News

[J. T./Jessica]

Good, Bad, Take it as you will-News.

[J. T./Jessica]

As the first article of news...

*Stands up and salutes.*
Today is September 11, 2005, exactly three years, three hundred and sixty-four days, and thirty-four minutes from the time the first plane hit the first tower.

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*Plays Taps for the slain, slowly.*

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On this day, September 26, 1975, a cult hit film was first shown in theaters.

*Sings* It's just a jump to the left,
And then a step to the riiiii-iiiight.
With your hands on your hips,
You pull your knees in tiiiiiii-ii-iight.
But it's the pelvic thrusts that really drive you insaaaaaaaaane.
Let's do The Time Warp again!

[J. T./Jessica]

"Rocky Horror Picture Show"?

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Yup! Celebrate by wating it tonight!

[J. T./Jessica]

Never seen it and don't own it.

*Off the shocked expressions of Gibb, Alex, Amanda, etc.*

Close your mouths, you're letting flies in.

[JP Gibb]

Meh, seen it, not all that impressed.

Now, Science Channel re-airing Cosmos? Joy. ;D

[J. T./Jessica]

It's Daylight Savings Time, ladies and germs, don't forget to set your clocks BACK an hour.

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Didn't forget. Thank you.

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To paraphrase from the late Old Dirty Bastard. "Laptops are for the kids!"

From Wired News, Thursday, November 17, 2005 www.wired.com

TUNIS, Tunisia -- If tech luminary Nicholas Negroponte has his way, the pale light from rugged, hand-cranked $100 laptops will illuminate homes in villages and townships throughout the developing world, and give every child on the planet a computer of their own by 2010.

The MIT Media Lab and Wired magazine founder stood shoulder to shoulder with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to unveil the first working prototype of the "$100 laptop" -- currently more like $110 -- at the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society here Wednesday. The Linux-based machine instantly became the hit of the show, and Thursday saw diplomats and dignitaries, reporters and TV cameras perpetually crowded around the booth of One Laptop Per Child -- Negroponte's nonprofit -- craning for a glimpse of the toy-like tote.

With its cheery green coloring and Tonka-tough shell, the laptop certainly looks cool. It boasts a 7-inch screen that swivels like a tablet PC, and an electricity-generating crank that provides 40 minutes of power from a minute of grinding. Built-in Wi-Fi with mesh networking support, combined with a microphone, speaker and headset jack, even means the box can serve as a node in an ersatz VOIP phone system.

Under the hood, it's powered by a modest 500-MHz AMD processor, and uses a gig of flash memory for storage. But the key to building it cheaply enough to educate the world's children is an innovative, low-power LCD screen technology invented by Negroponte's CTO, Mary Lou Jepsen. "The manufacturers are the toughest audience, and they stopped laughing in September," says Jepsen. The machine is expected to start mass production late next year, and the governments of Thailand and Brazil have already said they're serious about placing $1 million orders for their school kids. Others are close to lining up.

If anyone asks, I am eight years old, and in need of a laptop. ^_^

[REBB01]

Hey I got mine for only Two Hundred Heck i paid more For Photoshop CS2

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Five Extra Facts About Pat Morita

1) As a child, Morita was bedridden for many years and entertained himself by making sock puppets and performing shows.

2) Before rising to television stardom, Morita was the head of the computer operations department of an aerospace company. So if anyone tells you that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to become a beloved television and movie icon, you can be like, "Yeah, it does."

3) Morita left Happy Days for his own television show, Mr. T and Tina. No one watched it, so he slunk back to Happy Days a few years later, a wiser, more pentitent ethnic character actor.

4) Judging from his best-known roles as Happy Days' Arnold and Karate Kid's Mr. Miyagi, you'd think Pat Mortita had a thick accent, but he spoke perfect English; the accent was fake. Maybe this says something profound about the way television portrays people from non-Western cultures.

5) Morita died of natural causes on Thanksgiving.

Rest in Peace, Miyagi-sensei. -_-

[J. T./Jessica]

You forgot 6. Pat Morita was an occasional guest star on M*A*S*H as the colonel of a local South Korean army regiment who visited the 4077th on poker nights.

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Thanks for that fact. He will be missed.