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jimmy Chief, have you considered installing your old hard drive onto your new PC? If you don't have a free slot, you could temporarily free one and then reinstall it after you're finished transferring files. Might be the fastest way of doing it. You may have to boot-up in "safe mode" (F9 at startup?), to be able to choose which operating system would boot. I don't really know enough about it to guide anyone into doing it. I know just enough to be dangerous. If I could ask the Terminator one question it would be... Do you really have something to bring to the posistion, to bring to the citizens of the State of California; or do you just want to kick some ass? Frisbee is soooo cool! I used to throw "the bone" in college (called "bone" because it was so tragic when you broke one). There is a Greek style ampitheater here in Richmond called "Dogwood Dell." It's the kind where the seats are just contours of grass abutted with stone, at about 3'x3' (up and across) intervals, spanning outward in a semi-circle. There's a raised stage from which one player would throw and catch, while several other players would work the seats/steps outward. Made for quite a workout. And incredibly aesthetically pleasing, to see the frisbee floating across the dimensionally interesting space. Does the < pre > tag work here? Experiment... Nope! Well it works, but then I had a problem turning it off. So I removed it and displayed the diagram with "." spacers. ...............o......o......o ...........o......o......o......o ...............o......o......o ...........o......o......o......o ...............o......o......o ...........o......o......o......o ...............o......o......o I created an Art.eMorph which had a tight grouping of 24 balls. By row and by column it was arranged 3 balls, 4balls, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3 = 24, or (3x4) + (4x3). I was wondering is this was the tightest arrangemenmt of those balls on a given plane (so as not to encourage stacking, this is 2-dimensional art)? Then I noticed another aspect. The grouping is also 2 balls, 4 balls, 6 balls, 6, 4, 2, on a diagonal axis. Is there a reason mathematically for that? It appears to work by exponential sequences. So a grouping of 40 balls might diagonally be, 2, 4, 6, 8, 8, 6, 4, 2. Just noodling around. I'll try to get a few Art.eMorphs up in the next day or so. I might can get the one in question up as a better visual to the idea. One other thing to consider, this alternating rows of balls is similar to the solution that they came-up with for the stars on the USA flag. How do you group 52 stars into a square? Peace All! Awwa \A/
Aw N. Korea is next.
chiefwagonburner Hey everybody, a quick note from the library. I moved a couple weeks ago and lost my internet connection...it's like living in the third world. Except without the starvation. Anyhow, our frisbee team, that fills me with cheer. Now we just need a Gary Coleman for governor of California site. I hope there's a debate. "What you talkin' 'bout, Arnold?" I quit my job, hoorah, to finish my thesis project that has to be done by the end of the month. So work internet access is gone, too. I'll be silent for awhile, but I'll be here in spirit, metaphorical ultimate frisbee in hand... more later-
jeffron x This all seems so familliar... McCarthy Jr Wants List of Lenient Federal Judges
chiefwagonburner All this time and I'd never heard the album "Low". It's beautiful. Soon to be in the hive. My foot in the RIAA's ass.
jimmy LOL @ our frisbee team. My entire college was obsessed with ultimate. The best part is I could theoretically go see them play this fall, they are not at all far from here. ("Who is that weird woman with the sunglasses and the baby?!" "The roving agent of slack, my boys... the roving agent of slack."
coop Networking the computers should work perfectly, since it involves navigating the old computer using the new one as an interface. Switching the monitors back and forth will be a temporary problem as you set up the network, but Windows makes it simple enough to complete in a few simple steps and after that you can eat cake. Vegan cake. Besides, with Mac as a resource, you shouldn't have any problem! The spam s'periment is driving me nuts. I'm not getting any spam!!! One of my experiment addresses did get spammed immediately after I'd used it to make a purchase at http://supernakeddanceparty.com (I know it looks like porn, but these guys sell samples for sampling synthesizers and music programs). Since it's no surprise that you're going to get spammed when you give a small company your email addy, I haven't mentioned it. I'm disappointed that I'm not getting spammed because I thought that I'd at least stumbled on a small solution, but it appears that at least one company is true to their word when they claim they'll stop spamming.
jimmy Any luck with the spam s'periment, Jimmy? I got a new computer. I couldn't really afford it, but I splurged on a nifty Dell machine with 40 Gigs. Now my challenge is to get the old computer's files onto the new computer. The old computer's cd burner doesn't really work (not enough to try using it), and the new computer doesn't have a zip drive. Plus, I only have one monitor, so trying to network them is not really gonna work. Right now I'm trying to ftp some files to my website, and then I'll set the new computer back up and try to ftp the files onto the new machine. Wish me luck, and cross your body parts, I hope it works. My website doesn't really have enough room to hold all of the stuff at once, so it may take days, but it's worth a shot. I guess I could just go buy another zip drive, but I was hoping to get Mac to just move the old zip to the new machine. And I just spent all of my money so I can't really buy a new zip drive right now. But hey, I don't have to be nervous about losing my computer in a flash of blinding light any longer. Hee!
Anna Using Internet Explorer for ftp'ing Just type this into your Internet Explorer address field: ftp://username:password@xenius.org Awwa, your username is "2097-awwa" (sans quotes). Everyone using xenius will have a "2097-" in front of the name they chose for their directory. The rest of the username is arbitrary, but as a convention I've given people ftp usernames which match the directory name they've chosen. When you log in using explorer, it will basically look as though you're exploring your own hard drive. You'll then be able to drag and drop items from your computer onto xenius as though you were simply moving files around your own computer. Thanks to chief for showing me that IE could do ftp. ___________________ I've been pretty bad about announcing new members, mostly because they'll email me, join and then disappear forever. One of them that hasn't disappeared though is a highschool frisbee team! I dunno. Check it out for yourself! It's cool...on their site, they have entrance songs that I actually like. I guess when they're being called out to the field they play music or something? I dunno. It's in their "about" section. They joined another frisbee league as the "Teenage Cavemen" (and cavewoman; there's at least one girl on the team...her entrance song is Jeepers Creepers!). Except for a few emails, I don't even know them or anything about them. I have no idea how they found us. Maybe they googled the phrase "slack" or "free stuff". I think it's hilarious though...whether they know it or not, xenius has an official frisbee team! Ha. HAHahaha. HAHAHahahAHAHahAH. MUHAhahAHhAHAHAHAHhahaAHhahahaa. Heh. ha. Yeah.
jimmy Okay so lots of good things happening here! Jimmy, if you build it, they will come. Heh! Anyway, I'd love to give it a run or two! BLACK MERCURY, the new Xtreme! I still haven't woodsheded FTPing, to the point of being able to use Xenius space for showcasing my ArteMorphs. Yae, Yea, they finally got off of $1 beers at my local pub. Now beers (drafts) are $2! I'll have to cut back to only 3 or 4 nights a week! At least I've given-up the wacky tobaccy! Yea, I still smoke regular tobaccy, so not there yet! Lord, I put-off more Artwork than I ever accomplished, when I was "high!" When I was thinking straight, at least I got somethings done, and the integrity was always better! But don't it make you feel young? Don't know who might have said that. But it do! Here's a little poem I came up with tonight. Mind you, it's a little poem! ============ "I Make A De Shoe" I make a de shoe. I make a de shoe for you. I make a de shoe for de fool. I make a de shoe for de you. Be you de fool ? I make a de shoe for you, de fool! ============ And now for something completely different, I received this from the email list of that "AXIS OF EVIL" website. ================================= "OUR President...........just a few fun facts Accomplishments I attacked and overtook two countries. I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. My record for environmental issues is the least of my concerns. I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period. After taking-off the entire month of August, I then presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history. I am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD. I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of Sadam's procurement of Yellow Cake Nuke WMD components, then blaming the lie on our British friends. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president. In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in U.S. history. I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring the Constitution than any president in history. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use national reserves as past presidents have done. I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time. I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history. I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history. I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her. I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in history. I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community. I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in history. I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission. I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board. I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history. I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant. I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" (detainees) and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention. I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election). I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations. My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision. I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history. I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most resented country in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in World history. I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. I am first president in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security. I am the first U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea. I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in corporations bidding for U.S. contracts. I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive. I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the U.S. Capitol Building. Even after 18 months I have no leads and no credible suspects. In the past 18 months following the World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any president in U.S. history. In a little over two years, I created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided since the Civil War. I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two years. ====== Records and References: I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas driving record has been erased and is not available. I was AWOL from the National Guard. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed, and unavailable for public view. All records of SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. ~ Please consider my experience when voting in 2004. ~" =============================== Well that's way more than enough for now! Peace Yall! Awwa \A/
Aw Jeffron...I've gotten more entertainment just reading all the anti-hype for that movie then I could making fun of it on my own. I almost want to go see that movie now. I've never seen reviews so brutally shred a flick before...but they deserve it. What the fuck were they thinking? I heard that part of the plot is that J-Lo's character is a lesbian and Affleck 'changes her'. Man, that's got to piss a lot of people off.  So I've decided to set up another spam experiment. Do you know those spam mails you get where they tell you that you can remove yourself from the database but it involves actually entering your name into one? I have always thought that those actually activate more spam for you, a sort of "we've got a live one" signal to the spam-powers that be. I'm going to test that theory. I just set up a xenius email address which I will give to no one. When I get those spam mails that tell you that you can remove yourself from the database, I will enter this new email address instead, then I will monitor how long it takes for that address to get spam. I think it'll take less than 24 hours. I would be very happy if I'm wrong, but if I am correct, I'll have to do some research to figure out what my next course of action will be. I just finished. The experiment begins now. I entered the address at 21:04 PST.
jimmy How about that for irony: Sunscreen 'increases cancer risk' . Those dirty buggers: Getting around the Do Not Call list
chiefwagonburner BEN AFFLECK J. LO, GIGLI REVIEWED: THE NEXT TRACY/HEPBURN...NOT. "Gigli is hard to pronounce, and harder to fathom." — Claudia Puig, USA Today "Gigli rhymes with 'really' … as in really, really silly … the kindest way to describe this hopelessly misconceived exercise in celebrity self-worship." — A.O. Scott, New York Times "The worst movie … of our admittedly young century. More stupefying follies may come, but it's impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension." — Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal "This is not just ordinary bad in a Bad Boys II sort of way, but a hypnotic, black hole of a movie that sucks reputations, careers and goodwill down its vortex." — Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail of Toronto "Even … trying to pinpoint the exact moment when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez fell in love, stops being fun after a while." — Christy Lemire, Associated Press "We're talking about a disaster, and not of the fun Showgirls variety, either." — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle "A dull disaster." — Ty Burr, Boston Globe "From the moment Affleck declares that in every relationship 'there's a bull and a cow,' [he and Lopez] make hideous chin music together." — Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun "In this relationship, there is also a turkey." — Jami Bernard, New York Daily News "It's Chasing Amy with guns." — Desson Howe, The Washington Post "Like Madonna in … The Next Best Thing, [Lopez] gets to show off her yoga moves and toned muscles … but even her remarkable sex appeal isn't enough to distract you from the idiocies coming out of her mouth." — Jonathan Foreman, New York Post "Embalmed in the deadening juices of Affleck and Lopez's throwaway celebrity." — Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide "So god-awfuly, soul-destroyingly bad it manages to offend lesbians, the mentally challenged and straight people in a single bound, not to mention the entire acting profession." — Eye Weekly
jeffron x Thank you Coop! I look forward to that email and please don't feel time pressured to produce it. I'm still working on design issues. Once it's open to the public, I want to figure out some way to provide image hosting for users such that they'll be able to upload pictures related to their letters into a directory on xenius or nowhere.xenius without having to worry about ftp probs, etc.. I've been learning about css templates. I use/made one for this page (music project) but still have no real idea what I'm doing or how to impliment them properly... Chief showed me one of his, which is extremely attractive. I really enjoy the image creation part of web design (probably the most), but there is also something about trying to make text hang on a page as though it were born there. I don't know what it is. It's just so much fun. I'm totally nuts about fonts! It's the simple things in life, I guess. Speaking of which, I often leave tons of font programs and font types in the hive. Does anyone even use the hive? If not, you should really feel free to use it. It's a good way to trade files with friends and strangers without having to worry about certain consequences. I got so sick of trying to trade my music with people on geocities, who would shut me down when I reached 15 megs-but who could blame them? Anything you place in the hive is accessible to any browser (which leaves it open but so far there haven't been any problems.) I expect to have a safer private ftp site working in a month or so...but then...I'm a slacker...
jimmy Jimmy, I'll email you about the Black Mercury forum, I think the design is gorgeous. I do a lot better with trying to fix specific problems with templates rather than teaching someone how to run them from the ground up. Otherwise I get way out there and make no sense at all. Anyone I work with will tell you so. Heh. Speaking of which, I am getting a little tired of the slack forum layout as it is, if anyone has any stunning new design ideas (or CSS templates) I'd be happy to try to work something new in. Yes, very easy to obtain blog citizenship, simply mail me and I will send you an invite. No cavity searches, though I may frisk you for chocolate.
coop I am sure this won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I figured I would post it anyway. I am currently reading The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil - and really enjoying the book. Sort of the same subject, but much less technical - I found this interesting read on future robotic labour by Marshall Brain (the guy that writes the How Stuff Works books.)
chiefwagonburner I am drunk. The black mercury forum is up. I have no idea how to run a blogger. Coop, school me! I got the design for the typewriter icon while staring at a bottle of Vodka at Vons somewhere around midnight. Then I forgot about it. Then someone reminded me that I had an idea at Vons, and I had to think about it. Then I forgot again. All are welcome. I am drunk. And...I suspect Awwa is too. Right now, in VA, sleeping furiously, dreaming about bad kitties. Today I played in a Halo tournament. I expected to win, but placed 9th in a group of 32. It was fun, but completely pointless. Excuses, excuses. Next time they'll make it make sense. It wasn't put together well at all. It was sort of a "shoot at anything" sort of tournament, with no skill involved. Wow, look at me. I actually take this shit seriously. Heh. So does my girlfriend (still in training).
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