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November 2004
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2004-11-30T18:10
I remember freaking out when I read the small print: No Canadian or foreign orders.
2004-11-27T18:24
Here's an ad for the original Pirates! game I found in an old comic book yesterday.2004-11-27T8:59
Damn. Apparently 32-bit PCMCIA cards don't fit in 16-bit slots. So Sword will have to wait a bit. In the meantime, enjoy some hot link on link action! A list of free Bookcrossing books in Hamilton. Woodland, CA. Reminds me of Ghostworld. The website for the new King Kong movie by Peter Jackson. Build your own Beowulf Cluster. An interview with the creator of the FedEx logo. One of my all time favorite logos but I never knew about the secret arrow.2004-11-24T21:18
Bob Young commissioned a graphic designer to recreate the Tiger-Cats logo.
I love how it turned out.
2004-11-24T14:13
God answers prayer. I know this because I recently had three problems: I didn't have a job, UPS went on strike a day before my package was to arrive, and I had to go to the doctor's where I knew I would have to wait 5+ hours in a waiting room before I could actually see the doctor. Yesterday, I found a job, UPS went back to work (a one day strike), and it rained today so when I got to the doctor's office there were only two people ahead of me.2004-11-23T14:45
I just saw a Mr. Ken Stone on CH TV arguing about the Merry Christmas sign downtown. He pointed to Canada's long tradition of separation of Church and State. He was corrected by another guest telling him that it was the United States he was thinking of but was told to let Mr. Stone finish his thought. The problem is that Mr. Stone was wrong. I've said this before but Canadians truly don't understand this fact: Canada does not separate Church and State.The Queen is Canada's head of state. The Queen is the Head of the Church of England and rules from Divine Authority; unlike a President who rules from the will of the people. Remember, our Prime Minister is not elected either but appointed by his party and approved by the Governor General who receives her authority from the Queen. All in all, we are ruled by the Pope of the Church of England. Check your money if you don't believe me.
Canada has no constitutional provision for separation of Church and State. If anyone can prove me wrong, please supply me with the appropriate section of the Constitution Act.
Personally, I advocate Canada becoming a Republic with an elected Executive and a constitutional separation of Church and State but Canadians don't seem ready to leave England's crib yet.
2004-11-19T15:40
My dad is such a jokester! I just found out he called CH Talk Live posing as none other than Hank Greenberg. lol. The topic was "Are the Liberals out of control?" Hank's verdict: Yes! I would have given anything to see the byline on the screen: Hank Greenberg, Toronto.2004-11-19T11:00
Are NHL players guilty of collusion? TSN is reporting that a player agent has had his certification revoked by the NHLPA for revealing a secret computer program called NHLPA SCORE. SCORE keeps all agents up to date on who makes what and ranks all players into clusters so that agents have an unfair advantage over the owners when negotiating for their own clients. The news is so unbelievably damaging that some are speculating it can't be true and that it's a conspiracy rumor started by the NHL. Personally, I believe it and I hope this triggers the owners to call an impasse in the negotiations and start hiring replacement players.2004-11-18T22:08
I can't believe it. My uptime on Juno is like over a week. I know that doesn't sound like much but understand that it's cobbled together from garbage, it's only running on 48MB of RAM and a Pentium, and it's running RealVNC, a webserver, an FTP server, SETI@Home, and a P2P program concurrently. Did I mention it was a Win98 box? lol. Come on, you're impressed. My next project is Sword and involves getting Stars' old Powerbook 5300cs onto my LAN. It's so old it's got a copy of Photoshop 2.0 on it. lol. I'm 90% of the way there but the floppy on Omaha failed so it's set me back some trying to get the PCMCIA Ethernet card drivers onto the Powerbook. If you've got an old computer lying around you don't want anymore, don't send it to the landfill. Why not donate it to me instead?"Patricia Hayes says that religious beliefs do not trump human rights. I was
surprised that a "rights expert" wasn’t aware that the right to religious
expression is protected by the Canadian Constitution. In other words, human
rights includes religious rights in Canada. I also feel that the Muslim
community is being reasonable in its request to simply have their children
absent during these classes. "
Hank Greenberg, Toronto, Nov. 17
2004-11-18T10:06
Hey, The Star printed my phony letter. lmao. I want to take trolling off the Internet and into the real world.And yes, the only reason I read the Star is to get my dander up. Read the Sun; it rules.
Aight, with that out of the way time for a link ROUNDUP! Resident Evil Chainsaw controller for your Cube. The Terrorists are up to their old tricks. A fuel tanker has gone missing. From the Wordcount guy: a visual representation of what the 'Net is talking about. A wicked online chess game that graphically shows each move in the decision tree. Bill Gates gets 4 million e-mails a day. MIT's Hack Gallery. Interesting information on Wikipedia's servers. The History of the Greatest Video Game ever made: Contra.
2004-11-17T15:36
What's up with Tag-Board? The server has been down for 2 days now. Meh.2004-11-16T13:48
I changed the destination e-mail on the e-mail Chess form. The old address is choked with spam and I don't even check that account anymore.
2004-11-16T11:40 I bought a CueCat awhile back on eBay. The one pictured is USB; mine plugs into the keyboard PS2 jack and has a female jack coming off of that that you plug your keyboard back into. You can use it to catalog DVDs, CDs, books, anything with a barcode. Or you can print your own barcodes and keep track of all your junk. One of the coolest uses though is as a secure password generator. Throw all of your passwords into a password manager and then password that by scanning a book you keep on your desk. You don't even have to hit Enter because the Cat sends a CR at the end of the string it scanned.
2004-11-16T11:24 Two things: Another huge burger. This time from Hardees. Second, all this controversy about that Marine shooting that guy in Fallujah: it's crazy. There are many cases of "insurgents" pretending to surrender to Marines only to shoot them or pretending to be dead only to be sitting on a grenade or wired with explosives. Knowing that, if you saw someone laying there who looked dead and then you see he's not really dead but breathing what would you do? I'd shoot the guy without a second thought.
2004-11-15T20:53 Finally came up with a naming convention for my computers. Coming soon: Sword.
2004-11-15T11:01 Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller of Pikeville, Kentucky. I love this photo. Reminds me of this one. Here's the story behind the photo. Check out some incredible video of the fighting in Fallujah.
2004-11-14T8:52 Kind of old but I didn't post it before. Here's the sketchco card we had printed.
2004-11-13T22:42
2004-11-13T11:09 Check out Freeze's sweet street machine. One for Tao: Not sure how to play this Capture the Map game but it seems pretty neat. Packbots. The BBC has added some graphics to the HHGTTG text adventure. I don't like exchanging gifts at Christmas but the Room Defender might change my mind. Awesome DIY 6 tuner PVR! Troika Studio. Check out some of their cool printed matter like the scratch off business cards. Sniper school. The Da Vinci Museum of Future Inventions. Is Google scanning Gmail for reasons other than generating text ads? Tons of fun at Tick Tock Toys. I hope I live long enough to experience the reality of a Zero Energy Home for myself. Steam Wars is an alternate universe created by Larry Blamire that he'd like to turn into a movie. I'm sure everyone heard about the guy who killed himself because W won. What a nerd. Now that the Netherlands realizes that terrorism is real they want to do something about it. The Van Gogh murder is something I can see happening here. Has anyone else noticed the extreme hypocrisy of the French lately? A sad story but I'm inducting these two guys into the Bone Hall of Fame for being good Bones.
2004-11-11T24:16 Do It Yourself Webservers Part II.
2004-11-11T24:13 Remembrance Day.
2004-11-10T8:50 Happy 229th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
2004-11-09T18:11 "How many hackers does it take to change a light bulb?"
Five. One to steal a shipment of arc lamps going to the Louisana Superdome. One to install a 6 ton air handler and cooling system. One to reroute the voltage lines from his neighbourhood to Mexico, causing a brownout throughout Canada. One to rewire the house with sixteen-inch coaxial cable. One to unscrew the old bulb to substitute the greater light source.
I've always enjoyed that joke because it reminds me of ninth grade when I was checking out books like "The Hacker's Dictionary" from the school library. lol. Imagine a school library carrying that title today? The meaning of 'hacker' sure has changed.
2004-11-09T8:59 I know Freeze will remember the above cards and hopefully he can add some info. But as far as I remember every kid in grade 8 had a full set. There was a trick to getting them where you didn't have to pay. At any rate, the cards had all kinds of information on the back about the plane. They were like recipe cards but for warplanes.
2004-11-07T9:08 lmao! It's funny, because it's true!
2004-11-06T11:03 Found some pictures from New York I don't remember scanning. Click to enlarge.
2004-11-06T10:45 Clicky-click. The final installment in DVDAnswers' side by side comparison of the new Star Wars DVDs. Hello Kitty MMORPG? The White House welcomes a new puppy. Hilarous reaction to the Guardian's misguided attempt to influence American voters. Software that detects your cat walking on your keyboard. Miss Digital World Beauty Pageant finalists. Chinese firemen extinguish a blaze that's been burning for 130 years. Bell Mobility to customers: "Pay what you think you owe." A motorcycle rollercoaster. The US Army's Help Desk. They answer real-time questions like: How can we build a bridge across this river?
2004-11-04T21:37 As Freeze posted on the tag-board the Star Wars Episode III teaser hit today. It's only available to AOL subscribers, Hyperspace members or chessthecat.com readers Star Wars has let me down with the Phantom Menace and even the Attack of the Clones (not to mention Lucas' screwing around with the OT) but I'm damned if this movie doesn't look KICK ASS! Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, I'll still see Episode III in the theatre. Guys, seriously check this teaser out RIGHT NOW! Vader strapped to the table, the Wookie army, the crazed look in Sidious' eye as he wields his light saber, the Star Destroyers taking off and those freaky spider droids on the surface of Mustafar! Could Lucas finally have gotten it right?
2004-11-03T14:49 Jeter won his first Golden Glove. Now the Yankees can boast a Golden Glove at every position throughout their history.
2004-11-03T10:12 CNN's Election Night Blog. Especially interesting are the views from China, Cuba, and the Middle East. Great reading.
2004-11-03T9:09 Time to post some fun. You can play the original Punchout! online. And in even more Nintendo news, here's a guy who's ported GTA: III to the 8-bit NES! A Rubik's Cube made out of Lego. Combine that with the previously posted Lego Cubesolver for some crazy fun. Funny GBA trailers from Japan for a tilt capable Wario game. This one is hilarious: thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com. lol. "Our telephone number." Check that out. Here's a kind of cool online game. I've only got to 68 squares so far. Not a good game for non-optical mice. A single-handed keyboard. A caseless computer. An active cooling kit for your computer; in other words build a frig around your chip! Business plans of failed dotcoms. AMD is set to roll out a $185 computer: the Personal Internet Communicator. And finally, a cool article from ESPN about Movie Night in Canada.
2004-11-03T8:43 Stick it to the CBC and vote Don Cherry as the Greatest Canadian! Don't worry, he's already said he'll turn around and give it to Terry Fox or someone. It's like 2 votes in one! I've already voted a few times. The easiest way is to call 1-866-303-VOTE and follow the instructions. Grapes is currently number 2 in the standings. Only Commie Douglas has more votes. Don't let him win!
2004-11-03T8:34 It'd almost be a relief if Kerry ended up winning somehow. Fortunately there's a chance he still might. I say a relief because it's been an emotionally draining 4 years. Look, I like Bush. I think he's done a good job but it seems like no one else thinks that and they love to tell you about it. But even if Kerry does win the Electoral College and the presidency along with it he won't be winning the popular vote where Bush has a lead of around 3 million votes. Which goes to show that the Silent Majority is real. I mean I've been led to believe by the media and Michael Moore that a monkey in a suit and tie would have been able to beat Bush but it seems like not even a Vietnam Vet with a Navy Star, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart with 2 clusters could. And let me set the record straight; I actually like Kerry. How could you not like a man who personally killed Commies with his bare hands? It's the Sean Penns, Michael Moores, Al Frankens and CBCs I can't stand. But don't let them fool you; those people actually want Bush to win. He's their bread and butter. Anyway, whoever wins, congrats.