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Monthly Archives: July 2004

Doom. DOOOOOOM!

Uh, number 3 comes out pretty soon. It’s supposed to look amazing, and funny enough, it’s still supposed to run fine on a 1.4 Ghz with a GeForce 3. I’ve heard 20-40 fps, depending on your setup. Which is playable.
And I still haven’t put together the new machine, I haven’t even ordered [...]

Hm. Upgrades

I just upgraded to a g network at my apartment for wireless. Wireless b boys, you need to just step off. I don’t need your sucka bandwidth limitations holding me back from 54 mbps. I picked up the unfortunately named Aiport Extreme Base Station with the academic pricing ($20 off) and plugged [...]

Sage words

On with the quote:
Kierra: The internet is a scary, scary place.PraxisLoki: You just now realized this?Kierra: Yes, when I googled “Education, Job openings, Highschool, and English” and the first link was like “Hott underaggg3d grrls 4 u!”
The saddest part is that I’m not sure that what she found was in English.
On the [...]

Speaking of updates

Have you seen the blogger craziness? Templates, comments.
I have the feeling that Google/Blogger is trying to create a community similar to the Live Journal folks. They have a ways to go, although I was playing around in the “edit profile” section of blogger and there are more than a few features [...]

Not as painful as one would think

In the interest of “taking one for the team,” I’ve installed a service pack against my (and others’s) better judgment. I’ve decided to install on my primary work machine. This is so that I’ll have a vested interest in fixing anything I find broken.
So, I’ve installed the MS XP SP 2 RC 2, and so [...]

Finally

There’s an answer to that one Star Wars question that’s been bothering me for a while. Remember how Han boasts about the “Kessel Run” in under “12 parsecs?”
Parsecs are distance, not time, why this makes sense is explained here.
So I can no longer just chalk this up to poor fact checking.

Well, barring time travel, of course. . .

There are no “takebacks” when you communicate.
Whether it’s Interpersonal or Mass Communication, once a message is sent out, you can’t edit it.
Two people are having a conversation. One says, “I don’t love you anymore.” That person cannot retract that statement without negatively impacting future messages that they may want to send. [...]