Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 18, 2000 6:43pm PDTAhhh the weekend is here. Going to spend it frolicking in piles of packing paper and pondering what I'll do with this modem connection. (Basically, once you go LPB you cant go back damn it) for the next 2 weeks. Here's some wacky random stuff to read before you guys head out for your weekend:
- Some lady got knocked over a bridge in her car and stuck in a tree for 3 days before she was found. Thanks Orthox - With the recent announcement of the GNOME Foundation, one of the guys from KDE (a competitor) has spoken out on things. - After busting out of the gates, it looks like Dreamcast sales are finally starting to slow down a bit.
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
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
http://www.maximumlinux.com/userfriendly/
It is screamingly hilarious, just like the comic strip itself. That is, if you think getting a rabid gerbil with sharp claws up your ass is screamingly hilarious.
At the exact same time what are they both thinking?
Dr.Lao
...allow me to demonstrate...the skill of Shaolin...the special techniqe of shadow boxing...
i dont know the ra3 server addr for da' shack.....
well, i can tell u this... the hard core competition is already playing RA3 and has abandond the DM team bull shit. As good as Campgrounds was... it aint shit compared to RA3.........
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i think da' shack has an RA3 server....
just post the port addr. and im there buddy.... I still remember the site addr. ;)
I want to be able to look up songs...... just like u did. :)
Chow baby.....
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wooooooo
everything does
the text is so small! :)
"You are my angle with the broken wing.... chow baby"
or something like that....
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A new study revealed that staring at women's breasts is good for men's health and may actually increase their life span. (!)
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicated that a 10-minute daily ogle may ultimately add four or five years to a man's life and is as salutary as half an hour in the gym, researchers said.
The five-year study of 200 men consisted of a rigorous routine of carefully eyeing every curve of every passing woman.
Get past your anger at the world, get your head togather, have some respect for yourself and the ppl around u, get a job, quit the drugs and the excuses, and life can be pretty good. Its just that simple... or as complicated as u make it.
* ok, the story kinda got me thinkin'
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1. He should have headed east, and Japan headed west. Together, they could have dominated the fertile Asian continent. With enough oil reserves to tackle bigger projects. At Germany's peak of force build up, Russia was hardly a threat; it was the supply problems that forced Germany to abandon their northern campaign. Germany's war machine had to rely on imported oil, not domestic crude, and we all know that Germany out-distanced their thin supply lines, leaving their tanks frozen and empty of fuel. The same held true for their southern African campaign. The Axis could have secured an economic victory, simply by having the necessary raw resources to fuel such grand plans as 'world domination'.
At least this theory works in 'Axis And Allies'.
Thanks!
-Lex
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[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin%27s-Law.html
Seriously though I need it for my icewind dale character. heh, I thoguht it would be fitting. Anybody have a link? I can't find it using search
The fun life I was chasing wasn't too fun, and was getting worse daily. Probably the only thing that saved me from getting killed were my straightedge beliefs, keeping me off the crack and away from the Night Train. I can't imagine what would've happened to me if I'd been stumbling around downtown loaded all the time (As opposed to DRIVING around downtown loaded like I do now). I slept in a pile of clothes in an abandoned warehouse. I was constantly sick. I became a habitat for a rude family of biting fleas (you just haven't lived until you shoplift a bottle of flea and tick pet shampoo and wash your pubes in a gas station bathroom). I got beat up three times, the last time getting my boots stolen by a mini-van of suburban skinheads cruising downtown for bums to thrash. Creepy dudes in nice cars offered me money to go home with them. I was soaking wet for days after it rained. My stomach was eating itself from being empty all the time. I was getting kicked out of fast food places for just walking through the front door. People either ignored me or stared; I was an object for them to project their fears, and reaffirm their beliefs in normalcy and the payoff from a hard day of work. I could taste the rotting of my own teeth. I couldn't even get laid anymore. Yeah, this was the life.
I called my parents from a payphone every now and then and lied, telling them I was working at a record label, telling them the sirens in the background were from my new TV in my new apartment. They were cool about everything, asking me to come home and visit soon. Yeah, sure, if I can get off work.
The worst part of being on the street was that it was my choice to be there. I packed the bag, I jumped in the car, and I left home. I expected freedom, but I got the biggest set of shackles this side of prison. It sucked. I didn't want sympathy, pity, or a shoulder to cry on. I wanted a huge dinner, a decent lay, and a bed to sleep in. I was miserable, and things weren't getting any better. So, unlike my friends, I admitted defeat, panhandled for a bus ticket, and went back home to New Orleans. I was only homeless for 3 months, but it was enough for me. I went home and told my parents everything. They were surprisingly cool, and they should have been; their punkass whiny know-it-all son got his ass kicked by the world and was now more receptive to whatever advice they had to give. My dad, who I had though was a chump for getting up every morning at 5am to go work in a factory all day, 5 days a week for the past 20 years, suddenly had his hero status back. It wasn't lack of intelligence that kept him there, it was sheer strength of will to raise a family.
As for my friends, they ended up moving to the north suburbs and crashing on the floors of these guys that ran a Little Caesar's Pizza joint. Jumbo got a job at the L.C. where he probably still works. From what I heard, Rabbi stayed high on the couch for six months straight, watching talk shows and cartoons all day. He stopped talking altogether. One day he wasn't there when everyone came home from work, and no one saw him for a few months after that. Everyone thought he just went drifting, or maybe met a girl, but the police found his body in a drainage ditch near Fulton County Stadium, stabbed to death. It could just as easily been me. The funeral was in New Orleans, and just me and his family showed up.
Which isn't to say I suddenly learned a lesson, grew up, got normal, and started pursuing a degree in business. If anything, it strengthened my resolve to succeed on my own terms, to remain a fuck, and somehow make a living at the same time. It gave me a lot of perspective on what's important. Any stupid thing that comes up in my life now seems minuscule compared to those months. Even today, as long as I got a bed crash on and a place to keep my boots, I'm happy. Anything beyond that is a luxury. It also taught me that it's OK to quit something that sucks, if starting over again will set you further ahead. Your ego can talk all day, your ideals can build self-worshipping altars in your brain, but your mouth still needs to be fed.
fatbeaner
www.blindwino.com/driver.html <--- good shit
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"You are my angle with the broken wing.... chow baby"
or something like that....
* im trolling napster for songs now ;)
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/08/18/woman.found/story.tooter.hospital.jpg
sorta looks like madeline albright
http://www.starcenter.com/madln1.jpg
on a bad day?
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ive been hearin about mp3's so much, is there an mp4 or mp5(besides the submachinegun)? if there are such kinds of files, then these files would be improvements right? like the same quality in sound but half the size or sum shit? also, is all the craze about mp3s slowin down the progression of a better format (like mp4)? and most of all, when a better format comes out, then all the companies that make mp3 portables are just suck with a buncha paperweights right?
fatbeaner
btw, my favorite military genius is Corporal Hicks (Aliens), followed by my favorite military dumbass, which is a tie between Private Hudson (Aliens) and Private Pyle (Full Metal Jacket)
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As In 9 (Minutes).
Does that time include warmup and cooldown?
Thanks!
-Lex
Thanks!
-Lex
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I was on my way home(CT) from boston with the lady
and she decided she too horny to wait until she got home so we get off the interstate in rhode island find a desolate spot and proceed to do the do, five minutes after we are finished foggin up the car
i see a Van pull up behind and two cops jump out.....
When the cops realized what was going on they laughed like and idiots and made vaious off color Jokes
The moral of the story?
WTF do you need a moral for!
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Thanks!
-Lex
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how i wish i could fine some good entertainment!
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boy am i bored
how i wish i could find some good entertainment!
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