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I thought this was an interesting press event. The CEO of Mattel, Bob Eckert, would announce his favorite pick of the newly rolled out toys at Toy Fair. Seemed almost like being asked to pick a favorite child. How do you decide such a thing? A gut instinct? A favorite brand team? The size of the marketing budget?
I gave this some thought after we were told of the event yesterday (it happened today). Mind you, we don't have any budgets on the line when we pick our top winners of the year. Yet both Joanne and I have personal favorites – we quietly root for them as we send them off to our family testers. Even though we don't make or sell any of the toys we review, we do get very attached. Each year we have a few that truly stand out, but one? Almost impossible.
So what did I think Mr. Eckert would select? My money would have been on the harmonizing Singamajigs, the Dancing Mickey Mouse or the big Ape that flips –both had the most "sizzle" in the showroom. (Mickey also has Donny Osmond associated with him.) Or maybe the Barbie that is a video camera – she wins for having the most creatively placed use of technology in toyland (the camera is in her chest).
I was wrong. Mr. Eckert's personal favorite is their new preschool electronic toy called iXL. The hand-held toy promises to have six-in-one smart devices designed to both be educational and entertaining (including a Story Book, Game Player, Note book, Art Studio, Music Player and Photo Album). It will retail for $79.99/ licensed software sold separately for $24.99.
We'll be interested to see how our testers react to the iXL. It will be available in July. The thing with these types of toys – it's hard to tell from the prototypes how they're going to work in the hands of kids. Will the screen be engaging enough? Will the games be age appropriate? Can kids manipulate the toy independently and happily? If you give your child this $79 toy, will they leave your iPhone alone? These are the types of things we'll look at when reviewing the iXL.
Not to be cynical as to the driving force of his pick, but Mr. Eckert did mention in his release that "[they] have invested more research and development dollars into iXL than any other product in our 2010 Fisher-Price product line and it definitely shows."
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John Cena will lose the WWE title at Wrestlemania.
At least that's the scripted climax to tomorrow's main event, leaked by wrestling insiders long before the 'Mania lineup was ever announced.
Over the past few months, the plot unravelled exactly as predicted, with Cena being built as a strong champion for WWE golden boy Triple H to finally dethrone at the biggest pay-per-view of the year.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
The pot of gold at the end of the cultural rainbow...
And anyone who chooses to stand up for diversity, strong civic spirit, and multi-cultural harmony in the community.
When I originally included this mural in Problem Sleuth, I found it on the internet and thought it was particularly striking. I had no idea at the time that it was physically located about 15 minutes from where I lived, in Cambridge MA.
Naturally I had to go celebrate its existence as well as my physical proximity to it by standing in front of it. Intrepid fellow diversity enthusiast Tyler came along too, and here you see him somewhat nonplussed by the mischievous stowaway clinging to his hapless personage.
Prior to discovering the mural was local, I had wondered how to get information on the artist in order to give credit. Now that is possible. Let us all bask in the majesty of David Fitcher's painterly vision.
There is an amazing amount of these "cultural urban murals" in the Boston area. Fichter's work is apparently everywhere, including two striking works of genius less than a block from my residence. I'll take a photo of those too some time.
But there is a lot of lesser talent glomming on to otherwise respectable city surfaces as well. Mr. Galvez's heart is in the right place, I suppose.
Fichter's stuff may be a little thematically silly, but at least it's very well executed. Galvez's shit is just fucking pandemonium. The composition is an airy, rambling hodgepodge of disagreeable-looking horseshit. These grotesque harbingers of diversity at once frenzy to stoke my nightmares, or whatever you call the type of dream you'd like to shake by the collar and backhand repeatedly. Where do I start with this thing?
1) I've never seen a man employ a conductor's baton and rollerskates to assist him in his quest for spare change.
2) Affable street walkers hustle up a buck on the lemon-lime road. Any takers? How about the kid to the left with the broken foot and the overalls 20 sizes too big for him?
3) This Village People understudy wears on his face the one emotion, regardless of race or creed, with which we are all intimately familiar: profound shame.
3.5) Random-ass black woman: check.
4) "What should I do with all this empty, blood-red space in the background? How about I just sprinkle in a few malingering ragdoll dipshits?"
5) It was probably a perfectly nice old lady this was referenced from. The decision to use this *particular* photo of her, and make her a dominating 9-foot fixture in the mural: DUBIOUS. She's probably been dead for years. Her legacy: BOUNDLESS, SOUL-PUMICING TERROR.
6) Is this some sort of black trucker vampire? Is this child in danger? I might suspect so, but she looks so sinister herself that she's likely his netherworldly superior.
7) I don't... I don't even know.
8) Punk rockers are a culture too. Get him in there. It reminds us that despite appearances, deep down we are all alike: harrowingly one-dimensional.
9) Other cultures can at times be quite flamboyant! This man has passionate feelings in his bosom, and they must take the shape of rhythm come hell or high water. He'd sooner cut out his heart than cease wailing on his bongos. If someone snuck up behind him and pulled his hat down over his head, can you really say you'd have the maturity to not laugh at his expense? The answer is no.
10) Fanciful headwear on a black woman: check.
11) Is this a culture? What sort of culture is it? Caucasians who wear togas while playing jazz? Are we saying that embarrassingly drunk people comprise a culture unto themselves? Memo to this guy: you are fired from Diversity.
12) Disturbing encroachment on chubbykid moneyshot: check.
13) And these people? Perhaps this man is a poor caricature of Ray Romano? I am going to guess that this family is vaguely Mediterranean due to the bit of chest hair poking out from the man's shirt to the right. The hairy dude also seems to be rather oily. Is it really TOO much to ask that our murals celebrating racial diversity not be subtly racist too? Additionally -- the woman appears to be trying her best to not cause me physical harm with her facial expression. She is not succeeding.
Also to the upper right, it looks like camera glare has obscured the Indian family riding their fucking magic carpet, thus sparing you a joke about them. THIS TIME.
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I laughed at this. a lot.
- March 14, 2009 at 4:21 PM
- brian said...
Thanks for pointing out the light on the fact that the old lady is exceptionally creepy and one that you might find locked up in a cellar feeding off of children in her gingerbread house. made of children.horrifyingly meanacing
- March 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM
And now, thanks to the action of a certain Andrew Hussie, tourism in the area has recently increased by 1500%.
- March 14, 2009 at 4:33 PM
I was doing ok until I got to the black trucker vampire and that laughed to the point where I nearly lost oxygen.
Andrew, you realize you could use this power for world domination, yes?
- March 14, 2009 at 4:36 PM
- Outlaw said...
Haha, wow. A for effort I suppose but wow, I bet he was really proud of that too. The family in the upper right is pretty ridiculous.
- March 14, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- L G said...
Ah, the lucky Cambridge man.
Andrew, instead of forcing all your local fans to converge TWO HOURS away to meet you in profound awe, why don't we have a local get together? I wanted to go to the webcomic weekend, but
1. I have a competition that day,
2. I can't go to bars yet, and
Monroe from xkcd did this subtly a while ago, why don't you?
- March 14, 2009 at 5:14 PM
- The Unknown said...
This made my evening.
- March 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM
I started to cry when i saw number 5...
and regained grasp of life when I saw number 6...
You should totally do some of this on the next story your planning!
- March 14, 2009 at 5:36 PM
i like gold
- March 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM
- MrD said...
- March 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- Zilla said...
This post delivers hilarity, but I'm intrigued about the other murals sported throughout the story. Whence did they come? Do they also have stories behind them?
- March 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Andrew Hussie said...
"Andrew, instead of forcing all your local fans to converge TWO HOURS away to meet you in profound awe, why don't we have a local get together?"
I'm not much of an organizer of things, and am probably better suited to letting my satellite orbit about preexisting events.
I guess I could latch on to one of Mr. xkcd's hip gatherings. But his fans might get angry at me for breaking all of science's rules or something.
Also I think I heard the east coast PAX was going to be in Boston, so maybe I could flutter near that flame too.
I have some weird metaphors mixing here... satellites? moths??
- March 14, 2009 at 6:14 PM
i can offer you one (1) zoo smell in exchange for an event coordination
- March 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM
It's cool to hear the background story of Problem Sleuth. May I suggest you get some hardboiled voice actors and narrators and make a DVD? And then you do commentary?
- March 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM
- Loren said...
Now comes the part where you start a donation drive so that you can commission a mural from Galvez.
- March 14, 2009 at 7:10 PM
- Leo said...
- March 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM
- kolia said...
i did some of your paint adventures a while ago, ryan north mentioned them, i think. what caught my attention the most was what you wrote about his stalking story. what you write reads very well. it makes me laugh in a thinking way. not just at stuff. i just had to tell you.
- March 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM
- zackbass said...
Holy...I don't know how I didn't recognize that mural! I used to walk by there all the time on my way to Wendy's.
You've got a group of fans at MIT! You're welcome to come over and party any time.
- March 14, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Andrew Darling (its me again) I definitely woke up my sister from laughing so hard at this.
Have I mentioned I Love you?
Pure genius good sir, pure genius. The internets should be proud.
*i suppose i shall begin signing my many comments O_o*
- March 14, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- ENerd said...
Cliche to start off with but I'm a long time fan first time writer. Anyways, the description of the mural made me BWAH-HA-HA so loud I woke my roommate up. Good job dick.
- March 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Not to mention the fact that creepy lady is looking rather suspiciously at the kid held by the vampire. The kid has nowhere to run... AND NOWHERE TO HIDE!
He better build himself a fort and quick.
- March 15, 2009 at 1:15 AM
Andrew,your post is a dangerous thing to see after 3 days of binge drinking. Lold so hard no doubt it would kill a lesser man.
- March 15, 2009 at 1:35 AM
That was incredibly hilarious and often incredibly disturbing. Much like MS Paint Adventures, in fact.
- March 15, 2009 at 5:28 AM
Damn it! You are WAAAAY too funny NOT to be on TV! (AH: Go on TV,NOW!)
- March 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM
The two kids instantly made me think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQnPgSrgC9U
- March 15, 2009 at 8:27 AM
- Travis said...
Ah ha ha!
Your take on that mural was absolutely hilarious! You win one hundred points of internet!
Plus this just makes me more excited for an upcoming MS paint adventures.
- March 15, 2009 at 9:22 AM
- zackbass said...
Also, PLEASE tell me this isn't coincidence: http://www.vimfitness.com/
I was walking by the place last week and thought: 'VIM? Fitness? No. That's impossible.'
- March 15, 2009 at 11:32 AM
- DMAC said...
Would "SOUL-PUMICING TERROR" abrade the tough, callused parts of your soul, leaving it soft and smooth?
- March 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Gabi said...
It's nice to know where the mural comes from. I've always thought it was great.
And I laughed a lot at the commentary of the other mural.
- March 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- Andrew Hussie said...
Vim Fitness, though I've never seen it before, must be one of Ace Dick's many legitimate establishments.
And yes, "soul-pumicing terror" is the sort of terror which abrades your soul down to its smooth, vulnerable core. And then the woman eats it.
- March 15, 2009 at 3:35 PM
- The Tallest Man said...
Memo to this guy: You are fired from diversity. I laughed for like ten minutes.
- March 15, 2009 at 5:15 PM
It's probably just me but the vampire trucker vaguely reminds me of Blade from the Blade movies.
- March 15, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- Dave said...
oh andrew hussie, you have the sort of name that makes me want to say your first and last names together.
Also, I had to chuckle quite a lot. This is rather painful with a hangover and for that I resent you.
but only a little bit
- March 15, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- Timailius said...
I know this mural. I fear this mural. I am familiar with this mural to a level that is painfully uncomfortable.
Every time I get stuck at that traffic light, the car comes to a halt directly in line with the frightening old woman who is long since deceased. She fills me with the kind of terror that one feels only in one's dreams...
That said, I have not laughed so hard in ages. Well done, sir.
- March 15, 2009 at 10:56 PM
- Behemoth said...
Good lord that old woman is creepy. She looks like an illustration of the Baba Yaga from a children's book.
I must have laughed at this for 10 minutes straight.
- March 15, 2009 at 11:27 PM
8 is a dude? Now I feel dirty.
- March 16, 2009 at 3:19 AM
- dan visel said...
I'm pretty sure the guy with the conductor's baton & roller skates was a fixture in Cambridge for a while? I know I ran into him in Harvard & Central Squares fairly regularly in the late 90s - at that point he was no longer on roller skates and I don't remember if he had a baton, but he did have the top hat & that vest. I feel like I used to know his name . . .
- March 16, 2009 at 6:18 AM
- Pierucci A. said...
>Now comes the part where you start
>a donation drive so that you can
>commission a mural from Galvez.
- March 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM
The only reason I didn't laugh more at this (and I did laugh a lot), was because I had to read on - just couldn't let go - and that kind of forced me to hold the laughter, because new hillarity was taking it's place. That resulted in me now sitting here chuckling silly(ly?) all the time... I think I have to read it again now... Thanks for being so damn funny all the time :)
- March 16, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- ben k said...
notice, if you will, how the bongo-playing man's right arm compares to his left. too may left-handed bongoes, i guess?
...come to think of it, the right arm looks like it belongs on an entirely different dude, or infant.
- March 16, 2009 at 9:01 PM
"zackbass said...
Also, PLEASE tell me this isn't coincidence: http://www.vimfitness.com/
I was walking by the place last week and thought: 'VIM? Fitness? No. That's impossible.'"
Well in that site's about section it describes vim as "energy, vitality, and spirit". Vim is a real word lol, so vimfitness is a perfect name for that company.
Pulchritude is even a real word.
physical beauty; comeliness.
- March 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Oh god... I laughed so hard I almost DIED. Thanks for being so awesome all the time.
- March 17, 2009 at 6:52 PM
- odinthecrab said...
This blog of yours needs more posts in it.
I thoroughly enjoy reading your material.
thoroughly. enjoy.
In other words, I cum in my pants from laughing.
- March 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Haha, funniest thing I have read in a long time. Seriously, of all of the people I know on the internet, Andrew Hussie, you sir are the most hilarious.
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Care in Ghana by Ginny Watsham
Volunteering had always been something I wanted to do and so when I heard about the Projects Abroad 2 Week Specials I decided to take the opportunity - and I am so glad I did.
At first I felt a bit apprehensive as I didn't know anyone else going and I had no idea what to expect. As soon as we landed in Ghana, however, I was put at ease. Everyone was so friendly and the trip was very well organised: us volunteers were never left alone wondering where to go.
Arriving in Ghana
We had a late flight, so stopped in Accra for the first night. The following morning we piled into a tro (a small minibus that is the most common method of transport in Ghana) and began the journey to the Akuapem Hills. We started experiencing life in Ghana right away, from the bumpy roads to the local's methods of selling food and water through the windows of the tro.
We met with our host family, all of whom were very welcoming and helpful, and it immediately became clear that we were going to have fun in the evenings playing with all the children who lived there. We visited the town of Koforidua for some lunch and a chance to get to know our surroundings. In the afternoon we got a first look at our work placements. My group was refurbishing a kindergarten, which desperately needed re-painting and brightening up. It was currently the school holidays for all the children, so it would hopefully be a nice surprise for their new school year.
That night I had my first bucket shower experience, one which I will never forget. I actually really enjoyed the showers and if we had the climate for them in England I would definitely build one in my garden! After dinner every evening we played with the kids. It was so impressive to see how they could create a game from nothing. Most of our time was spent playing clapping games or carrying the kids around the village. I was taken to church several times by one of the little girls and I would definitely recommend taking that opportunity if it was presented to you.
The project in Ghana
The following day we began work. On arriving at our placement we got straight into re-painting the indoor classrooms. There was a summer school nearby and every breaktime the kids would run over to us and watch us work. They called us "Obruni", meaning 'white person' and we quickly learnt to just smile and wave in response. We had two locals who helped us at our placement, Joe and Sam, and they played us the hot new tunes in Ghana - we all learnt the words pretty quickly. We spent every weekday morning at the Kindergarten.
By the end we had re-painted the entire inside and outside of the building, added some artwork inside and decorated the surrounding walls of the Kindergarten. Whilst we were working some passers-by would often shout words of encouragement and support and thank us for our work. It was so rewarding seeing that we were actually making a difference to people's lives, and it was very humbling seeing how grateful they were.
The afternoons were spent doing different activities. We often visited the Adom Day Care Centre, where we would spend a few hours playing with the children. The women in charge of the centre often arranged for games, such as 'Hokey-Cokey', 'Egg and Spoon Race' or 'Sack Race'. Sometimes we did artwork with kids and sometimes we just ran around after them. We also spent one afternoon at Mount Zion Orphanage, where a game of football was played. This was great fun and the children at the orphanage were clearly enjoyed themselves just as much as the volunteers.
Free time after work
We also visited a bead market in Koforidua and a wood market in Aburi. These provided opportunities to haggle over prices with the stall owners, who were all very friendly and keen to make friends with us. Every Wednesday was quiz night, which was spent with all the volunteers in the Hills. We first took part in an informal quiz, written by last week's losing team, and then went out for a meal.
5 of these volunteers were staying at the same host family as me, and it really great spending time with them as well as the other 2 weekers. They showed us the ropes from day one and constantly gave us helpful advice, for example which flavour of Fan Ice to choose - vanilla of course!
The weekend trip
Over the weekend we made the 5 hour journey to Cape Coast, where we met with the volunteers working there. We visited the Slave Fort and the Kakum National Park as well as having a cultural display of dancing and drumming. The weekend was a nice break and we even stayed overnight in hotel - which meant running water and electricity! We all took the opportunity to have a proper shower and then spent the night chatting, when we probably should have been catching up on sleep following our very early start.
The time flew by and suddenly we had to say goodbye. We had been told on arrival that no one ever wanted to leave Ghana and it was certainly true. I felt very sad to be leaving behind such an amazing country and wonderful people. It was so inspiring seeing the children and adults appreciating each and every moment of their lives, regardless of the circumstances.
To quote one of the songs we learnt - they certainly did "love their lives". I made friends for life during my 2 weeks and plan to return next summer. I think England could learn a lot from Ghana, and I have definitely changed since returning. I cannot express how glad I am I took the opportunity to go, and I will never forget those 2 weeks of my life.
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Chicago's River North neighborhood was once filled with factories and warehouses. Today, it's studded with art-deco buildings and one of the country's largest clusters of art galleries—second only to Manhattan. Among the area's most iconic landmarks is Marina City, a pair of cylindrical high-rises that look like corncobs. They've been featured in The Blues Brothers, The Dark Knight, and the album cover of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The stylish Hotel Sax is part of the one-block Marina City complex and sits within walking distance of famous steak houses, live music at the House of Blues, and designer clothing stores on the Magnificent Mile.
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I just recently acquired a Compac Presario C700 that has no working hard drive, and about the same time I had to turn of my internet and use the apartment one, to save some money. I knew the laptop had an atheros wireless, which has in the past caused problems, but when I stuck Puppy 4.3.1. on a dvd in, everything has just worked ever since. Found an old 2g USB stick that still works, reformatted it to superdisk, and now I have the laptop booting from the USB.
This has let me use a free computer to access free internet (well, I DO pay rent,) with a free OS. Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and just when I needed it most.
Fan for life.
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Posts: 65
Posted: Tue 25 May 2010, 06:07
Post subject: Compaq Presario 14XL250
This thread is a great idea. At your
you can add my Compaq Presario 14XL250, bought in year 2000. It has a Celeron 600MHz chip, 184M RAM + 8 RAM for the Video (64 original + 128 added), Trident Cyberblade video card, Chipset VIA PLE133.
On the internet it is possible to find some
and some general
with Linux, especially for avoiding problems with the monitor, that must be configured manually: vga=792, SVGA 1024x768 @ 70 Hz ; 50-70 Hz.
In other words, at boot when getting the Puppy Video Wizard screen choose Xorg, then at "monitor type" choose option C (h31.5-48-5v50-70 LCD Panel 1024x768) and then at "select video mode" choose either 1024x768x16 or 1024x768x24. Easy!
All Puppy OS installed so far (latest kernel of series 2.x, 3.x and 4.x) where almost perfect, but with some unsolved problems: the usage of the
plug and the
installation of packages
... and sometimes
installed packages do not work
could not boot LuPu 5.0.0
, but things might have improved with LuPu 5.0.1
One last thing: for turning it off and
shut down
it is necessary to add acpi=force at bootload grub string
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Posts: 293
Location: Rittman,Ohio,USA, In dog years,I'm dead
Posted: Thu 22 Jul 2010, 22:44
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Subject description: Compaq Armada 1700
Compaq Armada 1700 running 4.3.1 here. Frugal install on 2nd partition dual-boot with w2k. Seems to work fine-it is a PII with 160mb ram. I wrote a post about it here
I wonder if one of the earlier versions would run better. I mainly just use Opera for most things imap mail/browser/rss/newsgroups although I have installed firefox 3.6, thunderbird and did upgrade seamonkey. Will the latest opera 10.6 run on the older puppies?
Dell D610 1.7M w/1024mb
Testing Slacko and a few others
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Posts: 8
Location: New Zealand
Posted: Fri 23 Jul 2010, 03:41
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I recently picked up a very cheap Toshiba 3490ct, it probably dates from about 2005. I now have a happy turbopup xtreme running on it with pcmcia wireless. My two biggest hurdles were not having a CD drive (it's too small) and not being able to boot from USB (it's too old). My solution was to pull out the hard drive, put it into a usb enclosure and do a hard install via another computer. Once I had one install (plus Grub) I reinstalled and it booted up first go. With usb up and running I've been able to load lots of different pups to try them out by dropping in the Initrd and Vmlinuz files and pointign grub to them. (I even tried kubuntu but it was asking too much of 128mb ram). My final choice is Turbopup xtreme which goes as well as I need to do text editing and surf the web. Everything I've tried seems to work straight out of the box.
Just for the record I almost threw out my ASUS wireless card because it only loaded when it felt like it and would drop my connection after an hour even when it did go then I saw a post here about using "pci=noacpi" (I'd already got "acpi=force" to get make the lappie poweroff with shutdown) and with that configuration it's loaded and held every time ever since. I'd love to say that was my skill but really I just tried it and got lucky.
BTW thanks to all the smart folks here, for me Puppy isn't an ideological alternative, it's the practical solution for resurrecting functional hardware that other software has left behind.
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Posts: 95
Location: arlington texas
Posted: Sun 25 Jul 2010, 05:08
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hi all,
Toshiba satellite 2535cds running pup214.xrc5
p1@300 mhz mmx
96 megs ram(32+64)
60 gig hd
cd rom/1-1.1 usb/floppy
tried many many distros and only puppy runs otb on this oldie
tried over 20 puppy's on it and tuxxx's classic 214 runs awesome
some of the 4.0 based ones worked ok but they always had sound issues
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Posts: 95
Location: arlington texas
Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 22:50
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Woot scored a hell of a deal at a local thrift store
dell latitude d600
p3@750 mhz
384 ram(will prolly up this to 512 when i can)
10 gig hd-swaping in the 60 from my Toshiba satellite 2535cds
cdrom/1-2.0 usb
came with a dell usb wifi 1450 adapter-a/b/g
battery seems to run about a 1 hr running a video
just finished installing 5.1 runs great
it also has an s-vid out im a try to mess with
all for $45.00 usd
(plus grabbed an external usb cd drive for 5 bucks more can always use 1 of them)
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Posted: Thu 05 Aug 2010, 02:42
Post subject: Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500
Subject description: Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2ghz
Quriky 1.2 on a broken Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2Ghx
2 Gig Ram
160 Gig HD
Full Install
(Originally VISTA Basic)
The CPU fan is dead since someone dropped this machine before I inherited it. So I have to run it full time on a laptop fan stand thingy. After unzipping a big file or playing multimedia I get a temperature warning...
So I then move the fan directly under the CPU. The result is off balance so I MUST use a very cold, large Bintang Beer as a counterweight.
Works Perfectly!
Moral support in the background is Oke and she says "Hi"
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Posts: 11775
Location: Brussels IBM Thinkpad R40, 256MB, 20GB, WiFi ipw2100. Frugal Lin'N'Win
Posted: Thu 05 Aug 2010, 08:24
Post subject: Re: Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500
Subject description: Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2ghz
stalane wrote:
Quriky 1.2 on a broken Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2Ghx
2 Gig Ram
160 Gig HD
Full Install
(Originally VISTA Basic)
The CPU fan is dead since someone dropped this machine before I inherited it. So I have to run it full time on a laptop fan stand thingy. After unzipping a big file or playing multimedia I get a temperature warning...
So I then move the fan directly under the CPU. The result is off balance so I MUST use a very cold, large Bintang Beer as a counterweight.
Works Perfectly!
Moral support in the background is Oke and she says "Hi"
When embedding pictures they should only be 600 wide.
People with small monitors have to side scroll to see the posts.
Could you re-size your picture to max 600 wide and edit your post to use this re-sized picture.
Thank you.
Time savers:
Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
Consult Wikka
Use peppyy's
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Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 76
Location: California
Posted: Thu 05 Aug 2010, 09:45
Post subject:
davesurrey wrote:
1. Advent 9315 (also known as Advent [b]3.
Asus eee 701 netbook.
upgraded to 2GB ram
Tried everything but best was Puppy Dingo Plus .
Not used any more.
I still use mine. I take my eepc with puppy 431 with me when
I travel.
I use the eepc to (slowly) bring up open office and edit documents etc.
I have 2 Keyspan USB to RS-232 converters that work just fine with it letting me do RS-232 serial with something that almost fits in my pocket.
I have a nearly identical system on an IBM Thinkpad. On the thinkpad, I made a small partition and did a full install into it. grub gives me the choice of using the puppy-431 or suffering through the XP it cam with.
Not a laptop but: I also have the same system set up on my home desk top. That is what I am using now. All three machines look the same to me. No relearning when I change machines.
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Posts: 36
Location: Idaho, USA
Posted: Thu 05 Aug 2010, 19:22
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I'm running a full disk install of Puppy 5.01 (upgraded recently from 4.31) on an HP 500 Omnibook.
The laptop has a 750Mhz P3, 512M of ram and a 20 Gb hard drive.
I am connected to the internet via the onboard wireless and surfing is fine with Opera. Videos are jerky with the other browsers.
I have 3 other Linux distros on other machines, but I prefer to use this Puppy powered dinosaur.
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Joined: 06 Aug 2010
Posts: 1
Posted: Fri 06 Aug 2010, 21:50
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I'm running Lucid in a nearly dead Compaq Presario 2500; 256 M ram and a 80G HD thats died. Bought it 2003 and have fought it ever since.
Running the onboard 10/100 nic and have had no problems running Firefox or Puppy's browser.
So far everything in Lucid is working well and I would sing its praises to the world!
Having said that, can I have a newer laptop for Christmas, pleeeeeze?
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Posts: 1
Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 10:19
Post subject: Puppy on laptop
I'm running pup501 from a USB stick
on an ACER Aspire 1642WLMi that has windows xp(he) and pclinuxos .
I had a bit of trouble gating the WIFI to work,
but it now works as you can see javascript:emoticon('
regards all Egg
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Posts: 1576
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 13:17
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Latest work: KDPup lite from forum member dejan555, booting from a livecd and using an external usb flash drive that has a save file and needed sfs files.
No internal hard drive at all.
HP Pavilion N5470.
Took wireless card out of another laptop and put it in here...that was fun (not!).
Sound card needs to be started every time, so wrote a script that does it at startup...here it is for future reference:
/etc/init.d/alsa stop
modprobe snd-maestro3
/etc/init.d/alsa start
If the version of Puppy you are using doesn't have /root/Startup/ and you want to run something at startup put it in /etc/init.d/ folder.
Won't power off: just had to apply
because this version of puppy wouldn't turn off, just shut down system but not turn off. This fixed that.
Also, using the livecd per this version would always ask me to take out the livecd and hit enter. I asked dejan what to do and he sayed to comment out this part of /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown and now it doesn't ask me that anymore:
# eject all
if [ "$DETECTEDCDS" ]; then
echo -n "Ejecting CD's..." >/dev/console
for ONEDRV in $DETECTEDCDS; do
if eject /dev/$ONEDRV ;then
echo -n "Remove the medium, then press [Enter]: " >/dev/console
read REP
eject -t /dev/$ONEDRV
#the end#
Other than an occasionally twitchy mouse-finger pad, this laptop looks and runs great.
4769 Time(s)
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Posted: Sun 22 Aug 2010, 13:48
Post subject: I've Ubuntu somewhere but I prefer Puppy Linux; shhhh
Subject description: I'm actually running PL 431 from a no-hdd VAIO (VGN-AR250G0) with...
...a live cd. Thanks to the fact it has 528MB of RAM it runs very ok.
Before having this notebook I was using an old laptop (eBuddy from Earthwalk with just 128MB of RAM with a frugal PL 421 installation & it was behaving very well, too).
Now, I don't know if this's the right place to put this but I'm having a new problem with PL 431. I wanted & tried to install it in an SD Card (128MB - TransFlash) in order to stop booting up with the live cd all the time &, more important than that, to make some configurations persistent: i.e. Bookmarks, Internet Connections Configuratrions, some docs, etc..
As far as I can tell all the necessary files are installed but this notebook refuses to boot, it does the same thing with a DSL in a flash drive that's working in other machines (eBuddy). I already checked that the BIOS is configurable to permit a usb boot. I've a little interface from Motorola to put in the SD Card & connect to a computer via a usb port: tried that to with the same result (I mean to boot via usb & not to install when it's in the said interface).
I noticed that the PET installer gives some alternatives but I think I exhausted the relevant ones except for the least recommended one because I'm digging for some extra info before I do commit myself with the last alternative.
Keep developing one of the best OS available to all in the space required by WIN98 twelve years ago: REMARKABLE!
Note: People that I tell this & other things concerning Puppy Linux make me promise to show them because they don't beleive it.
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L'Impressionnisme et la mode
Paris at the end of the 19th century: photography is still taking its first steps, and for the first time artists are documenting the daily life of the bourgeoisie and the working class and the transformations induced by the intrusion of modernity.
The Impressionists found their way, paintbrushes in hand, to the café terraces, the Haussmann apartments and parks of Paris, devoted to capturing citizens in their natural environment. The paintings of Degas, Monet, Caillebotte and Pissarro turned out to be some of the liveliest portraits of the era's fashions, teetering between the rural countryside and the upcoming urbanisation. This exhibition offers an excellent platform for the Musée d'Orsay to show the works of artists that had an exceptional talent for recording the fashions, habits and preoccupations of the period.
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MAPLE PARK – Ginna Frantz was in her mid-50s when she decided to leave a successful career in public relations and go after her childhood dream. That was about 10 years ago.
She recalled that when she was 8 years old, she thought "someday I'd be a great horse lady." She decided to make that a reality.
"All my friends said, 'Are you crazy? Why don't you just take it easy and stop pushing yourself?' " she said. "But what am I going to do?"
Frantz, now 65 years old, is living that dream. Those entering Grand Prix Equestrian, off Welter Road in Maple Park, are treated to a welcoming clubhouse with a view of an indoor arena in which horses are trained to excel, with help from Kim and Yvonne Barteau, who make this the home of KYB Dressage.
Walk down a hallway decorated with photos and ribbons from competitions from all over the world, and you'll encounter the prized horses that call the barn home. And eventually, you'll meet a potential Olympian named GP Raymeister, a dark bay Holsteiner stallion. Raymeister stands calmly, and those who work with him every day said he truly has a star quality about him.
"He is a celebrity," Yvonne Barteau said. "He is the Brad Pitt of our barn. And he's beautiful. He is movie-star handsome."
"And he is sweet," Frantz said. "He's a stallion and incredibly athletic, but he's so dear."
The ability to house such a highly regarded competitor is a big part of what Frantz has accomplished in Maple Park. Her career switch was more than a new path. She has put together a dressage barn that has excelled at the highest levels. For five consecutive years, she has been the top point-getter in United States Equestrian Federation events among dressage owners. And she was in second in 2006. But she said her endeavor is about more than that. With the Barteaus, she is able to offer elite training, but she said that those who are just starting can find instruction there, too. Farm manager Jessica Lawton said, "We teach everyone under the sun."
And there is plenty for spectators to take in, as well. KYB Dressage and Grand Prix Equestrian will stage a production, "The Spirit of the Horse," at 7 p.m. Dec. 14 and 5 p.m. Dec. 16 at 45W015 Welter Road. Tickets range from $10 to $25.
Yvonne Barteau said it's an opportunity for people to get a glimpse of just what goes on there.
"A lot of people would see this place and be a little bit daunted or say, 'What goes on here? A bunch of snobby dressage riders?' " she said. "It's a good chance for us to have fun, and they can see these horses, and a lot of them are top competition horses. And you dress them up in a nice costume and put fun music on, and all of the sudden it's a whole different atmosphere. And people love it. And they have a chance to see something they wouldn't see normally."
And for those who might think that such a dream is out of reach, perhaps it's just a matter of people coming together at the right time. The Barteaus met in Orlando, when they were working at a dinner theater. But the pressure of performing was a strain on their family, so they moved to Illinois, to Gilberts, to pursue a future as trainers. Frantz's journey led her there, where Yvonne Barteau was her trainer. They had built up a relationship that was growing.
"I was taking lessons with Yvonne, and she said, 'What are your plans?' I said eventually I would like to have my own facility," Frantz said. "She said, when you go, we want to go with you. … That was one of the highlights of my life."
Frantz said she went home, excited to tell her husband, sculptor Jeffrey Breslow, the news. She had found the top trainers that she said would be necessary to try something like Grand Prix Equestrian, which she called "the magical moment when it all came together."
Frantz said she bought the property in 2004. She began a lengthy renovation of what she said was a small barn that has become a huge operation. And soon after, the accolades started coming in.
Frantz and the Barteaus are devoted to dressage, which Yvonne Barteau said is "like ballet and gymnastics on horseback."
It is an equestrian sport. The U.S. Equestrian Foundation says "dressage teaches a horse to be obedient, willing, supple and responsive" and it "requires the horse and rider to combine the strength and agility of gymnastics with the elegance and beauty of ballet." It is a competition, and judges measure performances.
How far it is taken is up to the participant, Yvonne Barteau said.
"You might want to just ride around safely and not fall in the dirt," she said. "And that's OK, too."
But there is a chance for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and that will be pursued with Raymeister. Yvonne Barteau said that is what she wants to do, but it is a journey that must be taken.
"As Yvonne has often said, he doesn't have to learn anything more," Frantz said. "This is it. He just has to make it better and better."
But Yvonne Barteau said that making the Olympics isn't required for her to consider all she has accomplished to be a success.
"I'm so blessed," she said. "I get up in the morning, and I do exactly what I love to do. How many people really have that? Most of my best friends are horses. I'm lucky. Every single day, I'm lucky."
Spirit of the Horse
Grand Prix Equestrian will host an event, "The Spirit of the Horse," at 7 p.m. Dec. 14 and 5 p.m. Dec. 16 at 45W015 Welter Road. Tickets range from $10 to $25.


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Imperial Centre Information Stall
11 Jul 2017
Busways are hosting an information stall at the Imperial Centre on Thursday, 14th September 2017.
The stall will be located outside of the Millers on Level 2; staff will be able to answer any questions you have regarding the bus network as well as any other general enquiries that you may have. Staff on hand will also be available to provide you with up-to-date timetables, demonstrations on how to read your timetable and what ticketing options are best suited to you.
We look forward to seeing you there!


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UNCG has more than 45 exchange partners. The International Program Center offers one-semester or full-year exchange programs in over 30 countries. Study abroad opportunities are available at all levels and in all disciplines.
Click HERE* for a full list of our current partners. (*PDF)
To review recruitment information and the exchange application, please click HERE.For additional information regarding UNCG, click HERE.


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This product has many quotes/sayings, see options below and let us know which you want printed on this product or supply your own custom.
Listing Includes
1. shadow box (as shown)
2. bottle opener (as shown)
3. hardware to mount box on wall (if desired)
Personalized bottle cap shadow box with free stainless steel bottle opener. Bottle opener attached to box with magnets embedded into the wood. Easy to remove never loose your bottle opener again! This collection can be personalized with your name, initial, and a quote or saying. We have 46 beer quotes and saying to choose from (see complete list below) or you can provide your own at checkout. Unless otherwise requested, the shadow box and opener will have the same design. Customization is painted in full color (this is not a sticker or vinyl adhesive) and is permanently painted on the window and stainless steel.
These make perfect groomsmen, Christmas, or birthday gifts.
We also can do custom designs using your own logo, graphic, etc. from sports teams, bars, corporate events, etc. in full color.
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2. Im in my hoppy place.
3. Shhh Yep, I hear a beer calling me.
4. This home runs on love, laughter, and bottles of really cold beer.
5. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
6. Drink good beer with good friends.
7. Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
8. Its a lot easier to start the day when you know youll end with beer.
9. Coffee keeps me going until its acceptable to drink beer.
10. Beer. It makes you see double see double and feel single.
11. I got 99 problems and beer solves all of em.
12. You know something bad is about to happen when someone says, Hold my beer and watch this.
13. Friends bring happiness into your life. Best friends bring beer.
14. Everyone needs something to believe in I believe Ill have another beer.
15. Save Water. Drink Beer.
16. There is no strong beer. Only weak men.
17. Happiness is the first sip of beer.
18. Its all fun and games until the beer runs out.
19. Beer will change the world. I dont know how, but it will.
20. The problem with the world is everyone is a few drinks behind.
21. There will be no working during drinking hours.
22. A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it is better to be thoroughly sure.
23. Without beer, life would be a mistake.
24. Beer doesnt ask silly questions. Beer understands.
25. Life and beer are very similar. Chill for the best results.
26. Free beer to anyone who brings me some.
27. Alcohol is the liquid version of Photoshop.
28. Love makes the world go round beer makes it go around twice as fast.
29. Drink beer like its your day job.
30. The best beers are the ones we drink with friends.
31. In Dog Beers, Ive only had one.
32. Avoid Hangovers; Stay Drunk
33. There are two types of people in this world; people you want to drink with and people who make you want to drink.
34. I just rescued some beer. It was trapped in a bottle.
35. God is great. Beer is good. People are crazy.
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37. To travel is to find delicious local beers.
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44. Heaven is beer and fishing.
45. Beer makes the heart grow fonder.
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Revision as of 18:02, 26 January 2006
So, I moved this from Twin Cities (Minnesota), because I thought Twin Cities was unambiguous. If someone can think of another Twin Cities, we can add back in the disambiguator. We don't need it if it's not ambiguous; see article naming conventions for details.
Also: I'm wondering about the relationship between this article and Minneapolis and St. Paul. In my mind, I think that Twin Cities should just be the city article for both, and we don't need articles for each city. The two are so intertwined that I don't see a point having an article for each. Alternately, we could have an article for each, and reduce Twin Cities to just a region article page. Ideas? -- Evan 10:01, 8 Nov 2003 (PST)


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican Sen. John McCain likes fellow conservative justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Democratic Sen. Barack Obama does not think much of Clarence Thomas.
The new president could have the opportunity to name three or four justices to the Supreme Court.
That may seem like an oversimplified summary of what the two major candidates for president think about the federal judiciary, but the impact of the upcoming election on the Supreme Court, and thereby the country itself, could be felt for decades to come.
With the high court beginning its new term Monday, the stakes in the presidential election a month later loom large for voters who care about hot-button issues that judges decide, including abortion, school prayer and gay rights.
The future occupant of the White House could have the opportunity to name perhaps three or four justices, which could either solidify an ideologically split bench or dramatically move it further right. Explore five key cases the court will hear this fall »
"I think as the election approaches, the Supreme Court will take on more prominence as an election issue," said Edward Lazarus, author of an inside account of the high court, "Closed Chambers." "The court will always be viewed as a political institution to some extent because we are a deeply political nation that translates those political issues into law."
And that has activists on both sides of the debate excited and nervous about who will occupy the White House come January. The progressive People for the American Way has launched new political ads criticizing McCain's views on preventing gender discrimination in the workplace. Watch a religious monument case the court will hear this fall »
"Tell John McCain we need judges who will protect fair pay for women," the ad urges, "and won't play politics with our paychecks."
"I am petrified about what's at stake here," said Kathryn Kolbert, president of People for the American Way. "The right wing has been imposing their ideology in a 30-year battle since the days of Ronald Reagan to make the federal judiciary politically and ideologically aligned with their views."
On the other side, the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network has launched a million-dollar campaign warning of a Democratic presidency.
"Choosing the right justices is critical for America," the ad states. "We don't know who Barack Obama would choose, but we know this: He chose as one of his first financial backers a slum lord now convicted on 16 counts of corruption." Watch how the high court could come a campaign issue »
"Everything is at stake in this election when it comes to the Supreme Court," said Wendy Long, chief counsel of the Judicial Confirmation Network. "It's been kind of a sleeper issue with so many other issues coming to the forefront. But this train is leaving the station, and it's a very fast and powerful train, and once the election's over, it's going to be gone."
The ad is referring to Tony Rezko, a real estate developer who has contributed to the campaigns of many Democrats, including Obama. Rezko has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, influence peddling and demanding kickbacks from companies seeking Illinois state business. Obama has vowed to give up all funds connected to Rezko and has not been accused of any legal wrongdoing in connection with the case.
Both groups have splashy Web sites and have made urgent appeals in recent months for financial support to their base of believers.
The challenge for these activist groups is convincing the average American voter of the stakes, particularly those who do not hold strong views on many social issues. Watch how an obscenity case will be argued before the high court »
"The Supreme Court is very important to the base of both parties," said Thomas Goldstein, a private Washington attorney who has argued many case before the justices. "Conservatives really want to reshape it. Liberals are very worried about [the] direction it's going. What hasn't happened is that it hasn't broken through to the general public, which is really much more concerned with gas prices and the war in Iraq than what's going on here in Washington in the Supreme Court."
That has not stopped lawyers themselves from making their voices and their interests heard where it counts, in the pocketbook.
Five law firms are among the the top 20 contributors to Obama's campaign in the 2008 election cycle, according to a Center for Responsive Politics survey of federal campaign records. Three law offices were included in McCain's top 20 donors. That includes money not from the companies themselves, but from their political action committees (or PACs), individual employees, or their immediate families.
Those law firms represent a range of clients with a stake in what federal courts decide: from corporations to issue advocacy groups. Watch whether a woman who lost her arm can sue a drug company »
Perhaps intentionally, the high court itself has not scheduled any hot-button cases before Election Day. A ruling by the justices in June striking down Washington, D.C.'s, ban on handgun ownership was cheered by conservatives, and was mentioned at the time by both Obama and McCain. But the issue has not produced much political mileage since.
The candidates themselves and the groups that support them have chosen to focus not so much on how controversial issues would be decided, but who will decide them. McCain has made his admiration for conservative Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia a regular part of his stump speeches. Obama's comments in August that Thomas was not "strong enough a jurist or legal thinker at the time" of his 1991 nomination to sit on the high court set off a firestorm of conservative criticism.
The Democratic nominee also said about Thomas: "I profoundly disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the Constitution."
Recent national surveys show that Americans think who the president nominates to the Supreme Court is generally important to them, but election day exit polling finds the courts, and the social issues they rule on, rarely resonate with voters the way the economy, health care and education do. National candidates thus have generally been wary in the past of making the courts a consistent focus of their campaigns.
President Bush's somewhat cryptic support in 2000 and 2004 of Scalia and Thomas -- whom he called "strict constructionists" of the Constitution -- translated into the elevation of fellow conservatives Roberts and Alito, pleasing the president's base.
Many court watchers think any vacancy in the high court over the next four years would probably involve three left-leaning justices. John Paul Stevens is 88, but appears to be in good health, and court sources say he has no intention of retiring. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75 and has had past health problems, but she too has told friends she enjoys serving on the court. And David Souter, who turned 69 last month, has made no secret of his disdain of the Washington life and would be happier in his New Hampshire homestead. But his colleagues and friends say that while he is an extremely private man who does not reveal much personally, he has given no indication of leaving the bench anytime soon.
"The importance of the speculation is that all three of them are on the court's list of possible retirements," Goldstein said. "Nobody on the right is really thinking of leaving."
The days when the independent, nonpartisan federal judiciary was viewed by politicians as off the table during elections are long gone. The fact that the courts are now a political football outrages many people, but others say such a strategy is inevitable in a hyperactive information culture.
"The kinds of issues it [the Supreme Court] decides are political in nature in many cases," Lazarus said. "The problems come when the court itself is viewed as partisan. A significant segment of the people doesn't think the court stands above politics to render essentially neutral judgments, but are pushing the ideological agenda of one side or another. Over the long term, that could be damaging to the court."
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It happens to us all eventually – the loss of innocence. The moment where we, as human beings, understand that our place in the cosmos is under the great galactic millstone that shall render us all into so much irrelevant particulate matter. For some of us, it is triggered at a relatively young age by the death of the family iguana or the sudden realization that a great many people are, essentially, doo-doo heads.
For me, it happened around the age of twenty-five, in a Wisconsin public library, when I learned there were sequels to Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice. The image is burned into my mind – my fingers tracing lightly along the spines of assorted tomes, coming to rest on the purported sequel, the subsequent bafflement as to why someone had bothered to write a sequel to a book that, like most everything Austen ever penned, contains 350 pages of dithering followed by a marriage proposal.
Still, I withdrew it from the shelf, cradled it with a reverence most becoming of an English major, and proceeded to have three thoughts in the order with which they are listed here.
The first, formulated upon viewing the front cover: "When did Mr. Darcy get so ripped?
The second, a result of attempting to flip through the pages and deduce the content: "Why are the pages stuck together?"
The third, as I came to understand the text in question revolved primarily around the protagonists', ahem, marital bliss: "…I NEED TO WASH MY HANDS!"
After a trip to the restroom, the development of a drinking problem, and several years of counseling, I've come to understand that Pride & Prejudice & Pornography is very nearly a genre unto itself. However, were I not jaded enough, I've come to discover authors (though here I use the term loosely) are no longer content confining Elizabeth's libido to subsequent volumes. No, if you search on Amazon for editions of Pride & Prejudice, you will find this returned on the first page of search results:
Yes, the "Wild & Wanton" edition. Care to see a bit of the synopsis? Oh, I think you do.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife…in bed. Unfortunately, you've never been able to see Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam indulging their every desire between the sheets – until now. In this deliciously naughty update of the beloved classic, you can peek behind the closed doors of Pemberley's master bedroom – and revel in the sexual delights of your favorite couple."
Ignoring, for a moment, the bastardization of Austen's famous line in a manner that would send an eighteenth century literary scholar into an apoplectic fit, the only word I really take issue with is "unfortunately," which needs a qualifier – something to the effect of, "Unfortunately, if you live alone and possess twice your body weight in cats […]."
Part of me is horrified, as such is obligatory. But part of me also wants to investigate the legalities of a conflation between the above and Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
We'll call it Pride & Prejudice & Wild & Wanton Zombies. I am not going to speculate further.
But assuming some peculiar combination of copyright and taste, the former being fungible and the latter being unlikely, prevent my opus from coming to be, let it be noted I have a backup plan:
Why unicorns?
Because you have to be a virgin to touch one.


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I played shining force late and it hurt my enjoyment of it, along with it just being fire emblem but not as good. I tried one and ended up dropping it pretty quick. I liked II a lot for awhile, but it eventually wore me down and I stopped. If there were no random encounters I'm sure I'd have enjoyed the whole thing. It just annoyed the hell out of me getting into fights that had nothing to do with anything when I didn't need to level and I couldn't get out of them via resetting or using the hero's escape magic.


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A winner was selected from 95 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
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Taking down the Christmas decorations is such a hassle and to be honest, it's not that fun. If you're like me, you've accumulated even more decorations through the holidays, and now it's time to figure out where to store them all. The following are some Christmas decoration storage tips to help you organize and pack away all of your holiday treasures so they'll be easy to retrieve next holiday season. Before you begin the process of packing away your Christmas decorations, grab your label maker, some tape, and some small bubble wrap or leftover tissue.
Holiday Decoration & Christmas Tree Storage Ideas
Grouping Christmas Decorations
At this point, you probably have enough Christmas decorations to fill several 18-gallon totes. Before you start to just toss things in, take the time to organize and group your indoor and outdoor Christmas decorations together.
- Nativity Decorations. In one storage container, like our Ultimate Rolling Holiday Storage, place everything that goes to your nativity scene; the people and animal figurines, the manager, the stable, and perhaps even peat moss or snow blankets that you spread underneath the scene. If you string white lights throughout the peat moss, be sure that you include those lights with the nativity decorations as well. After the storage box is full, label it.
- Christmas Ornament Storage. Nothing is worse than decorating half of the Christmas tree and not being able to find the rest of the ornaments. You might end up just leaving it that way, or having to purchase new ornaments for the other half. Here are some tips on how to store ornaments.
- Start by grouping all similar Christmas ornaments together. If you have multiples of one type of ornament, put them all in one pile. You want to be able to see all of the different sizes and shapes of your ornaments.
- Before placing the ornaments in an Ornament Storage Box, tear off small pieces of bubble wrap or leftover tissue and wrap the ornaments for protection.
- Adjust the rows in the ornament storage box to accommodate the different sizes of ornaments and start placing the larger ornaments in the storage box.
- If you have any leftover space in the ornament storage box, you can add the other Christmas tree decorations into the storage box – This would the bows, the lights, the star, the angel, etc.
- Outdoor Christmas Decoration Storage. When you take down the wreaths, garlands, lights, and Christmas lawn decor, group all of the outdoor Christmas decorations together and store them in the same area. Get a Double Wreath Storage Bag or Hanging Wreath Storage Bag and keep your wreaths and wreath decorations safely stored in one storage bag. Use a Garland Storage Bag that is large enough to hold your garland and any decorations that you add to it. If you can't place your outdoor Christmas yard decor in its original box, store it in an Outdoor Christmas Storage Bag that has a heavy-duty design to keep your Christmas decorations dry and dust-free. If you used extension cords on your Christmas yard decor, try and store them with the appropriate decoration so you won't have to hunt around in your garage for a cord next season.
- Outdoor Christmas Light Storage. Wrap your outdoor Christmas lights around a spool and place them in a Christmas light storage bag so they will be tangle-free and ready to roll when it's time to pull them out next year. Store any additional lights that fit on the light string in the same storage bin and label the bin before putting it away.
- Christmas Tree Storage. Christmas tree storage has come a long way. Now you can choose from a Christmas Tree Storage Bag, an Upright Christmas Tree Storage Bag to a plain, duffle-like Christmas Tree Storage Bag. Determine where you're going to store your Christmas tree before you decide on the type of storage bag you will need.
- Wrapping Paper Storage. Store all of your Christmas wrapping paper in one Wrapping Paper Storage Bag and keep it separate from all of your other wrapping paper. Place a set of scissors, tape, tissue, gift tags and bows all together in one storage bag so you just have to pull out one bag next year.
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Here are a few tips to help you protect your breakable Christmas decorations before you put them away.
- Wrap them in bubble wrap. You might not want to purchase bubble wrap, but if you think about it, it would be a lot cheaper than replacing some of the more expensive Christmas decorations. And, if your Christmas decorations have been in the family for some time, they may be irreplaceable.
- Save your wrapping paper and wrap glass dishes in it before you stack them. By doing this, they will not get chipped up by banging against each other.
- Label everything! Add labels to all of your Christmas storage bins so you won't have to hunt through every bin next year to find that one, special decoration.
- Make a list of everything that was used up and needs to be replaced. You can stock up on tape, wrapping paper, etc during an after-Christmas sale.


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Romance Author Adele Dubois Receives Takedown On Blog Post For Having The Same Name As Singer Adele
from the bogus-dmca deptI heard about this story last week, but it took a while to sort through all of the details. There were reports out there that the romance author Adele Dubois had been sent a DMCA takedown. Most of the reports were a bit vague, and then the Washington Post had a very confused writeup that bounced back and forth between copyright and trademark, without bothering to mention that you cannot use a DMCA notice for trademark issues (and also pointing much more of a finger at Google than was warranted).
I've now been able to see the full DMCA notice (which is not yet up on ChillingEffects, but should be soon -- though I've included it below) and talk to a few people around this, and it appears that someone associated with Sony did, in fact, issue a DMCA takedown to Google, leading to a blog post by Adele Dubois being taken offline. Google has since reinstated the post, after reviewing the counternotice, so you can read it here, though depending on your workplace, it may be marginally not safe for work (think erotic romance novel graphics and prose).
The DMCA takedown notice details are extremely sparse. It notes that the "copyright owner" is "XL SONY" and that the "Copyright work description" is "ADELE + EXITOS." It then lists out two URLs. One for "Location of the copyrighted work" and one for "Location of infringing material." It's not clear what the difference is here, but the first one takes you to a sales page for a totally different (and unrelated) romance book, whose author runs the blog where the Adele Dubois post was. The author of that book, Marianne Stephens, notes that she holds all the copyright on that particular book, and isn't clear why it's in the DMCA notice. The second link (location of infringing material) is the link listed above. The only connection that seems to be made is the fact that the famous singer Adele is on Sony, and the author of the blog post (and the erotic romance novel it talks about) has the pen name Adele Dubois (a name she's used since well before the singer Adele became a professional singer). Either way, there's no copyright in just the name Adele. The word Exitos seems totally irrelevant to anything.
Google, as it does in these situations, reverted the blog post to "private," and then upon reviewing the counternotice turned the blog post back on. It's not entirely clear from the notice who actually sent the takedown. It's possible that it was an overaggressive representative of Sony. What does seem clear is that whoever sent it was just doing some sort of quick automated takedown effort without any real review -- even though the takedown notice says:
I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.In the Washington Post article, the author suggests that Google should have gotten "to the bottom of this" before taking the content down. While that would be nice, the problem is not so much with Google as with the law itself, the DMCA. Because of the way the DMCA is structured, companies that don't take down content first and review the details later face significant liability if the content turns out to be infringing. The law basically says, if you want immunity from liability, you have to first pull the content offline. So Google followed that procedure. As we've noted, this part of the DMCA potentially violates the First Amendment, but has yet to be tested in court.
I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
That said, you can see why it's so frustrating to the recipient. It's not at all clear from the notice that Google's Blogger passed on to the blog owners the information on who really issued the takedown, or even what, exactly, they were claiming. The bizarre link to the totally unrelated book doesn't help matters, but only serves to confuse them further. Combine that with the threat that this can lead to a "strike" against an account and you can see why some recipients of notices like this get pretty worried.
In the end, this looks like yet another of an all too common phenomenon (and one we've dealt with ourselves). Companies file automated or questionable (or insanely vague) DMCA notices all the time, and the structure of the law encourages companies who receive them to pull the content offline immediately and sort out the mess later.
Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog is alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others. As a result, we have reset the post(s) to "draft" status. (A bit of background: if we did not do this, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement.)
The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message. This means your post - and any images, links or other content - is not gone. You may edit the post to remove the content in question and republish, at which point the post in question will be visible to your readers again.
If you believe you have the rights to post the content at issue here, you can file a counter-notification. For more information on our DMCA policy, please see http://www.google.com/dmca.html.
The notice that we received, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org. We do this in accordance with the DMCA. You can search for the DMCA notice associated with the removal of your content by going to the Chilling Effects search page at http://www.chillingeffects.org/search.cgi and entering the URL of the blog post that was removed.
If it is brought to our attention that you have republished the post without removing the content in question, then we will delete your post and count it as a violation on your account. Repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in further remedial action taken against your Blogger account including deleting your blog and/or terminating your account.
If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain your own legal counsel.
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TrianonCapital needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 20 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
A new hedge fund is seeking a basic stationary package. The image should be extremely conservative and professional.
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The stationary package should include letterhead (8.5 x 11), letter envelopes (#10 9.5in x 4.125 in),catalog envelopes (9 in x 12.5 in), mailing labels and business cards.
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sflodestone needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 135 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
We will be launching a website for group dating. The name is shoalmate.com. This needs to be super cute (think little fish nemo style swimming in / out of logo or something). Under the sea? Bubbles? Twitter cute but not little kid cute ... remember this is for people in their twenties and thirties. Something that makes the word shoal cute. all lower case wording probably works best. The .com should not be included in the logo (it's implied these days).
The fish should definitely have some sort of personality or character (potentially even dressing them up). It's critical there are more than two fish and it captures the concept of a group date.
Group dating is when a group of two or 3 guys goes out with a group of two or three girls. Generally speaking these groups already know each other and the date is more fun / relaxed. Less pressure.
It's critical you understand what the word shoal means
Groups of single friends (20-40)
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Thursday, April 07, 2011
2015: A Media Odyssey
The Conservatives are free to discuss whatever they wish, quite different however when the media parrots the chosen theme of the day, only adding the context with subsequent commentary, more muted and secondary. It begs a question whether the media is obligated to report on everything, can they not- as they do with investigative pieces- decide what is relevant or not, use their own standards, to decipher worth of coverage? It seems the drill goes as follows, said entity decides the messaging for the day, the media report that messaging, then only in after the fact fashion is there any analysis of worth. To my mind, the battle is already lost, when you report everything, because the intent is to merely get it out there, that's part of the partisan strategy.
We are having an election in 2011. We are having an election, wherein Canada faces a herculean deficit. Within the Conservative fiscal framework, massive questions abound about their fiscal plan, their costing of certain expenditures, it all remains rather unclear. Add in the inherent fallacy of trying to accurately predict the future state of affairs, less reliable the further out you forecast, and this 2015 timeline becomes that much more dubious. The Conservative projections are questionable, then the added factor of future uncertainty, these 2015 goodies simply don't pass the 2011 smell test. In other words, the Conservatives are trying to game the system, and unfortunately they found a willing partner, one that thinks a bit of questioning after the fact amounts to journalism.
As I read Harper's fixed election law, we will have another election in 2015, it can occur NO later, that seems an objective truth. That translates to an almost surreal situation, wherein there is no possiblility of implementation, by the Conservatives own logic, PRIOR to another campaign. The Liberal platform ends in 2014, it's as though we are fighting two elections concurrently, one that deals with the realities as we know them, the other a concoction of possibilities. I'm sure all parties will offer new goodies once the deficit is tackled, what pray tell does that have to do with this election? And yet, TFSA is today's buzzword, one of the leads on all the telecasts.
We partisans quibble about this and that, in terms of coverage, but that reality shouldn't distract anyone from the sheer ridiculousness of giving utter fiction a hearing. Any sense of fairnes, let the Conservatives put out what they want, but actually reporting, not sure how that of any benefit to the public. Every time I hear the word TFSA mentioned in a broadcast, I'm going to say GOTCHA! This just might be the most absurd election any advanced democracy has been subjected to. Harper actually called it "a major step forward" as if reality, and people report it as though it will come to pass. It would be funny, if it just weren't so flipping sad.
12 comments:
- Tof KW said...
Why don't the Liberal promise to eliminate income taxes in 2015 ...but only if they win this election, and only if the budget is balanced by then.
When the Reformatories charge that this is nonsensical, just say "exactly!"
- 3:51 PM, April 07, 2011
- Steve V said...
I know you say it in jest, but really if the media validates this strategy, I can guarantee others will follow, in future elections. It's all just an utter ruse, just read one prominent economist say he was contacted by a reporter about the TFSA. The Con war room must laugh themselves to sleep, sides so sore! Honestly and truly, such a joke.
- 3:54 PM, April 07, 2011
- Tof KW said...
By the way, getting to make election promises you know you'll never have to keep...
Welcome to the federal NDP way of doing things.
- 3:54 PM, April 07, 2011
- Steve V said...
Accountability is lost, you can just promise whatever you want, based on dubious future backing. It's insane, it really is and what's worse, willing enabler.
- 3:57 PM, April 07, 2011
- Tof KW said...
Oh and yes I jest, but not 100%.
Seriously the Libs should make a campaign promise under the same 2015 conditions as the CPC. Make it a serious income tax reduction even.
Maybe the media will figure it out once both major parties show them being played for fools.
- 4:00 PM, April 07, 2011
- ottlib said...
Our MSM gave up any kind of critical analysis with regard to policy proposals long ago. They care more about analyzing the various parties' strategies to give their audiences a sense that they have "inside knowledge".
We are seeing the same thing with the Liberals proposals. For the most part they have not done much of any indepth analysis of the Liberals proposals.
It will be up to the Liberals to point out the stupidity of the current Conservative approach. I would suggest a political ad. One with a mocking tone, instead of the usual fare we get of doom and gloom.
I have been kind of disappointed with the Liberal advertizing so far. I have only seen one on television and one on the outside of the Metro. Other than that nothing.
Hopefully, during the week of the debates and afterwards they will sharpen their message a spend the money for a decent ad buy to get that message out.
- 5:00 PM, April 07, 2011
- Steve V said...
Spot on.
- 5:03 PM, April 07, 2011
- Curtis said...
The Liberals ought to ask the Harper and his cabal what their 2011 platform is as we already know what their 2015 platform is. The command or request to the CPC should be "Why not live in the present?"
- 5:49 PM, April 07, 2011
- Steve V said...
Here's a decent piece:
- 6:31 PM, April 07, 2011
- Marshall said...
The media seems intent on reporting about five questions a day, teleprompters and people banned from rallies as opposed to Harper's record. Wells called them on it and he was spot on.
- 8:40 PM, April 07, 2011
- Alison said...
I'd love to see an ad featuring Mary Walsh and Cathy Jones doing their old lady skit about the possible future campaign promises. It would be a hoot and would get the message across. Any chance of that?
- 11:56 PM, April 07, 2011
- rajumadhur said...
Promises by politicians just remain as promises :D ;)
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- 5:10 AM, April 08, 2011