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It should take about a week to boot, but it’s getting there:
What next? I Wait. According to the developers, PearPC using generic emulation (the only option on a non-x86) runs “about 500 times slower” than the host CPU. Ouch. That makes for a 0.05MHz G3, at the best. That’s around 4000 times slower than the Athlon boots, and since that takes roughly 2 and a half minutes – I’m looking at at least 6.99 days. One week to boot!
Most of it has melted off by now, but this is what I woke up to this morning in Sunriver (just south of Bend):
Man, he’s only been out of the hospital for what, a day, and he’s already trying to pick up chicks. Thanks Josh for the tip.
Say you’ve only got $10 to spend, and want a list of what you can get for (about) that price on Amazon. You now have a couple options:
.This is actually a fun little toy. Link via b3ta.
Granted, it’ll probably take 5 years before we see this in the States, but it’s good to know that a good high-resolution camera phone finally exists.
He couldn’t find a bathroom, so Oregon’s Kellen Clemens pinched it — for the entire game.
But the Ducks quarterback was on the football field, in the middle of a game, and he’s a polite, well-mannered guy, and there was no portable restroom around. And, anyway, the only tree in the area was the Stanford mascot. And it never stays still for very long.
So Clemens just held it for all of the second half.
He held it in the rain, while he threw passes to Demetrius Williams. He held it as he handed the ball to Terrence Whitehead. He held it as Stanford lined up for a 49-yard field goal attempt, down by three points, with one second remaining.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad did Clemens have to go?
“Eleven,” he said.
He made it through the game, won, and during the after-game celebration for their 16-13 win, couldn’t hold it anymore and bolted towards the locker room.
Personally, I would’ve just peed on the Stanford Tree.
I can only see this causing trouble:
A decimal point here, a decimal point there, and soon you’re talking real money — or in this case, an error in a key element of the printed ballot summary for the Bend-La Pine school funding measure. No doubt, some voters won’t notice that two rates are presented — one right, the other wrong — while others are likely to be either confused or misled by the typo, meaning it is likely to affect some votes, one way or another.
The Bend-La Pine School District’s 5-year, $34 million local option tax, Measure 9-28, has a property tax rate of 85 cents per $1,000 of assessed value — actually, that’s a maximum rate, due to the way state law lays out local option taxes (see www.yesforlocalschools.com to calculate your own property’s yearly cost).
The only problem is, the ballot question, which has the number right ($0.85, or 85 cents per $1,000 of assessed value) is followed by a ballot summary that lists it as “$.085 per $1,000.” That’s 8 ½ cents — one-tenth the actual rate.
It appears that the AP has picked up the story, too.
This is a huge mistake, and one that could cause trouble for the school district and the tax assessor’s office. I can picture people griping once they see their tax bill (just because that’s what people like to do around here). If the measure passes, people will gripe that they were billed too much, and that they only want to be billed a tenth of what they were actually billed. It may not sound like a big deal now, but it will be if this passes.
School Afraid Of Offending Real Witches Cancels Halloween. Thanks Greg for the link (who got it to me just before Barney did).