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La vache de la Fromagerie Mirabel. St-Jérôme. Québec
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La vache de la Fromagerie Mirabel. St-Jérôme. Québec
Cow the Cheese dairy Mirabel. St-Jérôme. Québec
posted by: colibris7
location: Quebec, Canada
date approved: 10/29/2014
last visited: never
Botte Boulet Gringo. St-Jérôme.Québec
Botte Boulet Gringo. St-Jérôme. Québec
Boulet Boots Gringo. St Jerome. Quebec
Urban Burger Cow - Madrid, Spain
This 3-d sculpture is located insidejas.Madrid's Aueropuerto de Madrid Barajas.
posted by: Metro2
location: Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
date approved: 10/23/2014
last visited: 9/13/2014
3D Submarine - Avalon, CA
A 3D submarine on a boat rental and ticket booth on the Avalon Pier.
posted by: saopaulo1
location: California
date approved: 10/8/2014
Logo Smart! Centres,Mascouche,Québec.
Logo Smart! Centres. Mascouche.Smart logo! Centers. Mascouche
date approved: 10/3/2014
Zoo City - Zagreb, Croatia
3 Dimensional Art on ZOO City building in Zagreb, Croatia
posted by: GCEdo
location: Croatia
date approved: 10/2/2014
Nadal Marino's Art Shop - Banyuls sur Mer, France
Artist materials are being used here to advertise artist Nadal Marino's work shop and art gallery.
posted by: dtrebilc
location: Languedoc-Roussillon, France
date approved: 9/18/2014
The Golden Slipper - Goodramgate, York, UK
On the north west side of Goodramgate, in the centre of York, is a pub named "The Golden Slipper". Attached to the pub wall, in a wrought iron frame, is a moulded golden slipper.
posted by: Master Mariner
location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
date approved: 9/9/2014
Smilez Ice Cream - Grand Forks, BC
This is another place we had driven past more than once while in Grand Forks, yet never seemed to notice that there was a huge ice cream cone on the roof.
posted by: BK-Hunters
location: British Columbia, Canada
date approved: 9/7/2014
The Red Cup - Oklahoma City, OK
This giant red cup spilling coffee is on the roof of the Red Cup vegetarian restaurant, right above the main entrance
posted by: Max and 99
location: Oklahoma
date approved: 9/1/2014
Johnny Rocket's Cheeseburger & Shake - Los Angeles, CA
This Johnny Rocket's is located on Universal Studio's City Walk in Los Angeles.
last visited: 10/30/2014
Mel's Diner Waiter and Double Cheeseburger - Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is located at Universal Studios Theme Park in Los Angeles.
last visited: 7/26/2014
Ice Cream Cone - Santa Cruz, CA
A 3D ice cream cone at a stand at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, CA.
date approved: 8/16/2014
Freddie's Frozen Custard, south Oklahoma City, OK
Ice cream and cone advertising frozen custard at Freddie's Frozen Custard in the Brookwood North shopping plaza at SW 89th and Western in Oklahoma City.
posted by: vulture1957
date approved: 7/31/2014
Ritter Sport Chocolate Bars - Hauptbahnhof Stuttgart, Germany, BW
Inside the main hall of the central train station (Hauptbahnhof) in Stuttgart, Germany, Baden-Württemberg exists a tower of Ritter Sport Chocolate Bars as an advertisement for a nearby candy store.
posted by: Tante.Hossi
location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
date approved: 7/29/2014
The Sombrero Tower - Dillon, SC
This is a huge sombrero in South Carolina that you can go into!
posted by: bluesnote
location: South Carolina
date approved: 7/20/2014
last visited: 8/17/2014
Hereford State Bank - Hereford, TX
The bank has changed its name since I visited, but the sign is still there. Now called First Financial Bank
posted by: YoSam.
location: Texas
date approved: 7/14/2014
Millworks - Midlothian, VA
This sign has 3d gears.
location: Virginia
date approved: 7/9/2014
Casey's Corner - Disneyland Paris, FR
Signe du restaurant Casey's Corner à Disneyland Paris / The Disneyland Paris Casey's Corner sign.
posted by: Infra-Blue
location: Île-de-France, France
date approved: 7/5/2014
Apple at Applebee's - Warrenton, MO
There must be a lot of these around
location: Missouri
Big Cigar at Stanza dei Sigari Cigar Bar - Boston, MA
The Big Cigar is located on top of the entrance to the Stanza dei Sigari Cigar Bar at 292 Hanover Street in Boston, MA.
posted by: neoc1
location: Massachusetts
date approved: 6/22/2014
Dawn's big ol' Pencil
Just a big ol' pencil
posted by: lostsole68
location: Maryland
date approved: 6/11/2014
last visited: 6/14/2014
Fries and Drink - Las Vegas, NV
Giant fries and soft drink in front of a McDonald's in Las Vegas, NV.
location: Nevada
last visited: 3/3/2014
Dawn's Office Supply Pencil - Baltimore, MD
posted by: razalas
Soda Cup - Al's Beef - Chicago, Illinois, USA.
A giant Al's Soda Cup, complete with Straw mounted on the roof line, above the front entrance, of Al's Italian Beef diner, Chicago.
posted by: veritas vita
location: Illinois
date approved: 6/6/2014
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Posted by Kate Alvarez as Tiger Woods at 8:00 AM EDT on Apr, 13 2010
It's only been days since Nike's new Tiger Woods advertisement was launched, and it's already gaining heavy media attention. Whether or not people approve of the advert, the points still go to Nike. Frankly, I'm getting sick of people discussing and overanalyzing it.
Instead, let's go for something light, such as this parody by our crazy friends at Funny Or Die.
So far it's been getting more "funny" over "die" ratings. What do you think?
I must give shout-outs to the guys behind this parody—Derek Reid as Tiger, writer Andy Harris, graphic dude Jeff Stein, and producer Jim Harmon. Good job, boys!
Posted by Kate Alvarez as Tiger Woods at 9:00 AM EDT on Apr, 09 2010
Here's one brand that isn't ditching the shamed golfer. Nike shot a new TV advertisement in the 34-year-old's golf course in Florida. Being the first TV commercial since Tiger's scandal last year, the advert has received mixed reactions.
Shot in black and white, the dream-like advert shows a pensive-looking Tiger listening to the voice of his late father Earl Woods. "Tiger, I am more prone to be inquisitive, to promote discussion. I want to find out what your thinking was. I want to find out what your feelings are. And did you learn anything?" Earl asks as the camera slowly zooms in on Tiger.
Some people find the ad a bit creepy and bizarre, while others find it nostalgic. Tiger's father passed away in 2006, and it was a very difficult period in his life.
Watch the 30-second advert below.
What do you think? Was the idea effective for endorsing Nike?
Posted by Kate Alvarez as Tiger Woods at 10:00 AM EDT on Apr, 08 2010
Putting last year's scandals behind him, golfer Tiger Woods headed back to the greens this month for the US Masters at Augusta, Georgia.
Posted by Kate Alvarez as Tiger Woods at 10:00 AM EDT on Mar, 16 2010
The world's number one golfer, Tiger Woods, is the new target of animation sitcom South Park.
Posted by Kate Alvarez as Tiger Woods at 11:00 AM EDT on Feb, 18 2010
He has kept out of the public eye since his accident and alleged string of affairs that exploded all over the news last November. Now Tiger Woods has come out of hiding. He was spotted jogging with a friend last Wednesday near his home in Orlando, Florida. With a team of security around him, he also played a little golf before helicopters swarming over his town prompted the golfer to retreat.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 2:23 PM EDT on Dec, 09 2009
photo via Cheezburger
Hell, there is no point in me trying to lead you in on this one. Here ya go…
A disgraced Tiger Woods is terrified that the worst news is yet to come – that he fathered love children with his mistresses! And his many liaisons may have been caught on tape!
The golf great had wild unprotected sex with a string of mistresses, sources tell The ENQUIRER- and now he fears claims that his out-of-control sexual proclivities may have produced children.
To make matters even worse, the 33-year-old sports star is reportedly worried that a lurid sex tape could appear and wreck his desperate attempts to cling onto the wreckage of his marriage to beauty and ex-model Elin Nordegren who has just bought a $2 million mansion in her native Sweden as a fail-safe escape house in case the marriage disintegrates.
This is where I come in and crack some subtle jokes, make you laugh and ask why I haven't received a Pulitzer yet, but not this time. No, for once I am going to take the serious side of things and ask myself what in the hell drives the world's richest man to do things that drop his fortune by 90% in the span of a month? There is no female part worth that much. I figured there was no reason to bang my head against the desk when I could just go to Tiger and ask him myself what the deal was.
So Tiger, after all these women show up claiming that you have had sex with them, are there anymore people you are still looking to bang?
You are ridiculous man. Find a new hobby.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 3:57 AM EDT on Dec, 08 2009
This is starting to get out of hand. A report by US Magazine states that 9 women have come out to claim they have had sex with Tiger since his marriage. One being a pornstar. Since this is all turning into a joke I have decided to make a game of it myself and predict what the final tally of women will be before the December 20th deadline (that is a random deadline). I'm going with 17.
He will fall one hole short of completing the course and play will be suspended due to bad weather.
Get this, the cow pictured above is the alleged pornstar that had a relationship with Tiger Woods, her name is Holly Sampson. Although she has come out and made these claims, she has no comment on the matter according to her attorney. How that makes any sense is beyond me, I am just a simple man who wishes nothing more that for peace on Earth.
If he hadn't crashed that car this would've never happened. This is why George Jetson has yet to be caught. Can't crash a hovercroft into a fire hydrant.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 4:13 AM EDT on Dec, 05 2009
It's Friday night. You are trying to woo your honey. You get her home. You light the candles. You get the oils out. Damn, you have no music! Don't worry because Celebrific has your back on this one. Just play this Tiger Woods Voicemail Slow Jam Remix and she will be dropping her panties faster than the Dow Jones.
Produced by the cool cats over at It's a Half Day Today. This might be in the running for YouTube video of the year, especially since I can't remember the past 5,000 I saw in 2009.
Excuse me while I go and take a cold shower.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 4:03 AM EDT on Dec, 04 2009
I just got done saying…
If I were her I still would've kept quiet to get a sweeter deal from Tiger, but these women have no business sense. If you are going to ruin marriages and destroy legacies you have to start with a well laid out plan.
Now reports are coming out that she cancelled her press conference today because Tiger's people paid her $1 million to shut up. She had a grand scheme all this time and played it out to perfection!
We know how this will end though right? She will get a show/movie/book deal from this and get paid even more by telling the Tiger Affair Tale. Sneaky, sneaky.
Sometimes I wish I had a vagina so I could come up with schemes like this. This isn't the reason why I wear pantyhose, I was just thinking out loud. My legs are sensitive and need protection, don't judge me.
In unrelated news, I guarantee the next story won't include Tiger Woods' and the use of his putter.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 12:22 AM EDT on Dec, 04 2009
You understood the game plan. Woman says she didn't bang the billion dollar man so he would slide her some green under the table. However, there was a wrench thrown in the plans when another money-grubbing cow decided to make it publicly known that she was sleeping with Tiger. Well, cow #1 just couldn't let this opportunity slip through her fingers so she admits that she actually did sleep with the billion dollar athlete.
Sources say less than an hour before Tiger's accident, Rachel and Tiger were texting each other. Elin confronted Tiger and asked whom he was texting. She grabbed the phone and we're told she called Rachel to confront her. According to sources, Tiger and Elin began arguing and the phone broke in the process.
If I were her I still would've kept quiet to get a sweeter deal from Tiger, but these women have no business sense. If you are going to ruin marriages and destroy legacies you have to start with a well laid out plan.
Let the one tramp get all the hatred from the world, while you chill behind the scenes laughing in caviar baths and champagne showers. Of course, that is what cows #3-#10 are probably doing so what do I know.
Tiger, was this a ploy to break up with your wife before Christmas so you didn't have to buy her any presents?
Okay, never mind, because if that was the reason then you are genius my man.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 7:10 AM EDT on Dec, 03 2009
When you are trying to re-negotiate a prenup with your billion dollar husband there is only one way to go about it.
This happened faster than I thought. According to the Sun Times, Tiger's wife, Elin, is being paid a hefty 7 figures to stick with her man. Now that is a sign of a healthy relationship. You just pay the woman to stay married to you. I mean, all Kobe did was buy her a ring so as you can see Tiger has upped the ante. Next professional athlete to get caught cheating is in trouble as he will probably have to offer the naming rights of a stadium to his spouse.
They are also doing some intense marriage counseling because, well because their marriage is screwed up. Can you imagine how that session will go?
Elin: I love my husband…s money doc, but I just don't know if I can take the cheating and lying…to myself that I really do love him.
Doc: Tiger, anything to say?
Tiger: Hold on, let me finish sending this text.
Again, we have to take it back to Tiger to see how he feels about giving up a cool 7 figures to his wife and having her redo their prenup.
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 1:09 AM EDT on Dec, 03 2009
photo via Real Man Magazine
Tiger. Tiger. TIGER! What in the hell were you thinking my man. I know people out there are thinking to themselves man if I was married to a Swedish model, had a gajillion dollars and a kid I would never cheat on my wife. But to some men, especially ones in power, the allure is to great. It happens. However…there are laws that you must follow to maintain order in the world and one of them is if you are going to leave a voicemail, change your voice and don't say your name.
What am I talking about? TMZ has an audio clip of Tiger leaving a voicemail to Jamiee Grubbs where he says his name and how she needs to erase her name from the voicemail. So what does Jamiee do with the voicemail? Exactly what you would expect a woman of her caliber to do, she took it to work to show it off.
This girl is getting paid cash money and probably got a couple of nice gifts from Tiger. In a time where it is hard to be hated than the most hated athletes, it seems these guys are trying to one up each other. Who is hated less than Tiger now?
You have to be the most dominant player in golf history to accomplish something like that. Well done, Tiger, well done. How do you feel about earning this achievement Mr. Woods?
Exactly what we thought.
Posted by MrAlmostWrong as Tiger Woods at 4:21 AM EDT on Dec, 02 2009
While one tramp, Rachel Uchitel, denies having an affair with Tiger Woods, another steps out of the woodwork to collect her reality show paycheck. The Daily News reports that a waitress, Jamiee Grubbs, is claiming she had a 31-month affair and she has over 300 "racy" text messages to validate it. To top it off, she was a contestant on VH1's award winning (okay I lied there) reality series, "Tool Academy."
So let me get this straight, Tiger gets beat by his wife in an "accident", cuts and bruises all over, one girl denies the affair so he should be off the hook, but then another steps up to take her place. Let's not forget this guy is worth a trillion dollars and probably didn't sign a prenuptial agreement so he is going to be worth half a trillion now.
Could you imagine if this cuts off his endorsements?
You see when you are the King of the Junglebooty you have to learn to cover your tracks. People should never cross the King, but when you marry a Lioness you have to expect bad things to happen. But then again you deserve bad things to happen when you cheat on a Swedish model.
I'm not saying Tiger cheated on his wife with these young pups, but I'm just saying he is Tiger Woods and you can't keep a wild tiger caged.
Posted by Gina as Rumors & Whispers, Tiger Woods at 5:01 PM EDT on Nov, 28 2009
He has a laceration on his face, but that does not exempt him from being linked to other women. Rachel Uchitel is the alleged mistress of the golf star, but she says that while they have met twice, they have not had any contact since. The truth will prevail, whatever it is.
Posted by Gina as Tid Bits & News, Tiger Woods at 11:20 AM EDT on Nov, 28 2009
Tiger Woods got into a car accident on Friday just outside his home in Florida. Apparently, he was not driving fast enough and the airbags of the car did not employ. He is doing fine, suffering only from minor lacerations on his face. That shouldn't affect his golf skills!
Posted by Allison as Celebrific Sighting Pictures, Celebrity Polls & Surveys, Tiger Woods at 1:00 PM EDT on Jun, 26 2007
Golf superstar Tiger Woods has finally revealed some pictures of his newborn baby. Now the question is, will the newborn be the one to pass on the Tiger legend?

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Can Lamborghini's youngest speed machine do 330kms on a single tank of fuel? We do a run on the Yamuna Expressway to find out
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The end of the year is upon on, and we're getting prepped for the biggest party of the year tomorrow night. Have you figured out what you're wearing yet? Here, our design team offers some expert New Year's Eve outfit inspo along with their resolutions for 2012.
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This Week's Cover: The New Art of Coming Out in Hollywood okay one, it shouldn't have to be a surprise that celebrities...
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okay I JUST noticed the Call Me Maybe thing
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text: R M <rm.engineer84 at gmail.com> wrote: > I am looking for Vitelcom TSM30 source code. I tried searching for it > in Google. I am not able to find it. I have already helped the OP out off-list. In case anyone else is looking for a copy of that code and all known mirrors have been pulled: I have a copy in my possession, and I've been meaning to put it up on my FTP server, i.e., a new public mirror that would be completely shutdown-proof. (I don't use clouds, I run everything on my own physical HW in my own physical control, housed in my own personal datacenter on my own soil which I have declared to be my own nation with my own laws, so no one in the world can make me take anything down.) However, I am very very technologically-backwards, and my current server HW/OS platform is too ancient to host a 500 MiB blob. (The booty is in the form of an ISO image and appears to contain a huge Windows-based development environment in addition to the actual source.) For ages I've been meaning to set up an additional FTP server on newer HW that can host such big stuff, but that progress is very very slow-going for a bunch of personal reasons. Because I consider it to be my fault that I still haven't followed through with my ages-old promise of setting up that new FTP server, I hereby attempt to make up for it somewhat by making the following offer: if anyone would like a copy of that TSM30 source code, is not able to find it anywhere else, and is not willing to wait however many more months for me to set up that darned server, you can give me your snail mail address and I'll send you a CD-R recorded from that 500 MiB ISO image. With the above out of the way, I happen to have some unanswered questions about the TSM30 phone itself which I wonder if perhaps someone in this community might have some answers to, so I've decided to use this thread (started by someone else to whom I have no relation) to try asking them. :-) (And yes, I've already tried Googling quite extensively.) OK, here we go: 1. Would anyone happen to know the basic specs for the TSM30 phone from an ordinary user's perspective? Which GSM bands does it support? What kind of features does it offer? Judging from a cursory bird's-eye-level look at the source code, it seems to be a few notches above a basic primitive phone like Mot C123, but not quite a smartphone either. I realize that one can probably extract all the answers from the source if one were to study it for months on end (I had no idea it would be this huge!), but I was wondering if anyone already happened to know the answer. Basically I'm trying to decide if it would be worth my while to try to acquire an actual TSM30 hardware unit - which in itself seems to be very non-trivial. 2. Has anyone been able to find a service manual and/or schematics for this phone? 3. Does anyone know the hardware in the TSM30 compares against other Calypso-based phones, such as Mot C123, Openmoko GTA02 or the Leonardo reference design? What are the similarities and differences? TIA a lot for any clues, MS


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Posts by AWeirdoNamedPhil
25 posts • joined 5 Dec 2008
Normal Human Being™ reviews the iPad
Your analogy machine is broken
The analogy is NOT to an outside privvy and a tin bath in the yard.
The analogy is between a modern American Standard toilet and the original flush toilets built by John Crapper in the 1800's. Crapper's toilets had an elevated water reservoir and flushing was done by pulling a chain, but otherwise they worked EXACTLY the same as a modern toilet. They had the same exact kind of seat as well. They even SOUNDED the same.
Once society perfected the toilet, that's how toilets were made from that point onward. The toilet problem was solved, and society moved on to solve new problems.
Note that indoor baths haven't changed much over the centuries either. They're still usually made of porcelain covered steel, they still usually have the same shape and they still have faucets that supply hot and cold water.
Interesting note: The best, most expensive bathtubs are designed to look EXACTLY like the claw-footed soaking tubs of the late 1800's.
But congratulations for missing my point entirely. Let me restate it.
If you want to access the web, do programming, or word processing, or any of the other things we generally do with a computer, the cheapest netbook available will do these things BETTER and MORE CONVENIENTLY than your silly iPad. The WIMP interface is superior to Apple's silly finger movements; it's more precise and effective by far. Good luck doing something as simple as typing an email! Or chatting in IRC (Oh, wait, the iPad doesn't DO that, does it?). Your graphical keyboard doesn't offer ANY tactile stimulation to help you type. You'll be lucky to do 5 words a minute. I can do 80 wpm on my Netbook. I can type faster than I can TALK.
Keyboards FTW.
And it's highly disingenious for you to formulate such a long list of devices. The iPad cannot perform the tasks of even half of your list. It's not magic, man. It's just a silly little tablet PC.
Oh, and using a single-tasking operating system? In 2010? Party like it's 1989! No flash support, no Java support... Seriously, what GOOD is it? It's just a toy for people who don't know what to spend their money on.
Do as you wish, but admitting to yourself that it's a trinket is the first step to achieving enlightenment. Say it with me: "It's just a toy... You bought it because it was Teh Shiny."
Admit it! You'll feel better!
Well, A/C, actually I just spent 900 bucks on a PC upgrade...
...So it's not that I can't AFFORD an iPad, it's just that I can't figure out why I should bother.
Incidentally, for 900 bucks, I just bought two computer cases (one to transfer my old motherboard in to use as a security system controller), two upgraded power supplies, eight gig of ram for my new primary computer, motherboard, parts, disk, etc, etc.
It's like this. I spend my money on machines that enhance my capabilities. My new PC, with its 500 or 600 GB of disk, its eight GB of ram, its NVidia accelerated graphics, and its many media adapters lets me build virtually any sort of software or website I might wish to. It's not just a tool; it's an entire machinist's shop.
I have a cute little netbook I bought for 300 bucks a while ago. It has a full-featured Java development system on it, along with database support and a bunch of other hackery stuff I put in. It's running the Ubuntu netbook remix, configured to show a normal Linux desktop. I can do anything I like on that little thing; it's got a GB of ram and plenty of disk too.
What can you do on your iPad that I can't do on my netbook or PC? Anything? I thought not.
And as for the future, people have been proclaiming the death of WIMP (Windows, icons, mouse, pointer) for decades. Nothing better has ever been invented, and nothing better will ever likely BE invented. It's already perfect.
Think about it. Have knives changed in the past 10,000 years? Materials have changed, and the shape, but overall, conceptually, has the concept of "knife" really changed?
How about roof shingles? Or your toilet? Or your sink? What about shoes? And hats? Styles come and go, but your basic hat does the same thing it always did.
Once something is good enough, people stick with it forever.
The iPad has absolutely no point. It's a toy.
I think it's just a toy for rich people who don't have anything better to do with their money.
Think about it.
If I want to do some actual work, I'll use a PC, laptop, or netbook. They're optimized for that sort of thing.
If I want to use the web, I'll use a PC if I'm at home (while sitting in my comfy office chair), or a netbook if I'm out and about. My netbook can connect via WiFi or Ethernet, and if I want to use a cell network, there's a plug in adapter for that.
If I want to access media, my PC and Netbook have clients for all media types. ALL of them, including Flash Video. The iPad is rather limited in that regard.
If I want to read a book, I can do so on my PC or Netbook, but I happen to have a Sony Reader at home, which has a convenient USB interface for transferring files as well as a slot for an SD card (also good for transferring and storing files). My Sony Reader's battery lasts a WEEK. It's light and comfortable, and doesn't cause iStrain (ha ha) because it's got an e-ink display.
The iPad isn't very good at anything. In every arena, competing tools are better suited to the task. Cheaper, too.
I don't understand why anyone would buy one of these.
Unless they're rich and have money burning a hole in their pocket.
Red Hat Enterprise clone poised to 'die'
You know what's funny?
I love it. Nobody knows WHAT happened to the guy, but all these creeps are assuming, with no information whatsoever, that he's doing some kind of weirdo embezzling thing.
It's all ridiculous. Maybe the poor guy just fell down his basement stairs. How about actually LOOKING for him, instead of trying his mobile phone and email once or twice and freaking out like a bunch of pansy bed-wetters?
People are idiots. With friends like these, who'd need an enema?
Microsoft kills Visual Studio's Oracle data connection
Aaaaaand THIS is why Oracle developers prefer Java.
How can an IDE/tools/OS vendor like Microsoft kill off something as absolutely CENTRAL to application development as a database driver? Let's put this in perspective by using a car analogy. Pretend I'm a car manufacturer and that you've just heard me say this:
"We have decided to halt all in-house production of wheel rims and tires, because we simply cannot match the quality of rims and tires you can get at a number of third-party sites.
In this economic downturn, you can understand that we have to save money on our manufacturing processes, and this is only one of several measures we're taking.
From now on, when you order vehicles from us, please supply your own copy of a set of wheels and tires, sourced from one of a number of third party vendors that are available. Of course you will have to bolt your wheels and tires onto the vehicle yourself, since we are no longer going to be involved in the wheel and tire process.
Of course, if you have already purchased a set of our wheels and tires, we won't be able to replace them for you, but we might let you use the air nozzle out in the parking lot.
Thank you for your support."
Now, honestly... What would you do? You'd buy someone else's car, right?
It's time to move to Java. No database driver issues THERE...
Sun and Oracle: End of a beautiful dream
Sun does not own NetBeans, and Neither does Oracle
Say it with me, and remember: NetBeans was made open source, and is governed by the "NetBeans Community" -- Sun is the project SPONSOR, but NOT the project OWNER. Oracle can't do diddly squat about NetBeans (and probably wouldn't want to anyway).
If Oracle doesn't want to fund NetBeans, that's fine. Someone else will. Even if nobody does, there will still be forks, and other companies will pick up the slack and offer their own branded versions. Hell, even if that DOESN'T happen, as long as we have the source code we can recompile it for any platform that exists in the future. NetBeans is relatively agnostic about Java versions, as long as you have a working JDK you can direct NetBeans at.
What are you all so worried about? Oracle might as well try to kill the wind. This goes equally for any other open source project Sun had its fingers in. That's the whole POINT of open source.
Oh, and by the way, this goes out to any Eclipse fanboys who happen to be wandering by: Oracle has it's own IDE, JDeveloper, which is better than Eclipse and almost as good as NetBeans. Oracle is NOT going to support Eclipse over JDeveloper. Maybe you should kiss Eclipse goodbye!
Almost everything good related to Java is OPEN SOURCE, and has already been GPL'ed. If Oracle wanted to make it proprietary, they arrived late to the party and the hostess has already gotten drunk and shacked up with hackers.
You can't unring a bell.
Worm breeds botnet from home routers, modems
@Wortel -- nope, chum, mine's the older one...
...WITHOUT the html-serving capabilities. Just DOCSYS for me, thanks. I believe it's the 5101. Your troubleshooting is limited to looking at the blinkenlights and unplugging the modem to restart it when it (rarely) runs into trouble.
I guess sometimes less is more! Mine's never given me any real trouble, although it has crashed rarely (malformed TCP packets perhaps? -- who knew?). I unplug it and replug it and go on my merry way, so I'm not too worried about that one.
The web interface you're describing is on the 5120, which is the high-end model. There's an even higher end model, the 5121, which has VOIP.
I can't claim wisdom here, though; I just got the one the store had on hand (pure luck in other words). Now that I know (thanks, btw) that the higher end models have "amusing features" I'll stick to the low-end. Cheaper, anyway.
Here's what I do at home
Keeping in mind that I'm a weirdo, after all, and somewhat paranoid...
1. I replaced the crap cablemodem my ISP issued with an aftermarket Motorola that was much nicer. It has a button on top; you push the button, and the cablemodem disconnects from the network. You push it again, and you're back online. It's a marvelous feature. When I'm not actually sitting in front of the computer, I take the cablemodem offline.
2. Behind the cablemodem, I have a D-Link 4-port ethernet router with NAT firewall. It was about $75. I changed the passwords of the user accounts to random alphanumeric strings and I configured two new firewall rules called "paranoia1" and "paranoia2". The first one drops all incoming TCP packets that aren't part of an established/related connection. The second one drops all IP packets in the same way. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I turned off remote administration. Also whenever the logs fill up the space on the device, I have it email them to me so I have a permanent record. I download them to disk when I check email.
3. On my PC, I run Ubuntu and I've configured the local firewall to disallow everything incoming unless it's part of an established/related connection. The Ubuntu firewall is called "UFW", for "Uncomplicated Firewall" and the GUI for it is called "GUFW"... It's really just iptables with a frontend, though. It seems to work pretty well. I have NMAP and I check my PC's open ports periodically, just in case someone's managed to do something weird. No issues yet though.
I wonder... Maybe I should double-check my cablemodem? I don't THINK it has a remote administration facility... I'll find out tonight.
Republican e-chief exits, denounces 'blog-flogging simpletons'
If Obama is a socialist...
Then sign me up, comrade! It sure beats the Mussolini/Fascist act the Bush Comedy Troupe has been putting on for eight years.
I've said it to the AC and I'll say it again. Everyone with an education hates the republicans now. The best thing they can do for the country is issue a press release apologizing for their past activities, remove themselves from the political stage, and cede their funding to charities like the American Negro College Fund and Greenpeace in penance.
They don't deserve to manage a hot dog cart, much less a political party. And why hasn't Rush Limbaugh keeled over yet? He must weigh four hundred pounds. He was on drugs. He spends all his time screaming and hollering. What did he do, sell his soul to Satan or something?
Maybe he's animatronic. If so, can we hack him to sing "I'm just a pretty little girl, and I like pop tarts!" in falsetto? Maybe THAT'LL wean the rednecks off his brand of nonsense talk radio...
Note of explanation for the AC I disagreed with
The reason I say your explanation fails is this:
Computer science, although technically science, is really more of a branch of applied mathematics so the crazy religious nuts in the GOP haven't noticed it (and wouldn't know what to do with it if they did). Their attack on science hasn't affected comp.sci.
They're after the biologists and geologists, mostly. It's fun to watch a bunch of biologists and geologists, who are usually pacifists, kicking the tar out of annoying religious 'tards in court. They should make it a sporting event, I think.
Anyway... Yeah, it had no effect on the programmer supply. Their problem is that programmers HATE them, it's got nothing to do with their silly religious crusade.
The short supply of professionals is easy to explain.
Most information technology professionals I know here in the U.S. are either greens, libertarians, democrats, or independent. Republicans are almost nonexistent among the rank and file. Usually it's just the managers who vote GOP, and everyone thinks they're nuts for doing so.
Also, there's a real stigma among educated people (including in particular technologists) against siding with any aspect of the Republican party or their worldview. Siding with them is like wearing a skin-head shirt to a diversity celebration. So, they're not going to be able to find many Americans willing to "help" them. Many would rather be unemployed.
The GOP can't even count on foreign consultants; after all, they're the party who:
* spent eight years torturing, imprisoning, and bombing the crap out of various foreign governments and people;
* Changed all the rules for travel so they could steal foreigner's laptops at border crossings, and detain (and ship to Syria for torture) any non-U.S. citizen they want;
* Stripped U.S. citizens of as many civil liberties as possible while pretending that no one else had any civil liberties at ALL;
* Took a slash and burn approach to science education, pushing Christianity as the One True Faith (that'll go over REAL big with Hindus, Buddhists, and Islamics, i.e. nearly the entire consultant population in Asia!).
They're basically hosed, and deservedly so. They're like the guy who got drunk at New Year's, picked a fight with every other male guest and vomited on the host, then caused the cops to raid the party and got hauled off in cuffs. You know -- the guy you don't invite anywhere, ever again.
For the AC, there are plenty of programmers here in the U.S. and more graduate every year. You're just mindlessly parroting GOP and corporate propaganda, which was meant to excuse offshoring and outsourcing. Here are your tickets to the Failboat; enjoy your cruise.
The Sun shines out of certified Java programmers
@Niall -- one gotcha to worry about with that...
If you want your code to be portable, you shouldn't build in any dependencies that could gum up the works for your users. I don't mean only making sure your file separators aren't windows-specific (as Boris mentioned), I mean making sure all of the following are true:
1) Your "code level" in your project preferences is set to a baseline that will work with your entire user population -- in my agency I've standardized on J2SE 1.5 because many of our users will have Macs and many of those are older models with an older OS/X (1.5 standard, no 1.6 available). You also have to make sure you've got a J2SE 1.5 JDK installed, and set it as the preferred compiler for your project or when users try to run your app older JREs will reject the libraries in your JAR file (they won't match the expected versions, although I don't remember the actual error text).
2) You make sure you don't use anything that was introduced after your targeted JDK was released. For example, in NetBeans, I can't use the beautiful new Free Design layout, I have to go old school. I don't mind, it's a project requirement. Anyway, Nimbus would be great for a techie audience, because they're probably bleeding edge with respect to JDK/JRE, but if you have to support the general public, you should stick to 1.5.
The best way to ensure #2 is to use the J2SE reference pages for your targeted JRE when you're working with code. Assume that if it's not in the reference pages, it's not available to that project.
Thanks to backward compatibility, people who DO use modern JREs will be able to work with your software without difficulties.
It's all about setting a baseline, you know?
@AC -- The GUI is your friend
I work for a large state government in the U.S. and I've been using NetBeans to write a pretty complicated desktop application (financial reporting, mostly) that we'll roll out later this year. Java's a really nice choice for doing desktop software, and NetBeans takes care of all the Swing plumbing for you. You still have to know how to write the code for your event handlers, database interfaces, PDF generation, etc... But if you can't do that, you're not a java programmer, right?
I don't do applets (shudder) but for desktop software, Java's great. As long as you're careful about your memory use, it won't even beat up your PC that much. I don't even worry about "write once, test everywhere" because testing is kind of fun. You run it on some crappy old PCs, some macs, some modern laptops, try to make it break... It's amusing and you can have some popcorn while you try to break your app with wonky inputs.
As far as certification goes, I'm divided on the issue. First of all, it won't affect my job in the slightest. Nobody in government cares about how many pieces of paper you have; you're interviewed by a team including the lead developers, some managers and usually a system admin, and if you can't satisfy them you don't get hired. Anything that makes them nervous or suspicious disqualifies you instantly.
That aside, studying for the programmer test could improve your skills. It seems as though they ask some pretty arcane questions, so you'd have to make a pretty thorough study of how the system works to pass. More knowledge of the guts of the system can't be a BAD thing.
When it comes to the later certs, though, aren't they really pushing a development philosophy? That stuff changes with the wind in IT circles. All you'd be proving is that you're up on the latest fads (web services in this case).
Amazon unveils Kindle 2.0
@andy -- Oh ye of little imagination
Andy, Andy, Andy... You sadden me.
If I want to read books, I'll buy them on paperback. If I want to read e-books, I'll download them from Gutenberg or some other free site, convert them to RTF, format them a little, and stick them on my old Sony reader. Books, alone, are no reason to buy a Kindle.
But this device has POTENTIAL! And when a developer's kit for e-ink technology costs $1500.00 (not counting the rest of the kit and work required to build a functional device), being able to get a complete, functional device for $400 that already has a built-in development platform (if somewhat hidden from view) is pretty cool!
This is a wonderful world we live in, where every comp.sci student grew up watching MacGyver, and every device will be extended to do things it wasn't meant to do. Everyone's an inventor these days, don't you know.
I am SO getting one of these...
P.S. You sound kind of curmudgeonly. Are "those damn kids" still on your lawn?
@Thomas -- True, BUT...
If you know about the page flipping issue, you'd design your app to work mostly in the background, only updating the display when something interesting happens. For example, you could do some kind of mashup with Google maps that shows you types of businesses YOU find interesting, instead of the plain old "restaurants near you" thing Kindle currently offers.
You could write an app that lets you maintain a rating list for places you've visited, for instance.
You could write a P2P app that checks in with a server and maintains communication with your friends, letting you play with the flash mob concept.
You could store all your technical notes in some Kindle-friendly format, and write a search tool for your own stuff, targeted at your job so you can whip through some drop-down boxes and find information you're interested in.
There are all KINDS of crazy things you could do with one of these. IF, that is, the thing is programmable enough.
But now I'm thinking.. Apparently all the native apps on Kindle run on Java! So if you got a console, you could probably invoke the runtime and run your own full-blown apps, with them being rendered with Kindle's built-in widgets. IF, that is, you can get the widget libraries, which are probably in the downloadable source code...
I'm telling you, this thing might be really really neat.
My only concern is, if I fork out a bunch of money for it, I don't want to void the warranty or piss off Amazon. But I don't want to be limited to JavaScript, either.
It's a conundrum.
Ah... But what can you do with it?
Can you replace the on-board OS with Ubuntu? Can you turn it into a mobile tablet?
What a lovely little mobile THIS would be! With a FOUR DAY RUN TIME!!!
I wonder how they initially load the O/S... There's probably some hidden connector that lets you flash the system ROM. I wonder! Time to Google!
Update after a few minutes of googling about
So, I found this guy's blog (igorsk.blogspot.com) and he has a several part series on digging around in the Linux that already runs on the kindle. I don't dare read his posts at work; they'll likely get websensed. But when I get home, I'm digging in.
It looks like he's gotten a console to run, at the very least, and checked the boot logs. Apparently, although the Linux that's built into the Kindle is hard to get to, you CAN get to it.
Pretty interesting stuff. If I could get a kindle to act like a regular, multipurpose computer, that'd be pretty cool I think. Hmm... If it has Perl or Java installed, and I can bring up a console, I can do text-based apps. As far as GUi apps go, if it'll let you run web pages and applets off an SD card, you can write in Java and JavaScript, although you'd have to figure out how to save to the SD card so you could keep your work for later.
If I stick to using browser-based apps, I might not even break the warranty. I wonder if doing text-mode stuff in the console would annoy Amazon? Browser-based stuff might be ok with them, but consoles might make 'em nervous...
I wonder how much you can get away with here? The four day run time just blows me away... The idea of having a portable that runs for FOUR DAYS is just tantalizing.
I think I'm going to pursue this.
Sigh... Now I'm depressed.
Looks like the built-in browser is VERY minimal and offers no plugin support, no Flash, no Java, no nothing. Meh.
Also, I've read their TOS and it looks like we programmers need to be careful what we write. Amazon is very persnickety about changes to the Kindle. They seem to be mostly worried about people pirating content, so this probably won't be a problem for most programmers, who just want to tinker around and maybe do little location-based apps (since it's wireless and all).
It seems to me that all you have available is JavaScript and CSS if you want to write your own stuff (without breaking the warranty, getting yelled at, etc). I suppose you COULD write web pages with embedded JavaScript, and put together simple apps that way without annoying Amazon. And of course you could write server-side apps on your own websites that the kindle could work with, so it's not a total loss.
Ok, I might still get one.
Firefox 3.0.6 fixes yet another JavaScript bug
Get rid of the "Awful New Address Bar"
It's not that bad... Here's how you make your address bar act like one:
1. type "about.config" in the address bar (ha! have at you!) and hit enter. Click through the scary message. You can trust your uncle Phil... In the filter, put "URL" and search. Look for the word "urlbar" in the main window... There are several settings, two of which are useful.
2. set browser.urlbar.MatchOnlyTyped to "true".
3. set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to "0".
4. restart your browser.
POOF! Your url bar is back to normal.
Heh... It's about time I was able to post something useful here!!! Now I'm going for a brewski.
Absolutely Fabulous ups sticks to LA
I'm an American -- and I used to watch AbFab all the time.
We're not "parochial". Most of us get the BBC channel and watch the original British shows. Also we can pick up the DVD collections of most British shows in our local bookstores.
Many Americans enjoy British comedy immensely. The nice thing about British comedy is, it doesn't treat us like imbeciles. It allows us to actually enjoy a smart punchline, or an irreverent, smart-ass worldview.
American television comedy, on the other hand, is written for the lowest common denominator -- the mouth breathers who get angry when you use "big words" around them. The punch lines are stupid, the situations are inane, and only rarely is any intelligence injected into a show.
Oh, we have a couple of shows that aren't bad. South Park for example, and the Simpsons, which is written by Harvard grads. But most of it is crap.
For some inconceivable reason, the American version of The Office was actually good, but I think that was a fluke. Maybe the executives weren't paying attention, and the writers saw an opportunity?
If they remake AbFab here, I want to think it'll be good, like The Office, but deep down I have a gnawing fear that the suits have caught on, learning from The Office, and will have some new way of forcing the writers to dumb the material down.
Maybe not, but...
C dominated 2008's open-source project nursery
I think you need C and something like Java...
I don't think it's an either/or type of thing.
For building user-facing software, you'd obviously pick Java because of its GUI libraries and ease of development. You can use Java for most day to day programming and be very happy and content.
For building system-level stuff, and high performance stuff, you'd pick C. You might even use C to write some native libraries called by your Java code. It's as fast as assembler, but easier to work with, and you can use inline assembler with it, so that's cool.
If you really want to get nutty, you can write some code in C, halfway compile it with GCC and get assembly language code, edit and tweak the assembly language code until you're happy, and do your final build.
Don't be a "one book man".
Don't be a guy with a hammer always looking for nails.
Mix and match! It's pret a porter!
Danish SWAT team surrounds PlayStation shoot-'em-up
When I was a kid...
I had a rich friend whose father bought him and his brother some theatrical-quality prop guns to play with. I think they were called "blowback guns" or something; they fired some type of blank ammo for use in theatrical plays and whatnot.
So these two knuckleheads start chasing each other around a Dunkin' Doughnuts in New Jersey, blasting away at each other. Everyone inside panics, thinking it's some kind of bank robbery type thing (this was back before gangs were the Big Thing).
The police are of course called. My friend happens to notice an entire line of patrol cars sneaking up on the Dunkin' Doughnuts, and the guys hide the toy guns in the back of his beat-up car.
The cops were NOT amused. They confiscated all the "guns", arrested the two guys, made their parents bail them out, and fined them, I think for something like criminal stupidity and wasting police resources (whatever they actually called it).
He never saw the "guns" again, but he got a good story out of it.
Librarians redubbed 'audience development officers'
They must not cut down on librarians!!!
Good GOD, man... Don't you realize you're trampling on my favorite porn fantasy???
If there are no more librarians, whatever will I fantasize about? Bookstore clerks???
What a sad day in Western Civilization...
Tell Santa to bring more assault rifles
@Rick... bravo. Very well said.
That was possibly one of the best posts in this whole forum.
Sticking to food for now...
I'll take a Sam Adams and a bowl of chili or lentil soup over the shepherd's pie and "bitters" (god that stuff's nasty, like drinking old engine oil). Nice stuff. The guys steamed up about "American Beer" are probably thinking of budweiser or pabst blue ribbon. Heh heh heh...
I'm surprised to see that my earlier troll is still wandering around, causing trouble. They don't die easy, do they? At least it's getting some -- apparently it's run into a female British troll and they're procreating. I wonder what their kids will look like?
Ha ha... I wonder if I should say something inflammatory and wind up Mike some more? Looks like his spring is about ready to pop out of the gear case and hit someone in the eye.
Oh, I can't resist. (ahem)
@Mike: During WWII, we ALLOWED Japan to attack us so we would be provided with an excuse to enter the European theater and save your bland-food-eating, tea-swilling, ugly cardigan-wearing butts. If it weren't for us, you wouldn't be wearing an anorak when you go trainspotting, you'd be wearing a schwere Mantel. Now, run along and have some bratwurst... OH! I meant Shepherd's Pie!
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Me with thy warmth. Once there was a guy who
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came to pass that he found me for a bride
But he passed away with the enraged wind
Of life and my heart had since endured this
Coup. None have been like my John, no; Their brain
Registers no truth. Love is not money,
No, nor is it honey. Love is all so
Deeper than beauty or form. Oh! It's what
My John and I shared. Beauty shall always
Urge body attraction, attitude shall
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They say everything that goes around
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Let tide and time reverse, that I might meet
My John, and enjoy what time had denied us.
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The Miami Dolphins came out of New York with an early Christmas present. The play of the defense was almost perfect but two drops by Jet wide receivers, one in the endzone by Santonio Holmes surely helped. While the game scores a win for the Dolphins, it underscores the problems on offense with a unit that collectively ran for just over 100 yards and passed for 55.
Yes, I said 55 passing yards. Can it get any worse?
Some of the mistakes in that aerial feet of slop can be directly attributed to Chad Henne who looked worse than last week against the Browns. It almost appeared that he regressed to his first few games as a pro…but he played better then. His passes were not sharp and aside from a 20 yard pass to Anthony Fasano and the 8 yard strike to Brandon Marshall for the games only touchdown, Henne looked absolutely horrid.
Henne is losing more and more fans each week that support him.
Henne looked bad but Dan Hennings' play selection was once again a focal point of disdain for the ultra conservative offense. When Chad Henne finally looked as though he would turn the corner towards mediocre, Henning surprised no one by instituting the Wild Cat. In fact, Henning called the WC formation on two separate occasions in the red-zone. Not simply at the 20 mind you, around the ten.
The Henning called plays were run on first and second downs for little gain and then Henne was thrown back on the field to clean it up and score. Hard to find a sense of purpose or become a leader when your yanked off the field in scoring position. It either highlights the Dolphins lack of confidence in the three year QB or underlines the ineptitude of an aging OC.
Still there are others who would argue that Henning isn't to blame here. A very few minority. In a recent unofficial poll taken by a media outlet over 70% of the fans polled believed that Henning should be fired. It did not discern from now or after the season. So while the number of Henning supporters is almost nil, there are still some who blame either Chad Henne…or the offensive line.
When the subject of the offensive line comes into a conversation two fingers get pointed. The first is at the Oline itself. Outside of Jake Long who despite his shoulder injury is still having a Pro-Bowl year, the rest of the Oline seem to be going through the motions. Blocking in the running game is nowhere near what it used to be and pass protection is an up and down event.
The other finger gets pointed at HC Tony Sparano. Sparano is supposed to be an Oline genius in the NFL. Yet after three seasons rebuilding the Dolphins, that is one of our worst units. His continual tinkering with personnel has left a void of continuity. Yes, injuries do play a part but going back to each of the three off-seasons, Sparano interchanges his lineman daily and that doesn't seem to stop when the games get started.
This is an ongoing issue that will eventually start costing jobs on the coaching staff.
While the Oline has been at times horrible, it makes for an interesting triangle of debate. Is Dan Hennings' play calling causing the line to play poorly? Is his conservative nature allowing opposing defenses to know the play the offense will run before they come to the line? Thus putting the offensive line in a bad position? Or is it the poor execution of the QB that can't seem to run the OC's plays that is causing the problem? Or is the offensive line not executing the plays being called and thus creating the problems all together?
Likely, it's all three. Lack of talent on the Oline. A QB who can't run a system built for a different style. And an OC who seems so removed from todays' game that cornerbacks can call the routes of his receivers.
It all adds up to big changes at years end. But we all know that math isn't always as simple as 1+1+1=3.


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I *believe* that I deleted the FF profile.
I uninstalled the program and when I did FF asked if I wanted to keep FF data (I assume this is the profile). I said no.
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Didn't matter to me. It's a charitable donation to an incredibly worthy cause
And yes, they had each cover for sale. I bet if you call Toy Tokyo, you might be able to see if they still have that piece available. The He-Ro unleashed print was lot A3 if I remember correctly.
As for Battle Bra She-Ra. Yes! I guarantee that most people who aren't in the MOTUC club would assume that's just a differently outfitted She-Ra.
She's a blonde with a sword fighting the horde and she's with He-Man
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The print that I bought the Hordak vs. skeletor came with the original signed art work. Signed by ohare. I'll take a pic of it.
And mr BCRDuke it was a blast being in your presence as well.
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So I had a good time at this art show. Most of the prints were quite cool.
I had a chance to chat with Toyguru. He mentioned that he might buy some of the art. When I asked which hotel he was staying at, so I could loot him later, he looked confused. I think he was tired/stressed or both.
He noticed the full bag of TOD Sorceress, and remarked that he was just glad they made it to the art show in time. I was there at 5 PM for the opening, and the Fedex guy just arrived with the figures, so they almost didn't.
Anyway, my friend and I thanked him for bringing us the MOTUC line which-despite all the hassles, bs, and Digital River--is still the best action figure line of all time.
He thanked us, I told him to have a good time at NYCC, and we left.
He does seem like quite a nice guy when you talk to him in person.
I am going to try to add the pictures I took, but I've never done so before, so we'll see.
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lol chris. .i've run into the same problem. it was a pain in the butt uploading a handful of pictures.. as far as Toy Guru is concerned,he has to be very paranoid at times.. j.k. probably stressed,mind going hundred miles an hour i bet. btw what price range were these prints selling at?
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I will say I'm glad I jumped at the He-man and He-Ro piece considering it will forever be a momentous one! And if everything goes well I am looking to add maybe 2 or 3 more pieces if they are not gone yet!
I was also able to score 2 autographed Hordak prints (due to the amount of TOD's I bought) in addition to the other 4 and a Johnboy Meyer sketch!
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This was actually on the floor. I told TG to come and stand on it see what happends.......
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Just got back from Toy Tokyo earlier today and acquired the Castle Grayskullman painting that is autographed by Johnboy Meyer! I still noticed the King Hsss and the pencil drawings are still available with a few more I quickly glanced at. The show is officially done and Toy Tokyo will be posting the remaining art on their website for sale starting Friday I believe, Sat. the latest!
'Tis the wind and nothing more.....
I'm really enjoying these pics. Thanks to everyone for posting!
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Is the artwork being sold all prints or is there any original art? Meaning the actual original and not something that's been copied and made into a print. I realize a good portion of the art is most likely digital and therefore prints would be the only option for purchase, but I'm just curious if any of it was done via traditional media (i.e., on board or canvas) and then made available for sale.
Harken the coming of Dragstor!!
I finally found my pics that I took at the Toy Toyko MOTU art show a few years back. I still have 3-4 pics somewhere. Anyway theres a Pic of GORPO as well.
if this is against the rules then just take it down but theres tooo many pics to do it again for everyone here to see.......
Cool!!!! Thanks for posting
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Possibly my favourite photo from V Festival. I love how our hair is all over the place and you can see my wellies in the background.
amongst the chaos you can find peace .
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Festival ideas :)
I love this picture. I am at a tiny little festival near my hometown. We are dressed as characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream…
"Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere."
I made my headband myself. It is willow with lavender wrapped around it and a string of beads and butterflies. (I was still an art student at this point!)
That summer was one of the best times of my life. We traveled from festival to festival, going home to sleep one night a week. We didn't eat. We lived off sunshine and alcohol, looking back I'm not so sure how we made it out alive!
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Definitely going to up the sacrifices to the Rain God though, currently he doesn't seem too pleased…!
The sun needs to get its hat on, fast! it makes everyone jolly and i need my freckles back! It definetly needs to be sunny for beach break, oh i've missed festivals!
summer festivals never get old when you're with the right people <3