For all of you who occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone - don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know. I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I had forgotten to make. I found the number, and dialed it. A man answered saying, "Hello?" I politely said, "This is Fred, could I please speak with Robin Carter?" He replied "Wrong number ******* " and the phone was slammed down on me. I couldn't believe that anyone could be so rude. I tracked down Robin's correct number, and called her. (I had transposed the last two digits of her phone number.) After hanging up with her, I decided to call the 'wrong' number again. When the same guy answered the phone, I yelled, "You're an ******* !" and I hung up. I wrote his number down, with the word '******* ' next to it, and put it in my desk drawer. Every couple of weeks, when I was paying bills or had a really bad day, I'd call him up and yell, "You're an ******* !" It always cheered me up. When Caller ID came to our area, I thought my therapeutic '******* ' calling would have to stop. So, I called his number and said, "Hi, this is John Smith from the Telephone Company. I'm just calling to see if you're familiar with the caller ID program?" He yelled, "NO!" and slammed the phone down. I quickly called him back and said, "That's because you're an ******* !" So, one day I was at the grocery store, getting ready to pull into a parking spot. Some guy in a black BMW cut me off, and pulled into the spot I had patiently waited for. I hit the horn and yelled that I had been waiting for the spot. The idiot ignored me. I noticed a "For Sale" sign in his car window, so I wrote down his number. A couple of days later, right after calling the first ******* (I had his number on speed dial), I thought I had better call the BMW ******* , too. I dialed and someone said, "Hello?" I said, "Is this the man with the black BMW for sale?" "Yes it is." "Can you tell me where I can see it?" "Yes, I live at 1802 West 34th Street. It's a yellow house and the car's parked right out front." "What's your name?" I asked. "My name is Don Hansen," he said. "When's a good time to catch you, Don?" "I'm home every evening after five." "Listen, Don, can I tell you something?" "Yes?" "Don, you're an ******* !" Then I hung up, and added his number to my speed dial. Now, when I had a problem, I had two xxxx to call. But after several weeks of calling them, it wasn't as enjoyable as it used to be. So, I came up with an idea: I called ******* #1. "Hello?" "You're an ******* !" (but I didn't hang up). "Are you still there?" he asked. "Yeah," I said. "Stop calling me," he screamed. "Make me," I said. "Who are you? " he asked. "My name is Don Hansen." "Yeah? Where do you live?" "I live at 1802 West 34th Street, ******* , a yellow house with my black BMW parked in front." He said, "I'm coming over right now, Don. And you had better start saying your prayers. " I said, "Yeah, like I'm really scared, ******* ." Then I called ******* # 2: "Hello?" he said. "Hello ******* ," I said. He yelled, "If I ever find out who you are..." "You'll what?" I said. "I'll kick your xxxx," he exclaimed. I answered, "Well, ******* , here's your chance! I'm coming over right now." Then, I hung up, and immediately called the police, saying that I lived at 1802 West 34th Street, and I was on my way over there to kill my gay lover. Then, I called Channel 13 news about the gang war going down on West 34th Street. I quickly got into my car and headed over to 34th St. There, I saw two *******s beating the crap out of each other in front of six squad cars, a police helicopter, and a TV news crew. Now, I feel better... Masquerading as a normal person, day after day, is exhausting.... [ 09-18-2003, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Ripper3785 ]

quote: At what point do you think he realized... "Oh, damn, this is gonna hurt!" ? I think he told me he thought that right when he let go of the handlebars and tried to get away from the bike. quote: OMG, that was awesome!!!!! That had to hurt!!! How many bones were broken after that one? Amazingly, no broken bones.. He shoulder was really jacked up though and he still can't move his arm up much past 90 degrees.. He got some scrapes all along his side and he needed stiches under his chin from where the helmet broke and then cut into his chin.

Check this .avi of our NC operator doing a tow in on a ramp... Too bad they had the takeoff ramp still close enough to the landing for guys to "peddle-in".. ooops. OUCH! Lights went out when he hit the dirt.. He was pretty messed up for a month or two..

Our biggest mistake in Afghanistan was agreeing to that cease fire in tora bora(they were supposedly gonna surrender or some BS). A bunch of Al Qaeda slipped out of those caves to Pakistan during that time, and my personal feeling(and some other experts) is that Usama was among them.. I don't recall us having an opportunity to ask for a cease fire from the terrorists while the Towers were coming down..

Here's the story Here's the Microsoft bulletin Will this ever end?

try turning down the hardware acceleration on the video settings and you should be good to go.

...looking for a MC post processor for a Lego control....

quote: Here's a link to some cool stuff. I'm thinking that Santa might bring me that keyboard this year http://www.3dconnexion.com/products.htm interesting that their "space navigator" is identical to my logitech wireless keyboard. I guess whoever makes em in thailand sells them to more than one company..

quote: He's a loud talker. (Seinfield) eh, I believe it's "close talker" ? Ripper teh Seinfeld rerun junkie.

quote: I'm right handed too. I use my mouse in my left hand, simply because of the number pad. I don't have to let go of the mouse every time I wanna type a number, or do the 'cross-over/reach-around/lazy-susan' thingy to reach the number pad with my left hand. I gave it a go, for 5 minutes or so. Forearm started hurting. I think I use the keyboard shortcuts for cut, copy, paste too much for that to work out. Microsoft designed those shortcuts for the right mouse world. Lol, you said "reach-around."

Okay, are you meaning that you are only able to run your parts by opening mastercam, then using "send to machine" from the post processing window?

It may be easier on the fan to run all day than to turn on and off all the time. Are we talking about a laptop fan here, or? Alot of electrical components break on power cycles.

My drinking club has a MC problem..

I forget what this thread is about.. oh yeah, the california recall.. haha

I think sandrails are cool. I love bikes but I could never ride one, I'm not coordinated enough. And riding a motorcycle is one of those things high up on the list of "things not to do if you don't trust your own coordination".. I'll stick to watching videos of 'em. Anyhow.. I'm gonna stop now. [ 08-20-2003, 05:03 PM: Message edited by: Ripper3785 ]

quote: No, you all need to drive at least CLOSE to the speed limit. It's the peeps driving 45-50mph in the fast lane of a 70mph freeway that pees me off. (Or in Hawaii's case, 35 in a 55... ) 'Rekd teh Long Peddle On The Right... I'm gonna take your comments with a grain of salt since you 1) live in CA, 2) have a sandrail, 3) have go-fast crotch rockets. I been trying to stop letting other peoples driving get to me. Because it's generally non-productive. Where do ppl who live in Hawaii go for a honeymoon? We picked Tahiti. Gonna break the bank on it, but you only have one honeymoon, eh? Ripper teh Someone let me know when I have been promoted to Sr. Forum thread hijacker

quote: "stupid haole" Isn't there a word that's supposed to go in the middle there? Seems to me it begins with an 'F'. Sometimes.. I hear "stupid haole" alot less than I used to. quote: On Maui, A bunch of us were under the Banyan tree playing our guitars and drinking beers( a NO NO) and the cops came buy and told us they were going to shoot all us haole's and leave us in the cain fields..... I still hear tons of stories about how corrupt Maui Police are. quote: The day before I left, I went snorkeling in front of the Shores Hotel. There was alot of debris in the water and could only see about 2 foot. Got this strange feeling and that's when it happened. A large shadowy figure glided by. Saw the white tip through the mirk and needless to say I got the hell out of the water as soon as I could Lesson learned : Do not go out in murky water quote: My wife and I are going back to Kaua‘i for our 10 year Anniversary. Actually, since we're expecting another kidlet we're going to go in December or Early January because the baby is due in Late March. Very beauteeeeeeful! Ripper I soooooo envy you being able to live there. I know it's not perfect anywhere but the slower pace of things there would certainly add a few more quality years to my life. Oahu and Kauai are pretty different in terms of pace of things. Oahu is much more busy. The outer island locals often can't stand how busy Oahu is when they fly over to visit.. Oahu is still nothing like Cali tho.. You vacationing out here later this year brings up an idea my boss had. I'll email you on that one.. quote: Slower pace, lmao. I can honestly say that while I know it's against the law in most states, I have NEVER seen a sign on the freeway stating a MINIMUM speed limit! After driving on the island for a few days, I realized why they're putting their signs there. Typical Californian-wahhhhhh. :-) You all need to chill with the fast driving.. shoulda put this in the bumper sticker post a few weeks back "Welcome to Hawaii, NOW GO HOME" Not that I agree with that.. But you guys need to not runover our laid back and elderly people..

To amuse you all, I have had nimda virus on my home computer for maybe a year or so. All of the clean programs available on symantecs and mcaffees site don't get rid of it. I've tried finding it in the registry, in startup, in my task manager.. all a no go..I've finally learned to live with it, because I don't want to format. Don't trip on me just yet.. My AV protection keeps the virus from propagating.. Every couple of weeks, the virus tries to spawn 3 new files into this one directory I have. My AV immediately quarantines the files, and my AV protection would also keep my comp from mass mailing. So I figure what the heck, my comp works just as fast as I did when I bought it, except for the occasional bout with spyware/parasites.. Case in point, I left Kazaa on constantly for 4 days last week(not sharing files, left it on "just because") and I got a handful of parasites that were crashing my browser and slowing me down. I wish there were another file sharing network that had the quantity of stuff that kazaa does, but there isn't one that I know of.. and I can't find Kazaa lite anymore, wtf?

"North Shore" in terms of hawaii 99% of the time refers to the North Shore of Oahu.. Back in 79, huh? I bet you're familiar with the phrase "stupid haole".. BTW, I was 1 in 79. [ 08-19-2003, 09:38 PM: Message edited by: Ripper3785 ]

Lovesan was/is pretty impressive with one exception, they made the DoS attack go to http://windowsupdate.com instead of http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com. MS used to forward the first one to the correct one, but turned off the forwarding 2 days before the DoS payload was gonna execute. If they had gotten the URL right, I don't think MS could have thought of a good response in time.. Maybe it's not cool for me to think that someone unleashing DoS payloads on MS is cool. But I can't help it, it makes me smile.

quote: Ever see that Far Side calendar? The episode with the 2 giant fish fishing (humaning?) on the bridge, reeling up a human on his pole. One fish looks at the other and says; "They only wiggle like that 'cuz they're confused" If you are in the right mood, that can be extremely funny.. I am in that mood.. Ripper teh long stressful hawaiian bright sunny day

O/T stands for "off-topic"

iowajim, umm.. what he is saying is that the president is NOT voted into office by a majority of voters..(i.e. IS voted in by the electoral college) Or did I misinterpret your post? Ripper teh Comprehension IS essential.

James, get my email? Ripper teh Jr. Thread Hijacker

Don't put ideas into Grey Davis' head please!