Reminds me of another rip-off "artist"... Todd Goldman. He did the worst thing he could have possibly done. Ripped off someone who was very well known to the Something Awful Goons.
http://www.miketyndall.com/todd_goldman/

"Caucasian Shashlik (I don’t know either)"...

Heh. Shashlik is a shisk kabob, often lamb more than anything else when I had it. Skewered and turned over a pit. It's not so much the cooking method, but the marinade that makes it. Very, very high acid marinade and it makes for incredibly soft meat despite being black on the outside, burned for being exposed to direct fire. Mild or spicy tends to depend on family preferences. Mine tended to have it about halfway between mild and hot. What most people comment on is the tenderness of the meat.

Caucasian Shashlik would just be a white meat version. Chicken, duck, turkey, etc.

"# Ola Amigo
December 7th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

These guys sound smug - ‘highly self-satisfied’, to me.

I’m for legalizing drugs. One of the benefits is the cops in this situation would be able work on actual crimes."

Never gonna happen. The prison industrial complex is a hugely profitable industry. There's too much money to lose in not locking up people who do things like smoke weed.

The US is not a country that has the most people in Jail out of trying to protect the public. Follow the money.

Good jorb. I started writing something in June and finished the story to a final rough draft by the end of the month. That draft reached 54,533 words. Still needs some editing (mainly typo fixes) but I figure I'll save that until I finish the second part so that I can edit both at the same time.

I didn't start writing the second part until a week ago (started on 11.24), up to 19,106 words now. I considered trying to start it on Nov 1st for NaNoWriMo but honestly didn't want to force it. Just being able to finish the story to the way I feel does it justice, for myself, is good enough for me. Even if I never break 50k words. ;) I still have 2 hours to go, so maybe I'll at least break 20k.

"paperboy05
November 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

Yep, urban legend."

More like outright fraud.

I can't wait until the Steampunk fad goes the way of the hula hoop and hypercolor shirts.

Dumbest invention ever.

By far, the light bulb trick made the video. Somehow it made it feel less... absurd?

I don't know if this would be cheating (on several levels at that), but I dedicated November to finishing up the final revisions to my first draft to the story I started in June and worked on through July. It's also in quasi screenplay format but with expanded narratives and descriptions instead of just stage directions or simple explanations of actions. Rough math has me at 60k words, shrink out about 15% to 20% for screenplay formatting (proprietary app, reinstalled Windows on PC, need to install app, used my original text file to calculate word count which has been revised more than 50 times since), scene headers (though I could argue it's a less wordy version of a introduction to location), etc... that puts me at roughly 48,000 to 50,000 words. First draft at standard screenplay margins once the story was completed ran 247 pages. Widening the margins and shrinking the font brought it down to 195. Definitely too big to be shopping around... though I do wonder what I should do with it when I'm done revising and making corrections.

"Miss Cellania
October 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

What’s a GUI?"

"G"raphical "U"ser "I"nterface.

"Miss Cellania
October 28th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Ten years later, PC users were all excited about a new thing called “Windows”, which let them click icons and not have to type in codes. Like Macs.

So there are fewer differences now, but after 20 years, I will stick with Mac."

You mean like how Xerox had it before Macs did?

You can attempt to claim that Macs led the way in the GUI and Windows merely copied it, but that's not the case.

Apple tried to take Microsoft to court and couldn't win. Majority of their claims were denied by the court. Apple appealed and lost.

When it comes down to using a computer in this day and age, Apple is good at marketing. But that's about it.

Amiga, Atari both had GUIs well before Apple did. The Apple Macintosh was Apple's first successful product to use a GUI. Xerox had patents on the GUI prior to 1979.

The Xerox PARC team had developed a GUI before and independently of Apple for quite some time. One of the Xerox PARC team members developed GEM and was sued by Apple for "look and feel."

The GEM interface was released for Atari ST systems. It was ALSO distributed with DRDOS for PC's in the early 80's.

In 1985, Commodore released the Amiga computer and had a GUI called Workbench.

Windows 1.01 was released in 1985. It also was GUI based and had more in common with The PARC development than the Apple Macintosh GUI. Given the lengthly development and distribution time in the mid 80's, there's no way that three different brands all had a GUI coming out simply because Apple had one for their systems less than 6 months prior. Xerox's PARC team got around and licensed their research to a lot of people. Apple just got greedy and refused to accept that other people could "steal" ideas for themselves.

Before Macs were "the chosen one" for trendy factor and video features, you know who led the market in video editing on a computer? Amiga. Almost all of Babylon 5's CGI was done on Amigas. Amiga is also credited for having a pre-emptive multitasking operating system before anyone else, oh, and even using the Motorola 68k processor before Apple did.

Apple owes a significant debt to Xerox and Amiga's research and development. Apple is just like Microsoft in a lot of regards, especially when it comes to appropriating other people's developmental work and reselling it as their own innovations.

Besides, Miss Cellania... You should have been around when it was the Apple II based computers. You had to "type in codes." You couldn't run applications that weren't already saved to disk... you had to type it all in through BASIC and run it while it was in memory. And retype it if you wanted to run it again. Prior to the Macintosh, Apple was ALLLLL about "typing in codes."

And what's one of the biggest things that Mac powerusers like about OSX?

Unix command line. You know. "Typing in codes."

GUI's have always been available in some form or another since the late 1970's. Don't let your ignorance be an excuse for saying that PC's were only catching up to the Mac in that regards. Even on an old Xerox PC x86 (XT, 8086 proc) clone (dual 720k floppy drives, whoo!), there was a GUI for the file manager in DOS.

You like the GUI, great. You like using MacOS? Great. Use what works best for yourself.

Just don't parrot the "Mac has always been better because it always had a GUI" ignorance speak just because you never knew better about other computers and their capabilities before Microsoft had Windows on every PC by default.

WHERE'S MAH BUCKET?!!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

The guy talks about Energy Star, but he neglects to mention a big point: A lot of the devices that go into standby mode are... Energy Star certified.

Whoops.

Also, power bricks will also consume power even if the device the brick is made for is not plugged in. So yes, the video is correct in also pointing out that the only real effective way to deal with vampire power devices is to have a hard switch to turn them all off.

Completely unnecessary to even have to do that in the first place. Give me my hard rocking switches back and get rid of this standby crap.

Slight nitpick on #4... The Strawberry can be said not to be a fruit as it is a member of the rose (Rosaceae) family. A strawberry is not a berry, but a pseudocarp. Some people call it a false fruit or a multiple fruit because each strawberry itself is multiple fruits. This is because the seeds themselves are considered to be individual fruits. Confused yet? :) So the seeds on the outside of the strawberry are actually fruits and the strawberry itself is not a berry. The main sticking point is in that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries.

#8, One could argue that shredding, chopping and bagging is a form of processing for lettuce. If you say fresh WHOLE lettuce, then the question is completely accurate, but doesn't account for other forms in which lettuce is also sold.

The butthurt is strong in this thread.