Merry Christmas

I'm off to visit the fam... I hope you all have the ability to spend the holidays with the ones who mean the most to you: even if those are friends like Solid Snake or Rikku, or actual family. Merry Christmas to you all, if you made a good haul this year from the fatman, feel free to share.

blar

[Anonymous Coward]

Just got home at 4:40am from a friend's house, and what do I do?? Reload slashdot of course! ;)

Merry christmas everyone, may you all be sleeping in warm beds tonight.

Re:Tis the season...

[SmasKenS]

well in sweden we did the present unwrapping yesterday. so its all over now *pheew*

It's been weird

[XoXus]

Yes, it's been weird in Australia today... stinking hot, and some bushfires got started (deliberately) today unfortunately.

Hmmm... now *that's* something I can't blame on Microsoft.

loot! w00t!

[altan]

6 t-shirts, 2 sweatshirts + caffeine cany from ThinkGeek
New PC next week!
I hope you all got something as great as i did...
merry xmas

Re:Who be da fatman?

[XoXus]

That would be Santa Claus.

Cool Christmas

[samael]

I got an Archos 6 Gig jukebox.

And DVDs of Bladerunner (Director's Cut, of course) and The Wall

Oh, and I'm hanging with my family, which is pretty damn cool (they're both geeks too!)

Re:Happy Winter Solstice!

[ichimunki]

Never mind that the pagans stole it from the astronomers in the first place! Although admittedly back in them days one didn't know a priest from an astronomer nearly so well... kind of like that Asimov "Foundation" quote (misquote?) "Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

An interesting article on the solstice [atheists.org]. And a happy longest/shortest day of the year to all! (Yes, I know I'm late by a few days, but so is this article... *grin*)

What I got for gift-giving day...

[Anonymous Coward]

What I got for gift-giving day:

1. Yet another day that my applictions for a job are unanswered / unread
2. One more day's worth of my severance pay eaten away
3. Another day I have to live through while listening to my family complain at me about not joining the military or giving them a share of my large-but-now-dwindling and much-needed severance pay
4. Another day I have to live through this nasty tonsil infection, using 350 dollar / month antibiotics (versus the ludicrously expensive costs for a tonsilectomy without medical insurance)

Hope you guys came out with an equally huge haul.

Re:Happy Winter Solstice!

[ex0teric]

actually, i do believe that's arthur c clarke. i don't think i've ever seen it attributed to asimov, anyway. wish i knew where exactly it was from, but i'm fairly certain that it's clarke.

chesh.

Re:Cool Christmas

[Raul Acevedo]

Regarding the Archos...

1. Make sure the battery is fully charged. It can give weird errors (e.g. "Hard Disk Error") when the battery is running low.
2. Get the latest firmware from Archos web site. Lots of bugs have been fixed.
3. Check out the FAQ for the Archos at Fun MP3 Players [funmp3players.com].

Have fun!

I got jack shit.

[hyehye]

A package of 12 pairs of black socks and 6 white undershirts, and my neighbor gave me a pII-400 128mb 20gb box which sounds cool except everything's integrated on the motherboard. Yay. Fuck christmas.

FYI

[mahmud]

Russians celebrate X-mas on 7th of January.

31st December is New Year's eve, which in fact is the time when people in Russia give each other presents.
X-mas is more of a religious thing there, like easter...

Re:Happy Winter Solstice!

[Idolatre]

Clarke says that quote in the Rama serie, but he
says it's from Asimov