Zixar

Again, I'm no lawyer, but you might also want to quit publicly discussing this here until the lawsuit is resolved. You can bet that the WayGB has copied every bit of this and will use it against you in any way they can, probably to paint you as a malicious, vindictive troublemaker with a grudge instead of an innocent siteholder. That's an instant "bad faith" mark against your case. And for heaven's sake, get an attorney. "Only a fool has himself as a client".

Garth: They're getting better about that now that the graphics market has shaken out a bit. With only ATI and nVidia to worry about in any real way chipset-wise, it's easier to keep the drivers current. Besides, RedHat does have auto-update capability for downloading new packages off their website, if memory serves. I'm running RedHat 8 on an old P-133 with 80MB of RAM, and it's as happy as a clam. That's the box that serves up that little Saturn pic everytime you see one of my posts.

Tom: I didn't say it was voluntary... Durn bushwhackers blindsided me while I was reloading!

I'm no lawyer, but isn't this an estoppel case? Since Pat's had the domain for years, and TWI knew about it for years without doing anything about it, that's a tacit agreement to his ownership of it. Estoppel basically says that once you've stipulated something, you're not allowed to go back and dispute it later. If you don't vigorously and immediately defend your trademark after you know someone else is using it, you don't get to defend it later when it becomes convenient. That's why Arnold Schwarzenegger had to sue the Oregon company making "Governator Ale" immediately. (see today's news.) (They had a similar case with a Lone Ranger-type actor on "L.A. Law" once, and James Spader argued a similar case on the past two episodes of "The Practice". The L.A. Law episode dealt with an actor who went around making public appearances as his old tv cowboy character for years, then the company that owned the rights wanted to do a remake and stop the old actor from appearing as that character again. The Practice episodes dealt with Spader's character arguing that the firm couldn't fire him for his bad acts since they had known of them from the start and profited by them. He won, the cowboy lost, if memory serves.)

Tom: Alas, 'tis been done before... ;)-->

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Paw: From my conversation with Steve! this weekend, I got the impression that he was only going along with it to please you guys. Apparently he's not all that crazy about the idea, and neither are Oakspear or I. But it's up to him, not me. If you want the job back, you'd better clear it with them! :)--> Oh, and another thing. Nobody's going to touch their car, either. Not while I'm around, anyway. (Kind of a moot point since they're flying out for their honeymoon, but still...) Steve!: A kick-*** toast? You told me you wanted a BLENDER! ;)-->

Hoo boy. I can see that it's also going to be fun playing "Where do we eat?" with y'all... :)-->

The blues are kind of depressing for a bachelor party. I'd vote for a comedy club, though, if we just have to have entertainment while getting 'faced.

Wacky: Just waaay too many hours spent in front of computer games... :)-->

socks: I am loving this sound card! I used to think my SB Live was top-o-the-heap, but wow! I also managed to find a deal on a set of Logitech 5.1 speakers for $48. They'll replace my two sets of 2.1 (does that make my setup 4.2? :)--> ) speakers, and the Audigy 2 ZS will automatically up- and down-mix all 2.0 - 7.1 soundstreams into 5.1. A complete sound overhaul for under $200. Sweet!

Best Buy is having a terrific offer on the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum cards this week--$199, but with a $70 mail-in rebate. $129 is a STEAL for this setup. I just bought one. It has all the software to do what you want right out of the box. It also has a front-mounted I/O panel that fits into an empty 5-14" drive bay (like a CD-ROM drive) It has RCA in, Headphone out, Line/Mic in with separate gain control--hook up your electric guitar (it has built-in pedal effects), Optical in/out, SPDIF in/out, MIDI in/out, and a front-mounted FireWire port! It also has a remote control so you can start recording from across the room. Cool thing about Sound Blaster cards is that they have the capacity to record What-U-Hear™, that is, whatever input sources you have mixed together and coming out your speakers, with any added special effects like reverb/chorus/flanging, gets recorded to whatever format you want, on the fly. So you can plug in a microphone, a guitar, and a MIDI keyboard, fire up an MP3 song, start a MIDI file playing on the keyboard, strum along with your guitar while you're singing, and it all goes into the recording. They even have a "StreamRecorder" app that does exactly what you're looking for. If $129 is too steep, you can get the same card minus the drive-bay breakout box for about $89, it's called just the SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS. VERY cool. HIGHLY recommended.

Congratulations!!!!! Guess that means you won't be gracing our fair state with your presence now, though...our loss! Happy for you anyway, Zix

Raf: Exactly. That's why I start sentences with conjunctions all the time... ;)-->

Kind of looks Edvard Munch-ish to me... Anyway, if you download the full-size Jupiter pic, it really is a gorgeous piece of photography. I can't wait until Cassini gets up close & personal on Saturn next month!

CW: The keywords you want are "flash adventure games". Tons of them out there... ;)--> Myst is ok, the big selling point is that it is completely nonviolent. I don't know why adults don't play more games. Microsoft announced Monday they've dropped the price of the Xbox $30 to $149. Nintendo's Game Cube has been $99 since Thanksgiving. The Sony Playstation2 has the biggest game library and is still quite reasonable at $179, especially considering that the Xbox and PS2 are also full-fledged DVD players to boot. The games aren't all shoot-em-ups, either. Zixette loved to play the PS2 racing game Gran Turismo 3, racing her little blue VW New Beetle against all comers. (Of course it was souped up with a turbocharger and a racing suspension, but it still LOOKED like her Bug...) Oh well, to each his own, I suppose...but who doesn't like to have fun now and then?

Oak: J&SBSB was really more enjoyable if you were a Smith fan. Jokes like Brodie and Banky being the same actor (Jason Lee) and Ben Affleck simultaneously being Holden from Chasing Amy and himself, all the people exiting the Bluntman premiere, etc. Dogma is probably the funniest of the Askewniverse movies, followed by Clerks. Chasing Amy is probably the best overall, followed closely by Dogma. And Mallrats really doesn't deserve half the crap it takes. If you look at it in the same category as other teen-genre movies, it stands up pretty well. I think the original opening would have been funnier, though. (The scene script is an extra on the DVD.)

That's pretty narrow, don't you think? Certainly there are synonyms, but the words can be used correctly in sentences where they are not redundant. For example:"The ethics of deliberately lying are not always clear-cut. One may be essentially honest, yet lie on occasion to spare someone else's feelings." Removing "essentially" would cause the second sentence to be self-contradictory. It is a properly-placed qualifier in that usage.

Raf: I don't think anyone else has discovered this. Might make a humorous newspaper article... ...until someone thinks it's the Virgin Mary. Helluva pilgrimage to Jupiter, though. :)-->

Raf: Ok, look at this one. The two blue dots are the eyes, the purple dot the mouth. Then you can see the white hair and the chin, etc.

Here's a contrast-expanded and edge-enhanced copy, for those who are having a hard time seeing the face:

On its flyby of Jupiter, the Cassini space probe took the following photograph: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA04866.jpg I blew it up and found something startling. If you look closely, beneath the Great Red Spot, you see this: Holy Amazing Sea Monkeys, Batman! Beats the "face on Mars" all to heck... (No joke, that's the actual photograph...)

Hope: If you go back and watch it again, there was a chamberpot in the corner of Swearengen's room, so he wasn't just peeing on the floor. But you're right, most of that was totally unnecessary to the plot. Just makes me want to shake the writers and say, "Okay, so Deadwood was a nasty place in the 1870s, we get it already, move on, guys!"

Hope: Yeah, when you said "frontal nudity", I wasn't exactly expecting some fat hairy dude waving his [Craig] around... There were only about 65 words with "uck" somewhere in them, which is a bit tame compared to last week... :D-->

Twenty-one minutes. Took me forever to find the stick...