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4/23 The must-have O'Reilly nutshell book
http://www.ora.com/catalog/evilgenius
\_ Have you showered or had sex at anytime in the last 15 years?
Have you learned to use the TAB key, yet? Acquired the smallest
shreds of a sense of humor, maybe? Keep working at it.
\_ Do the books have new stuff are they just the online stuff in
book form?
\_ the online stuff. But this is worth the $12 just to show
the genuine o'reilly title on your bookshelf :-)
\_ Worth it if you're tripping all over yourself to show people
that you're a total fucking loser geek, I guess. I'm sure it
fits nicely in that blank space on your bookshelf right
between the English-Klingon dictionary and the binder that
holds your lovlingly xeroxed SCA guide on how to make your
\_ KA'BAH! You want 'The Tragedy of Khamlet,
Son of the Emperor Qo'nos', by
Wil'yam Shax'pir.
holds your lovingly xeroxed SCA guide on how to make your
own armor.
\_ umm, user friendly is like hte definition of not funny
\_ I tried to read it a few times. It was a waste. I've
since purged my mind of the unpleasantness.
\_ it's amazing how many non-UNIX folks still manage to aquire,
and then use, soda accounts. Or maybe you just feel offended
that iliad could dare make fun of the Open/Net/FreeBSD
wars.
\_ ANY student enrolled in UC Berkeley may apply and receive
csua membership and an account on the machine at soda.csua
- paolo
\_ Paolo, read the CSUA FAQ for once in your life:
1. How do I get a soda account?
Soda accounts are ONLY for members of the CSUA. The CSUA is not an
account provider -- we are an organization for people with an
members of the ASUC may be active (voting) members, but other
eligible folks are welcome to participate in CSUA activites and
make use of our resources. We expect our members to be at least
somewhat computer literate, and to have an interest in learning
and experimenting. Because of that, and the fact that our staff
are all volunteers, we don't serve the users in the same way
someplaces like the OCF does. This doesn't mean soda is
especially unreliable or uncared for, it just means we expect
people to be better able to fend for themselves.
that iliad could dare make fun of the Open/Net/FreeBSD
wars.
interest in computers and computer science. Any U.C. Berkeley
living everyday thanking Tourvalds.
student, faculty, or staff is eligible to become a member. Only
\_ thank you for agreeing with me
\_ user friendly is about as funny as being stuck in a
room with a bunch of soft, puffy, geeks who last
showered in '93 and keep parrotting bits from monty
python and hitchhicker's guide. -aspo
\_ Dude, these are the sort of people who wrote the OS
you run, the networking protocols you indirectly
make a living off of. So they can't all be rectally
fixated biker studs like you. Go hangout with your
well-adjusted loser friends and leave the geeks alone.
\_ well for one I don't do ecommerce crap. Networking
protocols don't have anything to do with what I do
for a living. And yay. So a bunch of smelly,
need-to-die geeks have written a bunch of computer
software. Some of that software is worth using.
%99.99 percent of it is as much crap as the worthless
lives of the sad little sexless acne-scarred twits
who wrote it. -aspo
\_ What the fuck are you doing on soda, you evil
little twit?
\_ Uh, yeah, tell me more about "Illiad", uber-hacker
extraordinaire. Perhaps Illiad was an early member
of the CSRG, responsible for most of 2BSD? Or maybe
Illiad stood at the shoulder of timid young newbie
hacker Richard Stallman, making gentle suggestions
that would later form a life philosophy? Or did he
write one of those Johhny-come-lately "DUD3, L1NUX
1Z WAY K-RAD!!!1!!" 10-dimensional 76-bit-color
window managers that you wannbe-UNIX-folk are always
so fond of arguing over? Real men use twm. And
they don't read User Friendly.
\_ ED! ED! ED is the STANDARD!
\_ so geeks, wrote the OS, they have fame and they have $$$. I'm not
living everyday thanking Tourvalds, Behlendorf, and Ylonen.
\_ It's likely I was a "UNIX folk" when you were still in
grade school. I find the comic to be painfully unfunny
because it simply lacks any form of humor. It just isn't
funny and not in the Berkeley, "How many lesbians does it
take?" way.
\_ Ah. I see your problem is just that you're an old
curmugeon, who has already heard every joke in existance,
back in 1950.
Yes, there are stupid ones. But only about 1%.
\_ http://www.sluggy.com is much more amusing.
\_ sluggy is just as bad.
\_ <DEAD>www.spacemoose.com<DEAD> is much more amusing.
\_ http://www.chick.com is much more amusing.
\_ http://www.mycomix.com to choose for yourself.
\_ http://www.jerkcity.com is better than stoned gay sex.
\_ http://hotzp.com/badboys/archives/021900.html
\_ BBoCS!
\_ http://www.yomomma.com
\_ http://http://www.angryflower.com is better than flying fetuses |
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| www.ora.com/catalog/evilgenius -> www.oreilly.com/catalog/evilgenius/ From the Editors List 66 Letters 67 Beta Chapters 68 Newsletters 69 Open Books Special Sales 70 Academic 71 Corporate 72 Government Inside O'Reilly 73 About O'Reilly 74 International 75 Advertise with Us 76 Contact Us 77 Catalog Request 78 User Groups 79 Writing for O'Reilly 80 How to Order 81 Bookstores Traveling to a tech show? Hotel Search 83 Hotel Discounts 84 Discount Hotels 85 Chicago Hotels 86 Canada Hotels 87 California Hotels 88 Hotels 89 Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell 90 see larger cover 91 Errata 92 Sample Strips 93 User Friendly Web Site 94 Interview with the Gang 95 Colophon 96 Media Reviews 97 Register your book to get email notification of new editions, special offers, and more. Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell By 98 Illiad April 2000 ISBN: 1-56592-861-X This book is out of print. User Friendly reads like Dilbert for the Open Source community. It provides outsiders a light-hearted look at the world of the hard core geek and allows those who make their living dwelling in this world a chance to laugh at themselves. Full Description Related Books * 101 Even Grues Get Full (O'Reilly) * 102 The Root of All Evil (O'Reilly) * 103 User Friendly (O'Reilly) Sponsored by: 104 advertisement 105 O'Reilly Home | 106 Privacy Policy 2004, O'Reilly Media, Inc. References 1. |
| www.sluggy.com This way, I can verify that you are a Defender and add your eBay username to a list of pre-approved bidders. Only pre-approved bidders will be able to bid on the original art. So if you want to be able to bid in the auctions, just send the email and you'll be able to bid next week when the auction goes up. You can still buy your books from 36 Plan Nine as well, just like always. The benefit to having them in the store is that you can pick up a book, a plush doll, a T-shirt, or whatever, and have it all shipped in one order, for less annoying shipping cost. And yes, we have plenty of the books here in our hands, so we promise we can ship 'em to you! We also wanted to let you know that we're back in stock on some things we've been chronically short on. Mainly, the 37 plush Bun-Bun and Kiki dolls are (for a change) in stock and ready to send! I can't promise they'll stay that way (they tend to go out quickly in waves when people realize they're here), but for now, there shouldn't be a wait. Also, we finally have the 38 black "Fear the Bunny" shirts available in all sizes again -- even 5XL while they last! Finally, I wanted to thank everyone who's been helping test the 39 Custom Prints feature. We've had a lot of good suggestions that I'll add in to the second stage. We've also gotten to see what types of strips people enjoy (like the " 40 Torg Dream Fighters" Sunday, for example). Pete and I will try to put up a list of our favorites, along with the most popular purchased strips, that you can look at later on. The Sluggite Zone: The Sluggy Freelance Community 44 Sluggy Freelance E-mail, Discussion Forums, Newsgroups, Chat, Teams, search functions, and more! |
| www.chick.com We are working to supply effective literature you can use -- anywhere! See a complete list of 58 titles and languages available, and view many of them online. Most recent non-English titles posted online: 59 Polish "The Empty Tomb" 3/17/04 60 Chinese "Man in Black" 3/17/04 61 Danish "Charlie's Ants" 2/25/04 62 Danish "Busted" 2/25/04 63 Hungarian " Titanic" 1/21/04 True 64 stories from missionaries around the world. This page last updated on April 9, 2004 Now Available from Jack T. Chick 65 Lil' Susy 66 English 67 Spanish 68 Here's a daily witnessing plan that you can do. The man in the bed next to him tries to win him to Jesus. An excellent discipleship tool to give to those you lead to the Lord. Each chapter introduces a different aspect to growth which Christians need to understand. Behind the scenes in the Catholic Church Converted priest Alberto Rivera tells his story. Alberto 76 English 77 Spanish 78 German 79 Korean 80 Italian 81 Polish 82 Portuguese Godfathers 83 English 84 Spanish 85 German 86 Italian 87 Polish The Prophet 88 English 89 Spanish 90 French 91 Italian 92 Answers to Bible version questions ONLINE! Sample question: 93 How did God preserve His words to this day? |
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| www.yomomma.com I get to sit in a little cramped office with other comedy writers, alternately hurling insults at one another and reverently dissassembling the masterworks our of comedy forefathers. I had written a bit in which we tested the chick-attracting qualities of various animals. The theory was, a dog tends to get a lot of attention from women, what about other creatures? In my bit, some poor sap got to take a variety of creatures out to see what attention he got from the ladies. What I didn't suspect was that the producers decided that poor sap should be me. That's why, early on a Sunday morning I was fitted with a hidden microphone and introduced to a variety of animals at Balboa beach south of Los Angeles. I would let the little weiner dog walk up to women and I would introduce him. JPG Opus and Roscoe The Dog Unfortunately, with such an early start, there weren't many women on the beach yet. I asked a woman for her phone number, but she politely turned me down and told me about her grandchildren. JPG Opus and Roscoe The Duck This is Roscoe, I explained. Unfortunately, the duck couldn't walk on his own on the beach, so I had to carry him under my arm. This made it difficult to use him as a conversation tool without thrusting him in people's faces. Children, however, couldn't wait to pet Roscoe with their sandy little hands. Not a cute oink or a pleasant tune like Babe might sing. This pig squealed like I was beating it with a mop handle. I was getting looks like I was a pig-abuser, from people who, no doubt, had earlier that day scarfed down Roscoe's cousin in an Egg McMuffin. I could barely even hear myself speak when I had the pig with me. I tried to adopt this into a bad boy attitude, but even that didn't woo the ladies. Lesson learned - ladies don't like fellas who abuse pigs. When you've got a huge furry animal strolling through the sunbathers and beach umbrellas, you catch a lot of attention. Being that I was playing the part of a llama owner, I tried to answer them with authority, even though I didn't know anything. I asked ladies if they could knit, because I had a constant supply of wool. The llama won over a lot of fans, and of all the animals, was the most cooperative. You're going to have to tune in to see exactly how that one went down. Walking a man in leather and a ball-gag down the beach was quite an experience. One that will surely haunt me if I ever run for office, pictures or not. I just got paid to hang out with a duck, a dog, a pig, a llama and a gimp. The B-Team and their new show "Pool Party" Who: The B-Team What: Their new show "Pool Party" When: Thursday April 15th and 22nd When: 10:30 PM Who: The B-Team Where: The Improv Olympic West, 6366 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles Who: The B-Team Why: Because Jesus wants you to. We're also in full swing, auditioning people all day long, so at any given moment there might be a beautiful women or gangster rappers or elderly clowns sitting in our lobby. I pull up into the urinal and begin to do what nature intended. Again: "My name is Baba Nagu, I will be your Sherpa" I am worried. Once the stream gets started, it's hard to pull back, even if attacked my a crazy man who thinks he's a sherpa. The guy has a script in his hand (the other hand, I didn't look for). He was auditioning later and just practicing his lines whilst peeing. Bush made a hillarious joke this week that is 21 getting a lot of attention. Let's take a look at some of George Bush's upcoming hillarious jokes. Cue Laughter, Applause, Ousting from Office --opus posted by 22 opus at 10:14 AM 23 Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Perhaps it just needs to be said I don't like the phrasing, but there is a saying that says "Bros before Hos". I have never once referred to a guy friends as a "Bro" and I am certainly not in the habit of calling women "Hos" but the intention rings true. You should particularly not call a week later to explain that you and the girl are in "very serious" relationship. If you were to do something like that, you'd be making a decision. You'd be saying, in effect, that you value a girl you've just met over your longtime friend. Which is fine, it's your decision to make, but now you have to live with the circumstances. Not only is the girl you really had your eyes on seeing somebody else, but you also lose a friend in the process. No dice, he's out boffin' the girl you had eyes on for months. You end up reverting to the same sort of coping techniques you had in high school. Loud-volume cranky music and long periods of uncontrollable moping. Not that any of these tragic events have happened to me, mind you. If you'll excuse me, now, I'm going to listen to the Violent Femmes and stare at the ceiling. What do you do when you're Mel Gibson and you can't actually hang an actor on a cross for hours on end? I'm writing for a new television show that will air on SpikeTV later this summer. SpikeTV is "TV For Men", and they hired me for my overwhelming machismo. I am also quite "extreme" and enjoy wrestling and skydiving and yelling things at old people. Because we don't have our offices yet, we are currently working out of the offices of a advertising agency. It's a bit of a strange environoment - all us comedy writers being raucus as the real workers arouns us frown at their computer monitors. Today, I had to act in a short commerical the ad agency was shooting. In the shoot, I am in the background, I am chatting up an attractive woman and she jots down her phone number and hands it to me. I take my role as unimportant background actor very seriously. I really wanted to capture the true spirit of the Guy In The Background Getting A Phone Number From An Attractive Woman. So of course, my flirting seemed real - because I'm a method actor. Then when it was time for her to actually write the number down, she didn't even go the 555 route. I swear, this woman had no respect for the craft of background acting. |
| www.angryflower.com But hush, first let's put up this week's cartoon: (Quick note until I figure out how to fix it: some browsers wanna resize these cartoons and crapify them for your viewing pleasure. City, that is Well, I leave for New York City today, which means this is the last update in which you folks are likely to see this well-worn graphic: Let's see if I can actually remember to check Netscape this time so that it doesn't point to another goddamn spot on my hard drive with that graphic like it always does. Flake, 17 Marian Henley, Justin Jones, 18 Keith Knight (The K Chronicles), 19 Tim Kreider, 20 Aaron McGruder (Boondocks), 21 Kevin Moore, 22 Eric Orner, 23 Greg Peters, 24 David Rees (Get Your War On), 25 Mikhaela B. Trostle, 30 Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man), and 31 Jason Yungbluth (Deep Fried). And hell, here's the book it's all about: Bob fans in New York, do come and join the festivities. Linky stuff I don't have a ton of links for you cats today, but I do have this one: 32 a photo diary of a biker's trip through Chernobyl. Some pretty cool stuff if you're into deserted irradiated cities and countryside. And hell, why not, some send-flowers-by-mail place wants a plug, so here's where it's going: 33 Send Fresh Flowers today! Last Tuesday I put up a link to an 34 eBay art auction in which the lucky bidder gets to command me to fill a 12" x 15" sheet according to his or her bidding, and it's already up to $290! I should have known it would be since it came from my buddy Jason, founder of the wildly sucessful 35 Popcap games. At this point I can't really believe that anybody is willing to bid more money that what's already down there, but hey, 36 surprise me. I'm getting kinda excited about this New York trip next week, though I gotta be careful; Anyway, here's the Friday update, and since I'm now doing Tuesday updates as well it's gonna take some time to figure out where to put what content. At any rate for sure there's a new cartoon, a silly little thing this week about the eBay Art Auction On Tuesday I announced I was gonna try to raise money by auctioning off a 61 Drawing On Demand, that is, a 12" x 15" blank sheet of paper that the winning bidder could command me to fill however he or she wished. Last time I checked the bidding was at $200, so I don't know how likely it is that anybody else is gonna want to top that, but I figured I'd keep it current on this update just, y'know, cuz. New York Do Gotta keep plugging this event, sure to be one of the year's best: (graphic of NYC Attitude/ MoCCA cartoonist gala moved up-page for laoding-time reasons) Come all, come one! And I might as well toss in a link to 62 Ted Rall who conceived of the book, edited it and set up this cool wee mixer for us 'toonists. Ted is just now a father so let's all go "Awwwww" for him, okay? Links Dump the More Got some links n' such for you folks, a random sampler. And a while ago I had some stuff about Dave Sim and Cerebus; And I wanna re-link to 66 the dialogue that Sim had with comic supergenius Alan Moore; And, um, that's about it for links, really, though I do have this picture a fan sent in of a BtAF doll she made. Don't forget to check out the Tuesday update below the ad! Tues 20 April -- Regular Tuesday updates In a likely vain attempt to "grow" Bob and have more "success" with my efforts involving him, I've decided to try to start -- no, to *start*, there is no try-- doing twice-weekly updates to give people a reason to come to the site more often. Friday will remain new strip day, and Tuesday will end up being what Tuesday ends up being, probably stray movie reviews and bloggy rants. Own my soul on eBay I'm trying to come up with some ways to make some extra cash, and a buddy suggested I try auctioning off some original art on eBay, so that's what I'm gonna do. Or more specifically, I'm gonna auction off a Drawing on Demand; So you want robots, Bob, Lovebot, Bears, whatever, you can send me pictures and I'll draw you in, tell me what to draw and I'll draw it. Get it as a gift and get me to draw in your Bob-loving loved one. If there's anybody out there who finds this appealing check it out 69 here. Stray movie review This week it's 70 Hellboy, which a few people have asked me to review even though it's been out for a couple of weeks already. Usually I like to get paid for 71 my reviews, but I got a new Tuesday update to generate content for so there it is. Bloggy Rant A Strategy for Iraq I 72 wrote about this a while ago in my Thumbnail Solution back in September but it bears revisiting as Bush and Kerry both flail around talking escalation and course-staying and phony sovereignty off-handing. They're having a bit of trouble figuring out who to hand power over to not just because they don't actually have control of the country to hand over in the first place but because the only proper recipient of that power is a body selected by a free and fair election. The problem is that although the Bushites *say* they're trying to build a democracy in Iraq, the truth is that democracy is the one thing they won't abide. The Iraqis have been yelling for elections for months and the US has been dragging its feet the whole way. The number-one political priority in Iraq right now should be completing the census necessary to hold elections but the Iraqi Governing Council suspended its census-taking late last year on the behest of the Americans. This whole "sovereignty" handoff is just another stall, and a transparent one; Are the American forces in Iraq going to be taking orders from the new sovereign government on July 1? Back in February Bush was asked on Meet the Press how he'd respond to the Iraqis electing a Shi'ite theocratic government. His statement was basically a flat "they're not going to", with "we won't let them" as the unstated corollary. Chalabi and his stooges have been shovelling him but aside from Bush's delusions the plain fact is that the current US government will not permit the election of any government that insists on US troop withdrawal or refuses to honor all the phony contracts and government sell-offs signed by the occupation authorities -- no matter how popular any or all of those policies may be with Iraqis. Make elections the priority, hold them freely and fairly and commit publicly to abiding by the outcome. That means no restrictions on who can run, no shutting down of newspapers, the whole bit. That means accepting that most of the government is going to be made up of clerics because those are the people who have political power in Iraq. And it means accepting that the new government is proably gonna be Shi'ite-heavy and friendly to Iran. And it means that, yeah, they may well tear up all the illegitimate contracts the US occupational authorities signed. The only thing that has any legitimacy in this otherwise illegal, immoral, unprovoked war of agression was the supposed good deed of knocking Saddam off. Now we got no reason to stay and every reason to split because right now *we're* the problem there. America, at least under the Bushites, is much like the monkey who reaches into the jar, grabs a handful of chestnuts and then finds its hand is stuck. The harder he pulls the more stuck he gets and the only way out is to let go. Bush and his cronies fought this war for this territory and those contracts and those bases and that oil and there's no damn way they're gonna let them go, no matter what the Iraqi people say. At the same time they're trapped into insisting they're trying to build a democracy even though it is obvious to the Iraqis that they intend no such thing. The ironic thing is that the very democracy that Bush is struggling to prevent while claiming to support may come about, in the end, by the Iraqi people uniting to *eject* the Americans. The Iraqis are gonna get what they want sooner or later and the only thing we're gonna get from trying to keep it from them is failure and a much angrier and more hostile Iraq government that we would have had if we'd played fair. Speaking of ads Not that we were, but I was talking about making money so it kinda relates. I've had a longstanding "no ads" policy for this site but I... |