Bulldrek v3.0

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Back to Los Angeles (honestly, I don't even remember where I was last time I did much on here, aside from being in Indy for a GenCon -- which is also what made me think to pop in today, since I'll be there next week). Went from LA to Austin to San Diego, and back to LA, moving to slightly better ver...

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My food budget is low, but that's because I'm terribly lazy, cheap, and capable of sneaking in just enough variation to make it work out. I just can't bother myself to cook something fancy if I'm the only one eating it. Breakfast has gone from cereal and milk to cereal and Yogurt with berries (fresh...

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I tell people I don't have a text plan (for now, this is even the truth) explicitly because I dislike how text messages work -- they were an ok stop-gap solution. We now have dataplan phones. Send an e-mail, or use an IM program, or actually just call. Text messages are the most expensive possible w...

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Currently in Texas, near Austin, and all I have is bats and flowers. Also, that whole "Remember the Alamo" thing? They have to remind you because otherwise you'd miss it. It's pretty small. :P I used to go on those kinds of vacations with my parents, though. I remember greatly enjoying the...

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Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. If you choose your restaurant well, I don't think it's a terrible choice, as such things go, but it's always a little strange watching co-workers go out to buy a sandwich , and then complain while they eat it about how poor they are. Note: These people are also upset whe...

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I don't find 5 meals a week particularly unexpected. That could mean, say, Breakfast: Coffee and Bagels / Donuts. How many people stop in for a Starbucks every morning and grab a pastry of some sort? *bam* 1 meal out most days. Most of the people at work go out for lunch at least a few days a week, ...

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If it's the restraints more than the ropes and knots and such, I found a simple set of under-bed cuffs and straps worked pretty well - around $30 on Amazon. This one, I think.

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I (relatively) recently read through Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan books. I liked them. Currently reading random free e-books, like The Art of War and The Problems of Philosophy and other such classics I always said I'd read some day, but never did. Also, various Lovecraft collections, and a few World of...

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Don't forget to practice your cardio.

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I read this article , and thought of you, three-two, along with this post. Originally, I was just going to maybe log back into LJ or otherwise see if I could randomly track you down... but when I saw Bulldrek still here and my log in still working and you still posting, I decided nothing would be be...

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Well, it is the city of low odds... Besides, with 1.5 million people living there, and thousands coming and going daily, you'd expect those "1-in-10-million" type cases to show up, literally, about once a year. Whether they'd go off in that time frame is questionable, but Las Vegas does al...

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Let's see...

Patriot act still being used to pursue non-terrorist related objectives? Check.
Bush still a total ass? Check.
MooCow still kicking bums on the street? Check.

Nope, I'm pretty sure we're about where we were.

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I just started a class here on base. I've got flexibility, I've got some upper body strength and the lower is fine except for my outer calf muscle. That should get better if I keep up with this. What I need is balance and rhythm. Any exercises for those? First some stuff you can do on your own -- B...

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I disagree with 32 on only one aspect of his point. The parts about not trying to recreate your old life or ressurect old friendships is probably good advice. If some of those friends come back on their own, great (probably - old friends can often trigger old behaviors), but don't try to force anyth...

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Kitt wrote:I tend to wind up drunk and half naked at large parties.

If I hadn't already allocated my travel budget for this year, this line would make me seriously consider flying to Long Island just to drive you there myself.

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I only like playing multi with friends. And most often prefer doing anti-computer co-op or one fo the odd-ball script maps, like Turret Defense.

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Every day I wake up, stretch a little, pack breakfast and lunch in my bag, and go for a bike ride down the beach. About 45 minutes down the beach, I turn inland and around 15 minutes later I'm at "work". Work, for me, is playing games. Literally. I test games. The job pays enough to cover ...

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They may think the market is finally ready for a MMORTS (Sovereign tried and failed - I think it was a good idea, just too early). However, with SC2 coming, that takes out the RTS balance designersthey've been hiring. It's unlikely they'll put up two RTS games at teh same time, and I don't think the...

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Regarding the article - naming and bonding with various non-humans has happened for millenia. Horsemen certainly bonded with their mounts, and would only want to ride their own mount. Kennelmasters and wardogs, equally so. Regardless of the fact that every sword in the armory shoudl be nearly identi...

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PS to Paul - Even as recently as 50 years ago, it would have been very obvious that non-white people were being persecuted for any crime against a white person. Or even looking at one funny. They were lynched for it. I don't recollect saying it didn't happen that way. Or saying that nonwhites weren...

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The question at hand is what is the purpose of the legislation and the purpose of the punishment. If we really wanted criminals to be able to come back to society and function well, we're doing things all wrong. If we simply want people likely to do bad things hidden away somewhere for a long time, ...

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My socks were indeed rocked.

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I dated a boy in high school who, after french kissing me for the first time, decided he was gay. On.The.Spot. On the flip side, given my tendancies into areas generally considered "Gay" (one of my ex-girlfriends has described me as being gay in every way except the one that actually coun...

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Probably not. GenCon is during prime-time crunch for the video game industry. How's it going with that? Pretty well. QA credits on F.E.A.R., Ice Age II, and Scarface, along with some uncredited work (too short to matter, or for patches or Direct-Download stuff where they don't append your name into...

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Probably not. GenCon is during prime-time crunch for the video game industry.

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Boring notes about my life below -- though honestly I don't think anyone can beat FlameBlade on this one. Worked bullshit temp jobs in college town. Moved home for a few weeks before travelling the country visiting friends and family (and looking for work) Moved home again, worked at Target Hallowee...

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There's always LiveJournal...

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Yes, that is what I'm saying. The article doesn't talk about any actual policies. From the Article, after the useless intro: --- The Clinton administration, declaring <mercury> pollution a "threat to public health," ordered coal plants to slash their mercury emissions by ninety percent by...

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Last Two Lines : The EPA went a step further: Under its old cost-benefit formula, the agency valued each human life saved from toxic pollution at $6.1 million. But thanks to a new rule, the cost of polluting people to death has plummeted: Under Bush, your life has officially been devalued by $2.4 m...

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I thought Brine would be hairier. Ook Ook! *throws poop*

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(...) deciphering error messages like "Dongle not present" and I'm sure that other forms of wierdness will crop up quikly enough. (....) So what is a Dongle? dongle <hardware> /dong'gl/ (From "dangle" - because it dangles off the computer?) 1. <security> A security or copy prote...

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The idea is "the US is the Great Satan and deserves to be terrorized", I think. Or something like that.

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This is a fairly regular occurence in Korea (keeling over while playing Starcraft, that is -- other games seem to have a lesser death rate ;) ). A lot of these cases actually have the guy die of other things, the lack of sleep just contributes to it. One, as I recall, died because he sat on his fat ...

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The article, at least the opening, still seems very relevant. I'll poke through it in pieces, though, too long for one reading.

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First of all, it depends on teh school you have in mind. If I were to design a public school for backwater Saskatchewan, I would use a different courseload than if I were doing a globalized prep school for multiple nationalities. In the case of the former, I'd probably do whatever relates most to th...

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Does anyone else notice that this Steve Austin wanna-be looks like a complete freak with this arms. WTF? Why is it that these artificial limbs always look like erector sets and rubber. They need to collaborate with some F/X guys, make-up artists and engineers. I'm happy for the guy's new capabiliti...

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Marius wrote:"Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science."

South Africa, at least the white part he's from, is not Third World in any sense. He's also been professor in London, Chicago, Boston, and several other places...

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The only games I play in arcades these days are those with some sort of gimmick that's hard to take home. Silent Scope, for example, with the really cool sniper rifle controller. DDR (until the home mats came out) probably kept the arcades near my college afloat for a few years. To help you out, I'l...

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Actually Scotty's ashes will be "beamed up" into space.

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Willoughby-Eastlake in Northeast Ohio. Willoughby South High School to be exact. With students these days, I doubt you have to worry about them. Chances are, they could teach me a thing or two. Ohio High School? If I remember my biology rightly, that means they should just entering the "throwi...

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Given the general lack of RP on RP server... I'm not sure there's a huge amount to be excited about. I've all but given up on actually doing any RP at this point and just started pwning Alliance noobs in Battle Grounds. Mainly because none of them have any clue how to fight PvP, and the hideous fact...

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Fight scenes can be short. This I wouldn't mind. Fight scenes can be brutal. This I wouldn't mind. Fight scenes can't be shakey-cam "Did something just happen? I think someone hit something and then fell over... who won? Oh, must've been batman because he's still there" useless crap in a m...

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Szechuan wrote:Get dual-citizenship and run here?

Do you run as individuals in Canada? I thought it was a parliamentary system so it was done by party... I totally say we need a Bulldrek Party! Our platform is free booze until you're too drunk to notice what else we're doing.

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Salvation122 wrote:<a href>, which is used in approximately every thread you ever posted in, ever.

Could we send a Perl script through the database to convert most instances of "<a href" to "[url"?

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BlackJack wrote:However, people will still steal and kill for their drug of choice.

Crime (as a whole, not including direct drug-violations) will go down. See, they may still steal, they just won't steal as much if it's less expensive. Lazy bastards.

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Nah, I suspect Ben is just a bit bitter about losing his job as Nixon's speech writer. ;) He's usually a fairly easy-going guy, I was just impressed with how completely vicious he was in condemning the whole thing. And he is right... Nixon did do a lot of very good things. Probably not in the best o...

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First, I think he overestimates the number of people in America who are closer to the social democratic European view. Many is a vague term. If he'd said majority, or even plurality or significant minority, I'd agree, but I'd say a good eighth of the population in the US would rather have something...

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Ben Stein is awesome.

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Uh... I Like Winternight, so do that, only fully working? Take fully working white on black template and drop in what's complete in Winternight? I dunno.

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Stronghold! What? It is, too! Just, like, 9 years older than the version you probably want...

You can probably get it for under $10 if you look around enough. I know I've seenthe deluxe pack (with the expansion included and such) for under $10 on an EB used shelf. Just saying is all...

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Republicans value life 0.5 as much as compared to Democrats

Re: New job. Managing an arcade.