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Sure Phelps has beaten the Mark Spitz record, but does it really count, since he wasn't rocking that awesome 'stache?

So, my first experience with the Theme from Shaft was actually the Newsradio episode where they were giving out the bonuses. Everybody got a standard bonus, except two people, one person got about 10x the regular bonus (the big bonus) and one person got no bonus (the shaft). Andy Dick's character usually got no bonus, and the others rubbed it in.

Laser cutting, similar to ponoko, but without the marketplace stuff

The two lightest cars sold in America.

While I actually saw it last week, I would still like to say that I thought it was nice the way they dropped all of those hints that Harvey Dent was actually Batman.

So, have you guys seen Superman in Slumberland yet?

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Sometimes I feel like learning guitar. Then I look up the prices of guitars and realize I have no idea what I'm doing and give up.

It seems that Google has added a kayak route and removed a swimming route, so my previous post is now completely wrong.

So, the light outside was yellow-orange today. Kind of like the color at sunset, but only going on the whole day. I assume this is because the whole state is on fire.

Those poor people on Battlestar Galactica. They finally make it to Earth, and it's been overrun by talking apes on horseback.

So, after I upgraded Ubuntu to Hardy, I ran into some problems with the audio. First off, xmms is gone, which I suppose isn't that big of a loss, but the problem is that the replacement is apparently rhythmbox and as far as I can tell rhythmbox only works with pulseaudio.

pulseaudio seems to only exist to make things suck. The official excuse for pulseaudio seems to be that I can use a single volume control instead of multiple from different programs, which is a problem I DID NOT HAVE. In fact, it is now a problem I DO HAVE ONLY BECAUSE OF PULSEAUDIO. When I start up, all of the non-pulseaudio programs (everything but rhythmbox) use slider X, after I load a pulseaudio program (rhythmbox), that uses slider Y, and after I close rhythmbox, all the non-pulseaudio programs use slider Z. Plus, on top of that whenever I use rhythmbox, it kills all audio from every non-pulseaudio program, which SHOULD NEVER, EVER, EVER HAPPEN. THIS WAS FIXED YEARS AGO, DON'T GO BREAKING IT ALL OVER AGAIN. Audio from other programs only comes back if I close rhythmbox and stop every non-pulseaudio program from accessing the sound card (which I can only get flash to stop doing by closing and restarting firefox).

There may be some pulseaudio setting out there to make this not happen, but then again, I thought the whole point of Ubuntu was to be all easy to use and NOT BREAK STUFF PEOPLE USE (like, say, flash and music playback)

So, in summary:
GARGARGAR,
and:
what's a good media player replacement for rhythmbox/xmms that doesn't use pulseaudio?

List of grain elevators on the BNSF, many with pictures

Dear everybody,
It is called a "scroll wheel" not a "zoom wheel". Please keep this in mind while designing your interfaces.

As I was driving today I saw a mid-80s Peugeot with at least 20 Ron Paul stickers on it. Somehow, it seemed like a perfect match to me.

<sneakums> what are you talking about, jp always makes sense

Information about various genset locomotives

Scans of lego set instructions and catalogs

<baconite> squinky: did you win yet?
<squinky> yeah, once
<squinky> I don't remember how

It's really something. It's so bad, maybe you should pool your money and
draw straws and send one of the guys off to rent it so that in the
future, whenever you think you're sitting through a bad comedy, he could
shake his head, and chuckle tolerantly, and explain that you don't know
what bad is.
	-- Roger Ebert on Police Academy, failing to anticipate the
	 marvelous advances in making movies suck that have occured
	 since 1984

It's really something. It's so bad, maybe you should pool your money and
draw straws and send one of the guys off to rent it so that in the
future, whenever you think you're sitting through a bad comedy, he could
shake his head, and chuckle tolerantly, and explain that you don't know
what bad is
	-- Roger Ebert on Police Academy, failing to anticipate the
	 marvelous advances in making movies suck that have occured
	 since 1984