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Freaking tear-jerker song.

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:10:43 GMT

Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work"
I first heard this on some hospital TV show where the mother was dying in delivery.

I swear by the time the song ends I am dehydrated.

New war movie. Max Manus.

feeds@yuku.com (Zerik) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:55:25 GMT

I'm not sure there has ever been made a war movie about resistance in Europe throughout world war 2.

The movie is about Norwegian resistance fighter Max Manus and is based on a true story.
He first fough in the winter war in Finland against Soviet, the combat he saw there haunted him for the rest of his life.
Later he would fight the n@zi's as a saboteur.
If you ever wondered what it was like for the resistance fighters during the war, i think this movie gives...

Quote for 2009 January 1

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:37:40 GMT

If you have a problem with everyone else, the problem is not with everyone else.
-anon.

Quote Du Jour

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:36:13 GMT

"If at the end I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall have at least one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."

Abraham Lincoln

Yahoo Answers banned me, again

feeds@yuku.com (Pompous Audacity) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:23:40 GMT

What the hell it with that place? Jesus Christ... Every time I get an account up to around 2-3000 points I get banned. Anyone else have this problem?

So, I wander into OfficeDepot...

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:15:27 GMT

...and on a pushpin is a sign for a 22" Viewsonic widescreen for $170. Cool. But they don't have any. @#$%. *sigh*

So we drop into the one up on Stage Road, no sign on pushpin. @#$%. My spouse says "Err. Isn't it a VX2235WM?" And I say "Yeah." Spouse points at sign. Well, well, good thing it wasn't a snake, it could have bitten me. Heh. $150. (!).

Mmmmmm kay so they check, and they have 2. The one on the floor, and one in a...

Surveying the ditch. :)

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:34:08 GMT

This is from my youth:

One of the young surveyors, not much older than my 20 years, came in with the data from a job he had just finished. We typed it in, and passed the results to the Engineer. Pretty soon we heard him cussing and yelling, and he came roaring in to the room where the surveyor and I were working.

He...

OK, Wikipedia vandalfighting is amazingly fun, frustrating, and enlightening.

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:47:05 GMT

I downloaded a vandal hunting tool called Huggle.

I never had any idea how many hundreds of vandalizations there are. It was mindblowing.

It was also fascinating. It was like watching a river of information flow past... complete with bits of debris, small animals struggling to get out, and bits of human refuse. The number of aisrods in the universe is larger than I ever imagined. Imagine seeing dozens of aisrod posts being passed off as encyclopedia entries. Yikes....

O how I love a bargain.

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:45:21 GMT

So, I always shop the bargain bin at Office Depot. Tonight, a Microsoft wireless 6000 keyboard and mouse, $15. This is very sweet indeed. Very.

at last the X-Ray vision pervs have dreamed of

feeds@yuku.com (Chudwick) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:02:04 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7683096.stm

As if queuing for ages, emptying pockets and taking off shoes at the airport was not enough - now there are fears...

kinda cool

feeds@yuku.com (Pompous Audacity) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:50:41 GMT
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTwLAW-Z8c

Sunrise near the north pole. Of Mars.

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:45:46 GMT

http://www.nasa.gov/image...80main_sunrise_sol101.gif

Hubble Trouble - Mission scrubbed. Now they will aim for next year.

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:20:20 GMT
The control systems are intact... the system just can't send observation data. "just".

But this means that the repair mission has to be delayed, since the repair to this newly-failed equipment is critical, and the astronauts have not trained for it.

http://edition.cnn.com/20...ttle.hubble.ap/index.html

Newman dies at 83

feeds@yuku.com (Denross) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:02:26 GMT
Paul Newman passes away after a fight with cancer at the age of 83. Talk about a HUGE philanthropist and from what I have been told, an all around great guy. He was one guy I wish I got to shake his hand.

He will be missed ...

http

And in other legal news

feeds@yuku.com (Amilu) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:14:01 GMT

a class-action lawsuit was filed by Maryland resident Melissa Thomas within U.S. District Court against Electronic Arts.

She gets a new trial

feeds@yuku.com (Amilu) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:12:57 GMT
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427721,00.html

Convicted Music File-Sharer Granted New Trial

Friday, September 26, 2008

dead horse - request for the end of, "you can't type/spell..."

feeds@yuku.com (Chudwick) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:58:12 GMT
Sic [sic] of "sic" - shut up on this topic forever or admit you are a hypocrite, because you make typos as well.

-the end (I hope).

edit - oh no, I made a typo! Quel dommage!

End of CD's?

feeds@yuku.com (Sinneed) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:31:00 GMT
This??!?!?

I don't see it.

I do think that CD's are toast. I gave all my blanks away. My thumb drives have more space than my DVDs. I think I have bought my last removable-moving-media recording device (Why did I buy the HD DVD recorder? It seemed SUCH a good idea at the time. Ah well.) And I am sure I bought my last moving-media.

Hell the...

simple English - WTF!?!?!?

feeds@yuku.com (Chudwick) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:40:19 GMT
http://simple.wikipedia.o...e_Simple_English_articles

I hope everyone is taking or thinking about taking Spanish and/or Mandarin! Cuz it looks like English is on its way to the backburner, again.

So whose blog speaks for you?

feeds@yuku.com (Chudwick) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:42:26 GMT

Since I've started posting on message boards about 3 years ago, I've noticed that more and more posters are copying and pasting blogs to speak for them or whatever other reasons there may be.
I don't read blogs and I don't blog. On the other hand, my wife loves it, though she steers clear of political blogs, unlike many people here.
Just out of curiosity, how did you find the blogs you read? Why do you revere them? Do you think blogs have forever changed the...