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Question: Who won the debate, and why?

My Answer: I didn't watch too much, but I caught pieces here and there. Kerry kept saying "I'll do better" and Bush kept saying "uhhh" when pausing for words. Bush won, 53% to 47%, only because Kerry can say he has a plan all he wants, but it seems to involve "magic." Magic money to pay for everything, magic ways to renew alliances with countries that, like him, want sanctions. Sanctions, as Bush pointed out, haven't worked in Iraq. Bush won.

As an aside, I must question the hypocrisy of Dan Rather covering the debates. You know, given Ra^thergate and all that… Ugh.

Please stick to the question (and your answer) in the comments. Attacks on anyone - on either side of this fence - will be removed.

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To three decimal places, geeks tipping:

$33.33 (repeating) + $6.66 (repeating) is a pair of twenties. Or, well, $40 on your credit card.

Question: How do you tip?

My Answer: I double the amount of the bill and move the decimal to the left one place. That's 20% and it serves as my foundation. Average service tips at 20%. Poor service down from there, and good service up from there.

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Scott Stevenson gave his presentation at the BANG meeting last night. Scott discussed PulpFiction, demonstrated Rock Star, and even had a few moments left at the end to show off FTPeel's Magic Mirror.

You can view a PDF of Scott's brief presentation here or download the .keynote (zipped) here.

Question: Should female players be allowed on the PGA Tour?

My Answer: They have an LPGA Tour, but that's no argument for disallowing it. If a woman wishes to compete with the men on the PGA Tour, and makes it through qualifying (or is given a sponsor's exemption), then I see no issue whatsoever. It's not like the PGA tour is going to be overrun with women, and even if that were the case, I wouldn't complain. Natalie Gulbis, Laura Diaz… some of the women are just damn hot! 🙂

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I remain a .Mac subscriber, and this makes things even nicer:

We're excited to announce that your .Mac membership now comes with 250 MB of combined .Mac Mail and iDisk storage. And, in another move designed to make life easier as traffic grows heavier and files grow larger, we've increased the maximum email message size to 10 MB.

The email alone is worth it to me sometimes, and other times it's the iDisk, the Home Page stuff, and sometimes just a nice way to store files I need to get to from another computer.

PulpFiction now works with Cocoal.icio.us. Yay.

Scott Stevenson will be introducing PulpFiction 1.1 at tonights BANG meeting. The meeting is at 7:00 tonight in the De Anza 3 Auditorium. Yep, that's on the Apple Campus. New features include Growl support, this thing, and a few other things.

Nearly everything we've done in PulpFiction 1.1 has come from customer requests. So, keep sending 'em in!

Of course, I don't filter all of my email through SpamSieve - some are "safe" enough that I just route them to the right folders: orders, email from some of the people in my address book, and so on.

Showing Statistics Since
8/24/04 8:00 PM

Filtered Mail
1633 Good Messages
5779 Spam Messages (78%)
164 Spam Messages Per Day

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Like ecto, the next version of PulpFiction will feature Growl support. Growl is…

…a global notification system for Mac OS X. Any application can send a notification to Growl, which will display an attractive message on your screen.

Growl can be configured to activate as filter action. In the example shown at right, I've told PF to "Growl" at me when my "Golf" filter is triggered. The name of the filter appears, as does the blog and the title of the entry.

Growl is customizable, though currently it offers only two themes: the one seen at right and the one seen at the ecto page announcing their support for Growl.

Question: What's your favorite color scheme?

My Answer: Orange is the new black, right? But orange and black look like halloween. Red and green like Christmas. Brown is out. Blue and grey is overused. Red and yellow is fast food. Green and yellow are too similar. Orange and green? Well that's what FSS uses. Any pastels are too girly. Red and black is powerful and makes me think of Titleist, so red and black win. I think the next redesign of my blog will be red, grey, black, and white.

What's black and white and read all over? My blog! Okay, the real answer is "a newspaper." Ha. Yeah yeah, I fail to amuse myself sometimes too. 🙂

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I'm still looking to sell this:

Raptor 30 v2 (49 Ball Bearings) Kit
  w/ OS.32 SX-H Motor and Muffler       $399.99
ProPod Training Gear                      59.99
Sportsman Flight Set                     299.99
Crash Kit                                 59.99
Futaba 9C PCM Radio w/servos             519.99
Futaba 401 Gyro Kit  w/servo             189.99
KSG Balance Kit                           42.99
"Ray's Authoritative Helicopter Manaul    24.99
$80 Goodie Bag                            -----
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Total (will arrive end of next week)   $1597.92

The desperation price (I don't like eBay): $800 shipped. Half off! Who wants it?

Perhaps I'm incredibly dumb, or I've missed something in the spartan manual, but I can't figure out what series of keypresses are needed to activate voice chat with my PS2, a logitech USB headset (which shows up as "voice chat" ready), and NFL 2K5 or NHL 2K5. People have talked to me, but I cannot talk back to them.

An online search has yielded no (helpful) results, and the manual is, as mentioned, rather spartan. Does anyone know how to do this?

I love crappy conspiracy theories. This one almost tops that chemtrails one.

If I'm ever running up against any bandwidth limits, I'll now remember how to gzip my CSS.

Question: Star Trek, Star Wars: do you care?

My Answer: No. I particularly do not care about Star Trek, and Star Wars is nice and all, but George Lucas doesn't realize how absolutely horrible his dialog is. he's got to get over himself (he won't) and let someone else help with the last script (he won't). Ugh.

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