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Joined: 09 Jun 2011
Posts: 18
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:31 pm
Post subject: New Additions - 7/14
New Additions:
Hermes Eau de Gentiane Blanche - $4/$7/$12
Jovoy Les Jeux son Faits - $6/$10/$17
Mark Birley Charles Street - $4/$7/$12
Serge Lutens Fille en Aiguilles - $6/$10/$17
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Posts: 6
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:40 pm
Post subject: Purchased
I purchased 8ml's of Histories De Parfums 1828, and Penhaligons "Sartorial". I received the items fast and well packaged. Very satisfied with my order. Thank you
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Joined: 09 Jun 2011
Posts: 18
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:25 pm
Post subject: End of Summer SALE + New Additions
10% of all 2ml
15% of all 4ml
20% of all 8ml
New Additions:
Detaille Escrimeur - $4/$7/$12
Keiko Mecheri Sedona Blue - $4/$7/$12
Serge Lutens L'Eau Froide -$5/$8/$14
Testa Maura Aqua di Casta -$7/$12/$22
Yosh Konig - $7/$12/$22
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Posts: 2
Location: Kentucky
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 5:47 am
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sent you a PM....need some juice
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Joined: 16 Sep 2014
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:21 pm
Post subject: Fantastic experience!!!
I purchased *16* 8ml's last week. I thought it would take over a week to fill them all, but instead they all got shipped in two days. Everything arrived in perfect shape. Clearly, Randy cares about these fragrances. I can't be happier and I highly recommend that anyone reading this thread NOT hesitate with purchasing from Randy. THANK YOU!!!
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Joined: 24 Jan 2013
Posts: 8
Location: New York
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 9:17 pm
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I just received my second order of decants from Randy. It was another perfect transaction. Speedy shipping and neatly labeled atomizers of some fragrances that had been on my wishlist. I couldn't be happier!
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Posts: 18
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:53 pm
Post subject: Excellent Service
This is my fifth or sixth time ordering from Ramdy. Nothing but excellent service time and time again!
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Joined: 09 Jun 2011
Posts: 18
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:32 pm
Post subject: New Adds
New Additions:
Chanel Bleu de Chanel - $5/$9/$16
Memo Italian Leather - $9/$16/$28
Memo Shams Oud - $9/$16/$28
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Joined: 25 Sep 2014
Posts: 36
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:10 am
Post subject: fantastic
Randy is awesome!! Great packaging fast shipping and has hard to find frags like lubin idole EDT. Thanks again! Would buy again from Randy in a heart beat! Very professional indeed.
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Joined: 09 Jun 2011
Posts: 18
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 4:13 pm
Post subject: Massive Sale!
Archerfire Decants is having a huge sale!
Up to 50% off!
Shop for yourself!
Shop for a friend!
Shop for a loved one!
Shop for a birthday!
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 3:41 am
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Always satisfied when I buy from Randy.Don't miss out. He's got some nice deals going on! Thanks, Randy!
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:05 am
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Interested in some Vintage Antaeus if you still have any. Thanks!
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:47 am
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Everything was perfect..hope to place another order soon...
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 1:48 am
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Archerfire, I emailed to your yahoo address, did you get it?
Interested in 8ml of Hermes Dans un Jardin Sur le Toit.
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:24 am
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PM sent
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Posts: 36
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:53 am
Post subject: Awesome
Another great experience! Awesome deals and fast shipping. Thanks
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:42 pm
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Great exchange with Archerfire. Quality glass decants with printed labels, great packaging, shipping, and communication.
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:02 pm
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Just got my decants. What a great deal! I could never afford some of these scents any other way. Thanks!
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Joined: 09 Jun 2011
Posts: 18
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 7:41 pm
Post subject: New Additions and Thank You!
Thanks for all the kind words! I appreciate your business. I can't stop buying fragrance!
New Additions:
A Lab on Fire Oxymusc - $5/$10/$16
Andy Tauer Cologne du Maghreb - $4/$8/$14
Atelier Mistral Patchouli - $4/$8/$14
Bvlgari Man in Black - $4/$8/$14
By Kilian Incense Oud - $8/$16/$30
Dior Homme - $4/$8/$14
L'Artisan Bois Farine - $5/$9/$16
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud Silk Mood - $9/$18/$32
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Oud Velvet Mood - $9/$18/$32
Oliver & Company Vetiverus - $6/$12/$22
Oriza Legrand Horizon - $4/$8/$14
Penhaligon's Bayolea - $4/$8/$14
Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet - $4/$8/$14
Prada Infusion d'Iris - $4/$8/$14
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Joined: 09 Jun 2011
Posts: 18
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:10 am
Post subject: New Additions
Back after a lengthy hiatus... for multiple reasons.
I'm going to get out of decanting. If you are interested in any partial bottles of something I have remaining send me an inquiry. If there are some you'd like decants of, I'll do that for a while as well. I've also added some almost full bottles of some fragrance.
Shoot me a message if you're interested in anything!
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Posts: 18
Location: Oklahoma
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 3:54 am
Post subject: Areej le Dore Added!
I'm offering decants on a couple of difficult to acquire Areej le Dore fragrances. These were limited to 100 bottles and use high quality ingredients. Check the main page for pricing in 2ml, 4ml, or 8ml sizes.
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It is time that Saturns ceased dining off their children; time, too, that children stopped devouring their parents like the natives of Kamchatka.
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The complex position of those who, in the thick of the fight, wish to continue to speak to both sides is often interpreted as softness, trimming, opportunism, cowardice. Yet this description, which may apply to some men, was not true of Erasmus; it was not true of Montaigne; it was not true of Spinoza, when he agreed to talk to the French invader of Holland; it was not true of the best representatives of the Gironde, or of some among the defeated liberals in 1848, or of stout-hearted members of the European left who did not side with the Paris Commune in 1871. It was not weakness or cowardice that prevented the Mensheviks from joining Lenin in 1917, or the unhappy German socialists from turning communist in 1932.
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Remember that one time I BUILT A COMPUTER? – Part 3
Part 3, otherwise known as The Neurotic Pally and the Evil Windows. If you want to get caught up on the earlier parts, the beginning of the story is here and the middle of the story is here.
Software; or How I discovered that I prefer Hard Things
I'm out of pictures, so I'm going to recycle the "Computer is complete and running" photo.
Last post we ended with me powering up my computer for the first time, after a smooth hardware assembly process. I'm the queen of hard.
What you want to do as you power up your computer for the first time is access your BIOS. To access your BIOS, you hit "delete" shortly after you turn the computer on.
I give it a try.
I hit "delete".
Nothing happens and my computer stalls, trying to find an operating system.
I restart my computer.
I hit "delete".
Nothing happens and my computer stalls, trying to find an operating system.
I restart my computer.
I hit "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete" "delete".
Nothing happens and my computer stalls, trying to find an operating system.
I'm freaking out here. Panicking, crying, threatening to throw my computer through the wall. I turn to Twitter and 5-6 people scramble to find a solution to my problem.
They link me tech support thread after tech support thread. They share their own computer building problems history. They do everything they can to lend me some insight into what's going wrong.
It took about an hour of ripping my hair out (hey, I promised hair-pulling drama!) to find the solution. In the end, I found it on my own. Not because I was smart, but rather because of the opposite. No one else thought of the solution because they overestimated me.
As I was browsing through a tech support thread (that I pulled up on my own), I came across this: "I've tried everything," the poster wrote, "delete, F12, even escape…"
I blame it on the long day (or if you want some encouragement: if someone who confuses "delete" with "escape" can build a computer, you can build a computer too. If you don't get the joke, you forgot to read part 1).
More Problems with Going Soft
The next step is installing Windows. I set my BIOS to boot from CD, I pull out my Pirated copy of Windows, plop it in the CD drive, restart my computer. And nothing happens.
Off to Twitter I go.
Fannon gives me a call. "When using a Pirated copy, you need to make an ISO image you can boot from. Copy it onto a DVD and use that as your boot disk."
I own no blank DVD. It's 8:45pm. Walmart closes at 9pm. I can totally do this.
I get home with my blank DVDs (after getting pulled over by a cop… he must have sensed I was about to engage in illegal computer activity). I do the disk copying. It doesn't work. Fannon calls again. After a 50$ conversation (I have a pay-as-you-go phone. Long distance calls are about 6$ a minute), we come to the conclusion that illegal software isn't for me and that I should go out and buy Real Windows.
Walmart opens again at 9 am. I'm there, ready to purchase my Real Windows.
I plop Real Windows in the CD drive and it all works brilliantly. I'm overjoyed.
Until Windows couldn't find my hard drive.
Stupid Windows. My hard drive is RIGHT THERE. You know, like, right under my CD/DVD drive. How can you miss it?
I try to fix it on my own. First, I look in the Windows manual.
Have you ever looked in the Windows manual? One would THINK that most of it would be about "How to install Windows". And it would include a section on "How to install Windows when Windows doesn't want to be installed". And it might also have a section about "What to do when Windows is about to cause you to throw your brand new computer out the Window, then rip off all your clothes and run out onto the street screaming."
But noooooooooo. The Windows manual is all about "Windows is wonderful and lovely. Look at all these happy families sitting together, looking at Windows 7 and its heartwarming new features."
It's frustrating that there are so little options when it comes to operating systems. Rich non-gamers can use Mac systems. Programming geeks can use Linux. And for the rest of us, there's Windows. Windows, which kind of does what it wants, when it wants.
It was someone on Twitter (I can't remember who for the life of me, which I'm hugely apologetic for because I probably owe them my life) who found the answer for me. I had to do this "part disk" command to make a partition on my hard drive. Now, WHY that's not in the Windows manual or on the Windows website, I have no stupid idea. But, yeah, "part disk".
After that, Windows booted up just fine.
No, wait, I lie. Windows found my hard drive, but refused to do anything with my hard drive. I solemnly make my way to the closet and close my hand around the hammer hilt. Thankfully, at that moment, Vosskah calls me on Skype.
Vosskah: Take a deep breath, it's ok, lets go through it together.
Me: *sob* Ok.
Vosskah: Let start over from the beginning so I know exactly what you're doing at each step. I don't want you to feel like I'm underestimating your-
Me: You realize you're talking to someone who mistook "escape" for "delete" right?
Vosskah: … It, um, happens, now lets take it from the beginning.
Obviously, AS SOON AS I'M ON THE PHONE WITH SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP, Windows works just fine. It installs itself, I can use my computer, I download SWTOR (yay!) and I redo my WOW UI.
Don't Worry, The Soft
Tails Tales Go On
I bet you thought I was home free, you did you did you did!
I did too. Until I turned my computer off for the first time. Ok, no, that's not true. It turned off just fine. Turning it ON again…
Apparently Windows lost my hard drive again. Desperately wanted to boot from the Windows CD. No matter what I did to my BIOS, it wanted its CD like a baby wants its mommy. Yet, when I gave it what it wanted, it tried to install Windows again.
Install Windows again, AFTER I spend 2 days downloading SWTOR and getting WoW ready?
I think not.
As usual, I turn to Twitter. "Very weird," the experts tell me.
Some suggest disconnecting my CD/DVD drive, other recommend fiddling with my harddrive connection.
My dad was a computer geek and computer destroyer. After watching him wreck several machines in attempts to "fix them", I learned that the solution rarely involves disrupting sleeping wires. Deep in my soul, I knew my CD/DVD drive AND my hard drive were fine. Google led me to believe that it was a partition priority problem. However, I did not know what partition priority was, or how to fix it. My thoughts returned to the hammer in the closet.
Before I could destroy my property, it was time for work. I turned off my computer again, and marched out the door.
The End
When I came home from work that day, I tried turning my computer on again. And Windows loaded normally. As if it hadn't taunted me to destroy it earlier.
I then realized that my computer was male. Because when an inanimate object gives you grief and seems to do what it wants, when it wants, it is a sign. A sign that said object is of the opposing gender.
I don't usually name things, but I'm thinking of "Joel". It's a guy, so it needs a guy name. My latest infatuation is JL – Jaime Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire (most of the crushes I've had in my life have been on fictional characters. Fake people are so much more alluring than real ones). JL sounds a little like Joel. So Joel it is. Even if my internet connection thinks the computer is named Eloise, after my WoW mage.
I never got my computer bug free. It still refuses to load sometimes.
But, you know, when it happens, Joel and I sit down and have a talk about our feelings. Usually, all he's asking for is to be turned off, to be allowed a minute to prepare himself to be turned on again. And I'm ok with that. Our relationship. It isn't perfect, but it works. I listen to him, and in return he lets me run WoW and SWTOR with the settings on ultra.
I'd say our relationship is pretty healthy, would you not?Explore posts in the same categories: Beyond WoW
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26 Comments on "Remember that one time I BUILT A COMPUTER? – Part 3"
January 26, 2012 at 7:55 am
Thanks for sharing your pain, it was worryingly enjoyable to read! This is my first point of call for pain like this: http://superuser.com/
January 26, 2012 at 9:00 am
You have killed any ambition I might have had to build my own computer. Totally and utterly dead. As a dodo! But kudos for sticking with it to the end. I don't think I could have coped with the stress.
January 26, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I have to say, that despite your problems, I feel compelled to try and build my own computer. Out of the box systems are overpriced and overloaded with crap software that I don't need or want. I think that I could use your experience as a reference and be able to muddle through. If I do decide to be a masochist and give computer building a try, I'll keep a hammer handy for the frustrating, hair-pulling moments I'm sure to have.
January 26, 2012 at 4:00 pm
I built my own in 1980, 1989, and several times since, back much less frequently. Two years ago my older boy decided to upgrade a computer and I tried to sit back and watch. As it turned you, I was useless. Anything he couldn't figure out, I couldn't help (except with static grounding). Our travails pre-echoed yours.
Last year, we considered our upgrade options…
My wife enjoys her new store-bought computer! I'm happy to be keeping what little hair I have left!
January 26, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Yeah.. Pretty much sounds like my first time building one as well O.
And the second.
The third?
Went perfectly until…
I went to partition my hard drive. Easy right?
As long as you don't select DELETE when you mean to PARTITION.
I'll use my backup.
Which.. I just deleted.
January 26, 2012 at 4:50 pm
I'm glad your rig is finally up and running. 🙂 Congrats.
January 26, 2012 at 6:00 pm
The mental picture of you sobbing on Skype with Vosskah made me crack up laughing at my desk at work.
January 26, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Computers can be fucking assholes can't they? Lol
Glad to see you got it all sorted out, great story!
January 29, 2012 at 10:19 pm
First of all – let me thank you for an enjoying read. I always wonder how "normal" people react to the problems I face on a daily basis.
I have to disagree though – computers are female. But maybe you have the odd exemplar.
As to your "sometimes my computer does not find it's hard disc" problem. This sounds very much like you hard disk is not spinning up fast enough, and not ready in time for the BIOS and OS. Try to search in your BIOS settings for a "delay timer" that can be increased and see if the problem persists.
January 31, 2012 at 1:22 am
Windows updates occur on Tuesdays. But under normal circumstances there is no impact from the Windows update onto BIOS. In theory this can happen via the so called IPMI interface, but most motherboards in the consumer market don't have the necessary BMC.
Anyway – if the BIOS screen takes longer, you might be lucky and in a corner numbers are flashing. If a number stays for a long time, you can cross reference this number with the exact step in the BIOS boot cycle.
good luck


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The only remaining Pinta Island tortoise and celebrated conservation icon passed away Sunday, the Galapagos National Park Service said in a statement.
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8 sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon sugar
Directions: First, catch a possum. This in itself is excellent entertainment on a moonlight night. Skin the possum and remove the head and feet. Be sure to wash it thoroughly. Freeze overnight either outside or in a refrigerator. When ready to cook, peel the potatoes and boil them tender in lightly salted water along with the butter and sugar. At the same time, stew the possum tender in a tightly covered pan with a little water. Arrange the taters around the possum, strip with bacon, sprinkle with thyme or marjoram, or pepper, and brown in the oven. Baste often with the drippings.


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Perfect for spring:
If you read my last post you know that my friend Sarah and I recently hosted a baby shower for our dear friend Leslie. For dessert at the party I made lime bars (top of the picture), two types of butterfly cupcakes, and cookie dough truffles (bottom of picture). I used my stand-by chocolate cupcake recipe and a new pink velvet cupcake recipe which is essentially the same as a red velvet cupcake with less cocoa powder and pink food coloring. I used a classic cream cheese frosting recipe on both and then sprinkled them with colored sugar and topping them with a hand-piped white chocolate butterfly. People were blown away by the cupcakes. If you have not yet read "Hello Cupcake" then you need to go check it out. It gives detailed instructions on how to make these butterflies and they are really not that tough. I am not going to give step by step instructions on making the butterflies since I want to give the authors of the book full credit, but Annie over at Annie's Eats gives a great tutorial.
Chocolate Cupcakes
recipe from allrecipes.com
1 package chocolate cake mix
1 package instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 cup warm water
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (dust these in flour to keep them from sinking to the bottom of the cupcake)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, mix together the cake and pudding mixes, sour cream, oil, beaten eggs, and water. Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into 24 lined muffin cups.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until top is springy to the touch and a wooden toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
recipe from Baked Perfection
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon pink gel-paste food color
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners.
Whisk together flour, cocoa, and salt. With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, whisk together sugar, oil, and butter until combined. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until each is incorporated, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Mix in food color and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in three batches, alternating with two additions of buttermilk, and whisking well after each. Stir together the baking soda and vinegar in a small bowl (it will foam); add mixture to the batter, and mix on medium speed 10 seconds. Divide batter evenly among lined cups, filling each three-quarters full. Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in centers comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer tins to wire racks to cool completely before removing cupcakes. Decorate as desired.
Classic Cream Cheese Frosting
recipe from Baked Perfection
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8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
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Best Shots Extra: Watchmen Motion Comics, Chapter One
(Warner Premiere Motion Comics)
Writer: (an uncredited) Alan Moore
Art: Dave Gibbons, John Higgins
Narrated by Tom Stechschulte
Beginning Friday on iTunes, internet users have been able to download the entire first issue of 1985's Watchmen for free, as a partially animated movie. Released as a teaser to build interest in the upcoming Watchmen film, the project manages to be simultaneously beguiling and repellent, because it isn't just a tease or an attempt at a new form of animation. Rather, it is a possible glimpse of the future of the comic book medium, and it's as mesmerizing as a car crash.
The big reason Moore's Watchmen worked so well 23 years ago was that it embraced the comic book genre at the same time it exploded superhero conventions. That's a distinction often lost on people, who wrongly assume that Moore's intent was to create an entirely new form of comics. It was just the opposite: He returned comics to their formal roots, laid down in America by Will Eisner and abroad by the likes of Frank Hampson, then used that form to tell a grown-up tale that worked despite its spandex clad characters. Moore took comic books seriously, and he showed how flexible the genre really was.
Case in point: One of the most marvelous things about the original is that it made the characters respectable and believable while tweaking the silliness of the genre. For example, Moore had the lightness of touch to note how daft Dan Dreiberg looked in his now too-tight Nite Owl outfits without making fun of the character, himself, thus sustaining the suspension of disbelief this story needed to work.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said about this new "animated" version, which breaks that suspension in the first minute. This is largely because the film is uncertain whether it wants to be a movie, a cartoon, a comic book, or something entirely new. Part of the problem is that the creators don't seem to have confidence in their medium. The cartoon, the comic book, and the classic noir film all have their rules for a reason. In great hands, those rules can be stretched. Here, jamming the three together comes off as clumsy and derivative.
This version of Watchmen has the feel of Batman: The Animated Series with portentous music and lots of swooping angles. This is meant to feel "noir," but anyone who's actually ever watched a classic noir will be baffled by it, because it's more MTV than moody, and more jarring than unsettling.
While directors wisely used Gibbons' original artwork as their base, they then undercut it by leaving most of the panels static while moving the character's legs, the rain, beads of sweat. This immediately conjures up horrible memories of old Superfriends 'toons (not to mention the very early Marvel cartoons, back when Captain America threw his mighty shield, and all those who chose to oppose his shield must yield), a killer blow, despite the glossy production.
They then made another major mistake with a soundtrack of narration and clichéd "dramatic" music. Hearing Tom Stechschulte affect a woman's voice to play the Silk Spectre might have worked on an audiotape, but with animation, it came off here as comical.
What this film did do well was add some texture to the set pieces in the original book. The opening scene is nicely done, with the camera pulling away from the Comedian's bloodied button in the sewer to the detective overhead, his hair slightly mussed by the breeze. Rorschach's mask now ripples constantly, a nice touch, and some of the sequences — the Comedian being hurled to his death; Dreiberg left brooding in his secret lab with the chains rustling overhead — work well. Others, such as Rorschach's busting up a bar and Dr. Manhattan shrinking to human-size, don't.
One thing does help: Turning the sound off. This allows you to listen to the music that Moore was listening to at the time (Billie Holiday) and pay attention to Gibbons' art, which is still sumptuous after all these years.
Still: Why do I worry that this is the future for the comic book on the web and every portable device that it can work its way on to? Because this film is clever in one respect: It manages to make a complex story accessible to a wider audience by making the reader/viewer far more passive. Books require engagement and imagination, and the glorious thing about the comic book is that while the medium owes something to film, there's always those little gaps between the panels that require the reader to connect the dots. Remove them, and you rob Watchmen of part of its power.
One can't help but wondering what the book's creator, Alan Moore would have thought of this weird hybrid, a sort of audio book mashed into a cartoon that magnifies the faults of both. I hope he'd laugh at this strange mess, and then promptly work on a way to figure out how to make the form better.


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Samsung Accused Of Installing Secret Keyloggers On New Laptops 'To Monitor Performance' [Updated]
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According to a report by Mohamed Hassan at Network World, Samsung has been installing secret keyloggers on laptops. After setting up a new laptop, he ran a scan and found an installation of StarLogger, a commercial keylogger program. It's a rather nefarious piece of software:
This key logger is completely undetectable and starts up whenever your computer starts up. See everything being typed: emails, messages, documents, web pages, usernames, passwords, and more. StarLogger can email its results at specified intervals to any email address undetected so you don't even have to be at the computer your[sic] are monitoring to get the information. The screen capture images can also be attached automatically to the emails as well as automatically deleted.Hassan claims to have found the same keylogger on two separate laptops from Samsung, and after calling the company, finally had a supervisor claim that the company did it to monitor usage:
On March 1, 2011, I called and logged incident 2101163379 with Samsung Support (SS). First, as Sony BMG did six years ago, the SS personnel denied the presence of such software on its laptops. After having been informed of the two models where the software was found and the location, SS changed its story by referring the author to Microsoft since "all Samsung did was to manufacture the hardware." When told that did not make sense, SS personnel relented and escalated the incident to one of the support supervisors.Of course, it's entirely possible that the supervisor was confused as well. Frankly, like some others, I find it hard to believe that Samsung corporate policy could be so clueless as to install secret keyloggers on all laptops. If it is true, however, I imagine the company will be facing one hell of a lawsuit in the very near future.
The supervisor who spoke with me was not sure how this software ended up in the new laptop thus put me on hold. He confirmed that yes, Samsung did knowingly put this software on the laptop to, as he put it, "monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used."
Update: It looks like my skepticism on this story may have been justified. Samsung is claiming that the researcher got a false positive, and confused a language folder for a keylogger:
"Our findings indicate that the person mentioned in the article used a security program called VIPRE that mistook a folder created by Microsoft's Live Application for a key logging software, during a virus scan.
"The confusion arose because VIPRE mistook Microsoft's Live Application multi-language support folder, labelled 'SL,' as StarLogger. Depending on the language, under C:\Windows folders are created labelled 'SL' for Slovene, 'KO' for Korean, 'EN' for English."
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Brandon Venturini scored 13 of his 16 points in the first half and Navy built a 20-point halftime lead in the Midshipmen's 75-48 win over Division III's Marymount (Va.) on Friday night.
Kendall Knorr, who had 10 points in the first half, finished with 13 for Navy. Venturini, who also dished four assists, knocked down 4 of 7 3-point attempts.
Navy jumped out to an 18-6 lead before Marymount rallied to cut the deficit to two points, 26-24, behind a Khaleeq Everett fastbreak layup. The Midshipmen, however, converted their next seven shot attempts and held Marymount scoreless over the final 3:56 of the first half to take a 45-25 halftime lead.
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When Eddie Van Halen Hit No. 1 With Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'
Pop and R&B star Michael Jackson was looking to broaden his audience base when he invited Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen to play on a track from the album he was working on as a follow-up to his best-selling 1979 LP Off the Wall.
This unlikely pairing worked like a charm: The resulting track "Beat It" won multiple Grammys, launched an iconic video and became one of Jackson's signature songs, landing at No. 1 on April 30, 1983.
The collaboration almost didn't happen. When Van Halen received the initial inquiry about recording the track, he hung up, believing it was a prank call. In 2012 the guitarist recalled that he did much more than just play the guitar solo on the track.
"I listened to the song, and I immediately go, 'Can I change some parts?'," he said. "I turned to the engineer and I go, 'Okay, from the breakdown, chop in this part, go to this piece, pre-chorus, to the chorus, out.' Took him maybe 10 minutes to put it together. And I proceeded to improvise two solos over it."
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Incredibly, the guitarist did the gig as a favor, receiving no payment for his role in making Thriller, which went on to sell more than 30 million copies, becoming the most successful album in recorded history to that point. "Beat It" held the top spot in the Top 40 for three weeks, and won Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
Though Van Halen's record company prevented him from appearing in the video for the song, he did join Jackson onstage in Dallas to perform "Beat It" during the Victory tour.


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T-Mobile USA's merger with MetroPCS, announced early Wednesday, promises to create the "leading value" wireless carrier in the U.S., officials from both companies said.
Their claim is based primarily on creating a combined and expanded nationwide LTE wireless network -- using complementary spectrum-- and emphasizing low-cost, no-contract and unlimited data service to customers.
The combined entity would remain the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier in terms of subscribers behind AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. The deal would pose the greatest threat to third-place Sprint, which has about 56 million customers. T-Mobile would grow from 33 million to 42 million subscribers once the merger is finalized, as expected, in the first half of 2013.
The contiguous LTE network of both companies would grow by 40% nationwide by the end of 2013 compared to what T-Mobile could offer alone.
There will be a focus on major metropolitan areas, such as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, said John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, who will become the CEO of the combined company.
Also, the combined resources mean the new network will be 20% denser, due to more coverage that takes advantage of the increased number of towers that use a fatter wireless channel than what T-Mobile's LTE network would have been, he said.
Noting that the merger closes the gap between T-Mobile and Sprint, Legere added in a conference call with reporters: "We're not just here to compete, we're here to win ... This has the potential to be a game-changer."
Later he said that while the combined entity would offer various service plans to customers, including more traditional two-year contract plans, he also committed to being "the leading provider of no-contract services."
No-contract services in the industry are growing at an annual rate that is three times faster than for contract services, he noted.
Leger also reached out to enterprises that wrestle with workers who bring their personal smartphones to use for work. The various service plans from the merged entity will be combined with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) plans, he said. "We hear [customers] loud and clear," he said.
Some analysts and investors were concerned that by merging with MetroPCS, T-Mobile will incur added costs by having to convert CDMA cell towers used by MetroPCS to GSM service under T-Mobile. Both companies are committed to 4G LTE, a common technology platform, but the conversion of 3G CDMA towers to 3G GSM will be needed when a customer can't find a 4G LTE signal.
Also, LTE is a data-only network, which means GSM will be needed to transmit voice calls for a period of time.
Officials said that the full conversion of MetroPCS customers to GSM will occur by the end of 2015, but will start immediately in 2013 when the merger is finalized. MetroPCS customers get new phones more frequently than many carriers, at a rate of more than 50% to 65% a year, which will speed the conversion, Legere said.
"We expect minimal [MetroPCS] customer losses and will be managing this very carefully," Legere said. "To MetroPCS customers: You will not be abandoned."
After T-Mobile failed in its merger with AT&T last year, the merger announcement with MetroPCS deal sounded like good news to analysts.
T-Mobile has been losing customers, and needs the added spectrum that MetroPCS offers to expand at a lower cost than buying more spectrum independently, analysts said.
"This merger makes the combined company attractive against Sprint," said Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates. "T-Mobile needs more customers and is losing them, and is still just about half the size of Sprint. So it has become a question of spending a ton of money to upgrade to LTE, but how do you recoup those costs without subscribers?"
The merger is "obviously bad news for Sprint," and other no-contract services, even those offered by the two largest carriers, AT&T and Verizon, said Julien Blen, an analyst at Infonetics.
In the announced deal, T-Mobile's parent, Deutsche Telekom, essentially retains a 74% share, and will provide $500 million in revolving credit to help the new entity. In the conference call, DT's CEO Rene Obermann said the company remains committed to "creating a sustainable and financially viable national challenger in the U.S." The deal "strengthens our position in the U.S. market."
MetroPCS shareholders will receive $1.5 billion in cash and 26% of the new company.
Legere summarized the merger as accelerating T-Mobile's prominence in U.S. wireless. "This is a deal not about surviving ... This is about thriving," he said.
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Italy's astronaut prepares
April's scheduled Soyuz launch - a 'taxi flight' to the International Space Station - will carry with it a European astronaut on his maiden voyage into orbit. For Italian Roberto Vittori, the launch will mark a literal high point in his career so far. And although has never been in space before, he will be bringing a wealth of flying experience to the mission.
Roberto was born in Viterbo in 1964, which makes him the youngest of ESA's 16 astronauts. Flying has been his life: he graduated from Italy's Aeronautics Academy in 1989 and went on to a career in the Italian Air Force where he flew combat-ready Tornado GR-1 strike aircraft. In 1992 he was promoted Squadron Commander. His notable flying skills led him to test pilot training - and that was when the ambition to become an astronaut first struck him.
"It was in the United States. I spent a year at the Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River near Washington; it's where some of NASA's first astronauts were trained - men like Neil Armstrong and John Young. So there was a strong NASA connection, and we actually took a trip to NASA during our course. That's when I thought: I'd like to do this."
For the time being, though, Roberto continued with his flying career. Back in his native Italy, he joined the Experimental Flight Section (Reparto Sperimentale di Volo) and spent the next few years busy with precision flying and technical study across a range of test programmes, many of them associated with the Eurofighter 2000 project.
"In 1998 I was flying from the test centre at Pratica di Mare, near Rome, when I heard that the Italian Space Agency was looking for astronauts. I had to apply."
Once Roberto had got through the tough selection procedures, he was sent to Houston to train with NASA as a Mission Specialist for a forthcoming Shuttle flight. He went on to become one of the first members of the European Astronaut Corps, and it was as an ESA astronaut that he was selected for the April mission. It will launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan - a long way from Houston. How does he feel about the change of scene?
"I have to admit the Russian language is difficult: right now, I use an interpreter a lot. But I am getting enough language training at least to master the technical stuff. It's an important mission, both for Europe and for Italy. And it's a first for Italy: Italians have flown on the Shuttle before, but I will be our first cosmonaut."
There are thousands of young Europeans out there who will be envying Roberto his opportunity. What should they do to follow in his footsteps?
"They should try to be half-pilot, half-scientist - or half-doctor, for that matter. I'm part way through a physics degree myself right now. It's certainly hard work but it's worth it."
And speaking of youth, how does it feel to be Europe's youngest astronaut?
"Well, I may be the youngest in the Corps, and it's good to have youth on your side, but at 37 I am not all that young. I look forward to a mission to Mars, which will be an extraordinary journey: but I'm not young enough to be likely to fly on it. That's for the next generation. But one way or another, the future in space will be a great adventure."


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Few films have scenes as iconic as the ones where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets with his secret source "Deep Throat" in a dark parking garage during his investigation into Watergate. Those meetings happened in real life, too, and now the actual garage's days are numbered.
Though the story told in Woodward and Bernstein's book All The President's Men and its subsequent film adaptation was well-known by the mid-1970s, no one knew where the actual garage was until 2005 when Woodward's secret source was revealed to be former FBI associate director W. Mark Felt. It turns out it's in Arlington, Virginia in the Rosslyn neighborhood.
And now it's set to be torn down, according to local blog ARLNow. The buildings at at 1401 Wilson Blvd and 1400 Key Blvd will be taken down and replaced with some fancy new mixed-use development.
A historical marker outside the garage noting it as the place where Felt gave Woodward information that helped unravel Richard Nixon's presidency is expected to stay up after the garage is torn down.
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Barely anyone out on the road today. I'm not even sure that it was raining, at least not consistently. There were more people by the time I got closer to downtown, but the Hill-izens (what is one called if they live on Capitol Hill? Only non-pejorative names, please) appeared to sit today out. My bike decided to reward me for my decision to ride with a really smooth and easy trip. The wheels seemed to turn with less effort, the handling was generally better and I felt lighter and better in the legs than usual. As someone who rides every day, I seem to experience a lot of variability in the way I feel when I commute. It's odd. I pretty much follow the same morning routine, carry about the same stuff on my bike and take essentially the same route, but some days just feel a lot better than others. Was it the extra cup of coffee? Waking up a little earlier?
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Caution tape is still down. I'm cautiously optimistic that this will remain the case. Maybe I should make a caution tape sash to show my cautious optimism. I'd be the French mayor of needless prohibition against cycling.
Some people get really, really angry when driving. I wonder if they realize that we can see them cursing up a storm through their windows. I'm not the best lip reader, but I'm pretty sure I can spot a "F-ing go! GO! GO! F-ing MOVE! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH" when I see one. That's a lot of rage. I guess that why they call it a Rage Rover. Wait, it's called a Range Rover? Oh. Nevermind.
Almost no other bicyclists on R street and, per usual, no one else riding up Massachusetts. I can't say that I mind the solitude. At least, I didn't mind it today. PROGRAMMING ALERT: I have a social obligation this evening (a kitty cat bat mitzah. Meow-zel tov!) and I don't know if I'll get tonight's post up until tomorrow. Just in case, there's lots of other good stuff on the internet to read, like this on "pathletes."


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Consisting of many tiny granules made from steamed and dried durum wheat, couscous has become a…
- ½ tsp each cinnamon, cumin and coriander
A fragrant spice which comes from the inner bark of a tropical tree. When dried, it curls into…
- 300ml vegetable stock
- handful cherry tomatoes, halved
- 250g pack halloumi cheese
- ½ lemon, juice only
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- drizzle olive oil
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Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- small handful coriander leaves, chopped
Firstly, put the kettle on then cut broccoli into florets and thickly slice stalk. Pour boiling water into a steamer, steam broccoli for 6 mins, add the peas and steam for 2 mins more.
Meanwhile, mix the couscous with the spices in a bowl, pour over the hot stock, then cover and leave to stand for 5 mins.
Heat a non-stick frying pan or griddle pan. Cut halloumi into 6-8 slices and cook quickly on each side for 2 mins until lightly tinged brown.
Mix vegetables and tomatoes into couscous, fork in the lemon juice, oil and coriander. Pile onto plates and top with halloumi.