imsiminator, fix appearance, facelift.
may be other easier and simpler  ways to do it now, but that one still works for me.
then again, who needs eyebrows?

none of which really matters that much in nano.  except maybe the part about stapling the pages together, something to think about while waiting to register.  50,000 words that more or less make sense and at least point toward the telling of a story, or a sincere intention to do so.  critical approval and publishing are only concerns if you choose to make them such.

if i have some sort of effective looking outline by november 1, i'll probably attempt it. 

note that the major "news" source cited is the washington times.  that newspaper is owned by and operates in accordance with the philosophy of the reverend sun myung moon, who claims to be more awesome than pescado claims to be.  well, actually, moon claims to be the messiah, and to have saved the souls of hitler and stalin, so i guess that would trump even some pretty good programming skills.

i could quote the whole thing but that's a lotta space, eh?  nice post.

simshost said something a few days ago about the flawed software in human brains.  we do need to debug the software, and a good beginning would be refining the definitions.

work is not an ethic, work is a basic human need.  everybody works, but some people work at draining the system, instead of building it.  not all the drainers are on the bottom.  i'd try to flesh that out better but i have to get rested now so i can rise early and go fight my personal, indirect, battle against some of the drainers.
oh, and work is supposed to be fun.  it's a perception thing.

and what judecat just said.

and thanks zz for answering the query about global warning denial. 
state of emergency declaration by gov blanco was august 26.  request from governor for federal  state of emergency was august 28.  even without that request, federal intervention was pretty much a mandate immediate post-event, per the national response plan of december 2004.  anyone cares can find it on the dept of  homeland ssecurity site at dhs.gov. 
beyond that, and the negligence on levee maintenance (and other corps of engineers responsibilities, nationwide), the flooding probability should have had a specific response plan.  not the same as but similar to the plan for responding to a terrorist attack on the levees.  oh, right. we don't have one of those either.   maybe if we had competent leadership in the department?   above the department?

i don't really give a squat about blame.  doesn't matter whose fault it is. this nations' federal government has been turned over to people who will not accept the responsibility of doing what the federal government is supposed to do.  i don't have a link handy right now, but you could google  "us constitution preamble" it's a short quick read.
what's most annoying is that those same people refuse to accept responsibility for their stupid actions and the consequent damage.  shifting lies on shifting lies, and somehow, many citizens insist on being unwilling to catch the odor of what they're being fed.
we have a city and a region to rebuild right now, but i'm hopeful that, next good chance, we will choose a government that will be responsible to the needs of the nation,  while we still have a nation.
so why am i writing and posting this?  damned if i know.  ignore it.

reggikko, be safe, be well.

it took some time but i've made my inner peace with pescado's ways.  his approah is defensive, and not so terrible anyway.  plus, he allows sane voices to speak here.

yes, we should have some air time too.
yup, the president's declared a lot over the past 5 years.  pretty near all bullshit.  but he's got you fooled, so carry on soldier.   
three closing words.  james lee witt. 

now, see, that's humor.  that's truly fucking funny.  gwb walking around in front of cameras making semi-intelligent noises that he doesn't understand, which is okay because he doesn't mean it anyway, is not getting involved.  getting involved was when his policies took money that would have gone toward enhancing flood protection and sent it, along with 1/3 of the LA national guard, to Iraq.  which hopefully wasn't about the oil, because...
 
Odyssey, does your dad have anything to say about the major oil production that used to take place in the gulf before all the platforms drifted away?

'sokay though, pescado's truck prolly runs on something from a Montana open pit mine that used to be a mountain.  nothing touches him.

those rarely coincide.  or did you mean,"youth and marketability"? sorry, major personal annoyance issue.

i don't think a sci-fi collection can be complete without brian aldiss, john brunner and michael moorcock.  they opened up a lot of the mainstream space between, for instance, heinlein and stephenson.
about that same time, roger zelazny was making the world safe for trilogies of more than 3 volumes.

i mentioned that, once or twice. maybe a petition would be helpful.

cool, you've recognized what i'm waiting on.  have you started working on it, or should i now begin hinting, nagging, trying to recruit your team, such like?
(i know, huge project, not likely in my brief remaining lifetime, still i dream it for the little children, and for their children.)
but, think about the possibilities of karaoke and bowling together!

the very definition of "life simulator".  so maybe they intentionally left it incomplete and broken, to be more like real life.  i don't really love the game, i love all the things i think it could be, could lead to.
my reality has always been in arts, though i have a framed piece of paper around here somewhere that claims i once knew something about computer programming.

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i'm hoping for more new musical instruments.  i'm hoping they'll come with more mature animations.  yeah, silly me.
as to the sinkholes, yes, it's ugly, but i see the neighborhood screen as pretty disfunctional anyway.  it also doesn't properly render the invisible wall/wall window or the transparent floor tiles.  so i do the glass houses and huge  basements and have my fun on the lot.  would be nice though if that could get fixed.

is there a short-term max, or a likely safe number?   22?  75?  say, for 2 or 3 sim hours?

if i had time for other games, and disk space, flight simulator, (i crash real good) and train simulator( i crash real good) would be my first choices.  they were able to coexist with ts1 but ts2 is not willing to share.  yet. 

old goats?