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06:28PM Friday May 15 2009 by Karl Bode
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It's the weekend, so take off your shoes, put up your feet, fire up your Hayes-compatible 300 baud modem, set course for the closest Wildcat! BBS and let's play a game of Trade Wars (nerdy snort).

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GOLFnSUN
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An excuse you can use not to go in to work Monday



A new excuse to become a telecommuter.
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That "oh shit" moment.

Wildfire above Santa Barbara.

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

could say the same for this.

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

oh no, it's mine moment....... and his, jesus;... what the hell was i thinking....

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Took care of that possibility... Snip, Snip

Great weekend everyone.

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That's pretty funny.

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What is wrong wtih pregnancy?

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

said by wallster :

What is wrong wtih pregnancy?
Babys whining and plus you have to lock your computers up when they grow older.

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

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said by yolarry See Profile :

said by wallster :

What is wrong wtih pregnancy?
Babys whining and plus you have to lock your computers up when they grow older.

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A potential offspring Vs. an all encompassing wildfire?

I'll take a trip to the hospital 9 months from now any time....

Besides, at least you got laid making the kid. The wild fire just sucks a bag of limp dicks....
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Another one:
»news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090511/od_···ke_odd_1


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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

LOL

Uhh... no thanks, I'll pee in the Tub

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God I hate snakes. This is crazy.

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Hey, it's my supervisor!!!!!
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That happened to my grandam once, she flushed it.
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My former father in law had a similar experience with a sewer rat coming up in the bowl, while he was sitting on it. It was hilarious to the rest of us.

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I think this qualifies...

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

Yeah, I think that wins.

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So does this....

»www.cclausen.net/ebv_videos/ship···sion.swf

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

Ok Everyone... I need you to move to the back of the Bus....

Very, Very slowly....


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I'm not a boat captain or anything, but it seems to me there should be no excuse for that on calm seas in broad daylight with great visibility.
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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

said by xpkranger See Profile :

I'm not a boat captain or anything, but it seems to me there should be no excuse for that on calm seas in broad daylight with great visibility.
Not sure but that could be part of the Houston ship channel in Galveston Bay. Very close maneuvering there and the ships actually head for each other and steer away at the last moment to prevent the ships getting sucked into each other from the venturi effect.

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

Too close for me...

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I'll see your ship collision and raise you a tugboat flipping under a bridge. (Pic links to full series of frames.)



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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

That's AMAZING LOL....

I'll call your tugboat flip and resurface with this nice little train video:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-kZONm3E6A

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Yeowch! That is a MAJOR fender-bender (or hull bender!) I can't believe that with all that space on the ocean, they still managed to hit each other..

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Re: That "oh shit" moment.

Ship collisions are like accidents in slow motion. Ships can't turn very fast. Usually the mistake that puts them on a collision course happens well before the actual collision, and then by the time the error is apparent, it's too late.

In this case, there was enough time for a crewman to get his camera and get on the bridge (wing) to snap some photos of what was about to happen. Not that it makes it any better. Someone failed to yield right-of-way, obviously and then it was all she wrote.... kinda lucky the damage wasn't worse....
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For you snuggie fans

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Re: For you snuggie fans

My grandma brought one. I haven't called her yet to see how well it works.

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Weed Whackers

As a kid, I always loved weed whackers. I think because of just the nature of the beast; you whack weeds. Growing up, my dad had electric ones. They sort of got the job done, at least good enough.

As a recent first homeowner, I had the pleasure of buying my first weed whacker to well, err, whack weeds this weekned. I bought a gas powered Ryobi. Man that sucker is powerful, compared to the electric ones. I feel like if I turn it upright and goose the gas, I might achieve flight.
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Re: Weed Whackers

Get the circular saw blade attachment for it - 9".

See what happens when you have it wide open and touch a small tree.
Bye bye tree!
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Re: Weed Whackers

said by dadkins See Profile :

Get the circular saw blade attachment for it - 9".

See what happens when you have it wide open and touch a small tree.
Bye bye tree!
haha, I can imagine. I bought the hedge trimmer attachment with it, only out of sheer necessity, as a rose bush has overgrown the door to my shed. None the less, after my evening with this thing tonight, I stand in awe of it's power and will probably pickup every attachment for it.
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Re: Weed Whackers

said by Jeffrey See Profile :

said by dadkins See Profile :

Get the circular saw blade attachment for it - 9".

See what happens when you have it wide open and touch a small tree.
Bye bye tree!
haha, I can imagine. I bought the hedge trimmer attachment with it, only out of sheer necessity, as a rose bush has overgrown the door to my shed. None the less, after my evening with this thing tonight, I stand in awe of it's power and will probably pickup every attachment for it.
Soon everything will be trimmed down to a nub! It happens.
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Insert obligatory Tim Allen segment:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=aifppWWc···index=35

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said by N10Cities See Profile :

Insert obligatory Tim Allen segment:

(youtube clip)
Im guilty of using the gas leaf blower for everything. The laundry part is me also.
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Be careful with that blade. You catch the ground or something and the weed whacker will fly out to one side. Not pretty if you bury the blade in the leg of your friend who was standing next to you....
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Be a man and get a manual one - ours was called a Wing-Wham. Dad caught my brother just over the eye when the brother was not paying attention.

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You're in class B airspace.

Be sure to get clearance from air traffic control and have a working mode c transponder before entering....
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Hmmm....I gonna something like that. Will it trim edges?
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said by Boricua65 See Profile :

Hmmm....I gonna something like that. Will it trim edges?
There is an edge trimmer attachment for it, but I didn't get that yet.

Unit:
»www.ryobitools.com/catalog/4cycl···RY34440#

Attachments:
»www.ryobitools.com/catalog/outdo···achments
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weee

haha that snake in the toilet will bite your nuts off LOL!!! I just thought of that.

WOOOOOOOOT weekend baby. Weekend = sleep + sleep + sleep + xbox 360 forza
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Re: weee

360 Forza is FTW!!!!

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Rambus wins....

Bah and humbug!

»tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090514/···us_ftc_5

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Re: Rambus wins....

Wait? Who cares about Rambus? Are they still trying to push RDRAM or have they moved on to selling high speed horses to the airlines?
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Re: Rambus wins....

Rambus would be dead already if not for an extremely dirty trick they pulled.

Namely, they joined JEDIC, which among other things, drafts open inter-operability and compatibility standards for many electronic devices, but in this particular case we're talking memory, RAM, memory controllers. They participated in JEDIC while standards for SDRAM and the foundations of DDR were being laid.... However RAMBUS didn't want to conform to JEDIC's open standards rules on patents and so on and withdrew.

They then filed for and were granted all kinds of patents on memory etc., including on the upcoming standards of SDRAM and DDR-RAM. Then they waited... You can see where this is going. Once SDRAM and DDR were firmly established, in the marketplace and in PC's and other devices, RAMBUS filed lawsuits against pretty much everyone who makes memory claiming they owned the patents to the standards. Many companies folded and just paid the extortion, others fought in court, it's dragged out for years but basically, in the end, RAMBUS wins, and all memory now in common usage is paying RAMBUS "royalties" for their licenses of memory standards that were supposed to be open and free but instead RAMBUS patented. Since RAMBUS produces nothing, they basically are just a patent/IP holder and yet they get to make millions off consumers in bogus royalties.

This final victory is the FTC giving up after losing on appeal. So RAMBUS got away with it.
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Re: Rambus wins....

Yes but that's not nearly as funny as rambus trying to market their slow-expensive RDRAM as the future back in the day. AMD might even owe a good deal of thanks to rambus for fooling Intel into buying into it and giving them their squandered 15 minutes of processor fame.
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Wolfram|Alpha launches computational knowledge engine

Wolfram|Alpha launches computational knowledge engine at 8PM EDT Friday. »www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_Tmd8z···embedded


Not quite a search engine, but more of a souped up answer machine plus database plus calculator. »tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090515···hagoogle

Live broadcast, if you can get connected to the overloaded server: »www.wolfram.com/broadcast/wolframalpha/

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Re: Wolfram|Alpha launches computational knowledge engine

said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

Wolfram|Alpha launches computational knowledge engine at 8PM EDT Friday.
Live broadcast, if you can get connected to the overloaded server: »www.wolfram.com/broadcast/wolframalpha/
Problems with the launch. But you can try out the new engine by uing this link for the time being:

»www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&a···l=Submit

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Re: Wolfram|Alpha launches computational knowledge engine

I was giving that a little run through this AM. I like it. It doesn't replace Google (and from what I read it's not supposed to), but it does bring up more pointed information in a quicker period of time compared to that of a Google search. It's just different, and brings up different info. Definitely something I'll come back to using.

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said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

Problems with the launch. But you can try out the new engine by uing this link for the time being:
haven't been able to get it to work in ff 3 with abp. not sure if its just an overloaded engine or what (if its being slashdotted, etc).
really excited that wolfram put something like this together. i'm a pretty big mathematica user (i find it a little more powerful and refined than something like maple) and i love most of their software. really impressed with the 7.0 release of mathematica and it runs on my esxi box in ubuntu server right next to matlab r2009a (with all toolboxes installed, of course).
two pretty powerful pieces of software right there.

q.

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Oh Shit moment

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Re: Oh Shit moment

Love that vid!

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Dem ex-congresscritter & head of CIA calls Pelosi a liar

»www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co···=topnews
CIA Director Leon Panetta today rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge that the agency misled her in 2002 about its use of waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods on suspected terrorists.

Panetta, who took office as President Obama's CIA chief in February, reasserted the agency's claim that it told congressional leaders about the use of such methods during a closed-door briefing in September 2002.

Panetta, a former Democratic congressman from California, urged CIA employees not to be distracted by the controversy. "Ignore the noise and stay focused on your mission," he said.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ilFhWMDzcE

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Fun site with hundreds of links

Fun site with hundreds of links for games, music, etc.

»upchucky.com/Home.html

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Solar Realms Elite ftw. Barren Realms Too.

I still think I have my registration codes for those somewhere.....

... too bad they lost the source code.

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great dancers

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I like when the kid in the red shirt falls down at 2:23 and keeps on going.
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Re: great dancers

1 of them will probably major in drama..... future Broadway actor....
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Mothers to be... PLEASE don't neglect prenatal care.

The effects of gingivitis last a lifetime.

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Awesome

1. People move into my parents nice neighborhood about 2 years ago and the man's bitchy wife and their waste of life son deal drugs out of their house.
2. All sorts of wonderful people begin visiting for 3 minutes at a time multiple times a day for about 6 months.
3. Cops eventually figure it out come and arrest the son, bitchy mother who has worked in the background pawns it all off on him, son goes to jail.
4. Fast forward a year, son is out of jail, wonderful people begin visiting again.
5. Fast forward to 3 nights ago and nightly drive-by's of that house begin. Dumbass father lies to cops about who's house is actually the target because bitchy wife and son are again dealing drugs but apparently pissed off the wrong person.

About the only good thing about this is listening to the cop snickering as his lame story. Clearly they aren't shooting at your house since the only bullet holes they can find are in your house. Clearly these must be some sort of cross eyed gangsters.
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My W/E started on Friday

Got a sore throat Thursday night and body was aching Friday morning

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said by Cheese See Profile :

Got a sore throat Thursday night and body was aching Friday morning
Swine flu??

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Re: My W/E started on Friday

said by GOLFnSUN See Profile :

said by Cheese See Profile :

Got a sore throat Thursday night and body was aching Friday morning
Swine flu??
No idea! Was thinking that! Feeling a bit better today though, not as achy, but then again, I did take some nyquil last night

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said by Cheese See Profile :

Got a sore throat Thursday night and body was aching Friday morning
Swine flu??
OMG!! We had best better quarantine this entire thread!!

do you hope you feel better

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New Car Time

Went shopping for a new car yesterday and today for the GF. There are SMOKING deals to be had and great financing rates if you have good credit.

American Honda came back with 7% on a 36-month lease (and yes, I know the pros and cons and a lease made the most sense for us right now) as their initial offer. I expected it to be 10% or so and I would haggle them from there. We wound up getting the car for $500 over dealer invoice (Hey, I know the car dealerships have to make money too.) and American Honda Finance eventually matched the rate we would have gotten from our credit union.

This was our first new Honda and I had a wonderful experience. Much different than the other pushy dealerships I've dealt with. I'll definitely consider another Honda or Acura when it's time to get rid of our other car.

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Saw this unmanned tank in Popular Science mag

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcenWPzsUU


This sucker can go 60 MPH in rough terrain and is being tested by the Dept of Defense.
»www.howeandhowe.com/whats_new.html
»www.howeandhowe.com/popular_science.html

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Re: Saw this unmanned tank in Popular Science mag

Lot of potential there....

Wonder how it handles Anti-tank mines and IED's however....

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iHas iPhone.

That's right. This week, i will be taking delivery, of teh iFone. The wifey & i finally got family plan which will save us money vs 2 individual plans.

She is getting a new one next monday or the monday after that, while i am getting a refurb tomorrow. The refurbs are cheaper, and we got it for free because of a huge mistake they made on her acct when combining them together. They also because of the error gave us 4000 rollover minutes.

Not at liberty to say on public internet forum what the error was exactly, lets just say we were not happy at all for about the 6 hours between first call & second call.

Will post again when take delivery some time between tuesday and thursday.

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That's a pretty cool tank by the way, too bad we didn't have those in ww2. Less people in harms way = better. Preferably no war at all, but till that day, keep people exposed to risk to a minimum.

Can we make that technology work for automobiles too? I'd much rather see smart roads, because most drivers are not smart enough to obey common sense around where i live.

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So

Sunday is almost gone.

I know for sure Monday going to SUCK!
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