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Yep, definitely a 'nam era song. My point, I guess, is like you said, brotherhood. However, one of the people that have hurt me the most is my mother, we didn't talk for two years (kicking me out of the house instead of dealing with the problem, just silencing the complainer, kinda does that to a relationship). I've also found dogs to be as fickle as humans. Friendship is a symbiotic relationship wherein a person receives more help, attention, whatever than they have to give. It's something you can never trust in the opposite sex in a friendship. I have a "friend" who has dangled me over her husband's head for longer than they've been married. When she left him (the first sign they shouldn't have gotten married, but I digress) I was who he searched out for he knew she'd be with me. My number seems to be found whenever they are having problems. Chris Rock summed it up best I've seen. Platonic friend= dick in a glass. In case of emergency, break glass. I want to say I haven't had a true friend (non-internet, I'm amazed at how my Friends section has grown) for around five years but then I think of how those friends, like I said, were getting more help than they were giving.

With the economy the way that it is I am afraid of making any moves at the moment (not to mention the debt I'm trying to work off to free up money). I've got a secure job in healthcare but I hate myself for being there. But I'm planning. I don't really need for nothing, no real wants, so things should be okay. But, I don't know, it's easier to be ignored by tourists and locals in a resort town than to have to endure the self-degradation of people in the sticks. I began to wonder yesterday why Stephen King lives in rural Maine still. If I had the means I am sure I'd try to keep moving. I like having, say, a base of operations to return to if I wanted; but I have no home and know no where I'd want it to be. As the poet Tom Petty inked, The waiting is the hardest part. The inaction of it truly bothers me since reaching thirty. Youth is dwindling down and at least a direction should be decided.

I wonder now, why run? We run and things continue on like they have. Running IS only a short term answer. What we need to do is rally against them; corporations, government, employers and say we're made as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore... and not take it anymore! These are our lives, this is our country. We need a combined Revolution and Renaissance. We need to stop being complacent and buck the status quo and take control, either again or for the first fucking time. They can't do this to us. Why? Because we won't accept it just like they don't accept what we do now. We the people, need to grow a pair of balls and treat the status quo as the antagonist in an 80s action movie.

Unfortunately our best hope right now is the spineless Democrats in Congress (truly, they are quite spineless).

I always wanted to find something positive about the carolinas or begin something here. My fear is not really finding a new place but in the decision... people try to paint a pretty picture of their zone yet one finds out it's a lot like the place I left. The guy and job I spoke of has been hinted at before. I don't have much faith in it but I'm truly believing I'm due a miracle soon. Praying and wishing never worked in years past so I'm relying on blind, thoughtless luck... as usual.

Tech blah blah follows...

As for your comment, I haven't tasted that delicacy for a while either. Probably explains my mental angst.

FYI- USB 2.0 is faster than Firewire on paper... USB is burst data, it quickly passes data then it slows down. Firewire is constant streaming data. The worst thing Apple ever did is get rid of the Firewire option for iPods. To this day I spend the extra time USB takes to curse its name and inception.

In your situation I'd stay away from the RAID option. The drive just needs to be formatted so the Erase tab should be utilized. Keep Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and name the drive and try to use the OS 9 install disk(s) to install. If that works just go to Startup Disk in System Preferences; if OS 9 is readable it will appear as an option here.

A couple of alternatives: have you checked the scanners websites to see if they have updated drivers for OS X? Most have a download page (though it depends if they still supported the scanner after OS X came about). ALSO... since you just want to run a scanner driver through OS 9, why can't you just use Classic? I remember my issue now... an Intel Mac can't run OS 9 due to the architecture and then then code was left out of Leopard. But if all you need is the scanner to scan installing the whole of OS 9 seems overkill. If you have a disk, putting it in and double clicking the install thumbnail should launch Classic and run you through the installation steps. Then opening the software should open Classic then the scanning environment. If you don't have a disk, again, check out the downloads website for the manufacturer to find the appropriate driver. I don't know why Classic wouldn't work.

Also, you used the word "only" to describe where you have your media stored ("...files only on a zip drive right now"). This is where I tell you to back them up somewhere else. CD/DVD. on the WD external. Somewhere else "just in case."

I met Elly after a few of her sets went live and maintained my composure. My fear is to know someone who then I see naked on the internet. Having gone to school with ScottSmallin I keep waiting for him to find someone we both know and photograph them. Like how he shared nude shots of his then girlfriend with me (when he was trying to break into this whole scene). It'd be like that girl I was crushing on being our model in a life drawing class. I'm not sure how it'd be to meet any SGs. I'm so not part of this culture so I would come off pretty dorky with any conversation excluding the whole I've seen you naked bit. I think I'm pretty much just dorky and antisocial.

Oh, and Manko and some of the new girls made the trickle of new sets worth it.

I prefer QoS to Casino Royale. I mark it up to the fact I've read the book and they changed too much for my liking. Quantum of Solace is the name of a short story but has nothing to do with the movie. I had no expectations. But Craig is becoming one of the best Bonds. Reading the books I always thought of George Lazenby (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, his one film) because he fit. Craig is becoming that guy too. What got me more than his boat in the scene mentioned is not so much the chase itself but how everyone (but Bond) has automatic weapons but is hitting nothing. It was the same with the opening sequence. Craig's movies are better with their intimate fights, the one on one feats of strength. It was weird that the Bond group here on the site never even started a thread to discuss the movie.

Stay positive and enjoy the holidays. I leave town Friday to see family and am hoping for the best.

The doctor warned the parents of "minor" complications. Since they had had children before they weren't overly concerned. They didn't know the extent of the complications until the poor girl was born. How medical professionals couldn't have noticed that before birth is beyond me. There's also another video on YouTube with a woman saying how drunk driving doesn't always kill; her friends all died when hit by a drunk driver but she was caught inside and burned. Her face melted off. One of her eyelids is completely gone and she has to continuously apply eyedrops to keep the eye from drying out. I think her name is Jacquiland or some sort. I try to keep these two individuals in mind. Life's been pretty good to me. It's sad that that thought is still based on exterior looks.

I guess I should add that I'm glad I'm not a security guard in Wal-Mart on Black Friday.

As you say, anyhoo, I ate dinner with the cousins and had a long spiritual conversation with their oldest son (few years older than I) into the wee hours of the morning. He keeps trying to find direction through religion and spirituality. It amazes me, he's a very intelligent guy looking for that eternal answer; yet, he has not allowed himself to consider that there is no answer. Either way, the conversation was of the sort I am not used to in this hick backwoods town. It made the evening worthwhile.

Hope you fared the same or better.

The only movie I've seen with SJ is Lost in Translation (well, starring her; I saw Ghost World as well, etc.). She just has this look. I'm not partial to blondes but she steal my heart now and again. I need to check out Woody's movie. Afterall, I have her album of Tom Wait covers (it's quite dismal and I would normally laugh but she took this project sincerely I hear so I hate it didn't fare better).

I did see Quantum of Solace. Many say it's an extended ending to Casino Royale but I enjoyed it much more than Royale (of which I read the original Fleming novel so I'm a bit biased against it). I watched CR just the other night to make sure of it. Craig is an amazing Bond and the reality turn the movies have made is nothing but good. The movie is nothing like the short story written by Fleming (his two best Bond stories have the least to do with Bond, Quantum of Solace, fucking awesome, and the Hildebrand Rarity) but I like the way they are establishing another SPECTRE in the Bond universe. I just wish we could see a friendship between Bond and Felix like in the books.

I'm shutting up before I rave anymore about Craig or my girl. If you were thinking of seeing it I would recommend it.

I'm contemplating the intricacies of perfection and genius at the moment. I think I tried to make the compliment much greater than it was (me, an egotistical asshole? I say not!). Besides, it's just a perception most usually place on themselves.

Afterall, your visit to the Genius Bar, and speaking to those labeled Geniuses, kind of proved everything but.

For clarification, you can buy TV DVDs, use handbrake to rip them, iTunes to convert them to iPhone format and then sync them with said device. For the moment I've got Ghost in the Shell: SAC set up in such a way.

Razor was the webisodes they had on the website, right? Just put all together on the DVD? I know there was upset people that went out and bought Razor expecting it to be season three after they postponed the DVD set (some people are so damn stupid).

Is that a vote from you for seeing it?

I'm still on the fence about what I'm gonna do. Not sure if you've realized but your the only poster to my blog in the last six months. In January had an SG comment on my use of word in my blog... but she hasn't been around since. Ah, alas. Wasn't the first, won't be the last. I had really gotten into the society, well the groups, around here but they've lost their luster as well. One comes to realize having a common thread tying one to their likes is important. I don't have that tie to the culture around here anymore, hanging around keeps reminding me of it. There is a difference between being independent and confrontational. It seems Gen Y or whatever you call it forgot that (so did Gen X come to think of it; perhaps it's been fucked up always). Got a therapist for the moment... seems alright. Not sure how he stacks against yours.

And I have to clean way too much teen porn off my father's machine. I realize I don't want to be like that at his age. He even has SG bookmarked.

I do appreciate the response.

But get this about Scarlett... I don't like blondes. It's a rare fair-hair that registers on the lust meter. It's actually the husky voice and old world looks.

My plan today was to go and stand outside an Apple store and watch the insanity (the support board filled up quickly with people who couldn't download the iPhone 2.0 update). Instead I went to see Hellboy. I made the wiser choice (Selma Blair is my 10; brunette with the smokey voice). Apple and Nvidia seem to have an issue with graphic cards in the MBP and there's not a thing I can do with mine until they officially acknowledge it. The first bad Apple I've had (and one bad Apple...). What I get for trading up I guess.

And I'll spoiler this so no SG mafia comes and tatts my ass

Oh, as for the hot, sexy testimonial I got... I even got a signed pic of her as well (an X-mas gift from "them," he took the shot). I also swapped a copy of my book for a signed photo of Echo (it means something; I migrated with her to SG from a different site) and done photoshop work for Girly. Alas, where are they now. I'm really pondering the difference between singular good things happening and the longevity of those things. It's like a movie details this span of maybe a month in a person's life... well, what about the other seventy years or so, particularly the years that follow the events portrayed on the screen, were things as exciting, better or worse. Do you want to be a flash in the pan like Melville or Poe or maintain fame like Patterson or Mark Twain? I would like the longevity. Fame seems lacking for a one trick pony.

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