awesomeness of all awesomeness, my car won't start for the third day in a row. It barely even turns over ... I think the battery is frozen, and I think everything else is frozen too. The fan sounds like shit when it's on battery mode, and the radio hardly even turns on... so I turned them both off to try and get more power. today, after three hours of plugging in, I could get it to almost turn over twice, but no dice, and it sure did take forever to come back to the battery-powered non-existence of the engine after the fact. Awesome! AMA here I come. That car has to work for tonight, or Grandma's not getting any dinner.

"no deal niggas" hahaha. hey, that's my line.
hey what the fuck is goin' on for Percy (P. Diddy) 's real birthday? i heard something along the lines of the Plant?

The paticulars:

Financially troubled Dreamwave Productions apparently has officially closed, shutting down its website and issuing a press release that, Newsarama notes, came from an AOL account rather than the usual channels:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto, Ontario – January 4, 2005 - Dreamwave Productions announced today that after eight years in the comics industry, four of which they were self-published, they will be ceasing operations.

Established in 1996 by brothers Pat and Roger Lee, Dreamwave infused a stagnant comic book market with art and design that effortlessly combined the then dominant “American” art style with the newly emerging Japanese “Manga” art style. Since then, the company had grown to become one of the comic book industry’s premiere publishers, producing a variety of original titles.

In 2002, Dreamwave firmly established itself in the comic industry as a force to be reckoned with when it launched an all-new Transformers comic’s line. The return of the 80’s icons shattered industry sales records, skyrocketing the book to the number one sales slot for an impressive six months. The Toronto-based company’s other successful licenses included Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Duel Masters from Japan, as well as properties like Devil May Cry and Mega Man from video game giant Capcom Entertainment.

President of Dreamwave Productions, Pat Lee stated “there are a number of reasons for my decision to close Dreamwave”, citing that “the shrinking comic book market combined with a weak U.S. dollar and unsustainable monetary commitments has finally proven to be too financially taxing.”

As the only Canadian independent comics publisher, Dreamwave Productions has struggled in recent years to maintain its status within a relentlessly shrinking comic book market. Unfortunately, consistently diminishing sales totals over the last several years have taken their toll on the small publisher and made it impossible to continue.

The specific details for closure have not yet been released but Lee assures both fans and clients alike that “although this is the end of Dreamwave as a comics publisher, I will still be penciling a number of new exciting projects in conjunction with other studios in the upcoming years.”

Sad news for you Transformer fans out there. Dream Wave entertainment went bankrupt. They are the producers for the new Transformer comics.

In happier news the rights for said Transformers are going up for auction so you can buy the rights to draw and market your favourite Transformer.

Just so ya know:

Poetry Face-Off

Edmonton's 2005 Poetry Face-Off takes place on Monday, January 24.

The Face-Off is from 7:30-8:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00) at the Backroom Vodka Bar (10324-82 Avenue Upstairs), a well-known poets' hangout.

Music will be provided by singer-songwriter Wendy McNeill.

Five local poets will take the stage with brand new poems commissioned by CBC Radio on the theme of "play". Our local winner will face the winners from nine other cities across Canada in the fourth annual national Poetry Face-Off on The Roundup, April 4-6. CBC listeners will get their chance to vote for the national winner on-line at cbc.ca.

This year's poets from Edmonton include: Dawn Carter, Michael Appleby, Janice Kozub, Tim Cusack and Anna Mioduchowska.

Edmonton's winning poet will be chosen by the live audience that night, by secret ballot. The evening will be recorded for broadcast on local CBC programs as well as on the national Face-Off.

A foil hat that retaliates is the next step.

Paras - in case you were interested I looked up that piece where Arjuna pretends to be a eunuch and he does indeed dress in women's clothes to do so. While his brothers pretend to be cooks or stable hands Arjuna was cursed by a courtesan (he refused to have sex with her) to be treated as a eunuch and I guess he figured this would be a good way to fulfill the curse.

Yep that is the pain for buying a prefabed system. Should of put one together myself.

Big prob Leo no spare AGP slot! When I bought the computer I only planned to use it for about 1 year and then my sister would take it over when I moved out. I didn't look at it carefully enough to see if it could be expanded. You can add more ram and probally a new sound card as well as another dvd drive and that is it. So yeah unless I plan to change the mother board no can do.

When you install a new video card you can override the integrated one