and this too........
http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/
yeah he updated the list... WOOHOO....
I have ordered a couple of new items from ebay... shezzz Ebay.... theres a ton of grips and stories...
Either way I have everything to make this... http://www.scary-terry.com/scarycrow/scarycrow.htm
I was thinkin maybe makin 2 pumpkin heads... a nice friendly and maybe an evil one.... I could even automate then and make em talk to each other...
the basic idea is to get folks lookin at the heads.... then hit em with the leaper... kinda like this...
http://vilethings.com/vtv.2002.jumping.mechanism.wmv
if I put this away from the driveway I could take attention from the trashcans...

trashcans... jezzzz... last halloween broke one of them... I need to get the city to come replace it again... I dont know what Im gonna do with them... they are tradition now... I might lynched if I stop doin them...

so I cant start construstion for another 55 days... shezzz the wait is terrible....

this hits kinda close to home for me... me a construction worker that has been working with waste water the past 15 or so years... that sounds nice and clean doesnt it? the truth is I work with turds... at a turd factory... yeah raw turds come in on one end... and go out the other end of the factory in a unrecognizable maner...

as a union carpenter.. and a member of http://www.carpenters.org/ ... I could work at other jobs... cleaner jobs... yet I have turd factory skills that are in demand... these skills give me the ability to earn more than the normal wage... being kinda specialized is nice when the skills are in demand... I learned these skills to earn more money... I make about 25% more an hour cause I understand the way a digester works... and why a clarifier needs to be REAL close to round...

so my point is I personaly live the fact if you are skilled at nasty jobs folks are willing to pay... and this morning ol bob lonsberry hit the nail on the head again...

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1672&go=4

I recently have come to the understanding the invasion from the south isnt going to end any time soon.

the last 2 houses sold near me sold to folks who speak very little english. I now have neighbors that play according/tuba music till the wee hours of the night. the local bill boards no longer cry out their adds for lawyers willing to sue anything... or divorce on the cheap.... they are mcdonalds offering some mysterious items in another language. there is something about a television program at 8 on domingo. heck I dont know the product in most cases.

the local stores are changing. the drugstore on the corner left and was replaced by a thrift store. the grocery store closed recently . the competition from the carencida/marketeria (sp?)must have been too much. we no longer have a tacobell / mcdonalds/ dairy queen/ burger king.... in their place we have a filiberto's , arizona tortas, a taco shop, a pan dulce/almost dohnut joint. the local baseball card shop left and a cheap $10 and up vacumn bussiness opened in that spot.

the bussiness moves are not the issues of my gripe. and on to my gripe...
if you go to the local taco shop... ZERO of the adds or menu are in english. none! yet they have been in business for 4 years on this corner. they must be doing okay if not well. in the parking lot the vehicle of choice seems to be a new truck... on the street there are signs with a weird gang message " compro casa tel# 123-123-1234"

the folks I get cable tv from sell local commercials.... the family biker leather shop has some holsom commercials on where and how to buy new leathers... but not long ago the cable company started doing commercials in another language... something woman with a smoking hood open car... who later drives off in a shinny new truck.

I stoped buying my morning munchie from jack in the box the day the oumpha/oumpha music from jacks was annonying a block away... and I mean from inside jacks not a car... the morning crew usually playes hispanic music... and I mean real loud now and then... heck I no longer drive that way for that very reason...

the closest mcdonnalds just like jacks is no longer filled with high school students... but rather a middle aged less than slim group of heavy makeup using women that often have trouble with english... if these women had been US citizens for any lenght of time wouldnt you expect that their english would be understandable?

so I have estabilished my little world is under siege...

imagine....
when the next economic down turn comes... will the average invader just give up the nearly payed off truck? will he/she worry about creditors? I doubt it... I see a mass exodious of not quite payed off trucks / washingmachines/ big screen tv's/ and everything else you and pay on credit put in the trucks... all headed south...

this might be a good thing... but the injury it will cause is real and large...the bottom of the local realestate will fall out... imagine hundreds if not thousands or even hundred of thousands of houses with no loan payers..

who is going to bail out all these finance companies? yeah we the real american citizens will have to pay off the debits of the jerks that made this invasion possible...


so from this small spot. in the under seige city of phoenix. I would like to call on law enforcement officals. I would like to plead with them... if possible think about the time in the near future when it isnt easy for the invaders to find a job.... please head off the trouble now... enforce the ins stuff... the laws about employment address the very problems I spoke of. but they are not enforced...

why?
cause the very folks that make their living from the invaders are the same folks that run the politics.

( this is gonna be a MAJOR told ya so.... I can feel it coming)

Not sure why I care but Server Updated, get the patch at -

http://returntocastlewolfenstein.filefront.com/file/ET_Patch_Windows;39483 />
And the new ETPRO at -

http://bani.anime.net/banimod/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5815

Onyxia and MC riad ventrillo

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view this as an example of how to post such sorta pics...

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Alright people the time has come for end game stuff.. Go here to sign up for this weekends raids of Onyxia and MC (@10pm 28,29th) so if your 60 go register here!

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Ok since our little problem this afternoon, there will only be three admins as of now.. for you to be able to get on the server we will have to add you. So you will need to PM me or adam in the forums and we will register you so you will be able to use Teamspeak. Any questions or concerns Post here..

http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=92932#92932

seems someone was granted SA by another and banned all of us.....for however kick a$$ that is, and so uber tough haxxorz they are (actually not, just who made a boo-boo), dont bother worrying.....deck and i will setup another when he gets home and be back up soon....so have some fun guys, on your own little TS server that's hosted.....brag about it to each other in your puny little lives and we'll keep doing our thing just like we always do.....have a good day

snake wanted some "experiences" posted on here about our WoW escapades........i guess i'll start out with a series of these posts with some stuff eh? So i started playing late april, only been playing 25 days according to my ingame timer, but it seems like so much longer than that (maybe has something to do with the ridiculous hours i spend on it :P) So much has happened since i started that it keeps my interest so much i can tune out the rest of the world. hehe, good for all those phone calls and texts messages..... So getting down to the nitty gritty.......Every class in WoW has a "set" for them when they get to lvl 51 and higher...well thanks to Gwiri i had the "wildheart" gloves when i was 48, so i had them waiting for me....So now i am lvl 56, and i've done several Undead Stratholome instances trying to get something else i could use....the raid groups (more than the usual five, in this case 10) that we're usually in are great....dont need communication cause people know exactly what to do in every part of the instance.....well this wasn't the case yesterday... :( we had a leaderless leader, several non-leader leaders, couple of negotiations experts and then the usual ignorant ones that dont listen.....then there was snake......so we roll through with me dying cause of dumb people not doing their job (actually, i usually die everytime, it's the curse of being a kick butt healer)....we get to the last boss and he drops like he has every other time i've been in there (i scared him with my guns when i flexed)....and up on my screen drops my WILDHEART kilt!!! woohoo...anyway, now on to my bracers, belt, chest, shoulders and head piece........you can see it here.......... http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=92914#92914

So lazz and I attempt to goto the computer swap meet in AZ here today, on the third Sunday of the month. I am pumped cuz im thinking were going to get some good deals on things.. So we get all the way there at about 5am after driving an hour, and there isnt a soul in the parking lot where its supposed to be. We just assumed that may 23 would have been the 3rd sunday of the month.. So I look down on my cell's calendar and its the 4th sunday of the month.. sooo needless to say it was a bad day..

I ask why CNN or my local news didnt pick up on this... a near riot in baldwin park is close to home for me... http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/126428.php ... I dont get why this didnt make the news.... is funny nose jackson so important as to make this go away?

evening.... its been a while, but i was looking on blues and found that there will be a NEW Enemy Territory! way to go splash damage. i stepped away from the community for a while (thanks to my defunct video card) but i have to say, some of the games i've played here have been amongst the best in my gaming life. so here's to the future. [

We will never forget!


I’m standing at one of the beaches of the Normandy landings in 1944,
looking, well actually more staring at the sea. Trying to imagine how it
must have been 61 years ago, but I can’t. The only images that come to
mind, is what I can remember from movies, documentaries and history
lessons at school. Suddenly the picture in my mind changes and I see axis
standing on a bunker and the allies coming out of the sea. They are
running around, they shoot, they kill, they die, but 16 seconds later they
repeat themselves. But war isn’t a game, when you die, that’s it. There is
no spacebar you can push for a re-spawn.


We made a special trip in history by seeing the movie “The price of
freedom”, presented on 9 screens in a circular theatre and projected by an
exclusive process, mixes unreleased footage from archives of war
correspondents with present day pictures shot on location in now peaceful
settings. This 360 degrees projection was an intensive, emotional and
unforgettable experience. http://www.arromanches360.com />

This week in Europe is all about remembering WW2 and Liberation Day
festivities commemorating Germany's capitulation 60 years ago.
We will remember and thank all those people who gave their live for our
freedom and the ones who lived to tell us about it.
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I was more foolish than normal recently.... I wanted to make use of some of the new hosts options.... and after reading the help file I thought I had an idea how to set things up... silly me....

when things didnt work I fired off a please help me email...which never got answered... not it or any of the others I sent... then I sent off a user ticket to tech support... I would have rather not gotten an answer than the one it sent me.... the new host has a live help chat thing... and I signed on... the original person assured me the techs would have it fixed soon... that was tuesday... so friday I tried the help chat thing again... they didnt answer the email... so I had no other option I am aware of...
after the second help chat chick told me mozilla was not a revelent browser and she was using IE and not having any of the problem I mentioned ....right then I knew I was in trouble... I reloaded IE.... (yuck!!) then I mentioned to the help person I was using a revelent browser and it didnt work.... after a long question and answer period she seemed to understand the issue... ua know I spent and hour 40 minutes onlive with this person... after splaining the issue for the too-many-th time I saw the answer... and in less than 10 minutes fixed it...

this issue took me over 4 hours of evenings I honestly dont have to spare right now... I miss the original host... ol phill charged me twice what I pay now.... but HE fixed everything in minutes... there were no unanswered emails... I dont mind giving money to someone I trust...

so here comes the next question.... I have a month or 2 before renew time... but I dont have time to spend on the site... do we look for a new host... or hang here for another year?
if ya got an opinion or an idea lets hear from ya...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=92415#92415 />

I spent a little over an hour chatting to miss olivia the other day.... all about ftp subaccounts... my question is why?

this afternoon I spent 1 hours and 41 minutes chating with dolly... thanks to her magic I all of a sudden had a reply to the user ticket... the techs said... and I quote.... err I would cut and paste but now I no longer have a user name.... yeah the user name I have had for 4 years no longer exists....the teck most kindly suggests I use IE to fix the relevent browser problem... yeah right ...

after about an hour and 14 minutes dolly stoped responding... then at 1
:41 she disconnected..... awww and nothin was resolved.....
so folks who knows how much longer anything will continue working.....

as of the first of the year my account has changed hands 4 times... hell I have no idea who is where.....

if this stays up wonderfull... and if not see ya when and where ever....

yeah I poped a breaker this evening... and just didnt move too fast... it was about an hour after the boo-boo mommie mentioned the ups beeping.... let this be a reminder to all you youngeresters... use hearing protection....

well she mentioned the beep-beep and I remembered the drill.... BUT I couldnt find a flashlight... so the ups gave it's all before I found the breaker.... oh well ....
so the uptime counter starts again... we were about 100 days I think...

if ya notice anything I forgot gimme a yell and Ill fix it as soon as I hear about it....
later and enjoy...

Good feeling
-28, April 2005 - 6:50 PM GMT +01:00


I had to get up very early to go to work. I have to tell you that for me
early might be something completely different from what others would think
is early. But anyhow I was on my bicycle on my way to work, when I saw a
lot of people moving around, walking to where ever they needed to go,
holding one or two children. You might think now: what’s strange about
that. Well you’re right that should be considered normal, people walking
their kids to school, especially if you live in a village or town where
the school is on walking distance from your home.


But why did this surprise me? What immediately got my attention was the
amount of people on the street. For me it was an amazing experience,
because I’m not used to be outside at that hour. I stopped and got off my
bicycle just to look at all those people and listen to the noises on the
street.


The result of these short, seemingly insignificant five minutes, was a
good feeling all day long. Just by acknowledging the fact that I can be
surprised with little things like that and allow myself to take time to
absorb it.


This got me thinking of how every person sees, feels and interprets the
things you experience differently. It all depends on your own way of
looking at it and how you take live as it comes.


Why am I telling you this? I have no idea!

and I am sharing it with you....
I plan on doing this... every time I get a chance...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/stuff/QuietCommercial.wmv

The future.


No one knows what the future might bring, it’s hard enough to live in the
present and some of us still have to get over the past. All I want to say
is take live as it comes, enjoy the little things, do not give all your
energy to bad things. Better times will come.


http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/specialseries/insight/insight050423.html?view=Standard

I wrote a LONG LONG article about my day... and while reviewing the thing I decided it would be too easy for someone to link it to me... thus endangering my employment.... so instead Im gonna tell an old work related story...

over 20 years ago I smoked... cigars life was good... for those who dont know... now and then you will lay down a cigar and return to it in a few minutes... when things are busy ya might forget where ya layed the stoggie down... either way....

I was workin on a large job.... doing a very difficult job... I figured out a method of doing the job very fast.... when I started they had 3 crews doing this job 24 hours aday....and losing ground... I went to the office and splained I knew a better way.... so they gave me a small crew of 4 guys and a free hand for a week.... by the end of the week I had done more with the small crew than the other 3 crews did all week... I got the job of running that task.... :)

safety was a problem... I had a small crew to start... and it grew to 20 or so purdy fast... the management kept adding tasks ... I keep hiring folks... I take safety very seriously... as we performed our task my crew had instructions ... we had a fool proof method...

we were striping fliers... these were special fliers... imagine an object 20 feet wide... 40 feet long... and 20 feet high... on wheels... we had a thing called a tugger to pull this massive table around... due to the configuration of the building there were only 3 exits for the building... the building was 500 or so feet wide and nearly 1000 feet long... we pulled them tables a LONG distance some times....I would lower the table put it's wheels on it... move it to an exit... connect it to the crane who would move it to the next place then needed to make a floor/roof... on top of this it was 5 stories tall...we moved 10 or more tables a day... it was busy... we also had the easiest shade for the deck crews to hid in... that was a bad thing was bad.... when we lowered a table now and then sumthing would fall off...a beam end might come crashing to the ground... hey it happened...tools fell out ... trash came down... ya never knew what was gonna happen... we had safe places to shelter from the danger... before we droped anything we all made sure the call went out to take cover... in the year I worked there not one person on my crew was hurt because of our task...

the first near miss was with a roof crew... they came down to my area to take a break... we sent out the take cover call... I was not aware they were in my area... they didnt know what to do... a beam side fell... it smashed one guys lunch box... no one was hurt... thank goodness...
the next time was much worst...
we were riding the table to the exit... while moving a table we worked on it getting it ready for the crane to connect... it took 6 of us to drive/ride a table to the exit... and the last thing we did was tie on a rope to the table... a tag line... while we rode these table things would fall off now and then... but like normal... we knew the hazards... we were safe...

it was in the afternoon... after lunch... we had been movin tables for a couple of hours... on the trip back to the work area we found him... lying there in a pool of blood... who knows why he was there... he should not have been there... a 2 by 4 foot chunk of metal distroyed one of his kidneys... he nearly died...I knew the guy... and I felt bad... but in all honestly it wasnt my fault he ignored the warnings... this was a completely unnessary accident... it didnt have to happen...

so the company decided I would encircle an area... and anyone who entered my area without me being aware was fired...if another crew was breaking in our shade... it was fine... I didnt do anything to endanger them... it was a great plan... we had no injuries from that point on...

so now comes the story I was wanted to tell...
we were working one morning... and I sat down my cigar on a small raised floor section... I helped the guys lift a wheel and bolt it on... when I stood up and reached for my cigar... it was flat... what the heck... dang there was a stranger standing there... he was holding a broom... I asked if ne noticed my cigar... he said no... but he was sorry... I asked his name... he told me... I got on the radio... and called the office... I asked for his lay off... the office asked why... my reply was he steped on my cigar... after a few seconds the office replies okay...and they came to get him off site ...

then comes the good part... the labor union has a rep on the job site within the hour... I get called down to splain why I wanted a labor fired... I mentioned the guy steped on my cigar... the rep makes a negative comment about me smoking and offers to buy me a new cigar...

by then I was laughing... they thought I honestly wanted revenge for a flat cigar...it wasnt untill I mentioned the safety stuff anyone remembered the area restrictions... my office then got tough... the guy was fired and not gonna come back...


so for a few years I was known as the hard core dude that would fired ya for about anything...
while this story doesnt have alot in common with todays events... today also was a safety challenge....


after writing this long line of junk...
once again the phone rings... and my life changes...
my daughter lost the baby...

yea, well durning the PB update some how some way, i messed up the qagame.mp.i386.so ¿ i dont know how it got messed up, but it did.. so the game server is down.. well its been down for about a hour now and im still figureing out what went wrong. if i get it up w00hoo.. if not..well ya, ill keep trying

I read an article... I liked what I read....
they ask for folks to host the header...
so why not for a while....
maybe someone here will read it and think about how much wally-mart makes things cost...

As of 1:30 this afternoon I have been married 30 years.... all to the same woman... will wonders never cease?

on a scale of 1 to 10 who else would score the recent news in the minus column? okay who else wants better news?
any volunteers for news posters?

has anyone ever noticed how easy your life can change... a simple phone call can change the way you live... the people you spend time with... a single phone call can change nearly anything in your life...

this is notice my life changed...
sometime this comming november I will become a grandfather... for several years I have been saying the only way I will become a grandparent is to buy some grandkids... my oldest daughter made the life changing phone call last night... and I am in shock... let me tell you... this is a good thing in my life... a very good thing...

so last night about 10 pm I recieved the latest life changing phone call... it wont be the last one... but dang it was a good one...

thanks

Tonight we took a giant step forward on the home improvement front... the floor tile has been purchased... the money is spent... and tommorrow after work I will pick up the other 20 boxes of tile... Ohhh my poor back... we also decided on granite counter tops... not the solid stone ones with 1000's of dollars for the price tag... we are gonna use the granite tile... the one that only cost in the 100's ....

all thats left to buy is the cabinets...

and ti install of them goodies.... also a few can lights to replace those old style florescent...
and and and... my poor achin back...

well I have been asked enough time I feel the need to make a public statement...
yes folks things are calm for the moment... work regardless how evil it seems is still a nessity...

so I thought I would let ya in on my present possition...
I am responsible for 3 structures... and all their sub-structures... as of this afternoon that meant 11 projects... the list of resources I share with the other low level bosses is pages long... and incomplete as I finish it... by the time I type it all in something will have been stolen broken or lost...

I have 1 boss in the field and an uncountable number in the offices...

so you ask... what is so hard... let me tell ya some of what I do ...
I work for a construction company...and my basic job is to place concrete and let it get hard.... as much as I can... as fast as I can...
my work is inspected by a group of folks... the electrictions, the plumbers, the pipe fitters, the millwrights, and the 3 quality controls folks... and several of these report to the design company... I can not place any concrete untill I have everyones signature on the release slip... do you see how easy it would be for one of 8 or more folks to make my life hard?

I personaly know one of the designers... he is one of the higherups... he often informs me of changes made... he will be aware of a change made in the RIF's or RFA's... he tells me... and then tells the inspectors... the inspectors then expect me to include all changes... ( on a side note... the drawings I have been issued are dated 2 to 3 years old... the updated stuff he gives me is much newer... usually a year or less old...)

does anyone see the conflict? the people signing my paycheck want it built one way... and the people who allow me to place concrete want it built a different way...I spent a large percentage of my time colvertly trying to get updated drawings from my employers knowing I need to include the changes I have been made aware of... yet I can not let my bosses know I have an inside source...

So I have decided my possition isnt construction boss.... but rather pacifier....Too much of my day is spent negotiating for tools or resources... things like let me use it for 15 minutes and I wont need it the rest of the day.... I'll trade ya a plate tamp for a water truck....or who has a couple hundred feet of air hose I can use for an hour? after I get the stuff to do the job... then I must get the inspectors to sign the release...

did I mention I need to build stuff for everyone to inspect?
hehehehe

one of the reasons Im posting this is to go on record I have an inside source... and to mention the inspectors also aware of the changes.... they will not sign the release forms unless the changes are inculded.....so far I have been lucky and gotten drawings from my bosses... but my luck will run out someday... and Ill get caught... which will mean the end of my employment... if they sue me I thought this statement might help my case...

either way.... this is some of what I do all day long...
I also am a translator... a referee... and in general THE adult supervision about 30 guys get all day long....
ohhh and Im not griping... this is normal... nuthin new...

like I said things are calm presently.... but in the near future all the goodies I ordered a couple months ago will start showing up... then I gotta get it in gear... when they finally decide I do need those expensive 30" FRP flange by flange with a weep ring... and them hundreds of feet of grating angle.... not to mention those pesky wall sleeves.... did I mention I needed 500 plus feet of 6" water stop... and a couple hundred feet of swell stop... and and and....

like they say in the millitary....
SNAFU...

Ohhh I do wish it had been a april fools joke... but the truth is I was a march fool... this was completely my fault... in the middle of march I was informed our host has been aquired by a new company... and I did nuthin about it... I completely blew it off... and I was aware...

So my inaction lost us the last 2 weeks of stuff....

shezzz
as if I didnt have enought to deal with...

I can only offer a sorry folks... I wasnt paying attention... hey I did mention I was busy didnt I?

Often things take on a disasterious appearance... such as the clan stuff going on as I type this...

I just wanna take a second and remind folks tFF is a state of mind as much as anything... so keep up a stiff upper lip... things are always darkest before the dawn...

when the air clears... this will be resolved.. and it will make room for anyone presently a part of the mess... dont think you are gonna get pushed out... maybe the name might change... but the commradery will still be here to find and enjoy...

A time for change has come. It’s been stirring for a while but as of late it’s obvious we need to make some changes at the farm. Effective March 25 FFr will be merged into FFd. Going forward there will be 2 Official clan’s of the farm, iCs & FFd. (FFe will still be the outside battle clan)

The current active FFr member’s will be given access to the FFd forum and the FFr forum will be deleted in a week or so, once it can be gone through and important stuff saved. All FFr members should re-tag themselves to FFd.

FieldCaptainBill and Atrocities Inc. will become Co-leaders of FFd.

Nancy... I know not you or your children... or even anyone you know will see this... So it is just for me to express my sorrow and loss...

as cancer takes you away from us I want to say you will never be forgoten...
I hear that cake mix name and think " Becky Home-ecky"
Those candies will forever remind me of you...
so as long as I live you will be alive thru my memories of you...but girl... when you go I will miss you...

Friday 18th 9:30pm ESt
Time to let those mean ol Dragoons loose for this weeks
Poor Mans Clan Match.....

I like to play multiplayer computer games... I like the person to person competition they offer... the tatics... the knowledge of the maps.. the fun... and the luck involved...
yet games get old... after months or even years the same ol stuff grows old for me...so I look for something new...which is where the problem lies...

let me take a minute here and discribe some stuff...
a while back the software police came knocking at my door... it seems someone was using my connection to trade files on usernet... I cured things in a hurry... this is exactly the thing I wish to never again go thru... so everything I can do will be as legal as I can...

which means I use linux to host... I have been doing that since carmack announced the first doom2 server would be linux only... ( that only lasted untill the M$ conference)... a while back I wanted to play a game so bad I bought a copy of win2k so I could host the game... and it was terrible... at that point of time the virus stuff alone was out ragious... yeah it sux to have a game server taken down because of virus stuff... and the attacks... it was a popular server so all the little script kiddies that got banned attacked it... at one point I was spending as much time keeping the server up as I was playing... not good... then was when I decided to never again host in windows... I gave away the copy of win2k and never looked back... to sum it up... no linux means we do not host it...

then we come to games... I pay for the game...1, 2 and some times 3 copies... then I install it ... that doesnt sound like too much to the average person... but it can be a total pain... after which I install a game server... that almost never happens without a hitch... there is nearly always something that stops the process... so I turn to the forums for help... and I meet 3 users there...

user #1... ( the suckups)this game is hot... it is the best thing since sliced bread... dont attack the develpoers... they are doing everything they need to ... yer a jeck if you cant get it going...

user #2... ( the know it alls) ya gotta reinstall the ati drivers to make a linux server start the game... yeah dood ... if that doesnt work reinstall the sound stuff to get it to work... ( swear I got both of those as advice)

user #3... ) the rare user) yeah I have the same problem... what can we do about it...

so after looking back over the past 10 years I can honestly say I get the best info reading thru the forums.. and I get into conflicts posting in forums... ETF for example... or red orchestra...

then comes the devolopers... I will refrain from naming names... I met and discuss very little with them... I have only had good experinces with 3 so far... everyone else has been a waste of my time trying to resolve anything... so I am reluctant to bother these days...


I pay to own a pay... I pay to host a game... and about all I ask is to enjoy the game... when I get a game up and running... tFF sells games... folks see their buddies playing the game... they wanna play it... we have friends... we sell games.. so it is in a developers best interest to see our server up and running... but it almost never happens that way...


I have lost alot of the patience I had in the past... I have tried to resolve a 1000 game server related issues... so folks when I go to a game forum asking for help...I am NOT asking for sexual favors... I am NOT asking for a refund of money.... I am asking for service on a product I bought... and that help seldom happens....

As I read this article I noticed the quote near the bottom... for me that quote alone brings a urgence to this cause ...
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-1797)


http://www.minutemanproject.com/index.html

{iCs} will be up for the challenge this week...
you guys and gals always have a good show, so lets get it on :D

snafu and whome have altered the spin of the planet otherwise known as the rules and regs for iCs.... you too can view the new stuff at
http://thefunnyfarm.net/clan/ics.php

This weeks pmcm lived up to my expectations,lots of players
and wow what a blast we had....
http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=89520#89520

This weeks Pmcm did not go as planned as only one FFr turned up...
next friday at the same time, the ultimate challenge for the admins
hope to see ya all there.

This friday at 9:30Est Thefunnyfarm Rebels are in the hot seat...
the map to be played will be venice with alot of little twists :)

How sill of me to think I would have a few minutes for a fun project... shezzzzz....
so folks between rain.... valentines day... our home improvement ... the company (my parents)... work and life in general.... Im running late( as in gonna be late for work right now).... so please be patient....

and on another note....

last fall or maybe summer I did something... several folks noticed... but nothing happened... or so I thought... this morning I got some news .... someone followed thru and got the results I wanted to see.....
while Ill soon be late for work... this makes my day/week seem way better... thanks folks for paying attention...

a volunteer... just one.... I am guessing if this volunteer has the nessary skills aready it will take 3 to 4 hours to complete the task.... and if this person doesnt have the experince.... well then it will take about twice as long and they will then have learned something.... I will see the person has a legal copy of the nessary software...

25% of the folks that read this will have the skills but not the time... 50% think they have the time but not the skills...and 25% wont care... if you wanna learn somthing... if you wanna increase your computer skills... if you wanna contribute... this folks is the time and place...

I would like to finish this project in the next 2 weeks.... if yer interested gimme me a yell...
drop me an email.... ¿?guess where!!!
ohhh I cant start it untill monday or tuesday... patience folks... admins need not apply...

A new config was born tonight, Yeah you asked for it, you got it. Gives everyone a bit of what they where asking for, with a twist.

Hope you like, enjoy !!!

(Lets see who figures out the whole change that took place, will take a dedicated player to see :P )

Great game guys was fun!!!!!!
http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=88443#88443

Tonight at 9:30 EST it's time for iCs to take the hot seat on Battery,
will it be an up hill struggle or will they breeze through?

news on /. today.. m$2003 server is Safer then Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 & SuSE Enterprise Linux 9

read it here

http://it.slashdot.org/ /> http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/60300209

Not easy... but I think I would enjoy seeing the results.... IF someone were to edit the "Our Real Selfs" topic I would think you could find PLENTY of material to do this....


http://vsgoliath.com/neighborhood/

ya think?

Now thats what i call a great turn out and a fun filled pmcm.
http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=87987#87987

This friday the 4th at 9:30pm EST.

It's time for The FunnyFarm Dragoons to show their skills
at what will be another crazy Poor Mans Clan Match.

Tonight was somewhat diffrent for me cuz i was holding my first pmcm(wow)
I hope you guys had fun,you can all post here http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=87443#87443

Yeah I would make a post about good things happening to me.... sure... I tempted fate....what a week... let me cry on your shoulder...

On monday the normal 17 minute commute only took an hour and a half... yeah 90 minutes instead of 17... I got stuck on a streach of freeway with no offramps... and a traffic accident ahead of me... when I finaly got past it my mood was better... but.. the very last stop light on the ride home was greeen... this never happens... I dont remember one time in the last 25 years I have been driving thru that intersection I made it on the green... this was as good as it gets... I was nearly to the crosswalk... and there they were... yeah two of em... thank goodness I noticed them and no one else was there... I slamed on the brakes and got totaly sideways... I mean major panic stop... why would I do that? cause 2 complete idiots were jaywalkin about 30 feel from the crosswalk... yeah they were crossing on a red light... so I got stoped I noticed I missed both of them... then when I looked they fliped me off... jezz... what a way to end a monday...

then wensday comes around... whats so special about wensday you ask... thats the day the city of phoenix did a water advisory... yeah they said there could be a problem with the water.... it might be a good idea to boil it before drinking... ohh fun... I wont even discuss my opinion... if ya drink out of a garden hose... that was about how polluted the water might have been... thursday morning the local convinent store didnt have coffee... grrrrr I need coffee... so I traveled to anthem... in anthem there are 3 gas station/convenient stores... the cleanest is the mobil... ya know i went there cause anthem has it's own water system as of now they do not get any water from phoenix... I was working on the pipeline and clorination vault that they will connect to the phoenix line in the next few months... I know their water is safe...but the mobil macaroon had a sign telling me their water was questionable...shezzzz I was at the time workin at the water plant... what an idiot... so I went to the station I happen to feel is way less than clean or nice... and yeah they had coffee... jezzzzzz

thursday evening on the way home it continues... I was listening to the news... wondering about the water... so what happens? I got to my turn off on time...and it took me just under 2 hours to go the last 3 miles home... fun huh? gas valve busted... yeah no gas... thursday evening... none friday... they say I might get it back on sunday... no hot water... no dryer for the clothes... no gas for the kitchen stove... and worst now... no gas for the heater... what a week... Im scared what will happen next...

someone wanna say a little prayer? I see the voodoo curse the last guy put on me is workin quite well :)

Well folks this marks the begining of the end of the drugery I have endured the last 2 years... As of 10 minutes ago I accepted a new job... golly geee... it's back to the big top for me... no more friday afternoons off... no more free weekends... not much more free time... while I will miss my free time... presently I dont think I will miss the job... today I build up valve boxes and cemented them in... 1% drill and tap screws and 99% shoveling...

in fact recently I was thinking about some of the old jobs I have done... and I remember the micro and RO buildings I did for one company... they were a combined 15 million dollars of work over a 2 year period...
for another company I built clarifiers... man I did 9 of them in 18 months...
way back I built million dollar homes... I did a couple up near flagstaff in the pines... my fav was a hexagon with 2 wings... the complete roof was cut in place bastard hips...( that doesnt mean much to the average joe...but I ran a crew and we cut hundreds of rafters exactly)
then there was the super rich dude here in town... I built his house... and we cut large beams for his patio... with weird connectors recessed and hidden by morticing ... it took hours for each beam and there were hundreds... when it was done he took a bussiness card and any joint the card fit into had to be redone... after he checked there were none to be fixed... he gave me personaly a bonus... one of very few I have ever gotten...

so as I think back over 25 plus years I can rember some nifty buildings I supervised and worked on... but as I think back on the last 2 years... about all I can rememeber are the holes I dug for this company... on a sad note... my old shovel was broken a couple of weeks past... they bought me a new one and I have just gotten used to it...

sooooo while I am sure this new job will mean major headaches... I have worked with this group in the past... and I am very aware of the way things will happen... Ohh let me tell ya... but either way... this is a time of happiness for me... I need to enjoy it as long as possible... cause day one on the new job will be the end of carefree me...

and on this happy note folks.. I have 7 years, 11 months and 5 days to retirement... with luck this job will shave off a couple of years...

ohhh and on a side note... please be a little forgiving... Im sure this will disrupt my present routine so it might take me a little time before I get back in the swing of things...

Lets hope we have a good turn out for what will be a fun filled Pmcm.
This friday 9:30pm EST Thefunnyfarm elite will be up for the challenge.

presently life here isnt so bad... as long as I dont look , think, or touch a computer everything else is goin pretty well... the patio restoration is now waiting for the lumber rack repairs...

I had a full sized PU and now with the smaller version ( a ford ranger) the lumber rack doesnt fit... I gotta remake it... here goes an afternoon....

FYI we changed web hosts this week... the backup we used to restore was from a weekago sunday.. so somestuff was lost... and all I can say is sorry....
qwest had a broken dns cache server.... somewhere along the line it updated for a few hours thursday evening... but by friday morning it had restored the old dns... which is the reason I was broken...

I had some free time yesterday... so I took a shot at ETF... it looks fun... heck I might even like to give it a try... our etf server is way broken... you join it and then ya gotta reinstall to play etf... thats kinda bad... I went thru the process twice last night... and I have it narrowed down to a server issue... and foolishly I asked for assistance... how dumb can I get... in my opinion forums are not for help... they are a place for pimpled faced youngesters to try to make intelligent noise...
so folks I doubt we will resolve the etf server issue... sorry... I did what I thought I could to no avail... from what I have seen.. I have yet to see a linux server functioning...

ohh as soon as I get some stuff done.. I might give a BFV mod a shot...

as usual enjoy and later folks...

Hi this is a test and too let you know Lazz is still broken.

sometimes computers seem to exist to annony me.... if this post works things will be real good quick

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recantly I have been busy around the house..... I mean manual labor.... my patio in the back yard has leaked for the last 15 years... the defect was in the way it was built.... last summer I torn it down ...
since then I have been kinda waiting for good weather... and the weather now is as good as it can get... so I have removed the nasty ol concrete and as of thirty minutes ago I finished pouring the new concrete... why is that hard.... well it might be the 4 1/2 yards I poured ... by the way weights in at some where in the neighborhood of 18 thousand pounds... all of which I transported from my truck to the back yard.... I loaded it into the truck... then moved to the backyard... then mixed it up... and placed it... so I handled each pound at least 4 times.... my achin back....

okay you soo you say I outta spend more time on the server? I was I need more nap time...
lets see who wins....

ohhh we have a colvert team installin ETF... is it gonna be fun? wait and see....

the game server came back to life.... it would appear all we lost was our high uptime...
so unless something I didnt notice happened... things should be back to close to normal...
enjoy and later...

fsck is running as we speak....
what is fsck you ask.... Ill tell ya it is linux's scandisk... as it runs it asked if ya wanna fix stuff...
for example

Unattached inode 363893
Connect to /lost+found(y) yes

Inode 363893 ref count is 2, should be 1. Fix(y)? yes

and it has been running that for the last several hours.... and who knows how much longer it will take....


so now we wait....

I would guess by the time you read this things will be back to normal...
So I was just posting sumthin .... the smell of change is in the air... can you tell?

...

Non lazz news test post. Also, no updates yet on PMCM's - stay tuned now that forum issues are stablizing.

Firewall rules.. and the need to keep some of them ports open... for instance 3306....

It would appear stuff is workin... all except for the 3 am stat update.... but honestly it is about the easiest thing left to do... I hope....

so here we go again....

the gods of internet have opened the doors to the forums again.. i know you all have been haveing crack addict like syptoms from not being able to post your wounderful New Years adventures, so im sure you all will make up for the time lost.. there better be some good interesting stories of some one haveing fun, jail, anything..

sometimes I cant believe how silly the mistakes I make are....
like forgetting my login.... shezzzz
either way...
the folks over in the uk and texas have emails waiting in their inboxes... we just gotta wait till they open them monday... till then ....


ohh and happy new year...

There is an issue across the ocean that is out of our hands.. the emails have been sent, and the forum should be up tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience...

Test

Remember, New Years Eve Night the new config goes in for the long weekend, 9 maps -

1 - Temple Final
2 - ET Assault Beta4
3 - MML Church
4 - Northpole
5 - Venice
6 - Citadel
7 - Rhine2
8 - Baserace Beta2
9 - Transmitter Beta2

Download them at -

http://deckoh.com/rd/etmain
Hope to see you all at some point this weekend.

Ciò sarà il mio ultimo atto ufficiale al podere

Hello happy people of the hollidays... I would like to extend some of the good cheer and good will that abounds here...
I hope you all can enjoy the wonderfull thing called life... This is a good year around here... things are a little strange... it is the first year since 1984 we didnt have house guests ... so it isnt quite the same....yet... it is nice... in a different way... for those who might remember last year we had some house guests from early november till late febuary... so like I said....
things are a little different... maybe a little weird...
but good...

ohhh the food.... it is wonderfull... my wife has out done herself yet again... she makes this thing.... it is dried fruit of all kinds... apples, pinapple, aprocots... about every kind of fruit you can dry... then cherries... and nuts... let me tell ya the nuts... pecans, walnuts...they are all over the place.... so she mixes this fruit and nuts... I mean about 30 pounds of fruits and nuts... then she adds some batter to the mix.... just enought to make it stick together.... she makes this and bakes it over the thanksgiving weekend... then.... with a cheesecloth... she wraps it up... and pours a little peach brandy on it every day... yeah it soaks up a bottle in the month before christmas... okay now that you have an idea of the goodness... it is called fruitcake...
yeah that nasty thing with the weird plastic tasting junk... my wife makes a real one... and it is great...

so we have folks for breakfast... so it is time for me to leave...
but I need to wish any and everyone that reads this a MERRY CHRISTMAS...
enjoy the day folks... it comes but once a year...

Tonight the admins were the team in the hotseat as the allies on Goldrush for the Poor Mans Clan Match. A server restart gummed up the works, but we still had a good time retaking the ground. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=85038#85038 and stay tuned for details on the 2005 PMCM schedule!

Just a quick note to remind everyone that the final Poor Mans Clan Match for the year will be happening tonight. There is an earlier event scheduled, so the PMCM has been pushed back an hour to 10:00 pm EST. Till then!

The weekly Poor Mans Clan Match is back with a bloodbath this week! The Dragoons fielded a talented but light squad, and were denied a win on the Fuel Dump map. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=84224#84224 and come out next week when the admins are up!!

Well this article is a little bit of reading and it definitely is a strange one. Thanks to [FFr]the_citizen -E- for sending this article to me. Here is the link take a minute and enjoy it.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/19/colb.scalp/index.html

I had issues trying to get the map -- first i dont have a fileplanet account, and second the other link didnt work.. So i went to the source and found it, heres the link.. Youll have to search down, its in alphabetical order.

http://www.new-etmaps.de/modules.php?name=Maps_A-C

Well this map is getting great reviews, I just played it on local sever mode and lets just say, it's different. Build the base to win. Quite unique, so I'm going to load it up this weekend, Admins feel free to fire it up if you want to try.

Download it here -

http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/battlefield/map_baserace.htm

I just got a complaint about a long time admin... and here is my reply without the names...
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Im not sure how to say this without being rude... so here goes...
I am aware that "ADMIN #1" did mess with the forums... BUT I also noticed he was basicly dared...
So I ask myself what to do about this... lets just get down the the bottom line... someone who exchanges pleasentries very often with me and my family has been accused of stuff by someone I have no connection with... infact I do believe this is the first time you have comunicated with me...

I ask for folks to become involved with stuff constantly... and very few bother... "ADMIN #1" is one who does take the time... where "ETplayer" is just a name for me...
so... from my point of view... yeah "ADMIN #1" may have crossed the line... it is possible... BUT "ETplayer" is worst... he never even bothers to say jack to me... untill he has something for me to fix...

sooo how do I decide? wanna guess?

if you dislike my opinion or possition I can only say sorry... BUT I am at least bothering to exchange thoughts with you... unlike you who have never bothered untill now...

I spoke with "ADMIN #1" about this.... and I did infact give him instructions... but you wont like em... he was under the impression you were joking... as well as "ADMIN #2" thought so also...

just to make sure you understand my possition...
"ADMIN #1" has instructions to take NO shit from you... if you bother him... he is to ban ya...

since im on a roll here Im gonna go a little farther... I pay for a web site with forums... and a game server... I pay this to enjoy the company of all the new folks I meet... lets review my email for the last month.... hmmmm this is easy... I have somewhere around 200 messages... yeah all from long time pals...lets see the person I have known the least that sent me an email last month would be the guy I order kindereggs from... and I have only exchanged stuff with him these past 3 years...
Ohh yeah have 1 message from a game user... you... golly geee... im meeting tons of new folks... and not one of them bothers to say anything untill they have a gripe...


sooo to sum thing up... Im sure you feel I am being nasty and so on... and I am aware I dont feel real kind on this subject... but like I have said a million or more times... it is up to the users to present themselves so I develop an opinion... if they dont... Im not aware of them...

DELETED POST.....

Im not gonna beat a dead horse for nuthin.... folks... cant we all just get a long

it would seem I say vote your paycheck... but other folks call it many different things.... the following link is more wally-mart bashing... kinda... that ol loonie guy

Today was thanksgiving... and sitting here after everyone left I realize how luck we are... the kids left... they are both in stable relationships... and are doing well...

I am proud to call both daughters mine... Thank you who ever where ever...

I am equally proud of a nephew... he is doing well also... I wont spoil his surprise... but he is doin great...with a wonderfull future in front of him....

I guess I could complain about some small troubles in my life... but a day like today makes the little problems seem smaller than normal...

for anyone who reads this... I hope you are doing as well as we are...
I wish I could spread the good feelings I have for the whole world to sample... but I doubt I could ...

so I will just say THANKS...
Thanks to everyone... everywhere...

The FunnyFarm Rebels came out and were horribly outnumbered on the Battery map tonight. However, just to show how tough we are in the face of hopeless odds, I artied our own spawn. Much like Cortez burning his ships on the shore of the new world, we knew that we had no where to go but through the enemy. Even with our moxy, we lost soundly tonight, but had fun doing it. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=81789#81789 and make plans for the next match when FFd is up!

It's time again folks - for the Poor Mans Clan Match!! The FunnyFarm Rebels are up, and while we may not be as numerous as FFd, or as color co-ordinated as iCs, we are two inches taller and much better dancers. ;>

Anyway, come out tomorrow night at 9:00 pm EST for the match - cya all there!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/16/iraq.hassan/index.html

This is the action of our enemy... I have no words to discribe my reaction to these actions...

Hello to you all. As you know, I have not been submitting any news for your reading enjoyment in quite some time. Moving forward I will try to submit more articles as life permits. Here is one that caught my eye.

Approximately $70,000 of cash was stolen from a casino in Greensburg, Louisiana. The thieves being the clever people they are decided to put the money in weighted plastic bags and toss them into a creek. One of the bags was torn open by the local beavers and used to adorn the walls of the beaver dam. When the money was recovered none of it was torn or destroyed just neatly placed in various places inside the dam. D'OH!

$40,000 of the money has been recovered so far.



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041116/ap_on_fe_st/dollar_dam_6

Tonight we had Shadowhunter and the six iCs dwarves!! Stinky, Pinky, Mini, Tommy, WhoMe, and Bishop - whos name I could not make fit the scheme no matter what! (Sorry to whoever I missed - I know there was at least one other.) Anyway, even though the lost the first round, they held on longer than most, AND put in a win on the second stopwatch round. Check out the post here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=81004#81004 and look out next week when FFr is up!

Well, I have volunteered to keep the rest of the Farm up to date on the ladder matches with the FunnyFarm Elite clan. And I am proud to report, as my first update, that they have taken the #1 rung in the OGL campaign ladder!! Check out the thread here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5794&highlight= and stay tuned for the results of the upcoming match this weekend!

Hey all - tomorrow night is the weekly Poor Mans Clan Match, and the {iCs} clan is up! Remember that PMCM's are 7:00 MST, which doesnt change with daylight savings. Because of that, the matches are now at 9:00 EST (not 10:00) until the next time change in the spring. Hope to see you all there!

We neeed something new around here... But what?? Maybe a new game?? I dunno but im bored... Along with everyone else -- We have been playing ET now for a year and a half -- I think we need to become more agressive in our search for something fun and new to do... SO get on your horse people, lets liven things up around here!!!

Well went on got my first deer this past weekend, a little buck. It was pretty fun, here is pick of it.

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/buck.jpg

Even with me fogetting about the time change, tonights PMCM went off and was another fun one! The mighty FunnyFarm Elite, battle hardened from their ladder matches, showed up and handily beat the Fuel Dump map. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=80221#80221 and come out next week if you can!

Tommorrow night is the Poor Mans Clan Match! The Funnyfarm Elite are taking a break from beating down pro clans to issue some industrial-grade smackdown on the rest of the Farm. Hope to see you all there - till then!

My first parent teacher conferences are tonight -- I think im going to hide underneath my desk...Nah they should go well I think.. lets hope anyway

This year I spent more time talkin to the crowd...and it was a positive experince with a couple of exceptions... we set the traffic cones out again... and I stood at the street end of the front walk... the people came and spent time just looking... I would say the average visitor spent 5 or more minutes looking and talking...

one couple had several little ones... with one in a stroller... the mommie stood in the line with the kids... and when they finished she insisted the dad go look... her comment was " that guy out did himself this year"... when dad got back he said the exact same thing... I thanked them and they looked at me funny.... then I mentioned I am "that guy" they left in a huff... weird...

f a hayek ran the mirror for a while... at one point early on he told the kids to jump 3 times to get some candy... there were maybe 6 kids that heard that... and all of them jumped in place 3 times...ya had to be there... it was completely hilarious...

on each side of the driveway I set a trashcan trap... I left the west can control up near the house... and who ever was up there could trigger it... the east can I used a X10 remote... I had a remote keyfob I used to open and close the can... while X10 is slow... after a while I got the timming down perfectly...

one young lady, she was in the 14 to 17 age range... hehehe... she noticed the trashcans then crossed the street... I asked what was wrong... she said " I know what you do... last year you made me pee my pants"... after that comment the 20 or so folks standing watching all broke out in laughter... that was one of those golden moments...

one of the neighbors came by shook my hand... thanking me... then left... about an hour later he was back... with a new group of kids... I asked if he traded families... he laffed... then told me he hunted down all his neices and nephews to show them this place... after the kids went thru the line to the mirror he rounded them up near the first trashcan... hehehe... we waited then sprung it on them... haw haw haw... after which... he took them all to the second trashcan... he calmed them down then we got em again... yet another memory burned in the halloween collection...

3 or 4 years ago... one of the early trashcan years... in the begining it was open season... no one had a clue...we would pass up some folks to make sure no one had see or heard them open... we wanted a complete surprise... we were cunning then... muhahahahaha.... well... I was out front... and aubs... my daughter was on the control... and she came by... im talkin an OLD grannie... she was wearin a grannie dress with her purse in the crook of her elbow... she walked by me... headed for the trashcan... I didnt think anything about it at first... then it hit ne she might hurt herself... Ohhh no.... I had just turned to warn her when aubs struck... she screamed... her purse flew into the street... and she ran as best as she could... I was scared.. I could see the law suit... OH no.... I helped her find the contentes of her purse... and she didnt say a single word to me... I knew I was in for it...not a word... I was truly worried... I went to the proch to shut the trashcan down... and there she was... across the street... she was talkin to the kids... it was too good to be true... she was tellin them to go to the house next door to us... this little ol grannie spent the next couple of hours direction victims past the trashcan... yet another halloween memory... she shows up every year... and makes sure I remember her... hehehehe we dont hit her with the can any more... but she sure suckers a few kids into a scare... this year was no exception... that lady spends an hour a year out front of my house with a big evil smile on her face... bless her she is my kinda lady...

while I was errecting this years event... several folks stoped and commented... there was a family in a white car that came by every evening... they stoped.. and what seemed like ten kids in the back seat pressed their noses to the windows...mom and dad both took a minute to look... they never spoke... but I was a fun part of their lives for a week... the young mom in the explorer that parked and let the kids look for 5 minutes everyday was always a happy face... the old guy from down the street never once smiled... but halloween he was parked across the street for an hour...

yet one thing I think is strangest of all... I was asked how did ya do it by 10 or more people... all of these people were carbon copies... all females in their late 30's all with kids in tow... not one male asked... I had questions about nearly everything... all from females... the first thing the women wanted to do was to see how the mirror worked... I dont get it...

ohhh and the poor neighbors...hehehehe ... they all ran out of candy early on... after they were out they turned off their lights and came over to the fun for a while... it was great...

this has been just a small cross section of the stuff that happened... in no way is it complete...I havent discribed a tenth of what went on... but I think you get the point...

I am thinkin about things that need to change... and what I wanna save for next year... who knows... I just dont wanna store it for a year not to use it again... since the trash pickup is nov 8th I gotta hurry up...
well this concludes this installment of Halloween 04... if time permits and I feel up to it I might offer a peek at what is possible next year...

Having voted I now wait for the election results this will be a good time for me to do my halloween roundup...

Halloween this year was kinda weird...few of the folks we invited showed up... I guess the wife and I arent very good hosts... who knows... somewhere around 25 invities showed... heck I had more folks than that ask to come... and I told em all to come on by... weird... but the TOT's ( Tricker Or Treaters ) showed up in record numbers... 400 plus... one person said more than 500... but Im not too sure of that number... either way let me take you on a pictorial jaunt around the place... BTW thanks SYZ for the pics... heck I never remember to take em...

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-1.jpg in this shot we are just behind the mail box lookin to the west, past the grapefruit across the front walk and finaly seeing the lemon tree... you will notice in the upper right hand the ghost flying by... it is early so you can see the lines... just wait.. after dark they are invisible... between the ghost and the skeleton you can see 1 of 11 black lights...also notice 12 foam pumpkins... and how can you not see the maze of eletrical... ohhhh in the far right you can just see the air hose running into the trashcan...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-2.jpg here we are 10 feet to the west of the last pic... looking more towards the house.. not much to say about this view... it is between the front walk and the trashcans... hehehe
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-3.jpg continuing the trip to the west down the sidewalk...

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-4.jpg and the front walk....

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-7.jpg this is a comment on last year...last year I had made several headstones like the one you see... I had put more efford into it than I wanna admit...so I set them out the weekend before ... and sure enought monday morning they were all gone... what can I say? i was less than happy... not to mention I was out an important part of my game plan... so I went to work remakin them... and I had to make some kinda comment... so you see it... "X marks the spot we got robbed"

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-5.jpg just west of the walk was the monster in a box... this wasnt a winner... not like last year... under the skeleton there was a computer running the MIAB... it played a heartbeat mp3 for 2:43...then a 5 second groan... the center of the box under the giant lock and the red light would pulsate with the heartbeat... there was a air cylinder centered that made the box flex over an inch out... then back in in time with the heartbeat playing... randomly the left side of the box would lift 3 inches... and the right side was ramdom also... with random hights... it could lift as much as 8 inches... when the groan played I had both sides jumping up and down... the one time I noticed a youngester lookin close... he was maybe 5... and sure something was in there... he was bent at the waist with his nose as close as possible... when the groan started.... he screamed "Mommie !!!" and ran in to the woman huggin her leg... it was funny... the mom was laffin so hard she almost fell when he ran into her... the only fun I had with the MIAB...

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-6.jpg here is the cornor... and the rest of the show... not too much... something my wife and I both wanna change for next year... she had some scary improvements in mind... hehehehe

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-8.jpg okay here is the walk and mirror... if you look closely you can see the face in it... the hole in the center was part of our candy delivery system... I have no idea what the line in it is... the mirror isnt cracked or anything... the black light to the left was a poor attempt to cure a light issue...
notice the brown cloth to the left... above the halfwall... that was to hid the people on the porch...then it might be hard to see... but all of the squares in the wall were different sizes... I made a general 5 inch tall block...but the thickness and lenght is different ...you cant see it in this pic... but there was a web cam in the top

center of the arch lookin down... I hope to deal with those pics later when I have time .... after I get all the junk put away...http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-15.jpg and the stuff out of sight... I guess Im getting to well off... I went lookin all over the place... and almost asked the neighbor to borrow a monitor... the only one I had to use for the setup by the street and the web cam behind the mirror was a real heavy 21 inch... I was sure I broke my back dragging it out to the street and back... let me tell ya they are heavy... after I brought it back and set it on the table... while panting like a dog... the boss asked me why I didnt use the 19 inch lcd in the mirror... DOH... it weighs nothing compaired... I had forgotten I had it...notice the laptop running the mirror program... it is sitting on top of the computer running the web cam... also notice the webcam screen... and how it is too dark to see who was at the mirror... that was a problem... then you see a white pvc pipe what was the loading end of the candy delivery system... in testing the candy bags would zoom out and hit the rim of the tray...behind the pipe was the 19 inch lcd that displayed the mirror program... what we did was to mount a mirror... then with a razor knife scraped away the mirror backing in the area we wanted the face to show thru... leaving the rest of the area a mirror... it was cool...and worked well... next year I would like to move the gold mirror frame a little and center the face letter...and add a fog chiller... even if the wind makes the fog worthless like this year... it would make the candy pickup area COLD...that will add to the effect... if I have time ... so far all we have seen is the setup... time for the people... ready?

http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-10.jpg
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-11.jpg
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-12.jpg
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-13.jpg
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/hw04-14.jpg
while it was a real good halloween... I can see improvements... heheheh
I didnt mention too many of the comments from the crowd... but maybe later I will... stupid windows and word wrap ...

good ol Lonsberry does it again...
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1525&go=4
think about this tommorrow...

Tonight saw another Poor Mans Clan Match battle royale between the admins and the regulars on the Railgun map. It took almost 45 minutes, but the admins pulled off a win as the Axis team. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=79578#79578 and come out next week when FFe is up!

and no new problems... the stuff I use to keep the folks off the lawn is up... and sports new lights this year... the fog machines all got cleaned in and out... the first dry run on the magic mirror was better than we hoped for... it is OUTSTANDING... life is good... I have the monster in a box to deal with... after that I only have to sort out the places to plug it all in... heck it seems everything is 'letric...

Im gonna say Im ahead for the moment... but ill bet that changed when the sun comes up... we made up 160 bags of goodies...

if only the theives wouldnt take it all I would set out pumpkins tommorrow... hehehehe
maybe we should have a contest to see how many fake foam pumpkins I have and set out...

Tomorrow night is the weekly poor mans clan match folks - and the Admins are up! Hope to see lots of folks come out and take the beating they deserve!!

as of now... I have everything done that nails down... or needs to not get wet... I have lights to put up... but im waiting out tommorrows storm...I have a few store bought spiderwebs to stretch out... and the previous storm damage yet to repair on the monster in a box... but in general things are coming along well....

all the neighbor kids are hyped about the magic mirror... hehehehe
hmmmmm I dont ever remember to take pics before the fact... and Im happy to remember when I get done... this pic is what took me several hours saturday... all day sunday... and monday , tuesday evening to finish... http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/web.jpg I guess the picture doesnt show it off real well.... little details are lost in the pic... for example... it is nearly 11 feet above you... and hard as it is to believe... it is over 14 feet across... go figure...

last evening I spent a couple hours puting together the trash can stuff... I completed the first last night... and after a 30 dollar trip for 2 crummy 59 cent hunks of copper... I got the materials to finish the second can...I put em both together and installed one in the recycle bin...I am sorry to say my wire ties were not up to the job...so I had to duct tape the junk together... http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/trashcan1.jpg this shows the major parts... the white pvc home made cylinder, the 2 air horns, the flood light, the valve to control the return ratio.. and the solenoid that makes it all work... it doesnt look like much does it? http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/trashcan2.jpg this is one in action... I plan on having 2 sitting near the street...

things are coming together... slowly...

Im guessin this is the 5th year the wee ghostie flew through my yard on halloween... and a few nights before hand... the first 3 years it was confined to the front yard only... then last year I let the lil rascal in the backyard for a long loop around the house... a 30 second loop... yeah it travels about 1200 feet a minute... twice around the house... want details on how I keep the lil guy on a leash?
http://www.mlittle.com/halloween/axworthy/halloween_axworthy_ghost.htm
I have a few different issues with the long lenghts.. and living in the desert... no trees here to speak of...
so you ask why the title for this post? well Ill tell ya... we have a dog... sparkie the circus dog... he does a fine set of tricks... sit.. speak.. shake hands... stand... beg... roll over ( if ya got the good doggie treats)... and more I cant remember... yeah we spent some time with the wonder dog... he is mommies fav dog... he is a smart dog... very aware of stuff... like a ghost flyin in the back yard...
last year he chased the ghost till he ran the pads off his paws...hey this is a 90 pound dog unable to walk... bad bad bad... this year the boss has made it clear she thinks I will kill her dog if I let him chase it again... and tonight it would seem sparkie and I both got lucky... I shut the ghost off early... and the dog lived,... but im tellin ya he was breathing REAL heavy for quite some time...

so the ghost is goin... and the dog is alive...
and the sunday forcast is now clear and sunny...

T I R E D ...
I spent today poorly... if today was money... I did $200 worth of efford... all for 1 cent worth of results...shezzz I was thinkin this project would take at the most 2 hours... and I quit for darkness unfinished... I guess I blew this one...

then to make matters worst... http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalStd.asp?loc=kphx&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=Forecasts&product=Forecast&prodnav=none check out sunday the 31st forcast... man if it rains I might loose it...

yeah ... I wanna thank ya for the help.. it was nice... for about 5 hours today we worked on the setup... what a pain... I have about that much more to go tommorrow... shezzzz... and I still have a little mirror stuff to deal with... and the software... I still havent started it... and the storm damage to the monster in a box....here we go again... right down to the wire.. I can feel it already...

but as usuall all that show up will be having fun...

for those that dont show... you wanna offer suggestions for the mirror to say?
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=78880#78880

Tonight the Dragoons were up in the weekly Poor Mans Clan Match. I ran a series of 15 minute matches, with XP only determining the winner, and it was interesting to say the least. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=78800#78800 and come out next week if you can!

Now and then I find I stand alone on issues... Since I have no popularity concerns I can stand alone and not care...
so when I stand against the newest fad on the horizon my position is unpopular... .. but the memories of how my family and friends were treated last time around screams out for me to never allow that again...

friends dont let friends be abused by a company with so few or no morals...

please stop and think... if only for a moment...

Boy ohhh Boy... time seems to go by fast when I get busy... things change real fast...

the word association post is now over 10,000 entries... shezz I remember when the first one got to 1,000 and I thought it was alot...

After several weeks of searching for a mirror for of all things the magic mirror I found a usable mirror not the oval with a frame I wanted just a plain square mirror with-out a border... When all the help showed up it was build time... no time to hunt a new mirror frame... I tell ya I looked high and low for any mirror frame under $20... when an abundance of help showed up thursday we went to work... then friday we got the base coat of paint and monster mud on the wall... it looked purdy good too... as of dark yesterday the magic mirror needed cleaning and the final paint..
the boss and I stoped at a yard sale this morning... and there was the mirror frame I had been lookin for... it was exactly what I wanted... the mirror was gone... but the frame was kinda ornate and gold... the color wanted... the size was perfect... when I asked how much... the owner went into suggestion mode... she was tellin the wife and I we could hang it on a wall and stand behind it to scare the TOT's at halloween... it was too much I paid the fifty cents she wanted... so now we need to rebuild the mirror to use the nifty frame... dang...

The monster in a box is waiting for lights, fog and software....

Last weekend we went to the arizona state fair... it was a blast... go if you have the chance.. the food was wonderfull...this trip was the first time we have gone there in the last 12 or 15 years... in general the fair has changed some since our last visit... but had fun none the less... and native american rodeo was a blast to watch...


short rant time
of course during this trip to the fair the wife didnt wanna bring a purse... so we drove down to the fair grounds... I stoped at a bank on the way.... gee my bank card didnt work.... I had enought cash to have a fun evening... yet it is annonying to have money in a bank and no way to access it... the next morning I went to the bank... can ya believe it.. the fraud department put a hold on my card... it would seem the malfunctioning gas pump last week would only let me have 15 cents at a time before it stoped... I tried it twice... for a grand total of 30 cents... im talkin a quarter and a nickel... that charge caused bank of america to freeze my card... it took several hours for me to get things fixed.... my comment was "what was their excuse?"... I can not imagine freezing an account with PLENTY of money in it... an account thats 20 plus years old with no other issues... sorry folks I cant imagine 30 cents as that big of a deal... I can not imagine a company that would cause me the hours of trouble over such a small amount... I can not imagine an excuse for such short sightedness.... shezz it is PAST time to find a new bank...

/short rant time

dang it is late too... I guess ranting takes time...
and time is something I dont have much of these days... ohh well in about 2 weeks it will all be over for another year... Im ready!

http://savedisney.com/news/disneyland/tl/tl_ss061104.1.asp#
I have strong ties to disneyland of the 1960's... we lived in the shadow of the matterhorn... at 9 pm we would watch tinkerbell climb to the peak then the fireworks... after which it was bed time...

My dad worked on a couple of the rides... pirates of the caribbean... and the haunted mansion... I can remember seeing walt disney at a company picnic... I remember the thrill of an "E" ticket... and the blah of a "A" ticket... I can remember the live mermaids on the submarine ride... one of my favorite attractions was the lincon theater with it's animatronics... gone now like so many other things...

yet off all the things time has taken away... the one that was pointed out to me tonight is a hard thing to see pass without any discussion...
look at your keyboard... the letter "J".... it doesnt have a hat...

tonight was kinda fun... I didnt get to work on anything... a couple of neighborhood kids came by asking about my plans...
they were sure the monster in a box was a joke.... untill the air compressor filled... then they werent so sure... :>

igor was a hit... and in general I saw tonight why I do this... the wonder and joy in their eyes...
no blood or gore... just imagination exciting ideas... the most through scare is one you do to yourself...

a now Im off to see a troubled young lady... she has been having a hard time recently... so Im gonna try to recuit her to help with my fun... who knows... maybe we will both renew an old friendship...she is 14... and yes my wife is going too...


ya know, now and then a simple day comes along... and nothing special happens... it is just a good day... boy I wish a few more of them were this nice...

yeah... the road to hell is paved with good intentions... in other words... all the help that I foolishly expected has completely disapeared.... Im willing to bet after I finish with the props they will all show up for the party...

my real life is exactly like my web presence... lots of offers and such.... yet... Oh well I guess someday it will finally get to me and make me a bitter and nasty person... hey wait.. Im there already... :>

today I installed the liner in the monster in a box...and the testing of hardware yesterday means it is finished... all thats left is to make a cable and stake it down... Ohhh and 2 large hose clamps...Yesterdays testing was really cool... I searched for several hours... once I found it all the parts the troubles went away... I made all the connections... and sure enought it worked flawlessly... too fun...
So I pulled out some plywood ... and leaned it in front of the arch on the sidewalk to my front door... I scribbled a few lines and general ideas on the plywood... I have some good ideas but I need to work out the how-to of the candy delivery... I think the mirror will be a ton of fun...

soo I wanna make sure everyone understands... I am not requesting anything... nope not a single thing... I need no help... thanks but no thanks...

I may have spoken too soon.... maybe I do have some good luck.... just a little...
I spent the last 2 hours looking for all the control stuff... I could remember puting it all together... so I thought... I found it one hunk at a time... and ... for some silly reason I cant access any thing after 7 ports... there are 32 on there... I wonder what the deal is? so either way... I only need 6 for this project toooo I guess im not gonna sweat the others... I also found my old control 8 port circuit...

so for the noobs.... this means I can control the halloween projects via computer... I play a mp3 in winamp... and at selected points I can turn on and off a circuit... I have boxes to switch on and off 110V ac, 24 v DC and... I have relays in boxes also... which means I can move the sound output to different speakers....
I also have soleniods... they are switches that turn on and off air... I can turn on a soleniod and have it send air to a cylinder... this is a purdy good setup...

If ya wanna see the software I use look here.... http://www.theshroom.com/blitzen/
yeah freeware...
now... to decide if I wanna add a reaching hand to the monster in a box... OR... have igor and the rat sing.... a singing rat you ask..... yeah I got one...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/23.jpg
either way... things are proceeding just fine... and it looks like I will be cutting it close as usual...

Today I found the last major items I need for halloween... The construction is booming... yesterday afternoon saw the end of the welding..( I hope)
And today I fitted the first valve soleniod block top the monster in a box... I spent over an hour rebuilding all the connectors.. and fixing leaks...once it was done there were 5 PVC 1/4 inch quick connectors for the air hoses... as I was bolting it on the mounting plate inside the box... I turned to get a wrench... and knocked it to the concrete... can you guess how many pvc connectors broke?... if you said all of them or the number 5 yer right...

dang it seems sometimes the only luck I have is bad luck...
ohh well....
with luck tommorrow will see the finish of the construction phase of the box... Gee Im tired.... I hope to start the mirror construction... which will be time consuming...

who knows... I might get lucky... I might even rember to get the camera out and take a few pics of the construction...

The FunnyFarm Rebels were up tonight, and with their ranks fleshed out by some admins, managed a win as Allies on Fuel Dump with mere minutes to spare. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=77398#77398 and come out next week when the mighty [FFd] clan is the team to beat!

It's almost time again - for the weekly Poor Mans Clan Match! The FunnyFarm Rebels are up, and are looking for a fight. Come out tomorrow night and join in the action!

I wandered into my bedroom to do some laundry at noon today...and noticed one of the kittens playing in the pile of clothes. She loves the pile of clothes in the middle of the room. It's the highlight of her life.

However, I saw her playing in my fiances favorite silk shirt.

"Not for kitty" I say as I take it away from her.

However, I find something odd in the shirt. An old potato.

"Okay, that's weird" I say aloud to myself [and the kitten] as I go and throw out the old gross potato.

I continue to gather up laundry from the kittens favorite playground...and I find another potato.

"Okay, you stole these didn't you Critter?" I saw to the kitten who just looks at me with big green eyes.

I throw out the other potato and start the laundry.

I then hear the litter box being used, or what I thought was the litter box. I then proceed to travel over to the litter box to insure that is, in fact, what is happening.

Nope.

Critter was behind the litter box where an old bag of potatoes, from when my fiance and I moved in, is laying.

I then see Critter grab one of the potatoes, put it in her mouth, and then run into the bedroom where she proceeds to play with the old potato on top of the pile of dirty clothes.

I then threw out the bag of old potatoes.

Critter wasn't happy.

I call it voting with your paycheck... he doesnt name it yet he makes a good point...
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1506&go=4
like the commercials say... vote for rocks.. vote for limabeans... vote for something...
vote to bring the jobs back where they started and belong...

But there is a 12 player server running....
D3 that is....
the ip is the same as the et server....
so folks... give it a work over and lets see if this is something we wanna do....

Im takin the boss out to dinner...
bbl

it would seem someone was reading my mind...
the next question is... who else noticed? anyone?
either way.... linux doom3 is a happening thing... and as soon as I get some other stuff done it will be up..... unless we have some admin guru who wants to install it on the server?

Today is one of those days I consider a nasty day... it marks a day I set aside nearly 2 months ago...

When ID software released a doom with no linux server I said wait there is no need to be harsh.. they are cool give em a chance... well after darn near 2 months I guess I was wrong... they are too rich these days... I feel personaly betrayed... I have always had faith in the carmack machine... yet... with no mention of a linux server in the wings... ID has joined ranks with EA .... this is a sad sad day....
it really kinda sucks to have waited several years for a game only to not have it live up to the expectations... I wanted a fun multiplayer game... heck the offical version only allows 4 players online... what kinda deal is that?

I understand my voice doesnt count for jack in the world at large... and I know ID and or mister carmack could care less about this post... since these things only have meaning for me.. I will puplicly make a promise... if the linux server isnt here before halloween... I will not serve doom3... or any of it's mods...

I waited for several years to see and play D3.... and I heard dozens of times the release date would be when it is done... I took ID's word that it would be done before they turned it loose to the marketing jackels of the world... that is not the case.... no linux server means the game isnt done...

I gave my 50 plus bucks...
I didnt get quality of product ID software was capable of in the past... Thats a shame... to see the best in the bussiness sell out...

Yesterday was the first of October.. So construction begain...

I will stop construction somewhere around the 20th... that way I will have 10 or so days for software configs.. last year I aloted a week and it wasnt enough... and I was squeezed for time at the end... I dont wanna do that again...

I put alot of efford into the sound layout this year... in the past it seems something would over power the prop next to it...for example the MIAB (monster in a box) last year...I had the rat goin wonderfully... BUT the MIAB made too much noise for folks to hear the poor lil rat...


The first thing to get built this year will be the monster in a box... and I started it last night... after a bull session we have decided on everything the MIAB will do... it will have 4 air cylinders and solenoids , 2 light circuits and a battery of speakers.. the soleniods I have covered.. im thinkin I have a bank of 6 24V sittin in a box somewhere... I have 1 of the air cylinders and will have to build the other 3...

Next will be the magic mirror... I still need a couple of small items for the mirror prop...Im gonna go lookin for cheap yardsale items first... before I go pay store prices...
Then I wanna build 3 or 4 signs... lots of ideas... only time will tell if I have the energy to do it all...

As of this minute this year will require 3 computers to do all I plan on... 1 for the mirror...
another for the MIAB and one more for the general yard lighting...

wish me luck...
here goes...

Tonights Poor Mans Clan Match saw {iCs} up as the team to beat! They put on a strong showing, but in the end superior numbers kept them from beating the Goldrush map. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=76670#76670 and come out next week if you can when the FunnyFarm Rebels will be up!

Hey all - just a reminder that the clanners in {iCs} are up tomorrow night for the PMCM. Come out for the fun - see ya there!

I found this http://www.bluesnews.com/articles/q3a_bus_tour_report_2.shtml and it made me remember the time I spent in that bus... Yeah myself and several others were in that bus late august of 99...

I took the day off work and closed the shop to take Keet to the bus... we planed on only being there for maybe 1/2 hour... we were in the 4th or 5th group at the compusa metrocenter... while one group played they brought in the next group for a few minutes of instructions... when we got to the machines we only got 2 minutes of warmup and config time... then a race to 20 frags... I personaly knew I have some skills... but I honestly expected Keet to whoop up on all commers... thats why I took him... after they finished the instructions the group we were in was talkin trash... since I was the WAY old dude they thought it was funny I was even interested in playin...

so when we were up... I spent the majority of the time tryin to find a comfy viewing place with those apple flat screens... they didnt work for me... they seemed choppy and slow... the colors were wrong... I didnt like em at all...and I had trouble adjusting to them....

and away we went... there was a guy walkin around keepin tabs on the players... and he said the old dood is ahead... I was surprised... I didnt even notice... I slowed down ... and started to enjoy the game play... it was fun....at 15 I said what the heck and took 5 more frags in a burst... I think the closest other player was 16 to my 20... it was cool... they gave me a Q3 tshirt... and some other stuff...

when we went out side the other guys went directly to the end of the line to play another round... I said what the heck Keet... lets do it too...so we did... while outside I was one of few tshirt winners... the old dood was good... haw haw haw... when we got our second turn it was the very same crowd as the first time... and they player the same... I had no trouble ownin them... the offical guy came up to me when I was at 17 frags... and told me only 1 prize per person... I couldnt win another T... fine was my answer... I went to 19... then steped away and said someone else win it...
it was really cool watchin them bust butt... in fact it was better than playin... so Keet didnt win this time either... but the guy that did thanked me for lettin him...

back in line... when the time to go in the bus came... the same group of guys was gonna go again... BUT they decided to wait... I guess they didnt want the ol guy to whoop em again... and it was the same this time also... I had no trouble runnin to 19 then steped away again... still Keet didnt win... shezzz... we started like 10 am it is lunch time.. I wanted to eat.. so I quit after the 3rd time...

Keet stayed till 9 pm... he went through the line all day tryin to win... after his roomies got off work they went thru the line... and they each won a Tshirt... of the 8 of us that had a lan party most saturday nights, 7 won a T... Keet was the only non-winner...

that Tshirt is one of my favorites... it is the Q3 sign on a black shirt... I wore it once in vegas... and an other guy had one... he was an instant friend... we both knew the other was a worthy opponet...
funny how things like a Tshirt become markers in a life... that shirt reminds me of a shop I loved at the time... there was the lan party every saturday evening... the commradery... the fun... the pizza...

The FunnyFarm Elite were out again tonight and were heavily opposed on the Railgun map! Good time tonight - glad lots of regs and a few new names made it for the match. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=75988#75988 and come out next week when iCs is up!

I guess tonight could be called a foul ball... the pepper ghost idea with fog on one side of the reflector didnt work... the fog stuck to the reflector ( the plexiglass pane)... and the sheen it created caused a multiple reflection... and it soaked up a ton of light.... all of which could be dealt with... but the real killer was.... the face wasnt visible untill complete darkness... usually the kids flock from 5 till 8 or 9.... thats only 3 to 4 hours total... I dont wanna lose 1 minute due to poor visibility...

While Im sure we could get a pepper ghost and magic mirror to work together, if we stuck it out... time is running out... so we are gonna do the monitor with little or no major difference from the site. http://homepage.mac.com/nephilim/imagineerieing/magic_mirror.html

now that the expermintal stage is over we only have a few details to finish up...then construction will begin...the magic mirror is gonna work and be cool...

Ohh yeah... I had a thought this morning... IF time permits... I was thinkin maybe a web cam ...
would that be fun for halloween?

Looks like we are at one of those points again, where we have to remind everyone that this Forum is not a place to come post anything and everything you want. This is a Game related Forum, one that has some youngster’s here that don’t yet understand the complexities of life.

If you want to post, keep this in mind. And also remember, this is Lazz’s place, and we all agree to his rules, if you can’t then leave. But PLEASE show the respect he deserves, or we will show you the door.

There have been some resent posting done that people should no better. Use common sense and if you can’t contribute to this place the least you can do is not try and take it down.

I have a feeling there’s a wind storm coming that even Ivan would be worried about, so please consider your thoughts carefully before talking out loud.

And it might be a good idea to look at this link that Cyco posted recently, it speaks volumes about what I am referring to.
http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5364

after 2 strikes I hit a ball this time... it wasnt terrific... and it wasnt real bad...
the magic mirror combined with a pepper ghost has possibilities... I threw together a demo tonight... since no one was interested enought to see it besides myself and the wife, Im callin it a ball...

while on the topic of no one interested... this web site and forum are losing their direction...I too am wavering...

So I will continue with the halloween preperations...and after the non-holiday I may address the direction things are going...

This year I want to add a remote control to the trash cans... which means I need a transmitter and a reciever... I would like a transmitter about the size of the remote I have for the car... so I looked and there are several out there... now it is time to buy...

I spent an hour walkin in our local FRY's electronics... I live less than a mile from the new one... which can be bad... I hate to say this but the average FRY's sales person leaves something to be desired... ( here comes a law suit)....

I first looked online to see what there was... and it would seem the X10 solution was the easiest way out... BUT it is slow... and clunky sometimes... for example... it might react instantly... or delay about a second..

Either way I searched the store and found the X10... but I had a dream they would have a nifty UHF dealie... hey I wanted the cool stuff... I found a IR transmitter and reciever... but that would limit the distance ... I wanted the radio stuff... it would be cool to put the transmitter in my pants pocket and use it from there...

so I know they have 2 solutions... I was brave... and asked a sales person... who answered in a way I liked... this person said... " I dont know of anything like that... ask the computer folks it is in their department"

off to the techie line ....
after a LONG wait... a VERY young person assured me they NOTHING like I discribed...


What am I to do?... this pimple faced authority has told me it aint....do I point out his short commings?... do I verbally bash the little know it all for being a macaroon? should I have grabed one of his facial rings and lead him to 2 solutions? ... shezz I hate getting old... I didnt even think of the majority of these options till I was writing this...


Now I ask you... how many times have I said... "Never give money to stupid people... they will continue to be stupid if ya do..."


I left and went to radio shack... my next mistake of the day...... the sign said "opens at 10:00".. and promptly at 10:20 the half dressed sales person opened the door... after he answered 3 phone calls... it was my turn to ask... and ohhh no this store didnt carrie stuff like that... but the other stores do...

Since Fry's was on the way home... I stoped and bought the X10 stuff... and sure enought it is slow.. and clunky... but it works...

...

the point I was tring to make is...
IF ya dont know ... say so... dont claim to know it all...

the last rant of the day is about superstores... the ones that wanna look at your receipt....
you dont have to let them... unless they have a search warrant... they can only ask... not require... I always smile and say " no thank you"

and the price is right... free

go get it...
http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=51540

The FunnyFarm Admins ran the field tonight on the Poor Mans Clan Match. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=75443#75443 and come out next week if you can!

Tomorrow night is the Poor Mans Clan Match - hope to see lots of folks out to oppose the Admins!

Once again the error part of trial and error won...
tonight we tried the projector again... and managed to defeat the glare issue...
but the color just didnt match a monitor... it would appear the projector idea is dying fast...

the newest idea is a TV... Im gonna search around here for a analog to tv converter... I know it's here somewhere...maybe if I find a large enpought tv I might pull off the bezel and put a pane of plexiglass a short distance infrount ... then fill the void with fog...I know that would delute the color... but the fog looks great in front of the face...
dunno
wait and see

2 attempts down 42 to go...

tonight was a prime example of trial and error...
I tried and it didnt work...
I installed the Magic Mirror software... and it is GREAT... but.. on a 21 inch monitor the face is only 1/3 or 4 inches high... kinda small in my opinion...

So I tried a projector... and dang a 2 foot wide and 3 foot high face is COOL... BUT the glare is gonna kill this idea... I put 2 panes of glass 3 inches apart and injected fog ... the projector hit the fog... and looked wonderfull... from 20 or 30 feet... but up close there was too much glare...

I tried.. it errored...
strike one...
I only have 46 days to go... soo I gotta keep busy...
later

As usuall ol' Lonsberry is hit and miss... today I happen to feel he hit the jackpot..
I often wonder if others feel or think the same as I do ... then he writes something that puts words to the emotions I have...
http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1491&go=4

I have spent most of the summer half way lookin for a cheap mac... I cant believe I wanted to spend money on a mac... I did it once and learned from the experince... but a cool halloween mod required a mac... they didnt have a windoz software version... at least last spring or early summer they didnt... the regulars might remember me mentioning a magic mirror...


well a long story made short I found one this afternoon... a neighbor has a powerbook I can use... So I went and found all the software requirements... and I was gonna burn a cd to test the software on his system... and.... then I saw it...

and I quote
"Note: Due to popular demand, a PC version was released in mid-2004. Also due to popular demand, a new version of the Mirror program was released with more features, but it is largely untested and requires more skill from the user to set up. New features include microphone input mouth control (but manual is still much better), being able to change the orientation of the mask, the keys to control the mask, and recording performances for later playback, either manned or unmanned. Select the version that works best for you."

w00h00 and all them happy sounds... after talkin to the neighbor it would seem we are gonna do a version of the magic mirror...

this is gonna be another good halloween...
http://homepage.mac.com/nephilim/imagineerieing/magic_mirror.html if have time ya might wanna watch the video...
if ya wanna see somethin funny ya might download MIR_PC_2.ZIP and press the "n" key...

Tonights Poor Mans Clan Match was short, but brutal, with the FunnyFarm Dragoons being shut out on the Radar map. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=74733#74733 and come out if you can next week when the Admins are up!

Hey all - tomorrow night is the weekly PMCM match! The big, bad, FunnyFarm Dragoons are up as the home team - we know they field solid numbers, so I hope to see lots of you there to oppose!

This is a hard topic for me... mostly because my biggest complaints on this subject are with myself... I am very aware this web space, forum, and game server are a great setting to make new friends... and I havent put much efford into meeting the noobs since I quit playing ET...

back in the days of other games I was much more involved with the game server.. and I knew the players much better... I recall several folks... I remember one game my favorite kill came from a knife... I was purdy good at throwing them..:)... in another game I remeber advancing up a hill with a bar... and having fun... still in another time I held the flag untill she returned with the enemy's.... and return she did... she and I whooped on them... almost all of them...

while I dont remember every moment of every game I played... I do remember some of the players... infact I remember quite a few of them... way too many to name here... so I would like to thank every person I have gamed with these past years... and ask for your forgiveness at not mentioning your names...

I would like to take this opportunity to let you all know I will be around for a while longer... we have plenty of time to settle and grudge matches you wanna finish...

But mostly... thank you all for being so dang friendly... thank you for everything...

Since I am still typing with one hand I will keep this intro short and sweet. The man deserved what he got. Thanks to {iCs}ThomasPaine -F0- for the article. Enjoy!



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5950304/?GT1=5100

shucks... I just paid 50$ for the new doom3... and yeah it is purdy... then I had to round up a copy of XP... and it only took 2 weeks to get it installed and runnin... while I am not totaly sorry I upgraded... I do happen to think if I had found Zdaemon earlier I dont know if I would have invested the efford in playing the new doom.... dont get me wrong.. the new doom is wonderful... it is kinda scary... kinda thought provoking... kinda cool...

and zdaemon is snowtown kinda action... fast,furious... ya jump in... and in seconds you are in the heat of the battle...yeah fast... furious... and free... the free part scares me...

take note folks... this is MY kinda game... yeah any game I can whoop on snake is a good kinda game...
yeah I just beat him on the last map... :P

Tonight FFr was the team to beat for the weekly PMCM ,and it was a prett nasty fight for most of it. We ended up being denied a win, but still played hard and pushed deep into enemy territory. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=74063#74063 and come out next week if ya can when FFd is up!

Tomorrow night is the weekly Poor Mans Clan Match and the FunnyFarm Rebels are up!! Hope to see ya all there!

Well I had my first Junior Varsity football game last night -- we of course lost 40-32.. But I was proud of my kids we were down 26-0 at half and came back and made a game out of it. Either way the kids had fun and i had fun.. thats all that matters right?

I doubt I can retell this with the weirdness intact... but Im gonna try...last friday was a bad day around here... last week I failed the emmission test with my truck... and that is a major factor...so here goes the story telling......

a little around 4:05 am while traveling north on I17 ... the truck start vibrating... so I slowed down... it got worst... this wasnt a simple lost wheel weight... it was a flat... so about 3 miles south of carefree highway I came to a stop... sure enough driver side front flat... shezz what a way to start a day... I pulled off the road as much as possible ... I 17 north this close to phoenix is never deserted... there was a steady stream of passing cars, trucks and semi's... because of the hump on the side of the road I could not put the jack in place... I had to drive farther onto the road... closer to the passing traffic... the second time it was the same thing... so closer I went... On the third time I got the jack under the truck ... but I was only a few feet from the traffic... Ohh let me tell ya... I was nervious about this... but my options were to drive on 3 miles to the exit and ruin the mag wheel or change the tire here... so I started jacking... on a side note I had no idea the jack had a handle... I was under the impression you used the little wrench that ya use on the lug nuts... so I had to lie down under the truck to jack it up...I had the truck up in the air.. and tire off... then I noticed "THEM"... I scratched my neck wondering why it itched... ANTS... the flashlight showed the ground covered... it seemed like the asphalt was moving... So I did the ants in my pants dance... Im sure this sight made the day of the passing traffic... I would have laughted if I had seen it... I finished the tire change... and made my way to the gas station at carefree highway... into the restroom and off with the pants...I was still covered in ants... I spent 15 minutes brushing them off... I was covered in little tinny red marks... Ohh my did I itch every where...

and thus begins my day...

I got to work in anthem a very few minutes early... so waiting for the others to show up... I could only stop scratching by sitting on my hands... after a very little thought I decided I would take the day off...I wanted a shower now.... so I informed everyone that showedup and left...( tommorrow will tell if I pissed management off... ohh well)

I arrived home in 20 minutes jumped into the shower... and watched little black things go down the drain for 1/2 hour...so being ant free again.... I thought I might take my allergy medicine to stop the itching...BAD MISTAKE... the itching stoped... BUT I could not sit still... the box mentioned overexcitement as a possibility... but I had never had it happen...so my thought it is the ant bits combined did the trick...while this is plain to see now... at the time I hadnt noticed anything... Im usually industrious so I got right into the truck repairs...

the emmission check failed me on the error p1443 in the OBC (?) so the net showed me the cure was 1 or 2 possibilites... a surge pump... or a gas line leak... after inspecting everythine I noticed the filler tube had a crack in it... and I broke my surge pump... I was trying to remove the vacuum line when the plastic broke in my hands...

I tried callin the auto stores and they all said dealer parts... I looked at the bank account then called the dealer... the surge pump came in a kit, the pump a sensor and all the lines from end to end... not too bad 90$ ish... the filler tube on the other hand was 350$ ish... maybe a little more... yeah 350 plus dollars for a hose that looked like a simple radiator hose... yikesssssss

junk yards here I come... and there I went... I called and it seems my truck had several types of tiller tubes... so I had to look to be sure I they the right one... I went to the close yards first... and they didnt have the one I needed... it was about 9 am then... and at 1 pm I had covered
all the junk yards on broadway and most in the city... the good news was I got a surge pump for 5$... woohoo I saved some... the bad news was every filler tube I saw was cracked like mine... and they wanted 75$ for ones that were not as good as mine...

FYI a filler tube is the hose that goes from the gas cap to the gas tank...

so I gave up and decided to bite the bullet and go to the dealer... I walked in carrying the hose... the parts guy knew exactly what was going on...he asked me not to shoot the bearer of bad news... I told him I was aware of the price... and had spent the morning trying to avoid paying the dealer price...then it happened... he decided to give me a break.... he did something... and I became a wholesale customer... the hose became only 190.50$ and I was glad...

a short trip home... I installed the parts... and the check engine light went off... it was now 3:30 pm... off to emmission again... I had trouble sitting in line... for some reason I got out and walked around the truck several times... the truck passed emmissions... this is major goodness...
all I had to do now was get tires... woohoo...

now thats it is sunday I am sitting here thinking about this... on friday I ate a small breakfast as normal... then didnt eat again untill nearly 5:30 when we went out to dinner... weird... I usually dont go that long... SO Im guessin it was some sort of an allergic reaction to the medicine and ants... durring the day on friday I had several chances to be angry ... and at no time was I... early on they put the my part request on a hotline... and some fellow miles off the beaten track claimed to have a perfect part for me... after driving 25 miles it turned out it wasnt for my truck...yet I wasnt angry... one fellow sent me on a wild goose chase... he claimed a parts house had a replacement hose for only 25$... yeah it turned out to be a radiator hose... which desolves when in contact with gas... yet I didnt mind...

and the moral of this story?
if you wanna enjoy being charged a ton of money for something ... try the lazz anger management class...go roll in an ant hill...

ya think?

There will be an FFe match on the server Sunday night at 9 PM EST. As such, the server will be locked for about 2 hours (if things go well...).


Thanks Lazz.

Whew - what a heck of a fight at that second gun tonight. The clanners of {iCs} took to the field and left a path of Axis corpses sorrounding each gun on Oasis. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=73372#73372 and come out next week when FFr is up!

Tomorrow night is the Poor Mans Clan Match for the week - {iCs} will be up on another surprise map! Hope to see ya all there!

I spent this afternoon reviving the local file server... the old motherboard was a abit bp6 with dual 466's.... oh it was hot stuff in it's day... but after a short 5 or 6 years it died...

a couple of hours ago I took all 7 drives out and moved them to the test server case... after a short configuration romp things came back to life... some of the printers started working... I found my registered copy of winamp and installed it... all my mp3's survived the move... it looks good... my recent XP install was lacking cause I had no access to the file server... the little things make an install so much nicer... for example I now have my booklinks... dang it was a pain to try to remember the places I go often... my desktop is sitting where I can see it... my copy of eudora makes reading email so much nicer... agent found its way back onto my desktop... all the little things are coming back to normalicy... heck I'm thinkin XP isnt all that bad after all...

I know switching motherboards isnt the cure all I need... but honestly I cant afford to buy what it would take to replace it... maybe in the spring...I might retire the present game server and find a couple 200 gig drives... by then I might be able to afford a 2 or 3 ghz game server replacement...

If this works it could be our news posting ability has returned... and if not then I gotta figure out a new fix....

There is a post not everyone can see... I would like to comment publicly on it...
-quote

Hmmm... I'm getting a feeling id has turned. I keep checking occasionally for news on a dedicated linux, and I find nothing official other than the FAQ. I've seen this before from other companies... I'm sure lazz has, too.

-end quote

and my reply
patience....
this is a company with a good track record... we can allow them some time...

NOW if it was an activision game without carmack things would be different
for example I would not be playing it...


besides I have a feeling something is happening with the multiplayer...
ya know.... id and or carmack gave us ET ... we can allow them some time...
should it be halloween... then Ill be ready for a head on a plater...

Id had to release the game in august to keep with their tradition... and they will have 99% of the other stuff by thanksgiving... like always...


I would guess the dedicated server sometime early sept... IF id does it... they might have farmed it out...
patience...

-end reply

Id has not betrayed us yet... and I have no reason to think they will start now...

It appears the mother board on the file server is dying.. it halts or reboots once every 24 or so hours...
So that makes posting news a little difficult...

I have some other stuff to deal with first... therefore it might take a couple of weeks to fix this... please bear with me... it too shall pass...

What can I say on this topic?
I ban for imposters... any questions ?
a recent event happened ... and I would have usually banned after hearing about the actions of a few... some folks have made comments the problem group will not do this again... so this time I choose to let it pass...

BUT If I ever see folks using the FF tags without my permission they will be history... cause I dont think it is cool!

Well most of you havent seen me around for a while, and im sure alot of you have no idea who I am.. I will be back around tuesday (at least thats what the ISP says), Been Awol for sometime now, moving and without internet service for the last 7 months. So I hope to be around more, thats if my job and coaching lets me, its gonna be wierd making the adjustment from a college student to joining the real world.. either way I will have internet at home and thats all that matters.. Ohh school starts soon for me, actually on Tuesday, So I hope to have some good stories to tell about my experiences soon.. Its my first year of teaching, kinda scared, but Ill make it through somehow..

I think the title says it all but wait, there is more to read. This story is too funny to report on so I am posting the link for you all to enjoy.

MM


http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/08/18/bear.beer.reut/index.html

The weekly Poor Mans Clan Matches are back and this time the FunnyFarm Elite will start things off. Check out the post here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5072 and come out if you can Friday night to join in the fun!

I smell the smell of a fried power supply... yeah the local file server has been down for the last several days... which ends posting news and a few other items...

this evening I took my chances with the garage monsters to search for a ATX power supply... I found 3 and sure enought it was the last one that worked.... shame on me for buying used ATX power supplies....
either way the news stuff is back to be used... and RW and a few other lesser known dealies...

enjoy folks...

Doom 3 finaly allowed me to play today... So ya think I might have fixed it? dunno ....
what I did was... reinstall XP,this was the 5th time I think... then I installed ecah driver seperatly rebooting between installs... I spent time hunting down that lame USB2 driver that always shows up in device manager as a yellow check...
Since it didnt work then I decided to update windows... and then I uopdates windows again...and again and again... I think I installed a total of 80 ish updates... rebooting at least 10 times...

Somewhere in there was the fix... I dont know where ort how... but one of those updates did the trick... nope it wasnt a driver... it was a windows update... go figure...


Since I have seen some of doom3... I ask why no one else has made the association I did...
I am near the air lock headed back top the base... I have just found the shot gun...

And every turn , every person I meet... half life comes to mind... doom3 was a space ship to the landing dock... HL was a monorail... so on and so on... I'm sure it changes.... yet I have to think HL for the moment....

This afternoon turtle beach support returned my help request with several good suggestions... sadly none of them worked... so I reinstalled the 3rd and 4th time...
After yet another format and re-install the only out come is a lost desktop and mia bookmarks...
I have both backed up on a linux samba server... yet Xp refuses to find said network connection...

It would seem directx9 doesnt like my system... dunno what to say... I am leaning to a switch back to a functioning os... all my hardware is on the XP supported list... and all has functioned well in the past... I have no new hardware installed.. it is all tried and true working stuff...

btw I happen to feel the support suggestions from turtle beach were the best I have ever recieved... they might not have worked... but they were very informative and had good ideas.... not the usual reinstall windows nonscense...

I plan on thinking this over before I waste any more time...

Lazz 1 (fixed)
Broken stuff 4 ( 4 easy to describe)

Yesterday the ET server's hard drive was sick... It required a manual fsck to put things right... and all is well ... now at least... and this is my only success so far this week...

Xp wins hands down.. and refuses to log on to my printing network... which means it dosent print..
Xp Boots so slow I now have time for "SSS" ( if ya dont know what that is... you dont wanna know)
Xp seems to delay my typing... it is as if the letters go away for up to 3 or 4 seconds... now and then ...

Then comes doom3

I ask those who have played.. is it cool? does it have the playability ID is famous for? Are the maps fun?

On my end Doom3 is broken.. I havent played it past the ship landing... the sound repeats... very annoying... Having read every entry google found using "Doom3 sound trouble" , "Doom3 sound issue" , "Doom3 sound sux" I can say my problem seems to be isolated... While waiting for turtlebeach to reply to the help me email I guess Ill continue to run the hacked doom3 server...

I give up for the night....
but I did start the 32 player doom3 server....
give it a try... admins the rcon password will be the same... if I dont fall asleep before I find it...

Ohh the Ip is 130.13.82.3 ... I think... maybe 4 ....

Please forgive me for I have sinned...
I have fallen into the M$ trap...
I have betrayed my wonderfull hardware...
And it has become hostage of the evil empire...

I have now spent an hour installing the reboot special... and I find I need 59 megs of updates before I can install SP2...

so kind folks I might not live thru the ordeal... My sound card is evil and has unsupported drivers... my nic of choice is questionable...
and... very worst of all... ( well worst I have found so far) my printers setup of 5 years is completely DORKED... XP will not log onto the local network to get permission to see all the lovely printers... yeah Im sure there is a fix... I mean one other than reinstalling Win98...

I would like to state without a doubt... XP boots much slower than win98... and presently it SUCKS!!!

John Carmack... tonight you have fallen from my list of cool people...

I folks have found it.... The one and only source... as I drove by the first time my jaw fell open and the wheels of thought started rolling... If I could only contain this place the world would be a better place...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/trip/what_is_it.jpg
Sorry for the blurry pic... I was traveling about 70 mph out of fear of the place... as you can tell it was nearing dark... I had to flee the place... I have a better pic I will reveil later... I just thought you might like to guess what it is...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=69990#69990

iCs clan leader has updated the clan page...
If you are interested you might wanna cheak it out...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/clan/ics.php
thanks SNAFU..

The vehicle: One ford escape...Internal dimensions: front headroom (inches): 40.4, rear headroom (inches): 39.2, front hip room (inches): 53.4, rear hip room (inches): 49.1, front leg room (inches): 41.6, rear leg room (inches): 36.3, front shoulder room (inches): 56.3, rear shoulder room (inches): 55.9 and interior volume (cu ft): 100

The person in the shotgun position: One post-menopause woman with a blader the size of a small pea

The cargo: 2, not one, TWO ... hounds often mistaken for ponies... the smaller of the 2 is 80 ish pounds... while the big guy weighs in at 105... these are four legged eating, wet nose in everything ,often barking like the world is gonna end... dogs...

The driver: one tired person with few wits left...

You now have a general Idea of the who... I never did mention the what... yeah my dad found me a halloween prop... which I named Clarence... more on him later... there there was a cool doll house mommie just had to have... the 4 antique clocks I found to add to the small collection of things I wanna need to try to fix... then we had clothes, a new smoke machince I couldnt pass up ... a antique bamboo rocking chair ( it really is maple made to look like bamboo), an old stand fan... and a ton of other junk that followed us home...

Next is where.... Phoenix,Arizona to Lewiston,Idaho... 1300 plus miles each way...Along the way we past a few interesting places... more on them later...
I thought I would end this with a pic of some cargo setting the mood for the trip...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/trip/sydney1.jpg
http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/trip/sydney2.jpg

ohhh my......
2927.5 miles later..... dang
Im tired...
But do I ever have some interesting stories to tell ya ...
Food... shezzz who would have thunk it would be like that.....
Drivers from other places...
I have the urge to talk major trash about Utah...
We also visited some cool places...

and yet.... it was only here in Arizona that we saw the rain... When we left flagstaff headed north last week we stoped at sunset crater to let the dogs run... and it was raining... that little storm was all the rain we saw untill we entered page this afternoon... it would seem Utah and Idaho both we in a heat wave while we visited...

leaving Page this afternoon.... we hit a monsoon storm on the rez near The Gap for the next 175 miles we watched the lighting on the horizon and the rain on the windsheild...BTW RainX is a must for travelers... the wind storm blew red dust everywhere... at times we talked about sitting out the storm alolng the road side... then it would clear enought to continue the trip...

for those who have never witnessed the wonder of a summer monsoon in the desert ... I can not begin the do justice with this .... seeing accross the rez for miles and miles ... the sun light cutting through the clouds like a yellow knife... the streaks of rain hitting the earth and raising a cloud of dust .... the smells....the temp going from over 100 to less than 80 in seconds... the hot and cold winds washing over you in a few minutes... and the smells....

when we returned this evening at 7:02pm the burns pest control time and temp sign on I17 just south of the 101 said.... the temp was 196....
Im sure the sign we broken... and yet it was a nifty reminder I live in a hot place....

I have a ton of pics...
and a bunch of odd ball observations... So the weird experinces stories will start soon....
last comment.... Grannies is haunted ! and I dont believe in ghosts...

WOOT! Anyone who wasnt there tonight missed one heck of a match. The FunnyFarm Admins put on a strong show of force, but were ultimately denied victory. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=69231#69231 and plan to come out next week!

Just a quick note to remind everyone that tommorrow night the Admins are up for the Poor Mans Clan Match! Hope to see you all there!

This Wednesday at 9 PM EST, the FFe will be having a scrim. Accordingly, the server will be locked for about two hours. Thanks.

Hot is the key word these days... it has been well over 100 everyday so far... northern idaho is in a heat wave... go figure...

This is by far the worst case of a string and a tin can... if anyone every claims to have a bad isp Im gonna tell em they dont even know what a bad isp is!!! Im gonna spend monday morning on the line with the techies.... boy I cant wait 8(....

Then comes the fishing....
after a trip to wally-mart my present score is....
2 hours in the water
0 fish
1 well fed tree :(
1 broken reel... yeah it is the 2 hour old one...

Oh yeah and one other thing.... driving thru the state of utah is not a nice trip... the drive took about 500 miles and 8 hours... those miles and hours were major boring... the wife and I wanted to spend time visiting the local towns as we drove... breaking up the trip... heck we even aloted a full day to spend money in utah antique shoping... we entered 3 gas stations... 1 resturant...In a 500 mile drive on interstate 15 not a single rest stop in utah was open... Utah got under 75 dollars out of us... and we are looking for ways to return home with out a return trip to Utah...

Last thing....
All hail the mighty CROBARR....
thanks...
they are wonderfull...
if this posts I will be astonished....

The FunnyFarm Rebels were up tonight for the Poor Mans Clan Match - read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=68213#68213. Ya, we got our butts kicked, but had a great time going up against an foe that had us outnumbered. Good job to all that made it out - come out next week if ya can when the Admins will be playing!

The FunnyFarm Rebels will be up Friday night for the weekly Poor Mans Clan Match. Word on the street is that their new recruits are chomping at the bit to prove their worth - gonna need some stout competition to hold these guys back!

See ya there!

I may have made an enoumous mistake...
I ordered the 2 cell phones... and the disconnection of the home service...
choice online requires a tech on site for about 2 hours to make those sort of changes... with up to 2 weeks of service interruption...

not acceptable from my point of view... what a way to lock ya into keeping the landline sorta phone...

I canceled all the new stuff I ordered today... and now can only dream they get it right...

gezzzz

This afternoon evening the boss and I decided to lose the regular phone service and go cellular...
woohoo
maybe...
We are also porting our present number to one of the cell phones...Sounds like we are moving into the future huh?

errr Im scared... our present phone is tied into the online service... sooo when they shut off the present number they have to kill the net connection.... for some time period up to a day...

arggggg
when are they gonna do it? we dont know exactly... errr I kinda do...
it will happen within minutes of when I leave town... wanna bet?
if they kill the service for more than 90 minutes we lose our dhcp lease... so even if service is going Im not possitive I can renew the lease away from this room... errr maybe a cron job ?the english trasnlation is the game server croaks... and the news posting goes away to la-la land...

either way.... I dealt with several portions of Qwest today... some to stop billing me... others to add new services... and for some reason in the back of my mind I expect interupted services... if everything I changed today goes thru without a hitch I will be truly amazed...

and remember I might be out of town when this all happens...
heheh scary huh?

have I made you nervious ? if not this will do the trick....
also... august is the renew month for the web host... you ask why is that a problem?
Ill tell ya why... about 2 weeks ago I asked our web host dood for a bill... and after several emails he said he would send one as soon as he spoke with the accountant... which was over a week ago...I mentioned I might be out of town...
hehehe

so as the title sez.....
this is a recipe for a disaster...
lets all cross our fingers and hope for the best....

Writen by USP....


As some of you know, I am a firearms enthusiast. I also am interested in WW2 history, especially the different firearms used in that period. I have found a video of some of these firearms from the German side being fired and thought that some of you might be interested in seeing them in action.
http://www.pallett.com/rsilvers/WWII.wmv
The video shows a MP44/STg44, an MP-40, an MG-34, a P-08 Luger, and a Thompson M1. There is also a Walther PPK, but that has nothing to do with WW2 and everything to do with James Bond.This video will give you an idea as to how fast these guns actually do fire. And also, that these guns are legal to own and shoot, in the United States if you reside in a state that does not prohibit private ownership of machine guns. The guns in the video are all privately owned guns. The MP-40 and the P-08 Luger both fire the same cartridge, the 9mm Parabellum. The MG-34 fires the 7.92x57mm, otherwise known as the 8mm Mauser. The MP44/STg44, fires the 8mm Kurz, of which only 2 firearms were ever chambered for this cartridge. One being the MP44/STg44, and the other was the German Army training rifle that they used to train their troops to shoot the MP44/STg44. I also have other videos of different firearms in operation, including a MG42, a M2HB, M16, UZI, Glock full auto pistol, just to name a few. So if you guys would like to see something, or just have questions in general about firearms, send me a pm through the forum and I'll help you out if I can.

Okay folks time to compair notes on the latest pmcm... For those who didnt figure it out the admins were the number clan...
Someone ( I dont rememebr who) thought it would be fun to whoop up some good natured competition.. so the plan was... the admins would play a pmcm as the number clan...and generaly cause havoc as much as possible...

I looked at what they were doin and decided to wreck a little havoc my self...
my plan was to hint that the number clan was into hackin... so we posted http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=67194#67194 ... that planted the seed of doubt...
next we needed a player to accuse them of hackin... that folks is where [FFr]Shagrath-F0- came in...
we had a script for shaggy to speak... all about how he figured out they were hackin rcon... and how he knew how to do it also... then he was gonna mention his intention to ban em all... which was my cue to do the deed and ban em...

then I learned all aboput a little known linux quirk that executes a command rather than copy it .....
I jumped the gun...
sorry I spoiled a good joke...



sniff sniff..

Yes tonight we the UBER clan... or nUmBER clan to you owned your server.
Muhahahahaha

I had no idea this is how they recuit suicide bombers...


Martyrdom is better than being a singer or a footballer. It's better than everything


When someone's values are twisted I guess this is what happens... Sorry my god doesnt tell me it is better to die than to be productive...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3899015.stm

On Tuesday in Virginia a portable toilet exploded after a man who was inside lit a cigarette.

Apparently the man drove himself to the hospital after the explosion but was not seriously hurt.

The explosion was a result of a buildup of methane gas inside the portable toilet.

Co-pay to admit yourself to the emergency room $75
Cost of replacing a port-a-potty - $500
Blowing up a port-a-potty because you needed a cigarette - Priceless

Not like we need a reminder with all the talk going on, but tonight is the Poor Mans Clan Match with the nUmBER clan. I gamed with some of these guys a few nights ago, and I think we are in for a good fight. They like to talk - but we walk the walk. Cya all there!

when ol' bob is on target he sure hits the mark... todays comments make points I have heard no where else... read em and enjoy em... I did..

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm

A while back I posted a whine about a local hardware store... this place was the project starting point for me... it didnt matter they had it or could get it... then they failed me... the guy behind the counter couldnt find his own butt let-alone the stuff I needed...

I am commenting because they reclaimed their place in my heart recently... yesterday I went in looking for my favorite gloves... I usually buy a dozen to get the price break... they had my favorite brand and it was at a record cheapness... whooohooo..... feeling lucky I asked about some brass screws... which they now had in a dusty box ... ( these are some of the same items they didnt have last time I was there) the counter guy found me a box of number 3 brass screws then asked if I could use some number 2's or 4's ... all I honestly needed was 6 number 3 but he suckered me into buying 3 boxes... I love having stuff for the next project... then came the 64$ question... and sure enought he had the elusive 1/8 ip die I have been looking for all summer...

I cant say this loud enough... good people make good places... yesterdays counter guy caused me to spend 4 times what I planed on... and I galdly gave him every penny...

and the best part was ... he was young... he could be there a while for my shoping pleasure...

Thanks to [FFd]Onloc, MD for sending me this article. I think this all boils down to morals and making the right decisions that YOU can live with. How far are people willing to go for sucess, fortune, and fame? How far are you willing to go and are you willing to pay the price? Not me, I like my freedom.


http://www.hispeed.rogers.com/news/tech/story.jsp?cid=z070911A

iCs and some "friends" where the Allied team on Oasis for tonights Poor Mans Clan Match, and they did a fine job. They had both guns down by a little over 30 minutes, and fought a match in which they came from every possible direction in tight, well supported, groups. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=65853#65853 and come out next Friday if you can when FFr takes the field!

I have been a lot of things in my life (ok stop listing the ones you call me).

When I was younger, I thought I knew everything and didn’t need to listen to doddering old fools who tried telling me what I had to do, and how to do it. That I had all the time, and wisdom, in the world to make my life whatever I wanted it to be. I left college, with all my grades in the high 80s and 90s, for what I thought was easy money. Let me tell you, easy money is winning the lottery. I was one of the lucky few who landed on their feet running. Running from one career to the next. Surviving, and doing well, but to look at my friends now you wouldn’t say so. They all envied me, now the shoe is on the other foot. You see the ones that stayed, and kept their eyes on their goals are there now, and I’m still running. I’ve lived a variety of lives from football, police, dog kennel, salesman, professional photographer, businessman, real estate investor, bodyguard, landscaper, automotive fabricator, contractor, and so on, and so on….., and I’m still going. Now I’m older, and little wiser (not smarter). I realize I’m working twice as hard, and for 10 to 15 years longer, than they will.

Now I’m starting all over again. Learning to read and write, again, and trying to figure out what I’m going to be when I grow up.

If I had paid attention when I was younger, the answers were all there free of charge.
When I was 13 he was a pain. Yelling at me and working me.
When I was 15 he was mean. He didn’t understand what it was like being a teenager.
When I was 17 he was a nag. Harping on about what to do and pushing me in directions he wanted me to go.
When I was 21 he was a fool. He was trying to tell me things I knew better than him.
When I was 30 he was my friend and my Father. Because I understood.

You see it took me all that time to realize he was trying to show me direction from his experience, his mistakes.

True wisdom is knowing how little you actually know, and learning from mistakes.

The moral from this babbling idiot:
Stay at your goals.
Learn from your mistakes. Better yet, learn from someone else’s.

Thanks for listening. It’s been a hoot.
Good Bye

I apologize for pouring salt on the slugs...
I have no idea why I expected more... I am very aware of what they are able to do.. and I have no excuse for expecting more than that...

sorry

Several times I have been asked why there are admins... why dont I do it myself... and the answer is easy... I enjoy the games and like to play... yeah I like to take part in things...

Then stuff happens and the world passes me by... tonight it was finaly hammered into my skull other people dont feel the same about sharing that I do...

The FunnyFarm Elite fielded over a half dozen warriors tonight that went up against an equal number of Axis foes on Oasis. It was a solid match and took much longer than some expected - no surprise though considering the average skill level on this server! Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=64670#64670 and come out if you can next week when {iCs} is up. See ya then!

I can only say I was disappointed... this was the best movie I have seen in months... and the crowd was completely dead...
I embarrassed my wife... she poked me several times...
the movie deserved cheers ,boos ,awwwws and all the audience noise ... yet this crowd did none... it was a shame... what could have been a fun experince was only a good movie...

If you havent seen this flic... go with a noisy group... this flic is great and needs the cheers and sighs to make it a fun experince...

Im gonna harp on the Phoenix police again...
The wife and I went to metrocenter to see spiderman 2... we had a blast...
In the mall I noticed 1 phoenix officer and as we exited the mall a county sheriff was enforcing a no smoking ban near the door... yeah a county employee was chasin kids with smokes away from the door...
in the parkin lot we saw 2 cars with 4 officers...in the first mile as we left the mall we saw 2 more phoenix police cars with 4 more officers aboard.... this counts as 10 law enforcement officers protecting private property... and not one security guard to be seen...

and we wonder why things are out of hand... if metro center was a bar that needed that much police envolvement the city would close it...

yeah the property owners are safe yet I cant get a cop to come to the house...

Just when I think I have seen everything for sale on eBay I've got another one for ya. Mud from the Glastonbury Festival. For those who don't know (including me) the Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield and performing arts festival in the world held in the U.K.. Basically, for us U.S. folks this is like Lollapalooza, Country Jam, or Farm Aid on steroids. Right now you can own a part of it for GBD 5.00 approxiamately US $9.10. Link provided below so don't hesitate click now!

Happy 4th of July everyone! Make it a safe and enjoyable one.

MM


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=42445&item=3824979477&rd=1 />

You may or maynot know I get lots of email.... this morning I got a real cool one I would like to share...


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Wednesday June 30th, 2004


The cost of hacking on PunkBuster servers has just gone up significantly. PunkBuster now computes Hardware GUIDs for various pieces of hardware on players' systems while playing on PunkBuster servers. We use multiple private one-way hashes so that no serial number information for individual computers can be determined by admins or anyone else who may try to obtain this information from a Hardware GUID (and as always, no personal information of any kind is examined, stored or transmitted by PunkBuster). When players raise a violation that corresponds to hacking or interfering with PunkBuster's normal operation, we now (in addition to Global PB GUID bans) are Globally banning the new Hardware GUIDs across all games supported by PunkBuster (including games supported in the future). So punks who are determined to cheat so badly on PB-enabled servers that they try to hack PunkBuster may now need a new computer in addition to a new cdkey in order to return to PunkBuster servers. As with previous PB GUID Global bans, the new Hardware GUID bans are permanent and will not be lifted. As always, players who are affected by these Global bans will still be able to play on non-PB servers. Honest users should never "test" hacks that claim to interfere with PunkBuster. We have successfully tested this new feature set over the past few weeks for a few supported games and will be rolling it out to all supported games over the next few days and weeks. Additionally, PunkBuster servers will be updated to signify whether kicks for Global bans are for PB GUIDs or the new Hardware GUIDs.


Please visit our site at http://www.evenbalance.com for more information.


Regards,
Even Balance, Inc.

Teetering on the edge of Earth’s atmosphere, amazing clouds appear to glow with an electric light in the night sky. These noctilucent clouds can be found 50 miles above us. Once very rare, noctilucent clouds were once only seen after major atmospheric events and usually only at latitudes above 50 degs. Recently, (particularly since the 60’s) these clouds can be seen on a more regular basis, and as far as Utah and Colorado. The mystery of noctilucent clouds is the fact that sightings are increasing in recent history, and that we know so little about their composition. NASA hopes to learn more about them when they launch the AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite in 2006. This will study noctilucent clouds and also monitor our atmosphere for gases, dust, etc. There are a couple of speculated theories on cause of noctilucent clouds and their composition, but I’ll let you read that.

If you get a chance, keep an eye out for them. They’ve been a thing of wonderment to me.

http://www.meteo.helsinki.fi/~tpnousia/nlcgal/nlcgal.html
Please, do not copy, or link to individual photos.
http://www.weather-photography.com/Photos/gallery.php?cat=clouds&subcat=nlc
Please, do not copy, or link to individual photos.
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/bericht-30434.html
http://aipsoe.aip.de/~rend/nlc-allg.html
http://freespace.virgin.net/eclipsing.binary/whatarenlc.html
http://verplant.org/history-geophysics/Diurnal_V/Main.htm

Here in the USA we have wonderfull lifesyles... We can work from the home.. we can shop from home... we can even school our children at home...The number of things we can do from home grows every day...

Several local patriotic persons have started a new movement... fight the war in Iraq from home...
How could this be possible you ask?... well they use BIG guns... Sure you say... and I say Ill present my case with pictures...

first off there is http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/57mmx.jpg this is a pretty much useless weapon for this home war... it is highly unlikely any arab air force is able to get close enought to use this fine defensive gun...


secondly there is the hap-hazard method... this gun requires a new person to fire it each time... for some reason if a person survives the first shot they just dont wanna repete the experince... http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/57mmcaseing.jpg notice the hammer used to fire the round...

and then we have the big boy... http://thefunnyfarm.net/img/57mmfiring.mpg

In the event you would like to contribute to this cause and dont have usable weapons yourself you might wanna contact USP and offer to finance a round or 2...


Disclaimer
these picture are from a shoot USP recently attended... questions and comments should be directed to him...

The U.S. Marines Corps are getting deeper into the gaming biz. Working with Destineer and Atomic Games, on a game called Close Combat: First to Fight. They intend on using the realistic fps as training for their troops, with a few changes for the civilian release. The idea is to mimic the style, situations, and tactics of the Corps. This game looks very interesting and will have single and multiplayer modes for all of the platforms. For those of us that love the team play of ET, this is a must read.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/closecombatfirsttofight/preview_6101400.html
http://pc.ign.com/articles/526/526511p1.html

The FunnyFarm Dragoons took the field tonight and, as always, put on an impressive show. Read and post about the match here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=63788#63788 and be out next week when the Elite are up!

This Saturday at around 8 PM Eastern (may move to 7 if something comes through), we're going to have an unofficial PMCM-like event for FFe. We'll be doing the Central Europe campaign. I'm hoping those of us who've signed up to play this Sunday will play axis, while everyone else plays Allies. The difference will be, though, we won't have unbalanced teams.


So, if you're not doing anything Saturday night, come on out.

Just a post to say Hi. Thank you lazz for the talk.

This morning I blew it... I forgot the old saying about never mistaking a silly mistake for a malicious action ... yeah... it would seem young Death Chicken has several virus running his computer... and I thought he did it...
:( silly me...

Okay death chicken ... or james marchant....
I know you are the one behind this...
time to stop now...

BTW here is a big hint for your next attempt...
never use an IP with your name attached...
and a static ip makes it real easy to trace...


if this stops now I will go no farther... I sent 3 abuse emails off and will do no more... take the hint and quit while you still have an ISP...

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm
It is nice to find others think like this...

Tonight I was reminded living in a city like Phoenix has many hidden costs... The weather was excelent this evening ... the bats from the mountain came to the local street light and did their dance in the sky ... we didnt get much of a chance to hear the coyotes howl this evening ... instead we were treated to a very young person riding a new "crouch rocket" this person of less that 12 years rode the noisy machine from 6:30 till 8:30 pm... on residential streets.... since I live on a corner I got to hear him learn to shift... it is surprising the amount of noise one small engine can make...

the neighbors all gave up and deserted me about 7:30 ... they were tired of the noise... it is a sad day when people are run off by the illegal actions of a minor... so foolishly I called the Phoneix police... and once again I lost time out of my life for a stupid cause...I wasted the 15 minutes reporting the actions of this poor young person... and then waiting an hour to see if an officer show up... it didnt happen...instead I came in my self to write this....

I can see several persons thinking I am over reacting... which could be the point... but more importantly I would like to protect my sanity... why you might ask?
several years ago there was a young person that ignored the traffic lights and crosswalks ... I personaly missed him and his brother by narrow margins more than once... he pushed his luck one too many times... now every time I leave my neighborhood to the southwest I can see the memorial to him...
should I leave to the northwest I can see the memorial to the 3 highschool students that hit the palm tree while speeding on T-bird...
should I leave to the only other exit northeast I see the memorial to the drive by shooting of 2 summers ago...

a corner is the spot most likely for the speeding "crouch rocket" to meet a car or truck... and since I live on one it is possible his memorial will be in my yard...
sorry folks that would be hard for me... I have no desire to be reminded a young person lost his life because a police officer was too busy to show up ... I have no desire to be reminded poor parenting skills could leave another white cross for me too look at daily...

So once again living in a town like Phoenix means city council members dont have to return calls or emails...
And police officers are too busy to save a young persons life by enforcing laws...

Wow - what a rush this match was. I can honestly say that it was one of the best rounds of ET that will ever be. Read & post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=62987#62987 and keep your eye on the PMCM schedule topic for what is coming up next. Thanks again to all that came out - you guys made my night!

pb_sv_unbanguid

without argument is a BAD thing... it completely negated all the bans in the banfile by adding a ";" at the begining of each new line... to the tune of 1982 lines..... I thought about it for a very short time... less than a second and decided to automate the fix rather than to do it by hand.......

you might ask what does this mean to me....
it means if you were unbanned via the command line .... yuou are most likey banned anew....
if thats the case let me know and Ill for it as soon I can...

That bob lonsberry dude goes from extreme to extreme from cool to lame... and today he steped into the cool end of the pool...
I wish someone had pointed out a few of his comments to me 30 years ago... several of the things I try to pass on to others he has said in a much better manner that I ever did...

So if yer bored give http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm a read and be inspired...

Noodles are not just for lunch anymore?

In KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia 374 passports and 700 work permits were seized by local officials after they raided an apartment where they found passports and work permits inside instant noodle packages. They were cleverly disguised in the noodle packets because some of the noodles and the seasoning packet were left inside. According to officals smugglers were buying forged passports and work permits in Indonesia and selling them to illegal immigrants in Malaysia. Those arrested face up to 6 years in prison, fines, and WHIPPING (OUCH!). I bet those were the most expensive packages of Ramen ever purchased anywhere in the world.

In construction I get to view some disasterious mistakes now and then... A few years ago I remember seeing a geyser of water rising over 100 feet into the air... and the attempts to pile dirt and other objects on it....
Once I recall a mistakely opened gate flooding my work area... and the run to escape the rising water...Im still missing a wrench from that jaunt...
Today was a new one to me...
I am working on a hill side with a view of the aqua fria river ... on the opposite hill side accross the dry river bed there are a double row of high power towers... today they took turns putting on light shows for my viewing pleasure... the explossions caught our attention to begin with...then the transformers turning into small version of the sun... in the course of nearly 2 hours we were treated to a series of eletric inspired events...
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0614blackouts-ON.html
ohh yeah thats why the server was down...

The previous post was meant as funny jab at one of the little things that happen in life...
I could pay an extra $20 a year for a custom license plate that sez what ever I could fit on it...
but just to walk into the DMV and get a plate that says a word that applies to my hobby.... seriously what are the odds?

okay the other part about an evil trick was satire... I did not mean to give the impression I was under attack... that is not the case... It too was a shot at being funny that didnt work... sorry ..

then we add the messup with the php and or mysql DB and it seems some folks got the impression I was in trouble...
once again that is not the case...
thanks for the concern...

You might say I am several people... One of me goes to work... another stays in an 70's style ranch house that has little meaning other than I call it home... then there is the guy that does some net stuff... in the last few years I have come to understand mixing my different personalities isnt always a good idea... for instance I seldom tell my work colleagues I even know how to turn on a computer... and my newer neighbors have no idea what I do for a living... in the recent past it seems like people get the idea I am what I do... they feel because I work in construction I wouldnt even have a clue about a web site...



being the liberated fellow I am I would like to point out to the world I am not defined by what I do ... or where I live... sorta...I like to think thats the case, yet the great state of arizona or the cruel laws of blind chance have defined my life with what I drive...I wish I knew which did it to me.... could it be someone who wanted to play an evil trick on me ? maybe a baned person...







I had been savin this for a while now...my license plate....

You may or may not notice the news is messed up...
isnt this special?

I got too much to do without this ... 8(

You might say I am several people... One of me goes to work... another stays in an 70's style ranch house that has little meaning other than I call it home... then there is the guy that does some net stuff... in the last few years I have come to understand mixing my different personalities isnt always a good idea... for instance I seldom tell my work colleagues I even know how to turn on a computer... and my newer neighbors have no idea what I do for a living... in the recent past it seems like people get the idea I am what I do... they feel because I work in construction I wouldnt even have a clue about a web site...

being the liberated fellow I am I would like to point out to the world I am not defined by what I do ... or where I live... sorta...


The weirdness never ends... - [lazz]
-12, June 2004 - 04:05 PM MST

You might say I am several people... One of me goes to work... another stays in an 70's style ranch house that has little meaning other than I call it home... then there is the guy that does some net stuff... in the last few years I have come to understand mixing my different personalities isnt always a good idea... for instance I seldom tell my work colleagues I even know how to turn on a computer... and my newer neighbors have no idea what I do for a living... in the recent past it seems like people get the idea I am what I do... they feel because I work in construction I wouldnt even have a clue about a web site...

being the liberated fellow I am I would like to point out to the world I am not defined by what I do ... or where I live... sorta...

I like to think thats the case yet the great state of arizona or the cruel laws of blind chance have defined my life with what I drive...I wish I knew which did it to me.... could it be someone who wanted to play an evil trick on me ? maybe a baned person...


Author Unknown - [[FFd] MM *SF*]
-09, June 2004 - 03:59 PM MST

I recieved this story in mt email the other day and I thought it would be something that would be good for everyone to read.

As some of you may know, one of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also. But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the US flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, "yes, I always wear it and I probably always will."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered.

Every once in a bluemoon I get bored... and then I look for something to require my attention for a while... It can be strange how little things leap out at you when you are least looking for them... So this mornings boredom attack was repelled and sent on it's way...
the 64 dollar question is.... did anyone notice the object that I focused on for the short moment?

The FunnyFarm Elite showed up tonight to play on the Battery map - and play they did. Even with a strong layered defense they lost as Axis, but came back with a sterling effort to win the match as the Allies. Read about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=61528#61528 and make plans to come out next week to give the noble {iCs} clanners a fight they wont soon forget!

I put the new Helmsdeep map on the server tonite, was fun and played with a few reg's.

Going to leave it running for a while, since the server hasn't been busy of late, try it out.

download the map http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=24265

Dang - seems like you can't throw a grenade these days without hitting an FFd member, and tonight was no exception. The Dragoons were out in full force and put in a solid PMCM win even with some connection issues. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=61010#61010 and plan to be out next week when the Elite will attempt to hold the Battery against the swarms of Allied soldiers!

A while back fate was unkind to a nice guy... He lost the use of his right arm...
Making a sad story short... he also mentioned wanting to go fishing again... he has the boat... he has the time... he needs a reel and or fishing pole that is usable for him...

So I went lookin.. and all I found was heavy duty saltwater stuff...

does anyone have any experince in this area? If so how about some advice or links?
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=60593#60593

Thanks in advance...

After I pulling myself back onto my chair from laughing so much I thought this would be a great story to share with all of you.

Apparently someone was trying to sell a cough drop on eBay that was supposidly in Arnold's mouth. There were actually two pictures of a used cough drop. eBay quickly took the item off because it fell into the category of body parts. Here is something I also didn't know. There are currently over 115 different collectible items from the Terminator himself up for auction currently on eBay.

Three words: GET A LIFE!

MM

with the ever increasing production value of games these days, only a handful of companies (id, epic, and the like) are the only ones really pushing the tech, and then liscence (sp.) out their engines.... for tons of dough. well along comes cube, an open source fps. its not the latest-greatest in the bells and whistles department, but its an important view on how we make and play games. check it out.

http://www.cubeengine.com

WOW - what a fight the FunnyFarm Rebels had at tonights Poor Mans Clan Match. Even though they were beaten at the Fuel Dump by the Axis, they were able to push to the base and launch wave after wave of assaults on their foes. Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=60233#60233 and plan to be out next week as the FunnyFarm Dragoons kick off a new rotation.

This rant is about education and the need for it...

This afternoon I went to the local hardware god's house... we have a local hardware store that has survived for the last 60 years... they have everything known to man... and if it aint on their shelves it either doesnt exist or they can order it from the main store tommorrow...

I have never gone there and left without my gaget or the promiss of tommorrow for it... not untill today... :(


this story starts a week ago... the normal guy was there... I explained I wanted a "1/8 IP die"...
For those who dont know this is the thingie that puts threads on a pipe... what makes it special is it is for lamp fixtures... the cool hardware employee took a minute said we are out of stock.. and it would be there tommorrow.. I muttered the standard shucks... and expected it would be patently waiting for me on saturday...
one thing lead to another and I didnt get a chance to go back till today... the cool guy wasnt there... instead there were 2 young ( minority) gentlemen... since the source of all homemade gagets is close to the house I left around 2:30 and was there before 2:40 ( traffic isnt nice on friday afternoon)... I knew after their first reply I was in trouble... I once again asked for " a 1/8 inch Iron Pipe die" and the reply was... "There is a die to color pipes? I thought you had to paint them".... from there it went completely down hill... I pointed the place it should have been stored... I explained what a die is... I went into the difference between NP and IP... I spent an hour of my life that is gone, never be replaced... the complete lack of spark in the eyes of these 2 causes me to do this rant...

This was not a joke... these 2 poor souls did not have a clue... and were embarrassed ... they did all they were able to think of, including calling the main store and talking someone...These 2 plainly didnt have the resources to deal with the request...

I enjoy that store, usually... in the "Home Improvement" TV show there is a hardware store.. the one I go to is better... usually...

This isnt an unusual thing... the local convenient store ( to remain nameless) that I pass everyday is one of those places I dont go any more... I drive 2 miles to the north to a older dirter store every morning for my coffee ... I had been going to that place for the last 15 years nearly everyday for gas,coffee, a soda or what ever... I was on a first name basis with almost the complete crew... so you ask why I dont go there any more... Ill tell ya... it was a uneducated person who couldnt count that did it... that and a manager that felt the $4000 plus a year I spent there didnt matter to his bottomline... ( $20 a week in drinks and snacks ,gas 3 times @ $20 = $80 a week X 52)

the uneducated anything BUT young sloven female took a $20 bill for a $3 purchase ( the weekly lottery ) she gave me change for a $10... when I protested she said ok and gave me another $5
I asked how that was possible? and I wanted to see that 15 dollar bill... when I understood she was not going to do more I decided to talk to the manager...
the manager apologized and gave me a free coffee... yet he didnt pass the other $5 or show me the 15 dollar bill...
needless to say I vote for them to go out of bussiness with my paycheck...
there are several places I dont go any more... and I point to the owners and or managers... I know it isnt easy to get help that has any IQ... but I am willing to pay more for less nonsense...

soooo the point of this rant.... if you read this... STAY IN SCHOOL!!! dont be someone who turns every customer encounter into an IQ test and fails!
get a decent education... pay attention to the details...

Smells like its that time again - tomorrow night is another Poor Mans Clan Match! The FunnyFarm Rebels will be at the Fuel Dump with guns blazing at 7:00 MST (10 EST I belive). I'm driving for work all day tomorrow, but should be home in time to get this rolling.

See ya there!

This story I am going to provide a link for is probably the saddest thing I have read in a long time. I am not a very religious person but I do respect others and their beliefs. What these hackers did probably seemed funny at the time but it was completely disrespectful. This type of mindless mentality is exactly the same type of mentality of whoever released the virus attacks on our site posted by Lazz earlier this week. People you do not accomplish anything by doing this type of crap and frankly you are an idiot to think otherwise. nuff said article link below.


http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/05/19/uk.online.church/index.html

I would like to point out an interesting article...http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm
and from that story I would like to quote...

"How could a good American buy any product sporting the Olympic rings when he knows proceeds from that product help fund the USOC – the organization that’s hiding our flag. Why put money in the pocket of people who are ashamed of the flag under which generations of good Americans have fought and died.

And why watch the games? If you know that your nation’s flag is being censored by organizers, why should you care to watch their tainted broadcast? "


finaly someone else saying something I say often....
vote with your paycheck... if they do stupid things you dont like dont give em your money...

Oklahoma police are looking for grease bandits who made off with 2,268 kilograms of used cooking oil and grease from three restaurants.

Police in Edmond, north of Oklahoma City, say the grease bandits have hit an area of Mexican, Chinese and steak restaurants over the past three months.

The robbers took the used cooking grease that was stored in large cylinders in back of the restaurants.

The restaurants were planning to sell the grease to a recycling company and the total value of the stolen goods was about $US380.

A spokeswoman for the Edmond police, Glynda Chu, said the bandits had a good idea of how to get money in the used grease market but she thinks it odd that anyone would put so much effort into making off with so much cooking by-product.

-- Reuters


The story

I can't believe something like this actually happened. I mean c'mon is there a demand for used cooking oil on the black market? I might be in the wrong profession. I can see it now they catch the grease bandits and the scene in jail goes something like this: "What ya in for?" "Stealing cooking oil" LOL!
MM

ATTENTION ALL FORUM USERS.....
If you recieve a email from me... the forums php script or anyother funnyfarm.net account be wary... once again my in box is full of stuff for the unwary to be watching for... so I can only assume it will hit everyone again...

so let me state this as plainly as I can... someone somewhere is pissed... and they wanna try to damage your computer and or files... if I dont usually send you stuff now is not a good time to think I started...

I am not involved with this... they are spoofing my address and name again...
be warned... and delete at will...

I would like to quote a recent post in the admin forum
"Any help would be appreciated

I decided to ask here cause most of the stuff in the forums ends up bieng spammed ........"

which means there is only 1 out of 17 forum topics that is good for on topic posts ! I intend to thin out irrelevant posters...

be warned.... think before you respond... and beware... I am seldom nice...
Not understanding a post is okay.... asking for a clarification is great.. posting an off the wall comment is a sure sign you took the IQ test and failed...

The Poor Mans Clan Match saw another packed hour on the server, which meant that clan {iCs} had their work cut out for them. While they were denied the ultimate obejective of blowing the dump, they did push the defenders back to their base and never let up in their relentless offensive. Read & post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=59383#59383 and come out next week when FFr finishes off this rotation!

Don't forget - ICS is up tonight as the clan to beat for the weekly Poor Mans Clan Match. Sorry this is posted late - I was out of town for half the week. I will see ya all tonight though!

A canadian student recieves a .22 Smith & Wesson instead of the MP3 player he purchased on eBay.


Brandon Buchan thought everything about his purchase was normal on eBay. When the package arrived however, he found a .22 Smith & Wesson with a license included. According to Canadian customs they did not x-ray the package because it was marked MP3 player. The student contacted police and they removed the gun from his home. The student has also contacted the dealer and the MP3 player is being sent; hopefully with the correct contents this time. Brandon plans on keeping a photo copy of the gun license as a souvenir of the incident.

*shakes head and walks away*

MM

but I still have to wait....
http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?identiferID=6635&action=flatview

A "bank robber" in Dusseldorf by the name Marko N. woke up one day and decided to go rob a bank.
Once he got to the bank it took him three hours to muster up enough courage to walk into the bank. Marko was dressed in a wool hat, shorts and a t-shirt. Once he entered the bank he pulled his hat down over his face but he couldn't see because he had cut the eyeholes in the wrong place. He ripped off the cap right in front of the camera so his disguise was blown. Marko then threatened a cashier with a pistol-shaped lighter, but she told him he had better leave. He took her advice but was immediately arrested by police officers waiting for him outside.

At his trial at the Dusseldorf district court, the presiding judge advised Marko against trying again. "You'd be better off giving up robbing banks. You are clearly untalented for the job," he said.



Who said real life isn't funny. This is freaking hilarious.

MM

Last Update: Saturday, May 8, 2004. 7:40am (AEST)

A French policeman faces trial in a police court for driving under the influence after he was stopped at the wheel of his car drunk and wearing only a pair of fishnet tights, a prosecutor said on Friday.

The man admitted he was a part-time prostitute after fellow police chased him through the Bois de Boulogne, a wooded area on the outskirts of Paris reputed as a night-time hangout of transsexual prostitutes, in the early hours of Thursday.

The policeman said he needed the extra income.

If convicted, he could lose his driver's licence and be fined.

Prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to try him for passive soliciting, which is punishable by prison in France.

--Reuters



The story

My 2 cents:

Ummm well I had to post this one right from the article. I am without words. What's next? The police chief arrested dressed like a pimp?

http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=58144#58144 They came, the saw, they got fragged. The proud warriors of the FunnyFarm Elite took to the field tonight, and while outnumbered and outgunned, were never out classed. It was a heck of a fight, and the turnout was outstanding - my thanks to all that were there. Next week the {iCs} clan is up - be there for more fun and good old fashioned fragging!

It's that time again - tomorrow is a Poor Mans Clan Match with the FunnyFarm Elite taking to the field. They have the skills, the manpower, and the orginazation to make this a cake walk - the question is, does the rest of the Farm have the guts to stand up to them??? Show up tomorrow night and prove what ya got!

A basket ball coach in Pleasantville, NJ was banned from coaching and was ordered to submit a public apology after he invited a player on his team to the year end banquet to present the 13 yr old boy with the "Crybaby Award". The coach actually got a special trophy made that had a baby on the pedestal with the inscription "Crybaby Award". He humiliated the boy in front of his teammates and parents. The coach is banned from ever coaching in any school in Plesantville and will have to hold another banquet to present the proper trophy to the boy. The part that really got me was that the coach was so wrapped up in being a jerk he spelled the boys name wrong. People like this make me think that public floggings would be a good idea. I nominate this jerk for the "Village Idiot" award.

I would like to offer the opportunity for you to make a difference in the world... I would like to offer each reader of this web site the chance to change the way the world looks at them... If you are tired of seeing the world leave you behind ...now is a good time to stand up and change it...

For as long as I can remember, I've had a soft spot for astronomy. Something about the mind boggling vastness of the universe that jump starts the imagination. Take a look...


http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/12lys.html

As you might have guessed I had a sound card die on me... I looked thru the parts pile and I found 2 other SB lives... the original one in the computer lost it's left channels... the first replacement I tried was completely dead... it installed fine and windows was happy yet no sound... then comes the third can you guess?
yeah the right sound was gone...

I have been buying sound blasters for years... I can remember throwing away 6 other dead lives... I had a pile of 6 before I gave up and threw them all away... so since the SBlive product line has come out I have bought 10 of them... and thrown away 9 ... it hasnt been out all that long... maybe 5 or so years... then going back in time I bought a awe64 in hopes it would cure the awe32 blues I was living... and then.... before the days of awe I remember buyin a couple of sb16's and they too were having dead channel issues...
all said and done I have bought too darn many creative lab products that ended up in the trash...
shucks in the all the years I have only gone through 5 monitors... and none of them died... I just keep upgrading till today... the next closest thing to dying parts would be power supplies... and then I doubt if I have replaced 5 in all the years...

so having thought over the SB issue I decided to go buy a turtle beach product... heck every one talks well about them so how can I loose? the average life span of a sblive is only 6 months for me...

okay the stage is set... I know where they keep the sound cards at my local giant parts store... when I arrived at the desired isle I notice a small crowd... I work my thru... and reach out for my turtle beach catalina and .... who would be there????

of course a creative labs customer service rep... he asked me why I went directly to the turtle beach ... he wanted to know if I considered a SBlive... (snicker snicker)

thinking of the money I have spent over the years I smiled...and clutched the turtle beach box closer... I wanted to express my anger at having spent so much money on a product that I have to replace nearly as fast as the games I play...I thought of several nasty statements... then I mentioned yes I had considered a creative product... and the very thought of buying another paper weight was the reason I was buying the catalina... I then made the comment creative labs had customer service reps out for the very reason I was buying other products... they must be aware of an issue with their cards... why else would he be there? I thanked him for his presence ... and offered him my pile of dead SBlives...
he mentioned he would be at the super parts store every sunday for a while... and if I decided to comment further he would welcome the input...

So the question is ....
Is a tutrle beach cataline a good replacement for a SBlive...
Ohhh yes.... the install was more than reason enought... in the past when I downloaded and installed a new SBlive driver it was packaged in way too big set of utilities I never used... I dont ever remember doing a driver install... I always had to install the whole package...

installing the turtle beach card I pointed windows to the correct directory on the cd and that was the all it took...
this card has 5 outputs...
front
rear
center
back
and digital...
also digital in...

hmmm maybe Ill go get a another for the media box in the front room...

so the moral is... next time you buy a sound card... Sb isnt the only one out there... and my turtle beach cataline was only 69$ before tax and license.....

This article was sent to me by [FFr]Shagrath. After reading it over I thought it would be best to post this one in it's entirety. All I can say is OOOOOPS!

MM
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local6.com
DEA Agent Shoots Self During Gun Safety Class
POSTED: 11:27 AM EDT April 30, 2004


ORLANDO, Fla. -- A federal drug agent shot himself in the leg during a gun safety presentation to children and his bosses are investigating.

The Drug Enforcement Administration agent, whose name was not released, was giving a gun safety presentation to about 50 adults and students organized by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association, witnesses and police said.

He drew his .40-caliber duty weapon and removed the magazine, according to the police report. Then he pulled back the slide and asked someone in the audience to look inside the gun and confirm it wasn't loaded, the report said.

Witnesses said the gun was pointed at the floor and when he released the slide, one shot fired into the top of his left thigh.

"The kids screamed and started to cry," said Vivian Farmer, who attended the presentation with her 13-year-old nephew.

"Everyone was pretty shaken up," Farmer said. "But the point of gun safety hit home. Unfortunately, the agent had to get shot. But after seeing that, my nephew doesn't want to have anything to do with guns."

The agent was treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center after the April 9 shooting and returned to work, DEA special agent Joe Kilmer said.

Police ruled the shooting was an accident, but the DEA headquarters in Washington was still investigating, Kilmer said.

Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.

http://www.local6.com/news/3254509/detail.html />

If this isnt your first computer then you are probably like me and have a few computer parts on the shelf... I have been building computers since the late 80's. And I am very brand loyal... If the company builds a good part today it is the first brand I look at tommorrow... quality is a big factor for me... price isnt that important for me these days...Im not saying Im rich... Im just saying I would rather buy it once and have a good one for a long time... rather than a cheap one and be sorry when I get home... remember folks I am NOT a computer expert or guru... Im a computer grunt... I need the instructions in front of me and I read them...

So you ask why is he ranting about computer components? I have a part on my personal computer that is less than perfect recently... I went to the parts shelf and dug up an old one...sure enought is was worst than the one I wanted to replace... so back to the parts pile to find another... and the third one had the same problem the first one did... while all 3 parts are from the same company ... and still considered a main stream part... while thinking about the problem I tried to counted the number of times I have replaced this component over the years... it would appear I have bought them enought times to say yearly... for the last 15 years or more... as I sit here looking at the pile I went looking for the very first one I bought... I found it I think... it is still in use...not often, yet working... so what about the other 11 ?
I can only recall the first one going to the parts shelf and being reused.... all the others I think I threw away... I look and see other parts that are in the pile only because they are out of style... In fact I see almost all of one type... all but the ones in use today....

So this brings me to the question.... am I the only person having trouble with a brandname part? as you think back is there one brand name part you buy then are sorry about it's quality? well I am... and today an interesting thing happened at the parts store.... but thats gonna be part 2....

what part is the one you replace most often? I dont mean 'cause of upgrades... I mean 'cause of broken-ness
is it ?

modems
nic (network interface cards)
mother boards
sound cards
video cards

vote here....http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=57025#57025

This book the Nazi War Criminals is a graphic story about the major players involved with the Nazi war machine, mainly focusing on the ones that were involved in the Holocaust or extermination of the Jewish race. In this book one will see the sadistic ways of many of these leaders and it will go into grave detail describing their atrocities to humankind.

The first chapter begins with Adolf Hitler’s right hand man. Heinrich Himmler, he was the main architect of the genocide of the Jews; meaning that he plotted and planned the easiest and simplest way to mass murder millions of people. Hitler would appoint Himmler because of his perfectionism to handle what became known as the Holocaust.

Himmler was a devoted and loyal follower of the Nazi party and Hitler. This allowed him to slowly rise to power and gain the respect of his peers within the Nazi party. During the early years of the extermination of the Jews the Nazi’s primarily used firing squads to handle the killing. In roughly six months they had killed six hundred thousand Jews using the method. The only problem with this technique was that it left psychological affects on the killers. Himmler needed to revise a better way to handle the mass murders in a more humane way.


By 1942, Himmler instituted a new way of killing massive amounts of Jews. He began using showers disguised as gas chambers and told the Jews they needed to be disinfected in order to move onto the next town. This was a great idea it stopped the paranoia the Jews had, and they would calmly go to their deaths not knowing until it was too late. This is how the majority of the Jewish people were exterminated. This was a more humane way it involved less blood and violence. The massive concentration camps housed thousands of Jews and it gave the Nazi’s a chance to experiment on them.

This leads to the next notorious war criminal. Joseph Mengele a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, a concentration camp for the Jews. Mengele played God, when a train full of Jews came into the concentration camps Mengele was the guy who decided whether a person lived or died. To go Left was to go to slave labor and right was to the gas chambers. This is where he got the nickname of the “Angel of Death”, by deciding the fate of the Jews that came into Auschwitz. Not only did he play god deciding who died and who lived Mengele also did gruesome experiments on the people who came to Auschwitz. Mengele was fascinated with the Aryan race; he wanted to find out how he could continue to reproduce the Aryan race. He did a lot of tests on twins, often times while they were still alive without the use of anesthetic. Along with this horrible human being there was also many other sadistic Nazi War Criminals

The Book reflects on a few more Nazi’s that were charged with heinous crimes like the ones I have mentioned above. At the Nuremburg trials the victims of these horrific crimes will receive some justice as some twenty-two Nazi leaders were either hung or given life in prison.
This book is a very interesting read, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I recommend this to anyone that is interested in learning more about either the Holocaust or Nazi leaders. The shortcomings of the book were the fact it only discussed a few of these criminals, and only gave brief summaries about others.


This is a great series of books I would highly recommend readin them if you want learn the background on Nazi Germany..

Heres a link..

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560060913/inktomi-bkasin-20/ref%3Dnosim/102-6019030-1269732 />

Six years after its release, Blizzard recently released a patch for Starcraft. They also released one for the Brood Wars expansion.

It can be downloaded via the Battle.net downloader or from the link below.
http://games.filefront.com/74

And on a related note, Paradox Entertainment, the company behind the brilliant Europa Universalis PC game series recently released a patch for EU2, three years after the game's original release. It not only fixed bugs, but added features and tweaked gameplay.

The successful gaming dev world should take note...

A cemetary in Santiago, Chile is offering thier clients coffins that are equipped with a motion sensor. A spokesman for the cemetary was quoted in saying "We want to be pioneers and avoid catalepsy cases, in which a person gets completely paralysed for a few hours and ends up buried as if they were dead."

"We want families to rest assured that if a case like this ever happens their loved ones will be immediately rescued."
Annanova News April 30, 2004

MM's 2 cents:
I may be a littly rusty on my facts but I don't think there have been many reported cases of this happening in the world today. Since I was curious I decided to look up the definition of Catalepsy and this is what I found:

A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and
limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while
the action of the heart and lungs continues.

After reading the definition I would hope that the presumed dead are checked for a pulse before pronounced dead.

MM

This was a good one folks - lots of good players and a wonderful time fragging away. Read & Post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=56789#56789 and show up if you can next week when the FunnyFarm Elite are up!

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/926/1/1/
yet another reason not to buy walls there...

seriously rfid could become a major problem.... imagine locking christmas gifts in your car... then a thief with a reader doing their christmas shoping... how easy... they will know exactly if they wanna take the brown bag or the blue one...

if the tags died or fell off at the store exit I would be the bigest fan out there... but it doesnt happen that way... a razor company in the uk went scaning neighborhoods.... do you want anyone knowing what is in your house?

According to ABC News a pilot for All Nippon Airways fell asleep during a flight from Tokyo. It so happens that an inspector was aboard and decided to check out the operating procedures onboard the plane. He eventually walked into the cockpit and found the captain snoozing away while the plane flew on auto pilot at 12,000 feet. I guess the next time you take a flight you might want to check with the crew to make sure the pilot got enough sleep before the flight. DOH!

MM

Sorry for how long it took me to update the PMCM schedule - but you can check it out here. A fresh PMCM rotation is up, and this time we are going to run the venerable Fuel Dump map, with the home team playing the Allied side. As usual, the FunnyFarm Dragoons will lead off as the first team up. Be there tomorrow!

Often a link will lead to useless sites... where I will waste time and hope to find something interesting enought to wanna read... As a general rule I avoid name brand sites... They have to spend their efford selling their products... today I was completely surprised... from a major name brand site...I was reading a linix article and totaly surprised at the insight the author expressed... and to top it off, it was a she writing anout linux and doing quite well I might add...sitting and thinking about the article topic I noticed a links link... which lead me to a place I was unaware of...
http://www.linuxcommand.org/
dang what a novel idea... and about the third page the web master offers this nifty concept...

"Two different methods with identical results. Which one should you use? The one that requires less typing!"

SO if you are wondering about linux here is a place to start... gezz I wish this place was around when I started...

MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two Miami radio hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro with a prank call are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.
Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so he and co-host Joe Ferrero plan to pay it with 400,000 cents, delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission in Washington.
"We prank-called a head of state in a country that is considered hostile to the United States. He's a violator of human rights and they're fining us $4,000," Santos said on Tuesday. "We just find it absurd."
Santos and Ferrero host "El Vacilon de la Manana," or "The Morning Joker," show on Spanish-language radio station WXDJ-FM in Miami.
On June 17 they phoned Cuba's foreign relations ministry and pretended to be aides to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an admirer of Castro. They said Chavez needed to speak urgently to Castro because he had lost a suitcase full of sensitive documents during a recent trip both leaders made to Argentina.
The call was transferred through several government officials and when Castro came on the line, the pranksters used recorded snippets from a Chavez speech to make it seem the Venezuelan leader was calling -- phrases like "Fidel," and "How are you?"
After getting Castro to agree to hunt for the suitcase, they called him a killer and told him he was on a Miami radio show. Castro replied with a string of curses and hung up.
The call was broadcast five times over two days, to the delight of Miami's Castro-loathing Cuban exiles.
But the FCC ruled last week that the station violated a regulation requiring that participants in phone conversations be told in advance if the call is being broadcast.
"It was in fact the intention and result of WXDJ's actions to fool and surprise the recipients of the call," the FCC said.
The commission proposed a $4,000 fine against WXDJ and gave it 30 days to pay it or contest it. Santos said station managers had not decided which to do, but that he and Ferrero would hold an on-air penny drive outside a furniture store on Thursday to raise money for the fine.
"The listeners are just outraged," he said. "We're asking people to just go through their drawers and cars for any old pennies and drop them off."
The FCC said it acted because it received an informal complaint about the call, but did not say who complained.

Starting very soon I will be bringing actual news from around the world that is a little more unusual and yet true. I plan to report on a new news event every day and post it here for your reading pleasure. If you stumble upon some "wierd" news pm or email me and I will be happy to check it out. I hope this will evolve into more than just posting wierd news in the future but for now I hope you will enjoy the stories I will bring you.

MM

I was looking through the collection of old games that I had played in the past and dusted off this one. If you like the idea of Melee weapons, Vikings, monsters, with a twist of Mythology then you will want to read about this game.

Game Review: Rune

Recommended Requirements:

Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 (This game does work with XP)

450 MHz Processor or higher
128 Mb RAM
650 Mb Hard Disk Space
NVIDIA GeForce or higher ATI Rage or Higher
8x CD ROM


Storyline:

Long ago in the time of gods and myth...

You are a young Viking by the name of Ragnar who has been brought back to life by Odin to save the earth from the evil servants of Loki.
The story line is a basic one. It is based off of Norse Mythology and it is a 3rd person melee battle game. This is not a RPG so everything is “real” time.

Graphics:

The graphics for this game are for the most part very clean and pleasing to the eye. It is an older game so there is nothing too stunning but still I think the developers of the game did a good job.


Audio:

Some good music to accompany you on your journey and to enhance the sounds of battle.


Game play:

Single Player: You start out as a young Viking making his way through the village of Wotankeld. You have just been accepted as one of the warriors sworn to protect your village Rune Stone. (There are rune stones in each village and legend says that if each rune stone is destroyed Loki the Trickster will be set free bringing evil to earth.) Ragnar and the other warriors are called to battle and are killed by evil powers. Ragnar is brought back to life by Odin to stop the evil doers and to save the earth and the Rune Stones. You journey through different layers of the earth to eventually face the enemy in one final battle to protect the last remaining Rune Stone. Odin has also given Ragnar some help along the way in the form of small rune stones that possess powers to unlock certain abilities of the weapon Ragnar is using. Each weapon has a special power and in heavy battles you can access these powers to gain advantage over your enemy.


Multiplayer:

I have gone on to the MP portion and I see about 30 servers hosting different maps. Looking at file front I saw that there were about 100 different maps that can be used.

Player Setup allows you to choose from characters in the game. There are approx 10 to choose from.

There are two types of game play for Rune. RuneMatch basically DeathMatch renamed and TeamMatch which is pretty self explanatory. The maps that I have seen are not very big and more conducive to arena type battle. Doing some looking last night I found that there is a multiplayer expansion pack for Rune called the Halls of Valhalla. The expansion pack introduces 2 new modes of competition: Arena and Headball. It also has more maps and more characters to choose from. I was unable to join any of the servers with ppl on because they were all running the expansion pack.


Weapons:

You have a good variety of melee weapons to choose from. There are three categories, bashing weapons, swords and axes. In this game bigger is usually better. If you can get a big axe or sword your chances are better for survival.


Final:

Overall I liked the game and I think this might be another good game to consider for the Farm’s next game. There is a Linux version and a Mac version available. The game is not as robust with objectives and large maps like ET but I think it might be something to look at.



www.runegame.com

For those that dont know the count down has started... this year I would like to begin now to be ready... but I have a couple of honey-dos to take care of first...last year was a success and bust all at once... several folks had alot of fun.... and I did too... but not as much as I would have liked... friends crowded around and I spent the evening with them... which is great... but not what I had in mind, I wanted to experince the TOTs...

back to the count down....
it has started... last weekend an old buddy hooked me up with a large pile of solid state relays. all 3-5 vdc control with both ac and dc loads types... I cant hardly wait... ohhh he also added 880 leds to the other project... which brings the count somewhere around 3000... hehehehe



should this post be confusing it may not apply to you...

Thought I'd beat the crowd to wish my mother a Happy Mother's Day.

Being a mom of 2 little ones had made me realize how much my mom has done for me. She didn't get much help (if any) from my father, so I attribute the person I am to the guidance from my mom. She made me realize I can do anything, to be a lady, and nothing can ever really beat you except yourself.

Thanks, Mom. I love you very much and have the world of respect for you. Thank you for always being there.

Your Loving Daughter,

Stephanie

Well I am sitting in the library right now, we are supposed to keep the doors shut, and not let our students leave, they are conducting a drug search. I think becuase it is 4-20, sort of national weed smoking day, in a way I hope they dont find anything but, it would also be good to get some of drugs off the streets..

We had some issues tonight, but still had a good time. ICS had a heck of a fight, but in the end were put down by superior numbers. Post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=54586#54586 and plan to be out next week when the FunnyFarm Rebels take the field.

I have been meaning to do this review for a while now it has been so busy lately so I decided to just sit down and do it.

Game Review: Devastation- Resistance Breeds Revolution

Requirements:

Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
700 Mhz Processor (1.0 Ghz recommended)
256 Mb RAM
1 GB Hard Disk Space
64 MB Video Card (I recommend 128 Mb)

Storyline:

The year is 2075 and the earth is a wasteland and experiencing a technological dark age. Only a few mega corporations control all of the research and technology. These corporations have pretty much laid down martial law and control the citizens with brutal force and fear. From this spawns small groups of resistance fighters that are dedicated to fighting this oppression with whatever it takes.


Graphics:

First off this game is based off the “Next Generation” Unreal engine. I played this game the first time with my old system (750 Mhz AMD, 64mb Graphics card, 256 MB Ram) and I had a hard time running it. The game was real choppy and eventually I gave it up. Beefier systems definitely will have a better experience playing this game overall. Playing it the second time now with my new system I liked the overall look of the game and the graphics were good. There is noticeable work done on the character detail and the environment has good use of depth, color and shadow.

Audio:

As a general rule I always turn down the music volume because it distracts me from the game sounds. The single player portion of the game actually has a music selection command that allows the player to choose from a variety of music to listen to during the game. Wasn’t useful for me but many might like the addition.


Game play:

Single Player: When you first start the game you have the choice of Arcade or Simulation. Arcade is more action where Simulation is more life-like combat that includes friendly fire on. This is an objective based FPS where you eventually gain members to form a team which you control by basic commands like follow, defend, attack, and hold. I was not impressed with this part of the game interface. I found myself having to retrace my steps many times in the attempt to unclog the bots. Eventually I found myself putting the bots on hold and playing on allowing them to catch up in safe areas. There is an option to give or take weapons from the bots which I never used. Like many games if a team member dies the game is over and for the most part the bots sucked in combat so they were more hassle than help. When I did use a bot I would pick one or two at most to help me fight.
The maps are huge with a lot of ground to cover. As you progress through the game snipers and automatic motion sensitive turrets are added for your enjoyment. You learn to go slow and keep low looking for snipers on top of buildings. The next twist to the game is the regeneration devices controlled by the enemy soldiers. As soon as you kill a soldier he will regenerate somewhere on the map to try and kill you again. As game play goes on you will have to destroy and eventually liberate on for you and your team to use.

Multiplayer:

The times I tried to get on to a server to play I could never find one. I never put too much energy into it but plan to investigate further in the future. So I will give the basic info for this section.

Player Setup allows you to choose from every character in the game. There are 50 to choose from.

There are four game types to choose from: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and Territories. Territories are team objective based. Your team has to obtain the code to the opponent’s base to destroy their regeneration device. From there you must hunt down and eliminate the remaining survivors.

Weapons:

Now for my favorite part, the weapons section. If you’re looking for a lot of different type of weapons this is the game for you. There are eight yes eight categories of weapons for you to choose from.

1. Hand to Hand/Melee – Includes knives for stabbing or throwing. 2x4 for you back ally beating, and broken bottles if you feel spunky.
2. Handguns – Single or dual pistols can be selected. There are more than one caliber to select from also some include .38 .45 Auto
3. Light Duty Automatics – Uzi’s and a few others
4. Assault riffles and shotguns – AK and 2 shotguns
5. Sniper riffles- 4 different sniper riffles you can acquire. One being a laser riffle which incinerates the enemy to a pile of ashes.
6. Heavy Duty Rifles – There are three of these bad boys
7. Special Duty Weapons- Harpoon is one and Rat Drone is another. Rat Drone is definitely one of my favorites. It is a rat that is a bomb. You take control of the rat and see through its eyes. Once you find a spot where enemy soldiers are hiding you can detonate.
8. Grenades – nuff said


Final:

Overall I liked the game and I think this might be a good game to consider for the Farm’s next game. It does have a Linux version and plenty of goodies to enjoy. Here are some links if you want to look into the game further.

www.devastationgame.com
www.devastaionfiles.com
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Frag ya later!

MM

for the last week the server has been somewhat empty... and today it was completely empty... I am guessing the community is done with ET? or just done with this server...

http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=54349#54349

With my latest obsession of learning more about the Holocaust, here is the latest paper a wrote for class.. The book is "The Death Camps" written by William Lace.. Hopefully it gives you an idea of how horrifying the Holocaust was..


This book is the first volume in the Holocaust Library series. It tells the story about the Holocaust mainly focusing on the death camps, or concentration camps. Overall there was an estimated eleven million innocent people that were killed in these death camps. Not only did Hitler have Jews killed, he also had Gypsies, Russians, Poles, and the mentally handicapped killed all part of his master plan of cleansing German blood.

People often wonder why Hitler and the Germans were able to do this horrendous crime against humanity known as the Holocaust. With the help of the strong anti-Semitism going on in Europe, and the thought that nothing this horrid could ever take place the Nazi’s were able to begin the Final Solution stated by Hitler.

In 1939 Hitler began his plan of exterminating the Jews of Europe. Beginning with the invasion of Poland he began to cleanse the German race of the mentally handicapped and mentally ill. The first gassing took place at a mental hospital in Brandenburg. In two years over fifty thousand were gassed to death, this was only the beginning.

The extermination of Jews began in 1941, the main extermination center was known as Auschwitz the primary orders here were mass murders. In a three year period there was believed to be roughly 4 million Jews and others executed in Auschwitz. Death camps like Auschwitz were always located near major railway lines or major cities. This made for easy transit of the Jews. The Jews were made to believe they were being sent to labor camps and were going to be given jobs. They were packed tightly into closed rail cars used for hauling cattle with very little ventilation often laying in there own filth and waste. Many died on there way to these so called labor camps. In one instance the Germans opened a railcar that had been in route to Auschwitz when they opened the rail car they found all corpses.

When the Jews finally made it to Auschwitz they were greeted by a band playing music. Often Jewish slaves would carry their luggage or bags for them. The Germans would tell the Jews they needed to be bathed before they were shipped to the next town to be put to work. Little did the Jews know this would be the place they would be killed. The SS, Hitler’s most trusted people, made gas chambers disguised as showers. So they could get the Jews to willingly enter the chambers. Once inside they would turn out the lights and begin to gas them with carbon monoxide. The SS after a while found this expensive and went to a cheaper way to exterminate mass numbers of people, by using Zyklon-B a poisonous gas.

When new Jews arrived off the rail cars, they were sorted by Josef Mengele they were either sent right or left, left meant certain death in the gas chambers, and right meant life at least for a while. Mengele was a doctor at the Auschwitz extermination camp he would do awful experiments on the Jews. He took pride in his job which was deciding life or death.

Mengele was also fascinated by twins he felt if he could figure out what caused a twin birth he thought he could then increase the birthrate of Germans. He also did experiments on Jews by injecting chemicals that changed the pigment of their eyes. Mengele and people like him that followed and agreed with the ideas of Hitler made the Third Reich successful, in a negative way. The Holocaust was a horrific time in our world’s history one we would like to forget about, but we must always remember it to learn from it.

The book does a great job in showing the awful death camps that are known as the Holocaust. It has great background on the incident; the pictures are amazing but are dreadful to look at. I would recommend this book for anyone that is interested in learning about this tragic time in our world’s history.

Interesting Article I read today and made me wonder if the younger croud here even knew this ?

Quote -

The Birth of the Internet

While computers were not a new concept in the 1950s, there were relatively few computers in existence and the field of computer science was still in its infancy. Most of the advances in technology at the time - cryptography, radar, battlefield communications - were due to military operations during World War II, and it was, in fact, government activities that led to the development of the Internet.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, man's first foray into outer space, and the U.S. government under President Eisenhower subsequently launched an aggressive military campaign to compete with and surpass the Soviet activities. From the launch of Sputnik and the U.S.S.R. testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was born. ARPA was the U.S. government's research agency for all space and strategic missile research. In 1958, NASA was formed, and the activities of ARPA moved away from aeronautics and focused mainly on computer science and information processing. One of ARPA's goals was to connect mainframe computers at different universities around the country so that they would be able to communicate using a common language and a common protocol. Thus the ARPAnet -- the world's first multiple-site computer network -- was created in 1969.

The original ARPAnet eventually grew into the Internet. The Internet was based on the concept that there would be multiple independent networks that began with the ARPAnet as the pioneering packet-switching network but would soon include packet satellite networks and ground-based packet radio networks.

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I wrote this for a class on the American West.. Got the idea of the Long Walk, from lazz.. Enjoy, or don't..


As the frontier expanded during the late 1800’s white settlers and miners moved westward and began the relocation of the native people away from their homeland. The single most tragic event was in 1864 when Kit Carson and his men relocated 8,000 Navajos and forced them to walk approximately 300 miles from eastern Arizona to northern part of New Mexico. They intended this to be a reservation for the Navajos, but it became more like a prison.

The Navajo, a name given to the tribe by the Spanish, were closely related to the Apaches through Athabascan ancestry. They were mainly sheepherders which meant they were a nomadic tribe, traveling from place to place following their grazing sheep. They occupied lands between the Rio Grande and the Grand Canyon. Towards the end of the eighteenth century the Spanish began to settle near the Navajo lands. The expansion by the Spanish into Navajo territory angered the Navajo and forced them to raid the Spanish camps. Many of the newly settled homes and ranches had to be abandoned because they were unsafe for the Spanish settlers.

Then in 1786 the Governor Juan Baptista De Anza signed a peace treaty with the Navajo, the two sides agreed to peace. The Spanish backed out of their territory and the Navajo swore to stop the steeling of livestock. This helped stop the raiding by the Navajo and the retaliation by the Spanish settlers at least until about the beginning of the nineteenth century. The New Mexicans which were located in New Mexico proceeded to expand further into Navajo country. Of course the whole cycle of raiding by the Navajo and retaliation by the Spanish occurred again. The Navajo’s raiding became fierce when they dealt with these new people.

Much of the reason the Navajo and the expanding settlers could not agree to peace was due to the many independent units. The Navajo were mostly guilty of this because a majority of the Navajo would not steal sheep or raid towns; it was a select few that were breaking the treaty rules. They needed to come together as one on both sides, and abide by the treaties rules. It seemed many times it was actually the Navajos breaking these treaties according to Helen Begay a Navajo Indian whose grandmother told her this story. “At night Navajos stole livestock such as sheep and goats from the Mexicans and other tribes. Some Navajos did not steal because they did not want to get involved with the enemy. Some people stole because they did not have any livestock. This is the reason the Navajos brought the war upon themselves even the people who did not get involved were killed or taken to Hweeldi.” It was not all the Navajo stealing and breaking these rules. The Navajos trying to abide by these treaty laws were guilty by association. It was often a few renegade tribes that caused much of the problems.

The fighting between these settlers and the Navajo continued because the Navajo either did not understand the treaties or the renegade tribes would not abide by the rules. The cycle of treaties being signed and then broken would go on for many years. The Anglo Americans arrived when they acquired land from the Mexicans after the Mexican American War. The same sort of tradition followed with the Anglo and Navajo relationship much like that of the old Mexican and Navajo relationship. There were treaties that were broken and then new ones signed.
The Anglo Americans would build forts deep in the heart of Navajo country. The Navajos thought that war was irreversible now. At Fort Defiance, near present day Window Rock in New Mexico the Navajo brought roughly 1,000 warriors in an attempt to take over the fort. However they were unsuccessful. This started all out war between the Navajo and Anglos.

At Fort Defiance many of the settlers from around the area formed a Militia in order to defend themselves from these violent attacks. The militia ransacked Navajo camps and ranches across New Mexico, killing and burning everything in its path, women and children included. They felt if they demolished and killed everything in their path it would demoralize the Navajo and eventually make them surrender. Here is an idea of what the militia would do when they encountered woman and children, according to Norma Keesonies a Navajo woman. “The enemies killed pregnant women. The women were cut open. The fetus was taken out and put by the mother’s body and left behind.” This shows the brutality and the total disregard for life by the Militia.

After a year of the bloodshed the Anglo Americans then thought the only thing left to do would be the forced removal of the Navajos onto a reservation. They thought they could move them to a stretch of land located in Northwestern New Mexico. The land was useless; the Anglos thought that if they put them on this land they could tame the savages. Luckily for the Navajos the Civil War postponed many of the things to come for several years. After the Civil War the Anglos planned to move the Navajos to Bosque Redondo an area in eastern New Mexico.

In 1863 Kit Carson led the movement to place the Navajo on the soon-to-be reservation in the Bosque Redondo area. He and the militia formed at Fort Defiance forced the Navajos to surrender through starvation and killing. The winter was very rough and aided Carson’s army to victory. The Navajo were hardest hit by starvation. They would do anything to stay alive, such as boiling dead animal bones and skins to eat. They would even follow covered wagons to get corn that would fall out when they hit bumps or ruts on their path.

The times were hard for the Navajo they were running out of food and the militia had destroyed all of their means of getting more food and supplies. Carson and his army left a burning trail of death and destruction through the heart of the Navajos. They burned their homes, saddles, clothing, and all other stores. Their sheep and cattle were slaughtered, and roughly two million pounds of corn was burned. Carson’s army severed their food source and their only choice was to surrender in order to survive. The Navajo surrendered and roughly 8,000 men, women, and children were forced to walk 300 miles to Bosque Redondo. Most of the Navajos were rounded up and forced to relocate. Some tribes didn’t because they were so remote that Carson’s didn’t know where they were. Many of the Navajos didn’t know the reasoning behind the forced relocation. This was a time of great sorrow for the Navajo.

The Long Walk was for sure hard on the Navajo. They were forced from their homes with no idea why they were being forced and did not know the reasoning behind it all. Women had to carry their babies for long periods of time, food and water were scarce. Starvation was the major killer on the long walk. Here is one of many stories the Navajos told about the Long Walk. “For shoes, the Navajo put mud on their legs and feet as a protection from getting their feet blistered. They picked small potatoes under evergreen trees for food or ate white clay mixed with mud.” Many of the Navajo used these food sources to survive on this long trek. The whites felt imprisonment as the only way to teach the Navajo the laws of peace. The whites felt that Christianity was a way, and they would teach them this when they got to Fort Sumner.

The journey to Fort Sumner also known as Bosque Redondo to the Navajo, would take roughly three months to get there. The journey of the Navajos would start with a Wagon train and they would switch on and off riding on the wagon and walking on the trail. These wagons were pulled by oxen, and they would leave huge ruts in the ground. According to Jane Begay along the trail her great grandparents were made to stay with their dying horse and they did because her great grandfather loved this horse. Begay’s grandparents stayed with the horse for a few days when another Navajo family asked them if they wanted to sell it so they could butcher it for food, they accepted the deal. They went on after her great grandfather seen the Horse being butchered. He couldn’t take the sight. This shows how close the Navajo were to their animals, they cared deeply for them. Also nothing was wasted along the trail. They eventually caught back up to their relatives by following the ruts left by the wagon trains.

Along the way to Bosque Redondo the Navajos would lose roughly 25% of their tribe do to the starvation and diseases. When they arrived at Bosque Redondo after the three month journey they were forced to live on this desolate land in which was almost inhabitable. The Navajo tried to grow corn, but insects quickly destroyed their crops. They also tried grazing their sheep and livestock, but the land wasn’t even fit for grazing.

This land was an imprisonment for the Navajos, the Anglos had hoped this would change their ways and they could live in peace but many Navajo died of homesickness, illness, and hunger. Even the water there was unfit to drink; it caused many intestinal problems for the Navajo. There were also stories of murder while on the reservation. Juan Chee a Navajo whose ancestors were forced to go on the long walk states, “At night the Mexican soldiers took small children and babies from their mothers. The children would cry for their mothers, and the Mexican soldiers would kill the children who were crying and throw them in the ditch.” It seemed as though the plans were to eradicate all Navajos while they were at Bosque Redondo. This was obvious by how they would kill small children.

The Navajo would spend four long years near Fort Sumner, on the depressing surroundings in New Mexico. Finally in 1868 there was a treaty in which sent the Navajo back to their homeland. The treaty gave them three and a half million acres crossing the borders of Arizona and New Mexico.
Even though they were given this land and were able to return to their homeland, they were still deeply affected by The Long Walk and the time they spent there, much of the history we know today is from stories passed down from generation to generation. There wasn’t a whole lot of written history about the Navajos, because they used story telling as their means of saving history. Many of these stories have changed over the years.

The Long Walk shows the violence shown against the Navajos and gives one the idea how Native Americans were dealt with in the eighteen and early nineteen hundreds. It seemed as though the Anglo Americans felt the only way to deal with the Natives was to relocate them to another location, or put them on a reservation. Even today we still use that idea of relocating Native Americans to other lands and putting them on reservations.

So I have approximately 3 weeks of student teaching left. I in some ways can't wait for it to end, but overall It has been a great experience. It definetly helps you make the decision whether you want to do this for the rest of your life or not. I think I'm in for the long haul.

One of the few things that I have had a problem dealing with, and what makes student teaching hard is your cooperating teacher, this is the teacher in which you take over his or hers class for 10 weeks. I have been lucky to have two teachers, I split time with both. Back to what the problem is, there are alot of conflicting ideas between one my cooperating teachers and me, which is understandable they feel they have mastered the art of teaching, and they don't like to listen to a kid just out of college. For instance, one of the guys I am with is one of those great worksheet teachers, you know the kind that say "Here's a worksheet, do this the rest of the class while I go email." Ya kinda annoying IMO... Of course this guy has been teaching for 20 years, and has no idea how to use technology. I on the other hand love using technology, things like webquests, and I always lecture with a PowerPoint.

In my previous post about NCLB (NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND), I kind of ripped the new law.. But after my experience here, there needs to be something done about teachers that give worksheets all day and don't prepare students for college.. NCLB will require teachers to be more highly qualified, and in my cooperating teachers case I totally agree. I will comply fully with this new law, which means I must take 4 more classes before 2006 when it goes into affect.

it's here....after all the bugfixes and such.......the ironclad version is out......enjoy it...get it here http://deckoh.com/rd/etpro-3_0_1.pk3 .........or let it autodownload from the server, up to you

The FunnyFarm Elite lived up to their name tonight - the teamwork, gameplay, and carnage, was some of the most intense I've ever seen. Read and post about tonights match here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=53333#53333 and plan to be out next week when the {iCs} clan takes to the field.

Great job again to both teams!!

Epic has been releasing a barrage of games recently, starting with Unreal Tournament 2003, then Unreal 2, Unreal 2: XMP, and finally Unreal Tournament 2004. Of those, Unreal 2: XMP has the most intriguing, and complicated, multiplayer gameplay. However, that doesn't necessarily mean it is the best.

Unreal 2:XMP is the free multiplayer addon to the retail singleplayer game Unreal 2. The gameplay is most similar to Tribes, as those familiar with the game will notice. The basic premise is two teams competing to capture the most artifacts and return them to their base. In essence, capture the flag. Epic adds a little twist to this, however. In order to keep the area where the artifacts are held in working order so that artifacts can be captured, a team needs to maintain at least one power generator. Various generators are scattered throughout a map, and in addition to powering the artifact dispenser, they also provide power to vehicles and defenses.

When the player starts out in the game, he is asked to choose a team, and then a class. The game includes three different classes: soldier, ranger, and engineer. The Soldier class is the slowest, and most heavily armored and weaponed class. In addition, they have the ability to resupply ammo via deployable temporary ammo pads to other teammates. The Ranger class is most reminiscent to a scout, armed with high-power, precision weapons. They're also the fastest, and most lightly armored of the three. Their ability is to provide health pads for teammates. Engineers, the last class, are obviously the most useful. Being in the middle in terms of both firepower and armor, they also come equipped with deployable mines, rocket turrets, minigun turrets, and laser-wire fences. In addition, they are able to capture or hack into areas faster than the other classes.

The game's graphics are great, and coming from Epic, it's to be expected. The sound is also fantastic. The real downfall of the game is the actual gameplay, and the netcode. The power management system adds a secondary objective to each map that, in order just to manage and get the upper hand of, a team would need to be fairly large-sized. Vehicles are practically useless, as it takes less firepower to destroy them than it does to take down one soldier. Jetpacks simply don't have enough in them to be even called that. In actuality, the double jump function of UT2k3/2k4 allows users to jump higher than the jetpacks do. The netcode is very laggy, making servers holding 16 or more players practically unplayable.

U2:XMP is an interesting concept, but unfortunately it doesn't go very far. Indeed, it seems it was a failed stepping stone for Epic to the more fun and simpler Onslaught mode in UT2k4.

Your looking at the new head boys basketball and assistant football coach, oh yeah and History Teacher at Dakota Prarie High School.. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=51897#51897 Sorry for the short notice - FFe has a tournament match that came up tonight. The way the match fell the other team got to pick the time, so we are kinda stuck with it. The FFe PMCM is rescheduled for next Friday - same bat time, same bat channel.

First off this has nothin to do with being april first...

Today marks the passing of a dear and old friend of mine. While I have known others this one is still my favorite friend... we did stuff purdy much everyday... we have been hanging out together for about 6 or 7 years... while I doubt I ever mention the importance my friend had on my daily activities I know now I should have said thank you more often...
When you have a friend who is important to you, like this one was for me you dont understand the importance until they are gone... and now that they are no longer with us you think of the little imperfections that made then special.. my friend was old when I met em... the letters "a","s","e" and several others were beyond his ability to display...
So out of my respect for this FINE keyboard I was proud to call my friend I would like everyone to take a moment and reflect on what it is like to lose a friend and a fine piece of hardware...

the great recycle bin in the sky will take his remains next tuesday... about 6 or 7 years ago I bought 25 ibm kb-8923's ... and my stock of ps/2 keyboards has now been reduced by 1 ... it is weird I have sold em... I have given them away... I have had them stolden.. and for the first ever time I have had one break.. :(

as of APRIL 1ST, which is today..........the ET server is no more......this is my liddle decision from what has been going on and such, so take it out on me, not lazz or any other person.....cya round

My thoughts

During my time on the Farm I have made many friends and am getting to understand the way things work around here. I thought I would touch on a few things that I feel need to be addressed.

What does it mean to be in a clan?

Before I can answer that question please let me define what a clan is. A clan is a large group of relatives, friends, or associates united in some common interest or pursuit.

For most of us we came upon the FFarm by way of a game. We enjoyed the thrill of firefights without ever really getting physically hurt. Over time our skill and friendships grew. We would look forward to logging in and chatting with our buddies or connecting to play a couple of rounds with whoever was on the server. Eventually we decided to take the next step and show interest in one of the clans. We wanted to belong to that clan for many different reasons but we all wanted to be a part of the FF community.

I would have to guess that I have been playing MPFPS for over 10 years now. I remember playing Quake II, Half Life - Opposing Force, RTCW, and now ET. I have been a part of a few clans over the years with these different games and in all that time I have never been part of a community made up of three clans. The FF is truly the most dynamic online gaming community I have ever seen.

You have seen the word community mentioned a few times so let me now define community. A community is a group of people having common interests.

As you can see, the definitions for clan and community are the same. A group of people united that share the same interests.

So the question I want you to think about is this. Do you come back to the FFarm daily because of the game or the community? I would have to bet that for the majority it would be for the community. As a community we will not always agree and things will not always be sunshine and rainbows. What defines this community is how we handle those bad times and what defines you as a member of your clan and this community is your attitude during the good and bad times.


What does it mean to be in a clan?

***Note from [FFd]Peaches,MD....The [FFd] clan will be posting a topic one day a week on this main page***

The canals of Venice were churning with soldiers and the water was stained red with the blood of the fallen. The artillery blasted buildings gave mute testimony to the horrors of war and the loss of life visited upon this fair city. Throughout it all, the FunnyFarm Dragoons stood bloodied but unbowed, defeated ultimately by the clock. Check out the forum post here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=50515#50515 and plan to come out next week when the FunnyFarm Elite set the stage in the waterways of Venice!

this morning started out cold and very wet. up at 5 am getting poles , flies, and gear ready. i got my waders on, and was on the road by 6. i met up with my clients for the morning at "black bridge". shane and his 7 yr. old son jacob where there and itching to go catch a steelhead.

we headed down the river to the 1st run called "the pile up", and i handed jacob my noodle rod, rigged with a float and jig, and showed him where to cast. mean while, i showed shane what fly patterns we would be using, and we worked out a plan for the lower end of the run and ajoining tail-out. after jacob worked the jig all the way through the holding water in front of him, we walked farther down the run, and shane and i waded out into the current, while jacob watched from shore. shane was swinging a green-butt skunk on a sink tip, and i followed 20 yards behind waking a green machine. we worked our way down the run, shane had fished down to the tail-out and had waded out of the water waiting for me. i made a cast that would bring my fly within 3 ft. of the lip of the pool, and half way across there was a swirl at my fly, and the line came taunt. fish on! after a brief fight, i landed the fish. a small 5 lb. native stealhead. shane and jacob where chompin at the bit with the realization that there were agressive fish to be had, so we headed to the next hole.

after a short walk we came to the next hole. a nice run, where a small feeder stream dumps into the main river. i put jacob at the convergence with the float and jig, and shane went to the tail out to swing flies. on shanes 2nd cast, he was onto a nice fish. after a 10 minute struggle with the steelhead, he beached the 12 lb. native. we took a couple pictures, and released it. with no other action, we all moved on to the next hole.

we where at my favorite hole on the entire river: "fight club".(so named after a january afternoon that produced 7 steelhead in 45 minutes out of this 1 hole). shane switched to an egg fly and fished the head of the pool, while i took jacob down to the middle. he didn't think the pink/white jig he had tied on was very lucky, so i opened my jig box and let him pick one. he pulled out a black w/pink legged "reaper", and i tied it on. 5 casts later he put the jig in a tree and broke it off. i retied another jig on, and he was at it again. i showed him what to look for when reading the water, and how to tell, by looking at his float, wether his jig was hitting the bottom or not. while shane worked the top and middle of the pool, jacob and i worked down to the lower end near the tail-out. i adjusted the depth of his jig, and told him to cast next to a submerged boulder on the other side of the river. the float traveled maybe 3 ft. and..... fish on! shane came running down the river bank as i coached jacob on how to fight the fish. he was very nervous about only having 4 lb line, but i just kept telling him not to wory and let the rod do it's work. 35 minutes later, he beached the fish. a 19 lb. chrome brite native. after several pictures and much congratulating, the fish was released. the biggest steelhead i've heard of being caught on this river the entire season, and it was caught by a kid. it really was turning out to be a great day!

we fished the next 2 runs with no luck, and moved on to the next hole known locally as "table top". shane again took the head of the pool, and i had jacob fish the deep slot just below. shane was imediatly into a fish, and about 30 seconds later, jacob was hooked up too. jacob played the fish, with me coaching once again, and had it landed in just a few minutes. it was a small, dark steelhead of about 4 lbs. i looked up river to see how shane was doing with his fish, and noticed he was fishing again. i asked him what happened, and he said it was just a "monster" 7 inch trout. we decided to fish 1 more run befor we called it a day, and started heading down the river. we got up on the bank headed downriver when i looked out in the river and saw it. a good sized steelhead out in the middle of the flats below the pool we just fished. i told jacob to come with me, and shane said he would just watch from where he was. i riffle hitched the green machine i had tied on, re-applied some fly floatant, and stepped just into the water. i made a few false casts to get my distance, and made my final cast. it looked like my fly would swing right over the nose of the fish, so i handed jacob the rod. i told him "no matter what happens out there, dont set the hook". the fly waked it's way right to the steelhead, and it followed it! about 7 ft. later, it struck. i looked at jacob, and thought he was going to drop the rod, seems he wasnt expecting the fish to come flying out of the water for that fly, but he didn't budge. just like i told him. about that same time the line came tight, and the reel started singing. the fish was barbed. i told jacob to strike, and he laid into the fish. all hell broke loose! the fish did a cartwheel, made a short run, and came up and tail walked a good 20 ft. across the river! i coached jacob through the fight, which included several long runs and 4 more jumps, and he finnaly got it up to the bank. another bright native, this one about 12 lbs.

we called it a day shortly afterwards, having hooked no other fish in the next hole. we walked back to our vehicles, and after some hand shakes, and thank you's, we got in our cars to leave. as i pulled away, i could here jacob telling his dad that he wanted his own noodle rod, and he wanted to learn to fly fish. another fishing addict is "born".

Just a quick reminder that the PMCM is on for tomorrow night at 7:00 PM MST (GMT-7). As usual, the FunnyFarm Dragoons lead things off, and the map for this rotation will be Venice! See ya all there!

we have a new rotation/campaign now.........goes like this

battery, venice, fuel dump, monte cassino, oasis, rhine2, goldrush

i'll try and change it over later tonight, so get on ur horseys' and download the maps

http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3665

its out, the new ET Pro. i'll update the server with it today sometime, you will need to get it here http://bani.anime.net/etpro/download.html ........OR you can let it autodownload, up to you. just unzip and put it in your ET folder. there are tons of things new, and hopefully this will lower pings/load and make for even smoother play. of course, if it doesnt, i will put the old one back on

As some of you may have noticed, a few individuals will not be joining us any longer. The actions being taken now are not a spur of the moment decision. This has been a long time coming and long over due.

A few individuals will be well advised to take notice of what is happening and everyone should keep something in mind. The server and forums are NOT your personal drama stage. You want drama in your life, go watch a damn soap opera. Your mommy and daddy don’t give you enough attention? I don’t care. This is not the place for it and it will stop NOW.

The server and forums are supposed to be a place to come and have fun and relax a little from real life. NOT a place to drag your real life problems to. We all have problems in life. You all need to learn to live with them and suck them up. A lot of you need to grow the hell up. You all are lucky I don’t take out my problems here or the majority of you would be gone. Yea, last year was a real dozy for me. Count your blessings.

It’s been said before and I will say it again. Lazz made this place so HE could come and have fun. He hasn’t been here in MONTHS. And that is just plain f$%king WRONG!

All the drama of “that game” caused the server to go away and now the same damn crap is happening here and I won’t stand for it. All the whining, complaining, belly aching, Bill pissed in my cornflakes so now I am going to go pout in the corner crap is going to stop.

It’s gonna stop. One way or another.

thanks [FFd]Crunch*SF*

I define a slug as an object which I have no interaction with... it is there but doesnt do anything except take resources...

So my questions today are.... does a slug have a voice? if so when do I listen to a slug?

Wanna write content for the web site? Do you know how to do something that would be a informative topic for a HOW-TO? Are you a closet coder? These possitions and several others are open for your contributions...

Another decent turnout tonight made this a fun match for all. The FunnyFarm Rebels arrived in force and put a stop to the Allies and their lust for forbidden temple gold! Read and post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=47395#47395 and keep your eyes on the schedule topic for updated info as we go into a new rotation. Thanks to those that partcipated!

when i was a kid, i always wanted to be an astronaut (didn't we all?). i used to know by heart the names of the first 20 something people in space. its a wonderful time to think about space these days. we have rovers on mars, the colombia disaster, dennis tito.

i am taking an astronomy class now and we took a trip to the Steward Mirror Lab, where work is being done on the second half of the Large Binocular Telescope; two twin 8.4 reflecting telescopes that will give us a better view into our home, the universe.

reasearching a paper on the privatization of spaceflight, i renewed my interest into the x-prize (www.xprize.org), where 27 private companies (including John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace) are trying to fly 100km into our atmosphere. Amazing work is being done to get us into space more efficiently, cheaper, more often. We are right on the cusp of seeing major changes in how we view spaceflight, and many of us could see commercial space travel, a moon base, even a manned mission to Mars in our lifetime.

Space. I dig it.

As of recently I have had some time to read... Yeah I do have a varried reading interest.. and sometimes it goes weird places... as of recently http://mysonpeter.com ..This site was presented to me with a small question mark... I followed a link from a site with a "is it real" question hanging in the air... I was under the impression I had caste a simular doubt for the forum readers... Maybe not...

While I do touch a wide and uncommon group of sites for my readin pleasure I dont believe everything I read... Ohh no some of the funniest sites try to act if the world is going to end before I get up in the morning... and of course it will last untill mid-day monday for sure...

When I make a post refering to a site like mysonpeter.com I dont allways wanna spoil the pleasure of finding the flaw for yourself...

A great turnout at the PMCM tonight, and an awesome match with ICS in the hot seat. Read & post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=46111#46111. This was a lot of fun and I want to thank everyone again who came out. Dragg is going to beat the ET Pro config into submission, so we will be trying that (again) for next weeks bout with FFr. See ya then!

The Funny Farm Elite have a match on Saturday Mar 6 at 7:00 PM EST, the server will be locked out around 6:30 and should be back to normal by 8:30 pm EST.

Again, thank you in advance to all members and of course Lazz for allowing us to use his server.

Dragg.

And the good news would be...
I fixed the ups. It will be installed the next moment I feel like shutting down the whole room. Expect at least 45 minutes of down time...

The Bad news...
The new printer is waiting for a working linux driver install... Notice I said working. This install is a little more complex than your normal. For the last several hours I have been playing with "CUPS". my new printer driver isnt suported in the fimular "LPD":(....

so once more I say
"Change is evil!"

and for green news...
we are expecting more rain tomorrow... it might be a fun year for wild-flowers this year...

Hey it could be here in a few months here is a release from bluesnews.. Kinda funny they want to release it on April 15th- which is tax day.. either way check it out.

http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=47308

Yeah this weekend was very sweet and very sour all at once. On the sweet side I had time off from work. Thursday and Friday were very productive around the house for me. Saturday was less productive yet more fun. I found some printer parts I have been searching for. The price was right so I grabed the pile of parts up and ran. And of course I didnt get EVERYTHING I need for a perfect printer yet I did manage to get it working. So I now have a functioning and very cool, new (to me ) printer... Then comes the evil day.

Sunday ohhh boy...
The game plan for this morning was for me to connect the new printer and reroute a couple dozen cables... the cables only took a couple hours .. And seting up the new printer didnt happen. I did give it a shot but lets just say "close but no cigar". Part of the no cigar includes a freshly fried UPS. This isnt the first time my favorite UPS went up in smoke. So I do have experince repairing it's innards and guts. This week could be a busy one for me so I cant say for sure about a time period for the repair.

you ask why would I bother posting this... Well I just wanted everyone to know the server could be going up and down untill I get the UPS repaired.

as usual enjoy and later

Just a tid-bit for all that play COD..

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-cod.php />

FFe went to bat tonight, and decided to do it in style - covert style. Dragg decided to deploy his forces as a dedicated sniper squad, which made the first half of the map pretty interesting. Read & post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=44251#44251. Even with some connection probs, we had a lot of fun, and a solid turnout. Thanks to those that showed, and look out for {iCs} next week!!

Lets see how smart you are.

http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/

Answer the call, tonite come to the party and we will have some fun together. We might have a suprise tonite, so all that show, be ready.



hehehehe.......

Tonights match was held in Snakes honor (see post below) as mainly FFr went up against the FunnyFarm Dragoons. They played like men possesed, and made their foes pay for every inch of gained ground with blood and misery. They took what they dished as well and their medics had plenty of business during the match. Read and post about the match here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=42887#42887 and come out for next weeks PMCM with the FunnyFarm Elite.

Great fun for all - hope to see you all at the next one.

Well guys the time has come for me to go student teaching, so I am moving about 3 hrs away for about three months. I am very excited.. and I am shutting off the internet, it will be good to get away, I spend entirely to much time on the net. So I am off... hold the fort down guys, and I will be back soon.

SnaKeintheGraSs

The Poor Mans Clan Match schedule has been updated here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27153#27153 with the new info for the next rotation. For a bit of a change I have the home team on defense, and will be running the Temple Final map from the normal rotation as our battleground. The big, bad, Dragoons are up tomorrow night - we all know they put in a strong showing, so plan to be on the server and get in on the action.

Also note the link in the above topic to the ET Pro mod - barring anything unforseen, I plan to run all upcoming PMCM's with ET Pro, so you will need to have it installed before joining a PMCM match. Sorry for the late posting on this stuff - time got away from me this week.

With the shield or on it!

TIN

as of the last month I have received a grand total 3 contacts about et... all 3 in the last 2 days and all 3 about bandwidth alocation... for those who arent aware I have not been playin ET for the last 3 or 4 months...


I turned off the cod server which has had more users than et for the last couple weeks...
(sarcasm deleted)
enjoy and later....

it finaly happened.... mister butler updated his page...
http://markbutler.8m.com/monsterlist.htm

I have already found new ideas....
hehehehe
this year as usual will be better than any other...

Tonights PMCM was an incredible match that allowed the mighty FFr to flex its muscles on Railgun. Even though the clan was held back and ultimately denied a victory, their offense was determined and resolute. Post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=41431#41431 and plan to be show up next week for a new PMCM cycle that FFe will be starting off!

TIN

Once again I get to sing out a nifty phrase...
I TOLD YA SO!
So snake have you learned anything?

In case some of you don't read down this page, The server is unavailable for approx 1-1/2 hours for a FFr vs FFd match today. It should be back up by just after 5:00 pm EST

Yeah once again it is that time of the year....
http://www.ci.glendale.az.us/Festivals/ChocolateAffaire.cfm time to show em ya still like em...
it runs all weekend so if ya have the time come on by....

Thanks to Adam and this weeks New Map Nite, the new Temple map “Temple_Final” was played and from all accounts the changes to it make it a much better map and much more even play than Temple3.

So…… The rotation will be changed this weekend (Maybe even sooner?) to include Temple_Final and replace Temple3.

So if you don’t have it, download it now Here

Also...

Two upcoming events you all need to be aware of.

This Saturday, Feb 7 at 1:00 pm PST the server will be unavailable for approx. 1 hour for a FFr vs. FFd clan match.

And…..

On Monday, Feb 9 at 6:30 pm PST the server will be unavailable for approx. 2 hours for a FFe OGL match

What time is that you say ¿ Time Check

Thanks to all for your support and patience while these events happen, and special thanks to Lazz for letting us do them.

Dragg

They came, they saw, they fragged - clan {iCs} pulled off a sterling PMCM victory tonight. Read & post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=39967#39967 and plan to be out next week for FFr's turn. I also plan to run the ET Pro mod for that match, so make sure you download and install it before the event.

Good game and thanks to all that showed up!

TIN

The average player doesnt see the small things that happen with game servers... So I will now go off the deep end with a rant on the subject of linux and it's importance to the gaming world.

support linux or be ignored....
after a long search or a creditable web site to add to my possition I have lost the urge to rant... I found a thousand window vs linux flame wars... but no article that I would consider reliable...when I used yahoo to search topics I did notice
a search for "windows" yeilds
TOP 20 WEB RESULTS out of about 70,100,000
a search for "linux" returns
TOP 20 WEB RESULTS out of about 62,100,000

very close numbers when you look at the total... it shows there is nearly an equal interest in both topics...

closer to the home front I would like to 'splain some of the reasons we use linux...I use windows for my personal computer to read news play games and the such... it is usually on 24/7 and yeah I reboot 5 or 6 times a week... twice this morning alone... how often do you reboot? well the game server and the test server along with the file server dont... at least not if I can help it..it might not seem that way but in the past 5 months the main et server has been down twice I know of... most recently when my isp's dhcp server died... with a 20 minute lease the server lost its' ip before the dhcp server came back to life... then there was the laser printer fuse thing I did a couple of weeks ago... to me this means stability...
and now we step up to usability... the os is a major drain on a game server... back in the day I ran a "THAT GAME" server in windows 2000 while waiting for a linux server with nades... yeah I spent a ton of money on a legal copy of windows... why you ask?
(minor rant)
who do ya sue ? some home less bum? a high school kid with a pirate copy of windows? or do ya look for a guy that goes to work everyday ? and has a home and stuff? yeah me... I am the stuff lawyer dreams are made of...
(/minor rant)

in the day of "THAT GAME" I had run the server on linux untill they broke the nades... yeah they released a linusx server package with working axis nades and no allies nades...(what a bunch of dorks)... I installed windows on an extra hard drive and ran the game to allow allies to have nades...... the server load was MAJOR...everything was the same I just changed os's... in windows server was struggling alone with a 85% load... and in linux it was under 50% .... once they fixed the linux issue... I switched back to linux... OHHH the difference...

presently the ET has a network issue... and there is no fix in the forseeable future but the server but the present server load is under 30% the majority of the time...

then comes the big reason for my linux happiness.... back in the day when I ran the win2k game server I had a new virus every week... it was like the machine became a target... it was a pain ...

I have had linux servers on the net continuesly since 1/5/98... I have had 1 ( yeah one) hacked server where I lost control of it... I have experinced many DOS ( denial of service .. where they flood your connection) attacks... and exactly zero (0) linux virus ... can anyone else claim so few virus?

as this rant winds down I would like to stress the importance of linux in the internet world... in my search this morning I noticed 70% of all web servers around the world run apache... yeah apache started as a linux web server...
also if ya wanna rent a game server, the linux version costs 75% of the price of a windows box...
back in the day when valve wasnt the evil word it now is over half of their game servers were linux...
today when you see 2 game servers in any game if it is a windows server the odds are it is some kids cable connection, and if you see a linux box it is some kid using a bussiness connection... which would you rather connect to?

as I end this I would like to leave this thought in your mind.... john carmack releases windows and linux stuff at the same time... and people wonder why he is the richest game developer in the world...

okay now HOB folks I have had my say... you droped the ball here !
please dont make it a habit...

WoW..is all I have to say.. this games graphics are amazing, its almost astonishing..I recommend highly you guys play this. Although you better have a high end system to run it.. its a very tough game to run.. Wow.. youll just have to see it to know what I mean..

You can get it here.

http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=15622

I heard last night that UT2004 demo is going to be out in 2 weeks, you can check it out on bluesnews.com, I dont really care for UT but that means we are getting closer to RO being converted to UT2004, and then that means vehicles.. RO is fun check it out..

Another Thursday night has come, and another PMCM has been fought. The Funny Farm Elite lived up to their name against a strong & determined foe, and put in a solid round of matches. Post about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=38606#38606 and plan to be out next week for {iCs}!!

Thanks to all who made it tonight - I was happy to see a very good turnout. Wunderbar!

TIN

weird once again things were broken....for the noobs this isnt the norm here.... usually stuff runs for a LONG time ..... but for dsome silly reason all the ips were gone when I got home... I have to manualy run "ifup eth0" on each machine...

all is well presently.. I think
so enjoy and later

Well, due to a reworking of the schedule, the FunnyFarm Elite are back for this weeks Poor Mans Clan Match! At FFe's request, this match will be played with the ET Pro mod running - you will need to download it here: http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=22298 in order to join the server that night. I hope that we can get a lot of folks to oppose FFe on this match - please come out for this if you can!

TIN

Well after the recent BS that has went on around here, i have found myself stopping by the farms less and less, pretty sad cuz its my uncles place. Its not what it use to be when it was just a few of us.. But I guess thats the way it is when ya become popular.. back in the dayz of ICS and SOF ahh so much better.. Guess it was my fault, the demise of this place, I wanted to have a full packed server, so we worked bill, deck, kane, lazz and I.


We worked hard to put a sweet server together for everyone to enjoy.. and im sure I will get a told ya so comment from lazz.. he said busy means many problems, and boy was he right.. So who knows.. All I know is I cant continue to be around here and deal with some of these people so Im going use the old phrase "if ya cant say soemthing nice then dont say anything at all". So I wont and Im going on a hiatus for while, school is calling, and quite frankly it isnt worth being here anyway. To take time out of my schedule, I dunno if we chose the wrong crowd right away.. dunno if there is a perfect way in running a server, but good luck in the future.. Peace..

The power of 'letricity...

yeah it is called a fuse.... dunno why it decided to quit today but it did... it was weird all I wanted was to print the instructions for repairing a dome light http://www.therangerstation.com/DoorContactPin.html on the ol truck I drive... and boom the whole room went silent...scary....

so things should be back up... or I think they are...
let me know if not..
later and enjoy....

I baned young missy a while back and was surprised at the reaction it caused. Which made me aware of the fact I am out of touch with the majority of tFF forum and server users. Since I dont really know many users anymore I happen to think it is time to ask what they think...


I ask everyone to read the poll http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=37637#37637 and to vote.
This is the begining of a change here. be part of it or miss out.

Good News Form EvenBalance

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=announce.php />
this is gonna be Great :P

Saturday, Jan 24 at 1:00 PM PST (9:00 PM GMT) the server will be unavailable for approx 2 hours. Lazz has given his blessing to allow FFe to use the server for a practice.

Sorry for any inconvenience it may cause, maybe a good chance to catch up on that book your not reading ¿

Dragg

So lazz and I have been looking at this RPG maker called sphere for a few months now, nad have been brainstorming about if we could put a fun RPG together. So we found this engine that allows you to do this, after messing with it for a few hours tonight, I had made my own map with a stick man running around in it.. it was very funny. I dunno the sky is the limit, now the graphics arent the greatest, but I think we make up for lack of that with great content. almost like nintendo graphics. With the lack of cool games being out, this will take up my time, creating a neat world for us to hang out in.. well maybe.

Another light turnout tonight, but the most was made of it and fun was still had. Read the results and post your comments here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=37303#37303 . Congrats to FFd on another PMCM win with a fine turnout and even finer sportsmanship!

TIN

A new PMCM cycle has started, and you can view the updated schedule here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27153#27153 . This week the big, bad, FunnyFarm Dragoons are back as the home team - playing as the Axis on the Railgun map! Its not a map we play much of here at the Farm, so plan to be at this match for something new. See ya all there -

TIN

Yesterday as usual mommie and I took off for our saturday morning date...every weekend posible she and I go out saturday morning for a few hours and have fun...
This week was different...

A couple of blocks from our house I noticed a wallet in the middle of the street... I backed up , mommie opened her door and sure enought it was a wallet... DANG... For me this wasnt a blessing, but rather a curse. We opened the wallet and there was id,money,bank cards. A young lady's complete life... now the hard part... we.. my wife and I never considered not returning it... we had to...

when my wife phoned the young lady she was surprised... she was unsure how to react...the young lady was sure she would never seen the contents of her wallet again... we set a time and with very little ado returned her property...

What makes this a funny world is....
my wife and I never even thought of keeping the contents.... and the young lady never thought she would get them back...

we disrupted our saturday morning date for someone we dont know and would never see again... and we didnt consider any other possibility..

having droped off the wallet mommie and I headed east ... and 3 blocks later we picked up a chick on the street...
hehehe the story sounds more interesting this way....
the chick is a teacher at the local school we know... she was without a ride and was waiting for a bus... once again there was no debate... the teacher got a ride home with us...

this time we spent more of our date time without a thought of any other way...

december 4th a friend of my wife called... mommie was out at the time... so I was alone with this decision... the friend had a major argument with her sister-in-law . She and her husband were without a place to live...
they had a house that would be theirs in 4 days... but needed a place to stay till then... without a thought any other way I offered our house... so they moved in... the friend.. the husband.. the 2 dogs.. and the bird...
I had no idea how hard it was to live with other folks in our house... the house didnt become theirs for 5 weeks...

now they are gone... and after speaking to my wife...
she and I wouldnt have it any other way... this is how we live...

It is a funny world...
I can only hope more folks dont give it a second thought and just do the right thing..

Well, its been decided, so don't debate, don't complain, just make sure you have downloaded the Temple3 map cause its now officially part of our rotation, Thats right The Funny Farm now has a 5 map rotation.

Will be switching the config later tonite, so ready - set -Gooooooo!!!!!

Well, this was one of those matches that if ya blinked, you missed it. FFe fielded a dozen players, while the opposing team had half that at their best. Read the details here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2842&highlight= and watch for updated info on the next PMCM rotation. It was still fun though, and FFe had a (sorta) scrimage round after the event was over, which was interesting with some of the settings I had. Hope to see ya all next week!

Tonights the night - the FunnyFarm Elite get to prove their mettle in this long awaited Poor Mans Clan Match! I know that they are fired up and ready to fight - I hope the rest of the community responds in kind. The match starts at 7:00 PM Mountain Std Time - see ya all there!

Hey all just wanted to inform you all I passed my teacher certification test.. and now I get to teach.. WOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!! took me 5 years to get through this school what a relief.. I know its scary i will be teaching..

Well guys.. I got the chance to finally check out RO 1.2 and I have to say I really am starting to like this game.. they did a great job of improving the speed of the game.. which was the major turnoff for me.. and new maps.. pretty and i mean pretty maps.. dunno I hope more peeps try it out.. its getting better.. and you dont need a very high end system to run it.. mine is AMD 900mhz gforce1 32mb, 256 memory.. and I have no probs.. so check it out.

Well Adam will soon be bringing you weeks of enjoyment with New Map Nights. But he isn't quite setup yet. So until he is (Next week?) I thought I would through a quick config together for 2 maps that we are looking at and may add one or both to our current rotation.

They are 1944_Beach and Temple3. So this Wednesday at 7:00 PST we are going to have both maps run. If you haven't got them yet, download them here -

Temple3
http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=20029
1944_Beach
http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=19642

Loads of fun was had today with this new match format. The Soldiers and Coverts went at it, and both sides did their class proud. Final results are posted here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2795&highlight= and I want to thank the players that came out. I saw some very impressive gameplay today, and was glad to see everyting work out.

TIN

Holy sweet mother of Lazz! this mod has changed so much for the better. it "feels" so much better. if you've played it but were not too fond of it, i suggest you give it another try. and definately download the custom map pack and check out Danzig..... incredible!


http://www.unrealwarfarex.com/redorchestra/

Okay, we finally have everything ready for our first fragfest of a guild match. It is expected to be a mighty battle between the -S- and -C0- guild. They will hijack the server for an hour this Sunday the 11th of January at 8pm GMT. Two rounds of Oasis will be played (one stopwatch rotation), and players will be restricted to only their guild class. The server will also have a password so no one can interrupt during that time. If you would really like to spec, ask either TIN, Headhunter, Hermit, or YourTeammate for the pass, and we'll gladly let you watch.

The team with the highest total frags will win the match, and we will provide a follow-up after the killing is done. Depending on how this works, other guilds may be challenging each other in the near future. Best of luck to both sides!

TIN

Tonight {iCs} took to the field of battle, and while held back for the duration of the PMCM, fought as valiantly as the heroes of old. Even though neither of the clan leaders were able to attend, the team put together an organized effort that even General Patton would of been proud of! A great time was had by all and I want to thank those that attended for making it such a fun event.

Post your thoughts and comments here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=34856#34856 and plan to be at next weeks PMCM when we see what the FunnyFarm Elite are really made of.

TIN

I have hosted games for many years... hosting a game used to be an inperson thing...I did lan parties for years...aubster and I would drag the server around and host the stuff....let me tell ya some of the old games were a true pain to get going... but it was in person... if I had issues we could talk about it...or I just wouldnt go to their stuff.... it was simple... people didnt use this wonderfull thing we call the internet to hide...

unlike today... today when someone joins the game it isnt like the old days... then if everyone got a virus we knew exactly who did it...more than once we had manditory virus scans for some of the problem children... but we knew each other and could work stuff out... it was easy to be cool, unlike today...

this evening I banned a young person from the forums for the worst ever reason ever... I am sorry for the problems I may have caused this young lady... but im not sorry I banned her... I had no choice...
let me tell you the story and maybe you can forgive me...

a while back I was asked to give some attention to a young person... this young person wanted to make a difference here at tFF... so I did... she did okay I guess I wasnt amused but the youngesters were... it didnt cost me much efford.... so time goes on... she wanted to do more... she pmed me about something.... and totaly misunderstood my reply... she took it for complete permission... which it was not!

I didnt notice untill something else came up... and she did the same exact thing... asked then took the ball and ran... with out my blessings...
I will admit both things were okay.... BUT could have been better... especialy if I had known to help... so next comes the third issue... the third should have been a non-issue... but like the others she ran with the idea... yeah Im at the magic number 3.....

before christmas I tried to get this resolved... it didnt happen... I have tried way too many times... pm's emails you name it... last night I decided to give it one more day... that day has come and gone...
so folks.... I am very sorry if I hurt this special person...but dang it ... I tried everyway I know to deal with it...so it is a done deal now...

young lady Im honestly sorry...

Now that we have made it through the holidays, it is time to get down to business - Poor Man style! This Thursday's Poor Mans Clan Match will feature the warriors of the {iCs} clan taking on the rest of the FunnyFarm. We may not know exactly what the initials stand for, but we know they can frag with the best of them.

The carnage starts at 7:00 pm MST - see ya all there!

TIN

Soo again me and lazz ask ourselves is ET really worth serving.. We cant keep these little piss-ants from being banned.. All they do is spam lazz with emails, crying and whining about " oh that big meany snake banned me for nothing" waa waa, boo hoo.. the problem is, is the fact that the game is free, if we payed for it we could actually ban the CDkey... Soo we cant get rid of any of these people.. The crappy part is lazz pays for all this BS.. really I think this is sad.. Why should we have to deal with this, why should we serve this??

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/images/moontrees/audio/story.mp3
I find this simply great.... I enjoyed it the first time I found it... and as I listened this time I enjoyed it even more...

After some hard thought I happen to feel the forums are in need of change. So I will now start a new management program. I found a link that grasps the idea completely.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991114&mode=classic

this will eat a few minutes of your day.....

http://www.rockstargames.com/upload/swf/winners/multimedia/drewcope.swf

http://penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2004-01-02 do I ever know how this guy feels!

I know of several users that are under the age of 13...
I also know I have COPPA enabled...
and the bad part of that is... I have no user registered with the coppa stuff...

http://www.cdt.org/legislation/105th/privacy/coppa.html

As a member of "the short attention span theater" I too have lost the desire to continue .....
The thought of a fun RGP was nifty.... while the recent time spent did remind of past times and fun game.... priston wasnt like the past experinces... the makers of that wanna be addiction are in search of a player class I dont belong to.... I guess evil bunny rabits would be a young girl thingie.... and the Terrible nerdy .....

Having spent WAY too much time looking trying to decide if it was for me....( 10 minutes was WAY TOO much) I now turn to other things....

the RGP is something I would be interested in.... In my dreams.... I would like to see a masive tFF map... with different quests.... for instance... a person or group could create a quest... and the rest of us could play said quest...
maybe taking turns making new stuff... if we did this right weapons and or experince stuff wouldnt nessarly have to be the objective.... so a player on the server for 10 hours straight wouldnt have a major advantage over someone on for only 30 minutes...
I could see things like... this weeks quest find waldo..... or... maybe resident evil zombie making stuff.... where we might try to nuke each other... dunno.... this might only be a new rant...

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=rpg§ion=projects But here is the beginings ... maybe....
either way check it out... and comment
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=33402#33402

So we've asked Hermit to give us some game reviews.. which is awesome, hopefully hell be able to check some games that we wont be able to check out..and who knows we may get a server for it.. here is the first one..

THanks again hermit..



Written by stbh7323:

Alright, I've been playing Jedi Academy all day, and I got a review of it.

It's on the expensive side, still around 50 or so dollars, that's because it's new, and has some pretty nice looking graphics. It's not very demanding on a computer, it uses the same engine as ET, but just spiced up a whole lot. Graphics are nice and all, sparks with the lightsabers and such are a definite plus.

Now, on to the important stuff. When you get this game, you'll want to update it fast, so you can view the large amount of servers. There are many different types of games to pick from, from seige, which is an objective based game (Sorry, no dynamite) and there are classes you can pick from, but nothing like ET, to the standard CTF, to the classic Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch. The modes that set this game apart from others is Duel and Power Duel, Duel let's players take turns fighting one on one while other spectace the loser is kicked out of the fight and forced to watch while the winner continues to take on challengers to a set limit. Power Duel is just like this except it's one Jedi against two weaker Jedi that have to work together to defeat their foe I find both of these the best of the bunch.

The mechanics are fairly simple, left click to use the lightsaber. But, this is one of those games where it's easy to pick up, but hard to master. You can hack and slash all you want, but there are also many combinations, ways to attack, stabs, and so much more that I found myself dying in one quick hit, because I just kept on slashing my enemy.

As for anti-cheating/anti-llamas, there is a vote system, but no punkbuster or anything like that. I haven't played in a game where people thought there was hacking going on, so, I don't know how well implemented this is.

Except from a message board : "if you want online:

More players: JA

More fun: JO

In JA, virtually all you'll see online are either n00bs who don't know how to handle a saber, or n00bs who just lame everyone. Add the fact that the game is WAY too unbalanced between different kinds of sabers, you'll see JO is MUCH better online."

JO being Jedi Outcast, JA being Jedi Academy. I kind of agree with this. Most of the time, I sucked hard, so I was one of those n00bs. There were a few really good players, and they dominated, and a good number of moderate players. You had to either choose dual lightsabers, or double-sided. The lone lightsaber is virtually obsolete in multiplayer.

I would recommend others who own the game to look into it some more, but I'm pretty sure this is a "Let's go right now!!!" game. It has it's faults, but it might just be because I'm too new at it. I'd say this is 'iffy', look into if you can, but don't get your hopes up thinking it'll be the new FF game.

Next up on my list to check out: Jedi Outcast. Old, but still very popular, and the except I showed, supports this, so I'm gonna be playing through this for a while.

Dang I had a bad evening... mention something and WOW the outcome...In my defense I had spent too much time baning a repete lamer... I was not in a good mood when I made a hasty comment...

Because of that event I would like to apologize to everyone...

As I gaze into my crystal ball I see:
Several people claims they were banned for nothing....
There will be friction between admins...ref .... clans...players and flame wars will erupt....
Someone will sing a swan song in the forums once a week...
There will ba a one or 2 new members joins every week...
Thursdays will hold pmcms...
Wensdays might see a return of NMNs......
There will be a discussion as to what the next game to be served will be...
Someone will be sure the world as we know it is coming to an end soon....
There will be miscomunications and misunderstandings to follow....
In general there will be the SOS.....( same old stuff)

I forsee ET being served here for a while.... How long? Well I dont know... I do know I dont see anything to replace it presently... I see stuff that might in time... but not today..

And when we move there is something in the works that will let the ET server continue... I have no intentions of just droping ET or the clans we have.... this will be a nice and smooth transition to something more fun ...

ohhhh and for my last prediction of the hour....
I predict someone will not be happy with this annonucement...
:P

Had so much to do today, so I'm behind in posting the player of the week.

The Player this week is a member of the {iCs}. I'd actually like to quote one email I got b/c it says it all:

"He does great stuff around {iCs} while still being a joyful and crazy guy. He treats me like I'm his age and he never puts down a chance to be nice. I always enjoy talking to him and he's is the best {iCs} person ever! He doesn't care about EXP and is always a fair and fun guy to be around."

Player of the Week is the great Cyco! I know I always have fun playing when he's on! Thanks for the great games!

So me and lazz checked out a somewhat new game in our search for the next game well be playing, and the game was Never Winter Nights, a RPG type game, kinda like Diablo... and needless to say we wont be serving that, way and I mean way to complicated. Soo the serach goes on..

Once again my wife has created the most wonderful christmas ever. The house is full of wonderfull smells ... the beds are full of wonderfull company and family...

I tarnished my gift guessing record a little this year... I was able to only get 3 correct... the new robe was the best... F A Hayek and a daughter of mine gave me a box.... this daughter can remember past christmas's when I would do deciving things.... so this year she decided to even the score a little.... they took a large box.... put in a liberal handfull of pennys... an old tuscon phone book.... and then the nifty heavy duty bath robe... in less than 2 minutes I correctly guessed the contents... the question turned to which color.... hehehehe

On the other hand it took aubster and 4 others over 30 minutes and SEVERAL major hints before the lights came on and they guessed correctly ... http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/ ....

My gift to mommie made her cry... ( I did good )
in general I think everyone had a good evening...this afternoon our house guests will be having their christmas with their family here.... so our merry band will be headed to the movies I hear... ROTK w00h00.....

life is good.... I have alot to be thankful for ....
having said that... I wish everyone a safe and happy holliday...
enjoy folks and later

Snake and i have just returned from OUT-THERE.....it is plain scary...we made a trip to the local "frys" gezzzzzzz ....when we entered the store I went to the service counter trying to find a wheel chair for the broken snake... you have seem them in the larger stores... well they dont have any.... poor snake had to hobble on his crutches...

while snake was looking at video cards a saleperson( and I do use the term lightly) this "expert" was telling a poor youth no game these days uses all 128 megs of memory... and not many can use all 64 megs.... his opinion was 64 megs is enough...
quickly I claped my hands over my ears.... and told snake it is time to leave...about 1/4 of the way out of the store I droped my hands only to be assaulted once again...

an earthlink sales person asked if I would like to try out "the internet".... PLEAASE

after safely exiting the parking lot I decided to try another stop.... we made our purchases and were safely in the car... when SHE entered the picture.... I tell you she parkes in her space and mine.... both at the same time... I have no idea how she missed our car.... but thanks goodness she did miss..
the moral of this is.... becarefull they are out there and crazy too......

It’s that time of year again; I just wanted to wish everyone all the best for this Holiday season. May you have joy in your life and wish well for those who do not. And again give thanks to our Host Lazz for giving us this place to call our second home.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone

Well I just read this last night. The makers seem to keep pushing out patches and updates to make the game better, they say 1.2 will be out very soon.. Hopefully it will be funner to play.

Quote from RO makers******

I'd like to inform you all on behalf of the RO team that 1.2 is coming along well. Here's a small feature list for the upcoming release, which of course means this is not all, and anything on here is subject to change:


2 brand new maps
2 brand new weapons, German MP-41 and Russian PPD-40
New HL-style death messages, so no more chat spamming
New hand models for all weapons
New weapon models and skins for the G-43, MP-40 and PPSh-41
New player skins
New damage system
New 1st person grenade system
For bolt-action weapons, you can now move at normal speed while bolting after firing in iron sights
Many bug fixes and gameplay tweaks

That's the list so far. We will have a 1.2 RO Teaser video for you all to see, soon enough, showcasing the two new (and great) maps, Warsaw and Moscow Highway.

yes more about RO, so being here in AZ i might try and learn how to setup a Red Orchestra server, for anyone of us that have UT2003, maybe that will be our next game.. who knows, I know fa is playing it alot, and it could be cool, so hopefully lazz will help me..

Hey all - check the forum topic here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=31144#31144 for more info, but lazz has approved me to setup a Nade War for both Christmas and New Years in lieu of a PMCM. This means that we all spawn with nothing but a knife and 100 grenades with which to wreak havoc, and have the ability to fly/hover as well. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.

Hope to see you all there - best holiday wishes to you and yours!

TIN

Well FFe had there first match today, Well ok it wasn't an official match but we did a 3 map campiagn against another Clan thats signed up for Tourney play the same place we did. I guess it was our first real "Practice". 11 vs 11 with full Heavy weapons and Friendly fire on. We choose to play Allies on all three maps, because we wanted to practice our offence.

We didn’t win a map but we did ok, trying to learn to play together as a group.

Thanks go out to all that played and the “Disgruntled Clan Members” Clan for giving us a good Scrimmage and letting us use their server. Good Game!

Okay it's bad enough when people in my real life turn into jerks around the holidays, but I don't need to come to the forums/server to encounter a bunch of people with their panties wound tight. Before you throw a temper tantrum, cause a scene, take something the wrong way, or in any other way be impollite to anyone, remember: it is the holidays.

So instead of being an arse, swallow your pride, deflate your ego, and take a chill pill. I'm tired of people spilling their anger onto my fun. What's with you people? You can't wait five more days or something?

Oh, and that was my warning...

I almost thought we were going to have a tie, but someone managed to pull ahead.

This week's winner is a player that:

does a lot of work on the farm,
is an all around fair and responsible player,
does a lot with FO, FFe, and FFd,
and, as a matter of fact, he is the leader of FFd!

For all his hard work and participation, Peaches Player of the Week is Dragg! The votes were in appreciation of all the hard work and time he puts into the farm for all of us to enjoy!

Thanks Dragg!

And thanks to all those who submitted their votes. There were a lot of nice things said about a lot of players. I hope we get as many nice responses throughout the next week.

WOW - thats all this shell shocked engineer has to say. Tonights PMCM turned into a bloodbath, with my valiant FFr clan mates (the ones that bothered to show up ) fighting a losing battle to steal the Axis gold. While we didn't make it past the first barrier, we lived up to the Spartan code of "with the shield or on it" and sent many of our foes to the great beyond. View the results and post you comments here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=30248#30248 and plan to be at the after-holiday match with iCs in the hot seat.

TIN

That's right boys and girls - Thursday is here and with it comes another Poor Mans Clan Match! Tonight it's the FunnyFarm Rebels in the hot seat, starting as Allies on the Goldrush map. Can they field the same firepower as FFd? Can they crush their enemies, see them driven before them, and hear the lamentations of their women like Conan? Only one way to find out - be there!

I will be changing the server over to run the PMCM about 20 minutes in advance and the event will start at 7:00 pm MST. See ya all then -

TIN

They've been counted. Sorry, but I had to disqualify the hanging chads....

Anyway, thank you to everyone that participated. It was actually a unanimous decision.

The first official recipient of the Peaches Player of the Week is.....

the one and only...
what would we do without him...
the reason we're all here...
with no further ado...

LAZZ!!!!

Congrats, LAZZ! I'll have to make you a certificate :)

There was once a day when I thought I might like to do html.... and one of the first projects I wanted to do was a computer assembly how to.... I found a project and since at the time it was near christmas I thought a tree to decorate would be a good practice run for my computer project... needless to say I never found time for the computer project...
but here is tree I did several years ago...

http://thefunnyfarm.net/christmas_tree/ ....
you old timers will rememebr it....
if it is too borring.... try moving the balls to the tree...

Soo many of you may not know but I am inspriring teacher.. Ya hard to beleive isnt it? So I am sure many of you have heard of "No child left behind" Act, well I think it has its good points, basically what it is, its a new law going into effect in 2006, and if you are teaching classes out of you major you will not be able to teach them anymore, so say I have taken about 3 economics classes and now I cannot teach them because I now need a major in econmics, many of you may not know that most of your teachers are teaching classes out of their major, many times teaching classes they never took and have been doing so for many years. This does have its upside it will make for more qualified teachers.. but for people like me which are about to graduate and finally be done with school it flat out sucks.. cuz now Im not as marketable in the job search. And also I have to take probably four or five more classes before 2006 which will probably cost me around 4,000 more dollars, add that to this stupid minor in History they make you get at my university, that I can no longer use.. And of course lets top that off with the amazing amounts of money teachers get paid.. Im in for a long road luckily Im going to love my job.. teaching kids about history and coaching football, Id do it for free if I could.. Now ya know why im such a hardass...:P

Great night tonight - FFd put on a show of force that was most impressive. They had an exceptional turnout and won both stopwatch rounds on the Goldrush map that was played. Post your comments about it here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2371&highlight= and plan to attend next weeks PMCM with FFr as the home team.

Thanks again for the turnout and support - for the first run I think it went well, and you can expect more refinements as we go along.

TIN

Keep ages of our members in mind when making posts. Any inappropriate inuendos directed toward or about our juvenile members will be immediately deleted, and depending on the seriousness of the post, the poster maybe banned without warning. This is a family server and forum and many juveniles frequently post/visit here. Remember this.

THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING

Tonight is the first night of the revamped Poor Mans Clan Match. Check out the schedule here: http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2290 and I hope to see you there for the fun. I've spent a lot of time testing my script files, but since this will be the first "live run", I will be changing the server over to run the PMCM about 15-20 minutes in advance. Outside of any last minute bugs, the event will start at 7:00 pm MST.

TIN

Well, wanted to post something new...

Hi to all the new members, to all the regulars, and to anyone returning to the Funny Farm! I've been having some fun games lately and want to thank all of those who have made it possible. If I list everyone, I might forget someone, so I'll just say you know who you are. :)

Let's all keep up the good work and the positive atmosphere!

Also, I would like to start a member of the week. If you would like to nominate someone, please send me an email with their name and why you think they should be player of the week. I would like to spotlight one player every Saturday. I look forward to hearing all the good things about our members! I expect to get a lot of emails, so don't let me down :)

Again, thanks to all of ya'll (gotta add some of that Texas touch)!

Your resident fruit,

Peaches

Email to: SpenceHome@comcast.net

Thanks!

Now, I'm the last person to complain about anything, but I feel the need to put in my 2 cents.

I feel that the server has definitely lost something from when I first started playing. The complaining has spread like wildfire...everyone is spending more time watching everyone else than just enjoying the game.

How are we going to solve this? Well, I've put a lot of thought into that but can only come up with one thought...RELAX. It is just a game. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. The point should be that we are all having fun.

I actually went into spectator mode trying to count the number of experienced players on each team b/c someone was complaining. I ended up disconnecting from the game b/c I was just absolutely fed up w/the complaining. This game to me is the way for me to take a break from real life and the stress I have in it. It is a sad day when I disconnect in a game.

The game would become more fun for everyone again if people would just start joking around more in the game instead of complaining. The negativity is what starts the game downhill. I don't care if someone kills me over and over w/the panzer (usually I hunt them down and that becomes part of the game). As long as they aren't spawn killing, more power to them. I stink at using a panzer and if they can master that skill...then congratulations to them. It should be about building up people's skills and not slamming them for what they seem to be good at. It's not personal...they don't know who they are killing.

There are always 2 ways of seeing things. I prefer the positive way and that is what makes me who I am. Now, I'm asking you to make a choice to bring the server back to how it was when I found it. FUN...people joking w/each other and chatting in the game. It's more than just saying "hello" back to someone. Keep the game positive and shake that negative feeling that seems to be taking over.

Anyone who really knows me, knows that I am almost sickingly positive. To the point of practically getting on peoples's nerves b/c I seem to be smiling all the time. But, they enjoy being around me b/c of that. That is what the Funny Farm was to me when I joined...why I kept coming back...and what I hope it can be again.

there is a demo out for u2:xmp. unreal2 kinda blew, so they're making it up to us with some sweet multiplayer. its teamfortress-esuqe with some nice twists. its got a bit of a learning curve, but when you get used to it, prepare yourself for some nice gameplay. oh yeah, vehicles too.

It appears that Even Balance Inc. is adding a new PB facility called PB Restrictions to all of their supported games, starting off with the new PunkBuster Server versions of Quake 3 and Enemy Territory. PB Restrictions represents a tighter set of parameters for playing on PunkBuster enabled servers. Here's a quote from Even Balance on this new addition to the PB Servers:


A player who fails a PB Restriction check should not necessarily be considered a cheater, so we advise PB Admins to consider initial PB kicks for restrictions to be warnings to the players who are kicked so that they may either honor the restriction by correcting their setup or play on other servers. However, we also encourage PB admins to deal with repeat offenders of PB Restrictions as they see fit.

The initial group of restrictions will deal with unusual opengl32.dll access or hooking. Players whose systems do not return proper information about the game using a single opengl32.dll system file will be considered restricted by this new facility (Note: Anyone still trying to play PB games running under Windows NT v4 is going to be considered restricted by default). Future updates may require the most current version of DirectX/display drivers to be installed, etc.

WEll I finally got the chance to play RO... THe graphics are amazing, obviously it will take a pretty high end system to run all these nice graphics, but other than that, I loved the realism, no crosshairs only iron sights, that I liked.. THe realism is amazing, there are only 13 servers and 30 people playing right now which is quite funny.. I really see an upside to this game.. It can only get better from here on out.. Hopefully we may get our own server soon. :P
If havent tryed it go buy UT2003 for 20 bucks and download RO, its well worth it in my opinion..

After some thought and some talk we have decided to put an elite team of players together from the Farm. These Players have already been selected and will make up a new clan called “Funny Farm Elite” or [FFe] for short. This clan will be for off site Tournament (ladder) play only.

No, this is not a new Clan like FFr, FFd or iCs. Those clans remain the three clans of The Funny Farm and the players on FFe remain in there original clans.

This Clan will be our “Best of the Best” the farm has to offer. To challenge the rest of the world, in competition play. You will see this new team involved with the new PMCM structure and get a taste of the new team.

Best Wishes – [FFe]

Thanks to volunteer we have a first hand view of RedOrchestra.... What follows is onloc's impressions...

Needed to play Red Orchestra:

1) Unreal Tournament 2003

2) Patch for UT2003 in order to play Red Orchestra ftp://ftp.infogrames.net/misc/ut2003/ut2003-winpatch2225.exe
3) Red Orchestra, it’s self, full version

http://www.unrealwarfarex.com/redorchestra/downloads.html

4) Red Orchestra 1.1.1 patch

http://www.unrealwarfarex.com/redorchestra/downloads.html

*) Admin site for UT2003

http://www.unrealadmin.org/





Community

Well, I read almost everything on the OR site, and their manual, and I’m impressed. If the interest in this builds, it has great possibilities. The programmers are listening to the players and trying to address their problems and requests. The next patch promises more team play, characters, weapons, vehicles, and maps. There are some posts of problems that have got no response, but these are mostly personal system problems. The group here does try to help each other out.



As a whole, they are a friendly group and helpful. After 3 skillful and proud kills, in a row I may add, my team politely asked me to stop shooting them. Ooops. So I moved on to shoot the guys in different uniforms.



Problems

It seems the “bug” reports, for a beta program, are low and players are generally happy.



There aren’t many servers out there. I played 4 times, at different times, and the average number of players I came across in the game was 4. Night time was much better, being 40 people on 3 servers, and 13 servers empty.



A big problem with a couple of the servers is the anti-cheat program. It is kicking players off for too many kills or too good of aim. Giving a message “You have been disconnected because your aim is suspiciously good.”





Playing

I didn’t find a single problem playing, with my system, or the game.

My system; P4 2.53, 512 ram, GeForce 4 mx 440

The pace of the game is much slower than ET and after playing RO, I came back to the animals at The Farm and got slaughtered at lightening speed. It took me awhile to adjust to the pace but I really enjoyed the game.

As most of you read in Lazz's post below, changes are coming to the PMCM (Poor Mans Clan Match) that occurs weekly at the Farm. I have been asked to run this event and to put in place a revamped PMCM structure. I will be starting a forum topic on this shortly to let everyone know what is going on, so keep your eyes out for info on what I think are some pretty exciting changes.

Regards all -

TIN

I have a volunteer....
and you now have a ET server...
pretty sad when I have to kill the game server to get simple help...

lets not do this again....now and then I find I do not have the time to complete a project... so I need assistance from time to time... when I ask in the forums often the topic becomes hijacked...but it has yet lead to a project completed by anyone other than myself... this will now come to an end...

I expected the time required to complete this volunteer project to be less than 2 hours... since 40 plus persons have looked and declined to deal with the project the ET server will be off line for a while...

Change is in the air... The way things are going isnt what I had in mind... so it is time to fix it...
the fixit list as of this morning....

ONE---folks are worried about their stats...
that I can fix in minutes....I can delete the stats page.... nah that isnt my style...maybe I should review the stats page and ban the top 4 or 5? that would take the importance out of stats real quick... folks this is about having fun... not being a bean counter!

TWO---clans and their playing methods...
Im from a different age than anyone else here... I play to have fun... not to make top scores... this is about fun... presently there are 3 FF clans... I am ashamed to say there are TOO MANY clan members whos gaming habits I consider cheap... axis is played WAY too much by our clans... why on earth would any clan member be axis on battery? the only reason I see is to play for a score. you could look at fix-it number ONE to see the easy fix for me... will I need to do that?
If you dont challenge yourself to be a better player or a better person...no one else will either... If you are in a clan and not playing for the fun of it then you are being cheated... this is about having fun...

THREE--- pmcm and the way it was meant to be....
the whole pmcm thing is a ONCE a week event...it does NOT mean all the FF clans against the world... it means ONE (singluar) clan against the world.. and other FF clans... This is one complaint I can fix in a heartbeat... it is nice to see inter clan relations so pleasent.... but without the inter-clan rivalery why not just have one clan... that way we could all be one big happy family......... nah I dont think so!
in the VERY near future and I do mean NEAR there will be an anouncement of the new PMCM director... this person has been selected... and will be working on details VERY SOON !

FOUR---return to the basics..."Be cool or be history"
some examples...

someone asks me "am I mortaring too close to the spawn point?" that folks is an easy to answer question..if you are wondering then you are WAY too close and should be banned...

Should someone ask "who has the best stats?" my question is... who cares?..

should the question be asked "why doesnt lazz play anymore?" the answer would be .... he does...just not on the et server..."why not here?" the present day FF et server isnt fun for him...


FIVE--- if it isnt fun why is it happening?
dunno... lets fix it NOW! before something else happens...and NO I have no plans on shutting down...I enjoy gaming... you should also...

Sign Here..
http://www.petitiononline.com/codpb/petition.html

to all here on the farm, i say: ENJOY YOUR TURKEY COMA'S!

I witnessed my first wall hack in cod this evening.... it sucked... so as I mentioned before activision needs to address stuff like this...
ya know this means nearly 5% of the non-FF players on the cod server are cheating...
what a happy thing to learn...

Okay, here's the deal. Sometimes we will have a contest when I play ET. What kind of contest? Well, kind of like Simon Says with Peaches. When I join a game, I'll make sure no one has any objections. We are just going to spice up the game a little.

What I'll do is set some additional objective to the game. It may be person who kills ME w/the knife most. Or it could be something as simple as person who gets the most kills. Or anything in between.

What's the winner get? They will get choice of next map...radar or rail gun. I think this should provide for some very interesting games with a twist.

Grown on the Funny Farm...Peaches

call of duty from my point of view...
can you say pretty? cause you will need to... can you say fun ? we dunno about that... if team deathmatch is to your liking you will love it.. as for the objective based game... dunno it feels like the dreaded "CS".... did I mention big time unballanced guns?while im griping can you remember to say purdy?....

for the first time there is honest house to house street fighting... the house to house stuff is the best I have seen ... and the maps are not little tiny things... they are large and very playable...

they did a great job with the settings... and a poor one with the objectives... the best thing I noticed was the spawn... it wasnt fixed... you moved as the game play changed...the spawn points seem good... they appear to make spawn camping unlikely.

I had forgotten how much I liked the bar... it is a heavy cover machine... or a 20 shot open sight sniper gun... Oh yeah the sights are prudy also... iron sights... woohoo...

I have played multiplayer for about an hour now.... and it is purdy I mean real purdy... BUT....
I have some reservations... first...and I quote

"1. Known Issues:
There is a known issues with the Linux Server code and Behind Enemy Lines Game Mode that will eventually cause the server to crash. Therefore, it is not recommended for Server Administrators of the Linux version of Call of Duty to run the "Behind Enemy Lines (BEL)" game type on their server. We strongly advise Server Administrators to remove BEL from any map rotations and, to avoid players from voting to the BEL game type, Administrators might also consider disabling voting all together. "

they know the linux server crashes.... so where is the fix... or mention of a fix to come... the last fix took 3 weeks...


then I qoute again from the linux server README file.
"There are a LOT of knobs to tweak to customize and automate your server,
but it is beyond the scope of this documentation. Please refer to the
admin manuals for any Quake 3(TM) based multiplayer game (including Quake 3
Arena(TM), Return to Castle Wolfenstein(TM), etc.) for specifics."

so they dont feel the need to even write a server howto? comeon.... thats lame.. they write software and no documention.... that screams of non-bussiness... or open source... yeah open source style docs I just paid $50 for....

and the best of all quotes
"!! IMPORTANT !!
Call of Duty Linux Server is NOT SUPPORTED by Activision Customer Support. Please do not call with any questions related to this free beta product."

activision doesnt write docs... and they dont support their software.... golly gee... what is new?

sooooo to sum up my opinion ...... gee the team deathmatch is fun... the maps are really playable... the objectives are too much like "Childs Sport" ... I like it.... it was prudy and fun... there will be lag whinning... this is not a lowend computer fun game... it needs decent video... there are no admin assists as of now... and no punkbuster... so how long till the cheats start? specialy being a modern "CS"......

it might be fun... but I see a ton of work needing to be done... but the team play isnt shouting out to me... I see team deathmatch works better as a team... but as soon as non-FF's started joining the server the rambos came out of hidding...
Im kinda glad I bought it...I can look forward to a better game with better objectives.... but unless someone points out something I missed COD wont be a path for tFF migration....but im sure to enjoy playing it till team deathmatch becomes borring...

OK guys I was wondering if there would be any interest of having a Lan Party in the Phoenix, AZ area, there will be more details I just want to see if people are interested in attending one, around the holidays, Say December 19-28. Lets discuss it here..

CLick here to discuss


http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=24417#24417

arg.... I have noticed a strange dealie .... once every day or 2 one side of this room is without eletric for a few seconds... the network box reboots and a hub sometimes gets stuck...the hub needs a couple seconds of no power to restart... if the power comes on too quick it is stuck...
so you ask why do I care.... well when the network box reboots there is like 5 minutes of no server... the server is fine... but it doesnt have a connection for like 5 minutes... what makes this so strange is .... I was under the impression I had that stuff pluged into the old sola UPS...
not so .... i noticed the reboot this evening and dang it was pluged into the wall... not the ups.... soooooo I moved the cord into the bizzillon watt ups... and life should be good....
sorry I didnt notice the trouble earlier... but hey anyone who has been in this room will know a single cord could go anywhere :(......

later and enjoy

Well, today was the big day. USP had arrainged this some time ago. He was basically the sponser of the entire shoot and provided major amounts of ammunition and explosives. USP is also active on the AR15.com forums and large number of their members came out. All in all, there was probably well over 100 people there today. There was just about every type of machine gun you could think of out there. Every single person out there was letting everyone else shoot their guns. I have to say this was one of the friendliest and saftey concientious group of people I have ever seen.

FA Hayek, his friends, and Irish ninja had grins from ear to ear. I don't think this will be a day soon forgotten. It was great to finally meet TIN in person, real nice guy. It's always nice to put a face with a name. For those that missed it, you missed one heck of a good time. Good people, good food, and great guns. What more could you want?..lol

For all those anxiously awaiting the results of tonights match of iCs and FFd, here it is. We played 2 rounds of Oasis and 2 rounds of Fuel Depot. Good job to everyone who was able to participate in the game. iCs managed to blow one gun on their round as Allies, but FFd held them off the other one. FFd managed to blow both guns on their turn as Allies. Well, I lost most of my connection for the Fuel Depot rounds, so no particulars on it from me...but FFd did win both objectives. So, simply, FFd won the 4 rounds.

Again, great job to everyone that played. Different clans, but all one big Funny Farm Family. I, personally, look forward to the next match!

Happy Birthday To Me...

http://home.comcast.net/~geofsg217/Banned2.avi You will also need to get DivX 5, sorry I forgot to mention this.

The Game Server will be locked out for Approx. 2 Hours this weekend for the [FFd] vs {iCs} Clan match.

Begining at 5:00 EST. Thanks in advance to Lazz and the other FF members for allowing us to do this.

Should be a fun Match, may the best team win!

Have you ever had your mailbox completly run over? Has it happened to you at least six times? It has to me. This morning as I finished up the new one, with a galvanized steel pole full of concrete, I had an idea for a Funny Farm contest, one the likes of which should rouse the FBI and USPS to take heed to a new form of self defence: The Mailbox of Doom. The requirements for this contest are to have a mailbox capable of withstanding no visible damage from drive-by-battings, and to have no plastic. Points for damage given to any vehicle that hit is; the tougher the box, the more points. Instant first prize to the first person to design a mailbox with all above, AND a shaped charge mine built-in that will detonate when suffecient force is applied (as to destroy any vehicle that hits it).

As for what first prize will give you... I'll have a trophy made and pay for any patents and submit the design to the post master general for review. I'll may also pay for the 'box and shipping, because I need a Funny Farm Mailbox of Doom.

Congratulations to [FFr]Slayer-C0-*** for making 3-Star General! I want to spotlight him because it is my understanding that he was able to accomplish this by not focusing on this goal, but by simply helping out his fellow teammates. He didn't have stars in his eyes, but was rewarded after great teamwork. To me, that is what The Funny Farm is all about. Being a great team player and letting the rest fall into place. It's not about being a great individual player, but about making a great team. Well Done, Slayer!

Okay, we haven't had a new map in a couple weeks, but this week should be different. We're currently testing X-Dam on the server and if it works we'll go with that map.

Either way, Stay tuned.

If I remember and IF I can find time I think this would be fun ... yeah an offical tFF float...anyone else interested for next year?
http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/CALENDAR/fiparade.html

As you know the stats where wiped out Yesterday. I can now confirm a few things for anyone who is Interested.

The Stats are building right (for now), except Landmines, for some reason thats not working.

Thanks to Lazz, the stats are now updating every night.

yeah things change... and strange as it might be not all change is evil...

for instance yesterday the web host fixed their internal clock.... it was about 7 hours behind... which played games with the forums for a while.... if you posted in the time it took for reality to catch-up with the clock change you were locked out... weird huh....

next we are doing a clean start with the stats... reseting the whole thing... fresh start for all...hopefully this will cure some of the stat stuff for a while....

Aoccrning to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by istlef but the wrod as a wlohe.






g/f found that in a readers digest. thought i'd share with the rest of you.

I have to say that I have had some of the best games lately on The Funny Farm. There have been a lot of players commenting the same. Just wanted to thank everyone that participates in making this a friendly server.

More than being addicted to ET, I'm addicted to the Farm!

Post from [FFd]FleshReaver

I have chosen to step down from the leadership role of [FFd]. Dragg will be taking my place as clan leader. I hope to stick around as much as possible and continue to be an admin for the game server.

I would just like to say thanks for Lazz giving me the opportunity to do what I have done. The Farm is a great place to play our favorite game, and I appreciate his consideration and time.

I will remain a member of the Dragoons, but just a member. Any clan questions, recruiting will be handled by Dragg. I will also be changing my handle to my favorite smurf name “Avenging Ifiriti”. Starting a new name for myself.

I’m not going anywhere. I feel that [FFd] will be in better hands…

Allen
(a.k.a. [FFd]FleshReaver)

Well I have been getting poked in the ribs about hosting a COD server... so I thought I would state my possition...

first off there is a linux server out there... one with a major memory leak.. for those how dont know it the servers here are seldom rebooted.... today is 99 days since the last ET server reboot... so stability is a major issue for me...

http://www.icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?38:dds:302#b as I read thru the mailing list ( thanks dead bob) I see the linux trouble isnt the only thing happening... I see the windows server not switching maps well.. then there is a general lack of info... this goes back to the days of quake and uncomplying the code to find server commands... Not something I wanna do again.. it was exciting then... but lame now.... make a game... document the game... how hard is it?

I also notice the ban problems... gee just what I wanna see....

but the thing I found after reading several posts was the retracted linux server...I noticed the linux cod server was called a leak... but the mailing list sez they released it then took the file down a hour or 2 later when they learned about a memory leak...
those actions remind me of MOH... and the promissed but a year late linux server...
having said all that I will now vote with my paycheck....
no linux no FF... and I will not buy another EA , Activision product with out linux ever again... and I dont care who makes the promiss...
BTW anyone want a deal on 3 copies of MOH... I only stomped the boxes 4 or 5 dozen times...

I had one of the most fun games tonight. Though my team didn't always win (I was Allied), I think we all enjoyed it. I had the pleasure of playing with some of the newest registered members: HarveyBirdman, FlamInGo, Winparsly. First of all, we had an awesome shoot out at the flag in Oasis. I think everyone joined in! The Axis team held us off from the guns and played an awesome defense. Great teamwork guys! Great panzer work BossHogg (reminded me of Hermie...)!

For the next round on Battery, the Allies blew away the Axis (and the gun controls)! I'm not sure if Mrukk is registered on the farm, but great engi work. We worked hard and fast on this map. Great work guys!

Mr. Winparsly dominated the xp points on Gold Rush winning highest ranking officer. Congratulations, Mr. Winparsly! The Axis held us off and never allowed us to get past the second barrier. Again, great teamwork on defense.

Axis dominated the final map, but Allied gave it a great try. Allies were able to get the tank over the bridge very quickly, buy Axis covered the depot like pros (hmmm...I think there were a lot of iCs). Citizen crossed over to Allies to help us out, but we just couldn't blow the fuel dump.

Tonight, everyone participated in putting the Fun in Funny Farm. Thanks for the game!!! Let's do it again!

MSiaH ( missing snake in a hospital?) dunno I spoke to him on saturday evening in the hospital. And called him sunday only to find he had been released. so the hospital said... So I waited for him to get on the net... he didnt...and now a little birdie tells me he is in a different hospital...
they sure do things differently in the great white frozen north...
now to track down a broken snake in the snow... gezzzzz

If you don't know me, I'm Peaches. A member of the FFd Clan and Medic Guild. I'm signing in to also add New News Poster Girl. I hope to bring you fun and interesting topics. I hope you look forward to reading them. Until my next post, enjoy The Funny Farm.

Well the first version wasnt very factual... But this version is nearly as good... after a short pass reception our snake ran 55 yards for a touchdown... being the big guy he is he shook off the first tackler and and the second caught him near the goal line he made a huge efford to get across the goal line.. and did so... breaking his leg on the landing...

While the first story was good... this would be a better coach story.... Can you hear it now ? "When I played football we were dovoted to the game!" hehehehe

He will get a rod poked into his leg bone in the morning... Like I said earlier..

All said and done he was in good spirts about his own condition.. But a little bummed out about the game... his team lost in overtime...

That little snap crackle pop... That was the sound of a football career coming to an end.
It is official... Snakeinthegrass is no longer playing college football. Sometime in the morning he will go in for sugery. The best thing in his life( smartie-pants a she-male person) says "Things are improving"...

You ask how bad is it? The version I heard makes it a story he will tell till he dies... It would seem he broke his leg... according to the little birdies his own team members broke it. Yeah !! They were congratulating him on a 45 yard touchdown... But the celebration got out of hand...If that is the case what a way to end a football career and start a coaching career...

I'm pretty sure he is spending the night in the hospital... and if this break is like any of his others there are complications aplenty.. With metal plates and screws as the only possible outcome...

Im sure I will have more news soon... till then we will have to wait...

I did not post loserboy's email yesterday due to the language... I guess it was a mistake to mention it ... it would seem to have annonyed him alot... so much that he sent 3 emails today...
the language is better in all three... but today's barage was a challenge for me to post his stuff... which I will do to make his threats public...

message #1
[quote]
I knew you had no guts to actually post my message, you probably already figured it out that the virus was on your machine and that it was your fault that your forum members were sent viruses and you don't want to admit your wrong, how pathetic you cant even be a man and admit you were wrong. Instead you chose to post that I sent a message that had nothing to say other then you are a forum Nazi which was in fact not the point of my message in fact it was only a single line in a almost page long email. Now I have discarded any obscenity's from this email what will be your excuse not to post this ....... lack of balls can be the only answer.BTW I challenge you to post my original message the words that so offend you can be edited out, but I know you lack the guts to do it. If you don't then you prove nothing that you were wrong and I will post my messages on the forum and show everyone how much of a coward you are.

Your master
cause I own you
Loserboy
[/quote]

message #2
[quote]by the way its very flattering that you think this much about us that you would even blame me and my brother for it..... thanks for letting me know that I have drove you to paranoia makes me all warm and tingly inside. Oh and that duo thing .... I like that keep it up makes me feel like batman the dynamic duo lol. ASS


your one and only master
Loserboy
[/quote]

message #3
[quote]
if you keep blaming me for malicious attacks, I might actually make one I normally don't sink that low but don't think for a second that I lack the ability. retract your slander or else you might as well shut down FF cause I will.
[/quote]

_____________________________________________________________________


I have no intention of changing my opinion of where the present virus troubles come from...all the persons recieving the files are in the membership list for the forums... which by the way was the last place loserboy was banned from.. none of my personal contacts not on the list have gotten anything... the last forged address I saw was from a peru edu.... a typical address range loserboy has used several times in the past...so I guess he will start the attacks soon.. in the event he does mannage to shut us down.... Im not sure I have the energy to start all over right now...

[parting shot]
it is pretty sad when things like this happen... I would have welcomed the trouble in the past... but honestly now I dont know how much more I feel like listening too...
[/parting shot]

It is a shame the language of this newest message doesnt allow it to be shared... But they speak again... the guist of the newest message is.....
since I have changed the forum registration I have become a nazi... and only allow my point of view.... okay if you say so....
also a second virus anouncement.... yet again they claim to be the injured party here...
shezzzz...

my reply is as always
please stop.... that is all I am asking...
let it go and move on...
also when you read this loserboy.... clean up the language and I will be glad to post your message...

This is the newest comment from the duo....

Excuse me, are you talking about my brother and I about the viruses? Because neither of us have done any such thing. Its pretty pathetic that you have to stoop to the level of slander to make people side with you, either that or you're just a paranoid guy. Anyways, if we wanted on the forums we'd be on, don't flatter yourself thinking you could keep us off. By the way, you should really make the new maps downloadable from the website, its a pain to download them in ET.



Have fun lazz,

LegendarY


and the return email is..... "jack sparrow" diijitall@hotmail.com

Folks I wanna play a game.... just a simple game... I havent had the time to play recently.... but I'm guessin I will catch up with stuff in the near future and be playing again soon... So as I have said a million times and guess I need to say a million more times... I do this to enjoy a game....
period... no more no less ...... I play with family and friends... but only to have fun playing a game... the forums are here to add to that playing enjoyment.... to interact with my family and friends.... the last thing I wanna do is to cause problems in my RL because of this game I play...So that is the reason I feel some topics are better not discussed in the forums...

I dont think me taking a stance on any topic will change the world... But I do know if I poke someone in the butt enought times they could kick back... especialy the powers that be on the subject of piracy....... in no way does it relate to the game we play.... so lets leave it alone !

First of all, it was great to finally meet Lazz in person. I do not think everyone realizes how much of a nice guy he really is. FA Hayek and Aubster were also there and it was great to meet them too. Lazz's wife also made a bunch of great food and that is alwasy a plus in my book! lol

Now onto the Halloween set up. All I can say is, WOW! It is amazing the amount of work Lazz put in this year. He had a ghost flying around the entire perimiter of his yard. The monster in the box was the surprise hit of the year. It was a shipping crate with fog rolling out of it, the door was rattled, and monster moans came from inside. Simple but it made alot of people nervous to go by it. Mr. Gunderson did not have the desired effect Lazz wanted so he is already thinking about what he is going to do with it next year, lol. There was also a rat that's mouth moved when spoken through with a microphone. Again, not the desired effect but Lazz is again in the planning stages already on that one.

The biggest hit again this year was the trash can monster. Some of you may remember Lazz describing this and posting pics of it last year. It is contained in a blue recycling barrel just set at the end of his drive way. People have to walk past it to get to the next house. This thing is, simply put, a work of genius. It is operated by a remote switch. When the switch is pushed, a head suddenly pops out of the trash can, lights up, and lets out a loud noise. This by far had the greatest effect. It scared the living day lights out of adults and kids alike. So much so that several groups screamed and ran across the street to get away from it.

Lazz, thanks again for inviting me and I am looking forward to next year already..lol

You can see a couple of pics here..

http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=20376#20376 />

Thank goodness!
Dead Bob aka "keeper of the trash can" will fill in the details...
good night all.....

Ohhh the wait....... I cant believe I have to wait another 20 hours to start ........

as of now.... I have to find some new line for the FCG.... the axworthy was scaled down to improve it's reliability..... the tomb stones are hiding from the thieves in the garage .... the MIAB is in need of a sign...the trash can has a new tenant...not one air line is run...not a single foot of wire is off the rolls..not so much as one computer has the software setup...the major control box still is missing it's screws that hold on the cover...and several things got canceled... but I think we are ready... as much so as possible....

soooo I will go out on a limb and say this will be a "4 wet panties" year... last year was a documented "2 wet panties" time... and the laffing will start at 5:00 pm promptly... and keep up till the last tot ( trick or treater) is scared off....and to think I have to give away candy to get the kids to come for me to scare them....jezz the kids these days...

our favorite duo seem to be frustrated about not being able to post in the forums.. So they have changed their tatics... Now they are spooofing email addresses and sending virus to of all things the membership list on the forums...
gee how original...

so if you get an email from me... with a attachment..
I doubt it is really from me...
Just delete it ....
As for the outcast duo....

guys...
get a clue....
all I am asking you to do is stay away....

Ya know I felt the objectS were okay.... but nothing great...
I guess I was wrong...
They were good enought for someone to steal....
I ask myself who would steal a yard decoration ?
I sure am glad I didnt put out the cool stuff.....

Quote from CNN -

The rapidly spreading wildfires raging through large parts of Southern California have killed at least 13 people, forced the evacuation of thousands, hampered air and ground travel and pushed a professional football game into a neighboring state. The fires have destroyed about 700 homes and scorched more than 300,000 acres. /quote

All our Thought's are with you guys down there, lets all hope for no wind, and maybe some Rain.

This could be called a draw... while I did fix the ghost... several times.... and it did work most of the day... right about dark the wheel near the fire hydrant developed a bad wobble and the line came off... so up the ladder I went and fixed it...

BUT as I was coming down the ladder the left leg of the ladder folded under... and I came down faster and farther than I really wanted... after landing on the curb of the street I now have some new pains ...

so it works... but if it breaks again which it is sure to do I cant fix it ...

in my book that is pretty close to a draw...

Today is the much awaited FFr vs FFd match, the server will be locked down between 1:00 to 3:00 PST time.Should be a fun Game, Outcome to be posted later.

I officially concede the first round to the "Axworthy ghost" ...
It whooped me for the night... as of 20 minutes ago 285 feet of braided nylon string went whiping into the yard... god only knows where.. If I wasnt so tired it would be funny as all heck...

Tommorow is the first day off I have had in a couple weeks. so new braces for everyone. woohoo

Folks.... as silly as it might seem I would like to know about things named for the funnyfarm... if you have a web page... or a forum... maybe a irc channel.. no matter what, I mean anything...

If the funnyfarm name is involved people associate me with the name... I feel a moral duty to be sure it complies with our (my) standards...

I understand you folks wanna spread the word and bragg to the world... All I'm asking is for ya to ask first... I cant say I'll give my blessings for each venture... But I can say if you ask I will be WAY more likely to not become angry...

There will not be a repete of the last time there were clan web pages !!!

My day was dominated by work...and work is a nessary evil... if I am to continue at my present level of poverty....

After a too long and too full day I got home ...... woohoo I like my home... mommie and I started putin stuff in the front yard...and the magic thing happened...the single parent a couple doors down came over to talk.... we always say hi... but tonight was the magic time when everyone had plenty to say to each other.. Then the guy that I have been trying to get with all summer stoped his truck and got out to talk... The young person down the street with the porshe slowed down then came back and looked again.... and all the kids started walkin by... the grandparent rasing the 3 children who takes her nightly walk asked if it would be as good as last year...

this evening I was in my front yard for a couple hours..... I usually spend 1 or 2 evening a month out front...and I wave to all the folks I konw as they go by...but when I do the halloween thing people stop and talk ... and they are happy in general....... in the next 10 days as I put more out. I will see folks and talk with them like it was only a week or 2 since the last halloween...The young home owner at the end of the block will once again come to the house and have things to talk about...

tonight for a few moments and in the comming 10 days I will see the happy side of the community I live in... it is filled with happy friendly people...

This is a simple magic that makes life a good thing...

Spam, no not the kind you eat (Does anyone really eat it?)

Spam in posts. It’s getting way out of hand.

Some people post a legitimate topic, looking for help with something for example, then it gets spammed and side tracked then lost.

There are forums for General, Off Topic etc. Do we need one for Spam (Other than the Word Association thread)?

Please people, you don’t need to drive up your post count with spam, if you got nothing good to say, then please keep it to yourself.
Search

Ok Fans, the time for the much anticipated FFr Vs FFd match is almost here........

The wheels are being greased.....
The circuits are being soldered.....
The power is being Increased....
The Server will be locked down tight....

This comming Sunday, Oct 26 @ 1:00 PST will find out just how good the game can be...

Oh yeah, Remember to turn your clocks back an hour the night before.

So love'em or hate'em, seems even when Bill Gates doesn't need help, they get it in the strangest way's. The open lawsuit against MS might just go on until we are all dead and gone.

Give Me A Break

have you been staring at your ut2003 cd's and saying "hey that was pretty.... but now what?"

have you been playing wwII games asking "hey, where are the rifles?"

do you want to take time to pull the bolt on your 98k, and not whip out shots like you're television's "the rifleman?"

do you hate crosshairs, and prefer ironsights?

do you like the thrill of looking across a field and having little idea of friend or foe?

finally, a game for us. red orchestra. it was just released. its still a bit rough around the edges, but its difinitley worth checking out.

have you been staring at your ut2003 cd's and saying "hey that was pretty.... but now what?"

have you been playing wwII games asking "hey, where are the rifles?"

do you want to take time to pull the bolt on your 98k, and not whip out shots like you're television's "the rifleman?"

do you hate crosshairs, and prefer ironsights?

do you like the thrill of looking across a field and having little idea of friend or foe?

finally, a game for us. red orchestra. it was just released. its still a bit rough around the edges, but its difinitley worth checking out.

We are fast aproaching the size limit of our data base...
there are 2 options...
we can switch back to the old slow... but unlimited database...
or
prune the present one...

well I choose to prune this one... with little success...
I first pruned the topics that were 100 days with out posts...
then 70... and the size has not changed nearly enough....
im thinkin we may need to do more...

while Im on the subject....


As I recall I requested help with a winamp plugin... that was pushin the limit...
I asked for some assistance with writing a howto for a program... (anyone with a couple of free evenings could have done it)
Then there was the time I was lookin into some java...

Those are from the last 3 months.... I would like to say I did get several "huhs" but no progress with any of them...

I have a track record of "pleas for help" (many)- results(none)....
asking for help doesnt seem to work for me in this community :(

This comment is not an attempt to guilt anyone into anything.... it is only my comment on the inequality of things here...
You the general population ask and I deliver...
I ask and nothing happens....


[/rant]

yeah I am foolish person... I was under the impression I could ask for help and receive it...
foolish me...

I will now proceed to do my voices a different way...
foolish me.....

Yeah and I am not ready...Even thought I started in june Im still behind.
So I was going to do and find all the voices I needed but time is running out...

I have 3 items that need a voice...
a rat on a hunk of cheese.....
a tombstone that talks...
and 6 to 8 ghostly voices scattered around the yard...


the ghostly voices will be background noise. they will be several different voices calling " come here" " no over here" " this way"
and things like that.... there will be 6 to 8 speakers around the yard. I will choose a line of 4 or more to make a gag... imagine a line of 4 hidden speakers
the voice will play on speaker number 1 then change to number 2 then 3 and then 4.... I can change at will any order and timeing.... My thought was to make it appear there was someone traveling...
speaker number 1 "hey look out"
speaker number 2 "coming thru"
speaker number 3 "move it will ya"
speaker number 4 "slow poke!"

I could use a couple of those... and then I could use all 8 ghostly voices calling out ......


next is the tombstone that talks...
I dont really want to do too much with it I wanted to use it to startle folks...maybe have it say "boo" or "what are you lookin at?"

then comes the star of the show...

The rat will be close to where we pass out candy... it will be possible to choose the rats speach... we should be able to hear their responces... and act on them...simply clicking the wav file in winamp will play the wav and cause the rat to talk...

the rat on the cheese needs a voice that must be high pitched and squeeky(??)
If you think you have a voice I have several dialogs I would like for the rat to say..
For instance
" Who cut the cheese ?"
" what are you spost to be?"
" something smells and it aint my cheese."
" what cha never saw a talking rat"

Im sure you folks will come up with improved ideas for the talking props I have... and I promise pictures of everything..

so if you are interested in helping out with some voice recordings please let me know
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=16078#16078
thanks in advance

Ammo Depot FINAL

Commence Fragging

It was a close game... It was a fair game...
But in the end only one Clan could come out on top...
The FFr Clan was the victorious winners!
Now the anticipation is building for the upcomming FFr Vs FFd Battle..

Buy your tickets early, there going to sell out quickly...

Shrub mod is back. Cyco searched the world and found a guy running shrub. So he brought him and I together.
When you open the shrub how-to doc it mentions 2 methods for an install. I did the first method. But it didnt work. So the other server admin suggested the second method... saying it worked for him. So try I did... and fail it did....

So I went to the source.. and sure enought in their forums there is a thread mentioning the patch breaks shrub mod...But they had a fix... and I installed the fix and guess what..... it worked !

our thanks goes out to Cyco for twisting my arm till I found a fix...

Be sure to be here tonight for Resurrection. The past few weeks have had a great turn out. And with this weeks map hype is higher than ever. Be sure to download that map as soon as possible and be here for the festivities. Halloween has come early people, be sure to to spook your opponent with a rifle nade to the head.

Both -iCs- and FFd have challenged the mighty Funny Farm Rebels. FFr has accepted both of the challengers. Once we have a verdict, the world will know of the might of the FFr.

After talking to lazz tonight, we feel there is a need for another clan to start forming around here, So I ask is there any volunteers, you must be regular and very involved, so let me know either by Email or PM in the forums, remember this is not an easy task, it is very time consuming.. this is not for sure, just a suggestion..

SnAKe

As expected it has begun........I recieved this email when I got home.......

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I have to say i think you need to reconsider who has banning privilages for 1, crobar needs to learn how to play this game before he starts excercising his ban stick because if your playing fueldump you can go through axis spawn at any time after the gate is blown, i didnt spawn kill, he only wants to believe i did so he can look good in front of his buddies. I really could care less about whether i ever see your server again, but your policies stink. You expect noone to spawn kill, & if it happens you immediately ban, ill have you know your players ban if they think you may spawn kill, like they did to me. Think about it, on battery you have to go through the enemy spawn to win as allied & as axis to stop us you airstrike/panzer & grenade allied spawn to stop them. Radar, & oasis both have a forward base & a back base--- forward is one of your objectives, your rules dont allow anyone to go in there. Also you can sneak back through the tunels in fuel dump to blow the dump earlie if you know what your doing. Also it may be nessessary to get a uni as a covert through your spawn, or to sneak over & stop a mobile mg42 or mounted one where they arent expecting you to go, but according to your clanmates that is against the rules---- COME ON NOW!!!! This is how the game is played, why is that punishable, especially when your clanmates can do it but public people cant, All i can say I hope you guys pull it together soon, because that is lame, i could understand if it was a repeated offence where someone is makin a point of spawn killing like with a satchel charge or panzer but stuff happens, I am supprised you have anyone left to play in there because of your players attitudes. I am a clan leader myself & server admin, & i woulda booted a member with that attitude, what happened to clan proffesionalism??? Why is skill a problem?, i dont have much but if i try to use it against a player they should just take it like a man/woman & play the game. You all need to respect people, & your rules too, practice what you preach etc. This has gotten me frustrated & i dont get frustrated, crobar needs a attitude adjustment, & whatever your opinion of me or what happened you can feel free to email me back to tell me off or whatever but id like some responce
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my reply
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okay first off it is not [FFd]Crobarr... it is simply [FF]Cobarr....

and you were not banned for spawnkilling....

you were banned for your 'tude.....
from the note added to your ban he mentions "rule #1"
of which an english translation is....
"dont argue with an admin"

crobarr might be a noob playing ET..... he was a admin in a half life mod for me for over a year.... and I am aware he can appear abrasive... but that is often a good thing for a game admin... we are here to play a game.... no one is forcing you to play here.... and in no way by hosting a game do I wanna hear anyone whine , cry or insult me and mine.....

soooo if you are interested in becoming UN-banned then read this http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=405
and post a new topic here
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=10
and if you are interested in arguing some more sorry dude I cant help you...
later
lazz
and best wishes either way

The time is up ( well close enought)..
I have removed the 2 bans and both players are reinstated....
best of luck and please lets not do it again.......

[rant] Panzer - The definition

The Panzerfaust is a hand-held, single-shot, shape-charged ANTI-TANK weapon.

[/rant] by:[FFd]Dragg

There are changes in the wind. I have not experenced them personaly But I hear they are coming our way.
Changes you ask?
What kind?
Well...
I expect to add a new admin in the near future. Not the kind you might expect. This will not be a normal admin. This person is sorta abby-normal... You can expect to be surprised... Or even shocked... But either way I expect the ban list to jump drasticly and boring it wont be...

brace yourselves.... changes are coming..

and 50 brownie points to the first person to tell me who it is...... 75 brownie points if you can tell me their most common nic-name in the old forums.

Recently I have been asked to remove 2 bans..... I usually remove the bans after I get the normal "5 Reason Email".. In fact I cant remember when I didnt remove one that complied with the normal set of rules...

So today is very much out of the norm...

Ban number 1 is from someone who just wasnt remorseful. His 'tude just didnt sit right with me. In fact having a 'tude is a problem in it's self.....

Ban number 2 is a first for me... And a second ban for the guy.... We had one other time this happened. And it wasnt pretty.... So being a 2 time offender isnt a good thing....

These 2 bans are different.... So I have decided to treat them differently...

I think it would be best wait a little time before removing them...
So monday morning before I go to work Ill remove them...
Ohh and emailing me will not help your case....
Monday or nothing!

GREAT!!!!! A huge thank you for all of those who came out last night and tried to get Arnold's Endoarm away from the Axis and back to the rightful Ally owners [I think we should check the historical authenticity of this, didn't this take place in the 80's?].

For those of you who haven't already, make sure to hit the general forum and post what you thought of the map.

Hope to see you all out next week [and many more].

I can not stress the importance of PB ... without it the claims of cheating are one of many problems... a noob joins and says the only way you could beat him is by cheating... PB puts a stop to that... the whole community is a better place if there is no question of cheating...

So I feel strongly about the PB program.... as long as I can aford to run it I will...

Now the folks at PB asked if we would help them by testing a beta of the guid age stuff... I said sure...what it does is check the age of a guid... if it is less than 7 days old then you cant play on the server.... well right now most of them are older than 7 but there is a bug they are working on...

I know it sucks to have the server do weird stuff... when testing a beta I will let it run untill we have some data to send ...then I will do what I can to fix the trouble...

please bear with us while collecting data... this is a good thing for gaming.... not only for ET but for gaming everywhere...

Want to see if you know what it takes to become one of the few, the proud, the banned? Brought to you by one of the old school ban artists.

http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/quiz/saved/banned2/

Missie medic submited this one....
http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/quiz/saved/THE%20TEST/ /> hmmm 42% for me....
I need to study that wouldnt be a "C" in the old school....
who is gonna be the next tester?

Okay people. This week we're going to do our best to avoid last weeks travesty. "How"? You may ask. Well, we're going to use a different map.

THIS WEEKS MAP: Password 2 Final

Download Here


here's some more info for you.

Allies Objectives
1. Pri: Spy the Password and input it to start process, then
defend the Emergency Button until process finished.
2. Pri: Steal the Endoarm.
3. Pri: Escape with the Endoarm to the waiting Truck.
4. Sec: Breach the Service Door.
5. Sec: Capture the Flag.

Axis Objectives
1. Pri: Prevent the Allies from spying the Password and input it.
If Password is input, push the Emergency Button to abort
process.
2. Pri: Prevent Allies from stealing the Endoarm.
3. Pri: Stop the Allies from escaping to the waiting Truck.
4. Sec: Defend the Service Door.
5. Sec: Hold the Flag.


Make sure you d/l the map and I hope to see you on Wednesday night.

I feel Valve as a company does some of the greatest games there are. Look at counter strike... and "THAT GAME" both are the peak of playable net games.

I hope you can see a great game driven to lameness not by the coders... but by the greed of the front office...

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11419
They decided not to make a great game.... they decided to make a more bucks from the hardware folks... a typical VALVE exibition of greed..

Oh and.....
And like this helps my opiniion of ati also..... http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=11966#11966

Okay IF and I mean ONLY IF you are really bored...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/quiz/saved/saved/

hmmmm this could be fun IF we had a test master to make a new one once in a while...
Input would be welcome...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=11894#11894

Bust my bubble.... I think I have the stats updating daily at 3:15AM... it takes about 45 minutes... This morning when I checked it was done at 4:10AM....

As always if it isnt working let me know...

enjoy and later

CrazySnowMan{iCs]
"Few days after D-Day, I was still alive. Angry, lone and depserate, all to me was same. After loosing my best friends, who, themselves, had sacrificed their lives to protect myself, I had developped a self-disgust. Self-disgust, not only because of that, but also because I had brought my friends to the hell that was war. I can't describe what I'm feeling right now, I, bathing in a pool of blood, amist a rain of bullet, and deafeanned by the constant bombing. So much has changed since war started... so much I wish didn't happen. The good and the bad times.... maybe one day I'll be able to tell my son that I was hero. But I wasn't one. I had made foolish mistakes, I had gone the wrong path and I have betrayed my country. I was captured few weeks earlier, by axis soldiers, but I had plead that they wouldn't kill me. I had jo-ined the axis rank, slowly slaying comrades I once knew. I was a monster, inhuman and maybe even too much human in the same way. Soon, I will embrace the consequence of my mistakes, while I set down one last charge, my whole base will go DOWN with me.

Down.

I went down."

I have faced defeat and, with a sad face, I leave.

I cannot play ET anymore....
Life is too great to be ignored....
ET is so small....
I don't think I can make space for it....

I am requesting a removal from {iCs} because I can't be active enough... The thought of hindering {iCs}, making people lose their time wondering if one day I would return, could be, but not any early. One day I'll come back visit the little place with big people known as the Funny Farm...

Greetz,

crazysnowman


This is From All The Funny Farm

We Will Miss YA..

Deckoh Out

There will be a server restart this afternoon, for the settings to be restored to The Funny Farm Defaults.. Thanks Guys

yeah there is a new patch out...
and yes it is installed....
get your copy @ http://rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=14380
good evening folks and enjoy

Due to the increasing popularity of the Wednesday tradition of New Map Night, we now have a coordinator for the NMN.......ME!

So, this week we are getting everything going and by next Wednesday, the 17th, everything should be moving along at a good pace.

THIS WEEK: MML_CHURCH

The Axis are trying to steal something from the Allies, stop or help them. A nice Capture the Gold situation.

NEXT WEEK: Password 2

Guests can be rude...
hmmmm recently the guests posting have been less than pleasent. I could require everyone to register and or be confirmed. Have we grown to the point we need to worry about a few rude folks messing it up for all of the regulars? Or can we tolerate some un-nice posts?

as always your comments are welcome... http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=11301#11301

NMNs are in need of fixing...
there is a need for someone to take over the NMN stuff. Someone to setup the maps the cfgs. and the campaigns... I do not have time presently......
do I hear the sound of a volunteer? it is gonna have to be someone with some server knowledge...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1149

It has been brought to my attention the stats were not updated.....Okay so ye caught me... I ran the wrong script...they are updated now....
enjoy......

We have a new HOW-To by none other than our very own [FFr]Slayer.....
He takes us on a quick tutorial of ET screenshots and gimp...
http://thefunnyfarm.net/info/hoss.php
Enjoy and learn.....

Yesterday was the stats update day....
Even though I didn't mention it... they got the update program run... If I wasnt lazy I would automate the script....

I want to thank everyone who is posting in the forums....I know we have a major lack of content for the web site... but the forums sure are going strong... thanks.....

While I'm saying thanks.... let me once again thanks those posting in the word association topic...
This isnt a world shaking topic... but it does generate some thought in me.... I look at the most recent post and think what does that word mean to me... sometimes a book I have read comes to mind.. often some obscure little bit of trivia comes to mind.... either way it joggles my thinking process..
thanks.....

Is it safe yet?
hehehehe
the guest posts of recent have been little out of hand. I hope it is over. This is a shame to have a confrontation like that over a simple game. I guess some take it much more seriously then I do. I had hoped to have a ton new stuff to bring everyone up to date on.... but honestly I dont... I changed jobs in hope of going back to normalized hours.... but the new company decided to do the same thing as the old one :(.... So I have been working weird hours and with being tired as a side product...... heck I havent even been working on halloween stuff... Im tired...

so this is my Im tired and LOOKING for news posters....
is anyone interested in posting news to our little community web page? let me know.......

and yet another one bites the dust... I find it a shame things end like this...

Today we lost 2 regulars to the server.....
One clan member and one interesting player... The trouble with folks ya know I just keep thinking maybe I made a mistake... maybe they didnt do anything wrong... Then when I am slaped in the face with a lie I know I was too nice... It really sucks when you finaly understand they are not making a simple mistake... I try to be a nice person... But it doesnt always work out...

So here and now I'll define why this server is running...
I extend my resources to operate this server for one purpose.... So I can enjoy a game... I dislike the so called normal manners in most public servers...I demand more civil actions to one another...If I wanted to heard crude language I could go to the cornor elementary school ... if I wanted to witness shocking actions I could go to the high school also on the cornor...
I demand a higher level of morals... So I operate a server for my family and friends...

should someone feel they dont have to abide by my standards fine... go somewhere else... no one is forcing you to play here...and I will not tolerate substandard actions on hardware I pay for...

stats stats......
they were magicly updated in the early morning hours...
enjoy....

well, activision buckled:

The recent reaction to the upcoming Call of Duty demo has caught us here at Activision by surprise. We're appreciative and excited about the high level of enthusiasm the game has received throughout the gaming community. Due to the tremendous demand for the demo – we are answering the call by not only making the demo freely available to all gamers at the same time, but early – This Friday Night - just in time for the long weekend.

Gamespy has been a great partner - working with us so that we can make our fans happy and give them a taste of a game they're clearly excited about. The demo will be available across the net on fan and gaming coverage sites, including GameSpy's FilePlanet.

We think you'll love Call of Duty, and we can't wait for you to play the demo. Look for it Friday night!



way to go!

Finaly a joint uprising against the evil file place....
http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=43882 I am so happy Im not alone in this....If fileplanet is the only place to get it... I dont get it...
this is cool......

A big one.....
Flughafen. it is a large download... so start soon......
here is a link to rtcwfiles http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=18054 ...
enjoy the server......

I got a notice from them this morning.... they mention a community ban... if you dork with PB they will not just ban you from the server you got caught on... they will ban you from all pb enabled servers... This is a good thing....

Also they mention the evil brother scenario......
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Sunday 8.24.2003 [2:00PM]


As a friendly notice to the AA community, this news post is made about the topic of permanent PB bans. As with other games that are supported by PB, if a player is caught by PB with a hack or cheat that directly modifies PB or interferes with any PB function (including the ability to take accurate screenshots), that player's PB GUID will be immediately subject to permanent ban from ALL PB enabled servers without recourse. It is in direct violation of PunkBuster's license agreement to attempt to use PunkBuster software in a manner not consistent with PunkBuster's design and purpose. This is an issue we take very seriously and for which we do not give extra chances. If you are an honest player or admin, DO NOT attempt to test cheats that interfere with PB on public PB enabled servers. Regardless of what the punks say on their various websites, none of their hacks are undetectable by PunkBuster. If you are caught with one of the hacks that interferes with PB and your GUID is permanently banned from all PB Servers, we will not remove your GUID from the ban list even if you were "testing" or even if another member of your family got caught when using your computer. You will still be able to play the game on and/or host servers that have PunkBuster disabled. This policy has been in effect since January of this year. However, we are extending a grace period to the AA community through Wednesday, August 27th. After that point, all violations on PB servers related to tampering with PB's normal functionality will subject the PB GUID in question to permanent ban from all PB Servers without recourse.


Please visit our site at http://www.evenbalance.com for more information.


Regards,
Even Balance, Inc.

errrr the stats program said it updated this morning......but I didnt look before so I dont know if it did..How about a little help.. did it do the deed? or not?
http://thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=8785#8785

msn is on it's way out... If the threat becomes real I will no longer be using msn...So anyone for jabber?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/19/HNmsnlockdown_1.html

I see recently several new members of clans and forums. Im guessing it is a good time to re-state my possition on a couple of issues.

My family can see the server console. And several members of my family view and post in the forums. Lets imagine my mother looking at the server console and asking me a question....

a question like...

"Why on earth do you let a person named @^$#&^%$ play on your server? Dont you find it insulting?"

OR she might ask...

"What does STFU mean?"

Lets imagine a visitor in this room seeing the server console and asking..

"What is with all the cussing? Are other game servers crude enviroments too?"

How about the daughters.... I remember one really nifty question they asked..

"Did AOL close their chatrooms?... It seems like they did and all the kiddies came to the server to talk trash"

Then someone important like my wife...She askes the hardest questions...Questions like...

"Why do you pay SO much money a month to allow snot nosed little boys to be so crude in public?"
OR
"Do you honestly enjoy it when people around you act like that?"

These are only a few of the comments my family and friends have made... From these comments I have developed a set of rules of conduct... it is a simple set of rules...
and here it is....

The "MOMMIE RULE"
If you would stop what you are doing should your mom enter the room.... then dont think of doing it here.

The "INSULT RULE"
I will allow no one to be insulting to me or mine on anything I pay for... for instance the game server, the web site ,the fourms.

The "BE COOL OR BE HISTORY RULE"
This is the catch all rule... IT has a couple of parts ready?
part 1
DO not piss off me or any admin...
part 2
should you have any trouble not covered previously then see part 1...

Those are the rules we will try to operate with... vague you say... dang right I say... The objective isnt to offer loop holes but to set simple guide lines..


I in no way want to preach morals to any one... I just want to play a game enjoy my self and not be insulted or insult anyone. I do not provide these resources for any reason other than I wanna play a simple game in a less then offensive enviroment. This is not a day care . We are here to play not to teach anything ! Should you want to learn from our examples.. Then good luck finding any consistancy we are a weird bunch...

Oh and one more thing....
Should the server be empty and no one playing on it... that is fine too...popularity isnt important to me... All I really care about is if I, my family and friends enjoy the server...So the "evil brother" excuss is just that an excuss and not one I havent heard MANY MANY times before....
So if you should run into trouble with the rules of conduct there is a method to appeal the out come of a brush with a power happy admin (like me)......

This is the way it is done....THE ONLY WAY....
First-I see a post in the appeals section mentioning your playing name, and your desire to make amends.
Second-I get an email ( lazz@thefunnyfarm.net ) mentioning your playing name and 5(five) reasons your presense on my server will add to MY playing pleasure.

thats all ... you jump thru the hoops and all will be forgiven...

The Pharoh has personal issue to attend to. This is not goodbye but a "see you soon"

In our lives we have to at times place things we value to the side in order to straighten out things we NEED to handle. My life is complex as are everyones. I have made mistakes in my life, through these mistakes i have grown a bit. I have put things off far too long and regret these choices. Im an adult and i have to face the reaper. PROCRASTINATION is an evil thing, deny it. Live you life to the fullest and embrace change. I may play ET from time to time but my personal life is in shambles and in order to fix it i have to place all my energy into repairing it. I like to think im not a bad person, and in time ill be happy with my life again. In other words, life is too precious and valuble to waste, live each day as it was your last dayFor not this is "So long"

Im FunnyFarm for life, this server and most of all the people have made my gaming and internet experience great in the short time i have known you guys. I will return. Email me if you wanna chat, or if by chance im on MSN drop me a line.

Email: iheretic@nycap.rr.com
MSN osirinra@hotmail.com

With this i leave with my favorite quote:
"Every Breath leaves me on less to my last" --Dream Theater 'Pull me under' off 'Images and Words'

Spawnkilling or spawncamping is more than just camping a spawn point and killing players as they spawn. There is more to it than a simple answer. It embodies several complex ideas. The greatest of which is the concept of fair play.

Defining the term isnt easy. I would guess attitude is a part of it. If a player is using a hack or cheat we all comdemn him for being lazy and evil. But if a player uses a flaw in the game to kill other players at spawnpoints the majority of players consider it a matter for arguement. I personaly dont see the arguement. From my point of view the 2 are real close to the same.

We are playing a game. ET is only a game. We play for some enjoyment. For some the point is to be the best. For others (like my self) the point of playing is to slip away from reality for a short period into a world where it is okay to shoot lamers and llamas. We play to have fun. Each of us defines fun in a different manner. But none the less we want to enjoy ourselves.

I can accept there are others in the world who have skills better than mine at games. That is a given. They whoop my butt all the time. And it is the way things are. So I dont mine losing , hey it happens and makes when I am winning all the sweeter. But.......
I do mind losing to someone who cheats. I play with what little skill I have earned over the years. I do not enjoy losing to someone who exploits the game just for a high score. To me this isnt about a score for me it is about having fun.

/side-note
Im rambling and I know it....
/end side-note

Once I updated the stats I looked and sure enough we had players on the server....
folks with names like
[FFr]ASSASSIN
[FF]asskicker

needless to say they belong on the ban list...Which brings me to a question...

Are imposters becoming an issue? Do we need to take steps against them? Or was I just lucky and got to add to my ban quota?

We have just zoomed past 1/4 of a million connections....
And the stats have been updated....

well, ATI is doing the new Xbox. the geforce FX was too little(except for the monster cooling fan), too late. did Nvidia pick up the Voodoo curse?

WEll do to my time constraints I wasnt able to get on until around 2 this morning.. there was about 8 people on and I changed maps to rhine.. I kinda like the map, then DRagg, and atro joined and it made for some nice teamwork.. other than that. goodnight.

The stage is set...
The map installed.....
We are just waiting for the apointed time..
who will join us?
Will we have fun?
Will there be news in the morning....

Check in tommorow at the correct "bat time"
On this same "bat channel"

The events held wensday and thursday are too late for little old me. I get up at 2:30 am these days.. Why is this interesting enought to post news about you ask ? It isnt Im asking for news.

lets hear about the map stuff...
lets hear who did what at the pmcm...
lets hear guys....

Now is the time to clean up the forum act. Ya might not know this but I have to pay for the bandwidth and server time that makes up the forums. So here are the ground rules spelled out for everyone...

1) This is a gaming related site. I want to see post about games.
2) Things that offend me will lead to the banning of the author.
3) Be cool or Be history.

The line has been drawn... cross it and there will be NO more warnings you will be history !

If you are able to write a winamp plugin...
I need your help......
if you have the time and ability I could sure use it.....

lazz@thefunnyfarm.net

Woohoo the stats have been reset.....
I hope this fixes the name trouble of the past....
and this is only since august 3rd.....
also 21404 connections... woohoo

I dont like bans... In fact I hate the idea... but when you play on a public game server there is a large crowd of folks with no idea of fair play...

Often I think these folks had no mommie to tell them right from wrong... But I have stressed before and will say again... this game server is NOT here to teach my misguided morals... it is here to play on...

and I am a fan of fair play so we have a loose set rules we use.... the bigest and baddest of which is.. "Be cool or be history" (my version of the golden rule)

In the event of a ban.... we can usually work it out... I ask for an email...( mostly to keep track of who and what) I get the email and the ban is lifted... Im sorry if Im not here 24/7... But I do usually fix stuff as soon as I know what is going on...
BEFORE anyone gets the idea I just over rule the admins decissions.... you might ask what does the email include...
I require 5 reasons the baned person will add to MY playing pleasure on the server...

cant we all just get along?
I also dont lift all of the bans.... some I feel will be best for the community if they stay.

The new server seems to be doing well...
we have had 6933 connections in the last 24 hours.....and played 264 rounds....

with what looks like 1 crash.... :(

not too bad I dont think....

enjoy the server folks...
and later

Has anyone recently looked at the way we play on tFF server?
We play a game that involves killing... and destruction... 2 very major components of chaos... yet we apply rules and restrictions to the way we kill...... Is that weird or what?

I am not suggestiong a change... I am only pointing out how difficult it could be for a NOOB ...

Okay the server went down for about an hour this morning. So I could switch out a NIC and give the new server the old one with the IP bound to it :)

So I think I got everything back up and running....But as always I could have forgoten something...
If somethin is missing or broken let me know...

Oh we are back on the old antique UPS now..... hehehe the one I cant lift when it is full of them NEW batteries.....
woohoo one million watts of batter power ...... ( hehehe almost)

Errrr I found out why so many folks send email to an old address.... I didnt know it was in my forum profile.. Well I fixed that...
my email is
lazz@thefunnyfarm.net
sooo dragg.... I found you sent something last week... I wasnt ignoring ya
I didnt know you had sent it ..... sorry
look 7th from the bottom.........

This is one nice morning.....
the majority of the mysql data bases have been moved... and seem to work...
I managed to update the stats.....
and things are just working....the difficult tasks I have been putting off are being nice today...

So I decided to spend a little time on the DAMN control circuit that has been whoopin on me the last 2 months.....and can you guess what?
Oh yeah baby... I got it... it was a stupid cap... I guess I killed it some how .... but after replacing it just like magic the whole thing came to life...I now have to built 7 more output boxes.... but I got the thing working and life is good....
woohoo

boy ohhh boy....
several records are being broken....
there are now 133 users in the forums...
the forums have now passed the 10 user barrier...
off topic's word association broke 1000 posts...
we busted the 200,000 player connection record...
there have been over 16000 different players connect to the server...
and we now have played 8654 rounds...

Sooooo if you are keeping score.... there are the numbers ......

But now isnt one of those times....
the forums have MOVED......
everyone on earth should see a major speed increase.....

BUT as usual I may have dorked it up.....
if so please let me know so I can try to fix it.....

hmmmmm
I think the stats were updated this morning...

heheh I know I killed the forums .... but I kinda think the stats survived.....
the forums might be down for the next hour or 2....
presently Im waiting for the backup to finish restoring.....and have been waiting for almost an hour...
the process might not be working... hehehehe
ya think?

Join IRC people! here is a link to help you! IRC FAQ

Also im working on the webpage for the [FFr] clan i have a test URL up and it is JUST THAT a test url dont expect much! [FFr]

well me and kane are going... who else is up for it???

http://www.quakecon.org/ />
comments http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=6086#6086

Shrub Mod has been patched today. WE all know what Shrub is about now dont we? :p

The patch adds the ever so famous 'Goomba's' where it let's you do dmg when you jump on someones head. Jumping on an allies head breaks your fall.

Goombas are great Just ask SuperMario

New map night Wednesday at 9 pm cst.. Well since no one sent me a map or they arent finished yet.. it will be Rhine BRidge..


Hope to see everyone there..

SnAkE

I feel with the recent lack of comunication with our present referees we need to make some changes.....

Somewhere along the line someone came up with the wrong impression the FF game server is for experenced only players. Let me say this plain and simple...
The funnyfarm is for experienced and NOOBS... In the event you have any trouble with that announcement leave the site.. and dont return ... If I need to help you leave it will not be pleasant!!!

The begining of the changes was a new ref password.... as of 10 minutes ago it changed ...if you aint got it.... dont bother askin..

Also the ref forum is now locked untill I decide what to do...

I personaly like the idea of refs... non-admins or limited power admins... but I see it didnt work the way we implemented it. So in the very near future tehre will be a new method and new set of referees...
untill things get rolling... sorry guys... we lost the sight of the direction we need to travel... this short layover will put us back on track.. ( I hope)

Ohhh and let me make this as clear as possible....
Dont ask to be a ref... that is what got us in the bind we are now in !

Bob Hope died Sunday. Rest In Peace.

Ok guys and girls, we are ggoing to try something new starting wednesday nights @ 10 pm... IT will be New Map Night Wednesday... What we want to do is find a cool new map, if no one finds one, then we will play rhine for a few hours starting at 10 PM cst.. Or if Bill, Osirin, and Fa, finish there maps, we could test em out.. Soo here is the link to the forum post..



http://www.thefunnyfarm.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5305#5305

Ok guys Im back.. Remmeber PMCM tommorow, @ 10pm CST... I think well do whomever shows up out of all the clans on one team, against whoever connects.. Its going to be fun, when we get enough to have clan Vs. clan..

Later


SnAkE

beep beep beep beep.......
there is a ups behind the rack making the most annoying noise.....I'm guessing it is trying to tell me something...
im not sure which system it powers ... so the web site might die... or the game server.... of the file server... who knows....

I do know I dont wanna shutdown anything now... I have had a LONG day and am very tired.....
so forgive me if it dies in the night... Ill fix it tommorrow afternoon.....

I started the medic guild ,MD a few days ago sparking the "guild" idea in ET.
the rules are simple and located on the main MD page. Funnyfarm also has a link up in our "links" section.

Main Site: MD
Forum: MD, The Medic Guild

Since im an IRC addict (along with many other things!) i made a channel on irc.gamesnet.net channel #funnyfarm
get mIRC here: mIRC

set it up and type /server irc.gamesnet.net
then: /join #funnyfarm

register your name with /authserv NAME PASSWORD EMAIL

follow instructions

Yes I too feel the guild idea is a good one.....
A very good one... sooo folks go decide who is who in the world of guilds...
If there is a need we have some web resources left...

Oh I expect a HOW-to from the masters.....with a complete discription of the idea....

guild good...
(napster bad... from the camp choas cartoon) make me laff just thinkin about it..

Did anyone hear that? What could that sound have been?
Was it the noise made by like minds joining forces?
Could it have been the rustle of a new banner raising overhead?
Are we to witness the birth of something young and fearless?

Can this be the moment a clan is formed?
a new clan... a clan of dragoons?
maybe [FFd]....

listen... listen to the wind....
could it be?

Folks it has come to my attention we HAD a couple of renagade referees... I stress the keyword HAD..
that has come to pass...
I have heard rumors of other referee issues....
PLEASE feel free to drop me an email on this or any subject... I assure everyone the majority of the ref's are doing a great job... but we are having trouble with a select few...a very select few... (a number that shrinks each and everyday )....

so please folks take a minute and let me know about stuff before it becomes an issue...
as always your input is welcome and wanted...

well
we have moved to a new mysql host for the stats....
I am hoping they will load a little faster.......
let me know if they dont.....
Ohhh it looks like it is gonna take a couple more hours before the process is done.... so be patient

Soo we are going to add 2 new maps to the server.. They just became available.. maybe Kane would want to put them on his website.. To download.. Either way go get em.. They are called Trainyard, and Rhine Bridge..

Trainyard

http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=16358 />
Rhine Bridge

http://www.rtcwfiles.com/file.info?ID=16437 />

Peace..

WEll this thursday we are going to make a change for the pmcm so everyone can make it.. seemed like 10 pm cst was better for people, This time [FFr] will be on the allies side.. Well guys I wont be able to make it to this one.. I am going to Idaho to visit lazz's maker.. my grandmother... and they have dialup.. DOH..oh well.. I wont be around for a few days, I leave early Thursday morning.. So goodluck with the match..

PMCM THURSDAY 10PM CST
11PM EST
9PM MST
8PM PST

SnAkE

well... i've got a few nuggets

1.) Gearbox is doing the PC Halo?!?! i didnt know. the big dog of microsoft's X-box platform is still making its way to the PC... but with help from gearbox? wierd. fear the MS/sierra combo.

2.) Trent Reznor is no longer a part of doom 3.. he did the tunes for the original quake... good stuff. but it appears he's now out for the highlty anticipated D3.... wha? a shame. i'll miss the ambiance (sp.).

3.) AA:O is comming ever closer to its latet release... mmmmm ... combat medic..... no word on inclusion of green goo however :)

I am of the opinion a forum is only credible if it is un-edited.....What Im saying is... I do not wanna edit a forum.... When moderators edit the opposing view disappear. So even when Im wrong Ill leave a statement...

That being said
No this isnt about someone editing a forum... this is about me saying something I should have.... I was wrong !!

sorry guy....

IM working on a map. It will be terrible... ;D

It also seems we have a fer mappers in our Midst. A Funnyfarm Campaign anyone? One can only hope.!
I also made a little tutorial on how to get maps/command maps working in ET, and how to generate TRACEMAPS, for use with Commandmaps.

MyTUTORIAL HERE

yeah I did it this morning.....
and.......
in the last 8 days we had another 24 thousand connections....

the mysql issue is solved..
Im guessin the site was down about 2 hours..

I think i got it all going.. but if not let me know..

The Map editor is out!
get it here:
FILEPLANET

Get to work all you mappers out there! I hope to see a rush of great player created maps within the next few weeks! Maybe even some nice campaigns!

The ET Map editor should be released some time today. I cant wait to see what all the mappers do with it! I know i shall be attempting to toss together maps myself :)

The PMCM went well yesterday teamplay was solid, though it could always be better. BEsides small connection problems i think everythign went rather smoothly. Our opponets put up a great fight. First round on Oasis i thought we were done for with an early destruction of the north Anti-Tank gun. We quickly picked up the pieces and held the map the remainder of the match. Crusifix played exceptionally well on the other team, and stood out most in my eyes. Most of my deaths were by his hands, and his point blank aim.

We got many inquiry's on joining the clan during the match. A few of which were very good players on the opposing team!

I hope we see many more matches like this one!

Sometime in the next 20 or so hours this web site will be broken.....
the long and short of it are the host is moving servers and I will need to fix the mysql databases once things move...
Sooooo tomorrow afternoon expect "broken-ness"

Ill fix it as soon as I get a chance...
Ohhh and things should be faster too.....
later

Quick reminder the PMCM is tonight at 7pm CST. [FFr] vs All. Hope to see you all there :) It shall be a fun Match i assure you. Chaos will ensue, many deaths will on our hands and those of our attackers.

This old medic needs a nap.

The Pharoh out

Greetings im Osirin Ra Medic extraoridnaire, here to bring you wonderful news tidbits and hopefully useful information.

While browsing my normal RTCW related sites i came across a Config Builder for Enemy territory.
Its definatly worth a look. Find it Here

And a reminder for those who do not fully understand the server rules. Spawncamping while making you look like your skillful with multiple kills with a single toss of a airstrike, or a swift backstab is not well accepted here. Nor is swearing, please respect the rules!

The Pharoh out

New referee password.. its in the referee forum

There's a new utility out for ET. Its a quick team/class selector. check it out. http://cowboyscripts.org/?page=superselector

There's a demo out now for Tron 2.0, featuring light cycles and a disc game. Its odd, but if you ever saw the movie, its worth a look. check out http://www.bluesnews.com for links.

Ok guys now that we have enough FFr... We will be doing a PMCM only with [FFr] including recruits.. against the people that join the server.. again same time same place ... THis thursday (7pm CST) I really hope that all [FFr], and [ffr] will be there..

Im lookin for 1 or 2 folks to post news.... Im gonna be busy for a while and I wanna see news posted a couple times a day...
If you think ya might be interested drop me a line....
the address is in the news header..

Okay over the weekend the web server hasnt been available... Why you might ask? Well I made an assumption. I was under the impression if I changed the contact info for the dns nothing else would change. Wrong !!!!! the dang name servers blanked out.
Sooo what does that mean to you? It means your computers couldnt resolve the ip for thefunnyfarm.net...
Now that the name servers have been in the dns record for 24 hours the new name servers are in place.... and we shouldnt have to change it again for several years...

Poor
Man's
Clan
Match
In the past the PMCM's were a different animal....presently we are growning and dont really have enough of any one clan to host a PMCM...so we are doing a server wide all of our clans against whoever shows up.... these are fun... but not quite the same flavor of a old time PMCM... :)

When we hosted "that game" there were 5 hosted clans... and alots of inter clan rivalery... one clan... not the strongest decided they needed more experince so they held an open practice...where they would all be one one team and take on the world or whoever showedup... that is what became a PMCM.....

well needless to say the folks who showedup were those who had a grudge to settle :).... hehehe
in all of the PMCM's held I dont think the defending team won once.... we played an hour on the map of the defenders choice.... As I recall if the defenders held the others to a 2 to 1 ratio it was considered a success....

I cant wait to settle some grudges....... :) yeah brat I got some secret weapons for you.....
hehehe

having said that there isnt much news to follow....
we broke the one hundred thousand mark .... woohoo
soooo the server popularity is growing....
will we break a million before the summer cools down ?.....( sometime around halloween for me)

Sooo... My first PMCM I could make it to with the new game..

ALot of fun.. I seen some great team work.. We played Allies again, It seems as though our competition got alot better, the maps took a little bit longer to conquer. We even lost one, because of the use of some awesome defense put on by the Axis in goldrush, A few of the stars were Target Aquired, and Havoc, They gave us a great challenge, and made it alot of fun for everyone... Among the others were Ted Roddy which was a regular benedict arnold for his own team, He let us have his clothes to win the beach map, then talked about it after words.. It was quite funny..
Other than that we didnt have near the turnout like weve had in the past (that being not all the FFr, FF, and iCs showed up)...I think the main reason why we had a small turnout was because of it being fourth of July Weekend... But I think everyone had a good time.. Soo a big thanks to all who showed up, and Im sorry if I forgot some of the names, but thanks...

Oh Yea.. Hopefully lazz will have the stats updated this weekend for ya guys..:P

Have a great 4th of July Weekend...mmmmm Fire!!!!

SnAkEintheGraSs

Ok Ok.. Tonight same time same place... I forgot to mention it earlier in the week.. But There is a PMCM tonight at 7PM CST... Be there or be square...


SnAkEintheGraSs

So... i've been working on the ref stuff and now its working good enough for the ppl
invited to use it.. i have set up a forum and if you can see it..Well your a Referee
So have fun.. :)

Looks like deckoh's hard work is going to pay off soon......And then we will have referees.....Woohoo......Since he put all the efford into the task ... I have apointed him head of the refs.......See what hard work will get ya.....( more ). heheheheh

The complete details are still being worked out...so watch for more news......

Ohhh there is one detail that is set in stone... and not gonna change......
referees on thefunnyfarm servers it an INVITE ONLY possition.... asking to be one is a bad idea !

So much for my evil laff.....
The mad scientist is at it again.....

This is what I have been workin on the last week.....
http://discolitez.com/images/deluxe32.gif /> ya know as I look at the circuit again I ask my self what is taking so long..... then I think about the 100 plus solder joints between the lpt port and the 74374's....
not to mention the reason Im takin a break... the 64 wires and 128 solder joints from the IC's to the connectors......

Im thinkin of plugin it in for a test run..... SOOOOO If it blows up and kills this computer I might not be on for a while.....hehehehe
the excitement of not knowing .....
wish me luck ... I'm goin in

This morning I got a bug to update some stuff and look around.....
checking the total play connections I see we are comin up on 100,000.....
not bad..... Im guessin by the 4th we'll be there.......

OHHHHHH yeah
hehehe
if yer into stuff like stats you might wanna look here..
http://thefunnyfarm.net/stats/index.php

yeah in the screen shot section we got some new ones....check em out.....

the new patch is installed....
and I think I got most of the old configs reinstalled
the key phrase is.... "I think"

at the tone the time will be nearly 3:00 am.........and what you ask is special about 3:00 am?
well for one thing.... I see a lil' orange light flashin like all get out.. hmmm that means bandwidth is a burnin....
golly gee
there are 16 folks on the server....... woohoo
sooo I was wondering how many folks have connected.......and I see after a simple grep 43576...
not bad...
so guys we are on the right track.....
the new map rotation and the warmup.....
these are the things that build popularity....we need to keep on top of what is fun...and try to stay one step ahead...... hehehehe

Soo the last one was awesome.. so this one should be great also.. I dont think I will be able to make it to this one.. Gotta take the GF out for her Birthday so, Doh... oh well.. As always enjoy.. Kick butt guys!!!!!!

SnAkE

http://www.theclq.com/

woohoo Mr Cyco has taken the time out of his busy life to write a nifty lil how-to for RW.

lookie lookie here
and once you get it going you might wanna check out the RW page just off the search page

Dang if ya missed it you missed out......
this early evening we did a PMCM....while it wasnt the biggest I have ever been to it was a nice event......the local clans joined allies and promptly whooped on the visitors....I do believe we did the complete african campain in around 10 minutes.... W00H00

After the quick event we switched to axis and ground out the next 1 1/2 hours...the poor allied visitors didnt have a chance.... on the old city we just plain whooped them...... on the beach we gave them the west bunker.....heheheh yeah....... they were not gettin off the beach other wise....and last on goldrush we gave them the tank.... we talked it over the first 5 minutes of the map and decided to give them the tank....hehehehe they never made it to the courtyard.....

all in all I think all the clan folks had a good time....as we played the axis I noticed several visitors continued playing hard after it was a lost cause....they are a good bunch of people....I feel lucky that nice people like that allow me to spend time with them.....thanks guys and gals!

on a different note....... FCbill is spreading rumors of a new axis rank higher than major.... go bill go......
and for the record my opinion of a pmcm is..... the defending clan will need to play allies.....that is where the challenge will be....AND I remembered why I never got to play in the past... I was enforcing the teams....dang I forgot how much work it was...

and in my closing remark....
thanks I had fun....lets do it again......

ohhhhhh and where are the screen shots we so desperately need?

we have a new admin doc for ya all to look at........the majority of players will not wanna know the details behind the scenes........but if yer curious have a look at the info page......

and the LONG awaited [FFr] rules and regs are now for all to see on the clan page......

Okay guys....
third case from the bottom in the rack is the new game server..... woohoo
it has a gig of rambus and an ultra scsi 3. all hooked up to a P4 1.6.....
yeah yeah yeah the processor isnt the fastest or newest....but being dedicated to serving one game that makes it pretty good......

okay you ask when did the change take place?.... hmmm it didnt yet.... I have several things to do first....
item number 1-- I need a scsi twisted pair cable...
item number 2-- I need to compile a new kernel..... but they changed the way it is done... cause the tried and true method didnt work...... reading time for me.....
item number 3-- I wanna let it run for a while underload to see if there is a heat or other trouble...
item number 4-- I need to have the network farie stop over for a while.....here in house my network has outgrown it's present setup.... I have a nifty new 24 port switch to fix stuff..... but dang that would mean I will have to take time to do this....... :(
item number 5-- Mommie has some plans for me .... I gotta do some stuff around the house in the near future....
item number 6-- The dang truck needs some work....:( well I found a cool tool box and I wanna install it.....but like everything else it sounds easy and will only take a month of workin on it in the evenings to do.....
item number 7-- those evil bosses of mine..... they require me to do stuff.... I have to produce results...how evil :(.... which means I gotts to go to work......( whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sniff sniff)

the point in posting this wasnt to whine... ( well not too much) but to let you guys know im not ignoring ya... I have a ton of junk to do...so if Im not fast in answering it is prob cause Im asleep :)......

Always nice to see PB expanding, it’s a great product!

Taken from an Even Balance News letter.

"Monday June 16th, 2003

Ubi Soft Entertainment, Inc. has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate our PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into the online game known as Rainbow Six™ 3: Raven Shield™. We will soon be opening a section on our website to support PunkBuster™ for Raven Shield™."

visit http://www.evenbalance.com for more information

Ok boys and girls, we are going to attempt to have another PMCM, Thursday night, at 7pm... Hopefully, it will go smoother this time.. So be there or be square...


June 19th, 7pm CST..
PMCM

So here we go folks........ tommorrow evening we are gonnna hold the first ET PMCM.....
so you ask your self what exactly is a PMCM? It is a Poor Man's Clan Match...

Dont ya hate it when you try to get a clan match setup....and the other team isnt up to snuff... they dont bring enough players. or some other silly thing that can spoil the evening......
So in a PMCM ya only have to worry about your clan.... cause we supply all the enemys.... heheheh

You get to pick the map..... and the team.... no spawn camping... end of rules...
this is not formal... this is more of a free for all with one clan being the home team.....
anyone who shows will be your enemy....

now that we need a INFO or HOWto for a PMCM.... I wonder whos turn it is to write something nice...
huh hayek ?

from AP newswire:

ALBANY, N.Y. - A proposal to tax junk food, video games and television commercials to pay for an obesity prevention program faces stiff opposition from lawmakers and business groups.
Chances of the proposal passing before lawmakers go home for the summer on June 19 looked slim after a spokesman for Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said he would not support the tax.
The 1 percent tax hike proposed by Assemblyman Felix Ortiz would apply to junk food, video games and television commercials, which Ortiz blames on New York's growing obesity problem. Ortiz, a Democrat, did not rule out proposing tax increases on other things that he believes contribute to obesity.
Ortiz said the proposed tax would raise at least $1 million to jump-start the obesity prevention program aimed at developing health promotion campaigns, establishing nutrition and physical activity programs in schools and others.
Business groups oppose the proposal, arguing New Yorkers already face high taxes. The Legislature recently increased the state sales tax and income tax to help the state's fiscal crisis.

ET's First Poor Mans CLan Match.. COme one come all, We Will try and get all {iCs}, [FFr] and [FF] on the same team, this will help promote our clans, and website, I want to see everyone there, hopefully everyone can make it.. Let me know if you cant make it guys.. SO REMEMBER 6PM CEntral Standard Time... SO lets whip some butt..


PMCM FRIDAY 6PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME >>>>>>>>>JUne 13th<<<<<<<<<<

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thanks Citizen Kane

the local file server and mysql server... and tv player and print server and thousands of other things server is showin it's age.....

im gonna have to break down and buy sunmthin :(

but for now it is workin... woohoo

Ok boys and girls, we are getting very popular, lazz has increased the max people on the server to 28 with 4 reserved slots.. Soo, clan stuff, we have decided to form a new clan [FFr], {iCs} can still