.... hmmm... i'm bored.... so...
Manny legends are based in truth. The famous 13th-century explorer Marco Polo heard fantastic tales of bird that was so large it could swoop down and carry off elephants. In fact, the creaturs did exist! Until they became extinct about 1,000 years ago, Madagascar's elephant birds were the largest birds that ever lived. Tough they couldn't lift an elephant... they stood 10 feet tall and weighed close to half a ton.
In the Middle Ages, the horn of the mythical unicorn was worth 20 times its weight in gold... In fact, the long, spiraled tusks came from the narwhal, a type of artic whale. [image]
It is believed the Unicorn legend was inspired by the arabian oryx- a twin-horned animal that resembles an antelope... hmm wierd stuff i look up now... i wonder when it was when i stopped using the internet for porn... maybe when i was 17?....
on a side note: DAMN IT I UPGRADED to Opera7.23 AND IT SUKKS!!!!! it works awfully with BBS sites like jdorama... IT doesn't show the simlies and the button for the 'tags' do not work on it.... i think 6.11 was WAY BETTER... i need to re-install the older version damn this blows! :mad:
lovelessemotion wrote:
on a side note: DAMN IT I UPGRADED to Opera7.23 AND IT SUKKS!!!!! it works awfully with BBS sites like jdorama... IT doesn't show the simlies and the button for the 'tags' do not work on it....
You're right. Opera is laggish especially on jdorama type of BBS. The tags display as you preview your message.
Loveless
Try to change Opera to IE 6.0 mode. See if the problem is solved.
one a side note: Opera sure likes memory, if the browser is kept open for days without closing, it'll hog up to 150MB RAM!?!?! A glitch?
My comp is currently coughing, need to close the browser if it's not used.
Opera got its good sides too:
- it's fast and reliable, unlike IE 5 :rolleyes:
- free surfing, no frickin spyware components being installed to the comp.
- naughty site friendly :naughty:
- pop up stopper
- several handy features
r u guys subcribed to the jlist mailing list? a friend of mine is and he forwards stuff to us.Here's the latest one i got, a bit of japan tidbits...
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Hello from J-List! Spring is beginning to spring here in Japan, a time
that's called Haru Ichiban in Japanese. On the Kanto plain that means
strong, dusty winds blowing everywhere, as high pressure and low
pressure
zones fight it out for control of the country. It's windy outside, but
at
least it's getting warmer.
People and customs can vary quite a lot from place to place. In America,
we
try to respect individuality, and the concept that everyone is unique
and
special is seen as a positive one. But in Japan, the dynamics of how
groups
function tend to make people less interested in being seen as unique or
special by the in-group at large. I like to consider my own life to be
quite unique -- I'm an American who's been lucky enough to live in Japan
for the past 13 years and evangelize Japanese pop culture to many great
people all around the world. I also lived in New Zealand for a year when
I
was a boy, and am one of the few Yanks in the world who can recite Fred
Dagg comedy monologues. I had a Japanese friend who was very different
from
"average" Japanese in many ways, yet when I pointed this out to her once
she said, "No, I'm just a normal, average Japanese." My friend actively
wanted to be thought of as normal (in Japanese: futsuu) and not
different
(kawatteru) from the norm, and my compliment that she was "unique"
actually
upset her.
In the course of my adult life I've read most of James Clavell's books
on
Asia and Japan. While his historically-based novels are interesting,
I've
always had a problem with his Japanese characters who are finely attuned
to
such concepts as giri (duty, honor, obligation) and ninjo (lit. human
feeling, e.g. the moral tradition of giving up something for others) and
other flowery concepts that didn't seem to mesh with modern Japan. I've
never met a Japanese who was ready to commit seppuku, although James
Clavell's characters always seem ready to disembowel themselves at a
moment's notice to defend their honor. I have observed, however, that
most
Japanese do practice real filial piety, that is, showing respect to
their
parents and making decisions that take their parents wishes into
account.
For example, while Americans usually leave home in their late teens or
early twenties and never live with their parents again, it's customary
for
the oldest son or daughter to stay at home permanently, taking over the
family business (if there is one) and maintaining the house as the
central
hub for the rest of the family members. When that person gets married,
their wife or husband will come live with them in their parents house,
in
effect being legally adopted by that family. When my father-in-law
married
my wife's mother, he came to live at our house, taking his wife's last
name
and taking over the family liquor shop. I also joined their household,
although I kept my own last name. A bit of trivia for you: a man who
lives
with his wife's parents but doesn't take their last name is called a
Masuo
(mah-SOO-oh), named after the husband in the long-running anime show
Sazae-san. If you want to surprise Japanese friends, pull this bit of
knowledge out and watch their jaws hit the floor that a foreigner would
know something like this.
I wrote:I can be the most agnostic person there is
I can give you a run for your money, Niko.
speaking of religion, when i was little, i always wanted to know what religion our family was. I would asked my dad and his responcse was always like, *in cantonese* "I believe in my hands. if you uses your hands to work hard, you can do anything" so whenever anyones used to ask what religion i am, i usually say nothing. it would sound pretty perv if i said "i believe in my hands'. not that i DON'T believe in God or any other religion, just don't have a religion to believe in.
TY pemu.. ::pemu ALWAYS to the rescue:
i was already on IE6 mode... but thanks for the idea.. wow i had no idea about the memory glitch.. altough that would explain an awful LOT :shakehead:
.. lol all the reason u listed are the reason why i LOVE opera... especially the
- naughty site friendly :naughty: .. lol and the
- pop up stopper
the thing is OPera 6.11 WORKED PERFECTLY with BBS... but 7.23 doesn't!!! i need to find a place where i can get the 6.11 version...
hey pemu any webbrowsers ya recommend?
on a side note: don't u work at a computer maintanance shop now? if ur comp is messing up why not take it in a have it fixed for free?
God I hate FLU! taking medicine feeling so p***ed when you got that feverish feeling. Phew..I'm getting better...less coughing, no more feeling like s**t... :nut: I can smile even to Hirosue Ryoko (yuck.eek yuckk..Hirosue..eek) meaning that I'm getting better right? At least while watching "Motokare" I don't have the urge to kill her.. :hehe: (Poor Rina..can I just be Sadako there and Kill Hirosue?..annoying little b**ch).
Ehem...sorry I got so carried away..(I can curse!! I'm getting better from nasty Flu)
lovelessemotion wrote:TY pemu.. ::pemu ALWAYS to the rescue:
*Superman* :mrgreen:
lovelessemotion wrote:
hey pemu any webbrowsers ya recommend?
Installed a Mozilla Firefox-browser today. So far so good. It's pretty fast too.
lovelessemotion wrote:
on a side note: don't u work at a computer maintanance shop now? if ur comp is messing up why not take it in a have it fixed for free?
Yes, I'm workin at computer maintenance shop.
I solved the problem. The problem was the memory ran out. Opera browser 24/7 (hoggin loadsa memory) and I have burned several dvds the day before that day. Dvd burning hogs all the memory on the comp, silly OS, doesn't free its reserved memory after the burn. The only fix to the lag is the good old reboot ;)
Pemu wrote: Dvd burning hogs all the memory on the comp, silly OS, doesn't free its reserved memory after the burn. The only fix to the lag is the good old reboot ;)
man, it's gotta suck if you have to reboot ALL the time after burning a dvd.
niko2x wrote:man, it's gotta suck if you have to reboot ALL the time after burning a dvd.
Hehe. No need to. If I burn approx. 10 dvds, then it's recommended to reboot. If the reboot is not performed, it may affect the performance off the other applications.
I think there are. There's a place called Japantown here and I'm planning to visit it soon. I was able to see a dorama last night on a local channel KTSF. It didn't have subtitles though. hehehe. There was also this show called Hey Hey Hey after the dorama.
Was "Hey Hey Hey" like a music type of show?! Kind of like skits?
halo...long time didn't post..
holiday now..that's y i can surf internet..
i'm at home...
today my bestfren called me...aha hepi!she sms me...
other than that my frenz sms me...
i knew that they will not forget me(hope so)
other than that my teachers also sms me...
haha...great!
smktun-miss!!!
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