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We secretly switched their operating system....
Yeah... I'm kinda the same way, Zambrano. I mean... I'm also a Ubuntu user and whatnot, but on my laptop, it's vista and it's fine. I mean... it's an OS. What is there to get excited about one way or another? I wouldn't necessarily upgrade an existing machine to it but if a box came with it, I sure as heck wouldn't through XP on it instead.
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at 6:21 PM on July 24, 2008
That's what you think! It's really vista configured to look like Windows 3.1
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at 10:25 AM on July 26, 2008
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Should This Feat With No Feet Be Defeated?
I'm also a fairly serious runner and I'd compete against this dude... and, in fact, I (literally, I guess) run across runners like this during marathons pretty regularly, albeit not in Olympic / super high level competition.... let's make that clear...
Anyway, this guy is clearly part of the track community and has been for some time. He's not some mad scientist who amputated his legs, he's just a super hardcore athlete that kept going, despite a major setback. (Having... [more]
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at 7:25 AM on July 17, 2008
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Exiled
The War Nerd just released a book... nothing groundbreaking if you read his columns, but pretty cool, having it all in one place and on paper 'n' stuff.
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at 9:15 AM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Just the facts Ma'am
Hulu has all the Dragnet awesomeness you can handle... online and streaming for free... as does Netflix Watch It Now. The best ones are when Friday confronts the acid temple gurus and pot heads, when their total squareness smacks right up against free love in the 60's.
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at 8:56 AM on July 10, 2008
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Your favorite band sucks.
Sun City Girls over Calexico for Arizona? I mean... whatevah! I actually stumbled randomly on a Sun City Girls reunion show the other day... I dunno about that project. I mean... it wasn't really, you know, listenable.
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at 10:02 PM on July 5, 2008
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Mall, or nothing?
Neat find!
I work over in a neighborhood where the mall is dying. Actually... it's all mall ya'll might know -- Metrocenter, from Bill 'n' Ted's Exellent Adventure. The whole area of phoenix is kinda shutting down... it's weird. In a place like Portland artists would take it over or something, occupy the empty department stores or something for awhile... but instead, the main tenants just keep moving out, only to be replaced with either nothing or a cellphone store.... [more]
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at 7:12 AM on June 17, 2008
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"Nothing like a meeting you have to carb up for"
Yeah... that article was more humorous than helpful, but I dunno... I guess I'm retarded, but I chuckled a bit.
Speaking of being retarded, I'm also in the "no stretching" camp, and I've been running 40+ mile/weeks for years and years without injury. I do, however, warm up by starting slow and kinda easing into things. As a consequence, lots of people who look pretty confident that they're gonna beat me cruise by in the first couple miles of any given marathon,... [more]
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at 10:20 AM on May 29, 2008
autodidact -- I always tell people not to stretch. I mean... stretching... what's even the theory there? That it helps with flexibility?
For running, your body has all the flexibility it needs. More flexibility leads to overextension injuries.
The difference, man, between your pushup hating friend and us is that we DO do this stuff. Now, I'm not the greatest runner in the world or anything, but I'll probably beat 85% of the people in the San... [more]
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at 12:20 PM on May 29, 2008
MeFi post:
I Get Back Up
Dude. Pillage the village is rad....
'course... the classic of the genre is that game where you sit a guy on top of a truck and smash it into a wall. Truck Dismount... Not a flash game, but pretty much the best game ever. (Although some historians feel that the author's other game, Stair Dismount, is better... )
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at 7:28 AM on May 21, 2008
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Renaissance Dude
That's a pretty special site... good find. It's nice to see that the classic webring tradition still lives on in certain parts of the net.
So he makes a living by writing all these little random websites?
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at 5:00 AM on May 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Because It Is There
Sweet! I'll watch this over the weekend... I just saw Ed Viesturs speak at the local book store, and his slide show was crazy. 'Course, he touches on these events in "No Shortcut to the Top," as well... a good read, if you're into adventures and whatnot.
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at 6:43 AM on May 15, 2008
So... yeah. That was totally great, of course. A perfect thing to watch while hiding from the sun on a hot afternoon. Thanks for doing such a good job on the encoding, MC...
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at 5:37 AM on May 19, 2008
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I’m Loving Aliens Instead
Good post... I always dig that dude, Ronson.
The end of the article mentions a radio version of this story... anyone know where I can find it?
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at 7:02 AM on April 20, 2008
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Marathon a day for 100 days
Ugh... I'm also a pretty serious distance runner and have often wondered how far I could cover if I wasn't interrupted by work and whatnot. I dunno... it's gonna take real patience for them to work through this. There's a reason that the ultra running scene tends towards older folks -- a run like this is going to take a looooooooooong time.
(Side note -- I've never lost a toe-nail running, although I've never run back to back marathons. Jesus. Should I be?)
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at 6:20 PM on April 14, 2008
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Jordan Morris Burns MTV
I dunno... I think that shit's pretty fuckin' funny. Sure, it's not particularly "subversive" or whatever, but those people turned in pretty solid performances.
So... Jesse, I know you're lurking out there. Give us some insight into how this all went down. The MTV folks really had no idea? I mean... were the pranksters really 100% in character 'n' stuff?
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at 5:47 AM on April 11, 2008
Yeah... it's kinda weird that people would take the time to bag on someone who's gotten together with his friends, put a really silly monologue on mtv, and had a good time doing it. I mean... how can you be against that?
Eh. Fuck 'em.
They are enemies of fun.
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at 1:17 PM on April 12, 2008
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"I gotta sleep under some Chinaman named after a duck's dork."
You know... it's funny, I always did kinda wonder where John Hughes disappeared to, but didn't realize he'd cut ties almost entirely with the film industry. I guess I never thought of Long Duk Dong as anything other than a hero -- that mysterious wildcard who had the night of his life in 16 Candles. Is he really that different than McLovin?
'Course, my absolute fave highschool movies from that era were always the Savage Steve Holland flicks like One Crazy Summer and... [more]
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at 7:08 AM on March 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Postum, we hardly knew ye
My folks also drank that stuff when I was growing up. I've gotta tell ya -- never tempted to try it. Ever.
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at 5:11 AM on February 19, 2008
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History, writ Gangsta
Uh.... no Ulysses S. Grant?
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at 3:51 PM on February 15, 2008
The Card Cheat -- I think that article was about Burr, wasn't it?
'Course, if you're counting VP's, Aaron Burr would be pretty hard to beat. That guy tried to take over Mexico!
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at 5:55 AM on February 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Cult of the Horse Mask
There can be no denying that Freddie Got Fingered is single most important movie ever made.
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at 5:43 AM on February 15, 2008
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Begging The Question
It's rad the someone registered begthequestion.info and put up a site on there decrying the bastardization of the phrase. The internet is, indeed, full of magic.
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at 3:20 AM on February 9, 2008
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America's Middle Class
Panamax... as a PHP programmer and well documented member of the petite bourgeoisie, your comment totally cracked me up. I dunno, though... I really do feel like we live in a world of great abundance. It's remarkable when you think about it -- within five miles of my house, there are probably at least five full sized grocery stores, jammed full of affordable, amazing and nutritious food.
What a country!
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at 5:18 PM on February 5, 2008
Indeed. I know those burritos well, Panamax.
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at 6:40 PM on February 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Ya'll n----- gonna make me leave the game. I thought ya'll loved me
I like Ghostface's new disk, saw the Wu in Tempe, pretty friggin' awesome. (I HIGHLY recommend seeing the Wu-Tang clan if they roll into your town... totally entertaining.) I do think it's a little ironic that he raps largely about crime, but gets all upset when people pirate his album.
What about all the internet gangstas?
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at 6:49 AM on February 3, 2008
MeFi post:
Got room on that Zimmer for two?
I like yahoo -- they've done a ton of stuff for the developer community, fostered a real sense of direct access to their programmers via blogs, etc...
(It should be noted that Microsoft has been moving in this direction as well... frankly, I love it and welcome it wherever it comes from.)
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how it works out. Microsoft is gonna have to do something dramatic in the long term anyway -- I mean, a few hours on Ubuntu... [more]
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at 5:43 AM on February 1, 2008
Yeah... I hear ya, aaronet, but in 2008, it's actually true.
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at 6:06 AM on February 1, 2008
MeFi post:
Charge it!
There's no denying the sickness.
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at 3:51 PM on January 27, 2008
