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it is not altered in any way, and (2) this copyright notice is attached.The list came to about 20 or so items.In 1995, I decided to try to make it into a Top 100 List.I'd never heard of or seen this list, so I assumed it was
parallel development or perhaps something I had inspired.FidoNet
Science Fiction and Fandom (SFFAN) email echo, in a discussion regarding a
sketch seen on an episode of Saturday Night Live sometime in 1990.In the
sketch, several Bond villains were appearing on a talkshow touting their new
book, "What Not To Do If You Capture James Bond".When I originally posted this list to the
Internet in 1994, I did so without any awareness of Mr.But other items on that list appear identical
to contributions I received before I edited them.If you know her, please ask her to email me.The list is therefore going on a temporary
hiatus.This is a temporary condition.He would sincerely apologize for this
inconvenience, were it in character for an Evil Overlord to do so.Being an Evil Overlord seems to be a good career choice.However every
Evil Overlord I've read about in books or seen in movies invariably gets
overthrown and destroyed in the end.No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."After I kidnap the beautiful princess, we will be married immediately in a quiet civil ceremony, not a lavish spectacle in three weeks' time during which the final phase of my plan will be carried out.The big red button marked "Do Not Push" will instead trigger a spray of bullets on anyone stupid enough to disregard it.OFF switch will not clearly be labelled as such.Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff.If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.When I employ people as advisors, I will occasionally listen to their advice.When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly.Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes.No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of machinery which is completely indestructible except for one small and virtually inaccessible vulnerable spot.No matter how attractive certain members of the rebellion are, there is probably someone just as attractive who is not desperate to kill me.All important systems will have redundant control panels and power supplies.My pet monster will be kept in a secure cage from which it cannot escape and into which I could not accidentally stumble.Now they just make you look like a disaffected member of Generation X.After all, he's my trusted lieutenant.If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age.Those who work for the pleasure of the hunt tend to do dumb things like even the odds to give the other guy a sporting chance.What can one man possibly do?"If I learn that a callow youth has begun a quest to destroy me, I will slay him while he is still a callow youth instead of waiting for him to mature.Thus if the control is ever broken, it will not immediately come after me for revenge.If I learn the whereabouts of the one artifact which can destroy me, I will not send all my troops out to seize it.If the beautiful princess that I capture says "I'll never marry you!Never, do you hear me, NEVER!!!"However before I send them out on important covert missions that require tact and subtlety, I will first see if there is anyone else equally qualified who would attract less attention.Before employing any captured artifacts or machinery, I will carefully read the owner's manual.If he breaks the code in under 30 seconds, it will not be used.Note: this also applies to passwords.Bulk trash will be disposed of in incinerators, not compactors.The actual main control room will be marked as Sewage Overflow Containment.If they want me to spare them again, they'd better save my life again.All midwives will be banned from the realm.They will be trained so that if one of them disappears mysteriously while on patrol, the other will immediately initiate an alert and call for backup, instead of quizzically peering around a corner.If all the heroes are standing together around a strange device and begin to taunt me, I will pull out a conventional weapon instead of using my unstoppable superweapon on them."Project Overlord" and leave it lying on top of my desk.If I am fighting with the hero atop a moving platform, have disarmed him, and am about to finish him off and he glances behind me and drops flat, I too will drop flat instead of quizzically turning around to find out what he saw.My vats of hazardous chemicals will be covered when not in use.If a group of henchmen fail miserably at a task, I will not berate them for incompetence then send the same group out to try the task again.When arresting prisoners, my guards will not allow them to stop and grab a useless trinket of purely sentimental value.My dungeon will have its own qualified medical staff complete with bodyguards.My door mechanisms will be designed so that blasting the control panel on the outside seals the door and blasting the control panel on the inside opens the door, not vice versa.My dungeon cells will not be furnished with objects that contain reflective surfaces or anything that can be unravelled.If an attractive young couple enters my realm, I will carefully monitor their activities.If I find they are happy and affectionate, I will ignore them.However if circumstance have forced them together against their will and they spend all their time bickering and criticizing each other except during the intermittent occasions when they are saving each others' lives at which point there are hints of sexual tension, I will immediately order their execution.Of course, these are merely the Top 100 Things I'd do.Other suggestions
have been sent to me which didn't quite make the Top 100 List.But they are
still so good that I couldn't bear to throw them out.Therefore, as an
expression of gratitude, I have tossed them into...Suggestion may be summarily rejected or edited without your
permission."Hercules",
"Xena",
"Sinbad",
"Tarzan"
"Robin Hood", and
"Conan"
to be the Official Television Shows of the Evil Overlord List.Their repeated
efforts to illustrate why Evil Overlords need such a list serve as examples
to us all.Back to the parody home page...The campus visits and interviews are scheduled over the next two weeks.The name of each candidate, current position held, and the scheduled time and location of the open forums are listed below.Joe Crowley Student Union Theater
Marsha G.Joe Crowley Student Union Theater
Marc A.Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft.Your feedback will be tremendously useful to me and the search committee.Room 2023 of the William Raggio Building (WRB) and would like to invite you to drop in to ask questions and share ideas about the current budget situation and our proposed solutions.KUNR has added a new weekly feature in its Wednesday Morning Edition lineup.Joining me will be guests from the University, the region and even from across the country.Few Minutes with Milt airs Wednesdays, 5:30 and 7:30 a.Board of Regents, delivered the following remarks at the Winter 2007 Commencement Exercises.Rebecca Bevans has spent quite a long time on our campus, and our campus is the better for it.She received her undergraduate degree from the University in psychology in 2001.Charitable Giving Campaign, are instrumental to improving the quality of life by supporting services that that make a critical difference in our community.Almost everyone benefits either directly or indirectly from one of the many agencies that this campaign supports.Dear Colleagues,
On September 29, the Pack takes on UNLV at Mackay Stadium.Fremont Cannon in the north and painted blue.Judy was a longtime faculty member at the University, and was a good friend to her colleagues and students.CreativityOnline Anonymous Rating Sites: Empowering Individual VoicesIs Podcasting Dead?The surprise may lead to an invention completely unrelated from the original intent of the research.Berkun then mentions three examples (which I describe below) where an invention came about unexpectedly.If you create online help, this is definitely a podcast you should listen to.This blogroll is different from the usual blogroll.By the way, as far as feedreaders go, nothing can compare with Google Reader.It turns out that you can get out of a slump or handle pressure situations comfortably by merely changing your facial expressions.Download MP3
Duration: 27 min.Quite a few people stumble across my blog searching for information on technical writing.It would be really refreshing to get advice and info, and give it through experience, without feeling that I am naive and perhaps even stupid beginner and without having to buy the book, or attend the lecture and then buy the book.The video author is Common Craft.Social media has enabled ordinary people to connect with other ordinary people.Top 10 post lists are usually aggregated by plugins that measure hits, comments, and trackbacks, and then compile the most visited 10.Or they are derived from hit counters such as Google Analytics.The results of my analysis surprised me.It makes our judgment more prone to error.They face higher public scrutiny, may have little desire to write, and have to concern themselves with the political effects of their posts.Story 1: Socrates
A young man visits Socrates in search of wisdom.Later, after recovering, the young man asks Socrates why he nearly drowned him.What is it you most wanted when you were under water?When your desire for wisdom is as great as your desire to breathe, you will find wisdom.Iowa antitrust trial, was previously excerpted but not available in complete form.However, the full message has now been posted among the plaintiff's exhibits online.Here's the PDF, and I'll post the text below.Windows Vista is "far better than any other software available today."It also reflects what the company will be trying to accomplish, and avoid, as it starts work on Windows Vista's successor.Apple did not lose their way.You must watch this new video below.We need a simple fast storage system.LH is a pig and I don't see any solution to this problem.If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we need to start taking the lessons of "scenario, simple, fast" to heart."Todd Bishop"))Todd Bishop at January 10, 2007 1:56 p.This is absolutely the case I see with Microsoft.They have great vision, but sometimes they can't impliment that vision with rock solid stability and performance.Thank yo very much for articles and apologiestake care.Thank you very much for articles and apologiestake care.Display the selected text in bold.Display the selected text in italics.Creates a link to the url between the link tags, uses title as link text.Enter the code shown:What is this?Have a news tip or a comment?MICROSOFT KEYWORDS
Our interactive timeline analyzes three decades of key documents to provide a scrolling snapshot of the issues at the center of Microsoft's consciousness across the years.Angtime: Dude: accent on the 'G'.The Big Blog: Hang up and drive?Bezos would like to be the guy who solved it.Unfortunately, this means that everyone at Amazon who has been working on this has been creating a product to please the boss.And, come to think of it, there are all the other booksellers, both the chains and independents, and then there is Sony and I know, I know, I should really include the iRex folks but this room is just not big enough for all those animals.Do I need to explain why?PSP look like a toy, which, uh, I guess a gaming platform is.Why do we need an eBook reader?That post was even before the iPhone and the iPod Touch, but anticipated there being such a device that filled the rectangle of an iPod with a touch screen.As I pondered then, if an iPod like that (which we now have, the iPod Touch) was increased to the size of a book, why would there be a need for an eBook reader?If via that device we could access movies, music, the web, our email, talk with anyone in the world, etc.Ironic last point: If Amazon.Books in a format that would be readable on my imaginary iPod Touchbook, I would purchase them via Amazon for the same reason I now purchase all my music via Amazon.Looks like a Klingon designed that device!Another argument for Apple is they already have a digital download distribution system in place: iTunes.People are already used to managing content on their computers to push to their devices in the form of MP3s, and Apple already has a store.Rex Hammock on this one: I would much rather have a larger version of the iPod Touch (assuming we could hack it, of course).Consumers will be part Web 1.The Amazon Kindle will go down as the Segway of electronic readers.My initial impressions aside, the Kindle is launching with lots of pomp and circumstance, including a cover story in Newsweek.Everyone has something to say: Robert Scoble, Seth Godin, etc, etc, etc.Oy, Rex, I really think you should try the Kindle before you write so much.This is a 2007 product with 2007 features, NOT 3 or 23 year old specs.Supreme Court called Jones v.All of these features seem smart, useful and decidedly now.Used in its little leather portfolio, the Kindle becomes very natural to hold comfortably for reading at several angles.Mac users, Linux users, all are welcome.Google in a PDF image format?Apple had become so powerful and was never going to allow others to use its Fairplay DRM format.When Kindle users likewise dominate the world of ebooks, and sales of ebooks start rising faster than ever before, other companies will be pushed to change.Plus, either you only have wifi or you have to pay for a monthly phone and data plan.Wow, the new electronic book reader from Amazon, Kindle, sure is getting a lot of absurdly misguided and factually incorrect criticism.My fingers are getting sore from responding to such a tide of disinformation in comment boxes scattered across a zillion web sites.Some force that makes bloggers love to see their names in print.There are multiple titles on how to use Flickr.Apple Touchbook than the Kindle (which I own).CEO of the Thomas Nelson.Why do we need an eBook reader?That post was even before the iPhone and the iPod Touch, but anticipated there being such a device that filled the rectangle of an iPod with a touch screen.If via that device we could access movies, music, the web, our email, talk with anyone in the world, etc.Holzschlag, and this web site shares my web development work and personal thoughts.Think of it as a personality site.Given that, one hopes I have an interesting enough personality to keep you entertained for at least a little while.Monday, with a short flight to Houston.Guam is the westernmost U.This is the sun rising over Tumon Bay:
Also along my walk I came upon some strange creatures.This is Fuji, and he had a lot to tell me.But he must have been speaking the local language of Chamorro, because while he was clearly befriending me, I had no idea what he was going on about:
Finally, there is nothing quite so wonderful as coming along those spots on the planet where there is nothing but peace.Somehow, I started this adventure on Monday.Houston and in a few hours will board a plane that will take me to Guam, then on to Cairns and points in Australia and New Zealand.HTML and CSS testing for MS.The voice I had been given was a good one, and my ear good too.Or maybe nothing happens in life.Starbucks in your grey and black coat.Playing a guitar, remembering how beautiful she was and that she, too
used to have a guitar.When traveling, I always notice I need to pack extra cables and wires, transformers and adapters.Sucked the blog out of me in 2007.Murder Tales
Have you taken the Death Test?My dream colors are very noir, black, grey, lots of shadows.Think of dramatic violins and long dark hallways.Your Mom or Dad or wife or whoever hears that squeak.Do you fall to sleep, so deep and sweet?Will you stretch and turn and pull the pillow over your head?We can use conditional comments for managing IE versions.IE issues on a case by case basis, but they too are controversial.An HTML comment was never intended to contain a conditional statement, so a CC is essentially a hack.So we have the techniques: Three primary ways we approach bug bashing and implementation problems.My intuition and experience suggest that the most effective way to manage bugs is to kill them where they live.We will blog more on these topics .IE, and at the same time, we are committed to responsible disclosure and setting expectations properly.Concerned about a lack of forthcoming information to the designer and developer community regarding IE8 and Web standards, I asked Bill if he could, in the spirit of a more open Microsoft, find out what was going on.IE and tools teams to try and help get standards implementation to be strong, and we see some really great advances.Dean what the hell is going on.JENNIFER RITZINGER: To be determined
MOLLY HOLZSCHLAG: So, at MIX08 then?It would mean a lot to the design and development communities.BILL GATES: I mean, I will look into it.Playing around with black and white settings in my little digital elf.Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.PNGs for years and still find myself thinking there has to be some better way to get the best compression and still retain the quality of the image.The experiment just proved what we already know about context, permission and worldview.It bothers us that we're so overwhelmed by the din of our lives that we've created a worldview that requires us to ignore the outside world, most of the time, even when we suffer because of it.It made me feel a little smaller, knowing that something so beautiful was ignored because the marketers among us have created so much noise and so little trust.Instead, I think we have an opportunity to create beauty and genius and insight and offer it in ways that train people to maybe, just maybe, loosen up those worldviews and begin the trust.What would happen if a world class violinist, playing on a 3.People would take notice of it right?Washington Post did something pretty interesting.They had a world famous concert violinist, Joshua Bell, perform in a DC Metro station to see 1) if people would pay attention and 2) if people would give him money.The story doesn't surprise me a bit.No, not the afterlife and reincarnation.Well, if I have a great house, Ill be happy.I'm just as much in this as you.This story is amazing, and has a lot of lessons about context, value, appreciation and connecting with your audience.It doesn't matter how great your sermon is.Seth Godin points us to a story in the Washington Post.Seth Godin's blog I'd ignore him too (which links to a Washington post story about a concert violinist who was ignored while playing in a subway station) got me thinking about busking in general.CEO on your next unsubscribe notice.This strategy has worked great for me in the past.Huge, unexpected, and not necessarily relevant attachments.MB attachment of this sort (sort of a press release, more or less), sent to everyone in my department.Mine looked fine in the...Sorry about the weird formatting....Sorry about the weird formatting.The blank email where the entire message is typed into the subject line.The confidentiality disclaimer is annoying, we know, but many of our employers require it for good reasons.The long lawyer speak gets...Starting a sentence in the...Starting a sentence in the subject line and finishing it in the body!Email annoyances
Oh yes, these really...Bad Things that will happen to me if I ever reveal the contents of your privileged, confidential (and unencrypted) message.IS departments add to our mail after we hit send.Then I realized it was being added to my message without my knowledge.Along with overuse of the...The ACK flag would have been fine.MS giveth (morons powerful tools) and MS taketh away (my sanity).Thanking me in advance for...For the love of God, people; can we get the word out on these?Format courtesy of my other site.The follow up email to the unsollicited email I received last week.Use the Interwebs to Get Rich!!!He lives in the western third of San Francisco with his wife, Madeline, and a tiny new daughter named Eleanor.PopularTodayRecentCommentsForumPostsPopularTodayTowards being a more entertaining guest (545)MacBreak 74: Hot Lips and Hawkeye (248)Newbie working with plain text: best practices for formatting etc?Folders is powered by Drupal, which rules.
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