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What a random and strange conversation.
[15:38:31] jackbauerthecoho: *Greetings! I know this is hard to believe, but I'm you - from the future. I bear important news.*
[15:38:58] cmantito: do you now?
[15:39:22] jackbauerthecoho: *not for sale*
[15:40:07] cmantito: what's not for sale?
[15:40:18] jackbauerthecoho: *my pants*
[15:40:55] cmantito: what about your pants? I was asking about your news from the future.
[15:41:23] jackbauerthecoho: *Sorry I dont sell my pants*
[15:41:30] cmantito: I'm not asking about your pants.
[15:41:47] cmantito: you said you had important news?
[15:41:48] jackbauerthecoho: ————— 09:08 am —————CompetitiveCoho: Do you have fancy pants?
[15:41:53] cmantito: [15:38:31] jackbauerthecoho: *Greetings! I know this is hard to believe, but I'm you - from the future. I bear important news.*
[15:42:16] cmantito: also, competitivecoho is not my screen name
[15:42:29] jackbauerthecoho: *i dont see how this is related*
[15:42:36] cmantito: what?
[15:42:47] cmantito: clearly we're having two different conversations.
[15:43:04] jackbauerthecoho: *are you just trying to keep me on the im for 5 minutes so you can trace it?*
[15:43:18] jackbauerthecoho: *because i just x'ed it*
[15:43:22] jackbauerthecoho: *trace terminated*
[15:43:40] cmantito: you can't trace an IM
[15:43:50] cmantito: and what?
2009-03-06 15:52:25 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: wtf, spam[15:38:31] jackbauerthecoho: *Greetings! I know this is hard to believe, but I'm you - from the future. I bear important news.*
[15:38:58] cmantito: do you now?
[15:39:22] jackbauerthecoho: *not for sale*
[15:40:07] cmantito: what's not for sale?
[15:40:18] jackbauerthecoho: *my pants*
[15:40:55] cmantito: what about your pants? I was asking about your news from the future.
[15:41:23] jackbauerthecoho: *Sorry I dont sell my pants*
[15:41:30] cmantito: I'm not asking about your pants.
[15:41:47] cmantito: you said you had important news?
[15:41:48] jackbauerthecoho: ————— 09:08 am —————CompetitiveCoho: Do you have fancy pants?
[15:41:53] cmantito: [15:38:31] jackbauerthecoho: *Greetings! I know this is hard to believe, but I'm you - from the future. I bear important news.*
[15:42:16] cmantito: also, competitivecoho is not my screen name
[15:42:29] jackbauerthecoho: *i dont see how this is related*
[15:42:36] cmantito: what?
[15:42:47] cmantito: clearly we're having two different conversations.
[15:43:04] jackbauerthecoho: *are you just trying to keep me on the im for 5 minutes so you can trace it?*
[15:43:18] jackbauerthecoho: *because i just x'ed it*
[15:43:22] jackbauerthecoho: *trace terminated*
[15:43:40] cmantito: you can't trace an IM
[15:43:50] cmantito: and what?
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MacRumours Live Feed Owned? [PIC]
Someone wants attention...
2009-01-06 17:36:15 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: apple, macworld, macrumorsSomeone wants attention...
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It's like there's a club in my shower!
I'm really not sure what the saddest part of this is, but follow me on this.
2008-11-12 14:51:28 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: life, photos, showerI'm really not sure what the saddest part of this is, but follow me on this.
First I thought, ooh, I'd like to listen to music while I take my shower today. Easy enough, right?
But then I didn't want to be left to the wrath of iTunes to decide what I listen to and how loud, so I needed some way of controlling it. I have an Apple remote control for my MacBook but I couldn't get it in IR's line-of-sight from the bathroom. So...
...I taped a few CD-Rs to the walls in strategic locations to make that happen for me :) But all good music needs mood lighting to go with it. So I grabbed my multi-colour LED flashlight and used that!
This had a very nice lighting effect throughout the bathroom and shower!
This atmosphere was very much helped by the fact that my toilet paper dispenser is actually an expended glow-necklace hanging from a hook. (See first picture.) Despite the fact that this glow-necklace should have no longer glowed, as a result of the blue LED on my flashlight it appeared to be glowing anyway (the blue LED had an almost ultra-violet effect on everything in my bathroom).
And now, I'm going out to the store to buy a life, since it has recently dawned on me that I really don't have one, despite what I like to think...
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(Picture) My internet connection is a bit busy today.
2008-11-04 17:16:47 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: election, television
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Live coverage for election
These two streams should be coming live from the US with the Election results this evening for anyone who wants to see it. I'd start watching at 9 or 10 PM GMT...
2008-11-04 12:43:25 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: election, televisionThese two streams should be coming live from the US with the Election results this evening for anyone who wants to see it. I'd start watching at 9 or 10 PM GMT...
CNN World News Live Stream: http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx
C-SPAN: http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf
C-SPAN: http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf
Perfect for the non-TV-license-holder since they're not UK streams ;) If anyone has any others, let me know!
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Continuum: The Answer!
CAUTION: Spoilers may follow.
I posed the question in my last post on the Talk:Stargate Continuum page on Wikia: Stargate, and luckily one of the guys over there was able to answer the question and save the movie for me:
I think Carter described this by saying that traveling through the wormhole protected them. They would have disappeared too, but because they used the Stargate at the time everything was disappearing, they didn't. Vala and Teal'c were just unlucky that they disappeared first.—Anubis 10545 21:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
..And that is absolutely correct, I find after rewatching it again. Dunno how I missed it..
2008-07-30 23:54:28 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: stargate, continuum, scifiCAUTION: Spoilers may follow.
I posed the question in my last post on the Talk:Stargate Continuum page on Wikia: Stargate, and luckily one of the guys over there was able to answer the question and save the movie for me:
I think Carter described this by saying that traveling through the wormhole protected them. They would have disappeared too, but because they used the Stargate at the time everything was disappearing, they didn't. Vala and Teal'c were just unlucky that they disappeared first.—Anubis 10545 21:59, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
..And that is absolutely correct, I find after rewatching it again. Dunno how I missed it..
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Stargate Continuum
So Stargate Continuum was released yesterday. And thanks to my epic preordering skillz on Amazon, I received it just as it was released yesterday (yay!). And I watched it. Twice.
2008-07-30 17:18:25 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: stargate, continuum, scifiCaution: Spoilers may be ahead.
Now I'm not going to post the plotline on here, because it's already available on Gateworld, Wikia: Stargate, and IMDB.
But I do just wanna go over one thing and post a question, because there was a big potential continuity error which is really bothering me, and I wanna make sure I didn't just miss something.
SG-1 + Jack O'Neill (yay O'Neill!) were at a Tok'ra extraction ritual, to pull the symbiote out of what they thought was the last Ba'al (although they were mistaken).
So as his failsafe plan, the real Ba'al goes back in time via the Stargate to 1939, aboard the USS Achilles. His goal? Destroy the Stargate so that no one can use it. He fails, but he does manage to sink it so that the USAF doesn't obtain it and get the SGC up and running. This begins a series of events in an alternate timeline. At this point,
Original Carter - Alive. Went back through the Stargate and ended up in the sunken Achilles on alternate Earth.
Alternate Carter - Astronaut. Dead in a space shuttle crash landing.
Original Jackson - Alive. Went back through the Stargate and ended up in the sunken Achilles on alternate Earth. Lost his leg to frostbite.
Alternate Jackson - Alive. Discredited author and archaeologist living on the fringes of society in Egypt.
Original Mitchell - Alive. Went back through the Stargate and ended up in the sunken Achilles on alternate Earth.
Alternate Mitchell - Non-existant. Ba'al killed Mitchell's grandfather aboard the Achilles, causing a grandfather paradox in which Mitchell does not exist.
Original O'Neill - Dead. Killed by a clone Ba'al at the extraction ceremony when he attempted to escape extraction.
Alternate O'Neill - Alive. USAF officer who does not believe the story that original SG-1 is trying to tell him about the original timeline and their origins.
Original Vala - Vanished. Disappeared from the extraction ceremony when the timeline was altered.
Alternate Vala - Alive. Host to Qetesh, Ba'al's queen and murderer.
Original Teal'c - Vanished. Disappeared from the extraction ceremony when the timeline was altered.
Alternate Teal'c - Alive. First prime to Ba'al.
So my question is this: Carter, Jackson, Mitchell, and O'Neill all continued to exist (or in alternate Mitchell's case, didn't) in their own ways in each of the timelines at this point. But why didn't Vala and Teal'c? Logically speaking, if there is an original and an alternate of each, then the originals should have stayed existent and not vanished (along with the Tok'ra who disappeared, and their buildings), while the alternates filled their roles as they should have. Except for Mitchell (as a result of his grandfather paradox), each one of them should've, at least briefly, existed twice simultaneously.
So why was the story written this way? It's a huge plot hole, and it's been bothering me, cause it's not the kind of detail usually left open by the team behind Stargate. So was there something I missed that explained this? Or was it simply dramatic license for good storytelling? I'm hoping it's not the latter, because I would be severely disappointed in a usually consistantly explained story.
There's only one other detail of this magnitude I've ever seen them ignore for storytelling purposes. The first is the fact that much of the universe speaks English even though they should speak some derivative of Latin or Egyptians (since it all originally came from the Ancients and Goa'uld). And that one they even attempted to explain well enough for me to put it out of my mind.
So why this one?
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Shorter URLs
The URLs on my posts are long, ugly, and nasty-assed, I know. But I didn't realise how bad it was until I saw one posted to Twitter by the auto-poster. So with that, the 'blog will automatically shorten my URLs, and then post them, which will redirect to the longer URL in a rather TinyURL-like fashion. Sorry for the ugliness before! XD
2008-07-11 21:26:26 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: blog, websiteThe URLs on my posts are long, ugly, and nasty-assed, I know. But I didn't realise how bad it was until I saw one posted to Twitter by the auto-poster. So with that, the 'blog will automatically shorten my URLs, and then post them, which will redirect to the longer URL in a rather TinyURL-like fashion. Sorry for the ugliness before! XD
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Website/blog updated.
I finally got around to do some stuff I've wanted to do for a while -- improving the blog (and some of the other underlying stuff) laying around on my website. It autoposts to Twitter and I'm not using a combination of Twitter & LiveJournal as my blog anymore (although they still do play a part in it). The RSS feeds have been fixed and there's actually a commenting ... thing now that was missing before.
I felt comments weren't necessary since my posts were being made through LJ and it was possible to comment on there but it actually proved to be more of a mess than I expected and I've gone and fixed it up a bit using what I'm going to be calling ColaBlog -- which is a multi-author blogging backend I wrote for GameCola -- and what I think I'm going to call ColaComments -- which, in addition to being poorly named -- is an ancient commenting system I wrote for GameCola that I've started overhauling (unintentionally -- it happened when I tried to integrate it into this site) to bring it to more modern days. It was written so long ago I look at the code and cringe. Because of limitations of GameCola's hosting provider (back then) it was originally written so that the PHP and MySQL stuff was hosted by me, and then everything was done using cross-site javascript (can anyone say document.write(); ?) to insert the comments and forms into their pages. Everything interactive on GameCola is pretty much done that way -- article ratings, comments, hit counters, everything. It's all done using PHP-generated-JavaScript cross-sitely. I know it sounds terrible, but I've found one HUGE advantage to it -- if the comments, and the comment form are NOT in the HTML when the page loads, and are rather written in by JS after the fact, spambots don't seem to realise they're there. As of yet, GameCola has yet to see any comment spam, and I have not had to implement any kind of captcha or other spam-challenger than that. The forums have been targeted with spam before, the comments haven't seen anything yet.
Anyway, so now that I've fixed up the backend stuff in my site a bit, and restyled the front-end a little, I'm going to have to take some time to update the content on some of the pages. That's next.
2008-07-11 20:56:00 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: blog, website, code, gamecola, spamI finally got around to do some stuff I've wanted to do for a while -- improving the blog (and some of the other underlying stuff) laying around on my website. It autoposts to Twitter and I'm not using a combination of Twitter & LiveJournal as my blog anymore (although they still do play a part in it). The RSS feeds have been fixed and there's actually a commenting ... thing now that was missing before.
I felt comments weren't necessary since my posts were being made through LJ and it was possible to comment on there but it actually proved to be more of a mess than I expected and I've gone and fixed it up a bit using what I'm going to be calling ColaBlog -- which is a multi-author blogging backend I wrote for GameCola -- and what I think I'm going to call ColaComments -- which, in addition to being poorly named -- is an ancient commenting system I wrote for GameCola that I've started overhauling (unintentionally -- it happened when I tried to integrate it into this site) to bring it to more modern days. It was written so long ago I look at the code and cringe. Because of limitations of GameCola's hosting provider (back then) it was originally written so that the PHP and MySQL stuff was hosted by me, and then everything was done using cross-site javascript (can anyone say document.write(); ?) to insert the comments and forms into their pages. Everything interactive on GameCola is pretty much done that way -- article ratings, comments, hit counters, everything. It's all done using PHP-generated-JavaScript cross-sitely. I know it sounds terrible, but I've found one HUGE advantage to it -- if the comments, and the comment form are NOT in the HTML when the page loads, and are rather written in by JS after the fact, spambots don't seem to realise they're there. As of yet, GameCola has yet to see any comment spam, and I have not had to implement any kind of captcha or other spam-challenger than that. The forums have been targeted with spam before, the comments haven't seen anything yet.
Anyway, so now that I've fixed up the backend stuff in my site a bit, and restyled the front-end a little, I'm going to have to take some time to update the content on some of the pages. That's next.
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New blog test post.
This is the obligatory first post on the new blogging system I'm implementing for Kevinsnet.com.
2008-07-10 13:24:08 via »Kevinsnet.com
Tags: website, blog, codeThis is the obligatory first post on the new blogging system I'm implementing for Kevinsnet.com.
I figure if I went through all the trouble of writing a blog for GameCola I should at least use it myself, so I'm cobbling together the old LJ-system I've put together plus this thing to try and make something usable, might integrate with Twitter somehow (although for now I've removed my Twitter feed from the normal blog feed) -- Wish me luck for all this, I'm gonna need it.
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