Comments on: Limiting your exposure to death causing radiation http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/ blog personal Mon, 21 May 2012 02:37:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Z.Monkey http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-494 Z.Monkey Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:07:28 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-494 Also check out <a href="http://www.librivox.org/" rel="nofollow">LibriVox</a>. Hurray for the public domain! Also check out LibriVox. Hurray for the public domain!

]]> By: Z.Monkey http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-492 Z.Monkey Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:55:56 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-492 <em>Nad</em>: Outlandish comments are fine, and I don't think you can really offend any of us that much. Also, I think the main reason you are against marriage is that most people how are married and own a house/condo also own cats. I think you are more averse to the cat thing than the marriage/home thing. Plus not all of us can be bums (have you started drinking <a href="http://www.bumwine.com/" rel="nofollow">bum wine</a>?) <em>ThatGuy</em>: Don't be 'That Guy'. <em>Old Man</em>: Congrates on the golf score. It's sad that I hit a 72 on a 9 hole course... Also, I had the login/password problem when I started school but that has, for the most part, be resolved (though I can't for the life of me remember my bank login or my password). Nad: Outlandish comments are fine, and I don’t think you can really offend any of us that much. Also, I think the main reason you are against marriage is that most people how are married and own a house/condo also own cats. I think you are more averse to the cat thing than the marriage/home thing. Plus not all of us can be bums (have you started drinking bum wine?)

ThatGuy: Don’t be ‘That Guy’.

Old Man: Congrates on the golf score. It’s sad that I hit a 72 on a 9 hole course… Also, I had the login/password problem when I started school but that has, for the most part, be resolved (though I can’t for the life of me remember my bank login or my password).

]]> By: weird old guy http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-491 weird old guy Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:42:23 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-491 It is not the personal information. I have forgot dozens of usernames and passwords. I now just use the same one for everything that is not important. But why go through all that crap for no reason that is important to me. I have had to forget a lot of critical information, such as phone numbers, combinations, passwords, addresses, e-mail, etc. over the years or they bleed over into the current set and then I'm up a brown river without physical means of locomotion. I'm disappointed with the tall guy with a brazillian hobby who now speaks with a foreign tongue. He said he could turn me on to some new music my jaded sensibilities would like. Instead he has decided to roam the planet instead, mocking us wage slaves, and extoling the virtues of not working. I shot an 85 yesterday, that is golf, to you guys. My best round ever. That is about the best I can do. I could possibly with more practice shave off a few more strokes but I will be happy to shoot 85 everyday. It is not the personal information. I have forgot dozens of usernames and passwords. I now just use the same one for everything that is not important. But why go through all that crap for no reason that is important to me. I have had to forget a lot of critical information, such as phone numbers, combinations, passwords, addresses, e-mail, etc. over the years or they bleed over into the current set and then I’m up a brown river without physical means of locomotion.

I’m disappointed with the tall guy with a brazillian hobby who now speaks with a foreign tongue. He said he could turn me on to some new music my jaded sensibilities would like. Instead he has decided to roam the planet instead, mocking us wage slaves, and extoling the virtues of not working.

I shot an 85 yesterday, that is golf, to you guys. My best round ever. That is about the best I can do. I could possibly with more practice shave off a few more strokes but I will be happy to shoot 85 everyday.

]]> By: --ThatGuy http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-489 --ThatGuy Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:47:01 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-489 I want an iPod, but Apple's only offerings range in 8Gig or less and 30Gig or more. What about a happy medium around 15Gig in the nano form factor. That's all I ask. I want an iPod, but Apple’s only offerings range in 8Gig or less and 30Gig or more. What about a happy medium around 15Gig in the nano form factor. That’s all I ask.

]]> By: Z.Monkey http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-488 Z.Monkey Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:39:32 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-488 She is my sister-in-law. She <a href="http://www.everytomorrow.org/2006/09/12/sock-obsessed-me/" rel="nofollow">makes socks</a>. To be honest I haven't really been effected by DRM. I knew it was bad for consumers but it only just turned its ugly head toward us with this book download thing (as this <em>would have</em> been very cool to use). She is my sister-in-law. She makes socks.

To be honest I haven’t really been effected by DRM. I knew it was bad for consumers but it only just turned its ugly head toward us with this book download thing (as this would have been very cool to use).

]]> By: xumbi http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-487 xumbi Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:10:12 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-487 Who is this "nikkiana" person who uses Linux? I hate the DRM as well, <a href="http://defectivebydesign.org" rel="nofollow">fight it!</a>. Who is this “nikkiana” person who uses Linux? I hate the DRM as well, fight it!.

]]> By: dan http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-486 dan Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:11:25 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-486 I was thinking of giving up blogging and just e-mailing everybody if something interesting ever happened, which would also eliminate the need to censor myself (like if I just wanted to send something out that said "I think getting married and moving into a house before the age of 40 or so is ridiculous," I could only send it to my one or two still-unmarried friends and not offend anybody) but then I`d lose track of whom I`d said things to and whom I`d purposefully excluded. Better to put it where everyone can see it and either back my words up or not make any outlandish comments at all ... I was thinking of giving up blogging and just e-mailing everybody if something interesting ever happened, which would also eliminate the need to censor myself (like if I just wanted to send something out that said “I think getting married and moving into a house before the age of 40 or so is ridiculous,” I could only send it to my one or two still-unmarried friends and not offend anybody) but then I`d lose track of whom I`d said things to and whom I`d purposefully excluded. Better to put it where everyone can see it and either back my words up or not make any outlandish comments at all …

]]> By: Z.Monkey http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-485 Z.Monkey Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:54:07 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-485 I didn't read through my post... I just sort of gave up and wrote 'I'm tired' instead. I don't understand the Old Man's aversion to giving out his information when signing up for user accounts. I pretty sure all your information (SSN, credit card #, birth date, name, e&c) are floating around out there already. The people who you <em>have</em> to give that info to are careless with it (credit cards, banks, phone companies), so why sweat the small stuff? Me? Cynical? No, never. I didn’t read through my post… I just sort of gave up and wrote ‘I’m tired’ instead.

I don’t understand the Old Man’s aversion to giving out his information when signing up for user accounts. I pretty sure all your information (SSN, credit card #, birth date, name, e&c) are floating around out there already. The people who you have to give that info to are careless with it (credit cards, banks, phone companies), so why sweat the small stuff? Me? Cynical? No, never.

]]> By: The Scientist http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-484 The Scientist Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:25:55 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-484 Apparently reading isn't helping your grammer. Its accepted not excepted! Apparently reading isn’t helping your grammer. Its accepted not excepted!

]]> By: nikkiana http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-483 nikkiana Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:43:26 +0000 http://zipymonkey.com/blog/2006/09/14/limiting-your-exposure-to-death-causing-radiation/#comment-483 I have to laugh at that disuade yourself article.... Particularly the point where the authors say that if you want to communicate with friends and family you ought to make your blog either A. private or B. make a message board instead. Apparently, the people who wrote this have very dedicated technologically saavy friends and family who would be willing to sign up for an account to read your thoughts and musings if they were not made absolutely public. Most bloggers don't have such a luxary. Case and point, Old Man. Old Man hates creating usernames and passwords for things. What would be likely to happen if one of us decided to make our blog only accessible by passworded account or converted to a members only message board format? He'd stop reading like you completely closed up shop forever. I hate DRMed stuff as well. As a Linux user, you grow to hate it even more because often times, you either can't play DRMed material at all on your computer (nevermind whatever device you own) or you have to do some extremely funky and almost not worth it work arounds to do it. Nevermind all the stuff you just said in regard to there not being one accepted DRMed format across the board. I have to laugh at that disuade yourself article…. Particularly the point where the authors say that if you want to communicate with friends and family you ought to make your blog either A. private or B. make a message board instead. Apparently, the people who wrote this have very dedicated technologically saavy friends and family who would be willing to sign up for an account to read your thoughts and musings if they were not made absolutely public. Most bloggers don’t have such a luxary.

Case and point, Old Man. Old Man hates creating usernames and passwords for things. What would be likely to happen if one of us decided to make our blog only accessible by passworded account or converted to a members only message board format? He’d stop reading like you completely closed up shop forever.

I hate DRMed stuff as well. As a Linux user, you grow to hate it even more because often times, you either can’t play DRMed material at all on your computer (nevermind whatever device you own) or you have to do some extremely funky and almost not worth it work arounds to do it. Nevermind all the stuff you just said in regard to there not being one accepted DRMed format across the board.

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