so here's some more:


Joy Justice


yum.

and bought an ipod touch replacing my trusty sansa fuse.

neato.


any sexy apps I should know about my tech savvy princes and princesses?

2 weeks into the new semester here at WMU, we are deluged with new students. Many of them have arrived with computers that are either so virus-laden that they barely function or new computers and absolutely no idea of basic functions.

I have met students (people in their late teens/early twenties) who have never installed nor removed a program. Some have no idea what anti-virus software even is.

I've come across mac users with no idea how to clear their cache in safari.

Frankly, I'm astonished at the level of noobishness among young people.

Even my sixteen year old son is agile enough to do all these things and more. (yeah, he's got an IT dad, but seriously...)

These kids appear helpless and hopeless.

flying up to do hodir dailys this morning i found a neat rare I've been casually watching for:

The time lost protodrake!

currently enmeshed in the following books:

If the Buddha Dated by Charlotte Kasl

Dream It. List It. from 43Things.com

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

"The accumulation of their filth will foam up around their waists, and all the whores and politicians will look up as shout, 'SAVE US.' and I'll look down and whisper,'no.'"

out with miss shellbeach. she's pretty spiffy.

I've been puzzling for a while (years in fact) over the problem of backing up data. Some portions of this question feel more as if they belong in Philosophy, rather than in the hands of modern technologists.

Here's a rough breakdown of the problem as I have encountered it in my experiences:

1. Both at work and at home, we have all developed an ever-growing list of data we cannot ( or would be put to great effort to) replace.
Generally, this data falls into 3 categories:
1. text files or spreadsheets (documents)
2. photographs and scans (images)
3. music and voice recordings (audio files)

The central problem is how to recover these items once a hard drive or main source has broken down or become corrupt. Recovery may not be an option due to virus infestation or mechanical/electronic failure. Going forward the solution seems to be to utilize some kind of backup device, to prepare for failure in the future. A primary pitfall of this solution is than any sort of data backup solution inevitably suffers from the same or worse liabilities as the original.

Archeologists of the far future will curse us for using magnetic media for all our data. Hard disks, CD's, and DVD's will not hold their image for more than a decade before degradation occurs and the image is lost, unrecoverable forever. There are archival data solutions on the market purporting 25 and 100 year archival safety, but no one has lived long enough to test any of these products.

The only economically viable, usable solution so far is to keep a 2nd hard drive external upon which copies of data might be kept safe. The reliability of this drive must be tested and considered on a regular basis.

REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup

(more soon.)

(12:12:25 PM) telegramsam70: i think in the next month or so, I might be pretty much done with wow. I've made good friends there, and as pretty as it all is - i don't have much stomach for endgame raiding anymore. kill the dragon to get the sword, so you can kill the next dragon to get the next sword....

(12:12:53 PM) telegramsam70: it's been neat. and i was an awesome tank. and i taught a good number of people how to play and enjoy themselves.

(12:13:21 PM) telegramsam70: but more and more i am finding myself drawn into the events of real life activities, girlfriend, work, family....

(12:13:44 PM) dls1138: yes- go grind 30000 trolls for a super rare dropped item that you will be overqualified for by the time you get it. Then go grind more

(12:14:04 PM) telegramsam70: yeah - i wanna check out fallout 3 and ra3

(12:14:16 PM) telegramsam70: games i can play for 30 min and walk away from

(12:14:25 PM) telegramsam70: wow is like a 2nd job

(12:14:30 PM) telegramsam70: even when it's part time

(12:14:31 PM) dls1138: well if you no longer enjoy wow- it was impossible for me to enjoy anywhere

(12:15:00 PM) dls1138: I did an experiment- I took the time I spent playing wow, and allocated it to home improvement. I wound up boosting the value of my house by 40k in the first year

(12:15:01 PM) telegramsam70: i still enjoy it. but friends and social reasons are the only reasons

(12:15:18 PM) telegramsam70: and i can get those anywhere with a modicum of effort

mister potatohead = ork stomper!

I have not messed with 40k stuff in years, but this is sooper cool.

http://www.irondogstudios.com/images/tater/mek_tater.html

Ain't it funny how we pretend we're still a child
Softly stolen under our blanket skies
And rescue me from me and all that I believe

I won't deny the pain, I won't deny the change
And should I fall from grace here with you
Will you leave me too?

Carve out your heart for keeps in an old oak tree
And hold me for goodbyes and whispered lullabyes
And tell me I am still the man I`m supposed to be

I won't deny the pain, I won't deny the change
And should I fall from grace here with you
Will you leave me too?

To late to turn back now
I'm running out of sound
And I am changing, changing
And if we died right now
This fool you love somehow
Is here with you

I won't deny the pain, I won't deny the change
And should I fall from grace here with you
Would you leave me too?
Would you leave me too?

- B. Corgan

Why did Tigger have his head in the toilet?

He was looking for Poo.




I saw two flies in the hose yesterday - and I knew they were female.

They were both on the phone.


told to me by friends just  moment ago.

I'm considering Arizona.  Actually, I'd been thinking about it for over a year.  The only thing kept me in MI for this last year is not a part of my life any longer, so it's time for honest research about moving out of this economic cesspool and out to where I might find work that suits and pays me better.

I've been out of the loop, but check it out.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25797678/

slash cry

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/483318927.html

amazing.

Originally Posted: Mon, 19 Nov 03:52 PST
"What Happened to All the Nice Guys?"
Date: 2007-11-19, 3:52AM PST


I see this question posted with some regularity in the personals section, so I thought I'd take a minute to explain things to the ladies out there that haven't figured it out.

What happened to all the nice guys?

The answer is simple: you did.

See, if you think back, really hard, you might vaguely remember a Platonic guy pal who always seemed to want to spend time with you. He'd tag along with you when you went shopping, stop by your place for a movie when you were lonely but didn't feel like going out, or even sit there and hold you while you sobbed and told him about how horribly the (other) guy that you were fucking treated you.

At the time, you probably joked with your girlfriends about how he was a little puppy dog, always following you around, trying to do things to get you to pay attention to him. They probably teased you because they thought he had a crush on you. Given that his behavior was, admittedly, a little pathetic, you vehemently denied having any romantic feelings for him, and buttressed your position by claiming that you were "just friends." Besides, he totally wasn't your type. I mean, he was a little too short, or too bald, or too fat, or too poor, or didn't know how to dress himself, or basically be or do any of the things that your tall, good-looking, fit, rich, stylish boyfriend at the time pulled off with such ease.

Eventually, your Platonic buddy drifted away, as your relationship with the boyfriend got more serious and spending time with this other guy was, admittedly, a little weird, if you werent dating him. More time passed, and the boyfriend eventually cheated on you, or became boring, or you realized that the things that attracted you to him weren't the kinds of things that make for a good, long-term relationship. So, now, you're single again, and after having tried the bar scene for several months having only encountered players and douche bags, you wonder, "What happened to all the nice guys?"

Well, once again, you did.

You ignored the nice guy. You used him for emotional intimacy without reciprocating, in kind, with physical intimacy. You laughed at his consideration and resented his devotion. You valued the aloof boyfriend more than the attentive "just-a-" friend. Eventually, he took the hint and moved on with his life. He probably came to realize, one day, that women aren't really attracted to guys who hold doors open; or make dinners just because; or buy you a Christmas gift that you mentioned, in passing, that you really wanted five months ago; or listen when you're upset; or hold you when you cry. He came to realize that, if he wanted a woman like you, he'd have to act more like the boyfriend that you had. He probably cleaned up his look, started making some money, and generally acted like more of an asshole than he ever wanted to be.

Fact is, now, he's probably getting laid, and in a way, your ultimate rejection of him is to thank for that. And I'm sorry that it took the complete absence of "nice guys" in your life for you to realize that you missed them and wanted them. Most women will only have a handful of nice guys stumble into their lives, if that.

So, if you're looking for a nice guy, here's what you do:

1.) Build a time machine.
2.) Go back a few years and pull your head out of your ass.
3.) Take a look at what's right in front of you and grab ahold of it.

I suppose the other possibility is that you STILL don't really want a nice guy, but you feel the social pressure to at least appear to have matured beyond your infantile taste in men. In which case, you might be in luck, because the nice guy you claim to want has, in reality, shed his nice guy mantle and is out there looking to unleash his cynicism and resentment onto someone just like you.

If you were five years younger.

So, please: either stop misrepresenting what you want, or own up to the fact that you've fucked yourself over. You're getting older, after all. It's time to excise the bullshit and deal with reality. You didn't want a nice guy then, and he certainly doesn't fucking want you, now.

Sincerely,

A Recovering Nice Guy

Skullchewer before.


Skullchewer...with dreds!

http://www.petv.org/


they have a shirt that says: "don't eat anything without a face"

that's the most hilariously offensive thing I've ever heard.

Thank all that is right, it's nice to see the return of SATIRE, the rapier of social justice!

...for how I feel right now. so busy, but no results yet.