my vote the one, the only ... Charlie's Angels
That was a fun film and entertaining but I need more that kung fu and
breasts
to make a good 90 mins...
Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum?
"Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon" is best film of 2000 for my money. Breasts
are
This could be the ideal
opportunity for that drunken Paranoia game we've been promising ourselves
for so long. Yes, it *definitely* has to be drunken.
It's been literally years since I played paranoia! It's by far the best RPG
*ever*. It neatly sidesteps the whole "take the whole thing too
Why would anyopne need more than kung fu to enjoy a fillum?
I dunno. Plot? shrug/
Here's my idea of a good plot:
Wang Hoo: "Eight Castle-Smasher Fists! Feet on Seven Stars!"
(sticks rigidly to form)
Tsing Wa: "Left Hand Buddha Palm! Right Hand Buddha Fist!"
(also sticks rigidly to form)
A
In my case, Japanese was very much the latter. I have deep respect
for anyone who can master it.
The only Japanese I know:
"Anata no zubon wa taihen kirena desu!"
Not many applications.
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matt
"What? I don't speak your crazy moon-language."
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:03:52AM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
The fact you are recording is "What Billboard said was number one".
*That*
is a fact. Why they decided it was number one isn't the issue.
How about if I put up a website wherein I disclose the fact: "This is what
the object code
Speaking from a personal standpoint, I really enjoy the
technical meetings and think more of them would be really beneficial[2].
I think they represent a lot of what we are us to and show that we're
all not just talk 'n booze. Hence I'm anxious to see them succeed.
I'd like to be able to
the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me
And they all talk funny. North of the river they're all called Hamish
and Angus, and they wear flat caps and have whippets.
Eeeh, lad, 'appen tha's f'gottent' pigeon-fancying[1] and breakfasts
consisting entirely of clotted
It's oh so quiet.
After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting.
OK, just in the interests of making traffic, then, here's a picture of me as
a baby:
http://website.lineone.net/~vineleaf/sands/gfx/mattjones.jpg
You see, you have ot get your priorities right at an early age.
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matt
so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past?
I walways had crappy non-IT jobs. The absolute worst was when I went to work
in a plastics factory. As new boy, it fell to me to make sure that all the
waste plastic was disposed of as efficiently as possible.
Translated, that meant dragging
We've been talking about t-shirts on irc, and I think we should try
to get some ideas together[1].
How about one with perlperlperlperlperl printed around the neck area in a
circle? You see where I'm going on this one?
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Cordelia
Airhead
Arrogant, too. IMO.
Being a 8uffy refusenik, I'm a little confused by this conversation. Do you
think there might be any websites about 8uffy of Sarah Michelle Gellar out
there that I can trawl for info? I know it's a long shot.
Hem. :)
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matt jones
'You
do you exclude this script from the archive on the basis that it
uses TT?
this question defines the archive of scripts a little. is the
collection of scripts specifically aimed at the lowest commond
denominator and tackling the MW problem directly, or is that
just its core mission, and
As a Perl novice I'd have to say the old version looks much better.
Just replacing Programming Perl would have been enough.
As another person at an early stage in my Perl self-development, I'll second
this, and add that I'd like to add the Owl book on regexps, although I
suppose that's not
Not neccesary from a techical point of view. Neccesary from a social
point of view (What's this extension! I don't understand!
What's going on!
Excewpt that windows machines tend not to even show the extension by
default, and so the file will just have a little WinZip icon[0], which
I'm interested if there are courses on offer. There's only so much
you can do with just yourself and a pile of O'Reilly books.
I'd love to help, but we're not in a position to offer public courses
yet - the cost of hiring rooms and PCs is too prohibitive.
Who said anything about doing
I'm interested if there are courses on offer. There's only
so much you can do with just yourself and a pile of O'Reilly books.
The mind boggles ;)
No, not the *mind*! ;)
Oh, I forgot to mention the Prairie Squid (de-beaked, of course).
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matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing
For even more points: What was the first TV show the Lenny Henry
appeared on?
Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White Minstrel Show.
Ph3@r my Lenny Henry trivia skills!
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matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today?
hey, baby, don't be pulling on my
Ironically for "right-on" Lenny, it was The Black And White
Minstrel Show.
Hmm... now you've gone and made me doubt myself. I thought it was
New Faces.
http://homepages.go.com/~chefjunkie/Lennysnotlaughing.html
http://ayup.co.uk/gods/gods0-4.html
Search for "Minstrel". Okay, so he was
True. Shouldn't we also need to include "should'nt" (etc.)
here as well? . These are trivially simple rules to teach/learn
- so why they aren't taught (or possibly aren't learnt) says something
about the education system and the attitude of the pupils therein.
I don't know which education
I was at school from up to 1995 and grammer, hand writing and
similar were only lightly touched upon. IT was another subject that we
never actually did (other than read about spreadsheets leading to my
adult hatred of Excel) and as far as I'm aware none of my friends of
the same age did
soapboax
Wrong. There was a concerted effort by the loony left to destroy
decent education in favour of whatever trendy piffle that was the
order of the day.
Oy! That's my family (lefty teachers) you're talking about! I went through
the state comprehensive system and was never touched by
Hm. Looking over this you might not want to read it if you're eating or
anything.
I reserve judgement until I've had a NY pizza and a NY
coffee. However, I expect neither to be up to the standards
I expect :-) You have to beat Roma* to be acceptable.
I've had a NY pizza and it was
Elect is a harsh term here. The man was appointed, crowned if
you will. Not unlike youre queen, from what I can tell, though I've to
date never seen her described as a bumbling idiot. Maybe the BBC keeps
that quiet?
Heh, have you never *seen* "our" royal family in action?
It's not just
I certainly don't consider myself "professional", even though I
try to ply my trade in what I believe to be a "professional" manner.
"I'm not a professional, I'm a gifted amateur."
The source of that escapes for the moment.
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matt
"'scuse me trooper, will you be needing any packets today?
How can you inadvertently hack ?
"I'll just quickly knock a little something together to do task X ... hmmm,
actually, wouldn't it be cool if it could also do task Y, just for
convenience sake ... hmm, that works, but I'm sure it could work
stronger/faster/better than before ... "
And so on
Wisty - next T-shirt please:
use strict
is gay
Heh. On the back -w is jolly?
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matt | right hemisphere, wrong planet
Dave Cross:
You sound like the kind of person
who would really enjoy the Cambridge Folk Festival
Or, indeed, the Holmfirth Folk Festival: on this weekend for all your real
ale, finger-in-ear, set-in-summer-wine-country needs
http://www.riceholm.demon.co.uk/
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matt | CHOPS
http://www.unixbeard.net/~richardc/Photos/2001-04-30/2001-04-30.14:42:51.jpe
g
heh:
http://www.snurfer.org/sands/gfx/vertigo.jpg
Did your palms sweat too, richard?
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matt | CHOPS
Robert Shiels:
Over the next 4 years, Labour
will fail to deliver their promises yet again, and the
country will swing back to the party of low taxes, who will
be re-elected in 2006.
Part of the reason why they haven't delivered the promises that I think are
important (decent public
In 1997 the UK voted against the Conservatives. The policies
being offered by the parties were close to identical.
For values of conservative that are low-tax/shitty services, IMHO. The
policies may have been close, but the perception of the two parties still
pointed at Labour as the party of
Just because they can't deliver those promises for those costs doesn't
mean no one else can. If they knew they couldn't deliver within those
cost constraints why did they lie and say they could?
Because they are (right-wing) politicians. Just look at the absurd
promisises Hague's lot are
http://www.iterative-software.com/training/
Can you do another Perl course, please?
CHOPS programming:
What's in the box?
This two day course is aimed at l4me to virtually pubescent Perl
programmers. We aim to give students the underpinning knowledge and skills
required for them to make a
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people
seem to think that low taxes are good?
Because many people think that they are better judges of how their own
money should be spent than the government (of whatever flavour) is.
This is something I've always wondered about. Given
Hospital waiting lists are up,
No, hospital waiting lists are down. The time spent waiting to get on the
wiating list is up. :)
so are class sizes in schools.
No, class sizes are down in primary schools (were primaries specified on the
pledge card?). Secondary school classes are level or
the pump lobby respond by suggesting that the government
drop tax. Why don't they ever have a go at BP or Shell?
You don't elect BP or Shell.
Well, precisely, they're companies, so you boycott them. Which is what I
thought that dump the pump was originally about; boycotting oil companies
Are they in reality, or is it due to the current lot being in
lower birth years than the lot 4 years ago, and hence the secondary
school numbers being up now?
Heh, it's pre-election statistics, so god knows what possible conne4ction to
reality they may have! :)
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matt | I mean to make you
(trolllhave you ever
noticed how left wingers tend to be less tolerant to the fact
that their views may be wrong than right wing people?/troll)
Ah, that's because we left-wingers *are* right, and also because secretly,
silently, you right-wingers know it, too. :P
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matt
The
Some spokesman on the radio this morning promised to reduce
class sizes in primary schools and to recruit more secondary school
teachers. How can they achieve the former without recruiting more
teachers?
I'd assume that they would recruit more Classroom Assistants. Sort of
paradidacts
class but reducing the pupil/adult ration, I guess.
-^^
Heh. I bet it was the MAFF comment which planted that one.
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matt
The (void) is that which stands right in the middle of this and That.
So how, pray, do I opt out of the international oil
companies' cartel?
use the tube and electric trains? Most power stations aren't oil fired
AFAIK.
Not even then, I guess. Am I right in thinkming that many plastics are
(by-)products of the refining process? So that's internal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1336000/1336347.
stm
Maybe their reason is wrong, but banning line dancing is a worthy end,
surely? We could get rid of Steps at a stroke. Except Faye, of course.
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matt
so how you gonna kick it?
gonna kick it root down.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_1336000/1336347.
stm
Oh! This has to get my Quote of the Week:
As far as it being sensual, that is not a word you would attribute to
country music.
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matt
so how you gonna kick it?
gonna kick it root down.
Dave Cross:
And besides, since when could you work out how sexy a
woman (or man) was simply by looking at a photo.
Its in the eyes, Dave, its in the eyes.
See, I find it's in the personality. Which doesn't come
across too well in glossy magazine.
Hmmm. I wonder how you'd go about
I seem to recall some comic giving a rant to the effect of Used to be
just the magazines on the top shelf, everyone knew where they were,
everyone knew what they were for. Then these FHM, Loaded, etc though -
huh? What are they, for blokes who aren't sure if they want to
masturbate?
Not
See, I find it's in the personality. Which doesn't come
across too well in glossy magazine.
Hmmm. I wonder how you'd go about making personality pr0n?
Mills and Boon.
Well, no, I just had this conversation offlist. I'd say that personality
pr0n is an oxymoron. YMMV.
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matt
so how
Wow, and she's got three kids by Steven Seagal.
The eighties were a crazy decade and people did a lot of things they
regret.
Well, would *you* say no to Steven Seagal?
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matt jones
'What you have begun in anger you shall end in shame.'
For some reason, that reminded me of tchrist, especially the
---^^^
Is that Northern for Jesus?
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