So... does anyone know if there is a way to check your history further than the folders provided? I need to get back at some pages from a few weeks ago, and I'm not sure it has them anymore.
In order to clean up the stuff I have on my desktop (dear lord... it's shitloads of stuff), here's a little linkspam:
Disney's having a pirate MMPORPG... pretty sweet. However, I have the feeling I won't have any time for it, not to mention the fact that it comes out the same day as the movie, which happens to also be the day I'm leaving for corps for the summer, so... yeah. I'll probably pop on a few times, but I'm going to keep on costuming, mostly. Pirates, woo! http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070205/film_nm/media_pirates_dc
"Disney in uncharted waters with "Pirates" game
By John Gaudiosi, Sun Feb 4, 11:03 PM ET
Disney Online will offer the legions of fans who have flocked to see Captain Jack Sparrow in movie theaters a chance to star in an original video game adventure for free with "Pirates of the Caribbean Online."
The massively multiplayer online game, slated to launch in the spring in conjunction with the May 25 theatrical release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," will bypass retail and be available via a free download at www.PiratesOnline.com.
The game takes place in an alternate universe, with a new story arc that introduces Jolly Roger as a nemesis. Players must help Sparrow get his crew back together to find the Black Pearl and restore order. The story line will span hundreds of hours of gameplay, and Disney Online will launch free expansions for the game every two to three months.
Disney Online is selling advertising for this version of the game. There will be no ads or product placement within the game world.
Disney Online will offer consumers two ways to play the game, both of which will include a free electronic download (there will be no retail PC box version of the game at launch). Gamers can choose to play the free version of the game, which will incorporate about one-third of the game world and content. Gamers who want to upgrade to the full "Pirates Online" experience will be charged a $9.95 monthly subscription, which offers such extras as more customization options and characters and the ability to take part in tournaments and engage in player-to-player combat.
All the actors from the film, including Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, have granted Disney Online the use of their likenesses. The game will use voice-alikes for the original dialogue.
The unique aspect of the online world is that after players design their own playable avatar, such film characters as Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann will appear in cut scenes with the player's avatar, putting the gamer in the film experience.
Steve Parkis, vp premium content at Disney Online, said Disney regards this MMO game as the backbone of the franchise, because the game will expand and evolve for years, well beyond the release of the films and DVDs.
Although there are more than 100 MMO games in the global marketplace, only one, Blizzard Entertainment's "World of Warcraft," has truly crossed over to the mass market, with more than 8 million paying subscribers."
This is really sad because it reminds me of all the AWESOME street performers in San Francisco (holyshitthatwasalongtimeago) and in Spain. Where they only performed if you gave them money, and otherwise would be frozen (except that Mickey...). Obviously... we Americans are pretty stupid. Damnit. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070205/od_nm/chewbacca_dc
""Chewbacca" arrested for head-butting in Hollywood
Mon Feb 5, 8:36 AM ET
A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned the furry brown Wookiee about harassing two Japanese tourists, police said on Saturday.
"Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do," "Chewie" from the "Star Wars" movies said before slamming his head into the guide's forehead, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported.
The 6-foot, 5-inch-(1.96-metre-) tall 44-year-old man was charged on Friday with misdemeanor battery and later released on $20,000 bail, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
"Superman" and other movie and cartoon impersonators were reported to be witnesses to the aggression in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater amid concern that such behavior could endanger their livelihoods.
Street performers at the world-famous cinema collect tips from tourists by posing for photos, but some are known to turn hostile if they don't get money.
Two years ago, Mr. Incredible, Elmo the Muppet and the dark-hooded character from the movie "Scream" were arrested for "aggressive begging," the L.A. Times reported."
Fascinating! I love enginerding stuff like this. Yes, enginerding. It's my... adjective. I dunno. Engineering is already nerdy by default, but I guess this adjective is for moments where I geek out. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_fe_st/rubber_sidewalks
"Philadelphia could get rubber sidewalks
Mon Feb 5, 8:29 AM ET
A Philadelphia official wants the city council to look at whether the city's sidewalks should be made of rubber.
City councilman Jim Kenney recently toured Chicago to see environmentally-friendly city projects there. He came back with a number of ideas on which he plans to hold hearings.
One is using rubber for sidewalks.
No, don't expect to see people bouncing down the street. Kenney says the rubber is very solid — probably harder than a running track.
He says rubber sidewalks are made from recycled tires. They don't crack, and they last longer than concrete.
Kenney says rubber sidewalks could also reduce the number of slip-and-fall accidents and the resulting lawsuits."
This is just calling out to be a lame college game. =D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggle_Quidditch
I am never one to ignore an article about the ocean! Please. This is pretty cool. http://www.livescience.com/othernews/070201_seaside_smell.html
"Key Found to the Smell of the Sea
Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.comFri Feb 2, 12:40 PM ET
A trip to the beach means sand between your toes, salt water in your mouth and that aromatic sea air in your nose. But what gives the ocean air that delightful and distinctive smell? Scientists have not known the full story until now.
The smell comes from a gas produced by genes recently identified by researchers in ocean-dwelling bacteria.
Understanding how the odorous gas is produced could be important because it is implicated in cloud formation over the ocean and helps some animals find food.
Knowledge gap
Scientists had long known that bacteria could be found consuming decay products and producing a gas called dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, in places where plankton and marine plants such as seaweed were dying. This pungent gas is what gives ocean air "sort of a fishy, tangy smell," said study author Andrew Johnston of the University of East Anglia.
But while "it was known that quite a lot of bacteria could [produce DMS], no one had thought to ask how," Johnston told LiveScience.
So that's exactly what he and his colleagues set out to do.
The team took samples of mud from the salt marshes along Britain's coast, and isolated a new strain of bacteria. After sequencing its genes and comparing the genetic structure to other known bacteria, they were able to identify the gene involved in the mechanism that converts the plants' decay products, called DMSP, into DMS.
The mechanism responsible "was absolutely not what anyone expected," Johnston said. The study's findings are detailed in the Feb. 2 issue of the journal Science.
Unexpected twist
Scientists had thought that a simple enzyme would be used to break down the DMSP into DMS, but the process turned out to be more complicated as the DMSP proved tougher to breakdown than suspected.
As with many other processes, the bacteria are cleverly conservative: the mechanism stays off until decaying plankton are around. But when a plankton bloom in the ocean is, for example, killed off by a viral attack, the bacteria rush in to reap the benefit.
"The bacteria will only switch on the genes to break down DMSP if the DMSP is around," Johnston said.
Johnston and his team were also able to clone the gene and transfer it to bacteria that lacked it, including E. coli, giving the bacteria the ability to produce DMS gas.
This mechanism is neither the only way, nor the primary way, that bacteria break down the estimated 1 billion tons of DMSP in the ocean, Johnston said, but it is important nonetheless as DMS releases over the open ocean influences cloud formation, which can influence Earth's climate.
Some seabirds rely on DMS as a homing scent to find food. On one occasion during their field research, Johnston and his team opened a bottle filled with the DMS-producing bacteria only to be bombarded by hungry seabirds."
This reminds me of the place in South Dakota. It makes me sad how ignorant the people in the article are. It's an OPTICAL ILLUSION, folks. Not that hard, especially when science is on your side! Physics is wonderful! (Although they're still really fun...) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_on_fe_st/wonder_spot
"Mysterious Wis. Wonder Spot soon to go
By TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press WriterSun Feb 4, 12:27 PM ET
In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
After more than half a century of wowing tourists (and causing probably more than a few cases of nausea), the Wonder Spot, a mysterious cabin where people can't stand up straight, water runs uphill and chairs balance on two legs, is no more.
Owner Bill Carney has sold the iconic attraction to the village of Lake Delton for $300,000. The village wants to build a road through the crevice where the Wonder Spot has stood since the 1950s.
Now, the Wonder Spot, one of more than a dozen sites around the nation dubbed "gravity vortexes" and a throwback to postwar, family-oriented tourist attractions, has a date with a bulldozer.
"We're kind of wondering how the town is going to deal with the gravitational forces under the road. That might be an issue with driving and how you bank a curve," joked Doug Kirby, publisher of RoadsideAmerica.com, which catalogs odd tourist attractions.
Kirby's site lists the Wonder Spot as one of 21 so-called "mystery spots." Lake Wales, Fla., has Spook Hill. Irish Hills, Mich., has the Mystery Hill. California has the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz.
The story behind each one is similar — gravity doesn't work in them. People seem to grow smaller, can't stand up straight and can barely walk.
Promotions boast that strange forces in the spots trump the laws of physics. Others say they're just elaborate hoaxes.
"It seems like to spend a lot of scientific effort to debunk these places you're just sucking the fun out of a tourist attraction a lot of people enjoy," Kirby said.
The Wonder Spot lies just off U.S. Highway 12, the main drag between Lake Delton and Wisconsin Dells in south-central Wisconsin. Together, the two cities constitute Wisconsin's answer to Las Vegas. The corridor between them is packed with water parks, giant resorts, museums, hotels and restaurants. The area convention bureau boasts the region is the water park capital of the world.
In many ways, the Wonder Spot is the antithesis of those giant parks.
Louis Dauterman of Fond Du Lac took out the first permit for the spot in 1952, making it the longest-permitted attraction in the area, said Romy Snyder, executive director of the Wisconsin Dells Visitors and Convention Bureau.
The spot itself is a plain, worn gift shop at the top of a ravine and a crooked cabin built into the slope.
A review on CitySearch.com calls the Wonder Spot "wonderfully goofy." The Yahoo! travel site describes the spot as a "scientific conundrum — where the laws of nature have gone awry."
According to a sign proudly placed at the base of the ravine, the Wonder Spot was discovered June 16, 1948. People who enter the spot, the sign warns, won't see correctly, stand erect "or feel quite normal ... in fact, on the cabin site the laws of natural gravity seem to be repealed."
Kirby called the Wonder Spot one of the top five most-visited mystery spots.
Generations of people have stopped to see it. Children who visited would return grown up, their own children in tow, Carney said. During the mid-1990s, he saw up to 50,000 people per summer.
Snyder, who grew up in the Dells, visited the Wonder Spot when she was a girl.
"We thought it was very cool. We always tried to figure out how they did that and never could. We did it all. We sat on a chair and it was only suspended by its back two legs, the ball rolling uphill, hanging from a doorway and your body slanted," Snyder said.
Carney, who bought the Wonder Spot from his sister in 1988, said he loved watching people's reactions.
"I don't know how many times I heard, 'Do you sell Dramamine?'" he said.
One woman, after stumbling through the cabin, sprinkled her mother's ashes on the ground.
"She just said, 'This was mom's favorite place and she wanted to be here,'" Carney said.
When people asked what caused the Wonder Spot, Carney's guides blamed it on igneous rock or simply replied they didn't know. He's seen people at the spot studying it with instruments who declared a force was at work. When pressed, though, Carney said it's all an optical illusion.
"We said don't try to figure it out," Carney said. "Just have fun."
Carney, a high school history teacher and baseball coach, said the road wasn't going to go directly through the Wonder Spot, but it would come within yards. With the mega-parks dominating tourism in the Dells and the spot's nostalgia compromised — "it's hard to run water uphill when a car is driving right by the fence," he said — he decided to get out.
"This town has changed," he said.
Joseph Kapler, the Wisconsin Historical Society's domestic life curator, plans to salvage as many souvenirs from the spot as he can before it's razed so he can create an exhibit. The Wonder Spot represents a bygone era, he said.
"We need to look back and see where it came from," Kapler said.
It isn't easy to say goodbye, Carney said. The most heartbreaking moment came a few weeks ago, when his 6-year-old daughter, Cassie, came to him, echoing a generation of Wisconsin children who visited the Wonder Spot before her:
"Daddy, can we go down there one more time?" "
Um... so more later as I go through all my links during chemistry lecture tomorrow. (Stupidest waste of my time, ever.)
In order to clean up the stuff I have on my desktop (dear lord... it's shitloads of stuff), here's a little linkspam:
Disney's having a pirate MMPORPG... pretty sweet. However, I have the feeling I won't have any time for it, not to mention the fact that it comes out the same day as the movie, which happens to also be the day I'm leaving for corps for the summer, so... yeah. I'll probably pop on a few times, but I'm going to keep on costuming, mostly. Pirates, woo! http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070205/film_nm/media_pirates_dc
"Disney in uncharted waters with "Pirates" game
By John Gaudiosi, Sun Feb 4, 11:03 PM ET
Disney Online will offer the legions of fans who have flocked to see Captain Jack Sparrow in movie theaters a chance to star in an original video game adventure for free with "Pirates of the Caribbean Online."
The massively multiplayer online game, slated to launch in the spring in conjunction with the May 25 theatrical release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," will bypass retail and be available via a free download at www.PiratesOnline.com.
The game takes place in an alternate universe, with a new story arc that introduces Jolly Roger as a nemesis. Players must help Sparrow get his crew back together to find the Black Pearl and restore order. The story line will span hundreds of hours of gameplay, and Disney Online will launch free expansions for the game every two to three months.
Disney Online is selling advertising for this version of the game. There will be no ads or product placement within the game world.
Disney Online will offer consumers two ways to play the game, both of which will include a free electronic download (there will be no retail PC box version of the game at launch). Gamers can choose to play the free version of the game, which will incorporate about one-third of the game world and content. Gamers who want to upgrade to the full "Pirates Online" experience will be charged a $9.95 monthly subscription, which offers such extras as more customization options and characters and the ability to take part in tournaments and engage in player-to-player combat.
All the actors from the film, including Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, have granted Disney Online the use of their likenesses. The game will use voice-alikes for the original dialogue.
The unique aspect of the online world is that after players design their own playable avatar, such film characters as Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann will appear in cut scenes with the player's avatar, putting the gamer in the film experience.
Steve Parkis, vp premium content at Disney Online, said Disney regards this MMO game as the backbone of the franchise, because the game will expand and evolve for years, well beyond the release of the films and DVDs.
Although there are more than 100 MMO games in the global marketplace, only one, Blizzard Entertainment's "World of Warcraft," has truly crossed over to the mass market, with more than 8 million paying subscribers."
This is really sad because it reminds me of all the AWESOME street performers in San Francisco (holyshitthatwasalongtimeago) and in Spain. Where they only performed if you gave them money, and otherwise would be frozen (except that Mickey...). Obviously... we Americans are pretty stupid. Damnit. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070205/od_nm/chewbacca_dc
""Chewbacca" arrested for head-butting in Hollywood
Mon Feb 5, 8:36 AM ET
A Chewbacca impersonator was arrested after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned the furry brown Wookiee about harassing two Japanese tourists, police said on Saturday.
"Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do," "Chewie" from the "Star Wars" movies said before slamming his head into the guide's forehead, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported.
The 6-foot, 5-inch-(1.96-metre-) tall 44-year-old man was charged on Friday with misdemeanor battery and later released on $20,000 bail, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
"Superman" and other movie and cartoon impersonators were reported to be witnesses to the aggression in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater amid concern that such behavior could endanger their livelihoods.
Street performers at the world-famous cinema collect tips from tourists by posing for photos, but some are known to turn hostile if they don't get money.
Two years ago, Mr. Incredible, Elmo the Muppet and the dark-hooded character from the movie "Scream" were arrested for "aggressive begging," the L.A. Times reported."
Fascinating! I love enginerding stuff like this. Yes, enginerding. It's my... adjective. I dunno. Engineering is already nerdy by default, but I guess this adjective is for moments where I geek out. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_fe_st/rubber_sidewalks
"Philadelphia could get rubber sidewalks
Mon Feb 5, 8:29 AM ET
A Philadelphia official wants the city council to look at whether the city's sidewalks should be made of rubber.
City councilman Jim Kenney recently toured Chicago to see environmentally-friendly city projects there. He came back with a number of ideas on which he plans to hold hearings.
One is using rubber for sidewalks.
No, don't expect to see people bouncing down the street. Kenney says the rubber is very solid — probably harder than a running track.
He says rubber sidewalks are made from recycled tires. They don't crack, and they last longer than concrete.
Kenney says rubber sidewalks could also reduce the number of slip-and-fall accidents and the resulting lawsuits."
This is just calling out to be a lame college game. =D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggle_Quidditch
I am never one to ignore an article about the ocean! Please. This is pretty cool. http://www.livescience.com/othernews/070201_seaside_smell.html
"Key Found to the Smell of the Sea
Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.comFri Feb 2, 12:40 PM ET
A trip to the beach means sand between your toes, salt water in your mouth and that aromatic sea air in your nose. But what gives the ocean air that delightful and distinctive smell? Scientists have not known the full story until now.
The smell comes from a gas produced by genes recently identified by researchers in ocean-dwelling bacteria.
Understanding how the odorous gas is produced could be important because it is implicated in cloud formation over the ocean and helps some animals find food.
Knowledge gap
Scientists had long known that bacteria could be found consuming decay products and producing a gas called dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, in places where plankton and marine plants such as seaweed were dying. This pungent gas is what gives ocean air "sort of a fishy, tangy smell," said study author Andrew Johnston of the University of East Anglia.
But while "it was known that quite a lot of bacteria could [produce DMS], no one had thought to ask how," Johnston told LiveScience.
So that's exactly what he and his colleagues set out to do.
The team took samples of mud from the salt marshes along Britain's coast, and isolated a new strain of bacteria. After sequencing its genes and comparing the genetic structure to other known bacteria, they were able to identify the gene involved in the mechanism that converts the plants' decay products, called DMSP, into DMS.
The mechanism responsible "was absolutely not what anyone expected," Johnston said. The study's findings are detailed in the Feb. 2 issue of the journal Science.
Unexpected twist
Scientists had thought that a simple enzyme would be used to break down the DMSP into DMS, but the process turned out to be more complicated as the DMSP proved tougher to breakdown than suspected.
As with many other processes, the bacteria are cleverly conservative: the mechanism stays off until decaying plankton are around. But when a plankton bloom in the ocean is, for example, killed off by a viral attack, the bacteria rush in to reap the benefit.
"The bacteria will only switch on the genes to break down DMSP if the DMSP is around," Johnston said.
Johnston and his team were also able to clone the gene and transfer it to bacteria that lacked it, including E. coli, giving the bacteria the ability to produce DMS gas.
This mechanism is neither the only way, nor the primary way, that bacteria break down the estimated 1 billion tons of DMSP in the ocean, Johnston said, but it is important nonetheless as DMS releases over the open ocean influences cloud formation, which can influence Earth's climate.
Some seabirds rely on DMS as a homing scent to find food. On one occasion during their field research, Johnston and his team opened a bottle filled with the DMS-producing bacteria only to be bombarded by hungry seabirds."
This reminds me of the place in South Dakota. It makes me sad how ignorant the people in the article are. It's an OPTICAL ILLUSION, folks. Not that hard, especially when science is on your side! Physics is wonderful! (Although they're still really fun...) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_on_fe_st/wonder_spot
"Mysterious Wis. Wonder Spot soon to go
By TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press WriterSun Feb 4, 12:27 PM ET
In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
After more than half a century of wowing tourists (and causing probably more than a few cases of nausea), the Wonder Spot, a mysterious cabin where people can't stand up straight, water runs uphill and chairs balance on two legs, is no more.
Owner Bill Carney has sold the iconic attraction to the village of Lake Delton for $300,000. The village wants to build a road through the crevice where the Wonder Spot has stood since the 1950s.
Now, the Wonder Spot, one of more than a dozen sites around the nation dubbed "gravity vortexes" and a throwback to postwar, family-oriented tourist attractions, has a date with a bulldozer.
"We're kind of wondering how the town is going to deal with the gravitational forces under the road. That might be an issue with driving and how you bank a curve," joked Doug Kirby, publisher of RoadsideAmerica.com, which catalogs odd tourist attractions.
Kirby's site lists the Wonder Spot as one of 21 so-called "mystery spots." Lake Wales, Fla., has Spook Hill. Irish Hills, Mich., has the Mystery Hill. California has the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz.
The story behind each one is similar — gravity doesn't work in them. People seem to grow smaller, can't stand up straight and can barely walk.
Promotions boast that strange forces in the spots trump the laws of physics. Others say they're just elaborate hoaxes.
"It seems like to spend a lot of scientific effort to debunk these places you're just sucking the fun out of a tourist attraction a lot of people enjoy," Kirby said.
The Wonder Spot lies just off U.S. Highway 12, the main drag between Lake Delton and Wisconsin Dells in south-central Wisconsin. Together, the two cities constitute Wisconsin's answer to Las Vegas. The corridor between them is packed with water parks, giant resorts, museums, hotels and restaurants. The area convention bureau boasts the region is the water park capital of the world.
In many ways, the Wonder Spot is the antithesis of those giant parks.
Louis Dauterman of Fond Du Lac took out the first permit for the spot in 1952, making it the longest-permitted attraction in the area, said Romy Snyder, executive director of the Wisconsin Dells Visitors and Convention Bureau.
The spot itself is a plain, worn gift shop at the top of a ravine and a crooked cabin built into the slope.
A review on CitySearch.com calls the Wonder Spot "wonderfully goofy." The Yahoo! travel site describes the spot as a "scientific conundrum — where the laws of nature have gone awry."
According to a sign proudly placed at the base of the ravine, the Wonder Spot was discovered June 16, 1948. People who enter the spot, the sign warns, won't see correctly, stand erect "or feel quite normal ... in fact, on the cabin site the laws of natural gravity seem to be repealed."
Kirby called the Wonder Spot one of the top five most-visited mystery spots.
Generations of people have stopped to see it. Children who visited would return grown up, their own children in tow, Carney said. During the mid-1990s, he saw up to 50,000 people per summer.
Snyder, who grew up in the Dells, visited the Wonder Spot when she was a girl.
"We thought it was very cool. We always tried to figure out how they did that and never could. We did it all. We sat on a chair and it was only suspended by its back two legs, the ball rolling uphill, hanging from a doorway and your body slanted," Snyder said.
Carney, who bought the Wonder Spot from his sister in 1988, said he loved watching people's reactions.
"I don't know how many times I heard, 'Do you sell Dramamine?'" he said.
One woman, after stumbling through the cabin, sprinkled her mother's ashes on the ground.
"She just said, 'This was mom's favorite place and she wanted to be here,'" Carney said.
When people asked what caused the Wonder Spot, Carney's guides blamed it on igneous rock or simply replied they didn't know. He's seen people at the spot studying it with instruments who declared a force was at work. When pressed, though, Carney said it's all an optical illusion.
"We said don't try to figure it out," Carney said. "Just have fun."
Carney, a high school history teacher and baseball coach, said the road wasn't going to go directly through the Wonder Spot, but it would come within yards. With the mega-parks dominating tourism in the Dells and the spot's nostalgia compromised — "it's hard to run water uphill when a car is driving right by the fence," he said — he decided to get out.
"This town has changed," he said.
Joseph Kapler, the Wisconsin Historical Society's domestic life curator, plans to salvage as many souvenirs from the spot as he can before it's razed so he can create an exhibit. The Wonder Spot represents a bygone era, he said.
"We need to look back and see where it came from," Kapler said.
It isn't easy to say goodbye, Carney said. The most heartbreaking moment came a few weeks ago, when his 6-year-old daughter, Cassie, came to him, echoing a generation of Wisconsin children who visited the Wonder Spot before her:
"Daddy, can we go down there one more time?" "
Um... so more later as I go through all my links during chemistry lecture tomorrow. (Stupidest waste of my time, ever.)