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Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Metroid sales hit the quarter million mark
Samus is back!. Nintendo is laying down the law. The only reason I haven't gotten this game yet is that I want to exchange my 2nd copy of "Destroy All Monsters." Co-workers say this game is totally cool, and they had to stop playing GTA vice city for Metroid. Gamespot says Metriod is a 9.7 out of 10, while GTA Vice City is a 9.6! Besides, I finished all the career missions in GTA Vice City, and I don't feel like doing all those bonus missions... so... tedious.
.: posted by Rappin 9:08 PM
Full Face Transplants No Longer Science Fiction
face off?
.: posted by Rappin 2:56 PM
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
crosswords now avail on the games section of zemlet.com. I created them using a shareware app called Crossword Compiler v6.0. It lets you build a puzzle thats 10x10 in the trial version. Check out the crossword puzzles and let me know what you think. Only comments about the crossword puzzles though. Not about me. I don't want to know what you think about ME.
.: posted by Rappin 7:22 PM
Thank you for dialing moviephone!
This chat is of me contacting SBC Yahoo online chat support. If you start to become disoriented, then do not be alarmed.
Victor: Hello ghostcage@sbcglobal.net, How can we assist you today?
me: hello. I'm having some connectivity problems.
me: the problem is that only some sites are available, but I know those sites are not down.
me: hello?
Victor: I understand that you experiencing difficulties with your connectivity. Additionally, you are unable to visit some particular web sites. Am I correct?
Victor: I apologize for keeping you on hold.
me: if I ping www.imdb.com for example, it resolves the url to an ip, but I get no response from the server. I can verify that this site is up, as are others that I cant connect to.
me: whoops back.
Victor: I can understand your concern, however, I request that you provide me the exact error message you encounter, while you try to access this web site, so that I can research your issue and assist you in a better way.
me: its a time out
me: i.o.w. you type the url into the address bar, then you eventually time out.
Victor: Thank you for this information.
me: any ideas?
me: ever hear of this happening before?
Victor: Could you let me know, what is the very next screen you encounter, after you type in this web site at the address bar of your browser?
me: blank screen
me: but then eventually, I get a dialog box that says, unable to reach this site
me: could it be a router problem?
Victor: Thank you for the information provided by you. Please give me a minute while I give you the most relevant information about your issue.
Victor: In order to resolve the issue you are experiencing, you need to delete some temporary Internet Files that automatically gets generated, I recommend that you follow some simple steps, I am providing, for deleting the theses files. Shall I start with the steps?
me: I use a linksys router that uses PPPOE, so I don't have the sbc yahoo software installed on my computer.
me: you mean delete my iexplorer cache?
Victor: Yes,
me: okay.
me: I cleared my temporary files.
me: and changed my [settings] to check for new versions every time I visit the page.
Victor: Fine.
Victor: I understand your concern. However, I recommend that you visit our Web link at "http://support.sbcglobal.net/dsl/5093.shtml", and follow the instructions provided there in.
me: Thank you Victor.
Victor: Is there anything else I can assist you with today?
me: well it would be nice if we could figure out why I couldn't access those sites!
Victor: Yes, we will definitely hard to locate and eliminate the bug, at the earliest.
Victor: Your case ID of this particular contact is 23610094. We request you to mention this particular case number when you contact us again with this issue. That will help us in finding the information about your previous contact and it will not require you to explain about your issue again. Thank you for your cooperation.
me: I see.
Victor: Again, thank you for choosing SBC Yahoo! Live Help.
.: posted by Rappin 5:46 PM
We have the POWAH!
We won the famous "Lot of Twenty Skeletors" from Greenfield Collectibles off ebay. When I called and talked to the owner, Ralph, he told me he could throw in twenty more for a few more bucks. "What are we going to do with 40 Skeletors?!" I asked. His reply was, "Same thing you were going to do with 20." Guess he had a point, but I still didn't feel like having any more skeletors than are really necessary. This is probably the craziest thing we've gotten from ebay... although that Virgin Mary punch fountain had a lot of potential. So anyway, be on the lookout for Skeletor around our house and our upcoming movie, "Twenty Skeletors Fall Off a Cliff".
.: posted by Zemlet 2:09 PM
Monday, November 25, 2002
Active Buddy Technologies brings you 'ringmessenger' a chatter bot dedicated to talking about the Lord of the Rings. It needs a little work...
Rappinrobot: Speak Friend
RingMessenger: Hmm... I do not know.
Rappinrobot: and enter
RingMessenger: Really? And enter?
Rappinrobot: The ring must be destroyed in the fires of Mt Doom
RingMessenger: Oh really?
Rappinrobot: My cousin balin will throw us a royal welcome
RingMessenger: What?
Rappinrobot: Red meat off the bone
RingMessenger: I reckon I will have to think about that for awhile.
Rappinrobot: Get Aragorn on the horn
RingMessenger: Oh yes?
Rappinrobot: Is that the horn of Gondor or are you just glad to see me?
RingMessenger: Is that the horn of gondor or are me just glad to see me? I am not certain!
Rappinrobot: Put the Dwarf on. I want to talk to Gimli
RingMessenger: Sure! Type "home" to see all the things I like to talk about.
.: posted by Rappin 8:38 AM
Sunday, November 24, 2002
Millisecond Frame rate technology
You need quicktime to watch this. There are six video examples of film at rates from 120 up to 12,000 frames per second. Drops of water, glass breaking, bullets going thru your cheerios really slow... stuff like that. It's so very 'bullet time'.
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.: posted by Rappin 11:44 AM
Saturday, November 23, 2002
I actually BOUGHT something from Rockridge antiques, because hey, I've window shopped there enough. It's going to be our guest bed frame. This bed is made of white oak, full size - approx 52" wide, it's got a lot of character, and a few scratches too. Haven't picked this up from RR antiques yet, but as soon as I get a truck or something, I'll will be ours! It was priced at 450 then marked down to 330, which is the price I bought it at. Just so you know, I checked salvage places Urban Ore, and Ohmega Salvage first, but they only had headboards and other miscellaneous pieces of antique bed frames, but mostly chud. Pretty Exciting! Sorry LuElla - I just couldn't wait!
note: the image shown is elm, but the bed i got is white oak, so its a different color.
.: posted by Rappin 2:47 PM
I just posted this letter to the Pogo's at Pogo. VIVA LA HIGH CONTRAST! Here it is:
"Hello, my name is George Rivello from Oakland, CA. I'm colorblind and I can't see the difference between your green and yellow balloons in Poppit. I'm a 3yrs EA employee and I've worked on several games for EA including Majestic, Sims Deluxe, Sims Vacation, and Sims Unleashed. Please consider my request and make your green balloons a darker green. The color blind pogo players will thank you. "
I know they are going to ignore this... I just know it. My odds of getting them to care are like winning 1000 pogo credits on a jackpot spin. Oh well, keep servin up those daily crosswords pogo!
.: posted by Rappin 9:21 AM
Friday, November 22, 2002
tragic laptop accident
in a hotly debated scientific theory
.: posted by Rappin 11:26 AM
Thursday, November 21, 2002
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Just got in Amy and Ansger Dragon action figures. Whoo hoo. they are soo cool.
.: posted by Rappin 2:30 PM
"From Oakland with love". Pretty excited about seeing James Bond on Sat with my paw.
... but in this picture he looks like a jerk...
.: posted by Rappin 1:01 PM
ELECTRONIC ARTS INC, ERTS as of 11/21/2002
12:54 PM EST, NASDAQ NM
Price: 67.06
Bid: 67.01 +
YAY!
.: posted by Rappin 10:17 AM
testing
look it is the obligatory "hey I am messing with my blog and want to test it" message. I'm working on hooking up comments since my #@*% host refuses to turn on perl! Fie on you featureprice!
.: posted by Zemlet 9:34 AM
changes at zemlet.com
We put up the new buddy cocktail game and started the revamp. We need to upload tons of backlogged photos and finish the new opinions section which will have the famous "Oakland Guide", the playlist of "Radio LG, and our movie and game reviews. We'll have pics of the party up probably first of all, so stay tuned (thanks for the pics, Ed!) All things in good time, but we plan on having the improvements complete by the end of November!
.: posted by Zemlet 12:43 AM
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
I got a New Purse
It kind of reminds me of a red bowling bag. It has pockets inside for all my gadgets and room for tons of miscellaneous. Since I've never had a purse before I am trying to dream up what to put in it: tiny watercolor set? Emergency Crispy Creme? a book! small Godzillas?
.: posted by Zemlet 3:23 PM
my pogo crossword joke today was: "mothers just want thier kids to give peas a chance". Maybe its funnier if its inside your crossword. =(.
.: posted by Rappin 3:10 PM
Help me TIMO MAAS : this song is so cool.
maybe some day we can have an 'LG' playlist.
help me right click and download this so you can play it locally.
.: posted by Rappin 3:03 PM
TonkomomR: did I tell you I love your house!!
I'ts official, our party was a success. LE and I are working
on wrapping up the quiz and haikus and pics so we can
send them out to all the party goers... Amazing how many
haikus we had... I couldn't type them all, so I typed as many
as I could. Also, I wish i had time to make an online version
of the quiz that you could actually take and it would total up
your score... but that will have to wait until I've got time to fiddle
with it. For now, we'll just post the winners and the answers...
what ever happened to having a 'wheelo' as a prize? Next time,
we'll have harder contests and crappier prizes! I think we'll have
to do the drink contest again though... ( certian people want to
have a rematch )
.: posted by Rappin 1:29 PM
Kikoman
kikkomaso. More than you ever wanted to know about soy sauce, this flash movie is insane and hilarious, but mostly just bizarre.
.: posted by Rappin 1:06 PM
Circulating around the CMA office:
peephenge
and also singing horses click on the horses for your musical instruments; a second click will stop
them- not hall of fame worthy, but cute and stupid
.: posted by Zemlet 12:29 PM
The farting preacher
this is a quicktime movie that requires sound and the quicktime plugin. Bless you my friends.
.: posted by Rappin 11:47 AM
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
what can i say about this except that its offensive, satirical and funny as hell? www.blackpeopleloveus.com
.: posted by Rappin 2:20 PM
Photographic History of Michael Jackson's Face
 Eddie are you okay?
.: posted by Rappin 2:01 PM
Lord of the Rings Secret Journals
pretty funny, its the secret twisted diaries of the Lord of the Rings characters.
.: posted by Rappin 1:52 PM
really cool flash games with a little guy jumping.
these flash games all seem to have something to do with a little guy jumping. But they are kind of a fun diversion for a few minutes at least.
.: posted by Rappin 1:48 PM
El Presidente -- make sure hector gonzales does not leave the soccer game
El Generalidad-- as you wish el presidente
.: posted by rappinrobot 1:42 PM
.: posted by Zemlet 1:37 PM
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