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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: JACUZZI BOYS AND ELECTRIC BUNNIES LPS NOW OUT
« on: October 29, 2009, 01:11:54 PM »
YES YES YES FUCKING PAYPAL'D fuck yes
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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?
« on: October 28, 2009, 01:38:56 PM »
Ovenman by Jeff Parker
Halfway through and it's very well written, like a younger Padgett Powell. The cover makes it look like young adult fiction, which sucks.
Halfway through and it's very well written, like a younger Padgett Powell. The cover makes it look like young adult fiction, which sucks.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Quit Drinking
« on: October 20, 2009, 04:38:33 PM »
Vinnie, you've got tons of good advice here and honestly, you don't sound like it's gotten so out of hand that you would need any kind of professional help, so I think you'll be fine just cutting down, but I'll say this anyways.
See if you can do it cold turkey. Just try it out. It sounds cliche, but avoid the wrong people, places, and things for just a little bit if it helps, until you feel ready to see if you can drink in moderation. An old test is to see if you can just have one beer when out with friends. If you find you can't stop, it may mean you have a problem. If you discover you do have a problem than it only really matters if you're unhappy with it. If that happens, then you may want to take some steps to get help. To each his own on this stuff, I know many happy people who drink everyday. I can only relate my experience.
See if you can do it cold turkey. Just try it out. It sounds cliche, but avoid the wrong people, places, and things for just a little bit if it helps, until you feel ready to see if you can drink in moderation. An old test is to see if you can just have one beer when out with friends. If you find you can't stop, it may mean you have a problem. If you discover you do have a problem than it only really matters if you're unhappy with it. If that happens, then you may want to take some steps to get help. To each his own on this stuff, I know many happy people who drink everyday. I can only relate my experience.
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Music Shit / Re: Tee Pee LP
« on: October 19, 2009, 02:25:34 PM »
"I Told You So" is such a fucking hit. I love that song.
Both sides are equally amazing! I've listened to the last song about ten times today.
Both sides are equally amazing! I've listened to the last song about ten times today.
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Music Shit / Re: Music to shake the winter blahs
« on: October 18, 2009, 06:57:28 PM »
Most of these were so spot on. Thanks.
Man, that African music blog really did the trick. So happy you posted that. So much to listen to and almost everything I've heard is amazing and somehow uplifting in a weird way. Thank you!
Man, that African music blog really did the trick. So happy you posted that. So much to listen to and almost everything I've heard is amazing and somehow uplifting in a weird way. Thank you!
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Music Shit / Re: Music to shake the winter blahs
« on: October 18, 2009, 03:09:24 PM »
Yeah, what I mean is: music that's not going to let you wallow in your own shit, you know? Hit me in the face and get back to work with a smile kind of tunes.
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Music Shit / Music to shake the winter blahs
« on: October 18, 2009, 02:54:24 PM »
It's getting colder and everyone's getting depressed all over again. All I listen to is Neil Young and he's not helping my mood. What are your go-to albums to shake off the winter blahs? What puts a smile on your face the second the needle drops? Mine used to be Bad Brains S/T, but it's not working it's old charm like it used to.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: NYC Tap Water
« on: October 18, 2009, 02:15:06 PM »
Sort of related, but someone once told me there was a pizza joint here in Chicago that imported NYC tap water to use in their NYC style pizza, and that a bunch of pizzaheads swore that it made all the difference. Not sure if there's any truth at all to this, but it's interesting.
Miami water is the worst.
Miami water is the worst.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Better Homes and Blue Boxing
« on: October 17, 2009, 12:25:52 AM »
Fuck. Nostalgia'd. I forgot about scanning! That was so much fun.
Just remembered: PLA (Phone Losers of America), taking photos throughout Europe of pay phones and submitting them to 2600 for the back of the magazine but they never ran any of em, getting a wardialer to work and passing along the open numbers to hacker friends...
Don't be too sad about the state of it all: I met a kid a few years back and we pretty much started talking about the same stuff here. He was a lot younger than me and I took him for a drive to buy him beer and he pulled out his laptop and started 'warDRIVING' which is scanning houses for wireless networks, then he cracks the code of whatever, and he was able to hack into people's private computers from outside their house just as I would've been listening to their phonelines back in the day. Said he mostly just fucked with peoples files adding in obscene things and looking for any naked pictures. Way too technical for me, but it was pretty sweet to see that physical involvement and breaking into backyards is still a viable option for havoc and techie fun. He even built like an extender antenna, connected to his laptop, out a pringles can!
Is there a 13 year old kid outside your house, searching through your porn folder right now, termbo?
Just remembered: PLA (Phone Losers of America), taking photos throughout Europe of pay phones and submitting them to 2600 for the back of the magazine but they never ran any of em, getting a wardialer to work and passing along the open numbers to hacker friends...
Don't be too sad about the state of it all: I met a kid a few years back and we pretty much started talking about the same stuff here. He was a lot younger than me and I took him for a drive to buy him beer and he pulled out his laptop and started 'warDRIVING' which is scanning houses for wireless networks, then he cracks the code of whatever, and he was able to hack into people's private computers from outside their house just as I would've been listening to their phonelines back in the day. Said he mostly just fucked with peoples files adding in obscene things and looking for any naked pictures. Way too technical for me, but it was pretty sweet to see that physical involvement and breaking into backyards is still a viable option for havoc and techie fun. He even built like an extender antenna, connected to his laptop, out a pringles can!
Is there a 13 year old kid outside your house, searching through your porn folder right now, termbo?
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Better Homes and Blue Boxing
« on: October 16, 2009, 11:43:00 PM »
Growing up in Miami there was a small 2600 monthly meeting at a food court of a mall. I made some of my first real friends at that. I was considerably younger than all those guys and had already missed the good old days of phreaking, but they taught me how to make a red box and I went around town searching, only ever found one privately owned out-of-date pay phone that it worked on, outside a Stop & Shop in the ghetto and I spent nearly all my free time there doing it, not really needing to call anyone, but just because I could and it kind of felt awesome.
Spent an entire summer with a friend breaking into backyards around our neighborhood and listening into people's phone calls with a stolen lineman's handset we took right out of the back of a Bellsouth truck. We were always hoping for the coveted credit card numbers, but we never heard anyone use one. Friend SWORE he heard phonesex one time, but I still don't believe him.
Broke into a neighborhood control box, and once I was in the damn thing and realized I didn't know what to do, I kicked it until everything was broken and the phones in the whole hood didn't work for the next day. Ha!
Everything had my "phreaking" name tagged on it, which is too embarrassing to say.
Wrote a letter to Captain Crunch, (the "first" 2600 phreaker) and he wrote me back, but I don't even remember what I asked him or what he said.
Traded phreaking and good honest fun for crack smoking and public park living and now I'm not doing much with my life. Most of those 2600 dudes who stuck with it are now making 6 figures at computer companies. Boy did I make the right life choices. But yeah, nerdy as all that stuff was, it was a lot fun breaking into places and learning about phone systems. Good fucking times.
Spent an entire summer with a friend breaking into backyards around our neighborhood and listening into people's phone calls with a stolen lineman's handset we took right out of the back of a Bellsouth truck. We were always hoping for the coveted credit card numbers, but we never heard anyone use one. Friend SWORE he heard phonesex one time, but I still don't believe him.
Broke into a neighborhood control box, and once I was in the damn thing and realized I didn't know what to do, I kicked it until everything was broken and the phones in the whole hood didn't work for the next day. Ha!
Everything had my "phreaking" name tagged on it, which is too embarrassing to say.
Wrote a letter to Captain Crunch, (the "first" 2600 phreaker) and he wrote me back, but I don't even remember what I asked him or what he said.
Traded phreaking and good honest fun for crack smoking and public park living and now I'm not doing much with my life. Most of those 2600 dudes who stuck with it are now making 6 figures at computer companies. Boy did I make the right life choices. But yeah, nerdy as all that stuff was, it was a lot fun breaking into places and learning about phone systems. Good fucking times.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: 6 yr old boy stuck in a runaway balloon
« on: October 15, 2009, 12:24:11 PM »
Been rewatching the clips and from what I can see there isn't even a way IN the thing. The guys on the ground had to even cut it open. But who knows. I'm really hoping that's the case.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: WARNING!! Research Chemical deaths!!
« on: October 15, 2009, 12:03:54 PM »from UrbanShaman.net:Wait. Are you in Canada or in the US? They say they wont ship to anywhere but Canada. I was getting very excited.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: 6 yr old boy stuck in a runaway balloon
« on: October 15, 2009, 11:42:38 AM »
Was watching this live. No boy in the balloon. Hope the kid's okay.
His name was FALCON!
His name was FALCON!
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Non-Music Shit / Re: WARNING!! Research Chemical deaths!!
« on: October 15, 2009, 12:04:31 AM »In the last couple of years I have tried both DOC and 2C-B that was purchased in South Florida as LSD.A mutual friend of ours and I did this under the LSD pretense as well. I had a great time, but he had a REAL bad time. Our fault I guess for not knowing the difference, but it's still fucked up.
Honestly, I didn't even know any of this kind stuff existed until then and have been searching around for it in Chicago for a while. Thank you for the heads up.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: THE COFFEE THREAD
« on: October 14, 2009, 12:56:35 PM »A friend of mine in Australia told me she drank coffee made from cat shit that came from southeast asia. Said it's real good!I was a retirement party a few years ago and the family bought the whole table of us some of this stuff. It was like $32 a cup or some shit. Insane. It was good, but honestly, I've had dunkin donuts coffee I've enjoyed more. Didn't get it at all.
