GrimJack

Well, it depends on what needs repair. There is no repair for bullet holes, most fires, breaking it into pieces is pretty bad too. Most repairs that actually work include plugging it in; removing and reinserting the various pieces and sometimes buying a new power supply. What is the perceived …

[QUOTE=Ancient Dragon;503067]>> From were Money Comes??? Many people think it comes off a money tree. And the plastic cards everyone in USA seems to have today have made paper money less useful. I assume many other countries such as UK also has simpliar experience with plastic.[/QUOTE] Actually, it is a …

All y'all understand that the word 'gauche' is French for left, right? Like the Latin from which French (d)evolved, it is anti-left-handed - sinister is Latin for left.

I sometimes use a noun, a color, and a number that I can see from where I sit then add a *. When I was part of a operations team that had to change passwords monthly and keep the team around the world up to date, we used a set …

Heh,heh - there are already self-repairing surfaces. The robots that come for you might not look like what you expect: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbqHERKdlK8"]spot[/URL], [URL="http://io9.com/5376658/evil-singing-robot-of-death-should-be-smashed-with-a-hammer"]love-doll[/URL], [URL="http://io9.com/5280536/new-tiny-robots-can-crawl-through-your-veins"]living in your body[/URL], [URL="http://io9.com/5362338/robot-fighter-jet-killed-before-it-could-go-awol"]in the air[/URL], [B][I][U]we are all doomed[/U][/I][/B]

I believe that the word you meant is 'eve' as in the night before rather than eave as in the edge of the roof.

Welcome back; I have taken you out of my sh*tcan, the next mention of whatshername and you are back in it (grin).

I kind of like 'McGruber' on SNL.

I'm a jerk

Last night Conan had Shatner do a reading of Palin's 'quitter' speech (she actually said "north to the future") but I am not enough of a sadist to inflict it so here is [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXuSWUXDnuo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F"]Stewie[/URL] instead.

I follow way too many to list but I will mention the ones I watch every day: [URL="http://thinkprogress.org/"]http://thinkprogress.org/[/URL] [URL="http://wonkette.com/"]http://wonkette.com/[/URL] [URL="http://blogs.savingadvice.com/baselle"]http://blogs.savingadvice.com/baselle[/URL] [URL="http://www.crooksandliars.com/"]http://www.crooksandliars.com/[/URL] [URL="http://johnhawks.net/weblog/"]http://johnhawks.net/weblog/[/URL] [URL="http://evolvingthoughts.net/"]http://evolvingthoughts.net/[/URL] You will probably figure out that I am an effing liberal

[QUOTE=vmanes;1092174]"We see in your file you were a COBOL programmer."[/QUOTE] Isn't that what is in your file when you get sent to hell? I worked with a woman who wrote her travel diary into her COBOL programs. [CODE]When arrived_paris(day) do go_sub see_sites day = day + 1 until day = …

[QUOTE=Sodabread;1095740]At the risk of sounding fanatical, how do you know? I'm not saying that I agree that the universe is only 6k years old, but from a religious standpoint, God being all-powerful could have made Earth, the universe, physics, science, everything give humanity (and any other intelligent life elsewhere in …

When you name your roomba and try to understand why it does what it does (and hack it to make it do what you want).

Sometimes, I think the [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2010/01/would_you_like_ammonia-laced_p.php#more"]free market[/URL] is going to kill us all. Can you believe it - the lunch-ladies turned this crap away.

Beliefs are inarguable. You started the post with "I have been thinking" and yet nowhere in the post do you offer any proof of such. Why should anyone care what you believe? You posit stuff you found in a bad television program; not even anything of your own (other than …

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNzrwh2Z2hQ"]Wrap up the decade[/URL] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctWussmDA1k"]Or just 07[/URL]

[QUOTE=firstPerson;1033889]More bullshit, what does it really matter? A new [URL="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html"]Missing Link[/URL] has been found. If what they say is true then all that I have been taught by be anthropology teacher and alike has been bUllShit. Its all crap. What does it really matter if we "come" from moneys or …

The calendar is an arbitrary imposition of order onto civilizations blundering around the sun. In general, rather than AD and BC - the years are numbered Common Era/Before Common Era (it is currently 2009 CE soon to be 2010). There are many cultures that do not accept the birth of …

My recipes for gamerz and/or other easily distracted folks: (We buy our rice in big bags so we generally fill a canister w/rice and put it in the freezer overnight; we wash our rice prior to cooking so we control what sorts of protein is in it <grin>. ) 2 …

You are probably going to have to buy a new fan; buy one specific for your processor - [URL="http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A1149292&dgc=SS&cid=27530&lid=627063"]get a big honking copper-vaned, 120 cm fan[/URL]. You will probably have to remove your cpu so you can get the fan off of it; make sure you have some thermal paste …

I never understood the 'war on xmas' stuff - how is "Happy Holidays" an evil thing? Christmas is Dec. 25th - that is the day to wish someone a Merry Christmas. Do you wish someone 'happy Thanksgiving for weeks before the day? The winter solstice is such a good time …

I just looked at [URL="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/aussie-content-filters-work-if-you-dont-count-im-p2p-ftp.ars"]this[/URL] - I remember a wonderful movie from the 1960s - [U][URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/"]The President's Analyst[/URL][/U] that had [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUa3np4CKC4"]this wonderful scene[/URL] that seems to be motivating the Aussie Gov. I did not know that your government could do that!?!?

I went out and got myself a job - yep! my 13 months of unemployment are finally over.

Have you looked in Start/programs/system information/startup?

Okay, if you have checked out all the different function keys to make sure they are set as they should be, we might look at screen itself (see first image) - does anything look/feel wrong about how it opens, closes ? Have you opened it up? to add/change memory? Removed …

[QUOTE=stephen84s;689295]Nice read, another article I really liked linked with developing skills in the programming field is [URL="http://norvig.com/21-days.html"]Peter Norvig's Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years[/URL][/QUOTE] I'm getting depressed again. At least I bought the Complete Dummies version. Anyone want to take on a 60 year old trainee?

Wow - [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5x2FQuQfTg"]slo-mo card tricks [/URL]that you will not believe set to music

Varies - I spent my 40th in a cabin in Montana drinking 40 year old port (Fonseca) with family and friends; spent my 30th tied up to the log boom at a SeaFair unlimited hydroplane race; spent my 60th with my long time companion in a bar in Pony Montana …

I want a paycheck - it has been about a year.

Shortest poem FLEAS [INDENT]Adam Had'em[/INDENT] Actually, one of my favorites is Dylan Thomas' [INDENT]Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. [/INDENT]

[url]http://www.surveillance-video.com/stsyli.html[/url] Try Frye's - best buy and such

google is your friend We on the other hand do not actively advocate piracy; nor do we offer advice on how to break the law.

[QUOTE=Ezzaral;1065270]Perhaps the OP means "cute" girl? That 'e' can make a lot of difference :)[/QUOTE] Nope, I bet the OP is into one of those odd subcultures that is into blades - ESL speakers really open up the possibilities for misunderstandings. The OP wants to 'friendship' someone - is that …

10 meters is like the absolute bottom end of asteroids; anything smaller than 10 meters is a meteoroid so if you are into picking nits - this is the place to start (let me rephrase that - "are you some sort of maroon/moran?").

Hey, I want one - Me, me - pick me, pick me. [email]rodger.coghlan@gmail.com[/email]

[URL="http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/sbcglobal.net"]Did you see this?[/URL] I just chose kathykuo@sbcglo to show you a place to look. [URL="http://www.dnsstuff.com/"]I started here[/URL]

[QUOTE=hughv;1058057]...so, let's move it. NASA estimates it will cost One Trillion dollars over ten years to reach Mars. Just think of what we could save! (snip) How to go about it? That's where you come in. It seems to me we need to stop the rotation first, in order to …

I get my cartridges refilled at Walgreen's - a drugstore chain. They have this really cool machine that they stick the cartridge in press a few buttons and it gets refilled. Of course, it is more complicated than that but --- Apparently, you can't refill the cartridges too often so …

Having dinner with friends who I only see on Xmas and Independence Day. I love them dearly but they have 3 kids and no time for us - life can be like that sometimes.

It is hard for me to decide - I don't have the attention span to see most movies more than once but I can watch all the Zatoichi movies +[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH0lmP4N7Y"] the new one[/URL] about every 3 or 4 years so I have to nominate them. WARNING! might be NSFW. I …

I posted [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Office-WM-01-Laptop-Steering/dp/B000IZGIA8"]this[/URL] in a different thread but realized this might be a better location. Take your home office on the road with you.

take a look [URL="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2007/11/12/types-of-data-compression-in-sql-server-2008.aspx"]here[/URL] and see if it addresses your problem

I know 2 will work but I do not know about 1 - it might be dependent on the MoBo

While we are on the topic of Win7 - I just ran across [URL="http://www.livescience.com/technology/etc/091102-windows-app-turns-your-laptop-into-virtual-wifi-hotspot.html"]this hack[/URL] - er, app

Hunh? whowhatwherewhy?

We are having some of our hill-country friends down for T-day. And beginning to noodle for an Xmas dinner party invite.

I sometimes wonder where all the tinfoil hat folks are, then posts like this pop up. I hope that the OP is an ESL speaker cuz the grammar sure sux. Do you understand the meaning of anti-gravity? Once you remove gravity from its effects on a body, you then have …

Wheeeee! Happy Birthday, Dani. Many happy returns - who will remember to revive this next year?!

Well, after reading all these posts I think I will bring Seattle with me or a cigarette boat with enough fuel to get back to land.