Without Rhyme or Reason

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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. 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 decrypt_era). There's also a tesla-coil car, which may remind 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 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 reddragdiva).

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[longhairedbum.livejournal.com]

Haha! That vista comic was full of win. I chuckled.

[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!.

[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.

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

Typical. I try to pull you up on your spelling and inadvertedly stuff up the formatting. Oops :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

We err because we are human :-)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ummm... yes. My bad.

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

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

Which vista?

[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.

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I ordered RQ3 stuff from Mil Sims yesterday - I wonder what that means.

[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

[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.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

Online store

[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

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

Re: Which vista?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

[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 ;-)

[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.

[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."

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

They could always secede.

[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.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

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

[decrypt-era.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, a hermit in th wilderness
livin off th tourist pulling power of a 30m tall tesla coil!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

.....


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

[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 ;)

[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.

Re: Online store

[maxxxie2.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Probably best to email me max@maxxxie.net so we can have a chat about what you are planning. :)

Max

[amazinggoatgirl.livejournal.com]

I wish they had/would. The US is pretty much two different countries.