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scottobearNeighbors outside got really noisy last night. Apparently, Sammy and Frankie are having some sort of dispute about who's the bigger jerk. (I know who gets my vote.) I wandered out there for a sec to ask them to pipe down a bit and they did, preferring to go into their respective apartments.
Regarding the Big Brain, Well, the power supply works, as do the hard drives, ram and other peripherals. Sadly, The motherboard is shot. So, there goes another hundred and twenty, plus whatever ram is going to cost me if the old stuff doesn't fit. If I don't get my system up and running well by Saturday night, I'll call in the bigger guns. I was going to get Sappho's help, but her schedule didn't work out. Ah well, there's something to be said for a new system. We'll see how XP pro looks, too, if Win2k pro doesn't want to make kissy face.
Tomorrow, I go to the doc and schedule the surgery, and get a breakdown of what's what.
In good News... (hopefully) I just saw that SciFi Channel made a movie based on one of my fave science fiction series in high school... Riverworld. Though I was partial to the stories that centered on Sam Clemens in the afterlife that the world provided, I'm looking forward to this adaptation. I honestly never thought I'd see it attempted. Phil Farmer isn't my fave author... but I think that his riverworld makes up for the travesties he put forth on the Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes and Doc Savage "biographies," or his Dayworld Series. I think that I'd really enjoy living on the Riverworld, as long as it was far away form the more "rough and tumble" reincarnation areas. It looks like they swapped out Burton with an astronaut... not sure how I feel about that. I prefer a 19th century explorer to a generic astronaut. Still, I know what I'm watching tonight at 9pm.
The Weird Picture Archive
Interactive Map of different methods of execution used in the USA
New York magazine has excerpts from The Speakeasies of 1932. The drawings by Al Hirschfeld and text are evocative of another time: "No raids because they're really careful, but a turned-down hat brim and a drooping cigarette will pass anybody."
Windows in Bios...innovative?
Tiki Inspired Art
Ruined Endings - Spoilers!
Regarding the Big Brain, Well, the power supply works, as do the hard drives, ram and other peripherals. Sadly, The motherboard is shot. So, there goes another hundred and twenty, plus whatever ram is going to cost me if the old stuff doesn't fit. If I don't get my system up and running well by Saturday night, I'll call in the bigger guns. I was going to get Sappho's help, but her schedule didn't work out. Ah well, there's something to be said for a new system. We'll see how XP pro looks, too, if Win2k pro doesn't want to make kissy face.
Tomorrow, I go to the doc and schedule the surgery, and get a breakdown of what's what.
In good News... (hopefully) I just saw that SciFi Channel made a movie based on one of my fave science fiction series in high school... Riverworld. Though I was partial to the stories that centered on Sam Clemens in the afterlife that the world provided, I'm looking forward to this adaptation. I honestly never thought I'd see it attempted. Phil Farmer isn't my fave author... but I think that his riverworld makes up for the travesties he put forth on the Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes and Doc Savage "biographies," or his Dayworld Series. I think that I'd really enjoy living on the Riverworld, as long as it was far away form the more "rough and tumble" reincarnation areas. It looks like they swapped out Burton with an astronaut... not sure how I feel about that. I prefer a 19th century explorer to a generic astronaut. Still, I know what I'm watching tonight at 9pm.
The Weird Picture Archive
Interactive Map of different methods of execution used in the USA
New York magazine has excerpts from The Speakeasies of 1932. The drawings by Al Hirschfeld and text are evocative of another time: "No raids because they're really careful, but a turned-down hat brim and a drooping cigarette will pass anybody."
Windows in Bios...innovative?
Tiki Inspired Art
Ruined Endings - Spoilers!
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Date: 2003-10-15 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-15 06:45 pm (UTC)Misfires but not a problem for me
Everyone can speak english
No Hermann Goering
No Joe Miller
Elements that ruined the spirit of the books-
No personal grails (key element to how society got by)
Horses??
No mention of the "Suicide Express" Sam Clemens as poorly written as possible
Metal?? Enough to make swords?
Go For Broke (rather than Not For Hire)
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Date: 2003-10-15 09:38 pm (UTC)If it works, I'll like it.
If it doesn't, I won't.
C'est tres simple.
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Date: 2003-10-15 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-16 04:23 am (UTC)I liked blade runner, and that was only about 20% of the source material...but the spirit was there. Riverworld was an ok tv- movie, but if they'd kept a few vital elements, it could've been great.
i never heard of riverworld before
Date: 2003-10-15 08:16 pm (UTC)good luck at the doctors.
Re: i never heard of riverworld before
Date: 2003-10-16 04:27 am (UTC)Thanks for the good wishes!
Re: i never heard of riverworld before
Date: 2003-10-16 02:06 pm (UTC)i think by design. they said he was in excellent health when he fell off the electrical tower.