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Current events: have a 14K word document I have to proof read in Tetum (those Irish are crazy). Foolishly told the translation service I'd have it finished in two days. [livejournal.com profile] caseopaya and I saw the magnificant Pan's Labyrinth the other night which was quite stunning on the big screen. Plodding away through other projects.

News from the tech side; how to combine Ohm's Law and dating. Tesla-coil experiments in the great aussie backyard (certainly something for [livejournal.com profile] decrypt_era). There's also a tesla-coil car, which may remind [livejournal.com profile] frou_frou of a long-unfulfilled plan.

Religion is always a rich source of silliness. The theory of evolution is a Jewish conspiracy (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] meleah). Someone tried to claim playing Dungeons & Dragons as a religion.

Speaking of which, I recently purchased all the remaining stock of RuneQuest3 items from Military Simulations and eight archive boxes of games has just arrived from Queenland. That makes roughly 35 boxes worth of games all told. I think I'm about reading to start my online gaming and publishing store.

LUV-ctte meeting this evening; I managed to get much of the organising for the Ballarat Linux Conference successfully complete within the first week. On-topic, Debian Sarge is playing nice. Which Vista do you want (from [livejournal.com profile] reddragdiva).

Date: 2007-02-19 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] longhairedbum.livejournal.com
Haha! That vista comic was full of win. I chuckled.

Date: 2007-02-19 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

It's especially funny because it's true. The new Vista licensing schemata would require a specialist in its own right.

Date: 2007-02-19 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dcrisp.livejournal.com
A Girl friend sent me the "Ohm's law of dating" link and used it to try and convince me that a polygymous relationship was A oh Kay.

:) Personaly I dont buy it!.

Date: 2007-02-19 06:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

Tho' one has to admit she chose the target carefully!

Date: 2007-02-19 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frou-frou.livejournal.com
Tesla, darling, tesla....and that car pic is very cool. Pity Darling never got to fulfil that dream. Just wouldn't work as well with the beamer.

Date: 2007-02-19 04:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frou-frou.livejournal.com
Typical. I try to pull you up on your spelling and inadvertedly stuff up the formatting. Oops :)

Date: 2007-02-19 04:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

We err because we are human :-)

Date: 2007-02-19 04:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

Ummm... yes. My bad.

Darling would have looked great with those bolts of electricity...

Which vista?

Date: 2007-02-19 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imajica-lj.livejournal.com
... oh you mean that defective by design system I need to throw my old machine away for?

http://badvista.fsf.org/

Yes ...

That vista ... they are ALL like that.

Re: Which vista?

Date: 2007-02-19 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

Ah good. I was wondering when a resource like that would be established.

Date: 2007-02-19 07:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strangedave.livejournal.com
I ordered RQ3 stuff from Mil Sims yesterday - I wonder what that means.

Date: 2007-02-19 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

It means that in a worse case scenario I'll be sending you said copies...

Date: 2007-02-19 11:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

The story is they sold 25 of their remaining 40 sets since Friday.. Some to Switzerland, New Zealand etc.

Guess I shouldn't have made the announce ;-)

Date: 2007-02-19 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cinematic.livejournal.com
That D&D link was great. Found this at the bottom of it, thought it was funny.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

Date: 2007-02-19 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

See if only he had thought to use that as evidence!

Date: 2007-02-19 10:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calisi.livejournal.com
Pan's Labyrinth was all kinds of awesome. Given that I'd had no prior knowledge of it, I incorrectly assumed it was something vaguely like Labyrinth, of David Bowie fame. Fairly quickly disabused of that notion. ;)

Intense, but very good. And very, very gorgeous.

Date: 2007-02-19 09:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

I think it rocks that there are still people in the world who see films they have no prior knowledge of...

Date: 2007-02-20 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calisi.livejournal.com
Yes, well, it does help that I don't tend to watch TV, so I miss things like 'promotions' and 'reviews' most of the time. I tend to go by hearsay alone, which has largely worked out well.

Online store

Date: 2007-02-19 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maxxxie2.livejournal.com
Hi Lev,

I might be able to assist with the online store, if you need help (I know you're more than capable of doing it all on your own). There might also be some opportunities for cross-promotion, if you're into that sort of thing. Let me know. I'd be happy to help!

Max

Re: Online store

Date: 2007-02-19 09:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

Hell yeah, I practise mutualism whenever possible. A partner is much better than a competitor!

Re: Online store

Date: 2007-02-22 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maxxxie2.livejournal.com
Sweet! Probably best to email me max@maxxxie.net so we can have a chat about what you are planning. :)

Max

Date: 2007-02-20 04:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amazinggoatgirl.livejournal.com
And people think it's weird that I consider it one of my goals in life to never set foot in Texas. It's like: "Don't mess with Texas!" "Dude, nobody wants to."

Date: 2007-02-20 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

They could always secede.

Date: 2007-02-22 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amazinggoatgirl.livejournal.com
I wish they had/would. The US is pretty much two different countries.

Date: 2007-02-20 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] decrypt-era.livejournal.com
Thanks for th tesla link!
U'l know i'v begun my mid-life crisis
when i finally get around to building a (working) tesla coil.

Date: 2007-02-21 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

Hey, there's a lot of space in WA. You could build a really big one...

Date: 2007-02-21 02:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] decrypt-era.livejournal.com
Heh, yeah, a hermit in th wilderness
livin off th tourist pulling power of a 30m tall tesla coil!

Date: 2007-02-21 02:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

.....


Not only would that work, it would be fun and interesting...

Date: 2007-02-21 11:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ktwhoopi.livejournal.com
my guy tried to get me to see pan's labyrinth, but i was too chicken, looked pretty gross in places, but sooo spectacular in others!!

i'll have to wait til dvd, so i can watch it during the day and speed up the scarey bits just a little bit ;)

Date: 2007-02-21 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com

Well, even if it does have a faery princess, it's not knights in shining armour and happy unicorns... None of its scary as such. More brutal.

But Franco's Spain was like that.

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