dancing fool

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It has arrived.

Unreal Tournament 2003 goes on sale October 1st, 2002. After playing the demo for countless hours it was easy to tell that the final game was going to be awesome.

The notd.net staff got the final version a little early, and after playing for a few hours, I can confirm that it is indeed awesome. You can always tell when developers go that extra mile and jam everything they can into a game, and UT2k3 is overflowing with that. So much so that the game comes on 3 cd's, 2 of which are basically the "install" cd's, while the 3rd contains editing programs to customize the game to your liking (Build maps, make textures, and an awesome skin editing program). I'll begin work on the kenny skin just as soon as I get done with this post.

The graphics in this game are very sharp and detailed. I'm not sure how my Athlon 1.2Ghz + GeForce 2 are producing such great framerates with all the action on the screen, but hey, I'm not going to ask questions. The bots are even fun to play with, great for when your network is running sluggish and you start getting a ping that bounces from 50 to 300 (Thanks Resnet). But Unreal seems to handle the spotty internet a lot better than other online games I've played. The only other game I was really looking forward to becides this one was Star Wars Galaxies, good thing this game turned out so good, because it looks like I'm going to have to wait a while for Star Wars.

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Such a Proud day

I'm honored. Look what I got in my email just moments ago.

Dear kenya,

Congratulations on recently completing your 100th SETI@home workunit. Through your support, SETI@home has grown to become the largest distributed computation on Earth. We at SETI@home greatly appreciate the 0.06 years of computer time you have donated to the project, and hope that you will continue your support. As a small token of our appreciation, you may now download and print an official certificate stating your achievement of this goal, available at:

Certificate Shown Here

Thank you again for your contribution.

Sincerely,

The SETI@home Team

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Drunkard compacted

Smiley's up to his shenannigans again...

AUBURN, Indiana (AP) -- Northeastern Indiana police say a 24-year-old man is lucky to be alive after being compacted inside a garbage truck.

MORE...

Auburn Police Chief Martin McCoy says Dillon apparently fell asleep in a trash bin somewhere in the downtown Auburn area, where a fall festival was held this week.

FULL STORY (CNN)

Well I know a trash bin is where I always go when I need to pass out from some heavy vodka intake.

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smiley's other website

before there was Smiley Log, there was Smiley's Place.

Fear.

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Br0ws4r Diplomacy

Phoenix 0.1 is out. While this is based on Mozilla, they actually do it right. There's not as much Mozilla code in use, so it does what it's supposed to. It's a whole helluva lot faster than Netscape, and even IE. But the thing I like is that it's not bloated out the ass like Netscape and IE are. My new browser of choice.

NEXT...Tom (Tank Engine) Hanks will be starring in the Coen Brothers' next flick again set in the south... it's a black comedy about a killer father (Hanks). I believe it's a remake of a 50s something or other.

FINAL...there will be a live performance of Jacko's Thriller including live real zombies (honest to goodness zombies!) here in Lexington the night before Halloween. Better than the same Picture Show over and over and over...

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History, channeled.

Here's what I've discovered after actually having a TV in my dorm room this fall. The History Channel is home to one of the most addictive sets of programming that has ever been assembled.

Firstly "Mail Call" will grab your attention for however long its on. Right now there is a "Mail Call" marathon, so I'm not really up for going anywhere. To see the host of the show's (R. Lee Ermey) own website click here. I've even sent in a question or two.

Also, they have great write-up's about just anyone you could think of, including JFK. Not only can you read about influential people in history, but (if they lived recently enough) you can hear them make speeches. Hey, what happend on your birthday in history? Great website, great TV channel.

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Insight

Insight can suck rancid tuna salad out of my ass.

If anyone has been to Louisville and watched tv for 5 minutes, you know what I'm talking about. Insight Digital is the cable monopoly here. That's all we've got and I don't understand why. Commercials on *every* cable channel *for* Insight Digital every five minutes, it's enough to make you puke. Not to mention that Terry Meiners and Bob Sokola are their spokespeople, the two most putrid punks you have ever laid your eyes on.

Now, every day, cable is out *somewhere* in Louisville. Not a day goes by without an area of town having an outage. This is also the case with Cable Modems. Fucking A. For a week now, I've been without Internet in my house. A fucking week. and I can't check email or post on any websites at work because mr. Jim Heines had to show up and be all "oh... we can't do that, it's against company policy" blah blah. motherfucker. If I could get high speed access from another company, I would, not because they would be better, but just to spite Insight. If you ever have a problem with the "Home of the On-Time Guarantee" You spend an hour on hold, then another hour trying to explain to the gay ass motherfucker on the other end of the line what your problem is as if it's your job to fix it, and when you finally do schedule an appointment to get it fixed, fat chance it will happen. I understand this is true of *all* cable companies, but the fact that they offer you 25 dollars of credit everytime someone doesn't show up should be some motivation for their getting their heads out of their asses. SO we haven't paid for cable or internet access since we've moved in here because, guess what? we keep getting so many damn credits. Not that we *should* be paying because it's not like we even have access to the web or are able to view the tv for any length of time more than 10 minutes... Fucking a. Point being, do yourself a favor and *don't* move to Louisville.

On top of this, all day the power was out here. Fucking Boring. And Alex won't go buy a new power supply so she can run the network either. What a crock of shit.

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Tonight on Cop Drama...

..well actually on ABC. At 9:00PM ET / 8:00PM CT : Push, Nevada -- Episode 3.

Do not miss it. I'm telling you.

If you have even the slightest knowledge of the short lived early 90's television series "Twin Peaks" -- and of course assuming you enjoyed it -- you MUST watch this show.

That is all.

(new layout still in the works, it's coming--I promise)

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Stall of the Day

Seen today written on a campus stall: If companies can put American flags on shirts to commemorate September 11, does that mean I can sell my weed in red, white, and blue baggies?

Get 'em Sanbourne!

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That Ain't No Good

Well, while visiting Dave's latest project, I was shocked to find that cherrysugar does not render correctly in Mozilla, which means it is not HTML 4.01 compliant. I emailed the appropriate authroities of the web site and was thanked for my concern while being informed that they didn't care. It's websites like this that make the web an evil place, full of bad spiders...

So, until CherrySugar supports Mozilla (that's Netscape too ya know), I'm boycotting.

If you're curious why I made the switch, check out kolonay.com for the details.
(yes, I'm aware that I'm not fully compliant yet either, but at least my page renders in browsers other than MSIE)

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Shoes. Sanborn. Socks.

Earlier tonight I was told by Sanborn himself that he'd be getting everyone on the notd.net staff a new pair of shoes. The shoes are made by Airwalk, so make sure to tell sanborn your size and pick out some shoes here. Act now, this is a limited time offer.

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Lordy, Lordy

Well, in case you all haven't noticed, I've been very, very busy of late. What with us being shorthanded at the Courier and whatnot, but we have since hired a new guy. He's an ex-gunnerman for the Navy from Vietnam, an ex-priest, attended school in Belgium, knows approximately 6 languages and has met the Pope.

In case you didn't know, Cherry Sugar is back up in a new format. I suggest everyone go check it out.

I bought a flask the other day. That's right, a flask. I'm cool as hell.

Everyone must now start to wear fall clothing. Seriously, I started wearing sweatshirts, toboggans, and jeans and drinking hot chocolate outside and smoking a pipe in an effort to make the weather become fall. It has since bent slightly to my will. In a matter of two days, we went from 85 degree weather, to 55 degree weather... I'd say that the Gods have heard my call and heeded my will.

Sanbourne is God Like.
Kenny is my bitch.

I can't decide where exactly I'm going to go to college next year... UK looked good for a while, but WKU has an awesome Journalism school right now... Looks like we'll have to have a fight: Kenny and Smiley vs. Derek, Kolonay and Emily for total domination and control over my soul. blah.

I love you kenny.

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14 billion year old light bulb detected

How many [insert stereotype here] does it take to screw in a 14 billion year old light bulb?

Article on CNN about a radiotelescope picture of light bouncing off matter from 14 billion years ago... at least that's the theory.

I installed SP3 for Win 2000 last nite, and whattya know, it corrupted my hard drive. Lovely. But I've reformatted and I'm starting to re-up my SETI stats.

Dammit, I was going to post a funny har-har flash link but I can't remember the name of the "Mr. Strong Man" or strong guy or something... this space-ghost-all-your-base-robot-type-guy answers your email, and was playing in the Kernel newsroom this morning and it was hella funny. Surely someone knows what I'm talking about.

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The Howard

Driving back from the new free-standing Chick-Fil-A before heading out to the UK football game, I was looking for the pregame show on the radio.. I came across 96.1. "Howard Stern's on! Great!" I thought. ABout 5 minutes later, when the commercial break came on, what I thought was a joke promo wasn't...This is THE Howard, 96.1 FM. All Howard, All the time. What a brilliant idea!! I would never in a million years think a station like this would be on the air in Lexington of all places. New York, L.A., Miami, understandable, but not Lexington. I'm stoked.

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and what's one step above being godlike?

being wicked sick. click for large. i am the NOTD Unreal Tourney 2003 resident master. none shall defeat me.

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who's godlike?

i'm godlike.

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LOCAL AREA NETWORK CONNECTED AT 100MBps

THANK GOD!!! I finally have the interNEAT. After 3 1/2 weeks of waiting for INSIGHT to come hook me up. Sweet broadband. Rite now, I'm celebrating, by drinking a Miller Gold, painting my room, painting my bathroom, reading The Kennedy Tapes, watching Fear and Loathing again, attempting to contact my journalism professor to get Hunter S. Thompson's contact information so I can do a feature for da UK newspaper, and reading my very own copy of "Sol Azteca: Mexican Restaurant, Try The Best Wine Margaritas In Town!" AND beating down the cats.

Oh yeah since I have interNEAT again, my web cam will be function any SECOND.

Bye.

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NOTD = EXTREME computing power

That's right. Today Smiley and I came across a plethera of computing machines. Now mind you, these machines have quite a combined processing power. In fact, if you were to add the speeds of all the processors together, I'm quite confidient you would have a number around the 200 mHz region. Yes. We got some old ass stuff here folks.

Currently, four computers reside in the back seat of my car, along with a keyboard or two, and not to mention a Laser Printer. Here are a few shots of the items:

comps_1
comps_2

Some other items are located in the trunkal region of the vechical as well. In these shots you can see a Packard Bell monitor, as well as....yes, you're eyes don't decieve you...a Xerox copy machine. Now, it is true that the copier is not currenlty working, but it will be soon...I think. If you'll look closely, you can also see my super ghetto installed amplifier. Yes, wires everywhere in my trunk. It's fun.

comps_3
comps_4

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what happens when me and smiley FIGHT

this has occured many times over the last 3 days or so. we play, i win, then smiley whines. the only time he beat me was when i had 1 other teammate who's final score was ONE. ONE point. you get more than that for killing someone once.

anyways, in summary: smiley helly sucks at ut2003. and note my high score thanks to photoshop.

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ZIP TIES!!!!!!!!1

So i've basically become obsessed with using zip ties on the many cords and cables involved in my computer setup. i recently bought a bag of 100 neon yellow zip ties at Fry's Electronics for the low low price of $2.99. (what a steal!) Confident in my purchase, I thus began to coil and fasten almost any cable I could get my hands on, granted that it had slack to coil of course! Hyuk! To show my appreciation to zip ties, I present a small idol or point of worship for the plasticy zipping goodness that is (are?)... ZIP TIES I have fastened the following: Cell phone wall charger Printer USB Cable Printer Power Cable KVM Switch Power Cable Ethernet cable Power Strip power cable And Much Much More! Here are some ZIP TIE related links: eBay: 1000 5.6 In. plastic zip ties cable, TV, Directron.com: Plastic Cable Ties (1000-pcs) I don't know what this is but it uses zip ties! Absolute Ties Online! Here is a PICTURE OF ZIP TIES!!!!!!

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fighting foodons

for the time being i dont use aim or any other instant messaging program, so quit talking at or about me via aim plz even if youre talking about footwears or whatever me and THE AIM LOGO ARE LIKE THIS HE'LL TELL ME HE MONITORS YOUR TALX SO NO SAYING SOCKS AT ALL EVER

EVER. GOODBYE.

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I'm madder than hell blah blah blah...

Well, November will see the launch of what is likely to become the most successful PC game in the history of PC games.

The Sims: Online

There's only a few problems I have with this.

The game is going to cost $50 when it comes out. Sure, this is par for the course these days...
...except...
WHEN YOU HAVE TO PAY $10-$15 A MONTH TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THE DAMN GAME! which is also fine...
...except...
WHEN YOU HAVE TO PAY $50 TO BUY THE DAMN GAME.... etc, etc, etc...

To top that all off, THIS tells us that the Sims:Online will contain in game advertising from McDonalds and Intel that they paid a FORTUNE for. See, I would think that this advertising, much like in the network TV model, would pay for the medium of play, which is in this case the Internet. I guess I'm wrong though... Oh well, as a future economist, I must admire their capitalistic deftness, however, that doesn't mean I have to like it....

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Horrid Ebayers

http://www.kekkai.org/bishop/images/stupid.jpg
Well I sold myself a used Athlon the other day, shipped it, and got a horribly rude response, yelling, said I should fix the problem. I had no idea what was wrong, so I mailed the dude back. He responded, more yelling. ohhh okay well I did forget to include a piece of the auction, so I sent him what he requested today, wrapped inside a Wendy's paper bag full of trash, enjoy, awful jackass.

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Newness is Coming...

...eventually. Yes I'm doing a redesign of NOTD, much to Mr. Sanbourne's delight I'm sure.

So stay tuned.

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Slashdot

Slashdot sent a search team. Thank goodness they didn't manage to find me. Security has not been breached, so everyone can breathe easy.

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untitled

kenny infinity (12:15:01 AM): ok, so do i was the powertoys?
decay3d (12:15:10 AM): so do you was the powertoys, yes.

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Miss Kilby

Strangley enough, there is a girl in my math class that looks like Craig Kilborn. I'm very confused.

There were two strange "911" phenomena this week, The S&P Futures closed at 911.00 on Tuesday and The New York lottery drew 9-1-1 last nite. More MAGNOLIA-isms for the soul...

I'm still without the interNEAT. Still scheduled for a Sep 20th installation. I'm at Starbucks now. Whee. Now I must go to my paid study hall, in the Art Gallery.

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Never Forget

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Saddam, he don't need to force anybody

So this is what the geniuses at ABC news are using their journalistic powers for... Hot off the presses...

SHIPMAN:

He took Viagra.

LAMPSOS:

Yeah, sometimes, yes.

MORE...

SHIPMAN:

Did he force you to have sex with him?

LAMPSOS:

Saddam, he don't need to force anybody. Because...you are afraid, you are afraid to say no.... I was with him because I was afraid of him...

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Let me get this straight, you built a time machine....out of a delorean?

Well, I'm stupid.

Last night, I drove to Ashland, and then came back this morning. Went to visit my friend Apryl, it was good...

BUT

I happened to find this in the garage of the house Apryl was house sitting for, and I HAD to get a picture to share with ya'll...

BTW, socks? yeah, no hard feelings... add me to your AIM and we'll talk

UPDATE
How weird... /. had THIS ARTICLE.

I also found this kickass super-d-lux mega kool outtaTIME PIECE.

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sanbourne: tehcnician extraorodinaire!

HERES HOW PRINTERS WORK

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Is it just me, or...

...does it seem wrong when the Radio DJ announces the begining of "6 in a row" and then comes back in after three songs to remind you that you're in the middle of said "6 in a row"...

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Awww, Can we keep 'er paw?

T-Shirts abound!

Back

Click here to design your own notd.net shirt today!

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SMiLEY Log, DVD's, Walken

Well, I just got done checking my hits on the SMiLEY Log and found out that I set a record for most hits ever last week. Of course, it was only 77, but hey, its up from like, 4.

A few new dvd's are coming out soon, several on my birthday, so WATCH OUT.

Sept 3rd - Ernest Scared Stupid, Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Goes to Camp
Sept 17th - Monsters Inc, Panic Room (Superbit), Grease
Nov 1st - Spiderman

A few of these I've already downloaded from the wonderful internet, so uh, here's some fun eBay auctions.

Fun Watch
It came from the 80's
Pepsi
Pepsi
Mt. Dew
For the kiddies
R2-D2

I gotta go watch Frailty now.

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What cha gonna do?

Here is a disturbing image capture of a certain website I ran across...

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I'm not the least bit tired...

...and it's a good thing too. TNT is having a 28 hour Law & Order marathon. It started at 5:00PM Sunday, and runs non-stop for 28 hours. This is awesome. Law & Order is one of the best show on televison. I'm not big on all the new shows in the L&O family, but the origional is still excellent. So if you find yourself with any free time over the next 20 hours, feel free to flip your TV to your local TNT channel and enjoy.

Oh...and did I mention Angie Harmon?

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oops, we did it again....

Did i ever tell you about my dead imaganry older brother bob. He got sent to the hot dog sauce factory.

Neil is "Captin Pork Boy"

Thats stright up david bowie shit

Mad dog mary McCree - song?

The Wee little men?

It takes pounds off

Did some one call me coloumbo earlier?

Think you sir may i have anothua?

christ of god: its boobs!

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