When I was a young boy, I awoke every morning to the delicious smell of pancakes. My mother, and father's dojo contained within it a hot griddle perfect for making pancakes, waffles, and a multitude of other pancake-like breakfast pastries. I remember them well -- The pleasant, care-free days of my childhood in the dojo were often spent peering into the kitchen with eager anticipation as my mother prepared pancakes my family.

As I grew older, and began my journey to spiritual enlightenment, the memories of my pancake-eating youth filled my heart and dreams with warm, fluffy goodness....Ahhh, yes..the sweet, sweet memories... The day I ate 10 pancakes... The day I placed a warm pancake between my fleshy loins and performed the forbidden dance... The day pressed a pancake to my buttocks and encouraged my dog to come eat.. Indeed, much of my childhood was spent in pure innocence -- An innocence only pancakes can provide. It was heaven. A heaven, filled with pancakes, where I sat at the throne of God, with my hand-maidens Aunt Jemimah and Mrs. Butterworth seated beside me. An indestructible triumvirate made of flour, eggs, sugar, milk, water, and love.

By the age of 15, the path of my life became unclear and confusing. Torn between my duty my village and my love for pancakes, I foolishly left home in search of karaguchi ah-nowakadesu .. the ultimate pancake. My journey took me to the many islands of my homeland, many days away from my dojo. My hunger for pancakes became my teacher, and foolishly I let it control the path that I walked upon. My feet, sore from travel, ached as my heart and stomach did, until I came to a realization. My duty was clear. I needed to take a stand and accept my love for the art of the ninja AND my love for pancakes. It was not wrong for me to love both. I love one as a dear friend, and one as a lover. Yes--My mission was clear--I must become a ninja, a secret assassin hired by the imperial family BUT I MUST ALSO ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL PANCAKE.

My adoration for breakfast cakes has placed me within an awkward position. Many ninja refuse to recognize me as their brother. I defend my father's land, but I am looked upon as weak and undisciplined. I tell them, "But, brothers! Listen to my plea! The pancakes do not weaken me, nor do they make me disobey the rule of my sword. They fill me with love." But alas, they do not understand...For the mind of a ninja is complex.

My only earthly desire is to be accepted for who I am. Yes, I am a NINJA--But I also enjoy pancakes. Will you accept me? If you were approached by a ninja who requested a pancake, would you submit to his will?

Wisdom From The Last Ninja

Ballsiest thing I've heard a politician say in a while and... she lacks balls.

Pelosi Fucks not Around (occasionally)

Somewhere between theoretical constructs like finite automata and Turing machines and feature-rich programming languages like Perl and C lives a world of misfits. These so-called esoteric languages frequently employ obfuscation and fustian as central design goals; but that doesn't mean you can't do some neat (useless) things with them.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, Chef is great :)

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Bally Technologies, Inc. (originally the Bally Manufacturing Corporation) is an American corporation. The company has existed for more than 70 years with a complex history of re-organizations, mergers, and divestitures; it had roots as an early and successful maker of pinball games and slot machines, and was later associated with both the health club and gambling industries.

Pinball-Slot Machines-Gyms-Casinos

wow

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The world’s first sports car phone with alcohol Breathalyzer has gotten tremendous popularity in Korea. The cell phone by LG was a big hit from the beginning mainly because its outward appearance of a sports. Equipped with an alcohol measurement sensor, the LG-SD410, LG-KP4100, and LG-LP4100 have sold over 200,000 in the four months that it has been available, and is still selling around 1500 per day.

Having an alcohol measurement device attached to something like a cell phone is nothing but brilliant, especially among younger crowds who regularly drink after work or school and like to party. To use the sensor an intoxicated individual simply opens the phone and blows on the sensor, the LCD will tell you whether your level of alcohol in your blood is safe to drive.

Bloody Koreans are too smart! I thought of this while drunk dialing last night: a breathalyzer that will not let you talk on the phone if you are drunk: you can only call a taxi, alcoholics anonymous, a suicide hotline, or 911. Everyone thought it was a novel and original idea. But they've alreay done this and its selling like hotcakes.

I think a phone attachment could still work, though, a little thing that goes in the charge plug/data cable jack.

LG Cell Phone with Breathalyzer gaining popularity

Catonic wrote:

Random Guy, I salute you for your daring breach of national security and efforts at exposing a lack of security around critical infrastructure. Also, your message is one of hope for an oppressed and voiceless people everywhere. God Bless You, American!

This guy has balls the size of cantelopes. Jesus H. Christ. They could easily have been shot. So, okay they got away with it? Now... what happens to him now that he has put the video on the web and admitted that he did it? Gitmo? Will he face arrest?

Okay, wait... so its fake... this is a digital composition?

RE: Guy Tags Air Force One

The general purpose of multiple regression (the term was first used by Pearson, 1908) is to learn more about the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and a dependent or criterion variable. For example, a real estate agent might record for each listing the size of the house (in square feet), the number of bedrooms, the average income in the respective neighborhood according to census data, and a subjective rating of appeal of the house. Once this information has been compiled for various houses it would be interesting to see whether and how these measures relate to the price for which a house is sold. For example, one might learn that the number of bedrooms is a better predictor of the price for which a house sells in a particular neighborhood than how "pretty" the house is (subjective rating). One may also detect "outliers," that is, houses that should really sell for more, given their location and characteristics.

Multiple Regression Analysis

This glossary provides definitions for terms, concepts, and methods frequently encountered in morphometric literature and discussions. It includes entries for technical terms with more-or-less special meaning in shape analysis and biological morphometrics (e.g., preshape, warps, anisotropy) and some of the casual jargon that may be completely foreign to newcomers to the field (e.g., books of various color - Red, Blue, Orange, and Black). Many definitions provide the general idea behind each entry instead of a technically or mathematically rigorous treatment. As such, they are intended to give readers an intuitive understanding of a particular entry that will allow them to follow the main ideas in the literature without becoming unduly distracted, at first, with technical details. Unless otherwise indicated, the following general notation has been used: n - number of specimens, p - number of points/landmarks, k - number of dimensions, a superscript t will refer to the transpose of a matrix (e.g., At, but that may not be displayed properly by all WWW browsers). Members of the morphometrics community, especially the subscribers to the MORPHMET electronic mailing list, have helped greatly in the selection of terms to be included in the glossary.

Geometric morphometrics glossary (part 1)

"We are observing a definite trend of hundreds of terabytes of tape library being replaced with disk," says Duplessie. "These companies were permanently replacing, not augmenting tape."

Tape is Dead

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Radmind for windows.

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