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As much as I'd love to say Microsoft, Google, or Wal-Mart, I really can't because those companies are technically providing a standard that is driving their respective positions. In the case of Microsoft and Google, they're driving the technologies they use, which benefits everyone, without them, wh...

I've read reports of girls starting their period around 6-7 in some parts of the US. It's considered an anomaly, and is thought to be caused by EM radiation, pollution, and even the various trash we put in our food (preservatives, synthetic flavors and colors, etc.). They're pretty unsure of the lon...

A friend of mine and I reprogrammed a couple of the LED information kiosk signs at the Seattle Convention Center back in 2000 after a 2600 meeting there. All we needed was a laptop to run the terminal session to the sign over DB9 serial. The old version of the signs (they have since been upgraded to...

Awesome. I know where those two signs were too, as I live in Washington. WSDOT takes *WAY* too long to reprogram or remove those signs when the construction is over. I've seen them leave one up for literally over a month after the construction was done, people do periodically reprogram them with gib...

I would get a sushi platter. Sushi is my favorite food. If I was allowed to indulge in the use of some certain chemicals before or after the last meal, I would request a pipe loaded with a bowl of good weed to calm my nerves and put me at peace for my execution. Additionally, I think a great way to ...

To start with, it's my understanding that in the law as long as you are not breaking into a secured WiFi system (EG: WEP or WAP encrypted), then it is legal. Personally, I have no moral issues with jacking into someone's WiFi if they're too stupid to implement security measures. I do so all the time...

Kernel, the studies may show that pot does not cause problems behind the wheel, but even as an admitted pothead, I don't consider getting stoned and driving as an ok thing to do, it's still an inebrient. It may not be anywhere near as bad as alcohol, especially in experienced long-term users, but it...

To start with, I am not advocating driving high/stoned or drunk. However, I do want to say some things based on personal experience. 1) I will not drive drunk. I have done so only once, and that was a trip of about 2 blocks and I never exceeded 10mph, my logic on this was that if I could not get my ...

Hmm, getting a copy of that song is kinda hard...

As for it being music or not, it's catchy, I like it, that's what matters to me, who cares if you don't like it.

56,894 files, 217.83GB

That's on just the main machine, I probably have another 5-6,000 MP3's on the other 4 machines in total.

LANparties, BT, and friends with huge CD collections are awesome.

I'm cheap when it comes to booze. Usually I drink Cuervo or Monarch vodka (typically 100 proof or higher) if I'm drinking. Though I also drink stuff like Zima and Smirnoff Ice.

Stick all the way. You have control of the vehicle and it's power, and you can make it do things you just can't do with an automatic. Nevermind the efficiency difference.

I drive an '01 Civic 4-door w/manual tranny. I get almost 44mpg on the freeway, and 35 in the city.

I would reccommend the Creative Zen Micro. It's a 5 (or 6GB) player for right around $200. Why I reccommend it: 1) Capacity vs. price 2) Reliability (My player survived being used at work for two months without issue till I quit. It was a yard construction job and the player was always being dropped...

Wow, that is kinda trippy, and cool. I want an invisible bus.

Haha, I like your dog.

I like this company's proposed usage of space and design improvements. They have a good idea in working with the port authority to put in apartments, that will help with housing problems in Manhattan. I hope they can pull it off and oust that horrible and pointlessly desgined "replacement"...

I find the mid-lane traffic stops far more hazardous than the speeders they pull over. The traffic here in town got messed up pretty good with a cop that pulled someone over in the middle of the lane on a two lane main road in town. That sucked. Best part was the entrance to a shopping center was li...

Dragostea Din Tei

(I know a few people will want to shoot me for that...)

The Jones Cola energy drink, that is the only one that I have found that really works. I think Red Bull and Mountain Dew: AMP work about as good, but there is something about that 16oz can...

You can use the screen from a projection big screen TV even more effectively. Those things are basically fresnel lenses. Most small town TV repair shops get toasted ones once in a while, just ask them if you can remove the screen, though some may want you to take it home and dispose of it. Another g...

I use a few. "Fuck-fuckety-fuck-fuck-fuck!" -- Eric Cartman, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (I was using this one before that movie, but I am listing it anyway) Frak (heard it somewhere, thought it a good replacement for "fuck", and started using it) Frell (see Frak, taken...

If that is a real lego kit then I want it, it is the perfect shipbuilding kit for me with all those grey parts.

If I do not end up dying in some quick way, like losing control of my car on a turn, home made explosives malfunctioning on the 4th, or my preferred death of going down in flames in some kind of flying vehicle with my last sight being the world spinning below as it explodes and takes me to my eterni...

Cool. Synaethesia is a pretty fascinating subject. It may or may not be related, but I feel sound more than I hear it, while it makes understanding voice a little harder than it is for others, it makes me very sensitive to music, namely frequency and tone. I also somewhat sense it as a mind's eye vi...

I used to have an ungodly caffeine habit. Cold turkey is the only way to quit, just like with cigarettes (which I also did for a while). I had to stop with the caffeine because the pot of coffee, 2-3 2-liters of Mountain Dew, a 500mg caffeine powder pill, and 2 energy drinks every morning on the way...