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A friend pointed me to a site called the South Park Studio, where you can go and make your own custom South Park character … well I fooled around with it and tried to make an image of myself in the most accurate possible way, and I ended up with the person on the left, hehe … This is pretty good, and I am considering using it as the OTS chatterbot’s image … we’ll see

Oh, did I mention the location of the site?:
http://southpark.gamesweb.com/flash/spstudio.html

Anyway, what’s the latest about me? Well, they cut my hours at work so I won’t be earning as much anymore … and to think that I considered buying a laptop just two weeks ago! The only thing that stopped me was that I didn’t get approved for the 90-days no money down offer from Dell … I was so pissed off that day… well, it seems fate was smiling on me. If I actually DID buy that laptop, and I found out that my hours have been reduced and I’ll be earning less money to pay for it, I would have been a lot more pissed off

Oh well, at least I can devote more time finishing the updates on my tech site. Still have to finalize the chatterbot, as well as the four additional layouts I made for the site. The only thing left for me to decide is whether to unveil it as soon as I finish it, or to wait until December 31, to make it a little more “momentuous” … guess we’ll find out

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Another Star Trek: The Next Generation (3rd Season) DVD night for me, and another good exchange between Picard and Data. In the episode entitled “The High Ground”, they are discussing the terrorist activities in a planet wherein some of their crew have been thrown in the middle:

Data: … why are their methods often successful? I have been reviewing the history of armed rebellion, and it appears that terrorism is an effective way to promote political change.
Picard: Yes it can be… but I have never subscribed to the theory that political power flows through the barrel of a gun.
Data: Yet, there are numerous examples when it was successful… the independence of the Mexican state from Spain…
Picard: Yes, I am aware of them.
Data: Then, would it be accurate to say that terrorism is acceptable, when all options for a peaceful settlement have been foreclosed?
Picard: (sigh) Data, these are questions that mankind has been struggling with throughout history. Your confusion is … only human…

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Watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season 3) on DVD tonight, and I just found this hilarious exchange between Picard, Worf and Data at the transporter room, where the three men will be beaming onto an ancient ship (in an episode titled Booby Trap). Here is Picard telling Worf and Data to step into the transporter:

Picard: Get in the bottle…
(Blank, confused looks on Worf and Data)
Picard: Ship in a bottle … good lord … didn’t anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?

Worf: I did not play with toys.
Data: I was never a boy.

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