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Gamine:
Swamp thing!

You are amazing!

You Fight everything!

Thats Right!

Swamp Thing!

aaah, d memowiesss!!!

for an elf, you sound suspiciously like a goblin. elves are refined, suave, discerning

but your oogoo for swamp thing makes you out coarse, brittle, dry and vapid.

like a goblin

max payne? now how did that slid past me? hmm, those sentinels will answer for tis.

haha@vin diesel. he just isnt relevant anymore, one of those "actors" cut from one whole monochromatic cloth

sometimes he even does a poor job playing vin diesel!

yah valkyrie had to be pushed so as not to offend too many german *ahem* sensibilities.

try second life-if you have broadband that is. its great fun sometimes.

you get to loot stores and kill people.

we want to trash mcdonalds!!


pls watch horton. YOU WILL LAUGH ehn!

when the heck are those virtual kisses going to add up to the real thing? dammit ive had all the insulated sex i can get from Second Life .com   i feel like Sly Stallone in Demolition Man   

the real twist in the village happens right at the end: the events were contemporary, not set in the 1800's as we first thought. however the monster thing was a twist too.

mention lady in the lake once more and im going back straight to hell!

did you watch Horton Hears a Who? hillarious, best Dr Seuss ever!

do you know of Valkyrie? Tom cruise's latest vehicle coming in february. its thriller based on historical events circa world war 2, july 20th 1944 actually.

you know, the plot to kill hitler.

he plays the assassin, von stauffenberg.

seen the trailer on youtube, been folowwing the story arch since last year.

can't wait.

was talking on the phone when suddenly some irksome and entirely unsexy feminine voice butted in to alert me my credit was exhausted

call was dropped. dang!

bought a 400 recharge card, scraped off the pin by accident. DANG!

bougt a 200. gingerly took off the silver coating (couldnt they make this any easier?)

dialed the requisite buttons and the pin--waiting---CONGESTION, TRY AGAIN LATER.

Super dang!

waited a few minutes, tried again--SORRY, THE PIN DOES NOT EXIST

what the-?!!

tried again, same thing.

frustrated. getting angry.

walked to shop, made my complaints.

no, no refund after scratching.

huh?

shop girl collects card, loads pin in her phone-IT LOADED!

ok, calm down-just do a transfer from her phone to yours and walk away, nobody gets hurt.

dialed the transfer code--waiting--YOU ARE SENDING 200 CREDITS TO 0803xxxxxxxx. TYPE YES AND RESEND WITHIN 15 MINUTES

merrily typed YES!!!

waited 15 minutes

waited 25 minutes

waited half an hour

message from MTN: YOU FAILED TO RESPOND WITHIN THE 15 MINUTES WINDOW. SORRY, TRANSACTION CANCELLED

gaarr!!!

dialed 180 to complain to customer care.

says: NETWORK BUSY (busy doing what?)

tried again: error in connection

getting REAL angry now.

stumped. didnt know what to do.

absentmindedly checked credits: 40naira still remains!

that $&^&%$ computer cut me off prematurely!!

dialed my friend back: "THE NUMBER YOU'VE CALLED IS NOT AVAILABLE At THE MOMENT". pure lie!!

tried again.


network busy.

ok already! time to sms.

typed away, press send: BEEP! Check Operator Services

God, no.

suddenly my mate rings me back.

happily picked up call.

silence save for the shrill of a thousand un-oiled gear cogs assaulting my ears followed by gurgling noises, moanings, machine shrieks, what sounded like the wind in some hollow tunnel.

dropped the call. inst this suposed to be digital?

mate calls back again. now i can hear him, he for some reason cant hear me. then MTN drops the call.

he called back again, now he sounds like he's calling from the moon.

after a few minutes we gave it all up.

i'll just walk over to his house. sigh

just a typical day with MTN

"who watches the watchmen?" f-ck yeah!

i dont know, iice, but i cant offhand name one shyamalan movie that puts the twist at the beginning, center, or near end of the movie. he just overdid himself and now cant cope with the pressure of working the magic again.

what ive been twisting my mind around is the probable outcome of stark's cameo in hulk. now i know its almost certain there wont be a hulk 2-blame lackluster box office ticket sales on that-so maybe banner will be the baddie in ironman 2. ( dont get me wrong, hulk did rake in as much as or slightly more than ang lee's flick, but nowhere near enough to justify a sequel.)

its funny, but hulk has always struck me as an uncomfortable franchise: he is too big, too green, too dumb, has a monoemotion (rage) and is near indestructible. not much to root for, is there? the comics in my opinion had just been worthwhile incubus to breed other more successful heroes (say wolverine) but beyond that hulk is just another Swamp Thing.

ang lee's disaster just nailed 2008's chance of a sequel.

still need more reason?

and more, all around the world

why you must never rely on windows

for the life of me i cant figure out in what way specifically vista sp1 improves that lump of dog turd. they say file transfer is sped etc etc and i say HOGWASH! file transfer is STILL slower than a crippled turtle and adds a hefty 400+mb to an already overbloated OS. all sp1 did for me was allow me to install vista OSX.

i installed and reformatted twice before my full transition to Unix-like.

oh, and readyboost requires significantly fast USB thumb drives, so yer average sandisk or china-china wont work. even external hadr drives can use readyboost but still they must be darn fast.


me, ive gone completely over to linux and os x leopard. before i got the m acbook i went the osx86 route with iatkos v1.oi and it worked almost flawlessly.

on my amd machine i run ONLY ubuntu. goodbye windoze.

windows around the world

Gamine:
For you to say something is creepy

it MUST BE REALLY creepy

i find YOU creepy.

she elf

@chikeze

go to installer

go to sources

type edit

type add

type http://i.unlock.no

click ok

refresh

go to install

go to unlocking tools category

install ziphone ibrickr fix

(you can do this via mtn edge/gprs)

restart phone

now connect your phone to pc, make sure itunes is running

start pc suite

while your phone is still connected via usb, switch off phone (power down, not sleep)

switch phone on again.

tick box on pc suite daemon installation screen

switch phone off again

switch back on

YOU ARE DONE!!!!

obvious lack of drivers. what model is it? just go to the manufacturer's website and in the suport section look for xp drivers for video, audio and network controller among other things.

@iice

the avengers, you say? will they film that? interesting, though i dont know why.

hancock is good, love the twist.

there is however one movie i cannot wait to see: the Autumn series of zombie books (autumn, echoes, the city, disintegration etc) by david moody. man them books is creepy!

@ToH, davidif

shyamalan suffers the curse of success: the sixth sense made a yardstick against which all subsequent movies will be judged, and the twist he introduced-the very formula that ensured the movie's replayability and hence, success-somehow turned around and bogged him down. all his movies are expected tohave somthin artistic in them, something to grip us and make us wonder if we really knew what was happening.

unbreakable came close, it had much promise and wiggle room but he bunked it. signs was pretty good precisely because it was claustrophobic (but a bit silly in some places) and then the twist wasnt really a twist. in the end, it was just an expose on the existence of god.

the village actually has a remarkable twist, except i sat 120 minutes watching people in period costume strut around bumping into each other in te most stale drama ever. i expected more tan i got.,

lady in the water is a travesty: he took artistic to a record level of sham, and it stank to high heaven.

which brings us to the happening.

forget the miscasting of the ungifted mark wahlberg, forget the cranky dialog, forget the disjointed edits from one scene to another.

think of the plot. where was it? i think its very telling that one of the last closing remarks in the movie was by a scientifico on television who in response to the question "what the hell just happened" said "we will never know".

too true! he did an excellent work in iron man, hence my trick question: he made tony stark believable. you really cant draw a line between stark and downey.

mark my words, they will ruin him in hulk 2.

ah, the gifts of foresight!

are you in love with cocaine-sniffing robert downey jr, or the beer-guzzling fictional tony stark as played by the former?

@iice
all life is transient, and what we call time is nothing but our perception of the progress of events. too little time, too much time-it all depends on where you are and how you look at things.

tempus fugit

tempus fugitive

but before hell freezes over i shall return from whence i came.

@gamine

what about tony stark?

first, get some pc DNA.

the brimstone in my chest is touched so see i was missed, though i thought *some people* would mail me to see if i was still among the blessed living. alas, my stay here is ephemeral.

@iice

Exactly! to Hell i went, for my redemption always begins there, but now, in spite of tyranny that excommunicates those of freewill, here i am-and this is my body. ban, exile, call it what you will but it never stifles the resilient soul and i shall keep rising anew to haunt these infernal corridors of human banality.

i am the chimera that deepens the gloom.


my fave scene was the very yoga ending, where he finally got control of his inner rage, able to summon the green monster at will. and then tony stark walks in.

hmm, hulk will go bad.

You do know me, for i figure in your nightmares.

fiend! do you not see my name?

Deus Ex Inferis!

god from Hell!!

liberate tutame ex inferis!!!

ha! you mock me. Alea jacta est!!


(Hulk sucks, but the shoehorned ending is a nice twist. wanted is so-so, but the worst of them all is The hapening. Shyamalan has really sunk to a record low).

SHHH! Neoteny? what in the tender mercies is THAT? wink wink

@Gamine

scoundrels see jokes where there are none, child, it is the curse of the children of Annon. tempt ye the flames of Hardin and perish in one fiery gust. a phoenix you are not, and to dust shall you return to lie in a pile of clay alongside the polished bones of the fell pilgrim Mahdi, the warden of the vestibule.

all who mock the sacred flames go to ruin and decrepitude.

since theres no front facing camera (boo hoo iChat) im hanging on to my faithful first-gen iphone and upgrading when 2.0 comes out. i can do withoiut gps and 3g for now (though i must say i dig tat loopt thingy).

tez, 2.0 and app store arent out prolly coz they dont want other users to enjoy the stuff before the 3G-buying demography does. that will get 'em buying, wont it?

even though the issue is resolved here is what probably happened:

BSoD is also known as Stop Error Code 0x0000000A and you probably see something like the attached image


What these parameters are telling you is this:-
0x0227001d – is an address that was referenced incorrectly.
0X00000002 – is an IRQL that was required to access memory – Interrupt Request Level
0x00000000 - is the type of access, where 0 is a read operation and 1 is a write operation
0x804eba3a - The address of the instruction that referenced memory in parameter 1

Stop error 0x0000000A (Stop 0x0A) indicates that there was an attempt in
kernel mode to touch pageable memory at too high a process internal request
level (IRQL). Typically, this error occurs when a driver uses an incorrect memory
address. Other possible causes of this error are an incompatible device driver,
a general hardware problem, and incompatible software


i believe its resetting your BIOS settings that helped, perhaps it reset your HAl settings to Standard PC HAL (Hardware Abstractyion Layer, the bit that is masked by device drivers and shielded from User Space).

its always a good idea to reset your BIOS settings to default (load optimal values) when having such issues.

hope this helps in the future.

(gravelly hellish voice)

hello iice. long time huh?

"The warden of the vestibule-Hyrchanian Beast !-on whose gauntlets dangle the keys of Ecthildion, whose bones gleam on the banks of Cocytus spat upon by the infernal Ferryman of Hell, Charon. On those gloomy shores i stand revived like the Flaming bird of wronged deities, reborn anew, survivor of tyranny. i am the bane of vanity, and i bring war to the enemies of Hades-dreaded usurpers! "

who am i?

Nephylim
Erewon
Ozar
Taliesin
Eklas
Nur
Yar Annun

Legends all. do you see me in them?