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You know what's coming... In the words of that classic sage, Binky The from Garfield (TYPOED GARFIEND! ) And Friends's very first episode: Happy birthday! Happy birthday! Whoopty doo! Whoopty doo! May it be pleasant! OPEN UP YOUR PRESENT! Just for you! Just for you!

He's been dead almost a month and this is only the first I am hearing of it?! A truly demented man so, naturally, in this country, I have only had access to his works through The Doctor Demento Show. "I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! And, I'll punch the man who says I'm not! I'm happy! I'm happy! PUNCH! I'm happy! I'm happy! PUNCH!"

Meritline just had a sale ending today on these. $29.99 after Meritline's rebate.

Some here were just dying to wonder when I'd get around to replying to this... NEC 3500a - Still going strong after a year and a half. Sony DRU-500a - Still working, even though I don't use it anymore because it started behaving oddly on 4x Ritek, only writing to 2x where it had been writing 4x Sony DRU-700a - Piece of trash, died after 2 months Two IOMega LG Super dual format with DVD-RAM burners - still work, but, never did burn properly to media other drives had no problem with Panasonic LF-311s - still works, but, such a pain it's almost as if it NEVER worked right! Half a dozen LiteOn CD burners since 2000 - retired due to spotty behavior after about a year each.

"Would you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" The Farts Of The Daleks Part 1

It was SUPPOSED to be February! But, thanks to Sci-Fi's deal, they got the DVD's pushed ahead to July 4th, because who would watch it on Sci-Fi if the DVD's were already available? The sets are probably already out in R2?

In those same interests, the DVD recorder stand alone also now only recognizes these DVD-RAM's as read only discs and would not change the protection status. I'll see if they can be formatted by the recorder, but, probably not.

Personally, I wouldn't cross flash. Some people shouldn't be seen naked at all, let alone first dressed up in the clothes of the opposite sex, first, before stripping. Oh... you meant THAT cross flashing!

Sci-Fi also had the balls to call the show a Sci-Fi Original, like they do with Stargate and BSG. Which, of course, it is NOT a Sci-Fi Original! Never has been. Always has been BBC, home grown and bred. Surprisingly enough, Sci-Fi made very edits to fit more ads into the show. The proof of the pudding, though, will be how Sci-Fi chooses to handle the "goddamn" in Dalek. Have David Hasselhoff come in and dub in "Gosh darn?" Probably a creative BLEEP or if they're in a cheeky mood, dub in a Dalek laser sound effect over it. But, Doctor Who with ads is not new to American viewers. Back when Sci-Fi reran the Tom Baker years in 1992 and then again when Fox aired The Enemy Within. (Which, BTW, will celebrate its 10th anniversary on May 14th. Interestingly enough, the 10th anniversary of its BBC premiere, May 20th, should coincide with an American premiere of a new Who episode! )

Credit where it is due to Sci-Fi Channel. They did air the show as they promised. In fact, they put the first two episodes into pretty heavy rotation. Premiered last Friday, followed immediately by a rerun, then by a rerun on Sunday, Monday morning, and Thursday night. Episode 2 will get another rerun tomorrow, followed by the premiere of Episode 3, followed by a rerun of it. Initial reports are the show did well in its premiere. A little over one and a half million for Rose's premiere, and the ratings rose for The End Of The World to about 1.6 million. The reruns afterwards each got roughly the same ratings, interestingly enough, 0.78 million. The premiere time slots got roughly the same ratings as Stargate does in those slots. And, with Stargate being the #2 show on Sci-Fi, that is some promising news that people are watching!

In the interests of fair and balanced reporting of the facts I hooked up an USB DVD-RAM burner I have, one of the IOMega rebadged LG's. It managed to read in the two discs that the Lite-On couldn't.

I never thought to look on Snopes about this. I remember how my mother fell for a story being spread around. With her, though, interestingly enough, the story actually happened only because someone else was tricked before her. It was the story of how a year after 9-11, people were warned not to drink Coke products, or Pepsi, or what not. That another attack was planned then, and, someone repays a "kind soul for an act of kindness" by warning of them, cryptically, of the impending attack. My mother helped someone by providing them some change at a check out counter at the store when they were short a few pennies. Apparently, the person who she helped had fallen for the story of an impending attack and told her not to drink Coke products on the first anniversary of 9-11 because they had been told the same thing. So, yes, the story in this case really DID happen. But, only because someone else was fooled into believing it before and that drove the actual event into creation. Sadly, my mother didn't drink any Coke products, she later told me. When she told me of it, trying to warn me, I told her it was ridiculous and planned on drinking an extra Coke on the anniversary. And, I did.

And never really knowing is half the battle! G.I. JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE!

You can find all kinds of weird relationships if you look hard enough. Ever seen the sheer volume or strange coincidences between Lincoln and John F. Kennedy? Such as, apparently, Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy a secretary named Lincoln? Or how supposedly when converted to Roman numerals, the phrase Cute purple dinosaur, with subsequence substitutes, such as V for U, which was common to begin with, and adding all the numbers together gets you 666.

But, what I took from the story, the order was for the driver to go in and remove ALL items from the company from the shelves. Nothing is going to be delivered and put on the shelves until they've been paid for by the store or the distributor for the store. You can believe that some big company ain't going to give you diddly until they know the money is in their pockets ALREADY. Which would mean by the very act of delivery, they have been paid for.

Actually, my file is tremendous... unfortunately. Contains things like manufacturer information, DIP settings, etc. Plus, with an entry for nearly every type of recordable disc I've ever used...

I find it hard to believe. How can anyone pull product from a shelf that was already bought? The company would still have to refund the sale back to the store. A pyrhic victory at best. If the store was closed down, then, that would be the only way the companies could have won. Plus, I find it hard to believe because the US has never done anything like that when they could still make a profit off the sale. Look at WW II. We only stopped selling to Germany when it became clear we could only get back at Japan if we helped end the war in Europe first to get allies on our side for when we wanted to take Japan.

Yes, I have managed to salvage CMC before. BUT, it has required in many cases reading the files that could be read in one drive, then reading the previously unreadable files from another drive.

Hey, polo? Can you make this one out? FUC... ...OU!

Let us not forget how great a friend Saddam Hussein was once of the United States. In particular, that lovely ironic photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking his hand in the early 1980;s

Because Allawi is less likely to fire buckshot in your face?

Personally, I am of the opinion that France serves a tremendous role in keeping the peace in the world. Think about it. If France didn't just surrender all the time, that would mean they'd actually fight once in a while. Imagine, then, if you should be DEFEATED by the French in combat! The ignominy and the humiliation you'd suffer would fester and boil for years. When you finally did explode in massive egotistical retaliatory attacks, it might make the Huns look like the French. France's actions asking for repirations all at once at the end of World War I are a good parallel of this idea. France didn't even do the actual beating, and ended up all but creating the conditions for the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. So, while the world ain't exactly a paradise, imagine if France had never surrendered before. I think it would be a much more violent place. So, kudos to the French! May your cowardice lead to copycats and eventual world peace!

I was thinking the other day of starting a CMC thread in the drives/media forum thing here. Copies from my TXT file of notes of CMC CD and DVD media

This is something I've wondered, too. Is there a way to determine the file a shortcut points to when Windows damn well refuses to show it to you? Like Control Panel .CPL files?