I do believe the following picture can be summarized into three simple words:
No. Fucking. Way.

With that hurricane mess down south, I don’t see prices going downward in the near future, unfortunately…
Paying that much for gas, I expect a free soda with my next purchase. At least a free soda. Maybe one of those muffins too.
~Jaker
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Here’s a good example of having too much free time. A good example of not allocating my time to more important things (like, say, homework or my Co-Op website). No, instead I go about completing the website for my guild in World of Warcraft.
Despite my poor time managing skills, I’d have to say the site [...]

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Student was searching for divine inspiration. Student walked high on the mountain of knowledge and came across God. Student asked God how to live life as a college kid should. And God said unto him, follow these Ten Commandments and you shall be all a college kid is. And Student thanked God and it was [...]

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Priceless… in a $2.99 kind of way…

(Note that LOL is *supposed* to mean Land O Lakes. I prefer the more common translation of Laugh out loud. That’s some pretty awesome ice cream.)
~Jaker
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One of my summer projects was to build a media center with either Myth (Linux) or Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE). I had most of the parts already, so in the end all that I bought new was a case and a TV tuner card. Here’s the specs of the system as it stands [...]

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World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.7.0 (2005-??-??)
Zul’Gurub
Hidden within the jungles of Stranglethorn, an ancient Troll city
full of peril has been uncovered. Do you have what it takes to delve
into its mysteries with a band of hardy explorers? There’s only one
way to find out! Zul’Gurub is a high-level, 20-man raid instance with
120 new rare and epic [...]

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I started another project today that I think might get somewhere. For now it’s Codename iSync, and I might keep the iSync part unless I think of something better.
Basically it syncs your music libraries on two different computers so they both have the same songs. First good use for me would be my iTunes Library, [...]

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It has long been regarded that the UNIX-like OS NetBSD is portable to every type of machine except perhaps your kitchen toaster. Technologic Systems, however, has conquered this last frontier. Using one of its rugged embedded TS-7200 single-board computers housed inside the empty space of a standard 2 slice toaster, Technologic Systems has designed a [...]

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Here’s a site that you wouldn’t expect to be by Microsoft.
I have to admit I thought the intro movie was humorous the first time I saw it, only because of the context of it all (and the movies are enough to put at least a smile on your face if you’re in the field).
Escape From [...]

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The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500-man elite
fighting unit called the US Redneck Special Forces (USRSF).
These North Carolina, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas,
Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee boys will be dropped into Iraq
and will have been given only the following facts about the
Terrorists:
1. The season opened today!
2. There is no limit.
3. They [...]

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