Monday, March 31, 2003
Post your results below! [more]
Posted by aurikan @ 08:32 PM CST [Link]
Radiohead's new album Hail to the Thief is teh win! It really is a mix of Ok Computer and Kid A/Amnesiac. Accessible rock + electronics... mmm.
However, Marilyn Manson's The Golden Age of Grotesque is a piece of shit. What really annoys me is this image where he's claiming he is above the common man with his repetitive, childish garbage that he calls "his art". Along with that, he posts these nonsensical riddles in his journal where he communicates with his depressed little fucked up fans... I think he's trying to appear intelligent. The only reason he's well known is because he pulls off mindless shock tactics like ripping apart Mormon bibles and tea bagging a security guard. Antichrist Superstar was only ok because Trent Reznor and the NIN crew produced it, but Manson himself is a talentless, derivative Ogre-wannabe. Well I'll stop talking about him... if you don't mention them, they go away? Right? ... right?
... and Skold sucks too. At least he isn't fucking up the next KMFDM album. If you haven't heard his "ballad" Save Me, consider yourself lucky. Here is a picture of Skold from the 80's. But now he's dark and industrial... yeah, I think that pretty much defines poser. Colourful spandex/hair metal to black leather/NIN-ripoff?
"I'm going to fuck you in the ass."
"But I poop from there!"
"Not right now you don't!"
Posted by afterglow @ 07:50 PM CST [Link]
Ok I had a thought last night that may not be very coherent this morning, so bear with me.
A story is best half-told. The art of good storywriting is allowing the reader to flesh it out with details that are personal to themselves. [more]
Posted by JonD @ 04:41 AM CST [Link]
Sunday, March 30, 2003
The fag-smoking fag fagged himself bundling faggots
Posted by linguica @ 01:41 PM CST [Link]
Saturday, March 29, 2003
So I read some books over Spring Break. [more]
Posted by linguica @ 07:34 PM CST [Link]
I'm reading Orwell's 1984 and enjoying it immensly. It seems strangely relevant with the current war, too. The book is very well crafted, and manages to tell a lot of story without a lot of character interaction, a difficult feat.
Posted by JonD @ 08:18 AM CST [Link]
This evening I made a double bacon cheeseburger. Oozing with fatty goodness. I just got a craving for chocolate to I went to a nearby corner store and bought some Rolo Ice Cream for $7.99. It's seems like every time I go there, someone new is working. I guess nobody wants a career working in a corner store?
Um, today in my philosophy class there was a lecture on the metaphysics of feminism (to quote my friend Tim, the papers from last nights reading were "dripping with menstrual fluid") and part of it was on body control that's taught at an early age, such as in school where everyone sits in their specified desk separate from everyone else, you put your hand up to ask a question, etc. Your body movements signal what will come next. Then the prof says that there used to be other rules such as keep your hands on your desk and your legs straight down with heels flat on the floor... then he makes a sidenote, "well that was more to prevent masturbation". WHAT!? Who masturbates in the middle of class?! Although I've heard of someone getting a handjob in the middle of a lecture, so who knows...
I bet mewse would.
Posted by afterglow @ 01:32 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, March 27, 2003
Cyb's mom carries a shovel! [more]
Posted by aurikan @ 05:48 PM CST [Link]
I payed for 1Mb/s cable a few days ago (monday I think); and yet the maximum I have got out of it has been 60KB/s (~512Kb/s). I rang up tech. support yesterday and they attempted to walk me through some downloads from download.com via internet explorer to gauge the speeds (yay for accuracy).
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Posted by JonD @ 09:00 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Leonardo DiCaprio becomes a cheque forger, or "paper hanger" for those in the know (ha. ha.). Tom Hanks is an FBI agent deperate to catch him. Hilarity ensues. [more]
Posted by mewse @ 01:42 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
1:35PM and still hungover. :/ Alexander Keith's may taste great but it gives me so much gas... bloody gosh darnit. Oh well, we went out for a friend's birthday and got her smashed. Good times were had. Although drunken Scrabble is not a good idea... there's only so many three letter words I can come up with. :( Now I'm vegging out at my computer listening to Coldplay and thinking of working... just thinking.
Posted by afterglow @ 12:37 PM CST [Link]
Monday, March 24, 2003
I took a 'personal day' today to recover from the weekend. I did look at some calculus websites and have it figured out a lot more than what I learned from my teacher. I also recorded some total guitar wanking for ryan to listen to. It's barely musical but it has most of my favorite technique things tossed around. The power went out today for an hour, so I ate some lettuce and went exercising until it returned. I picked up my sister from work (the local elementary school) at 2:30. I want to go buy Requiem for a Dream but I don't know if blockbuster sells dvds, and I can't think of another place nearby. I'm listening to more Pain of Salvation stuff now (daniel gildenlow is a genius) and if you have not heard his music you suck. If you have and didn't like it I hate you. If you think it is the greatest music ever made then you're on the right track.
Is despayre email borked?
Posted by mantra @ 02:39 PM CST [Link]
I've been up more than 24 hours straight now... I got the metaphysics essay in. It said 8 pages but I only got 6. So instead of double space, I set it to 2.5 and got seven and a half pages out of it. Hey, the outline never said what linespacing to use and it never mentioned a number of words. I thought my paper was adequate and it'll get at least 60%. I started it 2:30AM last night. Note to self: don't try this again.
Today I ordered a Trogdor t-shirt.
I bought thirty 700MB CDRs.
Feel Very Hungry
Want To Go To Sleep But I Think I'm Going Drinking Tonight So I'll Stay Up Because I'll Sleep For Twelve Hours If I Try To Take A Nap Now.
Ever hear Dredg? They're RAD.
Posted by afterglow @ 01:07 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, March 23, 2003
Tomorrow at 12:30PM I have an eight page Metaphysics essay due that's worth 40% of my final mark. I still haven't started it. Here's what I'm writing it on. :/
Heidegger says that in 20th Century European cultures the word "Being" is taken to be so abstract that it is virtually empty of meaning. But Heidegger says that we can retrieve from earlier cultures a deeper and more concrete meaning for the term. What are the arguments for these two views and which is stronger? What is the meaning of "Being" that Heidegger thinks he finds? What is your view of the meaning of the word "Being"?
The past couple of weeks I've been in a depressing rut where I just don't want to do any work. I spent my whole weekend watching movies, downloading mp3s, and cleaning the house. You do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts. Yes, I just quoted Radiohead lyrics.
Hooray for all-nighters.
Posted by afterglow @ 11:59 PM CST [Link]
Last night I went to that Henry Rollins spoken word show in Providence, RI. It took forever to get there because I had to pick up friends a half hour out of the way, and then we took an odd route to save some time. Once we did reach the crazy arts district in Providence though, all was good. [more]
Posted by mantra @ 07:31 PM CST [Link]
Don't think I'm an anti-war guy, but I was looking up some info for my mum about Israel, and I have a few good links about some of their seedier activities.
Sorry I'm too lazy to hyperlink them. [more]
Posted by JonD @ 05:57 PM CST [Link]
Saturday, March 22, 2003
"In my interpretation, the basic thing that the United States wants to do -- overthrow Saddam and get rid of his weapons -- is sharply in the interest of almost everybody all over the world. And although the U.S. is proposing to act in the interest of the world, Bush has managed to terrify the entire world and to turn the world against him and us and to make our situation infinitely more dangerous than it otherwise would have been. It's a display of diplomatic and political incompetence on a colossal scale. We're going to pay for this."
i'm not sure what i think anymore, but i really hate bush
Posted by mewse @ 05:30 AM CST [Link]
when i was back at my old job, i had this marvellous idea that i should quit and get a "normal" job because the only people i worked with were fellow dorks..
of course, the closing of the place i worked quickly put my money where my mouth was.. and i kept chewing.. now i'm pretty broke.
i went to EB today and asked them if they looked at my resume. they said they had a stack that they hadn't gone through yet. ok moving right along, i filled out another application at quiznos.. yech.
today's new resumes go to:
- Wal-Mart
- Canadian Tire (not a good chance at this place)
- Gone Hollywood Video (everyone thinks this place is going to tank hard)
- Subway (funnest application.. math and customer service questions)
wheeeeeeeeeeeee
Posted by mewse @ 01:34 AM CST [Link]
Friday, March 21, 2003
1 definition found
From WordNet (r) 1.7 :sell out
v 1: get rid of all one's merchandise [syn: sell up, liquidize]
2: give inside information to; as to the police [syn: tip off]
3: AFI
Those MOTHER FUCKERS. I tells you, think of a sell-out band cliche and they've done it. Pay to join a fan club for the priviledge of paying for AFI-branded pirate themed shoes. FOR FUCKS SAKE. Their new album, to quote allmusic.com: Sing the Sorrow, its Dreamworks debut, isn't the wholesale departure from AFI's roots that some longtime fans griped about. Ok, so totally changing the sound of your music and staying in post-production for more than SIX MONTHS isn't selling out? Gimme a break.
I've seen these guys twice: Once supporting the offspring and going nuts infront of 20,000 teeny-boppers who haven't ever heard of them, the other time in front of 200 goth pill-popping nutcases. They were amazing in the first instance, and sucked in the second.
And that fucked-up sXe Davey Havok's real-life tattoos totally outdo Ralph Fienne's efforts in Red Dragon, too. Wouldn't like to bump into that guy in a dark alley. (You'd here his pockets going 'CLINK CLINK' a mile off anyway)
Posted by JonD @ 03:10 PM CST [Link]
[mewse] well.. most fanfic is just.. ungodly terrible
[SargeBaldy] agreed
[SargeBaldy] except mine
[SargeBaldy] and taylor's
[mewse] taylor should get sent to a psych ward
[mewse] both of him
[BBG] Hahaha
[BBG] Scuba Steve too
[SargeBaldy] heh
[BBG] For making that Imp Hump gif
[SargeBaldy] is taylor someone else?
[mewse] maybe he is scuba
[SargeBaldy] maybe
[SargeBaldy] all i know is arioch hosts his page, and dwforums is involved too
[SargeBaldy] seems odd to me
[BBG] Heh
[BBG] http://bbg.ath.cx/cyb.jpg
[mewse] hosts who's page?
[mewse] scubas?
[SargeBaldy] www.impse.cx
[gemini`] always interessting to see doomers pics...
Posted by mewse @ 03:57 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, March 20, 2003
warning: dont read [more]
Posted by mantra @ 10:09 PM CST [Link]
Posted by mewse @ 07:35 PM CST [Link]
Who declared Torpor to be full of anti-war hippies? ... and "ha ha" at the AGM quote at the bottom of the admin pages.
Posted by afterglow @ 07:17 PM CST [Link]
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
I finished reading Conan the Warlord today. A guy called Leonard Carpenter wrote it, and it's certainly noticeable that it isn't Robert E Howard or Robert Jordan's storytelling. It was still ok though, I mean, how far you can stray from the basic Conan storyline? Overall a B, mostly because extra points are granted for the mildly disguised homosexual innuendo. Good old homosexual innuendo....right moving on.
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Posted by mantra @ 06:44 PM CST [Link]
In my grade 12 english class my teacher went around the room asking each student to state what they believed to be a symbol of the end of the century.
When it came to be my turn, I replied "an American flag".
We also had to provide justification for our choice, so I continued.. "At the turn of the last century, the British empire was the largest power in the world, but because of the two World Wars their power became severely limited. Especially now that the cold war is over, the USA is the current king of the hill."
I'd like to see who it's going to be in the next century, if we see it.
Posted by mewse @ 06:32 PM CST [Link]
I believe that the universe consists, without residue, of the spread of events in space-time, and that if we thus accept realitically the four-dimensional fabric of juxtaposed actualities we can dispense with all those dim nonfactual categories which have so bedeviled our race: the potential, the subsistential, and the influential, the noumenal, the numinous, and the nonnatural. But I am arguing here, not that there is nothing outside the natural world of events, but that the theory of the manifold is anyhow literally true and adequate to that world: true in that the world contains no less than the manifold; adequate, in that it contains no more.
Um, what? I'm started to really dislike philosophy. ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
On the other hand, this article from The Onion is bloody hilarious. The last paragraph had me crying. :)
Posted by afterglow @ 10:38 AM CST [Link]
08:46 < auxois_black> and he was like "man you do any web design"
08:46 < auxois_black> and I told him on
08:46 < auxois_black> er no
08:46 < auxois_black> and he was like "hmm damn I need to find someone who will redesign my site relatively cheap
... [more]
Posted by JonD @ 05:28 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Posted by Cyb @ 10:26 PM CST [Link]
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Posted by mantra @ 09:28 PM CST [Link]
I saw some advance footage of LotR:RotK
Posted by aurikan @ 05:36 PM CST [Link]
I saw some advance footage of LotR:RotK
Posted by aurikan @ 05:36 PM CST [Link]
Posted by locust @ 06:39 AM CST [Link]
Monday, March 17, 2003
- Gallic Wars - The French not only lost….they lost to an Italian.
- Hundred Years War - Although they kinda/sorta mostly lost, they were saved by Joan of Arc (a female schizophrenic) who by accident created The First Rule of French Warfare; "France's armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman."
- Italian Wars - France became the first and only country in history to lose not just one, but TWO wars against Italians.
- Wars of Religion - France was 0-5-4 against the Huguenots.
- Thirty Years War - Although not technically a principal, they did manage to get invaded anyway. Amusingly they claim a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring them.
- War of Devolution - Tied
- The Dutch War - Tied.
- War of the Augsburg League - Lost/claimed tie.
- King William's War - Lost/claimed tie.
- French and Indian War - Lost/claimed tie. Three ties in a row caused some deluded folks to label the period as the height of French military power.
- War of the Spanish Succession - Lost.
- American Revolution - In a Scribean foreshadow of the future, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw way more action. This is eventually known as "de Gaulle Syndrome". It also establishes Second Rule of French Warfare; "France only wins when America does most of the fighting."
- French Revolution - Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
- The Napoleonic Wars - Lost.
- The Franco-Prussian War - Lost.
- World War I - Tied and on the way to losing. France was saved by the United States.
- World War II - Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain.
- War in Indochina - Lost
- Algerian Rebellion - Lost. The first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades. It gave birth to the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; "We can always beat the French." This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
- War on Terrorism - France has surrendered to Germans and Muslims just to be safe.
Posted by linguica @ 07:34 PM CST [Link]
Haha! I hax3d torpor again, and now it's even more communist looking. Needs some yellow. Now to begin the countdown before mewse changes it back!
Posted by Cyb @ 03:01 PM CST [Link]
OMG, the comedy gold has been broughten! I was laughing to the point that snot was dripping out my nose...
Posted by afterglow @ 01:18 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, March 16, 2003
My dad arrived around 11:30 this morning to grab all his porn and collectibles (no I don't count porn as a
collectible"). [more]
Posted by mantra @ 07:07 PM CST [Link]
Posted by linguica @ 03:25 PM CST [Link]
So like, it was about 8:15 and I was finishing watching Blade Runner director's cut on my computer, when Stephanie IMs me and is like, "some people are going to Cowby Sushi, want to come?" and I was like "no way" and she was like "yes way" and I was like "when" and she was like "9:00" and I was like "OK sure" and she was like "cool OK see you there" [more]
Posted by linguica @ 02:58 PM CST [Link]
Check out this insane story about a couple of slaughterhouse workers and a talking fish. My favourite part of this article has to be the following:
It instructed him to pray and study the Torah, but Mr Rosen admitted that in a state of panic he attempted to kill the fish, injuring himself in the process and ending up in hospital.
How the hell do you wind up hospitalising yourself by trying to kill a fish?
Posted by JonR @ 07:28 AM CST [Link]
Posted by locust @ 12:18 AM CST [Link]
Yeah so tonight I went to the Symphony X show at the Palladium in Worcester. [more]
Posted by mantra @ 12:04 AM CST [Link]
Saturday, March 15, 2003
Thank god. phpnuke was IN THE GAYS. In other news did you know you can multiply two N digit numbers in O(N^(log 3)) instead of O(N^1.6). My god computer science is retarded.
Posted by Cyb @ 04:15 PM CST [Link]
Somebody set up phpnuke the bomb! [more]
Posted by arioch @ 03:13 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, March 13, 2003
hello media, you have been OWNED.
Posted by mewse @ 07:03 PM CST [Link]
Man, who would have ever thought that if I asked people for positive karma they would do exactly the opposite. I WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED! In fact I'm sure everyone sees a post by Cyb and is quickly clicking the little minus button right now. Thanks a lot jerks. [more]
Posted by Cyb @ 04:59 PM CST [Link]
What's with these stupid wisdom quotes at the bottom of the Greymatter admin pages? Fuck that shit! We need quotes of public figures making an ass of themselves. Therein lies the comedy gold.
I have a newfound addiction of Pop Tarts. Today I deposited a pay cheque and then went to a nearby grocery store for Pop Tarts and milk. Of course I ended up getting $50 worth of groceries. At least I don't have to go shopping again for more than a month. Right now I'm on my fourth Pop Tart in the past two hours. I can't get enough. :( [more]
Posted by afterglow @ 04:26 PM CST [Link]
greymatter blows. the log records failed password attempts in *cleartext*? now that's a security risk if i've ever heard of one. what happens when you make an obvious typo - like for example AGmlkovesme. Gotta go reset the control log, and if you forget, say goodbye to your account and any other account where you use the same password. [more]
Posted by aurikan @ 04:01 PM CST [Link]
So I walked into uni for a meeting of my Software Engineering project team. I got to the lab about a half hour early and was trying out one of the new machines with flat screen monitors. Since I had a while to wait I figured I'd update torpor. I try to login using what I think is my password, but it rejects it. I try a few others, no dice. Then I remember that the control panel log stores failed password attempts, and I've just entered about every password I use and I can't get in, so I can't clear the log. Shit. So I have to walk home, which takes about half an hour, use my cookied password to login on my home machine, clear the log and change my password, then practically run back to uni in time for my group meeting. Fun stuff. [more]
Posted by JonR @ 11:53 AM CST [Link]
i dropped off four resumes yesterday:
- EB GAMES - i hope i get this one
- QUIZNOS
- JUMBO VIDEO - she said they werent hiring so not much hope for this one
- ROGERS VIDEO - hot chicks!! looking at a lingerie magazine when we walked in!! score!!
then i filled out this S.T.E.P. application for government work (student.. temporary employment program? or something?)
then today i called my friend at the engineering company to see if they had programming work lined up for me now.. they do! but he's leaving town but i'll go in a week from monday
SCORE! i hope i have a job soon. i hope at EB games, that would be sweet, i told them i was a compooter guy.. anyways. later homecheesies
Posted by mewse @ 01:46 AM CST [Link]
Hello. Ummm... today I signed the lease for September 2003 to August 2004 for the place I'm staying at right now. Is that considered news? Some statements of note are no holding auctions in the house or dismantling cars on the front lawn. Yeah, it looked like the lease was drawn up in 1960. Heh. [more]
Posted by afterglow @ 12:05 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
In what was really not much of a surprise, the astronomy teacher converted "the big test" to an "open notebook big test." It was easy anyway. I attended class maybe one out of every three days, and I'm sure I got at least a B+ and I hardly needed the notes I had. In physics I surprised the teacher by handing in the assigned homework on time. So of course he decided this was the perfect time to have the student correct the homework. Homework problems due tomorrow were pushed back to Friday so we can do some saucy lab last period tomorrow. Anything that isn't rapid scribbling of notes sounds awesome to me. [more]
Posted by mantra @ 09:46 PM CST [Link]
so anyway here i am writing a fully featured distributed system.
in python. [more]
Posted by aurikan @ 08:13 PM CST [Link]
AFAIK Jon, there's no particular thing that happens at the event horizon -- other than that the gravitational force you're experiencing is such that even light can't escape its pull. If you had a supermassive black hole with a very large event horizon you could easily fall through it without feeling a thing. The "event horizon" is nothing more than a convenient way of thinking about black holes; if you're falling into one, nothing particularly noteworthy happens there.
What does happen, however, is apparently if you're outside the event horizon watching them fall in, as the person get closer to the event horizon they will appear to be slowing down, and their movements will asymptotically slow to infinity duration as they approach the event horizon, so you could never actually *see* someone cross the event horizon. But they'd have long since been stretched into spaghetti and then crushed into nothingness.
Posted by linguica @ 12:49 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Posted by Cyb @ 09:37 PM CST [Link]
One for the astrophysicsts amongst you (that'd be er, Ling I guess), is it true you can't actually fall into a black hole? I read this theory in a writeup on Everything2 and was wondering if it's true. Basically, time dillation means it takes forever to reach the event horizon, but hawking radiation means black holes have a finite lifespan, so even if you try to fly straight into one it should dissapear before you reach it. Answers on a postcard.
Oh yeah and Ling, explain to your azn friend that we can't access files stored on her hard drive.
Posted by JonR @ 09:01 PM CST [Link]
* Update *
Now Serving......
In All House Office Buildings
...
"FREEDOM FRIES"
Posted by mewse @ 06:36 PM CST [Link]
Sorry for not updating much: I'm absolutely MAD busy at the moment with my SoftEng project. Doing the work of 5 people (bless 'em) so hardly any time to breath :/
Posted by JonD @ 06:28 PM CST [Link]
i hate adventures [more]
Posted by mantra @ 05:47 PM CST [Link]
man i need more hours in a day. i get home at 9pm and by the time i'm properly vegged out, it's past midnight. i tried to find time today to work on Mac7L and realm maintenance but now I need to go to bed.
In other news, I'm soon going to be lording over several dozen dual 2.4 p4s at work. fear my processing power.
Posted by aurikan @ 03:43 AM CST [Link]
Monday, March 10, 2003
Well, only one was broken. Until someone came out to "fix things" yesterday and now the other one's broken too. Dammit, I'm going to miss my pr0n.
Posted by locust @ 08:31 PM CST [Link]
Posted by Cyb @ 07:52 PM CST [Link]
it's not fucking sunday! so update! [more]
Posted by aurikan @ 02:31 AM CST [Link]
Sunday, March 9, 2003
Posted by linguica @ 01:48 AM CST [Link]
Saturday, March 8, 2003
We never had a couch in our apartment, so my mom and I went over to my grandmother's house to steal one of hers. Now I have this funky love-seat-size couch with no arms, and it's all well and good, but it smells like old people. Why is there such thing as a senior-stink? It's a very recognizable musty odor that only seems to pop up around the old and infirm.
Posted by linguica @ 11:58 PM CST [Link]
Last night I went to a friend's place for only dinner... or so I thought. When I got there I found out we were also going to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Here I was with spiked black hair (Elmer's glue) with a shirt and tie. No reason for the get-up. A friend earlier in the day said I looked emo. >:( [more]
Posted by afterglow @ 03:08 PM CST [Link]
Moved the computer and other stuff into my room today. The table was the only thing that really sucked to carry upstairs, but I took some steroids and went for it. [more]
Posted by mantra @ 02:29 PM CST [Link]
so i finally saw that age old david duchovny film evolution. what a piss poor film. standard box office fare - nothing creative and not a believable story at all. wtf is wrong with movies these days? it's like they're allergic to any kind of creativity and much prefer to rehash to same old story over and over with whatever plot gimmick happens to be the fad of the week. i hope matrix reloaded doesn't blow
Posted by aurikan @ 04:00 AM CST [Link]
Friday, March 7, 2003
I got home and checked slsk, only to see a ton of failed transfers. It took a couple minutes before I checked available disk space. Zero bytes. So I burned a couple cdrs, I only have 5 more left, and no cases anyway. I went on google and hunted for cheap cdrs, and managed to locate a 100pack of 40x 80min ones, with 100 soft plastic thin jewel cases (great for stacking in small areas). Total: 58 bucks. Free shipping too =]
41 Complete Zappa Albums [more]
Posted by mantra @ 08:29 PM CST [Link]
Actually, I'm probably going to buy FF Origins when it comes out. I was (and am) a huge fan of FF1, and the FF series in general. Considering you get 20+ hours of play to go through the game ONCE, $30 is not bad. Especially considering the general shittyness of most games, which cost $40+ on release.
Posted by aurikan @ 01:30 PM CST [Link]
Check this out. Square is re-releasing Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy 2 for the playstation. It's set to be released on April 8th for the price of about $30USD.
I was just playing it. It's been on the net since Feb 1st, here's the nfo file. Why would I wait a month and pay money I don't have? How can this be considered wrong..
Posted by mewse @ 09:48 AM CST [Link]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2828797.stm
Posted by JonR @ 08:55 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, March 6, 2003
The KDE Homepage was redesigned recently. Now is it just me or does the new design really, really suck? Its weird, the KDE project has always come across as very professional and very aware of the need to have professional presentation for success. Yet if I were a suit looking at the kde homepage I can't imagine being too impressed, it looks more like a quickly knocked out site you'd find for a sourceforge project than that of the premier unix desktop suite. Yet this design must have been approved by the high levels of the KDE project. Ah well.
Hey, that's two updates about web design now. Third one will be about something else. Probably.
Posted by JonR @ 11:03 PM CST [Link]
So I'm thinking middle of August like last year for this #doomcon.
After classes are over in May we're going back to China for a few weeks to visit family and shit, so I probably can't host until mid-June. We need to pin down dates soon though. C'mon people I'm sure some more of you will want to show up.
Some (probably outdated) info at http://arioch.net/doomcon/.
Posted by arioch @ 10:08 PM CST [Link]
i didnt end up doing any physics homework. i finished all the calc stuff though. i also managed to find a great applet thing that showed the sky from my town at any date at any time. its snowed a lot here, but the school webpage has not announced a closing as of this time.
i also got banned from #zdoom.
i have 35 complete zappa albums so far thanks to slsk. sleep time
Posted by mantra @ 10:03 PM CST [Link]
phwoar i have access. now to take over the world!!
Posted by aurikan @ 09:51 PM CST [Link]
[10:42pm] <
-:- mode/#zdoom [-o Cyb] by kurtis
It only took me many months and around 5 massops of the chan before I lost ops. I was even up to level 30 before that. Now I am free. FREE!! I feel kinda bad for pissing off Kurt, as he's really a cool guy, but I'll give him one thing, he'll make a better chan founder than Quasar did (he also left today).
In other news, snowblowers are the greatest invention in the history of the world. And now, I go back to slacking off.
Posted by Cyb @ 09:50 PM CST [Link]
I'm sure I'm not the first person to think that the dude on the left is wearing chaps and has, uh, an interesting piece of anatomy... [more]
Posted by linguica @ 06:18 PM CST [Link]
big up to all mah homeshoes on torpor.net. peace out
Posted by fraggle @ 04:46 PM CST [Link]
Last night after work the plan was to drop my car off at the garage and Jim would pick me up there. I called his office from work 45 minutes before I left. This way he would not forget entirely. No one answered the phone. Just great I thought, and called my house. My mom said that he was not at the house, and it was likely that he was just in the bathroom at work. Then she hears the 1989 Suburban (lovechild of a panzer tank and uh...something else big and loud) pull up in the driveway. [more]
Posted by mantra @ 04:31 PM CST [Link]
Courtesy of Rick Mercer, from This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC Television...
On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry. [more]
Posted by mewse @ 03:50 PM CST [Link]
Neat, a blog.
[more]
Posted by rayle @ 03:44 PM CST [Link]
(Square brackets used since greymatter changes & l t ; to a literal less-than sign in the produced HTML, which obviously breaks stuff.)
I'm not so sure about XHTML 1.1. For a while, [a id="label" /] has been the preferred usage, but everyone still used the old [a name="label" /]. As of XHTML 1.1 you can't. This is pretty much the first removal of a redundancy that will really break a page in older browsers. [more]
Posted by locust @ 08:03 AM CST [Link]
Updated with some more rambling
I got to go to a preview of this movie last night, and my friends and I agreed that we're lucky we didn't have to pay for it. It was pretty bad.
The premise is that Bruce Willis and his team of super soldats are to escort an American doctor and possibly a priest and two nuns out of Nigeria which is being overrun by Islamic rebels in a bloody civil war. When they try to make the doctor leave, the doctor says she won't leave without the poor people from the village, so they end up escorting this mile-long train of natives.. bleh.. [more]
Posted by mewse @ 07:50 AM CST [Link]
man afterglow, stop posting here so damn much and hang out on irc with the rest of us like a normal slacker you rat bastard.
Posted by Cyb @ 02:55 AM CST [Link]
#define IS_POW2( val ) ( !(val & (val-1)) ) /* C RULEZ LOL */
But it is kind of neat that you can find if an integer is a power of two through one simple statement. It's neat, right?
Posted by afterglow @ 01:34 AM CST [Link]
Posted by afterglow @ 12:40 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Hey Mantrain, why don't you post a picture of your face? I was just looking through Mantra's pictures from Disney '97, which was comedy gold. Complete with mother mullets, tight jean shorts, wearing socks with shorts and running shoes, t-shirts that are too large with a gut protruding from it, Beavis and Butthead, horrible Marilyn Monroe lookalikes and worst of all, boring family poses in a tourist trap!
I need to get some of my old family pictures to critique. Hell, I still make fun of my parents clothing that I could swear they wore in the 80's. The horror. The horror. :(
Posted by afterglow @ 08:21 PM CST [Link]
cyb made most of the code for this page by adapting the css from his own page, which led to this page looking suspiciously similar to like.. every other page cyb has ever made. during the night, i snuck the css onto local webspace and changed the colors to bring about the purple scheme some of you may have seen this morning. then, during the day, cyb made a daring attempt to reassimilate the color scheme which i quickly squashed. the page you see now has a cyb logo and a color scheme adapted from the earlier purple version to now appear pinkish. the subtle communist connection is unintentional.
Posted by mewse @ 06:04 PM CST [Link]
I haven't run Soulseek for the past week because I'm coming to terms with my MP3 addiction. I just can't be spending hours a day search and queuing up new music. I used to do that. Right now I'm just trying to get everything I have on my hard drives burned and I'll log on whenever I want to download a specific album or two. Besides, those leeching bitches were sucking 20k/s 24/7 from me and if I throttled the upload rate, it just meant the queue lines would get longer. >:(
Also, today I shovelled about fifteen centimetres of snow from my driveway including a larger amount at the end that was mostly heavy slush from the street. NOW I AM BIG AND BUFF. GRRR, BABY.
Posted by afterglow @ 03:24 PM CST [Link]
torpor == h4x3d by cyb
Posted by Cyb @ 03:18 PM CST [Link]
i found out today that even though i have all the credits and course requirements to graduate, i can only fail one class this semester. apparently you can fail four 5 credit classes over the course of high school, and still pass with the necessary 140 credits, but they have to be one per year. this means i can risk failing ap physics, but thats it. i need to do all my calc homework if i want to graduate.
right now i have 26 complete frank zappa albums from slsk. still lots more to go so i sent 5 dollars nir's way for downloading privileges and now my only concern is that cdrs i should be ordering today arrive before i run out of space.
Buckethead - Monsters and Robots - 09 - the shape vs buckethead.mp3
ps. why are not you on slsk derek
Posted by mantra @ 02:41 PM CST [Link]
Hello gentlemen.
My wake-up routine has gotten pretty silly. On Sunday night I had gone to bed just before 2AM and had my alarm set for 10AM since I had class at 12:30PM on Monday. Of course when the alarm went off, I turned it off immediately and then slept in until 2:30PM. So this afternoon I had my Metaphysics lecture at the same time so I setup two alarm clocks to go off at 10AM. Both of them went off one minute apart and I snoozed both of them for one and a half hours.
I have issues. :(
But I did make it to class. Heidegger on the relation of violence of beings to Being is really confusing. Fo axzaumpo: [more]
Posted by afterglow @ 02:33 PM CST [Link]
Its typical, after weeks of finetuning the new newsdot design vector up and dies the moment I'm finally ready to upload it. The new design is really quite sweet imo, but getting it working right was a total bitch. IE and Mozilla seem to disagree on a couple of points about the box model, but I was able to work around that. One thing I couldn't fix though is the difference between font values on each browser. If you want to have a page where the text can be resized by the user (via the view menu) then you can't use absolute font sizes, you can either use percentages (which seem totalled bollocked up) or the preset font values (medium, small, x-small, etc) but in Moz each value corresponds to the next value up in IE. Anyway, I designed the page around the IE values which means all the text looks a bit too small in Mozilla. So don't complain to me Moz users.
Of course we may not really need Newsdot anymore now we have this super communal blog. The design needs a bit of tweaking, but otherwise it's all systems go!
Oh and I am a liberal racist apparently.
Posted by JonR @ 11:42 AM CST [Link]
Does anyone watch, or has anyone watched that series, Taken? Anyone seen Solid Geometry? Anyone heard AFI's new songs / albums? (please do comment) Are there plans to bring out ER serii on DVD? Reading anything good?
Posted by JonD @ 09:54 AM CST [Link]
You're A Vestigial Racist!
What Kind of Racist are You?
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I honestly don't know how that happened.
Posted by arioch @ 09:39 AM CST [Link]
Is the english spelling of Grey, Grey or Gray? Argh!
This is looking good, yeah. I like the new colour scheme. The greymatter controls are also really good. I'm doing something like this at uni at the moment heh. Whats everyone else up to at the moment?
Page seems to be working fine for me (galeon 1.2.7)
Posted by JonD @ 08:26 AM CST [Link]
You're A Liberal Racist!
What Kind of Racist are You?
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Posted by mantra @ 06:58 AM CST [Link]
i messed with the colors to try and make it look non-cybish, heh.. jon d's going to be messing with the css and might change things later on
Posted by mewse @ 06:18 AM CST [Link]
Hi guys. Looking good - Could I have a crack at the CSS? I'm a mad leet foo with that. Erm thanks. Can't find it anywhere on the main controls.
Posted by JonD @ 05:53 AM CST [Link]
Avril fucking sucks
Posted by locust @ 12:34 AM CST [Link]
I added some css goodness and shit. yay, now it's not fugly. could still use some work tho.
useless update ahoy!
Posted by Cyb @ 12:33 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, March 4, 2003
Posted by arioch @ 11:22 PM CST [Link]
Posted by arioch @ 10:56 PM CST [Link]
LOLZ
phoenix fucks up the search thingy too. stupid non ie browsers
Posted by Cyb @ 10:41 PM CST [Link]
my car failed inspection due to the mess that is my front end. well i didnt get a rejected sticker, instead i just made an appointment to fix the lights so they point ahead and illuminate the area in front of the car (as opposed to not). this has caused me to drive the speed limit and obey massachusetts traffic law like sally safe driver. otherwise i get pulled over, the cop looks at the expired inspection sticker, and laughs at me while ripping my hard earned money away from me. i didnt go through christmas season at a toy store to blow it all on a couple lousy tickets.
oh also i got a letter from the insurance company effectively saying that i have to pay an as yet undecided surcharge for hitting that girls nissan. im going to appeal it and hope that doesnt take away all my money.
also i just might be in love...
and no i wont tell you about it if youre going to laugh like that.
assholes
Posted by mantra @ 10:37 PM CST [Link]
the stupid search box goes to the left side of the screen in mozilla.. thats dumb..
Posted by mewse @ 10:37 PM CST [Link]
props to all logged in trolls [more]
Posted by astine @ 10:26 PM CST [Link]
i've got greymatter running on despayre thank you kindly arioch, lets see what this looks like..
