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Pretzel. Right.
I think maybe W. forgot his role, spoke up at some meeting, and Cheney had to give him a little smack down. "Remember George, you fell and hit your head while choking on a pretzel."
"Aw, jeez Dick, can't we make up something better than that?"
"You want some more frat boy?"
I saw The Fellowship of the Ring yesterday. I don't have too much to say about it. I thought it was a great if somewhat impossible film. Of course I wasn't going to really like it. Not like I really liked the books the first time through when I was young. But given what it was up against, the film did quite well. I just have no idea how it would go over if you don't know the books. Good cave troll anyway.
Gandalf was perfect. I thought Galadriel was too, although Alex thought she was stiff. I guess I can see what he means, but still...
Couldn't they have done it in 6 episodes but released 2 at a time in December for three years? The first could have been just up to Rivendell - with all the Tom Bombadil scenes added back in. The second would continue to the end of The Fellowship - but with a much more expanded opening council at Rivendel.
Probably The Return of the King could just be one movie.
I guess that's too risky (or expensive,) but there was a lot of material that had to be skipped. Still, given the actual time constraints, I generally agree with all the choices.
Sure makes me want to go to New Zealand.
Google is now indexing up to the minute news from over 70 sources. While traditional publishers, especially the New York Times, keep getting it wrong, Google leaps straight to the top of the on line news world. This is the front page of the news web. Thanks again Google. [via joho]
I've actually gotten this email more than once. It would be funny except the tone is so serious that I don't think it's a joke. I almost didn't post it because I don't want to make fun of him if he really believes this stuff, but he is sending these out to random people, so here goes:
From: webmaster@***.comWow. I'm thinking about sticking that last line onto the end of all my emails. Good luck Frank Young.
Date: Thu Jan 10, 2002 03:37:49 PM US/Eastern
To: *******
Subject: Time travelers PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
Anbei ist das Ergebnis des Antwortformulars. Es wurde versandt von
Frank Young (webmaster@***.com) am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2002 um 21:37:49
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message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel back in time.
Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types.
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist.
I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Also if you are one of the very few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
Only if you have this technology and can help me please send me a (SEPARATE) email to:
Robby0809@***.com
Please do not reply if your an evil alien!
Thanks
I pointed to something similar a long time ago, but this one is even better. Night time picture of the earth from the space station. [via FMH]
Did I mention this before? It's been the number one most helpful OS X tip for me. Launch BBEdit from the terminal with:
sudo open -a "BBEdit Lite 6.1 for OS X"
(Yeah I'm cheap and haven't bought the full version even with the big sale.)
This launches BBEdit with root permissions allowing me to open and save files into directories I otherwise wouldn't have permission for (like the main webserving directory.)
Looks like Matthew Rossi worked through that depression, or writers block, or whatever. The ideas are certainly flowing now. Don't click unless you've got some time. And the correct neurological processes enabled.
How many times has man risen out of barbarism and tried to forge a civilization? The gap between the rise of the modern human and the rise of the first known culture, that of ancient Sumer, is tens of thousands of years at the most conservative guess. Was it merely a case of inertia to overcome before the slow march forward could become the torrential changes we have grown accustomed to, or is there truth to the various stories that say before the nations familiar to us, there were others known not today?
Doubleclick gets out of the targeted advertising business. You know, I really feel bad for these guys.
Oh, no, wait...
Cam has an interesting thought on the possibilities for anti-spam services. But what about a service that gives you an email address - very cheap but not free. Then anybody with an email account on that system also gets a central email address where they can redirect any spam they do get. These spams are then used to create a master profile. Every incoming email for every different account passes through the filter created by aggregating all the spams received by everyone on the system. Any incoming mail that matches anything in the central deposit is thrown out. You'd still get spam, but if the system grew large I would think it would be very infrequent. With enough people it would almost always be the case that someone else would have gotten that spam first. My guess is this might be very good to perfect at not producing false positives, while still being pretty good at stopping spam. And the real problem with spam filters is that you don't want false positives (you don't want even one in a hundred real messages deleted before you see it.)