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[Chris Vogel]

does anyone have any experience with circuitry?

I have experience damaging circuitry.

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[Gubs]

I was hungry, but didn't feel like making anything. So I just grabbed a bottle of hershey's syrup. Now my mouth tastes funny, its like the taste of morning breath.

*EDIT*

Also looks like we have a new spammer. Alegik ThompsON was logged on at 10 o'clockish browsing the Anything Goes section of the forum.

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[Chris Vogel]

I was hungry, but didn't feel like making anything. So I just grabbed a bottle of hershey's syrup. Now my mouth tastes funny, its like the taste of morning breath.

You inspired me to buy some of that syrup that hardens on ice cream. Yum!


Stupid Chicago Cubs took two of my Corner Gas episodes today.

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[Cisco_Kid]

And what is a Corner Gas?

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[Chris Vogel]

And what is a Corner Gas?

Only the best show eva!

http://www.cornergas.com/

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[Cisco_Kid]

And what is a Corner Gas?

Only the best show eva!

http://www.cornergas.com/

Looks like it has elements of Lum 'n Abner in it just judging from the website.

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[Chris Vogel]

Looks like it has elements of Lum 'n Abner in it just judging from the website.

Traveling through time to steal ideas from Canadian television is pretty lame.


Speaking of lame, the TV station that Corner Gas is on is currently messed up. (Speaking of not-so-lame, a friend took me to K-Mart, which I hadn’t visited in years. I should go out with friends more often.)

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[Red Squirrel]

We used to have a Kmart way back in the day, then Walmart took over. I remember seeing a flat bed transport driving on the highway with this giant K on it, was hilarious. They even stood it up, guess it was too wide to sit it down.

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[manadren]

We still have a Kmart here for some reason. I say this because I've never been to a Kmart that didn't look like it was closing down in a week or so. And yet the store still stands...

Though if some people are to be believed, they might actually be closing for real soon. I wonder what the store will look like then...

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[Chris Vogel]

I actually enjoyed my K-Mart experience, even after people told me I wouldn’t. It is less crowded and less glitzy than Wal-Mart and Target – like shopping in the ’80s, or at least how I imagine shopping in the ’80s to be. My Lego bricks were even a dollar or so cheaper than Wal-Mart.

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[manadren]

that is true, they never are crowded. Very few customers or employees to get in your way. It's an interesting place to go every now and again. It's like you have the store all to yourself, which is cool and depressing at the same time. But they're always kinda messy, which, combined with the lack of customersemployees always makes it look to me like it's perpetually the tail end of a closeout sale, where the various sale items have been ravaged and no one feels like fixing the displays.

Still you can find some interesting stuff there at decent prices, but at that point you might as well just knuckle down and hit the nearest big lots. Which has a similar atmosphere but an even cheaper and odder selection of goods. Then it's even more like shopping in the 80s, and I swear they have some stuff on sale that is that old. (caveat emptor when it comes to food items).

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[Red Squirrel]

Thats one thing I do hate about Walmart, its always super overcrowded and hard to get around specially with a cart.

It just amazes me to see the cashes there, just think of all the money being produced every minute of that store being open. It's mind bogling. Thing is, lot of stuff we buy there we always need more, such as toilet paper. It's a real gold mine.

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[Cisco_Kid]

Walmart is the main option out here. That or the expensive chain stores like Old Navy and Macy's which cater to the college kids from the area universities.

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[Chris Vogel]

Thats one thing I do hate about Walmart, its always super overcrowded and hard to get around specially with a cart.

That’s why I always go on Sunday morning. I’m not sure how effective that would be in Ontario though.


I found a beat-up 1936 dime in a parking lot today. This is probably my second-most exciting find, after my Bahamian nickel. (I also have an assortment of Canadian coins, which are quite common even in Tennessee. Being a stanch republican, I keep them on reverse.)

Edit: Made a verb plural.

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[Lamez]

you should see my collection of coins

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[Gubs]

I somewhere have a coin collection in my storage unit. But I haven't been inside that unit in 5+ years.

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[Red Squirrel]

Maybe a couple dead rats have randomly added themselves to that unit over those years.

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[Chris Vogel]

I was finally able to download the Theora version of Big Buck Bunny last night. I’m blown away; my only complaint – not much of a complaint at all – is that the credits have both “color” and “realised,” one of which is a spelling error in any English variant.

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[Cisco_Kid]

I was finally able to download the Theora version of Big Buck Bunny last night. I’m blown away; my only complaint – not much of a complaint at all – is that the credits have both “color” and “realised,” one of which is a spelling error in any English variant.

perhaps the first credit writers were Americans who were sacked and replaced by British folks
took a glance at that website before posting this and it looks like gorgeous use of blender.

edit: no one complains when magazines or papers print 'Windows Operating Systems' even though that is clearly an error in some form.

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[Red Squirrel]

haha never noticed the irony in that. More like "Windows try-to-but-not-quite-operating system"

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[Cisco_Kid]

What do you guys think I should do with the people that always submit comments to my blog with contents like

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that is is the full quote but every other word is a link on the one I see.

truely insightful I know but somehow my finger still clicks on the 'spam' button.
do you think it is worth my time to post IP addresses, seeing that all of two people actually read it including me?

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[Chris Vogel]

do you think it is worth my time to post IP addresses, seeing that all of two people actually read it including me?

Normal people will just get confused by an IP address. I say you should simply delete them.


Anyone care to send a Google Talk/XMPP/Jabber IM to “chris@chrisvogel.name”?

Edit: Quoted my Jabber/e-mail address so people know the question mark doesn’t belong in it.

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[Cisco_Kid]

do you think it is worth my time to post IP addresses, seeing that all of two people actually read it including me?

Normal people will just get confused by an IP address. I say you should simply delete them.


Anyone care to send a Google Talk/XMPP/Jabber IM to “chris@chrisvogel.name”?

Edit: Quoted my Jabber/e-mail address so people know the question mark doesn’t belong in it.

from what I have seen as the seen ongoing flood is slowing now to a trickle - perhaps they are realising that they are getting nowhere - is that they all come from a small group of indentical IP addresses.
simple enough to remove in any event. They could at least send me more interesting spam or cover a wider array of topics.

I would help you with that messaging thing but it would mean that I have actually heard of them first. Jabber is a term I have heard once, but still brings to my mind the Jabberwockey for than anything else.

p.s. - someone needs to invent a grammar checker that will read your mind to insert those missing words that go through your head but fail to reach your fingers.

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[Chris Vogel]

from what I have seen as the seen ongoing flood is slowing now to a trickle - perhaps they are realising that they are getting nowhere - is that they all come from a small group of indentical IP addresses.
simple enough to remove in any event. They could at least send me more interesting spam or cover a wider array of topics.

I enjoy the euphemisms spammers use. They rival my English translation of Juliette.

I would help you with that messaging thing but it would mean that I have actually heard of them first.

http://www.jabber.org/what-is-jabber

Truth be told, I’m not so much into instant messaging, but I like the concept of Jabber. I set up ejabberd, and while I was able to connect to my account in Empathy, I wasn’t able to receive messages from a test account at Jabber.org. I’m hoping my DNS changes just haven’t propagated everywhere yet.

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[Chris Vogel]

I’m hoping my DNS changes just haven’t propagated everywhere yet.

Yea! That was the case.

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