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Fire Storm> <<my co-worker for getting married yesterday>>: So it's his matrimonal fault. You must take vengance, involving mass quantities of rice.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Monday, August 30, 2004 12:13:09 AM
IP: 69.141.212.54

Had to post an apology in Ask Greg instead of a con diary.

Saturday through Monday was eaten by a disk error. There's no way I can rewrite all that by Tuesday night with all the crap that's going on.

I ejected the stupid USB device properly from the machine, too. But the text files have been replaced by gibberish.

Going to bed before I take a sledgehammer to the storage device now. I'm sorry, all. :(
Mandolin - [http://weirdweb.net]
Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:50:59 PM
IP: 68.55.87.89

Patrick: Yeah, but I still think it's unreasonable for it to take that long, but what can I do? I forgot that a base Win2K install on my old laptop takes 12 hours from CD boot to the point where you see the first start menu, and that's without a format/convert to NTFS. Approaching hour 8 and I am hoping it will finish the "Please wait while Setup copies files to your hard disk" before 4pm. (At 80% at this point. Doesn't look good.)

/bitching
Fire Storm
Sunday, August 29, 2004 02:58:41 PM
IP: 65.114.91.3

<<SO... why does it take two hours to transfer 200 MB from the CD to the HD?>>

Because you're looking at stats that are maximum device ratings, which don't take into account the CPU processing time between the two drives or the limitations imposed by the software. Just because you have a Camaro with an engine rated for 500 horsepower and a maximum speed of 160 mph, it doesn't mean those are going to achieve that every time you step on the gas. Whether it's a gas engine or a disk drive, the optimal range for continous operation of any device with moving parts is going to be significantly below the maximum attainable values.

100 days left until the Gargoyles DVD is released on December 7, 2004!

3 days left to get your Gathering Diaries posted to Ask Greg!
Patrick
Sunday, August 29, 2004 02:51:44 PM
IP: 68.170.199.45

Operator Error....

or mor specifically: Windows
Damien
Sunday, August 29, 2004 12:00:59 PM
IP: 205.250.224.113

Ok, here's a computer question:

24x CD-ROM. Means that at it's fastest, it can read 1 whole CD-ROM in 1/24th of an hour, which equals about 260 MB a minute.
4GB HD, rated to transfer 10-20 MB/second, or about 1-2 GB (1 GB = 1024 MB) a minute.

SO... why does it take two hours to transfer 200 MB from the CD to the HD?
Fire Storm
Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:31:20 AM
IP: 65.114.91.3

Gside: <I blame the coffee>
NO! Coffee is liquid life! The Bean is master!
I blame my boss for scheduling me two mornings in a row and my co-worker for getting married yesterday so I couldn't switch days with him.
Fire Storm
Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:37:39 AM
IP: 65.114.91.3

Lynati> <<of course, I did sleep until 8pm>>: I never made it quite that far.

Fire Storm> <<Morning, no sleep, no food and too much coffee>>: I blame the coffee.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Sunday, August 29, 2004 01:04:59 AM
IP: 69.141.212.54

...Just thought I'd say that if anyone here enjoys rock music - do yourself a favor and catch Black Sabbath on Ozzfest. They just dethroned Symphony X (who happens to be my favorite) as the best band I've seen live. No, they're not the best musicians, or anything like that, but something about it was amazing. Maybe it was the pitch black sky, thunder and lightning during their set, but there's some kinda presence there.

...Yes, I know no one cares, but I had to declare it to the world. And if you happen to see Phil Anselmo, kill him for leaving stage early, screwing up the schedule, and making me miss the main band I went for.
Tharos
Saturday, August 28, 2004 11:57:05 PM
IP: 165.190.89.139

I swear... I am this halucinating to close.

Morning, no sleep, no food and too much coffee...

And reading conspiracy theory stuff. Not good. Screwed up. Need car. go home. sleep.
Fire Storm
Saturday, August 28, 2004 03:51:17 PM
IP: 65.114.91.3

101 days left until the Gargoyles DVD is released on December 7, 2004!

4 days left to get your Gathering Diaries posted to Ask Greg!
Patrick
Saturday, August 28, 2004 07:39:32 AM
IP: 68.170.199.45

Gside: I'll second that.

..of course, I did sleep until 8pm...
Lynati
Saturday, August 28, 2004 03:24:17 AM
IP: 4.139.18.134

Man, this was a slow day.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Saturday, August 28, 2004 12:07:33 AM
IP: 69.141.212.54

Okay, this is just messsed up.

*click my name*

[sigh]
Leo - [<- Look at the neat "toy swing set"]
Friday, August 27, 2004 10:41:37 PM
IP: 68.231.241.236

And here I am again, without anything to say. Be back tomorrow.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:31:12 PM
IP: 69.141.212.54

Definetly not dead, why I'm writing one of the episodes as we speak... it'll be a while before you see it, because it is really late in the season line-up. But I think you'll all like it.
Greg Bishansky
Thursday, August 26, 2004 04:10:25 AM
IP: 162.84.164.187

Gantros> <<Has TGS been abandoned? The latest stories were late 2002. Or has the entire TGS crew been hit with writer's block?>>

Worse. Many of them have come down with the dreaded Real Life disease. But rest assured, TGS has not been abandoned, and is being worked on, albeit slowly, even as you read this.

It's not dead... It feels happy...

Aaron
Thursday, August 26, 2004 02:22:18 AM
IP: 172.129.160.160

Has TGS been abandoned? The latest stories were late 2002. Or has the entire TGS crew been hit with writer's block?
Gantros
Thursday, August 26, 2004 01:28:51 AM
IP: 24.20.243.55

Def> So? No big deal. But if you're looking for that sort of thing, there's a certain frame of Demona in the City of Stone four-parter ;)
Greg Bishansky
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:56:32 PM
IP: 162.84.164.187

DPH> <<Why can't we rename this place an assylum?>>: This place is a comment room, assylum would just be an extra name.
<<which is better - fully alert and slightly late to a meeting or extremely sleepy and early?>>: Fully awake and early.
<<You would get points for accuracy in htting the target and points for gliding ability>>: Do you get points for spinning ability during the hammer throw?

Def> <<sorry if this post upsets anyone>>: We've seen much worse in here. We might even be able to get away with discussing the merits of La Blue Girl without upsetting anyone.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:07:50 PM
IP: 69.141.212.54

Patrick - CHeck again, it's just the legs that are showing.
DPH
AR, USA
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 06:12:13 PM
IP: 67.14.195.34

hey yall ...
i know i changed my email so sue me.

sorry i havent had the time to come in here lately. college and all takes all my free time especilly when i dont have it to begin with.. lol

gargoyles in the olimpics.. that would be rather interesting i would think that they would have to reset a lot of the rules that are currently used in traditional olimpics. just for their size and speed alone. .. i know i know no one wants to hear my thoughts on this matter but here they are anyway... to bad

the dvd is dec 7.. i thought it was dec 10.. wow a whole 2 days sooner .. :):):).cant wait .. ive tried to tape it but my cable is so bad i cant even watch it :( . oh well you live and learn.

well i guess taht is all i needed to say .. guess ill come back in here when i get a free moment .. like today im sitting in class.. *ducks from teacher*..

later yall
*writes name in desk with claw*.. tehehe
Brute...aka... brutis - [night_crawler_001@hotmail.com]
hammond, la, usa
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 09:32:27 AM
IP: 206.218.147.2

Hmm... in that case, I'm going to have to watch my tape of "Leader of the Pack" again, to find out what color panties Fox wears. :P

Gargoyles in the Olympics... well, they could pretty much blow the human competition away in events like weightlifting and wrestling. Though there would be much amusement when Broadway shows up for his first wrestling event wearing a cape, face paint, and spandex tights. "I guess we shouldn't believe everything we see on the television," team coach Hudson will say.

104 days left until the Gargoyles DVD is released on December 7, 2004!

7 days left to get your Gathering Diaries posted to Ask Greg!
Patrick - [<-- please post Gathering Diaries to Ask Greg]
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 06:53:23 AM
IP: 68.170.199.45

Hey all. I used to love this show and I watch it on Toon Disney now in my spare time. I just caught this today and was wondering if anyone else had...

****WARNING****Potentially Offensive Material*****

This adds to Disney's bad reputation for sneaky offensive material...

In the Episode: "Leader of the Pack"
After Fox is granted Parole at the end and she gets into Xanatos's limo they kiss. But during that whole time the animators clearly draw an "upskirt" (... you know what I mean ...). It's not just a single frame thing either, the *ahem* "pose" is visible for several seconds. Usually such things are "shadowed out" or have an angle adjustment but not this time ... Think it was a mistake?

****END WARNING****

There's not too many web-boards out there for gargoyles, so sorry if this post upsets anyone. I just wanted to know if anyone else caught this.
Def51 - [llew51@yahoo.com]
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 03:32:55 AM
IP: 24.107.11.244

Spike> LOL! You gave me my first Expedia moment.

I see a Quarrymen lifting his hammer charging it up, preparing for the throw. Then Broadway swoops down grabs him by an arm and a leg, swings him around three times and hurls him down the pitch. The quarryman lands head first with a cartoony twang as his feet wobble in the air. Broadway receives an ovation from the crowd.

Keep them coming people.
Taleweaver
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 01:45:00 AM
IP: 209.179.168.51

Ok, everybody who is sane, please raise both hands to be acknowledged. **several hands get raised and promptly cr
police quickly remove those people who are sane.**

I had this feeling the cr has been going too sane lately. Here's somethings to restore the inequality of insanity to this area. [P.S. Why can't we rename this place an assylum?]

This guy went to work for a large software company. He was told told that bugs in the software that reached the market weren't optional . . . they are mandatory.

Also, another guy went to work for a factory that produced durable goods. He was told that making products that lasted beyond the warranty wasn't an option . . products had to fail/break just days after their warranty expired.

Ok, let's apply the lack of common sense here. I'm trying o search Walmart's website to look for info on the kitchen scales they sell - I have physically seen them in the store - and I wanted more product info - like how much weight will cause the kitchen scales to break. As far as the website is concerned, apparantly Walmart doesn't sell stand-alone kitchen scales.

Let's test your knowledge - which is better - fully alert and slightly late to a meeting or extremely sleepy and early?

THe moron is back at his stupid games again. He can't see the logic fallacy behind his actions. If I fall asleep for an hour, what's the odds that I'm not 100% awake and probably not a good worker?

While I was at Walmart's website, I stumbled across their dvd rental section. Cowbody Bebop Session 6 (the one I haven't seen besides the Movie - which I have an overdue rent on and keep putting off watching) has a "Very Long Wait" for availability. Maybe that's why I can never seem to find that session in my local Hastings. Within minutes/hours of showing up, somebody who has been waiting to watch it, snaps it. Still, that's no excuse. If it's that popular, . . make more copies available to rent.

Gside - <No way you'd be able to program artistic scoring for gymnastics, figure skating, and the like.> But you could hand over point deductions to a computer. <bombing run> Hmm. Very, very interesting. You would get points for accuracy in htting the target and points for gliding ability.

*yawns* I'm sleepy.
DPH
AR, USA
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 01:17:31 AM
IP: 67.14.195.11

Tharos> <<If I can just keep up with this luck for four more years, I'm freakin' SET>>: It'll only really happen during the first week, also known as "get all your syllabi and do nothing else" week.

DPH> <<why not just hand the judging of Gymnastics over to computers?>>: No way you'd be able to program artistic scoring for gymnastics, figure skating, and the like.
<<What's the point of having a customer service hotline if you can't reach a living being?>>: So you can say you have one, and not have to pay any people to answer phones.

Taleweaver> <<Gargoyle inspired events or existing events with gargoyle participants?>>: Oh, the standard: long glide, high glide, air slalom, bombing run, maybe a rock climb without obvious handholds.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:46:38 PM
IP: 69.141.212.54

Ski jumping. Hockey. Gliding biathlon. Freestyle skiing/snowboarding. (With wings, they'd be flippin' amazing).

Oh wait, we're talking Summer olympics. I thought we were talking the REAL Olympic Games, the ones with snow and ice. :-)

Torino 2006, and then Vancouver/Whistler 2010!! (And those footnotes in Athens and Beijing, too, I guess ;-)


Whitbourne
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 05:01:13 PM
IP: 142.177.155.126

Three words: Quarryman hammer throw. *L*
Spike
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 01:45:39 PM
IP: 209.30.65.151

Taleweaver - Hang-gliding - if it's not a current event. Humans could use hang-gliders, gargoyles use their wings. *imagines the coach for such an event trying to tell gargoyles how to glide properly, especially Goliath or Demona* hehe. That actually might make a fun fan-fic. Gargoyles from all around the world organize their own version of the Olympics. Has anyone ever done a top 10 involving Gargoyles and the Olympics?
DPH
AR, USA
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:56:38 PM
IP: 161.31.67.146

Hello all,

I think this was brought up in '96 during the Atlanta Olypmics, but I thought it'd be worth revisting now with these Olympics. Gargoyle inspired events or existing events with gargoyle participants? any you'd care to see or just tickles your imaginations?
Taleweaver
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:18:47 AM
IP: 209.179.168.35

Patrick- and all the athletes competed nude.
Revel
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:31:06 AM
IP: 68.119.237.207

DPH - Automation is indeed a pain - though occasionally I'd rather have it over the living humans. Such as where telemarketers are concerned. If I get an automated telemarketing call, I can immediately hang up. If it's a live person calling, I have to repeatedly protest to him or her over and over again that I don't want to buy the product that he or she is selling, while the aforesaid live person refuses to take no for an answer. Which can be very frustrating.
Todd Jensen
St. Louis, MO
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 07:30:19 AM
IP: 4.244.12.21

DPH > If it makes you feel any better, the Russians think the judging is fixed, too, to favor the Americans.

Did you know that in the Ancient Greek Olympics, the only prize the winning athlete received was a laural wreath? There were no medals, and no second or third places, either.

105 days left until the Gargoyles DVD is released on December 7, 2004!

8 days left to get your Gathering Diaries posted to Ask Greg!
Patrick - [<-- Greg says please post Gathering Diaries here]
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 06:57:00 AM
IP: 68.170.199.45

*takes advantage of Lain's absence*

Ok, why did the Canadian judge and the Malyasian (right country, right spelling?) have to revise the score they gave a US Olympian by giving him such a low initial score?

Ok, why not just hand the judging of Gymnastics over to computers? Seriously. They could record each athlete's performance precisely and be programmed to award points appropriately and deduct points appropriately.

BTW, isn't Gymnastics the sport where the judges are complained the most about? If not, which sport at the Olympics do the judges get complained the most about?

**Kids WB Spoilers**

Ok, who didn't see the obvious Ghostbusters rip-off during one of their cartoons? Why do I keep the feeling that last Saturday's episode, more than anything, sets the stage for the upcoming season finale of Megaman:NT Warrior? Ok, what's the difference between what the scientist achieved and interactive computer holograms or worse yet, a holodeck?

YuGi - I can understand the need for finding a visual way of saying the skill level of the opponents is gone up, but this is starting to turn into DBZ with cards. Heck, I'd almost go so far as to compare Kiba to . . Vegeta; thankfully, Yugi (or Yami) isn't comparable to Goku.
**End Kids WB Spoilers**

**INCOMING RANT**
Ok, this is going too far with automation. Way too far. Too what I am referring? My electric company's customer service numbers. It's virtually impossible to speak to a **living being**. Yep. I paid my bill through an agency on Friday (because I was running late and didn't want to wait on the mail) and the automated service kept saying that I hadn't paid it yet. When I finally lied on the options menu so I could speak to a live person, I got confrontation the bill had been paid. I'm reminded of a certain Dilbert comic strip where Dogbert was running a technical support number and he set things up so that nobody would ever think about calling back for help. What's the point of having a customer service hotline if you can't reach a living being?
**END INCOMING RANT**
DPH
AR, USA
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:16:25 AM
IP: 67.14.195.30

Gside: << local place (TIECorp) recently bought out by a larger company (Maximus). I'll be doing some HTML editing, probably some support later on, and maybe even some database design. At least I'm starting out for more than quadruple what my father started out at. And today I didn't acutally do much work, went through a bunch of training manualsthen they decided they were too busy to decide what else to have me do, so they sent me home thee hours early.>>
Killer. Sounds just like my first day. Morning piano class got moved, so I didn't have that. Didn't do much of anything in the one class I did have (Computers for Musicians - it's gonne be a breeze), and the seminar I had scheduled wasn't going on today. If I can just keep up with this luck for four more years, I'm freakin' SET!
Tharos
Monday, August 23, 2004 11:41:15 PM
IP: 165.190.89.139

Tharos> <<Where are you working and what do you do?>>: A local place (TIECorp) recently bought out by a larger company (Maximus). I'll be doing some HTML editing, probably some support later on, and maybe even some database design. At least I'm starting out for more than quadruple what my father started out at. And today I didn't acutally do much work, went through a bunch of training manualsthen they decided they were too busy to decide what else to have me do, so they sent me home thee hours early.

Na zdorov'ya.
Gside - [gside@comcast.net]
Fair Haven, NJ
Monday, August 23, 2004 09:41:59 PM
IP: 69.141.212.54

::shocked she actually made a countdown::

10th for people who never post!

::dances::
Shari/GE - [sfabe@kent.edu]
Kent, OH, USA
Monday, August 23, 2004 05:06:43 PM
IP: 67.37.59.62

9th!
Leo
Monday, August 23, 2004 05:04:12 PM
IP: 68.231.241.236

Ate!
Dezi
Monday, August 23, 2004 04:12:45 PM
IP: 68.58.158.101

Lucky 7!
Vinnie - [tpeano29@hotmail.com]
Marquette, Marquette, USA
Monday, August 23, 2004 02:30:51 PM
IP: 216.234.125.249

6th in the name of having one class on Mondays! :-)
Tharos
Monday, August 23, 2004 02:09:51 PM
IP: 165.190.89.139

5th!!
DPH
AR, USA
Monday, August 23, 2004 01:32:23 PM
IP: 67.14.195.32

*slips in behind Spacebabie* 4th!!!

*nibbles*
Revel
Monday, August 23, 2004 12:30:36 PM
IP: 68.119.237.207

Third.

Back to typing up Gathering journal.
Spacebabie
Monday, August 23, 2004 12:30:01 PM
IP: 12.78.45.228

Dos, en el nombre de Espana! :: flag ::

106 days left until the Gargoyles DVD is released on December 7, 2004!
Patrick
Monday, August 23, 2004 12:26:13 PM
IP: 66.93.14.153

First?

Unexpected room-wipe, I assume?
Guandalug la'Fay
Monday, August 23, 2004 11:26:08 AM
IP: 145.254.106.79