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Article posted on Oct 28

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 28, 2002, 12:15 am

For those who care, I added three new pics to my lj account.

My "foo" shirt
Falling Humans
Natalie Portman: naked, non-petrified and censored (slashdot reference)

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Article posted on Oct 27

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 27, 2002, 11:35 pm

Ahh, Sunday. Nature's not-so-subtle reminder that you really should shower at least once per day.

*sniff* *sniff*

Anyways, a year or so ago I got an Apex AD-5131 3 disc DVD player at Sam's Club. It did everything: DVD/VCD/MPEG/VCD/SVCD/MP3/WMA/PhotoCD. However, it was huge and my PS2 with the QCast software did just about everything except for WMA and PhotoCD. And at the time I didn't think it was hackable for removing region encoding. So I sold it to chris, since his dvd player bit the dust.

Last week he found out there was a VERY easy way to patch the ROM to remove macrovision and region locking. On top of that, I found Sam's Club still sells them, slightly over half what I paid for the original one. So I picked one up again, cracked it, and I'm twiddling my thumbs, waiting for Futurama Season 2's european release.

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Article posted on Oct 27

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 27, 2002, 11:29 pm

Heh. Definitely worth the $2.50.

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Article posted on Oct 26

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 26, 2002, 9:43 pm

I do believe I've created the most vile "home page" in history.

And all it took was 5 minutes with Prodigy's NEW Building Blocks(TM) site builder! Now easier to use than ever!

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Article posted on Oct 25

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 25, 2002, 10:32 pm

Welcome to another episode of "fo0bar Gets Excited Over Something Stupid"! This week, fo0bar learns he can wash his own damn car.

Since I bought my Prius, I've been going to one of those full service car washes, shelling out $20 and getting reamed up the ass. As far as I can tell, this is what happens:

• They make me wait in line with my car for vacuuming. Murphy's Law of Supermarket Lines applies here.
• They vacuum my car.
• They run my car through a normal gas station car wash.
• They towel off my car.
• They clean the dashboard and inside windows, except for the cupholders, which I have to bitch at them every time to do.
• They put this shit on the tires to make them shine.
• They spray something inside to make it smell like artificial $shit. Luckily I can specify $shit. I prefer "new car smell", which doesn't really smell like a new car, but isn't as disgusting as "strawberry" or "truck driver".
• They adjust my seats, tilt and mirrors.
• The steal change out of my change drawer.
• They expect a tip.

I figure I can do that myself for much less than $20. I went to wal-mart today and spent $15 on "automotive glass cleaner" (I wonder why I can't just use Windex... maybe they know somethign I don't and my car will explode in a firely blaze if I don't use special glass cleaner), vinyl/plastic cleaner, tire foam and cheap terry cloths. I forgot the new car fragrance crap.

$5 for actually washing and vacuuming the car each time, and it comes out to the same as getting it done for me, except only 25% of it is recurring costs.

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Article posted on Oct 25

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 25, 2002, 2:47 pm

Several years ago, I began using a "floating holiday" each year, giving the "holiday" as the Feast of Maximum occupancy, in honor of the Simpsons. Well, this year I decided to make it an actual holiday, occurring at the same time each year from now on. The official FOMO web site it at http://www.finnie.org/fomo/, enjoy!

(I've registered maximumoccupancy.org, I'll change this post once the web site is actually available.)

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Article posted on Oct 25

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 25, 2002, 9:10 am

So because I'm spineless and it's the cool thing to do and stuff, I'm enabling livejournal's text messaging to my cellphone. Feel free to stalk me if you must.

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Article posted on Oct 24

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 24, 2002, 2:50 pm

I have a cellphone. Somewhere. It may be in my car, it may be at home, but it's not on my body.

Which begs the question, does that cellphone actually exist if I do not currently have possesion of it?

If a cellphone rings in my car and nobody's around to answer it, what is its ringtone?

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Article posted on Oct 16

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 16, 2002, 8:09 pm

I went to Best Buy to get some DVD-R media today. There was a trainee at the register I went up to. "Will this be on a Best Buy card today?", AS I'M HANDING HER MY BEST BUY CARD. "No, not today." That confused the hell out of her. :)

I found a really cool window manager called ratpoison today. Basically it's screen for X. If I can get Quicken 2003 working with Wine, I may dump Windows alltogether.

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Article posted on Oct 14

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 14, 2002, 7:33 pm

God I'm happy. Happy happy happy!

Got up early, got a decent amount of productive work done. Had a good lunch, worked some more, solved some problems, chatted on IRC (okay, I guess I could have been a BIT more productive without IRC), and before I realized it was 6:30PM. Oh, and NetOps' evil MBA arch nemesis consultant was shown the door today. Wheee!

I returned the faulty DVD+RW drive I bought Friday, and they gave me cash back since I used a debit card. I also managed to severely piss off some woman who was pissed that I was served before her, despite the fact that I was there before her. Go figure. I would look at her in line and smile, further pissing her off. So now I have ~$280 in cash, enough to pay Amber; she said she can get me a new Cisco 806 for $250.

Life is good. My car will be in the shop the better part of the week, but I'm not letting that bring me down tonight. Happy happy happy.

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