Heh, I just finally picked up a copy of Bioshock -- so the scene where Andrew Ryan rants about the difference between being a man and a slave (before the protagonist shoves a golf club through his head) just came to mind.

I wonder if part of TFauthor's self-realization didn't come when he started playing the new Action RPG genre and found that he wasn't enjoying it as much. I mean, WTF right, he loved Fallout 2 but couldn't get past the Mirelurks in Fallout 3!

As for this pap about being either performance or mastery based... I don't like putting people into boxes like that. Hell, I have spent fifteen years mastering the guitar so that I can perform for a living. So fuck that shit.

Poor guy must be conservative Christian. Good luck, indeed.

Yeah, that sounds right. The Mythbusters shot an iPod in one of their "What is Bulletproof?" eps and that's what it looked like. I googled around but couldn't find the video or any images online so I guess one will have to take my word for it or buy the DVD.

Somebody shit in your cheerios today? Was is Brangelina? Or maybe Speidi? Though, I guess if we're going to be executing people for using stupid nicknames, it should be someone calling themselves 'rantingkitten' setting the policy.

Uhmm... Olbermann has compared the Democratic Party to Homer Simpson. He is hardly a water-carrier for the party. Not to mention the time that Obama made the "Worst Person in the World" list.

I have found that his vitriol is reserved for those who are callously indifferent to human life and liberty, and for hypocrites -- regardless of which end of the political spectrum (which, IMO, is basically useless) they occupy. Obviously his show has a point of view, but having watched him for a few years now I believe him to be remarkably fair-minded. I just wish he would lay off the lame impersonations.

I am a "far left" liberal", whatever that means, and I watch Olbermann everyday. He is not a far-left liberal, there are none to be found in the mainstream media. Not even Rachel Maddow is in that category.

Here is how I know: no one in the MSM stood up and said that single-payer should have been the starting point for HCR negotiations, no one in the MSM calls for an end to Prohibition (the War on some Drugs). The only thing I can think of which might qualify is the fact that KO often calls for investigations into government lawbreaking, which reads to me more as a profound respect for the Rule of Law than any personal political beliefs.

Thanks for the idea! I'll give it a shot when I have time to flash both routers without bugging anybody.

Hmm, I'm having a hard time finding the forum thread which discusses it. All I know is that it has been stable since I switched to TKIP only. I'm running v24sp1.

DD-WRT is sweet, I've been using it for a couple of years now. The best feature for me is WDS (a distributed wireless network, I use it to wirelessly bridge my house and recording studio about 75m away). Unfortunately, I found a barely-documented bug which prevents WDS from operating with WPA2-PSK/AES encryption. It tends to lose the connection and not regain it until you stand on one foot and unplug both routers while whistling "God Save the Queen". Apparently the answer is to use TKIP, so now I'm using WPA2-PSK/TKIP. I'm thinking I'll move to RADIUS eventually, once I buy a Snow Leopard Server license ;)

Really? So it adds 64-bit support (yay >8gb RAM!) and a completely rewritten file manager? It seems like we Mac users got a whole lot more for our $30 than you poor windows users did for 4x the cost.

I've heard the term used before in this context by my local newspaper, but it's stealing from the audio engineering business. Phantom Power has been available in microphone preamps to power condenser (really capacitor, but we still call 'em condensers) mics for 45 years.

hmm... I'm thinking it will be really hard to get the buses to be struck by lightning every time they need to be recharged. Cause how else are you going to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity you need?

How are you planning to generate 1.21 gigawatts in outer space?! I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.