dude, how does one play that thing? I don't see instructions or anything on it.

Ah ok, I got it. it's the keyboard arrows.

Dammit that santa gets drunk real fast. 388 is my highest score.

779 points! Woot.

785 on my second try, but I had a black, smoking Santa after I walked him into the fireplace.

79 on my first try with a black charred Santa (eletrocuted by train set).
216 on my second. And this is why I don't play computer games!

508.

To be expected of two drunk people going for that extra sherry.

859, but that was after six attempts.

1159, 4 tries.

You're a freak of nature.

Nah, just a freak. I wasted 2 years of my life trying to get to the top of the foodchain playing Unreal Tournament online. My hand-eye better be damn good!

Okay, 919 after about 6 tries. What to the wreath thingies do? At any rate, I enjoy UT ever so much,but was never tournament level in it. Well, except in the local office.

A few years ago a couple of local cops started LEOaffairs.com which features badly run and designed web boards. They made a lot of news when the largely anonymous postings began to talk about failures in active cases and internal politics. Largely they were successful at keeping the forums anonymous. Still they can't figure out how to run a board for shit. They think it is pretty cool though and the fun part is to look for a local dept you know and check out the conversation. Turns out cops aren't very nice to each other either. Here is a funny list of cop stereotypes they posted.


Narcotics units
Immediately grow facial hair, tell everybody you were ordered to.
Start watching every episode of Monster Garage.
Buy a biker wallet with a big chain.
Make every case involve overtime $$$.
Buy bunches of boats, RV's, and motorcycles with that overtime.
Learn to play golf drunk.

SWAT units
Wear team T-shirts, Oakley sunglasses and boots everyday.
Try to fit the word breach in to every conversation.
Have a mirror handy to check hair, if you have hair.
Never say hello to anyone who is not an operator, just practice your SWAT head nod.
Subscribe to Soldier of Fortune and Muscle and Fitness.
Learn to play golf wearing a gun.

Community Service units
Hate SWAT.
Work to make everybody love you.
Paint your office in pastel colors.
Think Feng Shui.
Subscribe to Psychology Today.
Learn to play miniature golf.

Traffic units
Write tickets to EVERYBODY.
Spend every weekend cleaning your bike and polishing boots.
Annoy everyone on the radio calling out your stops.
Talk about nothing but how many tickets you wrote in one day.
Ride by a building with big windows to see your reflection.
Golf is lame, motor rodeos are cool.

Administrative Units
Three-hour lunches everyday, tell everybody it's a "meeting".
Upgrade department cell phone every month.
Tell everybody you are published in a national law enforcement magazine.
Update your revenge list on a weekly basis.
Golf Rules! Play lots of golf.

Patrol Units
Has nerves of steel.
In a terminal state of nausea from department politics.
Inability to keep mouth shut.
Has defining tastes in alcohol.
Is respected by peers.
Beats the crap out of his caddy on any bogeyed shot

Investigators
Come in at 0800
"Breakfast" from 0815 to 1030
Work from 1030 to Noon to 1400 Work out and Lunch
1400-1700 Sit in CID and talk about how many girlfriends you have and how the wife doesn't know. Plan your next RV, fishing, motorcycle trip.

Patrol Sergeant
Remembers very well "how we used to do it."
Always willing to tell his officers the above.
Tries to fit the word "liability" in to every sentence.
Talks about "what he's hearing from upstairs."

Trainee
Unable to grow facial hair.
Watches every episode of Cops.
Worships the ground the SWAT guys walk on.
Arrives for work three hours early.
Thinks the sergeant is thrilled to see him.
Won't drink on the golf course because it violates the open container ordinance.

FEDS
- Shave head, and grow goatee (unless you want to be a management weenie, then make sure you are clean shaven, with short almost military style haircut).
- Wear 5.11 pants, and polo with agency logo (unless you want to be a management weenie, then make sure you always have a shirt and pants to which a jacket and tie can be quickly added for when the boss might be around).
- Arrive at work at 8AM, spend one hour answering useless emails, and 30 minutes checking your retirement investments. Then go with another agent to Starbucks "to discuss your new case."
- After participating in your first warrant service (as outside cover) make plans to join the agency SRT,SWAT, etc, to "properly utilize your superior tactical skills."
- After doing your first buy bust, immediately begin asking the boss about "long term undercover" jobs.
- Refuse to play golf with "the locals."

New Corrections Officers
- Show up for work 15 minutes early
- Buy only the best ink pens (Pilot G-2)
- Wear T-Shirts of your "dream department" under your uniform
- Wear a full duty belt of gear even though you have to remove: gun, baton, spare magazines, knife, cell phone, and BUG when you arrive at the facility
- Become friends with every local police officer
- Continue eating too much and not exercising

587 after about 20 tries. . .

(hangs head)

My oldest friend is a retired cop in a fairly small town. What I get from him is that the cops in his dept. see themselves as Blue People, disciminated against by everyone else, but I think that's a function of being in a small community. The stuff you posted seems very likely in larger communities though.

Funny if they weren't all heavily armed.

And in three tries of the Santa game I barely broke 200. Maybe because I was keeping myself happy too.

Science Fiction Bookclub's list of the fifty most significant science fiction/fantasy novels published between 1953 and 2002:
Apparently, you're supposed to bold the ones you've read, italicise the ones you didn't finish, strike through the ones you hated and mark the ones you lurved with an asterisk.

I pretty much thoroughly enjoyed everything on this list I've actually read, so my standard of lurve might be higher than the norm.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert*
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson*
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison*
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison*
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman*
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson*
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner*
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

Hint: "Paste Special -> Unformatted text" and "Find '*' -> replace with ' '" in Word are your friends. So is bolding and italicizing in Word rather than fuX0ring about with the switches in here. Edit: er, except it doesn't work. Buggrthat:



Basically all the ones I've read can be asterisked... I'm with Rob, but I think he means his standards are *lower* than normal.

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Well, no, I meant that just because I didn't asterisk something didn't mean (e.g I didn't asterisk Bester) I didn't like it a lot, so the ones I did asterisk had to measure up to an even higher standard.