I was reading this funny article on Movie Fighting Styles, and was impressed at the inclusion of Gun Kata. Man, that video really brought back memories of how sweet Gun Kata looked, even if the movie was a bit silly. The sticky hands with firearms exercise was especially awesome.
I also like that the list-maker brought up relevant questions about the situational efficiacy of certain styles.
But what if you’re in an enclosed space, and the only way out is being blocked by a pommel horse and a spinning gymkata master?
These kinds of questions keep me awake at night.
I had some really tough times uninstalling programs yesterday. I thought uninstalling was supposed to be easy! Yesterday, I tried to get rid of Hellgate, but somehow this borked my BF2142 install. BF2142 would never get to the splash screen, it would adjust the screen resolution and then crash right to the desktop (no error message). I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. When I reinstalled, I realized I didn’t have the booklet with the serial number, but I found a sneaky trick on a website that showed how to use System Restore to go back to before the uninstallation and use Regedit to find the serial number.
Reinstallation didn’t fix the problem, but using System Restore to go back to before the uninstallation of Hellgate did. Unfortunately, now I cannot see my mouse pointer in the starting screens, making it rather difficult to log in (fortunately the buttons light up when you hover over them). I have no clue how to fix this!
I was uninstalling some programs, and one of them caused all arial fonts to display as italics in browsers. WTF?! It took a while to figure out why all the text on many pages was displaying as italics, but when I found out that the arial files had been corrupted it was not difficult to find new versions of the font online and copy them over to Windows/Fonts.
It’s amazing what gets used as evidence:
The bikini model was cleared of all charges after the defense council held up a plate showing the size of the hole that Serena was accused of kicking in. It was clear that the hole in the door was not large enough for the 44-inch bust model to squeeze through.
There is also a video, and the comments are both insensitive and hilarious. Of course this leads to my next question, “Just what the heck did happen then?”
I recently found that the new DVD player has a USB port. After reading the instruction manual, I learned that the DVD player is capable of playing DivX encoded files, allowing me to play files off my new 4 GB USB drive right on our big LCD TV. So far the results have been nothing short of amazing. A good quality (not great) episode of Gundam 00 played at extremely high quality on the TV, while a rather low quality event looked just a bit better than a standard definition signal from up close (and even better from the couch).
This is a pretty cool feature, with the only downside being that it takes a pretty long time to convert .mkv, .wmv, and .avi files to .dvx format.
Elsewhere Online | Kabitzin 3/7/2008 | 
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