8396 - Wehd-nehz-day.
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scottobearI stayed home from work yesterday... but Dan came by to visit after 5pm - we checked out Lord of the Rings Online.. signed up for the Beta. Helped Danny figure out what sort of machine he'd need to play it, graphics-wise and such. No movie or Japanese foodies.
After sniffing out gaming tech online, we played pirates (see icon) - each of us won a game, and both were very close. I had superior firepower, he had speed on his side. Ramming and boarding were actually to my benefit for the first time ever playing the game.
I gave him a Rubyred Labs T-shirt as a victory gift from my valleyschwag pack. (I kept the stickers and perplexCity cards) Newt got along with Danny quite well, save for when Dan drew first blood in the pirates game... he exclaimed "BLAM!" quite loudly, and Newt leapt up on the table and yelled at him, and took a swabby-paw swat at his face. I swear, Newt's more of a watchdog than a scaredy-cat.
After playing, we decided to stretch our legs, and yawns came in a rapid collection of waves... hard to guess what caused it. I think I yawned about 25 times in rapid succession... to the point where I got a little light-headed. Danny followed suit shortly afterward, though he only yawned about four or five times.
[Poll #743503]
We went upstairs to the snack bar, but Target had no coffee, so we hit *$ on the way back. He bought me a pirate booster, so now I have a corsair and an American Ship... plus a Corsair guy that can create temporary fog banks with smoke bombs-- not a bad addition to my current fleet of British, Spanish and pirate folks.
Dan's shirt had a mermaid on it, but is no relation to the Feegee Mermaid. Yucka! - His shirt was more of one of these.(far more cute than feegee)
Going to grab a bite and visit with Tina today after work... should be a jim-dandy time. Perhaps we'll swing by Dicey Rileys, too. I suspect Eddie Izzard is out, but I'm sure we can keep a steady stream of enjoyable banter going. I'm not used to having things happening outside of the HQ on "school nights". It's a refreshing change of venue.
Moment of Lyric - mp3
When your world is full of strange arrangements
And gravity won't pull you through
You know you're missing out on something
Well that something depends on you
All I'm saying, it takes a lot to love you
All I'm doing, you know its true
All I mean now, theres one thing
Yes one thing that turns this gray sky to blue
Thats the look, thats the look
The look of love
When your girl has left you out on the pavement (goodbye)
Then your dreams fall apart at the seams
Your reason for livings your reason for leaving
Don't ask me what it means
Who's got the look? I don't know the answer to that question
Where's the look? if I knew I would tell you
What's the look? look for your information
Yes there's one thing, the one thing that still holds true
(whats that? )
Thats the look, thats the look
The look of love
If you judge a book by the cover,
Then you'd judge the look by the lover
I hope you'll soon recover,
Me I go from one extreme to another
And though my friends just might ask me
They say Martin maybe one day you'll find true love
I say maybe, there must be a solution
To the one thing, the one thing, we can't find
Thats the look, thats the look
Sisters and brothers
Should help each other
Oh, oh, oh
Heavens above
Thats the look, thats the look, hip hip hooray, ay
Thats the look, thats the look, yippee ai yippee aiay
Thats the look, thats the look
Be lucky in love
Look of love
The Monkey Chow diaries
Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes,chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn't it?But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind,I'm about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: "a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes."
Hmm.. note the chow info page mentions *NON HUMAN PRIMATES*
Ingredients
Ground corn, Soybean meal, Cracked wheat, Sucrose,Wheat germ meal, Animal fat (preserved with BHA, propyl gallate and citric acid), Dried whole egg, Dicalcium phosphate, Calcium carbonate, Iodized salt,Vegetable oil, Choline chloride, Stabilized ascorbic acid (source of Vitamin C), Ethoxyquin (a preservative), Ferrous sulfate, Zinc oxide, Copper chloride, Manganous oxide, Cobalt carbonate, Calcium iodate, Sodium selenite,Vitamin A supplement,Vitamin D3 supplement,Vitamin E supplement, Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Calcium pantothenate, Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic acid, Biotin,Vitamin B12 supplement.
1 lb of chow per 35 lbs of monkey? Man... that's a lot of food!
Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favor of strap-on stealth wings.
The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target.
The technology was demonstrated in spectacular fashion three years ago when Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner - a pioneer of freefall gliding - famously 'flew' across the English Channel, leaping out of an aircraft 30,000ft above Dover and landing safely near Calais 12 minutes later.
Wearing an aerodynamic suit, and with a 6ft wide wing strapped to his back, he soared across the sea at 220mph, moving six feet forward through the air for every one foot he fell vertically - and opened his parachute 1,000ft above the ground before landing safely.
'Massive potential'
Now military scientists have realised the massive potential for secret military missions.
Currently special forces such as the SAS rely on a variety of parachute techniques to land behind enemy lines - or else they must be dropped by helicopter.
Existing steerable square parachutes can be used - opened at high altitude of 27,000 ft - but jumpers then have to struggle to control them for long periods, often in high winds and extreme cold, while breathing from an oxygen tank to stay alive.
Alternatively they can freefall from high altitude, opening their parachutes at the last possible minute, but that limits the distance they can 'glide' forward from the drop point to just a few miles.
Now German company ESG has developed the strap-on rigid wing specifically for special forces use.
Resembling a 6ft-wide pair of aircraft wings, the devices should allow a parachutist to glide up to 120miles, carrying 200lb of equipment, the manufacturers claim.
Fitted with oxygen supply, stabilization and navigation aides, troops wearing the wings will jump from a high-altitude transport aircraft which can stay far away from enemy territory - or on secret peacetime missions could avoid detection or suspicion by staying close to commercial airliner flight paths.
The manufacturers claim the ESG wing is '100 per cent silent' and 'extremely difficult' to track using radar.
Once close to their target landing zone, the troops pull their parachute rip cord to open their canopy and then land normally.
Weapons, ammunition, food and water can all be stowed inside the wing, although concealing the 6ft wings after landing could prove harder than burying a traditional parachute.
ESG claims the next stage of development will be fitting 'small turbo-jet drives' to the wings to extend range even further.
According to SAS insiders, very few operational parachute jumps have taken place in recent years, with teams tending to rely more on helicopters or other means of transport.
Supporters of the new mono-wing technology hope it will give a new lease of life to parachute tactics in the special forces world.
The Ministry of Defense would not comment on any equipment used by special forces, but is expected to evaluate the new system for use by UK special forces.
Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router - nifty, and *very* impressive. I just happened to have one laying around, and so far, so good.
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Via Beaucoupkev - Of Mice & Men, featuring Superman & Bizarro - Live action.
1 year ago - teensy work text, human hamster balls, google-found webcams, old gi joe comics, jogging for jesus, Florida judges are tossing out DUI cases when defendants ask to see the source code for the breathalysers that busted them, Ex-deputy gets life for molesting boys, bro picked up for trespassing
2 years ago - zombie quiz, metamorpho with GP, Square-boy, Walken sings, Chainsaw owies, ST emulator, Bulldozer rampage, I go to a new host.
3 years ago - bro, pub-crawling with Danny, flowerpop clones my interests and flies off.
4 years ago - hero costume poll, sogyo poetry, fumigation finished, scopes sea monkey trial
5 years ago - baby helmet, deep sleep, grogginess, wag, folks sick all over LJ, shoe size poll, adaptation of science, spark words.
6 years ago - My life unapproved by the Comic's Code Authority
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Date: 2006-06-07 10:35 am (UTC)bummer on the bro thing......
yay on getting out again!
um nutty monkey chow dude! lol
oh and i think i want some stealth wings!
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:14 pm (UTC)boo!
yay!
mmm... Murrrnnkay chow!
We should paint you up some butterfly wings!
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Date: 2006-06-07 11:28 am (UTC)I'd given up on playing pirates until the release of the latest set "Curse of Davey Jones" as it introduces The Cursed as a nationality and sea monsters as ships. Now if I could only get a couple sea monsters, I'd be happy.
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:12 pm (UTC)*SUMMON THE KRAKEN*
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 12:29 pm (UTC)Finally, sea-monsters!!!
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 12:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 01:12 pm (UTC)Just about anyone being attacked by one I imagine. I mean sure it would be a pretty cool way to die and all but...
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Date: 2006-06-07 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 12:24 pm (UTC)Oh. I thought this said "8am" and I was just going to say, "because it's early in the morning."
But then, it's 8:23 and I'm not awake, so probably best to ignore me.
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 12:58 pm (UTC)That pirates game looks pretty cool. That's all I really had to say.
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Date: 2006-06-07 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 01:20 pm (UTC)hmm... how perky was the government yesterday?
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Date: 2006-06-07 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-07 02:25 pm (UTC)I think you can just get a friendly cleric to bless the squeezy-bottle and it's contents.
added bonus, a long-range vampire slaying squirter!
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Date: 2006-06-07 03:01 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2006-06-07 10:50 pm (UTC)Yep, that's Dan alright! I miss the exuberantly loud and occasionally bouncy Dan of Gaming. I expect he still cares naught for the likes of me. Many years now and I'm still left weird over that, not so much a fight, more like being fired for incompetence. Alas, alack, but what's a girl to do?
Newt seems to have more fortitude than lil Dart, who was always just traumatized into fleeing when you folk so much as looked at her funny. Except for the occasional stubbort streak, like that girl (The Racer... Kelly methinks) whose cup of water Dart always stuck her head into...
Dart says hello...
Date: 2006-06-07 11:59 pm (UTC)Re: Dart says hello...
Date: 2006-06-08 04:37 am (UTC)she's such a cutiepie.
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Date: 2006-06-08 04:41 am (UTC)Newt is terribly gutsy, to the point of disrupting games by stealing pieces, or giving them a sweep of the paw.
I guess Dartie was just very comfy with Kelly... or just really thirsty!
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Date: 2006-06-15 03:24 pm (UTC)i'm sorry your bro got into trouble again. :(
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Date: 2006-06-15 03:27 pm (UTC)