tribbel's New Writeups

Glock (thing)

2001-11-05T19:26:04Z

Glock is an austrian company founded by Gaston Glock in 1963. At first they produced machinegun belts, hand grenades, bayonets, knives and other products which combined plastic and steel.

The Glock 17, Glock's first handgun, was introduced in 1983. The austrian military bought 25,000 of these simple (32¹ interchangable components), lightweight (625 grams when empty², mostly due to the polymer frame) 9mm semi-automatic handguns.

The Glock 17 was later adapted by the armies of India, Jordan, Thailand, Norway and the Philippines. It was also selected as the official european NATO handgun. The Glock 19 has also been approved for NATO use.

Current models include the .45 Glock 30 subcompact handgun, and the fully automatic Glock 18, weighing in at under 700 grams each.

They are protected by Glocks "Safe Action" system, which consists of trigger safety (triggere…

Pyrzqxgl (thing)

2001-11-02T15:12:28Z

Pyrzqxgl is the magic word used for incurring transmogrifications of people into any other form. It is used by Kiki Aru in The Magic of Oz. Of course, a correct pronunciation is required for the magic to take effect.

Bini Aru was an old Hyup who used to be a sorcerer. Kiki Aru was his depressed and disgruntled son, who discovered the magic word when his father had written it, along with a guide to its pronunciation, down on a board in their house. He accidentally stumbled across it in his father's private room when all of his family was out attending a festival on Mount Munch.

"I want the Wizard of Oz to become a fox--Pyrzqxgl!"

The Wizard, who had stood smilingly beside his friends, suddenly felt his form change to that of a fox, and his black bag fell to the ground. Kiki reached out an arm and seized the bag, and the Fox cried as loud as it could:

"Treason! There's a traitor here with

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Am I a hacker? (idea)

2000-12-05T14:27:22Z

The first problems you mention are obviously blatant design flaws, security through obscurity and all that. The insecurity of cookies is a well-known fact. That's why there is an option in most browsers that allows you to disable cookies.

But that is all quite irrelevant, since you are asking wether you are a hacker or not. First of all, it is pure idiocy to ask such a question . Does it really matter what "title" you have? I have been dubbed a lot of titles over the years; everything from "guru" to "dickhead". And I don't care. I am just tribbel, the adequate computer user and part-time human being.

Secondly, the term "hacker" is a very loose one. There are about as many definitions of the word as there are "hackers". One says a hacker is a malicious security expert, the other says a hacker is a programmer. Yet another claims that a hacker is a bad writer. All and all, the title no longer holds any value whatsoever.

Here are few definitions of the…

Kabalarian philosophy (idea)

2000-12-04T10:25:14Z

The Kabalarian Philosphy was devised by Alfred J. Parker. It aims to combine the rational views of the West, with the spiritual views of the East.

The Philosphy teaches that "the individual" is directly linked to the `laws' of mathematics, and language. Because of this, a person's personality, and actions can be derived from his name and day of birth.

Their ideas are more or less Oprah-ish. A vegetarian diet, think happy thoughts, no swearing, be nice to others, etc.

From their website (at http://www.kabalarians.com/), I get the idea that it is nothing more than a sham. They (The Society of Kabalarians of Canada) sell `name reports', which have a detailed analysis of your name, and hence, your personality. A `demo' can be viewed for free. These reports seem totally random, though. Someone here, on E2, (I forgot who) mentioned that their analysis of Cthulu said naught but good things about his personality. But it does make for an amusing read.

Wentelteefje (thing)

2000-10-31T11:55:59Z

I have no idea how to describe this dessert, nor do I know the English name for it. The French name is "Pain Perdu", which, if I recall my high-school French correctly, translates as "Lost bread".

However, the Dutch name, "Wentelteefje", means "Little flipbitch". Don't ask...

I used to eat this a lot when I was a child. I loved it. Now that I have fully functional teeth it is a bit too mushy to my taste.

Ingredients
5 dl whole milk.
100 g. pasteurized eggs.
100 g. butter.
8 slices of bread. (is "casinobread" a word?)
100 g. cinnamon sugar.

Preparation

Put the milk and the egg(s) in a bowl.
Put the butter in a saute pan.
Place the pan on the fire.
Heat the butter.
Pull the slices of bread through the milk-mixture and let them leak out.
Put the bread in the pan, and bake one side till it's goldbrown(-ish).
Flip ("wentel") the bread and bake the other side.

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Irish coffee (thing)

2000-10-29T01:33:19Z

Irish Coffee is good coffee. Unfortunately, it's fairly expensive to get it in a restaurant or, depending on your location, a coffee shop.

If you have enough time, and you are planning on emptying a bottle of whiskey anyway, you might as well make it yourself.

1 cup (8-ounces) heavy cream
3 tablespoons sugar
6 cups hot black coffee
3/4 cup Irish whiskey

Using an electric mixer, beat the cream with 1 tablespoon of sugar until soft peaks form. Set aside.

Combine remaining sugar, coffee and whiskey. Pour into mugs and top with lots of whipped cream. Serve immediately.

Serves 4 to 6.

Source o' recipe: Mary M. for Cooksrecipes.com.