GasBandit
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Of course! The answer was obvious. Since 2016 is the year of the sexbot, you should build a sexbot.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Caught this site on Lifehacker (I think) and haven't had a chance to use it. Let me know if it helps! http://www.fareness.com/ It should be especially useful if you have even a little flexibility in your travels days.
We (me and the other patent guys) ran a MajorBBS that had 16 lines for a while...see here:
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/713/713.txt
The guys under "Media One Studios" are me and the other two patent holders. Ran an OPUS board too as a fido net node. See "Inn of the Laughing God" on the same list. Ran that one when I was living in a poly relationship with the two other people on the list.
Actually, it's kind of sad how many times I'm on that list. Silicon Dreams (running TAG) was mine that I ran by myself. X-Citing Systems Online (MajorBBS) was a paid multi-line chat system where I got paid $300/week to take photos of nude girls (from the XTC Cabaret next door) and put them online and perform maintenance on the systems and act as online moderator/admin. Let me tell you: Editing a couple of minutes of video by hand, dropping frames, shifting keyframes, frame-by-frame (because digital video editing sucked back then) so that all videos fit on a 1.44 meg floppy was a real chore
I sometimes feel like I don't have enough nerd cred amongst the younger generation nerds. But then I remember this list, and remember that I programmed my very first BBS from scratch on the Apple 2+, because all of my friends had modems (in 1985!) but my ex-girlfriend didn't, so I was content to let her eat a carrier signal when she kept trying to call me. And then all is right with the world.
The Kickstarter I want to do that I'll probably never get around to is motion controlled under cabinet lights. Add a little motion sensor under each cabinet so no matter which one you work under, the light turns on. Extra credit if they all come on slowly when one is triggered.
Bluetooth controlled baby toys (bumble ball, for instance) probably wouldn't excite you, nor a logging pulse oximeter, but those are things on my "to consider" list.
If you were into ham radio there'd be lots of stuff there as well.
It's not, but it takes FOREVER. Something like 46 hours + whatever your layover is and will cost about 250 dollars a person each way. Or you could use Priceline for flights... depending on when you need to go, economy seats can be as low as 200 bucks an adult each way and will take a fraction of that, but you'll have little control over when you leave beyond what day. Flying really is a better option unless you're just going across the state.
My dad is not producing enough/any red blood cells. The doctors can not find any cancer that would explain the symptoms. But they want to start him on chemo anyways, to kick start his blood production - hopefully. He's 87 god damned years old, you don't make some one that age sicker on a hunch! One of my brothers is trying to talk him into going to MD Anderson in Houston to get a real diagnosis before getting treatment.
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I am posting this anon b/c it's embarrassing as heck.
I had an immediate relative seriously state they would like to meet Sarah Palin and get her autograph. Sweet mercy. This is the same person who said that not all the slave holders were bad people. I didn't jump down her throat about the palin comment, but I nearly drove her to tears over the slave issue. Hypocrite. Christ would straight up back-hand a slave owner and so should you. Don't ever, ever defend that shit. I am done being silent about ignorance and hate. My children will not be exposed to that nonsense as long as I am living.
I had an immediate relative seriously state they would like to meet Sarah Palin and get her autograph. Sweet mercy. This is the same person who said that not all the slave holders were bad people. I didn't jump down her throat about the palin comment, but I nearly drove her to tears over the slave issue. Hypocrite. Christ would straight up back-hand a slave owner and so should you. Don't ever, ever defend that shit. I am done being silent about ignorance and hate. My children will not be exposed to that nonsense as long as I am living.
This would be awesome, except the cats would be turning the lights on and off all night.
However, if you can combine this with feline recognition technology that shoots water at cats when they get on the counters you would become a gajillionaire.
However, if you can combine this with feline recognition technology that shoots water at cats when they get on the counters you would become a gajillionaire.
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I tried building one of these, but it kept turning me down. "NOT TONIGHT INSERT NAME HERE I HAVE A CPU-ACHE"
Ah, I see that your relatives are my relatives. My condolences.
Can I request Shake, Rattle, and Roll by Bill Hayley and the Comets?The heavy trucks paving our parking lot are making my office vibrateit's unsettling.
GasBandit
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Our oldies station might actually have it, come to think of it.
The IMAX theater at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI is closed and will not be an imax screen when it re-opens. This is disappointing because they had the largest IMAX screen in michigan (84' x 62' or 26m x 19m) and ran real 70mm film - two of them for 3D.
One of the local Ann Arbor cinemas had a 70mm projector when it opened (true IMAX vs the newer digital format) but I'm not sure that's the case anymore - When The Force Awakens was shown in true 70mm in 40+ theaters in the US, this one was not listed as one of them. I believe they've switched to the digital format. The digital IMAX format has very few differences from any other digital projection format in most theaters today, IMAX has so diluted its product in order to get its brand into theaters that there's little reason to seek out an IMAX showing vs a regular showing of a movie anymore.
The last movie to play on the Henry Ford Imax in true 70mm 3D was The Polar Express, re-released just last month before closing. Wish I had known it was closing, and that they were showing it again. The blueray doesn't compare to the true IMAX experience.
RIP, IMAX.
One of the local Ann Arbor cinemas had a 70mm projector when it opened (true IMAX vs the newer digital format) but I'm not sure that's the case anymore - When The Force Awakens was shown in true 70mm in 40+ theaters in the US, this one was not listed as one of them. I believe they've switched to the digital format. The digital IMAX format has very few differences from any other digital projection format in most theaters today, IMAX has so diluted its product in order to get its brand into theaters that there's little reason to seek out an IMAX showing vs a regular showing of a movie anymore.
The last movie to play on the Henry Ford Imax in true 70mm 3D was The Polar Express, re-released just last month before closing. Wish I had known it was closing, and that they were showing it again. The blueray doesn't compare to the true IMAX experience.
RIP, IMAX.
GasBandit
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Yeah.The IMAX theater at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI is closed and will not be an imax screen when it re-opens. This is disappointing because they had the largest IMAX screen in michigan (84' x 62' or 26m x 19m) and ran real 70mm film - two of them for 3D.
One of the local Ann Arbor cinemas had a 70mm projector when it opened (true IMAX vs the newer digital format) but I'm not sure that's the case anymore - When The Force Awakens was shown in true 70mm in 40+ theaters in the US, this one was not listed as one of them. I believe they've switched to the digital format. The digital IMAX format has very few differences from any other digital projection format in most theaters today, IMAX has so diluted its product in order to get its brand into theaters that there's little reason to seek out an IMAX showing vs a regular showing of a movie anymore.
The last movie to play on the Henry Ford Imax in true 70mm 3D was The Polar Express, re-released just last month before closing. Wish I had known it was closing, and that they were showing it again. The blueray doesn't compare to the true IMAX experience.
RIP, IMAX.
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/thats-not-the-imax-i-grew-up-with
My fondest memory of my departed grandmother (who died while I was in college) were the near-countless times we went to museums together in Houston (and one particularly nice trip to Moody Gardens in Galveston) where we always made sure to catch an IMAX film. The screens were gargantuan, I could hardly believe they fit indoors at all. When my local theater first got an "IMAX" screen in colorado springs, later, I went to see it and was rather underwhelmed by it.
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I did not know the HF IMAX closed... They still have the sign up at parking. I saw The Lion King anniversary release there with my brother before he died, and also Watchmen. Just a huge damn bummer.
NOOOOOOOOOooooooooo....
I've arguably seen more movies at that specific IMAX screen than any other theater in existence. I can still hear James Earl Jones booming, "...with ELEVEN THOUSAND WATTS OF POWER."
--Patrick
Yeah, my first time seeing IMAX as a kid was in Tampa at MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry). We watched some film on space. 'uuuuge screens, surround sound, seats high in the theater...it was magic.