warehouse - Segagaga (Sega - Dreamcast - 2001)
There is no fan translation patch for Segagaga, but you don’t have to know Japanese to play the game. I don’t know any at all, and I was able to get through the first area pretty easily just using this FAQ. GameFAQs actually has a bunch of stuff for it here.
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Casual holiday reminder that the Weasley twins once bewitched snowballs to repeatedly hit Voldemort in the face.
Kobe Bryant can't stop attending business classes. Which isn't how going to business school works, but whatever.
Remember when an injured Kobe Bryant dropped in for a class at Boston College when the Lakers were in Boston?
So Kobe Bryant stopped by my brother's International Marketing class at BC tonight... pic.twitter.com/pI9wJ569ZA
— Nick Ironside (@nironside) January 17, 2014
Well, the Lower Merion High School graduate's thirst for learning is apparently unquenched. With the Lakers taking on the Heat tomorrow night, he dropped by the University of Miami.
Thanks @kobebryant for dropping by @umiamibusiness & Prof. Weinstock's class. The students loved it. pic.twitter.com/yzGG7Ug9FZ
— Gene Anderson (@UM_businessdean) January 22, 2014
a) KOBE, THIS ISN'T HOW COLLEGE WORKS. You can't just go to one class, wait a week, and then go to an entirely different class and expect to learn anything about anything. Although, on second thought, that sounds kinda like how I handled my courseload in school.
b) We have no idea where Kobe would've went if he had chosen to attend a college, but apparently, it would've been in the ACC.
c) Is he just going to do this in every city? The Lakers are in Orlando Friday -- should UCF students be on the lookout?
d) Kobe wasn't just there for school:
Kobe throwing up the U pic.twitter.com/L79ui8NM4a
— Slade (@SladesTweets) January 23, 2014
Yes, Kobe, LeBron and Dwyane Wade are at Wednesday's Miami-Duke game. Last year, that was an upset waiting
Domain Name Wire reports that the WebLock program will be opt-in rather than opt-out. The report also notes that the email was sent to 49 customers.
I got a phone call from Network Solutions, where they acknowledged that the wording of the email wasn’t good. They’ve had meetings about the wording of that email, the caller said.
I said that I didn’t want the feature. So the person who called me had a quick script to go through where I had to acknowledge that I understood what I was declining. The phone call took about two minutes in all.
I’ll be transferring my domain names. Probably to Hover.
Over the past 24 hours I’ve had lots of registrars recommended to me. The upshot seems to be this: they’re all good except for GoDaddy. People recommend Namecheap, PairNIC, Gandi.net, Dreamhost, and Dynadot.
Which doesn’t give me a clear answer — until I take into account Hover’s long-time support of the podcast community. (I’m a listener and a podcaster. No, they haven’t advertised with me, and I haven’t asked them to.)
People have asked me a few questions (or had misconceptions):
Do I host my sites at Network Solutions?
No. They’re at DreamHost. (I’ve been there for about 10 years and they’ve been great. This site is fast. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that it’s a statically-rendered site.)
The name servers are also at DreamHost.
Which domains were involved?
ranchero.com and inessential.com (this blog). The email didn’t specify which domain would be getting the WebLock program. It could be both. I don’t know.
What kind of traffic do I have that would get me noticed by Network Solutions?
Domain Name Wire reported yesterday that this service was going to “approximately 1 percent of Web.com’s customers.”
I have no idea how Network Solutions would know how much traffic I get.
My stats app Analog tells me that inessential.com had 2,270,357 requests for pages in December 2013, which was a typical month. I don’t know if this counts RSS feed requests. Presumably it doesn’t count images and style sheets and similar.
(I’m sure I sound terribly old-school by now: Network Solutions, DreamHost, and Analog. But that’s just because I haven’t felt a need to make changes. Until now.)
Was I unaware that Network Solutions indulged in less-than-stellar practices?
I was not unaware. I stopped registering new domains there in 1999. But I hadn’t felt it necessary to transfer my domains. (Not least because my time is best-spent writing code.)
So what happens when something so obviously inflammatory is posted?
My initial tweet was retweeted 293 times and favorited 47 times.
My blog post had the top spot on Hacker News for hours yesterday. It also appeared on Slashdot and on Reddit’s Technology page.
This blog got 2.8 times its normal traffic. (I don’t have ads. And I’d way rather people came here to read about something cool or something I made.)
I spent some time reading comments. My favorite — because I’m a software developer — was this one: “I was really pleased with the instantaneous load of this blog.”
Sometimes, Andrea Bargnani tries to take flight. It does not work often.
Andrea Bargnani's tenure with the Knicks, has... well... well... let's just put this here:
It's January 22 RT @HerringWSJ: Woodson: "We're trying to find ways to work with Bargnani, and he's gotta find ways to work with us."
— Seth Rosenthal (@seth_rosenthal) January 22, 2014
Tonight, against the Sixers, he's actually doing his part: 18 points on just 11 shots through three quarters, plus four blocks. However, he earned his way onto the lowlights with one play.
Bargnani got the ball outside the three-point arc and wisely opted not to take the shot -- he's 1-for-5 on the night, 28.2 percent on the year. Next, he tried to go for the poster dunk on Thaddeus Young, but didn't really possess the momentum or strength to keep going. Instead
The announcers were worried he seriously hurt himself. (He'd later go to the locker room, but was deemed uninjured.) To add insult to potential injury, the ball came back off the stanchion to hit him.
This is actually the second AIR BARGS moment we've witnessed this year:
This is pretty spectacular:
The new logo for Andrea Bargnani’s brand. pic.twitter.com/MisRABplnA
— Andrew A. McNeill (@drew_48moh) January 23, 2014
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You've almost certainly never seen the place where I grew up, and you never will because it's long gone, buried by progress and made unreachable by technological erosion and the fine grind of time. What I did and learned there shaped me, but that knowledge is archaic and useless—who today needs to know the Hayes AT command set, the true baud rates of most common connection speeds, or the inner secrets of TheDraw? I am a wizard whose time has passed—a brilliant steam engine mechanic standing agape in the engine room of the starship Enterprise.
I am a child of the BBS era. BBSs—that's "Bulletin Board Systems"—were sort of the precursors to the modern Internet, though that's not quite accurate, since the Internet evolved separately and in parallel. It would be more accurate to say that many people in their 30s and older today were introduced to the world of the Internet either through or because of the interlinked telephone universe of BBSs. That one experience begat the other.
BBSs existed in a world that had yet to be soiled by smartphones and Facebook and Instagram; there was no Google, and indeed no World Wide Web at all. Up until 1992, the Internet was a thing primarily of text, and BBSs in many ways mimicked that. To get "online" was to sit down at your computer, open up an application called a "terminal program" (or just "term program" for short), pull up your carefully hoarded list of BBS phone numbers, and start dialing. Inevitably, most would be busy and you'd have to wait, but eventually you'd be treated to the sweet sound of ringing through your modem's speaker, followed by the electronic beeping and scratching of a modem handshake.
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Asheville, North Carolina illustrator and graphic designer Ian Leino has created “Argyle Fighters,” a classy Star Wars shirt design that features a TIE fighter argyle pattern. Long-sleeve and short-sleeve shirts are available to purchase from his online shop.
For the sophisticated science fiction aficionado, this dapper design builds a subtle and charming argyle pattern from the wings of the Empire’s classic fighters. Perfect for anytime you want to show off your geek credentials in a more understated way. Looks great on its own, or class it up even further with a jacket or blazer, and those scruffy-looking nerfherders won’t know what hit them.
images via Ian Leino
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firehose'In the test of the Honda Fit, for example, the steering column pushed so far into the vehicle that the dummy's head slid off the air bag and hit the instrument panel. IIHS said the Fit was one of the worst performers in terms of potential injuries to the driver.
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The current Fit does get top scores in the institute's other four tests, including measurements of roof strength and side impact protection.'
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During his appearance on Fox News’ The Kelly File, Glenn Beck reflected on his hugely successful heyday at the network, telling Megyn Kelly that he regretted his on-air behavior.
“I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes, and I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language,” Beck said. “I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart.”
“I didn’t realize how really fragile the people were. I thought we were kind of more in it together.”
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While NBC has been adrift of late—spending most of its time hanging out with old friends like Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes and Cockroach, even though it knows they’re just holding them back—it might now be getting some help from its older, wiser, more culturally sustainable father figure. Deadline reports that the network has made a deal to develop a new family sitcom starring Bill Cosby, one that would return the comedian to the network he helped build, and the network to the belief that it’s still the 1980s and everything is fine. It’s so warm down here, like a festively colored sweater.
It was reported back in November that Cosby had reteamed with his Cosby Show producer Tom Werner for another series where Cosby would play the patriarch to a loving family, dispensing wisdom, jazz, and unhealthy sandwiches to a large, multigenerational brood. ...
“Eat, drink, and Bill Murray!”
“Lost in Illustration” is a t-shirt design by artist Andrew Gregory (a.k.a. “lunchboxbrain“) featuring a clever play on words and the iconic Bill Murray. T-shirts and aprons are available to purchase online from Shirt.Woot.
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KitTea is an upcoming San Francisco cat cafe founded by cat enthusiasts Courtney Hatt and David Braginsky with the goal of being “part ‘gourmet tea house’ and part ‘cat and human oasis.’” According to the website, they hope to open KitTea in Spring 2014.
Patrons will partake of all the enjoyment and therapy that cats provide, while enjoying healthy blends of exotic teas that are ecologically sourced from around the world. Our cats will enjoy a high-quality, elegant home constructed expressly for their pleasure.
image via KitTea
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firehose'mathematically, McKinlay’s compatibility with women in Los Angeles was abysmal. OkCupid’s algorithms use only the questions that both potential matches decide to answer, and the match questions McKinlay had chosen—more or less at random—had proven unpopular. When he scrolled through his matches, fewer than 100 women would appear above the 90 percent compatibility mark. And that was in a city containing some 2 million women (approximately 80,000 of them on OkCupid). On a site where compatibility equals visibility, he was practically a ghost.
He realized he’d have to boost that number. If, through statistical sampling, McKinlay could ascertain which questions mattered to the kind of women he liked, he could construct a new profile that honestly answered those questions and ignored the rest. He could match every woman in LA who might be right for him, and none that weren’t.
McKinlay used Python scripts to riffle through hundreds of OkCupid survey questions. He then sorted female daters into seven clusters, like “Diverse” and “Mindful,” each with distinct characteristics.'
'he set up 12 fake OkCupid accounts and wrote a Python script to manage them. The script would search his target demographic (heterosexual and bisexual women between the ages of 25 and 45), visit their pages, and scrape their profiles for every scrap of available information: ethnicity, height, smoker or nonsmoker, astrological sign—“all that crap,” he says.
To find the survey answers, he had to do a bit of extra sleuthing. OkCupid lets users see the responses of others, but only to questions they’ve answered themselves. McKinlay set up his bots to simply answer each question randomly—he wasn’t using the dummy profiles to attract any of the women, so the answers didn’t matter—then scooped the women’s answers into a database.
McKinlay watched with satisfaction as his bots purred along. Then, after about a thousand profiles were collected, he hit his first roadblock. OkCupid has a system in place to prevent exactly this kind of data harvesting: It can spot rapid-fire use easily. One by one, his bots started getting banned.
He would have to train them to act human.
He turned to his friend Sam Torrisi, a neuroscientist who’d recently taught McKinlay music theory in exchange for advanced math lessons. Torrisi was also on OkCupid, and he agreed to install spyware on his computer to monitor his use of the site. With the data in hand, McKinlay programmed his bots to simulate Torrisi’s click-rates and typing speed. He brought in a second computer from home and plugged it into the math department’s broadband line so it could run uninterrupted 24 hours a day.
After three weeks he’d harvested 6 million questions and answers from 20,000 women all over the country. McKinlay’s dissertation was relegated to a side project as he dove into the data. He was already sleeping in his cubicle most nights. Now he gave up his apartment entirely and moved into the dingy beige cell, laying a thin mattress across his desk when it was time to sleep.'
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'By date 20, he noticed latent variables emerging. In the younger cluster, the women invariably had two or more tattoos and lived on the east side of Los Angeles. In the other, a disproportionate number owned midsize dogs that they adored.
His earliest dates were carefully planned. But as he worked feverishly through his queue, he resorted to casual afternoon meetups over lunch or coffee, often stacking two dates in a day. He developed a set of personal rules to get through his marathon love search. No more drinking, for one. End the date when it’s over, don’t let it trail off. And no concerts or movies. “Nothing where your attention is directed at a third object instead of each other,” he says. “It’s inefficient.”
After a month of dating equally from both of his profiles, he decided he was spending too much time on the freeway reaching east-side women from the tattoo cluster. He deleted his A-group profile. His efficiency improved, but the results were the same. As summer drew to a close, he’d been on more than 55 dates, each one dutifully logged in a lab notebook. Only three had led to second dates; only one had led to a third.
Most unsuccessful daters confront self-esteem issues. For McKinlay it was worse. He had to question his calculations.'
... 33 more dates later ...
' “It’s not like, we matched and therefore we have a great relationship,” McKinlay agrees. “It was just a mechanism to put us in the same room. I was able to use OkCupid to find someone.”
She bristles at that. “You didn’t find me. I found you,” she says, touching his elbow. McKinlay pauses to think, then admits she’s right.
A week later Tien Wang is back in Qatar, and the couple is on one of their daily Skype calls when McKinlay pulls out a diamond ring and holds it up to the webcam. She says yes.
They’re not entirely sure when they’ll get married. There’s research to be done to determine the optimal wedding day.'
TL;DR: BEEP BOOP HUMANITY IS FUCKED
firehose'So let me get this straight: the Shamrock keeper is supposed to unleash hell, which he is wearing on the back of his shirt, so the message is being delivered to the goal. The goal is supposed to unleash hell.
THAT IS NOT WHAT A GOALKEEPER WANTS.'
Only bad things happen when you try.
Let me introduce you to Warrior Sports. They are a lacrosse, ice hockey and soccer equipment and apparel, but they are new to soccer so when they got the Liverpool kit contract in 2012, it was considered a major breakthrough for the Detroit-based company.
The good thing for them is Liverpool is a pretty easy team to outfit. A red shirt at home and they're halfway to a good set of kits.
But they ran into a fairly major problem: they tried.
The lesson is, never try.
Unfortunately for them, and us, they did not learn their lesson. They have continued to try and they tried really hard with Shamrock Rovers' new goalkeeper kit.
So let me get this straight: the Shamrock keeper is supposed to unleash hell, which he is wearing on the back of his shirt, so the message is being delivered to the goal. The goal is supposed to unleash hell.
THAT IS NOT WHAT A GOALKEEPER WANTS.
Stop trying, Warrior. Please, stop trying.
(Liverpool photo credit: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
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'Official Debian developers can contact Collabora with a signed email that's part of the Debian key-ring to gain access to all of Valve's games for free on Steam. Debian developers wishing to learn more about their free game offer can read the announcement on the debian-devel-announce list.'
dude
if Valve is just holding HL3 as a carrot for Debian developers
we're all _fucked_
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firehoseif it isn't immediately obvious, this is from the Adventure Time production guide
