Anyway, when this finishes, my new notebook will have five times the memory and five times the disk space of my old notebook. Life is good.

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Humphrey Bogart You scored 33% Tough, 9% Roguish, 38% Friendly, and 14% Charming!

You're the original man of honor, rough and tough but willing to stick your neck out when you need to, despite what you might say to the contrary. You're a complex character full of spit and vinegar, but with a soft heart and a tender streak that you try to hide. There's usually a complicated dame in the picture, someone who sees the real you behind all the tough talk and can dish it out as well as you can. You're not easy to get next to, but when you find the right partner, you're caring and loyal to a fault. A big fault. But you take it on the chin and move on, nursing your pain inside and maintaining your armor...until the next dame walks in. Or possibly the same dame, and of all the gin joints in all the world, it had to be yours. Co-stars include Ingrid Bergman and Lauren Bacall, hot chicks with problems. Find out what kind of classic dame you'd make by taking the Classic Dames Test.

(Via Jimmy Stewart)

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Eek.

There's 3GB of software install files that came with the notebook. The Windows directory is 1.5GB, and the I386 directory of Windows install files is another 0.5GB. The hibernation file is equal to the memory size, so 1.25GB for that. Pagefile is currently running about 400MB. Program files (other than Cygwin) about 2.4GB.

40GB doesn't get you as far as it used to. I want to drop munu on there so I can play around with it, and that's another 12GB or so.

I'm going to try compressing Cygwin and see what that does.

Before

Size: 1.96GB (2,105,701,800 bytes)
Size on disk: 2.22GB (2,391,920,640 bytes)
Contains: 112,806 Files, 5,655 Folders

Crunch crunch crunch...

Size on disk: 1.35GB (1,450,449,973 bytes)

Of course, if I really wanted more disk space, I could always get a 100GB replacement drive, like, oh, this one here on my desk. Yes, that will do nicely.

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1938-39 A.T. Rosen @ Brooklyn, N.Y. LOTJ “Gas Station Slang”: Finegan pin…[struck] a vague expression to cover the fact that something in the car in [ sic] wrong but not yet exactly known, a whosis, etc. Its [ sic] akin to the slang expression, A paper-stretcher, or left-handed pencil.[end struck text] Non-existent auto part which mechanic blames for trouble he cannot locate.

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Los Angeles - Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G was dunked in the sea by Pamela Anderson's bodyguards - after rugby-tackling the actress at her dogs' wedding.

The Ali G star was dressed as his other creation, Kazakhstani TV journalist Borat, when he pulled the stunt.

Cohen, 33, in trunks, leather jacket and Village People-style cap, emerged from the surf on an inflatable turtle.

His rugby tackle sent Pam, 38, hurtling to the sand on the beach at Malibu, California.

Concerned security men grabbed the comedian and dragged him into the sea.

Pam was presiding over the nuptials of her Golden Retriever Star to Chihuahua Luca.

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So far, the theory of syntactic features developed earlier does not affect the structure of the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34). A consequence of the approach just outlined is that most of the methodological work in modern linguistics is rather different from the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. Furthermore, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction raises serious doubts about the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. From C1, it follows that the earlier discussion of deviance appears to correlate rather closely with a parasitic gap construction. For one thing, the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is not to be considered in determining the levels of acceptability from fairly high (eg (99a)) to virtual gibberish (eg (98d)).

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For a cheap, low-end notebook it's very nice. The screen doesn't have a reflective coating, which can be a bit distracting, but on the other hand it's extremely bright and clear, with excellent colour. It's got Firewire and 3 USB 2.0 ports, a card reader slot that works with both Memory Stick (which my camera uses) and SD/MMC (which my Palm Pilot has). Battery life isn't bad; initial tests suggest over 2½ hours playing videos with brightness turned up all the way. (I haven't had a chance to run it flat yet.)

It's not small, though. Twice the size of my old Vaio (which was tiny). But more than twice the speed. And one-third the price, so I'm not about to complain.

Now I just have to choose which anime to copy onto it to start with. And maybe shop around for a better price on those new 120GB notebook drives...

Oh yes. I'll be getting wireless internet for it too. It already has WiFi and Bluetooth, but I'll be adding a wireless broadband modem, so I'll be able to munu from anywhere.

Technology. What can't it do?

Update: 256MB bad. 1280MB good.

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The Barrel O' Babies

The villagers discovered a large barrel bobbing in the surf today. Unlike your average barrel, this one contains toddlers wrapped in blankets! They probably got lost during the exodus that brought the villagers to Isola. [What, and they've been in suspended animation for the thirty years since then?] Luckily, they found their way here to their kinfolk.

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