed interest. The league will be hosted on ESPN. I am hoping for 14 teams, because then each team will play the other teams exactly once before the playoffs. We may have more people interested than slots, but that's ok, we'll sort things out based on degree of interest and commitment to prior shack FF leagues or football postings.
THE LEAGUE SETTINGS ARE HERE:
http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/tools/leaguesettings?leagueId=79378
Note, I've enabled some "fun" options such as head coach and a defensive player. This is subject to change. But, it is intended to be a big league with big rosters. Please post if you're interested in playing. Current list of interested shackers:
H@rvester, jasonepowell, whistletits, Jimb0v2, PointlesS76, botch, c0bra, Phreakin, DonarUDL, Pettytheft, AroundTheFur1380, yoonix, Zol4481, mvanduzor, midgetherder, mwasher, zipper76. Zol4481 + mvanduzor are ex-urban dead guys and friends who were in last year's shack league.
Additional minor details: still debating between live draft or offline draft (I think offline may work well in an old shack thread). I think that everyone who makes the playoffs (6 teams) should win their entry fee back, so this may not be a winner-take-all kind of payout. Standard ESPN waiver wire rules will be enabled a a few days after the draft finishes (I just think all undrafteds should be FAs post-draft).
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http://jackshoe.blogspot.com/2007/07/cymothoa-exigua-alien.html
Sweet dreams.
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Bummer. I still have a few rolls of Velvia ready and waiting to be used.
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I've got a beta invite. You want a beta invite. I'm thinking of a number (0-100) that happens to be my HoN win %. First person to guess it gets the invite.
One guess per person please.
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http://9to5mac.com/9to5mac-tether-iPhone-hack
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Here is a link with hundreds of those flash escape room games, complete with walkthroughs if you get stuck. I spent two whole days playing these last week.
http://jayisgames.com/tag/escape
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http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/akino91783_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ
That's an ebay shop that has XBLA games for pretty cheap, just a little under half off normal prices. The selection isn't huge or amazing but he'll sometimes throw up a new game. He sends the code through your ebay account, but the wait is sometimes random. I've gotten codes within the hour and another time after a whole day passed.
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Steam is priced in US dollars.
360 : $AU101 ($US80.15)
Steam: $AU50.38 ($US39.99)
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The iPhone 3.0 Jailbreak for Windows is no longer going to be QuickPwn. The Dev Team's "redsn0w" does the same thing essentially. QuickPwn.com is NOT the Dev Team and they actually recommend you avoid them...
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/119520668/yell0w-fever
Anyone up for a rousing game of TF2?
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Simply update via iTunes and then jailbreak?
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Going to be making a BE pally to mess around with, would like to know who is playing horde on MG.. Name = Zettik
He won't be my main, but I may xfer my main over if I like the server :)
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What do you think of these new Max Payne 3 shots? http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59255
I wouldn't have known it was Max Payne until I was told. I'm not exactly sure that's a good thing.
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Interestingness poll: post your five "most interesting" photos, as determined by flickr.
If you don't know how to do this, the easiest way is to go to your photostream (e.g. mine is http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtcrime/ ), and add this to the end of the URL: stats/allphotos/interestingness/ . Post your five top photos.
I'll start:
#1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtcrime/2956239577/
#2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtcrime/3189381335/
#3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtcrime/2957266642/
#4: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtcrime/3493031640/
#5: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtcrime/3603848105/
Does a pretty good job of picking some of my better photos (even those with relatively low views). How about yours?
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Old and buster cover for Brutal Legend (or maybe possibly just the EU release): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brutal_Legend_Cover_Art.jpg
New hotness (or possibly just the NA release): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/BrutalLegendCover.jpg
Very much glad to see Tim get his name on the cover compared to the former. Plus it's more (add extra umlat) Brutal!
The Consumerist mails the Worst Company in America 2009 trophy and letter of congratulation to AIG.
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