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Looks like I'm not the only one peeved by this hotfix:
- Several hunters wasted a lot of cash getting the needed items to make it possible, based on the blue statement that this would stay as it was a creative use of in-game mechanisms
- Big Bear Butt Blogger feels like me but writes it a lot better: "There was nothing… just no reason at all to do this, except out of spite that the cool kids figured out a way to have fun that some idiot at Blizzard didn't think of first."
- Time Well Wasted (discovered through BBB) goes to the heart of the issue: "We've seen this time and again: a player discovers an inventive use of a spell or an item or a game feature, and has a lot of fun with it — then Blizzard comes away and yanks the fun toy away because they didn't mean to do it on purpose. Sure, sometimes that toy causes imbalance, but when it doesn't, it makes no sense that Blizzard should get prickly about it. Your game just got MORE FUN for its players. You have unintentionally SATISFIED a paying customer. What business model sees this as a bad thing? Instead of hotfixing it, Blizzard should be wholeheartedly embracing this quirk and turn it into a supported feature: rare-looking pets that take significant effort to tame, sort of like an epic hunter pet quest."
- Tzia at Have Bow, Will Travel, points out the matter of consistency and credibility of the CMs: "Am I upset? YES. I had no intention of taming this thing, since it would have taken a specialty meta gem, and a few people to help me just to get, and then I would have had to go through the horror that is grinding up a lowbie pet. However, you do not say one thing and then do the other."
Expect more backlash to come within the next hours. Frankly, I'm not into disruptive actions or whatnot, but I hope that everyone who spent the gold to aquire the gems and mats and is now sitting on them petitions a GM for a refund, so that there is at least some kind of feedback into the system that this was a crappy decision, to say the least.
Beyond that, though, as Tzia stated, the really stupid thing is that this dev decision diminished their Community Managers' credibility (again). Considering the state of the o-boards at the best of times, as well as the rampant paranoia, nerf-calling, trolling, venting, ranting, crying, whining, lashing out, trolling and whatnot which makes the bread and butter of the interaction between forum posters and the CMs, this decision sends out the message "our CMs are really a PR function, not Community Representatives".
Moroagh has spent some time discussing about the input designers can get from their community. Tobold expanded on the notion, differentiating between listening to the wanton noise and taking the pulse of the playerbase. CMs ought to be one of the tools the devs could, should (and sometimes do) use to take player input into account. When you basically make them liars on a cosmetic but extremely visible and popular symbol, you make their job of getting the pulse that much harder.
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RAINBOW FAMILY GATHERINGS: Unofficial Community for Rainbow Family Gatherngs
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HIGH all i live over in taos nm always looking for like minded people i have my own place two acres and always making things and trying to meet new people
Well family I am free finilly, 3 years all together. Living in Colorado Spings, getting a job for awhile, woo is me...
Anything I can do Family, call/text/come by!
Colorado Rainbow Family Gathering!
|Tammy and Randall's in Lakewood near Sheridan and Mississippi 5300 West Shirley Place Lakewood, Colorado 80232
|The following information is provided by Henry T Fiddler:
It's been a while since we got together so we're going to be Gathering over at Tammy and Randall's yard on Friday, August 30th. Several of us have been talking about the fact that we're really overdue for a regional and it's coming together as I write. Diego and Isabel from the Rainbow Gypsy Theater are passing thru the Denver area shortly and want to connect so that's the catalyst. They sent a fun email which is copied below.
- please arrive 4:00 PM or later
- bring food for a potluck
- we'll have a circle and eat around 7 PM
- grills will be available for barbequing
- dogs must be on leash as animal control patrols regularly
- People are welcome to camp overnight or even the
weekend as long as they're considerate of the neigbors.
- The land line # at Tammy and Randall's house: 303-936-5995
- If you can't get thru on that number, try Henry's cell,
- forward this to your personal email lists
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Hey Colorado Family ...
Diego and Isabel here from the Rainbow Gypsy Theatre. We're going to be passing thru the Colorado/New Mexico region between August 19th and 31st and would love to connect and celebrate with all of you. We had a great time playing at Tammy and Randall's beautiful wedding last month at the Gathering in Montana. We're planning to come and play at the RAIN BO REUNION PARTY at their house in Lakewood on Friday, Aug 30th, so please come and join us.
We're looking forward to it!
Peace and Love,
Diego and Isabel
Any word on a gathering in April?
Hey Joanna I would love to travel to the MT gathering with you but I kinda want to show up early. I could change my mind tho and I will be able to help out with gas. email@example.com
I just left the A-Cola grathering and I made it to Asheville,Nc. I'm wanna come back home, I haven't been back in two years. If anyone is going to Colorado for 4/20 I need a ride I have gas cash my number is 720-232-8557 Lovin You Family!!! have a wonderful day.. Peace and Love
who all is going to the Montana Gathering from CO? I have another conference at Copper the weekend before so was planning to leave on Sunday - and have room for 4 in my car... leaving from Copper but am willing to stop in Denver to pu folks if you will help with gas... wharfrat...
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May be a silly question, but if I had a bunch of machines already had XP Pro OEM licenses, would I be able to reinstall Windows and make a system image using a volume licensing key, and still be covered by the OEM license?
Yes is what I believe to be the case
Yes that is allowed, got the MS paperwork somewhere about this, will dig it out if I can find it but you are definitely covered.
YOu MUST have an OEM licence in order to use VL
This is because VL is an UPGRADE licence only...
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Cheers all! That makes it a lot cheaper for us.
ok, how about making those Windows XP as a VM in WMware ESXi ? would that be still valid ?
I'm going to be abit contriversal here and say I think the answer to the OP's question is - NO.
Or atleast it is No - If he hasn't bought the Volume License Upgrades for these machines, you are not supposed to use the VLK without purchesing the Volume Licenses. You can only purchase the Volume Licenses if you have a qualifying OEM/FPP license for the machine already and the Volume Licenses are not transferable between machines.
As for the VM question - my understanding is -
You need a qualifying OEM/FPP version of Windows + the Volume License Upgrade + Software Assurance + the VECD License.
Microsoft want their pound of flesh
Purchase a load of Windows 98 FPP's off of ebay
However as from July if you have a windows license with SA you'll no longer need VECD for SA - it's being included as a SA benefit. VECD is also being renamed to VDA
VECD/VDA allows you to run windows VMs using Thin Client devices that don't have their own windows licenses
I was under the impression the actual windows installation license for the VM on the server would be seperate. Thus by neccessaity probably a FPP copy, with VL Upgrade if you want to use a VLK and clone the vhd.
Today I spoke with my reseller to get the VECD/VDA license but then it seems they're not sure if the existing Windows 7 can be down graded into XP ?
All i want to do is Virtualizing the old hardware (Windows XP only) not Windows 7 or migrating the license.
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You can hardly ask a question on Stack Overflow these days without someone telling you this belongs on superuser, programmers(!), webapps, stack apps, etc, etc.
Has anyone (other than Google) created a wrapper around it all? I don't want to have to be a member of 97 different sites to get my day to day questions researched and answered.
UPDATE Apr 6 '11: I understand from this and similar questions here on meta.so that the SX/SO (which is it?) philosophy is to create lots of very targeted sites in order to attract experts. I.e. create lots of little kingdoms. Sure, fine, have at it.
As a consumer of the site/realm (not so much as a contributor) I still see value in a federation of sorts; as I state in a comment below: I would like a central location where I can search for an answer using SO tags and syntax, but my query would span the entire realm of SO sites. (The current search on stackexchange.com is merely a google search limiting to the SO.com domain (I believe) - this helps, but a more custom search would be preferable, where you can specify tags, etc.)
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The government's otherwise inadequate proposals on funding social care have set me thinking about Tamara Ecclestone.
As I have said previously, capitalists support the estate and inheritance taxes. Not those that see themselves as nobility, and call wish to be called capitalists, that want to reward the children of the wealthy (because we all know they need more advantages than they already get). While the Democrats voted in favor of capitalism (letting those who earn wealth prosper) instead of supporting nobility, as has been the recent trend, they did so only for the richest few.
Yesterday (on "Tax Day") NPR's Scott Horsley was wondering about the prospects for doing something better about the Bush tax cuts this year. He got a similar reaction from me, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the Tax Policy Center's Bob Williams–although I got to pull out an expression I believe my mom first taught me,
The inheritance tax in France is 45%, in Belgium it's 3%. France has a wealth tax, Belgium doesn't. Wealthy French have known and used these loopholes for quite some time, but appeal of such schemes is on the rise following massive tax hikes of president Francois Holland.
The decision is welcome news for many farmers, many of whom own a farmhouse but no longer own all of the surrounding agricultural land. Agricultural land ordinarily attracts agricultural property relief from inheritance tax and where the farmhouse on the land 'is of a character appropriate to the property', which means that the farmhouse is proportionate in size to the farmed land surrounding it, then the farmhouse also attracts agricultural property relief.
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Stone's personal Vietnam experiences inspired this account of a young soldier's year-long tour of duty near the Cambodian border. Multi-Oscar winner, including Best Picture!
Platoon -- A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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Winner of 4 Academy Awards , including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar -winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. 'Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing' (Leonard Maltin), it is 'a dark, unforgettable memorial' (The Washington Post) to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive American who, upon his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him.
While his two commanding officers (Oscar -nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, chaos and hatred permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value... life.
Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young American who has abandoned a privileged life at a university to enlist in the infantry, volunteering for combat duty in Vietnam. The year is September 1967. Upon arrival in Da Nang, South Vietnam, he sees dead soldiers in body bags being loaded into his plane, but more distressing to him is the shellshocked state of a departing soldier with the thousand-yard stare. Taylor and several other replacements have been assigned to Bravo Company, 25th Infantry division, 'somewhere near the Cambodian border.' Worn down by the exhausting work and living conditions, his enthusiasm for the war wanes quickly and he develops an admiration for the more experienced soldiers, despite their reluctance to extend their friendship.
One day, another new arrival, platoon commander Lieutenant Wolfe (Mark Moses) discusses the plans for a patrol later that night with the platoon sergeants: the compassionate Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), harsh but hard core Staff Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), cowardly lifer Sergeant Red O'Neil (John C. McGinley), and drug addict Sergeant Warren (Tony Todd). Barnes and Elias argue over whether to send the new men out on a patrol that is likely to be ambushed. O'Neil insists that the new troops go out instead of several men under him who are nearly finished with their tours of duty. Barnes agrees, only on the condition that O'Neil goes out as well.
That night, Taylor's sleeping unit is set upon by a squad of North Vietnamese Army soldiers. Gardner (Bob Orwig), a fellow new recruit, is killed, and another soldier, Tex (David Neidorf), is maimed. Despite having passed the watch duty to Junior (Reggie Johnson), a more experienced soldier who fell asleep, Taylor is blamed for the casualties (O'Neil is also to blame, having thrown the grenade that maimed Tex). Immediately after the fighting Taylor discovers a light wound to his neck, and he is sent to the field hospital for treatment.
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MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT)--A big day at Maryville College.
165 people from 60 different countries became Americans.
Maryville native Senator Lamar Alexander on hand to congratulate the new citizens.
A special day for 165 people.
Right after the ceremony I caught up with two women who couldn't be happier to be living the American dream.
With wave of American pride, April Minton was the most excited new citizen.
April Minton from Bosnia says, "Since 2004 it took me four years but finally I'm here. Amen. So proud. So proud to be. Very exciting day."
She left war torn Bosnia 17 years ago.
Now, after years of hard work and studying, April flashes that all American smile.
"It's hard to describe the feeling when I was walking on stage. I felt like I was walking on the clouds."
She's not the only one.
Cindy Gleser is another.
She snapped pictures of Senator Lamar Alexander, a special guest on her special day.
Cindy Gleser says, "Oh my God so nervous. But so happy cause I had the opportunity to meet the senator and shake hands.'
Cindy left Peru 4 years ago for the land of the free.
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Automobile radiator coolant is a mix of anti-freeze and water. Engine coolant is designed to protect your car radiator and cooling system all year round. Most of all, using radiator coolant helps to avoid engine overheating. Many different brands and varieties of engine coolant exist. Most have additives that are intended to protect your cooling system by preventing corrosion, lubricating, and increasing cooling efficiently.
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- Non-Toxic Radiator Coolant. This anti-freeze does not contain ethylene glycol or polyethylene glycol (both acutely toxic). These engine coolants are, however, still toxic but only in larger quantities and over longer periods.
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Microsoft Stores are coming to the UK 2013, the company announced, and 75 stores will launch worldwide.
The scattered Microsoft Stores are expanding to the UK and across the world, it announced
Microsoft has announced that its retail stores, which will sell the Surface tablets unveiled by the company earlier this month, are expanding to 75 worldwide and in the UK. The move means the hard-to-find stores will offer products consumers otherwise wouldn't be able to buy in more regions, such as Surface.
The first indications came when Microsoft launched a private company in the UK. Locations aren't known, but London and other locations in the UK could happen. More major cities like Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool would be good locations. Anywhere where there's footfall, really.
A trademark gained in 2011 said the store would be a designed with four curved tabletops at the front, with rear side walls, and what was described as a rectangular band displaying images. That sounds minimalistic, like Apple's stores.
Apple has been incredibly successful with its retail stores, bringing a modern design and laid-back – but informative – approach to its staff. The company has people in-store and Geniuses, which are a tier up from regular Apple employees and offer more specific troubleshooting advice for the company's products. Meetings have to be booked beforehand.
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Microsoft doesn't have that same appeal to consumers as Apple does: it prices may be lower, but the brand image doesn't resonate with young people the way Apple does. That's not because it's creating bad products, it's just that the iPhone and iPad has a lot of mind share. If I asked a regular consumer if they had heard of Microsoft Surface, they'd say no.
19 stores are open at the moment. Two more are opening in New York and Canada. The 75 stores will open over the next two or three years according to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner who spoke at the Worldwide Partner Conference. Apple has 320 stores.
Whatever the stores like look, it should give a greater presence to Surface and other Microsoft products such as Windows Phone. I feel like there's a lack of awareness right now among the mainstream consumers, and there definitely aren't people camping outside for the latest product launch.
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NIJ Funded Research Study Completes Evaluation of Leica ScanStation 3D Laser Scanner
RTI International is one of the world's leading research institutes and an independent, nonprofit organization that provides research, development, and technical services to government and commercial clients worldwide. Its Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCOE) is a National Institute of Justice funded program that partners with leading universities such as Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) Department of Forensic Science.
RTI and its partners identify and evaluate technology needs in the forensic field and provide effective technology transition workshop content to improve dissemination of information and best practices to support the effective transition of new forensic technologies to the field and laboratories.
The FTCOE works with the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center and the Office of Law Enforcement Standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The National Center serves as the clearinghouse for technology information.
The FTCOE and its partner VCU recently completed a year-long comprehensive technology evaluation of the Leica ScanStation C10 3D laser scanner. For this research project they actively sought out experienced law enforcement users of the Leica ScanStation who had deployed the technology on a large number of diverse scenes. In December of 2013, the FTCOE hosted a national webinar for public safety professionals featuring a presentation by one of these experienced Leica ScanStation users.
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For Prexy Paul Williams, ASCAP's 100th Birthday Means They've Only Just Begun
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers -- better known as ASCAP -- turns 100 on Feb. 13.
The performing rights organization reportedly got its start when operetta composer Victor Herbert ("Babes in Toyland") overheard a piece of his music being played in a hotel, knew he wasn't being paid for it and began organizing fellow music creators to protect their rights and ensure proper compensation for the use of their work.
Today ASCAP boasts 480,000 members and, in 2012, distributed more than $827 million in royalties to composers, songwriters and music publishers. It has spent a century finding ways to ensure musicmakers can make a decent living, says president Paul Williams.
"What's most exciting to me right now is the ASCAP of the future as when I go and talk to legislators about our current issues, trying to deal with the digital world, and make sure that we can collect a fair royalty in the world of streaming and the like. But beyond that, this is a membership organization," he says, citing ASCAP's annual I Create Music Expo, April 24-26 in Hollywood. "There's something about walking the halls of that hotel amongst all these hopeful, talented, creative young writers, and watching what happens when you combine a little fellowship with the opportunity to acquire tools and relationships."
Earlier this month, ASCAP kicked off the year-long celebration by unveiling "More than the Stars," a song co-written by several A-list songwriters and composers including Ne-Yo, Lady Antebellum and Bear McCreary. It was an extension of a consciousness-raising film ASCAP commissioned called "Why We Create Music."
Among the upcoming events:
*Release of a book, "A Friend in the Music Business: The ASCAP Story" by Bruce Pollock, Feb. 4;
*An exhibit at the Library of Congress, running Feb. 13-July 26, then moving to L.A. from Aug. 23-Feb. 14, 2015;
*An invitation-only birthday celebration at the Brooklyn Bowl, featuring ASCAP music and "special guests" on Feb. 13;
*A celebration of ASCAP film and TV music by the Pasadena Pops, conducted by Michael Feinstein on Aug. 16;
*An ASCAP Foundation fundraiser, at which five members will be honored with ASCAP Foundation Centennial awards, Nov. 19 in New York City;
*A series of discussions in February, April and October at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills focusing on ASCAP's film, TV, musical-theater and pop members.
Behind the scenes, however, Williams and his ASCAP staff continue to deal with the challenges of a new century and a vastly different music business than the one Williams knew when he penned such '70s hits as "We've Only Just Begun," "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "The Rainbow Connection" -- an era when people visited record stores, purchased vinyl 45s and LPs, and discovered new music by listening to AM and FM radio.
"We have moved from licensing music for bars and grills and restaurants, through radio and television, cable, satellite, through every new platform," Williams says. "We have equally high hopes for the digital world that we're moving into."
That world is effectively a war zone, with such streaming services as Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora and iTunes Radio vying for listeners but paying, in the view of outspoken artists like Radiohead and Pink Floyd, woefully little for the use of their music. Pandora is fighting ASCAP in the courts.
Williams' larger view is that the 72-year-old consent decree under which his org operates needs revision to accommodate new forms of music distribution. "We don't want a fight; what we want is flexibility," he says. "We have these amazing resources that we can bring into the future, and we have an organization that is not going to sit back and say, 'this is the way it was done and we're not going to change.'
"We are changing," he adds. "We need to make the rest of the world realize -- amongst our business relationships and legislators as well -- that we have to make some adjustments. We are looking closely at ways to adjust, to make ASCAP the most efficient for the people that license our music."
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Pine Creek Gorge
This National Natural Landmark is a portion of the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon. Park vistas on east and west rims overlook scenic gorge. Contains rare plants.
Swamp Forest
|Perched water table gives rise to palustrine wetland of old growth eastern hemlocks and white pines at the headwaters of Brown's Run.
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Cook Forest State Park
Rapid Run
Old growth forest of white pine and eastern hemlock containing areas of emergent wetlands, springs and sphagnum bogs.
Pine Swamp
Acidic broadleaf swamp containing rare plant species. Characteristic features include vegetated sphagnum hummocks and mucky, water-filled channels.
Bender and Black Bear Swamps
Acidic shrub swamps; openings contain spagnum moss, rare plants and animals.
Boulder Field
This National Natural Landmark is a unique geological formation of periglacial origin, impressive due to ts flatness and large size.
Fall Brook
This area contains many old-growth hemlocks and includes a steep gorge with picturesque stream and several waterfalls.
Glens Natural Area
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Mud Run
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Mud Swamp
Remote emergent wetland containing rare plant species of concern.
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Cliffs rise nearly 300 feet above the Delaware River. Provides habitat for rare alpine plant species of concern.
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Freshwater intertidal zone along the shores of the Delaware River and Neshaminy Creek containing many rare plants.
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There are certain things - many things really - that I've recently realized I take for granted about my life, specifically regarding the city/location I call home. Considering the prospect of living halfway around the world for a year has made me think about this stuff in a new way.
One example is my cat. He is so much a part of my life that I often don't think about him much. It's automatic for me to glance over at him, curled in a ball on the sofa, to wake up early in the morning when he meows in my ear to be let outside, to hold and cuddle him as soon as he comes in so he can get on with his day (he requires this cuddling, not me, but I usually don't mind it), to let him sit on my lap as I use the computer and pet his extremely soft bright-orange fur. I like having him around.*
Second is the incredible cheapness of Cincinnati as a place to live. I live less than two miles from the center of downtown, but pay only $300** a month to rent a 350-square-foot studio apartment. Sure, it's basically only one room; my kitchen's tiny but I have a decent bathroom with tub. The house is 119 years old (high ceilings and big windows, check, plus exposed brick!), and the door and windows let out a lot of heat so my gas & electric bill isn't cheap. Still, my rent and utilities rarely top $400 a month. They're usually about $350. As a bonus, I can park my car right out on my little tree-lined street, often within 50 yards of my door. This is a good value. I will probably never live in a cheaper home, anywhere.
A third thing is my parents. Right now I live less than ten miles from their house, and it's nice to be able to drop by - especially now that Andy, my younger brother, has moved out (they're still adjusting to being empty nesters).*** I have a thing about the phone. I really dislike it. I'm very much an email person, but with my closest friends and family, I largely prefer in-person contact.
I'm a very solitary individual. I lead a mostly solitary life. I live alone (with aforementioned cat). I shop alone. I even go to movies and restaurants alone. I have just a few good friends, and a few close family members. But having those people around is quite nice. I would really miss them.
*Needless to say, if I were to take a job teaching in Asia for a year, Zachary would have to live with a friend that whole time. And I would have to, before leaving, find a friend who could and would house and love him, which wouldn't be easy. He's kind of high-maintenance.
**About five years ago, I got a summer job as a leasing agent at a large apartment complex. I learned a lot about square footage and leases and market values. That summer was the summer I moved into my current place, and my negotiating skills were sharp. The asking rent had been $350. After my first year, I'd established a friendship with my landlord, and he hasn't raised my rent at all. I'm on month-to-month now, but I've told him I might well move out by summer. I have outgrown the place, much as I like it.
***Andy is currently living in New Orleans and working as an intern for a nonprofit - building houses and other things and doing a lot of other stuff too. He'll be there until the fall.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
my quiet life
There are certain things - many things really - that I've recently realized I take for granted about my life, specifically regarding the city/location I call home. Considering the prospect of living halfway around the world for a year has made me think about this stuff in a new way.
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- mames said...
there is something to be said for home. the rhythm sometimes comforts and sometimes stifles. believe me, i never thought i would be raising my children in the same home in which i grew up. odd, how life takes us...i like to think where we should be. looking forward to any developments. keep posting here, i saw your note on FB (blush) but i never really use FB. it confuses me which makes me feel old.


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While Felipe Massa is hoping to secure a podium before this season is out, the Williams drivers fears his "big chance" has gone by.
Showing impressive pace during pre-season testing, and even finishing the final outing quickest of all, much was expected of the Grove-based team.
However, to date Williams have yet to deliver that podium finish.
And despite being involved in the battle last time out in Bahrain, Massa fears his "best" opportunity of the season may have gone by in Australia when Kamui Kobayashi smashed into him at the opening corner.
"Australia [was the best chance], maybe more so than Bahrain," he told ESPNF1. "In Australia I did not race so I lost my big chance to be on the podium. I hope we are going to have another chance.
"The Safety Car [cost us in Bahrain]. I was fighting for third place the whole race and then we had the Safety Car and I went from third to eighth. Without the Safety Car we were able to finish in front of both Red Bulls and maybe one Force India.
"I'm not sure about both because they were doing two stops anyway. Strategy was something where Perez was better than us, but there was definitely a chance for the top five."
But while Massa may have a few concerns about a top three result, he reckons the upgrades Williams have brought with them to China this weekend should at least help them in the fight.
"I think the problem we've been having since the first test is that by putting more stability on the rear of the car, it's normal that we use a bit more tyres. We have some new pieces for this race, which I hope everything works, and if it does I think we will see an improvement on the car.
"We didn't have so many new pieces in the last race and other teams did so we saw more improvement in the last race. I think we will see a similar improvement on our side if we can use everything we are trying."


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Blog has MovedMarch 30th, 2010
Greetings, I am still in the process of combining the works of this blog an my new blog, but in the meantime, my blog updates now occur here.
Greetings, I am still in the process of combining the works of this blog an my new blog, but in the meantime, my blog updates now occur here.
I need to update this blog, I will do so soon, I'm trying to decide how I want to go about the changes that I want to make.
I know I haven't posted in a while, I'm going to try to post more often. I'll make a relevant post soon about what I've been up to. For now, I want to talk about Scala.
I've been learning Scala, it's a great little programming language. I would like to see java replaced by it eventually.
I was dealing with a very specific issue in scala, whereby I was matching a Map and getting the following error:
error: constructor cannot be instantiated to expected type;
[scalac] found : Some[A]
[scalac] required: Int
[scalac] case Some(x) => {
It turns out, there are two ways to access a Map. So if I have
val wallet = Map("Money" -> 100)
wallet("Money") returns 100
wallet("Monkey") throws an exception
wallet.get("Money") returns Some(100)
wallet.get("Monkey") returns None
Therefore, I was supposed to be using get when matching access to wallet:
val numOfM= wallet.get("Monkey")
numOfM match {
Some(num) => {println "#:" + num}
None => {println "You don't have enough bananas :("}
Why isn't CSS defined in an XML format? If XML is so perfect for xhtml, you would have thought it would be the default standard in styling xhtml and therefore used in CSS?
Even if they removed explicit end tags, it'd be better.
Doesn't this:
Requires understanding a lot more syntax than:
I just want to say how annoying it is to search for things when twitter results get mixed in. Twitter results are near useless, they almost never contain source hyperlinks, they are few lines of text that are summed up by the link itself from Google. I've been finding them more and more frequently in Google search results.
I was looking for more information on glassy-bleu, a theme hp made for their laptops, and I found a link to this guy's twitter page as one of the top 4 results. Thanks, Google, for letting me know someone out there is trying the theme. Maybe if it was a blog post he'd have details on how I could try it.
A better application of twitter links would be to just inline them into the search results as the full result. Why do I have to load another entire webpage to view the twitter user status change? This whole thing is stupid. In the best case scenario, they would just derank twitter.
Recently, a lot of my friends have started using their facebook status to post political beliefs. I think it's great, however it does come at a price for friends of yours who don't agree with you.
You see, on facebook, it's my closest friends reading my status. So if a friend with a dissenting opinion reads my status and is compelled by a post to offer a differing opinion, he can't reply to it to argue because he would do so knowing I have spent my entire life orienting myself with a group of friends which essentially forms an overly complex system of confirmation bias.
To correct this, people post on their OWN facebook status their own beliefs. This forms a cycle in which everyone is expousing beliefs to cope with annoying friends they disagree with.
Is this a bad thing? I am not sure. People are discussing their ideas more, and becoming more interested in policies and politics. Regardless, I have a feeling it is one small stone in a large quarry of the trend of people grouping up more and more by self similarity in society. Doing so is rational, beneficial, yet perhaps less colorful.
Senator and republican presidential candidate John McCain recently had drama with youtube. Basically, his videos were being pulled from youtube for the same copyright mechanisms within the DMCA he voted for. His theory is that some sorts of videos deserve extra attention because to prevent their viewing, you are hurting voter's ability to judge candidates; indirectly, you're hurting the democratic process. This whole thing is rediculous.
But what's interesting about this is that McCain is feeling hurt from a law he supported. When the shoe's on the other foot, it feels different. I would hope that instead of trying to make special cases, he'd instead realize that there are either some flaws with the overreaching power of the DMCA, or accept it and host the videos on his own servers, free of youtube's takedown policies, but at the cost of viewership.
Personally, I think copyright law is a difficult thing. It's expensive to manage and defend. It offers low value in return for high costs to content producers to defend their copyright works against all violations without tools like google has provided. Yet, with google's tools, it has come at the cost of free culture. Is there even a balance that can be struck that is fair to both the copyright holders and the content producers that minimizes time spent in court, paying lawyers?
The Wii was announced in april, 2006, to be the next Nintendo game console. However, google just recently released a trend tracking tool that is incredibly specific.
Because of this, I was able to extrapolate the following graph. This graph shows that the Nintendo wii was likely first searched around June, 2005, in Japan. I believe that this is when Nintendo first came up with the name. Therefore, the Wii name was identified as a possible name almost a year beforehand.
Is this useful at all? Probably not. I do, however, think it is interesting that the actions of companies could possibly be inferred by the searches their employees do.
Advertising is coming to videogames. This is something gamers will come to accept.
However, I have reservations with some arguments supporting in-game advertising. First of all, very few people want their game spoiled by blatant, obvious, advertising. Posting billboards for pepsi inside a Counter-strike third world city map is bad.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, most people are happy when games that mimic reality. We might not want billboards in strange places, we're fine with the fake-company parody advertising in Grand Theft Auto. Any ad that is as realistic as possible, even though it mentions no real company, makes Grand Theft Auto feel more real.
However, my reservations are on people who argue "I'm fine with in game advertising, you can put pepsi in a pepsi machine because it promotes realism." My argument is that it isn't real. Unlike the manufactured advertisements in real life ™, the advertisements in games promote only the brand of the advertiser. I'm only fine with pepsi machines in my sandbox GTA-esque game, as long as across the street I might find a coke machine.
Advertising doesn't promotes realism in games, because there is only one advertiser. It is void of product differentiation; advertising tries to convince you that there are no other products. Yet those who want advertising in games want it because it makes the game feel more like reality.
Without competing advertisements, there is no realism. It is eerie, and gives the user a feeling of being cheap.
Therefore, I argue in-game advertisements are fine, but in-game advertising is not immersive. It can never be immersive by definition.
"This ultrakill brought to you by MOUNTAIN DEW.. YEAH"
What inspires a David to fight a Goliath? Cuil is a search engine created by those who know how to make search engines. These same people contributed to the being they're now trying to surpass with merely brute force. It seems Cuil's strategy is trying to beat Google at the thing it does best. You would think that it would make them experts at knowing the Achilles heel of the great search engine. Even if they were able to find a potential weakness, would it be something google could not find in itself; in doing so, fixing itself?
This leads me to wonder: what markets are left from the pre-web 1.0 world? Is web 2.0 a spawning of new interactive web applications, or is it merely a new version number on companies who have long stood the test of time? Any web application that stands the test of time on their idea alone will soon be replaced by an iGoogle version, whether it be calendars or otherwise.
… "We're gonna revolutionize the calendar industry." …. Uh?
So I'm sick of the mbta website. It's unwieldy. The problem with google's T schedule service is that I want to find the fastest point in a radial location to another radial location, but it only allows searches for point to point traversal. With too-exact searches I produce inaccurate results because unlike google maps, I'm not trying to figure out how to get from Cambridge to a specific building at a university, I just want the fastest path to an area around the university. There are a lot of areas that cannot be pathed because they are not technically roads.
I had a few MBTA results which were different based on whether I wrote Harvard Station, or selected Havard Station from a dropdown. This was because it was comparing the Harvard Bus Entrance versus the subway entrance. To you or I, the distance was only 1 minute, but the pathing engine had a difficult time moving out of the bus station and into the subway station part.
I propose that these sorts of websites should be work done by open source and research communities. What better use of budding computer scientist graduates than to have them improve the pathing engine for the public transportation website. The great thing about this idea is that other cities could benefit from such open source material. Once we solve the "transportation scheduling" problem, we no longer need to resolve it. I am certain there are other areas where open source could merge with the government.
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Photo #: 19-N-29301
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
Closeup view of her forward half, from the port side, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 19 April 1942, following overhaul.
Note details of her forward main battery gun director, with an "FC" radar antenna on its top, aircraft catapult, and .30 caliber machinegun mounted on the bridge wing railing.
USS Raleigh (CL-7) is in the background.
Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
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Hopes £1 million revamp of Dixon's store will kick-start Whitehaven economy
Last updated at 20:31, Thursday, 23 February 2012
WHITEHAVEN'S only department store is in line for a near £1 million makeover – and owner Donald Dixon hopes it will also help spark a revival in the town's retail fortunes and sustain jobs.
He also wants the £975,000 refurbishment to link in with Whitehaven's major transformation scheme such as the £20 million Albion Square, £10 million harbourside complex and Tesco's £20million superstore.
With a 130-year history, J Dixon & Son is one of Whitehaven's oldest surviving businesses. Now the firm is embarking on a complete refurbishment of its Lowther Street store.
Mr Dixon said: "The warehouse needs a new roof so we will completely clear stock and at the same time re-do our store."
He has previously invested millions at Workington to establish the Dunmail Park retail centre and the Plaza cinema complex. Directly and indirectly the firm is one of West Cumbria's biggest employers offering around 300 jobs – 40 staff are on the payroll at Whitehaven.
On the Whitehaven store makeover, Mr Dixon said: "We must keep up to date, be competitive and give people everything they expect to see in a modern department store.
"Our staff are delighted we are going to do things, especially at a time when a lot of shops are closing. It's their jobs at stake. They want people to shop in Whitehaven."
A recent survey of Cumbria's retail trade showed Whitehaven to be one of the worst-hit in the county for shop closures.
Asked what has given him the confidence to invest in the town, Mr Dixon, 77, said: "There's a lot going on here, more so than many other towns – Albion Square, the new Tesco, which hopefully will get off the ground soon (we have been promised it for a long time now) and also the other work going in Strand Street/Mark House for the harbour complex. All this does give us confidence in Whitehaven.
"Are we bucking the trend? Well there's no point in standing still, you either go up or down, it's a case for us of running fast to keep up.
"We do want something that's suitable and sustainable for the future, for the people of Whitehaven and West Cumbria."
A member of the a development group helping in efforts to promote the town, Mr Dixon went on: "Whitehaven itself has a unique atmosphere, a lot of work is being done to add vibrancy. I hope in the future many more people are going to support Whitehaven – Whitehaven jobs and Whitehaven shops.
"It's not pleasant to walk along a street with so many empty or boarded-up shops. We hope our own investment will help. I know the council and others are working hard. While it is important that everybody co-operates, the biggest help is for locals to do their best to shop in Whitehaven. If we are up to date and doing better then that can only be good for shops and employment."
Over five days this week Dixon's will opens its doors for the massive disposal sale.
"We have to keep looking for new suppliers – some are already going out of business the same way as retailers – so we are in the market for new suppliers, new ranges and to be as up to date as possible.
J Dixon & Son incorporates Miss Selfridge and Top Shop, but as for new franchises the owner said: "Unfortunately once you mention West Cumbria people put it rather low down on the list. We are trying to convince them by our own efforts to improve things, that they should put Whitehaven, and West Cumbria, on their list of opportunities."
The store will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week for the disposal sale to the general public. Special customers have had a special invitation to shop yesterday and today.
First published at 11:05, Thursday, 23 February 2012
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk
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Voters in the state of Colorado have kicked out two US politicians who promoted tighter gun controls after last year's Aurora cinema shooting, which killed 12 people.
State senate president, John Morse, and senator Angela Giron, both Democrats, were kicked out in a historically unprecedented recall election. The pro-gun National Rifle Association part funded the campaign for the poll.
Morse, who signed into law a bill boosting gun control rules after the Aurora shootings in July last year and the Newtown school massacre in December, was forced out on a 51 to 49 percent vote. Giron lost by 56 to 44 percent. Both stood by their decision to back tougher gun controls.
"The loss of an election is nothing when weighed against the loss of lives to gun violence," Morse said in a statement. "I am proud of the fact that we made Colorado safer. The recall election didn't change the fact that sensible gun safety laws are now in effect.
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"I do not regret acting after the horrific massacres we suffered, and I do not regret standing up against the powerful gun lobby to do what was right."
Giron, who voted in favour of the gun control legislation, which entered into force on July 1, added: "I'm a little perplexed. This is what I know: I know that I have not one iota of regret from what I voted on.
"This is only going to make us stronger and better," she told the Denver Post. "We will win in the end, because we are on the right side," she told constituents.
Morse and Giron will be replaced by two Republicans, councilman Bernie Herpin and former police officer George Rivera, who opposed the new law which passed without the support of a single Republican.
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The NRA donated $360,000 to back the recall ballots in Colorado - the first ever use of a state mechanism allowing for politicians to be kicked out by popular vote, according to the Denver Post newspaper.
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DashClock Widget updated with shortcuts and visual tweaks
DashClock is the new hotness these days. If you are running Android 4.2, there is literally no good reason for you to have not installed DashClock yet. It is a lockscreen widget that is meant to replace your default lockscreen and make it better. Well, now DashClock has gotten an update with shortcuts, visual tweaks, and more.
The new update brings DashClock to version 1.2, and the biggest addition is in custom shortcuts. Before, DashClock would use the default app when you tapped on either the clock or weather info, but now you can choose what app you want associated with the clock or weather. On the visual side of things, users can now alter the opacity of the DashClock background, and choose to center the clock.
Other than some other bug fixes, the update also adds translations for French, German, Spanish and Russian. If you want to give DashClock a try, it's available for free in the Google Play Store.
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1. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Please make it a standalone widget for all the 98% of all of those who do not have Android 4.2! :)
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2. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
but you have a lot of better widgets for home screens :)
despite this is a great lock screen widget I use....but missing centigrade
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Kitties! Here is this list of the greatest cats, cat women and even cat men in video games. Be sure to also check out Top 5 Gaming: Cats! over on Metacafe. I have no idea why I wrote the following list. I think the event involved a lot of booze, some sort of hallucinogen, and a possibly a misdemeanor. I'm not really sure as I can't remember much of the last week. This is probably just an excuse to put the Cheetahmen onto a list. Anyway, enjoy it while I go get myself a lawyer.
What are the greatest cats in video games? This list should answer that question.
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Katt Monroe (Starfox 64)So you're playing through Starfox 64, and you aren't a total newbie, so you followed Falco on Corneria and decimated the armada at Sector Y. This means that after you deal with the clam-bake on Aquas, you'll end up in Zoness and . . .
Wait! What's that?
Theme music? What the hell . . .
But it's so catchy! Do do do doo, dah duh dah doo, bah bum buh boo! Do do do doo, dah duh dah doo, bah bum buh boo! Duuuhhhn-uh!
Yeah, that's Katt Monroe's frigging theme music! Oh, and she's actually pretty useful for a guest pilot in a game! If you get through to Sector Z, she takes out one of those blasted missiles pretty much by herself, and if you end up on Macbeth, she actually flips a bunch of those stupid switches you need to hit to kill the boss faster than Speedy Gonzales hopped up on meth-cheese.
At the very least, she's a billion times better than Bill Grey, that bulldog you meet on Katina. That mofo's impossible to please, he's all;
"Nice going, Fox. . . . " *in a tone filled with implied arrogance over your inability to f**king know the difference between his squadron's ships and the enemies in the level who look EXACTLY THE SAME from any decent range!*
Yeah F**k you too Bill! Last time I go to your planet and save your ass from invading flying saucers!
I'll stick with Katt thank you very much. Besides, how many space-cats are there that can fly starships?
Umm. OK, But how many ALSO have theme music when they enter to save the day?
That's what I thought.
- 7
Black Cat (Spider-Man 2/Web of Shadows)I REALLY wanted to put Catwoman on this list. The one from the DC universe. Like seriously. Because it was she that pretty much got me on this whole mental tangent.
But you see there's a pretty big problem: Catwoman has yet to make a decent video game appearance. I mean, her big starring role in her own game was the Halle Berry Catwoman movie tie-in.
Not so hot there.
"But what about Mortal Combat Versus the DC Universe?" you might ask . . .
To which I would reply," BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . . HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HeheheheheheheeheeheeheehahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! . . . ooh wait, you were serious?! "
I guess that's a step in the right direction, but it's still a long way from "good". Sure, her upcoming appearance in Arkham Asylum 2 might end up changing the notion, but for now, if you want to see a decent cat burglar based off of a comic book character wearing black leather, you're going to have to settle for Black Cat.
Though, I hardly think going for Black Cat would be considered settling, if you're anyone BUT Spider-Man, who seems knee-deep in Super-Models with daddy issues about three times a year.
Felicia Hardy is the actual name of the girl in the black leather using grappling hooks and thw world's most dangerous press-on nails, but wait . . . Felicia? Really? Methinks, Marvel may have a lawsuit with Capcom, or at least would if they weren't so busy partnering up for crossover games that make them both tons of money. Hmm, maybe it's an homage from Capcom?
Anyway, she's a Catwoman knock-off, and for a time even had cool bad luck powers, not to mention she's pretty much the only reason to play Spider-Man Web of Shadows and is a big reason to play Spider-Man 2: The Movie: The Game (yes that's it's actual title, so now you know where I Wanna Be the Guy got it from). Her sub-plot in Spidey 2 was actually based off of early drafts of the script of the movie and it turns into a very entertaining storyline for the game. In fact it's a shame they cut her from the film, it would have been nice to see her make an appearance on the silver screen.
As for Web of Shadows, (featured in the attached video) she's pretty damn awesome. She's the first major boss battle and is featured heavily throughout the rest of the game . . . if you choose to hang with her at her tower. You eventually have to fight her again, when she's a new symbiote version of herself, and at least two of the game's four endings are determined by your choices regarding Peter Parker's feelings for his feline flame.
Plus she's played by Tricia Helfer! Otherwise known as Caprica Six from BSG! Otherwise known as the only woman actually hot enough to play Black Cat in any f*ture film that will feature her!
So maybe it's good she wasn't used in Spider-Man 2 after all. Maybe now we can see Ms. Helfer don the fringed leather and domino mask and . . .
*falls into purring trance over the mental image*
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Koban Cat and his Ninja Cat Army (The Legend of the Mystical Ninja)The Mystical Ninja Series, and especially the first game in it, is filled to the fricking brim with cats.
There's are lucky cat item pick-ups, Lucky Cats in the backgrounds, and a summonable Tiger mount that simply wrecks things when you pull it out of Goemon's pocket just to name a few.
But If I have to go with one cat from this game, I think I'll go with Koban . . . and his NINJA CAT ARMY!
Charged with protecting Japan from its wackiest threats, like a troupe of evil mimes that live near Octopus island, or plate spinning ghosts, I'll bet the cat army was doing pretty good for itself. Until a new threat arrived, that figured out how to stop them - by keeping them as cats!
It seems the Cat Army was mostly effective because they were shapeshifters, and the evil Otafu Army decided that in order to kidnap princess Yuki, they had to disable this ability of theirs. And well, they were right, since it's pretty easy to tie up a cute widdle kitty, but not so much if it can go Altered Beast on your ass.
Which is why Edo period stoner Goemon/Kid Ying (seriously, why do you think he keeps that pipe?), has to team up with his pudgy pal Ebisumaru/Dr. Yang, and traipse around Japan and save all the kittens . . . and a princess or something.
So yeah, these guys have to be pretty ineffectual, otherwise this game never even gets off the ground . . but just think about it: A deadly army of shapeshifting Cat Ninjas! That would be pretty unstoppable. It's a good thing they're on our side, at least until we run out of tuna . . . then we're screwed.
So yeah, more awesome in theory than in practice, but hey, still awesome.
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Cait Sith (Final Fantasy Series)First off, I was going to originally put Red XII on the list.
Because I mean, look at him!
Sure, while his body screams wolf, his face always seemed to me, way more cat-like, and he's a made-up creature anyway. Plus his tail is on fire and he talks, both facts that make him awesome. But then a friend of mine was all," Naw Bro. He's a dog yo." And then I was like "Really?" and then he was like "Yeah." and then I looked it up, and I hate the internet for proving him right.
So I had to think of something else really fast, and then get back to drinking and writing. Two activities which do mix together very well . . . unless you are driving as well. Then LOOK OUT FOR THAT TREE!
Anyway, if there's another Cat worth a damn in Final Fantasy, it's probably Cait Sith.
"But he's not a cat! He's a dude dressed in a cat suit riding a robot moogle!"
Correction. He's a dude remotely controlling a PUPPET of a cat riding a robot Moogle. But . . . even for a game featuring a race of Tiger-wolves that are allergic to soft potion, this seems pretty ridiculous to me. I think it's all a clever diversion of Cat Sith, aka Cat Sidhe, the Celtic fairy cat he actually is.
Well it would explain his appearance in Final Fantasy 6 as the summon Stray.
It would also explain his magical f**king ability to damage you with the result of dice rolls. As well as explain his Scottish accent in both Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus. Also it works equally as well to explain the time he goes and sacrifices himself in FF7, I mean as a cat-ghost-god he'd have at the least those nine lives right?
OK, so that might be just as ridiculous as the given story for Cait Sith, but as the game series' foremost representation of cats it might have to do.
Also, look at the cute little cape he's wearing! And that crown! Adorable!
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Cougars! (Red Dead Redemption)So, let's see, we've had cat-people characters from fighting games, a couple of bosses, a main character in the form of Ratchet, some side characters, and at least one character whose status as a cat is in question . . . what are we missing?
How about a regular enemy entry? Well I can think of none better than those damn cougars from Red Dead Redemption!
Just watch the attached video, I think it pretty much makes my point for me.
Or if you don't have the time or are afraid of video clips or something after being rick rolled one to many times, let me put it this way; the Cougars in RDR are f**king bastards.
Usually they appear out of the mists of time itself, or at least seem to, since by the time you manage to spot them, they're charging you at apparently 3000 miles and hour, and yeah, your horse is now dead.
Better catch them on their circling attack or pretty soon it's a claw to the jugular vein. Time to turn on that dead eye! And whew that was close!
God, I hope there's never a day when these assholes come back as undead beasts of fury, that require a direct headshot to put down! Have you seen how fast they move? A direct headshot would be a hassle, even in Dead Eye!
Yup thank the lord for small favors . . .
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1870 Census
Name: Christian Aikey
Age in 1870: 7
Birth Year: abt 1863
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Forest Hill
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Robert Aikey 32
Larina Aikey 51
Massimo Aikey 23
Zachariah Aikey 21
John Aikey 18
Ephraim Aikey 13
Christian Aikey 7
1.2 Robart A. Aikey
Birth: 7 Nov 1817, West Buffalo, Union County, Pennsylvania
Death: 19 Aug 1881, West Buffalo, Union County, Pennsylvania
Occ: Shoemaker, Farmer
Parents - Lewis and Jane Aikey
Census Place: West Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania
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Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Robert AIKEY Self M M W 62 PA
Occ: Farmer Fa: PA Mo: PA
Lavina AIKEY Wife F M W 60 PA
Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: PA
Spouse: Lavina
Birth: 1819, Pennsylvania
Death: 4 Jun 1891, West Buffalo, Union County, Pennsylvania2
Children: Jeremiah (1840-~1864)
Robert (1842-)
William Henry (1844-1862)
Harrison (1846-1904)
Zachariah Taylor (1848-<1911)
John R. (1854-<1930)
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