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Just you wait! They'll start taking up curling speed stacking!

What's this e-mail with the Subject "Stinky Cheese" in Swahili? And... why do I feel this irresistable urge to legally change my name to Reggie? OH, NO! VIRUS ALERT! HIT DELETE BEFORE SOMEONE GETS HURT!

Well, since I never even got a reply to my suggestion to call an external burner of the user's choice for multi-track images as an interim suggestion this suggestion will probably meet a similar fate.

Am I the only one who finds it more than a little ironic that NBC now airs a show called Friday Night Lights on a Tuesday?

After installing IE 7 (Might as well install it, learn it, figure out the bugs that can't be fixed, iron out the ones that can, BEFORE I am forced to have it installed.) something appeared in the System Tray. Some folder icons with Options and Restore. After selecting one, I forget, it just disappeared. Never to return. So, anyone know what this should have been?

And, surely this can't be a coincidence... but, Firefox 2.0 may be "officially" outed tomorrow. It's already available some places like 9down, but may just be Release Candidate 3.

Which brings me to a point I've made a few times in other venues, so, might as well say it here. People wonder why kids grow up to be rebellious against their parents, have no respect for edlers, etc. I say the answer is easy. We lie to them. Thus, they can't ever have any respect for those older than they are. Seeds of distrust are sewn early on. Parents tell us they love us, yet, tell us of the Easter Bunny. Parents tell us that Jesus loves us, and then tell us of Santa Claus. They tell us of the tooth fairy... and then tell us when we're too old for such shit that the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Santa never existed... but, we do still love you and Jesus is real! Well, fuck, WHAT is a child SUPPOSED to believe?! How can anyone just pick and choose what they're told is real when who they believed everything they said suddenly comes clean. THEN, STILL wants you to believe something like a guy split into 3 beings, part of who came down here to kill himself for us because he loves us, too?

Now, in all seriousness I was fairly traumatized by how I learned wasn't real. I forget how young I was, fairly young. And, one Christmas, I was thinking of all these gifts I'd gotten, and that Santa brought them, and, I started crying. And, my mother asked me what the problem was. I told her that I was sad that Santa had gotten me all these things... but... my own parents didn't get me anything. #39;( Some beadred weirdie potentially pedophile creep left me all these fabulous things on the door steps and ran like a madman... and my parents, who I thought loved me, didn't get me a single gift! Yeah, I was dumb. Of course, then, they told me... I felt better... and so bad, guilty, and stupid for having believed them in the first place when they told me those damn lies of a diabetic old flying around with flea infested deer to deliver gifts all over the world in one night!

I was actually fairly traumatized when I learned the Easter Bunny wasn't real. I was hunting for Easter Eggs when I found myself alone and Christ himself appeared to me. He shrieked like a mad god, "Don't you believe I died for you, young man?! Here, put your fingers in the holes in my hands! In my side!" And he seized me and forced to me know him like few had, by the prints of the nails in his hands! Then, to add injury to insult, he beat me with a cross and stole the few eggs I had found for himself! So much for the 8th/7th Commandment! #39;(

Would make the game more enjoyable! The disk, whatever the Hell that thing is called (The curl?) is actually a time delayed land mine. That's why the two dorks are so busy brushing in front of it. They don't want to die. The goal is the mine must be stopped within that circular area or else the timer will not be disabled. Otherwise, eventually...

Oh, you mean this Vegemite is actually wombat paste?!

It's hard to have an ego when your career consists of wiping a broom hurredly in front of a large disc being shoved at you for no readily apparent reason.

Checked Wikipedia. It seems to be: a dark brown, salty food paste made from yeast extract, mainly used as a spread on sandwiches and toast, though occasionally used in cooking Okay. That's about as far as I need to know. It's just some kind of weird food paste. Okay.

I'm still not exactly sure what these products are. A vegetable spread of some sort?

Well, not anymore, obviously. But, I was not aware he was still alive. Lived to be 96. She played the mother on a classic American sitcom that I don't know if those on the other side of the pond ever got. Called Father Knows Best. She also played Spock's mother in Star Trek. On a somewhat related note, also just now learned that Phyllis Kirk passed on. She had lots of credits in the early days of TV which, probably, the tapes no longer survive. But, one lasting role of note is the female lead of the classic Vincent Price movie, House Of Wax.

Okay, I give. What exactly is Vegemite?

Many, many years ago when I was 23, I married me a widow who was as pretty as could be. And, about as long ago as that there was something in the ancient flavors of Windows called, I believe Macro Creator. Or something to that effect. Anyway, one of the ancillary tasks this thing could also do is create .AVI's of user actions on the screen. Thus, one could create a demonstration of how to use a software feature by running this capture program and using the application. Then, the AVI would play back the video of everything that happened on the screen. Mouse movements, button selects, typed in text, etc. Is there anything like this currently available for Windows XP? Preferably free. Thanks!

If? You have to be a little more optomistic about the future!

I was thinking about possibly adding something to those Copy Field buttons in the Labels tab in Build mode. You know how when a create job is started and ImgBurn says it notices no label was added and if the user should add and if it should use the one it chooses based on the contents? I was thinking of adding a check to the Copy Field buttons. That if they're pressed and the label field is blank, i.e. the user hasn't entered anything, to make a call to this same function that the build does. The automatic name generation could then be based on the last "Calculate" or to run a Calculate automatically to determine the files added at that point when the Copy Field button was pressed to get the automatically generated label contents.

Why not try the idea of stacking cups in unique pyramids for time and precision? http://www.worldsportstackingassociation.org/

One thing I see Torchwood working well with, IF they go route, is to remember the origins they set up for it. To give the series a sort of version of Daleks for themselves. A main enemy to fight, but, not to make every episode about them. And, that would be to remember the werewolf strain that has infected the Royal Family. So, have the odd outbreak of Lycans here and there to have to mop up. Otherwise, I have to be honest, I don't really see that much reason for the series beyond shock value, purient content, etc. Of course, I haven't seen an episode yet so, I can't comment on the final product. But, what they've said about Torchwood over the year has me a bt worried about how the product could go. I am intrigued by this idea, though, of a kiddie's series for K-9 and Sarah. Pit K-9 against the Daleks!

Don't know; never had to remove one before. But, the premise sounds the same. And it's a sound premise, too. That you always go in the direction of entry with any kind of not flat surface.

Last I remember of Snazz he had gotten pissed over at too many wanker posters coming over here, said he was leaving, and he did.

Well, I've actually had some luck using the MS-DOS COPY command with its + switch for .AVI's into one .AVI that still plays. Of course, this is dependent on how the .AVI's were authored. COPY 1.AVI + 2.AVI 3.AVI

I'm not surpised at all. I always Verify. Because, you never know when that one burn will burn but fail to verify. And, you'll be glad you had it done when it does. However, by the same token, I've seen burns that burn and verify and still failed for whatever reason. For instance, a burn can complete and be just fine, but, if the contents weren't created right for whatever reason, the disc may not be "good."