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Thanks for this tutorial, even though it was nothing new for me (pretty basic stuff) I'm looking forward to reading your next articles, especially when you will be talking about game logic. Thumbs up!

Great post! Thanks

I didn't realize people still used Outlook

Wow! Very informative post, thank you

Bookmarked as well

No kidding ... skipping out on the Olympics shows what pampered wussies these NBA stars have become. Yeah, you dudes are so tough you won't go to Athens, which was about the safest city in the world these past weeks.

Cheers to the players who *did* go.

Hey Richard!

Yr critics are basically wrong here. Kerry *did* shoot home movies of his battlegrounds (or "battlerivers"?) and he has never claimed otherwise. He *did* go back to the scenes of various trouble spots and make little movies.

Keller wrote a column making fun of Kerry for this. Kerry's office, in 2002, invited Keller to come in and watch 40 minutes of this footage. Keller left thinking it wasn't a big deal ... that Kerry just made some home movies of the spots where he had shootouts w/ Charlie.

But nothing in Keller's "retraction" column says the basic story isn't true. The film exists, obviously -- some was used in the campaign video tonight, so I've heard (I was walking the dog so I could be back in time to see all of Kerry's speech) -- and I'm not even sure if there's anything bad about it.

Even if it seems creepy ....

I do know that every one of my veteran friends, uncles, bro-in-laws and especially grandpas are pretty serious about documenting their war days. There are photos, films, trinkets, and of course the War Stories. And they come out in a flash, if you show the slightest interest. (I'm always interested in these stories, just because they're interesting. Maybe not if you're married to the person and hear a variation of the tale whenever someone visits, but ....)

I don't know. The story, in itself, is obviously true. The *motivation* will fuel the argument. And even though it creeps me out that Kerry was possibly planning his Political Life way back then, I'm not sure it will really hurt him in any serious way -- meaning, won't hurt him in the independent / swing voter world -- because it *still* sounds better than Bush (& Cheney, & Clinton) avoiding service in Vietnam while lesser kids had to go there and die.

It started, dude! Start writing!

Dead lyricist Robert Hunter's a pretty interesting guy, too. I learned from Brian Doherty's piece in Reason that Hunter was a National Guardsman during the Watts riots.

Hunter was also one of the LSD test piglets at Stanford, I think around the time Ken Kesey was making beer money the same way. And he wrote all the Dead songs that mattered.

As I sat in traffic for 75 minutes -- making the 20 mile drive from LAX to Silver Lake -- it warmed my heart to listen to the radio and hear the City Council tackling the *real* problems. Then I got to Matt & Manu's new house, where a crazed lunatic had been caught wandering the back yard. The potholes on my old street had grown dramatically since the February storms, and a charming selection of couches & 90-day-old Xmas trees livened up this neighborhood of $350K 800-square-foot shacks.

And the gangs are back! I'm nostalgic for 1992, so it's nice to see the city's "leaders" helping us return to those glorious days.

Gawd, that's a fantastic & crazy monologue. Just reading it on the screen, I can hear Nicholson's drawl.

As for that emergent-democracy thing, I have no idea what it's going on about ... other than reminding me vaguely of the same stuff I ignored back when Kurt Cobain was still alive.

At least George Hanson's rant is brief & to the point!

That's what I love about blogger-booze bashes: people who shoot at each other online tend to enjoy each other's company in person.

As Jeebus said, "Booze is the grease of society's machine."

I made that up all by myself! That earns me a "War Is Not The Answer" bumper sticker ... and some booze, I hope.

And thanks for the shaver/trimmer tip. I'm off the Fry's tomorrow.

Thanks Richard!

And thanks for that scary list of columns re: the Dem leadership.

Man, can't they do a little better than that?

Richard - I can answer them all without consulting a book/search engine ... but am I right? (I'm not sure about the "how much longer" part of question #7, and "long enough for my purposes" probably wouldn't impress a teacher.)