They are my oldest and deadliest enemy. You cannot trust them.
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would give a favourable reference to the Devil.
Wednesday, August 27
Ojo-sama to Oyobi*
Heh. I caught that! Another hundred years or so of watching anime and I'll actually understand Japanese.
Princess Aeka in Tenchi Muyo! had a song of that name, too.
* Roughly translated: Call me Princess!**
** Currently watching: Scrapped Princess.
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Changes
Back in the misty dawn of time, when I was still at school, I spent two weeks at Hewlett-Packard on a work experience program. (This was when HP was still renowned for their engineering, rather than cursed as a pusher of expensive ink cartridges.)
At the time, HP was having a sale on disk drives. You could buy three 400 meg drives - and these were serious drives, with 14 inch platters stacked into cases as large as washing machines - three of these for just $250,000.
"But", said one salescritter to another, "how many customers do we have that need 1.2 gigabytes of disk?"
I downloaded 1.4 gigabytes of stuff today. Episodes 17 to 20 of Kodocha, and epsiodes 6 through 9 of Saikano (Saishuuheiki Kanojo). Fortunately, this didn't require me to buy $250,000 worth of disk to store it on. Though I did pick up a couple of DVD-RWs on the way to work. 4.7 gigabytes each. $8 a pop.
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Heh. I remember how jealous my friends were when I picked up, at an auction, a 300-MB Core MFM drive and controller card for $50 US (the gamble was there was no guarantee they would work, even though the boxes were unopened). At the time, I think that stuff would have cost over $1K.
Three-hundred megs was a lot back then...
Posted by: victor at Wednesday, August 27 2003 03:33 PM (L3qPK)
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How much is that in
real numbers?
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Tuesday, August 26
They Do Make Them Like That
So, you need a double-headed 3/8 reciprocating flange valve,
and the matching pilfer sprocket, you need it made of phosphor bronze, and you need it Tuesday?
No worries.
eMachineShop has you covered. Babbage would have built the Apple ][ a hundred years early with these guys helping. Uh, except that he'd need a Windows PC to run their software. Slight technical hitch there.
(via Kean)
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Wow! Geek
and boyspeak in the same post! Could you at least try to use "thingee" more often in deference to your mechanically-challenged female readers (=Susie)? (i.e. the "matching attachment thingee"...)
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Monday, August 25
M.I.F.
A helpful guide on
the correct way to make a cup of tea.
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I suppose the same logic applies to coffee. Of course, most people in the US use non-fat dried stuff though.
Posted by: Tiger at Monday, August 25 2003 11:59 PM (lR7b2)
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But if you put the milk in first, how do you know it's the correct amount?
Posted by: Susie at Tuesday, August 26 2003 02:09 AM (KK9YD)
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Now that's a keeper! Instead of trying to explain that the milk goes in first, I can use a visual aid!
Susie, you just know :)
Somone gave a mug a few years back that the official Mr. Bean mug and it has a line inside that says "pour milk to here".
Posted by: Ith at Wednesday, August 27 2003 07:10 PM (I6p7m)
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Imageries
18,000 down, 3,000 to go.
Nearly there...
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Child's Toy
Currently watching
Kodomo no Omocha, also known as
Kodocha, also also known as
Child's Toy, and there's just one thing I don't understand.
Why does Sana's mother have a squirrel living in her head?
Update: In episode 5 the subtitles have been changed, and it appears that the squirrel only lives on rather than in Mrs. Kurata's head. In episode 6, we learn that the squirrel's name is Maro-chan, though what use this information has has* not yet been made clear,
*Has has! That's even better than had had! Um, has anyone else here read The Well of Lost Plots?
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Posted by: Wanderer at Monday, August 25 2003 02:27 PM (VPRWC)
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I would prefer a chipmunk myself...they are smaller, cuter, and smarter (I have never yet had to drive past squished chipmunk remains on a road).
Posted by: Susie at Monday, August 25 2003 04:44 PM (KK9YD)
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One can only hope that it's potty-trained.
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Sunday, August 24
Daily SCO
SCO has accused IBM of orchestrating a consipiracy [
Uh, how do you orchestrate a conspiracy, exactly? — Ed.] against them. This, perhaps, is what inspired someone to create
WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.org. So... WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com was already taken?
Update: It so happens that yes, WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com was already taken. Must be something in the air...
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Actually, I registered .org because .com would be inappropriate for a non-commercial website...
Posted by: The Silent Majority at Tuesday, August 26 2003 08:47 AM (FZeDj)
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Fair enough.
But still, WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com
is taken.
Hmm. And now it redirects to WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com. How dull. Comical Ali isn't a patch on Darl McBride.
Meanwhile, you really should consider selling t-shirts and coffee mugs. I'd buy a dozen gross.
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Any idea what sort of investment it takes to do the CafePress thing?
(I tried the .com this morning and it went to a place holder that just said the domain was registered. So the MSS folks appear to have picked it up, eh? Must have been that mail I sent them with my link :)
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A basic CafePress store is free. The only real limit I know of is that you can only have one design for each item - so, one white t-shirt, one grey t-shirt, one coffee mug. A premium shop is $6.95 per month.
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EMAIL: amelia2003_5@yahoo.com
IP: 62.213.67.122
URL:
DATE: 01/21/2004 08:30:35 PM
Lies are only a problem when you believe them.
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You're All Going To Have To Upgrade
I've been working on a re-design of Ambient Irony. It looks
wonderful on my monitor at 2048x1536.
Unfortunately, it doesn't quite fit on the screen at 1024x768. I can see only one solution...
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Your CURRENT one doesn't fit on my screen as it is...I have to scroll right and left to see all three columns....How big is your moniter anyway?
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, August 24 2003 11:00 AM (KK9YD)
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Then it is gonna look really crappy on mine where I cannot go above 600x800
Posted by: Tiger at Sunday, August 24 2003 12:04 PM (xlR8R)
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It's a 21" Sony. Or rather, all three are 21" Sonys...
I'm re-doing the graphics now so that they'll fit at 1024x768... I'll try to make it work at 800x600 too, but no primroses.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 24 2003 12:11 PM (jtW2s)
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I've got a 19-inch, so bring it on!
Posted by: Victor at Sunday, August 24 2003 01:41 PM (FNHVL)
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And you mocked my CSS... Divine justice.
Posted by: Kevin at Sunday, August 24 2003 01:55 PM (zClXV)
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I mocked your CSS? Oh, that. No, that was aimed at Microsoft. Drove me crazy trying to get the current look to work in IE.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 24 2003 02:22 PM (jtW2s)
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Pixy Misa, don't you ever sleep? At NIGHT, I mean?
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, August 24 2003 02:47 PM (KK9YD)
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P.S. You all made me measure my moniter...it's 16" (and a lot bigger than my original one). I now have moniter envy.....
Posted by: Susie at Sunday, August 24 2003 02:51 PM (KK9YD)
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I just got a new monitor and only just went to 1024x768! and you want me to switch? Actually, I'm not sure if I can... I must check now!
Posted by: Ith at Sunday, August 24 2003 03:34 PM (pNDoX)
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My monitor's only 14". No wonder everything looks like crap!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at Sunday, August 24 2003 09:25 PM (x2qke)
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I think Pixy Misa lives in New Zeeland or somewhere where it's day when it's supposed to be dark and it's cold in summer and stuff. Oops, I mean New Zealand (there's a Zeeland, Michigan down by Holland, Michigan (can you guess who settled SW Michigan yet?)).
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Susie - I sleep during the day :)
Tim - Don't know who settled SW Michigan, but I suspect they were lost ;)
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I just realized: Pixy is bragging that his is bigger.
Posted by: Victor at Tuesday, August 26 2003 08:16 AM (L3qPK)
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And I've got three of them :)
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Your perfect design doesn't render correctly in IE. How is that a problem?
Seriously, I keep IE around simply to verify web pages I create are legible, but I don't give a rat's ass if it looks perfect or not. I design to the
standard and refuse to implement anything that is a
Microsoft extension.
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I'm from New Zealand... I think Pixy is actually an Aussie.
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Friday, August 22
$353 710 059 382 216 527 985 542 485 144 211 800 344 729 789 028 457 817 050 152 352 553 245 717 971 872 937 844 784 273 388 228 483 696 958 899 655 431 346 875 801 621 864 880
According to
this article, a group of Egyptian lawyers living in Switzerland plan to sue "all the Jews of the world" to recover gold allegedly stolen from Egypt in the Exodus (dated at 3754 B.C. based on the the article, which clashes somewhat with my history books).
They are also planning to claim 5% compound interest on the value of the gold. At yesterday's market rates, that works out to... the number shown above.*
(via a comment on Little Green Footballs.)
*Let's see what this does to my blog formatting...**
**Not too bad in Mozilla. Totally screwed in IE, of course. I've broken the number up with spaces, metric-style, for the browserly-challenged.
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I'm surprised they're not bringing suit for the lost chattel of the 120,000 families themselves. After all, the alienated labor represented by the Exodus, across the lifetime of the slaves and the slaves' progeny, would have amounted to a value easily eclipsing that paltry sum.
Reparations for slave owners!
Posted by: Mitch H. at Friday, August 22 2003 05:02 PM (tVSJJ)
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Every day I hear something that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,and the next day I always hear something that tops it....
Posted by: Susie at Friday, August 22 2003 08:00 PM (XQ0Gn)
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Who can I sue for the sun being so bright?
Posted by: Wanderer at Friday, August 22 2003 11:25 PM (yHg6a)
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God or Einstein. Depending on your politics, both.
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