Suddenly the Internet in 2011 is feeling like the 1984 version of the Matrix.

And me without my mirrorshades.

I've been wanting to branch out from my Terrae story and get back to writing more diverse story idea, but I'm kind of interested in a few guidelines on subjects.

The things I'd enjoy writing:
Urban Fantasy - Magic in the modern world.
"Traditional" Fantasy - Elves, dwarves, orcs, etc.
Non-mainline Terrae stories - More stories from Terrae, just different characters.
Cyberpunk - Near future with retrotech 1980s and 90s ideas about computer technology and the Internet, along with a healthy dose of a criminal "punk" mentality.

Things I don't enjoy writing:
Erotica - Not that I don't like romance and sex in my stories, just not wanting it to be the focus.
Fetish - Extending beyond erotica, I don't like presenting many fetishes even in a non-arousing way.
FanFic - I have more respect for myself and others.

I started a new blog about technology, tech-policy and futurist thinking: Count Zero Interrupt.

To me never having doubted your faith makes your belief a hollow shell of what it would have been if you lost your faith and went searching for it. The blind adherence to the faith of your youth, without having had a choice otherwise, means you’ve never had the chance to understand why that faith is best for you. Perhaps it isn’t. The loss and regaining of faith is a theme of parables in many religions, but yet it’s rarely encouraged by their followers.

On the longest night of the year a friend of mine returned from Basic Training in the Army and we spent that night hanging out. We’d gone to a local liquor store and bought three bottles of impressively strong alcohol and were in the process of drinking the first bottle, a beer called Triple Expulsion with Thor’s hammer on the bottle, while we watched a film called Valhalla Rising.
The film came to an end and we decided to get things started. I went to my kitchen and retrieved a bottle of Viking Blod mead and my drinking horn from its resting spot. Upon filling it I raised the horn and in a firm voice I gave welcome to all attending, toasted Thor, god of Thunder and my personal patron, and took a drink. To which my friend replied “Hail Thor.”
My friend took the horn, raising it as well, toasted Odin, the all-father and god of warriors, and also took a drink. In response I replied “Hail Odin.”
The next round I toasted my ancestors and my friend did likewise, each time ending in a “Hail.”
After that we boasted of our future deeds – which on the night of Yule is a strongly binding oath. I boasted to finish my education and took a drink. My friend, unsure of what to toast, swore to no longer be single by next year, and took another drink

I came into my own belief in a convoluted path that began by never fully believing in my Presbyterian upbringing. By middle school I rarely attended church and by adulthood I was an avowed Agnostic. My scientific mind had trouble justifying what the church tried to tell me so outright rejection was easier than trying to reconcile them.
Even then not believing in something isn’t as easy as it sounds. Ignoring the strongly theistic society we live in, regular life events like birth and death are hard to put into the context of science. While medicine can explain the process it can’t explain anything more. Merely combining genetic material doesn’t make life, there’s a spark that gets things going. Causes cells to divide. A finely choreographed balance between the mother’s endocrine and immune system and this alien cell that it will nurture instead of destroy.
Death, likewise, is difficult to understand. In my 25th year I witnessed the death of three people in my life – a friend from the Boy Scouts, my grandmother, and an elderly family friend – and that year is probably when my religious life changed.
My friend from the Boy Scouts had committed suicide. His mother and loved ones were understandably distraught and their faith couldn’t help them. Their dogma taught that suicide was a grave sin and those who did it were condemned to eternal torment. I refused to believe my friend, who I’d known since I was 7 year-old and was a good man, deserved that afterlife. I saw in my long-suffering grandmother that living could be worse than death. And Homer taught me to accept death as a part of life, even while lung cancer ravaged his body.
That year I began writing a fiction story involving elements of European paganism in modern day America. Research for the story lead to me understanding the beliefs of pre-Christian Europeans and an online conversation lead to me opening my mind to that as a religious path to follow.
At first I followed what I consciously thought I wanted to. I research and attempted to understand the beliefs of the Pagan Celts. The main problem, however, was very clear – they never wrote anything down. Their religious leaders maintained an oral tradition to the end, which was never recorded before it disappeared forever. Between Julius Caesar fighting the Gauls and Christian missionaries wanting to convert there simply wasn’t a record to be found. Most of what was “known” about them comes from those two sources or the conjecture of 19th century romantics – none of them reliable.
At the same time every time I read or was exposed to the Norse gods I felt an attachment. The wily wisdom of Odin. The righteous anger of Thor. The beautiful and fierce Freyja. Frey, her brother who watched the harvest. Loki, whose antics and acrid tongue kept the other gods in line, while also getting himself in trouble. Knowing they were all as flawed as and, in the end, as mortal as I was made them much more approachable. So I decided to accept that attachment.
People in the Neopagan community joke that Asatru, the modern reconstruction of the ancient Norse beliefs, is the religion where you have to do homework and its a very apt observation. There are few guidebooks on the process of worship – most focus on understanding the gods and the Norse cosmology – and what is accepted are little more than guidelines. A follower is expected to read the source material, the Poetic and Prose Eddas, on their own and come to their own conclusion about what it says.
What does stand out among Heathens, and separates them from many other Neopagans, is the acceptance of the practical and real. While a Wiccan might decide against war as violating their mantra of “harm none” a Heathen is likely to be on the battlefield. While a Neodruid might try to protect a random grove of trees for the sake of nothing more than protecting them, a Heathen would be the one happily shopping at the mall they were cleared to build. While a Chaos Magician might find manual labor beneath them, a Heathen is framing a house or working in a factory. To a Heathen, hard work, self-reliance, bravery and honesty are ideals to live by.

Perhaps the most telling of my process of changing faiths has been the final, total, rejection of my earlier upbringing. On an early June day in 2009 I walked into a wooded area near my childhood home carrying a courier bag. When I found a nicely secluded spot I removed the contents of the bag – bread, cheese, meat, a bottle of juice, a bottle of strong beer and a small sledge hammer. After having a pleasant, ritualized meal I held the hammer high and called upon Thor to bless and protect what was to follow. I then called upon the other Aesir and Vanir – the tribes of the Norse gods – to come and stand witness. While holding the hammer above my head in one hand, I announced my intentions for that day.
In a loud voice I said, “I reject the works of the Christian god, his son the White Christ, the unholy ghost and all their agents. I renounce my baptism and accept the Aesir and Vanir as the true gods in my life.”
I took a drink of the beer, a strong Irish red with a bearded warrior wearing mail and wielding a sword on the bottle, then held it up announcing “to the gods” and poured some into the bare earth.
Probably no one understood when I left the park that day, and drove out of a neighborhood which I’d known for decades as home, why I felt like I was seeing it with new eyes. True religious conversion seems a rare and poorly accepted event in the world today. But having come along a path of decades and a lifetime of doubt into something I firmly, truly and unwaveringly believed I suddenly felt whole.

My mother's cat Mini-Me just died today. He was 12 years old and had a heart condition. She heard him meowing up stairs and went up to see why he was so loud and found him dead. He is now eating the straw paper of the Einherjar in Fólkvangr with Freyja.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2022569/

Follow the link above.
Follow the directions.
Get free porn.
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Profit!

Expect the buttery wholesomeness of Rachael to be totally devastated fairly soon. Of course the busty priestess of a sex goddess rarely has "buttery wholesomeness" as understood by most Westerner's moral compass. Good thing I demagnetized my moral compass years ago.

I ordered myself a new laptop. It's an Asus G73Jw-XA1, which is a decent system for mid-level gamers.

1.73GHz Core i7
GeForce 460M with 1.5GB GDDR5 graphics memory
8GB 1333MHz DDR3 system memory
750GB hard drive (and a second drive on the way)
a "Full HD" 1920x1080 display
DVD-RW (some come with BluRay but I didn't see the point)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (second drive will contain an Ubuntu Linux install)

It's all shipping from Amazon 2nd Day Air and due on Thursday.

From the looks of everything that happened I've lost all faith in Dragoneer as a competent admin. The lack of transparency, lack of honesty with the users and, frankly, how the leaked documents are showing he actually runs the place makes me say, as someone who's college education focuses on information project management, he'd have been fired if he worked for me. Considering most all "news" on this fiasco is the rumor mill and the admins have pretty much been silent means he's probably in well over his head right now.

On the technical side Fur Affinity needs to be either taken down completely until fixes can happen or put into a "read only mode". I'd vote on the former since it would be the safest. Second, I'd notify New Dreams Network, LLC., the host of lulz.net, and request they take the site down for promoting criminal activity and do so with a lawyer in tow.

My few direct messages with Dragoneer have been friendly and related to how he handles the non-technical side of being an admin. And what little I've had didn't give me much faith in him. Mainly after the latest AUP update, which usually seem to be related to the legal environment regarding IP laws and, frankly, porn I asked if he'd ever consulted an attorney to help write them. His response was negative. The fact he's making policy largely based on avoiding legal problems and he's never consulted a legal professional... You get the idea.

On the system security design side the only people who should have access to a messaging system, ideally, should be the people directly involved in sending a receiving them and no-one else. And assuming this really began as an XSS violation just... Wow... Take the site down until you can fix it.

On the social side of being an admin (my specialty) it seems Fur Affinity is a clusterfuck. Penalties are unevenly given out with personal vendetta often being the sole logic behind an admin decision. Legally questionable things are apparently occurring by the admin's hands. And just how this whole thing is being handled... Let's just say if Google or Facebook did it, Congress would be investigating.

Anyway, I'm not going to leave - for now - since I take strong efforts to separate my Furry interests from day-to-day life. I view Fur Affinity almost like a "toy" website I go to. My "working" web-life is elsewhere.

"Cattle Die, Kinsmen Die
You, yourself, must also die,
But I know what never dies,
The Good name of a man who's earned it"
Havamal 76

Neil Gaiman recently wrote an article on his blog about something that will likely cause many of us here to squick, but also something each and everyone of us needs to do. We're all going to die, it's the Fate of the Norns and the only real truth in life, and when we die we leave behind stuff. Now I could care less who got my TV, Playstation 3 or car when I die - I won't need them in Valhall - but what we leave behind defines us.

We're all creative types here, we either create or consume creative works, and when we die we can't guarantee the executer of our estate will use them as we wished in life. Currently, as far as I know, my parents will execute my estate should I die suddenly. While I'm than willing to let them dispose my physical property, my intellectual properties are likely to be overlooked as a hobby with little to no value. In some other people's cases' their parents might be so horrified by little Johnny's or Sue's drawings of naked fox women/men/herms that they'll do something that would have made their child very unhappy would it happen in life.

You won't live forever, it's not even a bet worth taking because you will lose eventually, and just because you're young and in good health doesn't mean you won't die in a car wreck, have an undiagnosed medical condition or something equally nasty. Please, if you take your art seriously look into writing a will for the finial disposition of your intellectual properties.

I’m not someone who needs a top-of-the-line high quality monitor. I don’t do photography or art, I play high end PC games casually and even my 10” netbook has plenty of room for word processing. But I’m also a tech junkie with a habit that won’t quit. I might not have the best but I’ll be damned sure it’s worth what I paid for it, even if that’s a hefty sum. So when I saw the Asus MS238H on New Egg I took the good with the bad.

The good: LED backlit display. 1920x1080 “Full-HD”. A nice 23” size. Controls that just “blend in” to the frame.

The bad: A weird “ring” stand that is questionably cat-proof. Reviews suggesting the display was a tiny bit unevenly lit and ever so slightly too green. Controls that just “blend in” to the frame.

Verdict: With in right in front of me that good outweigh the bad, so far. The image is wonderful and significantly better than the Sanyo/Seiko- Epson SEC3847 display built into the laptop just inches away from it. The high resolution, though “Full-HD” is questionably “high” in the computer world where my 2001 Dell CRT could do 2048x1536, gives me enough real estate to multitask on a single display. The ring stand seem sturdy enough as long as Mr. Loki the Cat doesn’t get a burr up his fuzzy little butt and decide to use it for a spring board.

Compared to the laptop the colors just look right. The colors are richer but not washed out, the grays actually gray and not a weird blue-green and you can actually view this one from angles that aren’t perfectly head-on. For the record the 6bbp TN Sanyo/Seiko- Epson display on my laptop was regarded as one of the many compromises made for it to hit the price-point it sold at back in 2008 and was considered a very poor part to be connected to the graphics card it was paired with.

For that matter, and this is entirely apocryphal, but when using the Asus monitor as the sole monitor (i.e. closing the lid) the graphics card seems to perform better. I can’t really quantify it, but it just feels like it.

The controls are a bit iffy. On one hand they look great. If it weren’t for the ugly foil label that that seems to be super-glued onto it you wouldn’t know they were there. On the other hand they’re difficult to use. They don’t respond as much to touch as a light brush, so pressing them like a button to change the settings doesn’t always work and the symbols are difficult to understand.

The foil label is a minor annoyance, too. I like my hardware to be as devoid of labels as possible. While I tend to keep the Intel, nVidia or Windows logo affixed I remove all of the showroom stickers that tell you what’s inside the machine or how to use certain controls. This display has a beautiful monolithic glossy black finish that that damn label interferes with. I don’t want to force it off or use a razor blade for fear of damaging the display, so I fear this hideous showroom “Try me” sticker will remain attached for the time being.

I updated the Terrae website to fix a few issues and make a few cosmetic changes. I might do a few more in the next few days, but I'm somewhat limited in what I can do by the fact I can't use server-side code, but it's not worth putting the site on an actual web host service.

As people who follow me have likely seen (and I will probably post in a few minutes) I've used a commission Grymm Badger did for me as the cover for the first Terrae volume. I'm planning on three total and, loosely, I have ideas for them if anyone is willing to suggest people to commission or, joy of joys, do it for free. For what it's worth mentioning, I'd prefer the cover art to be full-color with a full background and at least as good as Grymm did it.

Volume 1 working title: Terrae - The Hollow Men
Art: "Out by the Gates" by Grymm Badger
Description: Brian and Susanne sharing a kiss in the garden of the royal palace in Chigo.

Volume2 working Title Terrae - For Thine is the Kingdom
Art: None - Tentatively titled "Goodbye"
Description: Brian and Susanne touching each other foreheads together in a statement of "goodbye". Brian is wearing a Lincoln green cloak, soft brown leather clothing/armor with a dark green brigandine worn on his chest. He wears a long knife, which is symbolic of the Huntsmen. Susanne is wearing the brown and green dirndl that she's commonly seen in. On the side opposite of Brian, she is preparing to mount a horse and the scene present their last goodbye before she leaves.

Volume 3 working titles: Terrae - Falls the Shadow or Not With a Bang But a Whimper. The second title might be reserved for a later novel.
Art: None - Tentatively titled "Return of The Maker"
Description: No real idea other than a scene with Brian and likely Joan, Susanne, Rachael, Padraig Simm, or another character(s) not yet known riding into Chigo in victory from the civil war that has just been fought.

I'm considering posting more and revised GURPS character sheets of my characters and I'm looking to ask formatting questions. Since FA only allows "doc, docx, rtf, txt, pdf, odt" I'm leaning toward PDF so I can retain formatting, but plain text is nice because it will display in-line inside the submission page, so my question is should I:

1) Retain a nice-looking layout and use PDF
2) Print using plain text so it will display in-line
3) none of the above, i.e. use images, different format, etc.
4) get off your lazy butt and write more story dang nabbit!

For #3 it's worth noting that the software I use can internally export to RTF, but it's little more than the plain text in a different file format and images would be cumbersome to read (GURPS sheets are a minimum of 2 pages, if not more).

Playboy bunny looking girl who's attack is squirting corrosive breast milk...

'nuff said...

Which of my characters would you do horrible (read: sexual) things to and why?

Well I took my kitten to the vet and found out not only is it 2 weeks younger than I thought, it's also a boy. I've decided to name him "Loki Liesmith,, Master of Fleas, Eater of Vomit."

I posted the big revision I've been doing on my Terrae story since last spring and now, at long last, I can continue on the actual text.

Mostly for playing Blu-Ray, but I might play the occasional game. I'm a pretty hardened PC gamer and that's noit likely to change. I find control pads cumbersome, so I'll gladly stick to the mouse and keyboard. (I got Oblivion and tried an easy sneak shot with the bow, using a mouse, and missed.)

For what it's worth this is the first console I've owned since the original Nintendo.

Pro:

Worked instantly out of the box. As soon as the 3G linked up it registered itself and downloaded the free ebooks I'd bought.
The ePaper display is beautiful and as easy to read as a paper book
Super simple drag-and-drop file transfers
Free 3G wireless is nice
Every book I've read looks great, even complex PDFs
Controls are simple and easy to use. The tiny keyboard is very easy to type on.

Cons:
The display is very slow, which is a problem with ePaper.
No color, see above, but not a huge deal.
Wireless is slow, but that might be fault of the CPU and display
GURPS PDFs have a problem that it will trim the white edges of their e23-only releases, but the way their printed books are laid out it doesn't due to some decoration at the top and bottom. No fault of the device, though.
It only does ebook well, the web browser is mediocre and text-to-speech has pacing problems.

Overall - If your only reason for wanting an iPad is to read ebooks then this is certainly a better option. The iPad has trouble in heat and sunlight, whereas the Kindle doesn't and even the highest end version is $100 less than then the lowest-end iPad.

I give it 8 out of 10 huge titted vixens


As a side note, blending technologies in the Kindle and iPad would make for an amazing device, though some technology has to advance before it would be possible. Basically the tablet form-factor is a very sound concept, but having a (tiny) keyboard, non-touch pointing device and just other buttons make the form factor perfect.

To me an ideal tablet would run a highly optimized variant of x86 Windows* with a super-compact (roughly 1" by 6") non-touchscreen keyboard, non-touchscreen pointing device (maybe a thumb-sized patch of touchpad material, but programmed to behave more like a tiny joystick), a fast, color ePaper display (which is only on the drawing board right now) with a multi-level, multi-touch display that can do fingers and a stylus AND is backlit.

Specific system specs are pointless since we'd be talking 5-10 years in the future, but using current-day parts I'd say a Core-based ULV 64-bit CPU, 2GB expandable to 4GB, a large (32-64GB) Micro-PCIe SSD with an open slot, SDHC slot, two USB-A ports and headphone and compact (Mini-Port-style) audio/video-out.

* Basically look at Ubuntu Netbook Remix and imagine it running on top of Windows, which would allow the use of standard Windows applications for cases where they're needed, as well as one designed specifically for the form-factor.

Your international airport has only one passenger flight that actually leaves the 48 contiguous states
The in-state sports rivalry is paid more attention to than the national championship
You live in an area that occasionally gets considerable snowfalls, floods, and tornadoes… but have no capacity to deal with any of the above
You pronounce the name of your city different than anyone else you’ve heard
You think the rest of the people in Kentucky sound like hicks
When you think “Kentucky” you don’t automatically think horse racing or fried chicken
You ask your doctor for an allergy cure and he tells you to move
You’ve shoveled 10+ inches of snow and worn shorts in the same week
When people ask what school you went to, they don’t mean Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, or Harvard; they mean St. X, Trinity, Male, Sacred Heart or Assumption
You know what the “Bambi Walk” is
You’ll always call Fourth Street Live the Galleria
Your last ten vacations were to Destin with at least five other families from Louisville who you already see on a weekly basis
You make an emergency run to Kroger for bread and milk at the first sighting of a snowflake
You’ve lived here for years, yet somehow you get hopelessly lost each time you attempt a shortcut through Cherokee Park
You’re convinced turn signals are useless options on a vehicle
You hold up traffic to let a motorist you don’t know into your lane
You give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist or street names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians;
You have never been to the Derby, but wouldn’t miss the Oaks
You call in sick to attend the Oaks and spot your boss - who also called in sick - at the next betting window;
You introduced your friends to mint juleps in college only until you found yourself the only one not passed out at the party
You think all the “REAL HICKS” live in New Albany
You think the only thing southern Indiana is good for is buying pumpkins I resemble that remark - I AM from Southern Indiana
When introduced to another life long Louisvillian, you spend the first part of the conversation finding out how you are connected. it’s never as many as six degrees of separation-usually three will do
You think a pervert is someone who would rather have sex than watch basketball;
You’ve built a shrine to Rick Pitino in your basement
You can read about Rick Pitino in at least three different sections of your newspaper - Sports, Front Section and the church listings...
You think the rest of the world knows what “Benedictine Spread” is
You think the rest of the world knows what a “Hot Brown” is
You have never eaten fish that wasn’t fried
You think the whole world puts spaghetti in chili - There is actually a style of chili very specific to Louisville, Kentucky
You want another bridge built over the Ohio River, just so long as it doesn’t cut through your neighborhood - Holy fuck, they've been discussing this for 20 years now and if they broke ground on the current plan tomorrow I'd be middle aged before it's finished...
You’ve experienced a salt storm after a two inch snowfall - I have run a full wiper fluid tank empty in a week after a couple inches of snow...

I bit the bullet and ordered a Kindle DX for ebook goodness. Basically, I read a ton of ebooks, mainly GURPS PDFs but increasingly stories and just random stuff. My laptop can read them plenty well it weighs almost 10 pounds and my 3 pound netbook can as well, albeit slowly and less than half the page at once. The Kindle DX wins against every other ebook reader I saw in every way except price, ePub format and SD-card expandability. (Of course very few ebook readers can use SD cards and ePub can be converted into Mobi so it's really a non-issue.)

My only worry, other than price, is more of a joke than anything. It's shipping FedEx Home Delivery, which uses the FedEx Ground system and I've worked for Ground for over two years now and I've loaded that Home Delivery truck a few times. Long story short, I know they preach 50 by 10 (reduce damages by 50% in Fiscal Year 2010) and hand-to-surface method (basically don't throw), but I know how they really work and I don't want my new toy damaged. It's a joke mostly because we actually do a good job not damaging things and most damages come from improper packaging rather than mishandling.

I hate these stupid "fill out a list memes" due to the knowledge of what a meme really is. (Look up the tabletop RPG "Transhuman Space" for an amazingly good primer on it.) But, I know how some of these items play out and I just got do it iff* because of the definition for my name (which is only half true and I have no musical talent...)

* Iff == If and only if.

Rules:
Go to www.urbandictionary.com and type in your answers to the following questions.
Post a definition it gives you.


1.) Your name?

Colin

Definition-
A name for sexy boys who often use guitars. Often confused with Colon, the body part. Common to be very popular with girls; potentially due to large penis oh yeah..
Wow, there is that guy Colin, he is so sexy while playing the guitar naked.


2.) Your age?

22

Definition-
turkish symbol for masturbation - 3 is the hand - 1 is the cock


3.) One of your friends?

Paul

Definition-

A common given name for males, derived from the Roman surname Paulus (Latin: "small" or "humble"). Put simply, it is the greatest name to grace the Earth. Seriously. It is the best name in existance.
Why is the name Paul so awesome?
Cause' Stone Cold said so.


4.) What should you be doing?

Programming

Definition-
The art of turning caffeine into Error Messages.

12-midnight is the critcal point for programming, at which time the relationship of errors vs caffeine increases exponentially.



5.) Favorite color?

Blue

Definition-

The feeling when u wake up at 7 in the morning and remembering it's a monday.
"i got the monday blues"

6.) Birthplace?

Jeffersonville

Definition-

Jeffersonville is a city in Southern Indiana, and of all cities in this region, it is most likely the one with the fewest "hicks". While it does have many cornfields, downtown Jeffersonville is actually a nice place to spend the day. There is an amazing view of the Ohio River and Louisville, Kentucky. I wouldn't quite call it a tourist destination, but if you were going somewhere and Jeffersonville was on the way, you might want to stop there if you have a bit of extra time. The majority of people there are very nice and know much history about both the region itself and most of the world. Sadly, along with many other Southern cities in Indiana, the "hick" stereotype is often addressed to Jeffersonville. However, you have to go up a bit farther to find "hicks". That said, you won't find many around here--it's just like any other small city; some people are ungodly intelligent, and others aren't. Some people have obnoxious heavy southern accents...most don't. Some people are complete imbaciles...and again, most aren't.

Jeffersonville has some nice local restaraunts, especially downtown. So if you happen to be traveling and need something amazing to eat with fair prices, you're in the right place.

If you happen to be moving to Jeffersonville, don't be discouraged just because it happens to be in Indiana. There is actually lots of nice housing, and you'll probably end up with some of the most friendly neighbors you could ask for. No, you aren't going to live on a farm wherever you go. You're going to live in a nice house, just like anywhere else on Earth.

Most people in Jeffersonville are well educated, and tons of them are relatively athletic. Most of the schools in Jeffersonville are nice and up-to-date.

The neighboring cities of Jeffersonville tend to be a bit more "country". This does not mean that they aren't nice, though, as on your way out you might want to stop in Clarksville or Louisville, especially if you're looking for a few small attractions or food.

It's not my favorite place in the world, but that doesn't mean it isn't great.
Jeffersonville is probably one of the most useful cities in Indiana, as well as not having many "hicks".


7.) Month of your birth?

July

Definition-

the birthstone for this month is Opal, but there is also a cheaper Rose Zicron. and it's also the best month ever if your birthday is in it

My birth month is in October.



8.) Last person you talked to?

The Maintenance Man

Definition-

A man who is called upon for simple maintenance issues a woman may have. For example, unclogging her pipes, knocking wood, or laying pipe. The woman is typically a YUPI who is not interested in a relationship, at least not with the man in question. The maintenance man usually does his job in the late evening and leaves when the "job" is complete. Maintenance man services are free of charge.
Ex. 1: I hear Baltimore has a lot of girls just looking for a maintenance man.
Ex. 2: Yeh, I'm doing part time maintenance man work now, but I'm looking to pick up a few more clients.

9.) One of your nicknames?

Ciaran

Definition-

a sexy-licious irishmen who has an extremely nice jelly which leah-anne should keep her nasty paws off. anyways, back to ciaran. he has a very advanced case of sexy-itis. you get the picture. i lub my ciaran i do!
"damn! look at ciaran!! o how i want him!!"
"well why dont you get off yer arse and seduce
im?"


First off, yes that's the ENTIRE and only Jeffersonville entry there and actually the one I do live in (and for the most part it's perfectly true about the city, too).

First, get your act together as a group - a hundred people squabbling are nothing compared to a single, unified voice. Coordinate, declare a spokesperson and go to the next step.

Which is contact: Kiloservers, Inc. 401 E, Las Olas Blvd, Suite 130-299 Fort Lauderdale FL US 33301

That's the company that hosts their site. Tell them the company is infringing on parts 1.7 and 4.1 of their terms and agreements, explain your grievances in detail, and request they review the site. If possible and you have the law enforcement means, have the site subpoenaed for a copyright infringement case. That might require a federal judge, but if you can give a clear, coherent case

When infringements are found, build a copyright case against them and go for the juggular. You'll more than likely win, hands down, and they'll probably go bankrupts trying to pay you.

Dubbed the "Owl Farm" I won't be able to buy it for six month, so prices will likely drop and parts get changed by then.

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/P.....umber=11258554

A rundown:

Intel Core i7 930 2.8GHz quad-core hyperthreaded
12GB G-Skill Ripjaw DDR3 PC1333
2 x Asus GeForce 470 with 1280MB GDDR5
Asus P6X58D Premium Mobo with USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 GB/s
2 x 2TB Western Digital SATA 3.0 GB/s
Antec Nine Hundred Case with four fans(!)
Antec 1200 watt, three-way SLI certified (for GeForce 480) modular power supply
Asus 8x BD-ROM/DVD-RW SATA
Asus 24x DVD-RW SATA

I will probably install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on one drive and either use the other for back-up or throw Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit on it.

The reason for all the Asus parts are threefold. One, I've have good luck with them in the past and my tendency is to push it as far as I can. Two, by making as many logical components as possible be the same brand I'm hoping to ensure excellent out of the box compatibility. And three, there's a big Asus facility down the road from me in my hometown and I support the local economy.