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Geek Culture / What did you get for Xmas?

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Hockey07
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Posted: 25th Dec 2002 22:24
Well, I seem to have gotten nothing. And I mean it!















.........




Because I dont even celebrate Christmas! So, what did you get?
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Posted: 25th Dec 2002 23:06
*cough*

UT2003
Minority Report
Star Fox Adventures
...
general stuff (your parents always seem to think that you never have enough handkerchiefs!)

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Posted: 25th Dec 2002 23:11
Samsung Picture Phone with billions of options! Only kind avaliable in America!
Big mofo digital camcorder!
300 bucks worth of books! Including media and 3dsmax tutorials!
Acid music loop!
minority report also!
lots of cds!
w00tness
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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 00:56
ughhh.... ahem ill start now...

ibm 1 gig micro drive
casio e-databank color camera wrist watch
=\ clothes <-=-= i need em
darwin awards 1 and 2
candy ^_^
ion pen
2 books by steven hawking
a calender
a tooth brush <-=- i dont know why
crave <-=- by calvin klein ... i have so much calone <-=- sp?
a tiny ass vacume
a video game
=\ a tool kit
about 700 bucks in cash...
an address book
metal skulpture...<=-=- something i build ... i dunno
lip balm 2 things...
soap O_O
and a thingy of colored pencils...

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 00:56
i think thats it...

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 02:27
Oh, DarthPuff, you crack me up!

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 03:52
^_^ really now...

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 04:29
Hmmmm. So far I've got:

- A minuature of Gandalf ( really realist and I bet expensive...ghehe )
- Socks
- Games: James Bond Night Fire, MS Flight Simulator 2002 ( my favorite game ever... cool to play with Sidewinder Force Feed back pro ), Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 and Command and Conquer for PSone ( been wanting that for ages ).
- Some clothes
- Chocolate box (hmmmmmm, tasty).
- A cool PS2 joypad ( I dont have a PS2, but I use in my computer with an adaptor ).

That's what I've got so far. Though, there are more things on the way. I've family and friends in some other countries and looks like the Post Office in Sweden been busy for a while .

And I need to buy some things to my wife too :S It was over when I went to buy her some stuff and she has birthday right on Xmas day... so it gets expensive .But I did not give much things to her BUt I will fix till the end of this week . Well, all that means that Xmas' gifts are still not over for me, not only to win stuff but to buy some

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 05:35
hehe ... rogue O_O its the thought that counts... hope your lil lady doesnt get steamed

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 05:57
lmao... ho hum eh some of us only got like one or two presents
but don't think you could get anything better than spending christmas with the folks to be honest.

Well my brother would disagree, would say its the presents - but we all did go a little overboard on his
He passed his test recently so we all chipped in an got him a car ... Saab 900, or 1900 something like that
I don't feel safe in it with him driving but its certainly comfy.

Hope ya'll are having a great holiday thou (^_^)
I certainly am, and spoke to Rose today who certainly is happy to be with her folks.

Merry Christmas all and a happy new years

Anata aru kowagaru no watashi!
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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 07:12
^_^ well im still trying to get mac os to run on my palm pilot... the new gig lets me do all sorts of stuff...=P... i wonder if they feel safe with you in your porsche...

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 15:40
and I also got a broadband internet connection - Very useful when combined with UT2003.

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Posted: 26th Dec 2002 23:45
broadband is da bomb abazomb...

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Posted: 27th Dec 2002 01:26
...in English we say "it rocks"

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Broadband I can't live without it... I could today easly sell my TV and stereo after get brondband I hardly use any other entreteining thing then my computer

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Posted: 27th Dec 2002 02:46
^_^ i was just makin fun of people who say "its da bomb"...

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Posted: 27th Dec 2002 03:28
add another 200 to the cash... i just got another check...

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Posted: 27th Dec 2002 03:36
To make it short: A lava lamp (best present), about $55 total (500kr) and some clothes. Worst xmas ever =( Well I'm still gonna get something from my sisters and brother...

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Hope they will get u some games

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Posted: 27th Dec 2002 04:14
yup ^_^... im probably going to buy a 29" monitor now O_O i need a new one... this one has gone blurry....

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Posted: 27th Dec 2002 05:34
you may have no idea what it is: but one of my gifts was the complete first season of "24" on DVD. It's the greatest tv show ever IMHO. Anyway, it's a great gift, but I don't know who it's from... apperantly from some bozo named "Santa"... anyone know who that is?

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Posted: 27th Dec 2002 06:27
o_O i strangely got books about how people die stupidly from my snake... O_O i think hes trying to tell me something...

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Posted: 28th Dec 2002 06:13
cool Raps
i heard alot about that series, 2 is on the way or just showing ... i can't remember. (^_^)
Sounded interesting, but not really my cuppa tea - hehee

wouldn't worry about it DG, didn't exactly get alot of things here - my family is more for the "practical" presents you'll use almost daily. This year probably all went a lil overboard on it, normally everyone keeps within like £500 limits for everyone ... but cause there was only like 6 of us this year (my family has been kinda dieing off rapidly ) well basically we all kinda decided to get everyone stuff they really wanted.

Next year probably get socks and some computer component again

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Posted: 28th Dec 2002 06:54
hehe =P well socks do come in handy... O_O

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Posted: 28th Dec 2002 18:06
socks, I love to win socks in my birthday and other dates... Is it only me or socks suddenly dissapear?. Sounds strange, but after I've trown somes into the wash machine chest, somes never return That's witch... I can never make a pair again...

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Posted: 28th Dec 2002 18:28
lmao... no that happens to everyone
atleast you don't have a brother and roomie who are the same size feet as you and can't be bothered to find their own socks and just steal them all the time.

now my brother i could steal the socks back from, but my roomie is a girlie with those anklesocks and such - which really i'd rather stick away from

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Posted: 28th Dec 2002 22:20
U have to put ur initials in ur socks

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o_O i make sure my socks dont disapear... O_O you see i mate them right after they get out of the dryer... so when im walking back to my room they dont drop... and then my cats cant carry them away... (i found a huge sock nest outside... my cats had been sleeping there... that must have been the dirtiest nastiest nest ever... O_O)

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Posted: 29th Dec 2002 02:18
hahahhahha

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Posted: 29th Dec 2002 02:20
O_O i cleaned it up with a large stick...

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Posted: 29th Dec 2002 04:47
Not your cuppa tea? Well what is then? Do you like "Anne of Green Gables"?
24 is the best action/suspence on TV in America... of course thats all just my opinion. And yes, second season is showing right now. It's hard to get into I imagine, because each episode is a continuation of the last, but once you find out whos who and what is going on, you'll love it
The episodes range from entertaining to rediculously exciting/suspensful. IE- When "Kim" got kidnapped, this "Bad Guy" turned good and saved her. He took her to his house were he found out his brother had spent the money they would use to buy a crapload of drugs. Of course the sellers are gonna be pissed, enough to kill or severly maime

For those who have no idea what I'm talking about:
24 is a set of 24 shows, each one an hour long. That equals one day Events occur in real-time, so if someone drives across town or something, it takes them half an hour instead of 30 seconds. There is a main plot, mixed in with several sub-plots, so theres always something interesting. There are a few sets of main charactors, and although they are all tied together by some means, they all have their own agenda, tying in with the main story of course. During the course of each show we switch from person to person, seeing whats going on, when, etc.
First season, there was a black senetor running for prez. Some one wants to assasinate him, presumably because he's black. Then there's the counter-terrorist agent, Jack Bauer (main charactor) is to protect him by finding out who and when, etc. but his family gets kidnapped, by the terrorists, and then he gets more to worry about when it turns out there is a mole in CTU. Of course there are more people and such, but thats the general overview. Second season deals with the same charactors, this time with a nice little nuke...

Sorry for the whole summery, but I love the show

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no no... its not how its setup that is little a little off to me - i mean its probably the first peice of US TV which is actually very much like what the BBC make alot of.

No its just more one of those things that doesn't bother me, like i'll sit and watch it if i've got nothing better to do rather than throw in a DvD - but other than that isn't really greatly interesting to me

my mom and grandparents are quite into that kinda thing thou -

Ohhh which reminds me, i don't get to watch alot of TV in the states cuase quite frankly i hate the setup - but just saw there's a cartoon of Stargate
I never knew it was actually getting so popular, i mean its cool (^_^)
and hope this means even after the final season 7 which is gonna be shown very soon, we'll have a 2nd version of it on the way - with new characters, new movies and possibly futher in the future

think that the Ga'uld should evolve or something cool in the final episode|movie (^_^)
lol no prizes for guessing what my favourite show is

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Posted: 29th Dec 2002 13:11
i only watch science/discovery/history/travel/food/bbca/discovery2/wings/tlc/tech/all movie chan's/mtv1/mtv2/muchmusic/vh1/payperview on my tv... (i know that may seem a lil langthy but i have over 800 chans... =\)

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Quote: "i only watch science/discovery/history/travel/food/bbca/discovery2/wings/tlc/tech/all movie chan's/mtv1/mtv2/muchmusic/vh1/payperview on my tv... (i know that may seem a lil langthy but i have over 800 chans... =\)
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Yeah, well, I have over 1000 channels on 2 of my tvs and then 71 channels on 2 other tvs. But on the 71 channel ones there is MAX and ENCORE and HBO and STARZ(those are really good movie channels) and then there are the general NBC, MSNBC,Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, History CHannel,ESPN,ESPN2,Fox Sports Net,ABC,Fox,Fox Family, Disney Channel, and things like that.

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Posted: 29th Dec 2002 20:25
have one of those 500 channel sat deals at home, never watch the bloody thing i think 400 of the channels are just like movies, regular and porn - dunno though just know i pay for the full package which actually would be alot cheaper to do if Sky was in the states

i've missed Sky alot, comming back over Christmas seeing all the UK channels again - made me relise, the States needs SKY

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the states need better shows... o_O so many channels and almost nothing is ever on... makes me wanna cry...

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yup... its what happens when you give fool's a million buck thou

i think actually need to like chop the channels down to something reasonable and work on something similar to Sky... i mean my grandpa has these new controller deals, i was playing Tomb Raider on the Sky+ box... then we turned on the second controller and was playing like a Worm Melee - might not have been state of the Art, but hell i wish my Sat box inthe states was atleast Tivo happy - but even the Tivo features compaired to Sky+ were just so... so... BASIC!

i gotta repeat, States needs SKY!

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Stargate??? Uggg...
Anyway, the BBC doesn't have commercials, and therefore isn't really in real-time. Theres some useless trivia for you

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lmao... the DvD isn't then neither
i thought 24 was shown on Channel5 anyways
now that channel would fit right at home in the states, so much tacky crap.

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hehee i just noticed Shaders first response...

you get handkerchiefs too?
what is it about parents that believe that your sleeve isn't a good substitute

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o_O bad raven... BAD... thats not sanitary... (scratches his stuble... O_O i havent shaved in days)...

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lol... i've been told off about that since i've got home, apartently i'm not allowed to have that haunted coder look

gotta sleep sane hours, shave (which i've told my mom i'm growning a beard ), eat at normal times, actually turn off my computer at nite, make sure if i go out i'm back by 2am... I HAVE A FREAKING CURFEW AGAIN!!

we'll see how long it is before my mom gets piss'd at me for not actually listening to a single one of the rules i've been given

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I've cancelled my cable tv signature last month ^_^. I will just download the junky now. I hardly have time to sit on the tv and watch it... and I don't have a video cassette to record the things anymore so .

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James Bond NightFire, Coldplay and U2 cd's, coat and other clothes, money.

Usual culprits....

Oh, and DB Pro (how could I forget!)

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gotta sleep sane hours, shave (which i've told my mom i'm growning a beard ), eat at normal times, actually turn off my computer at nite, make sure if i go out i'm back by 2am... I HAVE A FREAKING CURFEW AGAIN!!

i dont even have a curfew... or maybe i just dont listen.. O_O...

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o_O neat..

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