OTFPOTD 11-18-02008: Last Night Never Happened Edition
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 3:28 AM PST
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Happy birthday, one of the only redeeming qualities of Next Friday. (Pinky was tight as well.)
I just watched the new(est) Werner Herzog movie, "Encounters at the End of the World" for the second time tonight. It's a documentary about (amongst other things) the people that live and work in Antarctica. While discussing his reasons for asking the National Science Foundation for funding to make the film, Herzog offers the following as part of his explanation:
"Why is it that a sophisticated animal like a chimpanzee does not utilize inferior creatures? He could straddle a goat and ride off into the sunset."
The above line is juxstaposed over a painting of a chimpanzee riding a goat off into the sunset.
Werner Herzog was once shot in the leg while giving an interview. When asked how he was doing, he responded "It was a very insignificant bullet."
Werner Herzog is fucking crazy, but he is above all else a fucking genius. I love Werner Herzog.
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Starlight
Far away. This ship has taken me far away. Far away from the memories Of the people who care if I live or die.
Starlight. I will be chasing a starlight. Until the end of my life. I don’t know if it’s worth it anymore.
Hold you in my arms. I just wanted to hold you in my arms.
My life. You electrify my life. Let’s conspire to ignite All the souls that would die just to feel alive.
I’ll never let you go If you promise not to fade away. Never fade away
Our hopes and expectations. Black holes and revelations. Our hopes and expectations. Black holes and revelations. Hold you in my arms. I just wanted to hold you in my arms
Far away. This ship has taken me far away. Far away from the memories Of the people who care if I live or die.
I’ll never let you go If you promise not to fade away. Never fade away.
Our hopes and expectations. Black holes and revelations. Our hopes and expectations. Black holes and revelations. Hold you in my arms. I just wanted to hold you in my arms.
I just wanted to hold
I’m having a Muse-ish morning.
Fear the NPE
And damn you AC, I was going to write this FanPost entirely about college basketball
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 6:46 AM PST up reply actions
Unofortunately no =(
I was going to go, but while I was watching the Blazer game, I threw up, so I decided to stay home. My roommate came back from it really excited though, and filled me in, and all I could do was be sad I missed it.
54!
Agreed that this site is very awesome.
Sadly though Dave’s lead last night appears to have been short lived.
I had jubel on nitro the other night
it’s much better on nitro this year.
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Kiwi is sadder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
How...very depressing.
Fuck you, now I’m sad.
Holy crap, this is the first thing I thought of when I read the post and tags.
When I watch this, sometimes I replace the kiwi with Bill Bavasi, and pretend the trees are baseball players. He couldn’t put together a winning team, but god dammit I wish he had died trying.
This reminds me of a buddy who did not realize the kid dies at the end of Radio Flyer.
He’s all like “Dude what are you talking about? He takes off and sends his brother all those postcards!” And I’m like “No dude, that was his mom sending those postcards to spare him the grief, but deep down he knew the truth.” My buddy refused to believe the truth, it was kind of sad.
Fear the NPE
Wait, that kid dies?
I had thought that was an ending like Shane, kind of ambiguous about the whole thing but nothing for sure. Haven’t seen Radio Flyer since it came out though and my memory of it is a bit fuzzy
Which ending is more plausable to you?
His abusive father kills his brother but he cannot deal with the pain, so his mother aides his fantasy of the radio flyer and continuously sends him postcards from around the world. Or two children build a flying machine from a wagon and a boy uses it to fly around the world never returning to see the brother he left behind?
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I vote for the ending that doesn't leave me sobbing uncontrollably
I previously posted as "Man From Nantucket"
If you listen really close at the end, I think you can hear a 'phooomph' noise right after he disappears.
Doesn’t mean the little Kiwi isn’t a tough bastard, and manages to dust himself off though.
Robert I think we need to talk about your pet hamster...
He didn’t really go to join the circus, son.
At least he dies happy.
That’s the only redeeming part.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
It really points to the only fear I have.
I don’t mind the thought of death, but the only thing that gets to me is, “Am I even planting the trees to give myself the illusion of happiness later on in life?”
That movie makes me question the point of all the goals I’ve set for myself in life, and wonder if they’re even the things I want in the end.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
You know, I dumped my job to be a stay at home dad.
And I really enjoyed my job. And raising twins, right now I’m so busy with the diapers and meal planning, let alone trying to keep up with reading, arts & craft projects, etc- I barely have the ability to stop and appreciate how great I’ve got it. Matter of fact I can’t even comprehend it at the moment. My fantasy life is a condo overlooking downtown Seattle with an unobstructed view of the Olympics, with all my money actually MY money.
The only reason I know how good things are for me right now, is every 60+ year old who tells me how much they would have liked to have been able to spend that much time with their own kids. The thing is, even if you could go back and do it different, I don’t really think it works that way. There’s just another way of doing it.
you're obviously not trying hard enough
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He nailed all those trees to the cliff wall?
His life’s work ended in him committing suicide?
This is some deep shit.
Sure is.
I saw that a long time ago, but watched it again since it came up here. My son was sitting next to me on the couch and laughed while watching it. I just got real sad while watching it. Funny how perception can change from being an innocent child to an adult with a cynical outlook on life
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
I was trying to be impressed with the animation since it was a grad project
instead it just made me sad.
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This is the only thing in my life that will make me tear up.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Umm....
reply fail?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I was replying to Wilder talking about Kiwi and nailing trees to the cliff.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Just wanted to make sure noone thought I was crying at radio flyer.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Okay. I JUST saw the Kiwi clip.
I somehow missed the link at the very top and thought you were talking about a New Zealander in Radio Flyer…. the whole thing was confusing to me until just now. And that is one of the saddest and loveliest things I’ve seen in a good long time. Made me tear up, too. Sorry to misrepresent you, Faux.
Aha, makes more sense.
Misrepresenting though? Not so much. I was just protecting my male-based honor.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
But this is a real penguin headed towards certain death.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
You realize in movies nothing "really" dies, right?
Well, except for OldBoy. I’m sure that octopus had it coming, though.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Since the film in question is a documentary, I'm pretty sure it's really actually dead.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 12:32 PM PST up reply actions
Oh I thought that was the Mel Gibson alien movie.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
And whenever I go on a plane, something awesome happens here and I only get to see it after.
Fuckers.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Not yet, I'm back for the day to do laundry and get ready for LV.
Hence the sporadic posting.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I wonder how much of the character Verner on Entourage is based on Herzog.
Yes, I watch Entourage. So what?
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Gave it up when I admitted to watching Grey's Anatomy
but at least Entourage has strippers in it. So that’s something. And, there was a commercial for the new season of Flight Of The Conchords before it, which is awesome.
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Wait, you checked your man card in for Grey's?
How did I not know this.
Sweet. Now I don’t feel so alone…
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by PositivePaul on Nov 18, 2008 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Although I'm about done with Grey's at this point
the minute a character starts making out with a ghost is as good a time as any to jump ship.
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I'm pretty sure that'll be on this week's Very Special Episode
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
I saw Bill Medley do that song this summer in Branson
They ran a montage of that movie while he was singing. I almost puked.
I counted four things wrong with that statement
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Branson, montage, Medley, almost?
Man do I love midgets.
Let me elaborate.
My in-laws still live in the Midwest and we are somewhat obligated to go on these vacations to some random resort every summer. This year they picked Branson.
I have a good friend who is the guitarist in Paul Revere and the Raiders and they do a show there with Bill Medley. He hooked us up with awesome seats as a favor to me and I took my Mother and Father-in-law to the show.
They loved it, so I scored big points. Yes, I am a sell out, but I still love the Raiders.
You're excused,
but personally I would have made up some crazy story to explain it.
Man do I love midgets.
BTW, my wife and I were fairly sure
That Bill Medley was wearing Depends. We were also the only people under 50yo there.
Branson terrifies me.
I’ve never been, and it’s not even a place where I want to go gawk at people – it just flat-out terrifies me.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Branson is the most horrible place on earth.
Went there for Thanksgiving two years ago. My parents and I left two days after arriving, leaving my sister all alone to be tortured by my grandparents for three more days.
Worst. “Vacation.” Ever.
Praiseworld?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
There are roller coasters there
As a roller coaster junkie that kept me busy for two days. They also had a disc golf course that I snuck off to when I needed alone time.
My sister recently saw the woman who sings Angel of the Morning in concert.
I bet that was a hoppin’ show full of youthful energy.
Fear the NPE
Why can I not remember her name?
Man do I love midgets.
I know, but it's a failry memorable name.
Dusty or something?
Man do I love midgets.
I think you may be right.
Man do I love midgets.
Okay, the fact that you have a friend in PR&R mitigates a lot.
And the mollifying the in-laws probably takes care of the rest. You are indeed the best husband/son-in-law ever.
Please tell me there were a lot of drinks consumed.
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that works.
Gotta purge the memories somehow.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Hopefully it's devolved into "funny story" territory and is no longer traumatizing
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Yeah, I'm tryin' to figure out that plotline...
And Dr. Hahn’s abrupt departure, per the network’s urging, was, well, disrupting…
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by PositivePaul on Nov 18, 2008 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
The only thing I can figure was that after the writers strike
a bunch of writers from Passions came over, couldn’t make the monkey-nurse idea fly again, so said “Okay, how about a relationship with a dead guy? AWESOME!”
Either that or the writers are trying to drive Heigl off the show after her whole “I had bad material last year” thing – you want bad material, KH? HERE YOU GO!
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Wait, I don't understand why enjoying Entourage is man card revoking worthy.
It’s not like it’s Gray’s Anatomy or anything.
54!
Yeah, it's kind of a rich frat-boy douchebag show on HBO
but Jeremy Piven’s character alone makes it worth watching.
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Well, they're Hollywood actors, not frat-boys
on the show, I mean. The main character is a pretty big movie star and he’s surrounded by his boys from Queens; the effect is a rolling posse. It’s not fully frat-boy, it’s more spoiled-nouveau-rich-kid, but it’s got its moments. And Jeremy Piven plays the lead character’s agent, he’s completely awesome – his character is based on Ari Emmanuel, Rahm’s brother, who is a pretty legendary Hollywood douchebag agent.
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Ah yes I have heard of it.
I have some friends who love that show.
My favorite show is called Lookout Landing meltdown. If I am lucky it airs at least once a month, sometimes more. It has no scheduled show times though.
With Very Special Guests
Kos and Ruby.
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It's the best show going
the problem is it can’t be scripted or predicted.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
No, FOX picked it up.
It’ll be renewed for another three seasons.
Looks like the scholarship poll is back up.
No excuse not to vote.
I can understand why Dave is getting sick of this poll
There is a fanpost up this morning on Halos Heaven (no, I won’t link to it) encouraging everyone to vote against Dave to stick it to the Mariners. It disgusts me.
I previously posted as "Man From Nantucket"
Fuck me do I fucking loathe all things associated with Anaheim.
Fuck that city, fuck that team.
Fear the NPE
I just noticed the person posting that just signed up
That was their first posting. Probably not even a baseball fan.
I previously posted as "Man From Nantucket"
Maybe it's reverse psychology, get the Halos crowd fired up in defense of a SB/blogger of note
Only without actually asking for their support. Give them a reason to get over their indifference, or something along those lines.
What the hell, this is causing me to comment on Halos Heaven arghhhhh
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 9:44 AM PST up reply actions
P.S. how can we leave a blog once we've joined it?
I only have a desire to be a member of Field Gulls, DRB, Bruins Nation, Dawg Pound and one other SBN blog
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 9:44 AM PST up reply actions
I bet Trei can make it happen
either that or I can try really hard to get banned on HH
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 9:46 AM PST up reply actions
Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door....
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
relax, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!
I previously posted as "Man From Nantucket"
Graham put the kibosh on us.
As fun as ruffling the feathers of some Angels fans would be, I very much fear his wrath.
Fear the NPE
There's nothing to be gained from going over there and starting another fight
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I'm not, I'm actually trying to discuss baseball and be diplomatic
I commented that being malicious for the sake of being malicious is stupid and made a comment on their draft efficiency FanPost. That is all.
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 10:10 AM PST up reply actions
Wasn't blaming you, I haven't been to HH in months so I don't know what happened
I’m just saying that it’s probably not worth even going over there.
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Already did
the thing that amuses me the most is the thought process from a week ago and from today
ONE WEEK AGO: Hey cool, I can help Dave out, and even though I don’t comment on USSM, it would be nice to see someone who does such good work get rewarded for it!
NOW: I care more that Dave wins than I care about who the Mariners next manager is because DK has had some… interesting posts on the subject
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 9:37 AM PST up reply actions
BOTD...
Ummmm…. Bacon ice cream?
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
I have seen your menu choices so I guess I am shocked.
But we all draw the line in different places.
Bacon is a gift from the heavens
I previously posted as "Man From Nantucket"
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I just started up on a...rather important project that could make or break my tenure at this office.
If I succeed I could very well be looking at a sizable pay raise. If I fail…I’d rather not think about that.
Seconded.
My first instinct was to crack wise, as the part of you actually failing didn’t really register as a possibility. There are moments when I’m completely blind to things like that, hopefully I’m not an insensitive prick.
arghghgeklsdkfojfe!!! Man that's just sitting there and I want to hit it out of the park.
But the comment I want to make would only be made by an insensitive prick
I'm never sure where the line is, so I leave that stuff to the people with proper funny bones.
Basically I’m a chickenshit bastard and need to just grab a set and let ’er rip once in awhile.
I've said it before, but I will say it again.
Make fun of me all you want. It won’t bother me.
What gets under my skin is ripping on folks who cannot defend themselves.
Actually my comment was on me, only with buildup and chatter it really really won't be funny now.
’Don’t worry about me, save your sympathy for ‘the wife’.
Kind of snarky, yet still a bit of a setup for other guy. I’m more of the straight man than the punchline guy in the group I run with.
What happened? My modem broke at home. Link?
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
Holy crap, where have you been
There were like, 15 MILLION posts last night in the Spare Dave 5 Seconds thread, and like, I heard in the locker room that people were making shit up about him, and like, it was totally unreal dude. Like rad
He's into field hockey players?
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
I thought those guys were called lacrosse players?
Anyway, Title 9 man, I’m pretty sure they sport some female teams.
This about sums it up.
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Sorry, TIF, I took a more condensed screenshot.
Dear Corco
hopefully this puts a smile on your hungover face
No word from the good Mr. Corcoran today
I wonder if he’s still drunk or dead.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
This guy is their Big Ten blogger...
“Those who can’t do… Blog.”
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
Although, with all due respect to Jeff, I don't know his level of baseball talent!
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
Fire that motherfucker
I don’t care if you’re an Ohio State fan or a Michigan fan- there is one thing both sides can agree on and that is that there is nothing more important ever then the Ohio State-Michigan game
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You know what's fun?
Trying to convince a business unit that converting them to new software will in fact require all new processes, all new procedures, all new documentation, all new reports, and all new ancillary systems.
And it’s fun trying to do this for months on end, only to have the leader of the business unit keep insisting that the project will only significantly impact their area in that his people will only be incurring training costs. Couple this with his belief that the project will actually save money because “the new hardware’s cheaper and runs more efficiently” while entirely forgetting that is actually an infinitesimal savings compared to the money his area will have to spend to get this system in and integrated.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Just tell him it's all gravy and bounce when things go horribly wrong
you’re a contractor, after all
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, but there's like six jobs left in the city right now and I want to keep this one
so I have to navigate somewhat carefully.
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I'm still hoping for that managerial position at Linens N Things
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I wanted to put that on my resume
Store Manager, Linens N Things, 2008-Present
- Oversaw and supervised 50 employees on a day-to-day basis
- Completed inventory ahead of management-dictated schedule
- Oversaw massive company wide failure and layoffs of all employees at store
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
I had to change the first line a bit
- Oversaw and supervised 50 40 20 15 4 2 employees on a day-to-day basis
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First interview question
“I see here it says you supervised over 1 employees at your last managerial position. Does this include yourself?”
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
Well, not at first
but I took the initiative to start supervising my own activities.
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Guys, Paramore is like a disease.
I have listened to the album Riot! like three full times already today. I need help!
Fear the NPE
The Lazy Cowgirls are always good for whatever musical ills you may have
but other than that it may be time to remove the Paramore from your itunes.
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I have a tech question for alyou you computer specialists out there.
I just got all my new computer guts for my desktop (mother board, power supply, processor, video card and ram) I’ve replaced all of these parts at one time or another individually on other systems, but never all at once. So I installed all of the parts, checked and rechecked and then powered up. When I hit the on swtich after about 5 seconds I get a long beep followed by 3 short ones, and then nothing. What did I do wrong?
What is the brand and model of the motherboard?
You’re getting an error code of some sort.
One long, three short indicates no video card or bad video card RAM.
Make sure you have your video card seated in the BLUE SLI slot. If it is already in there, pull it out and re-seat it.
Oh oh oh.
I just remembered something that threw me for a loop when I built my last computer. On your graphics card there’s probably a slot where you need to plug in power from the power supply. If you forgot to do that you’ll get the error.
Just a blank screen. Monitor tells me that there's no signal.
You know, because monitors talk and all.
You have multiple SLI slots on the mboard, right?
You have to have it in the top slot for just one card (closest to the ports).
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I had this happen with my new rig that I built last week.
Might be your DVI cord. When I was troubleshooting the problem, I tried a spare cord I had lying around and it worked just fine.
This is definitely worse than that.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Some simple advice from Dr. Seuss:
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
by kevin_ess on Nov 18, 2008 11:42 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
.
If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol, that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse, then you may as well reboot it and go out with a bang, ‘cause as sure as I’m a poet, your system’s gonna hang.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
by kevin_ess on Nov 18, 2008 11:52 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I just plugged in my old hard drive with windows XP installed on it. Instead of a new one with a new OS.
This wouldn’t have anything to do with it would it?
The BIOS screen would have popped up before the HDD was even checked.
I would take everything out but the Proc, turn it on, then add pieces one by one turning it on each time.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
This is your best bet.
Try to isolate the cause of the error code.
Start with that.
See what it does with no proc, though.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Wait a sec.
If you’re still getting a Video error while the proc is the only thing in, that’s ok.
You just want to make sure that the beeps stay the same.
Then try with just the proc and vid
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Sorry, my bad, lost track of the convo.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
If you don't get a different set of beeps, you may have gotten a DOA vid card.
You don’t have a voltmeter to check out pinouts, do you?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
No voltmeter.
Ok, with no cards just processor I get 1 long, 3 short, then in 6 second 1 more short.
Ah fuck me up the goat ass.
Tried the old video card and it started up just fine. But the lights come on the new one when I powere comp up. I’ll keep trying to see if it’s just not seating correctly.
Somebody in a meeting I was just in used the phrase "that's a goat rope of a situation"
I have no idea what this means.
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Goats are hard to rope perhaps?
Man do I love midgets.
My dad used to say something like that -
“I’ve been to a 1-legged ass-kickin contest and a goat ropin’, but I never seen some shit like that!”
Sounds like your new video card is dead.
Did you mail-order it or purchase it from a local store?
Mail order from Newegg.
But things are looking up. I tried powering up with the new video card while pushing it in really hard with my hand and the system started up.
I don' think that's how it's designed to work.
Man do I love midgets.
are you sure it was three short beeps?
Do you have a floppy drive? A friend had to replace theirs when they got one long beep followed by two short ones after rebuilding…
However, I have heard of the long beep, 3 short beep code once during an upgrade. This is what happemed:
The SATA connectors were touching the underside of the end of the GFX card which prevented it from seating 100% correctly. They are long cards and it can get crowded-easy to miss. The long beep, 3 beep code I believe indicates a graphic problem. My card looked like it was seated right but it was SLIGHTLY angled up . Moving the drives to different SATA connectors solved the problem for me.
Are you a Computer Specialist like Brian?
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
Certainly not!
Unless that is a joke/sarcasm
I can “get by”, taken some computer classes, and can build or upgrade a basic computer but can’t create a cool Alienware computer on my own
I make computers with freon cooling for friends.
But you can’t ship them or put them on a plane, so there’s no real market outside of the area. :(
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Ahh that's cool!
I admittedly haven’t delved into the world of adding “extras”.
One of my computers could have really used a cooling system like that
I have it open right next to me so I will check for that too.
I do have a floppy drive, but I didn’t hook it into the new mother board because I haven’t used a floppy drive in like 10 years.
I don't know anyone who uses a floppy drive anymore
But my friend’s computer got mad when he tried to build one without it haha
I forgot a cover song from yesterday I want to mention
Marilyn Manson’s cover of “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Nov 18, 2008 10:31 AM PST reply actions
The answer to flux questions is always 0
Also writing ’gauss’s law’ everywhere gets some marks
by Graham MacAree on Nov 18, 2008 10:52 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Fuck me. God Damn fucking fuck face.
I fucking hate him and I hope he chokes on all the fucking hair he lost off his head that fucking balding cockmouth.
54!
Ryan Howard got 2nd in the NL.
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is this really a surprise?
it’s annoying, but I figured that’s the way it’d go.
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Not surprising at all.
But it appears that Mauer finished nowhere even close. Pretty embarrassing for the BBWAA.
as if they care about being embarrassed..
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I hope it was Geoff Baker that voted for Raul
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
Bahahaha Jason Bartlett got a 5th place vote
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
Defense almost wins championships.
Man do I love midgets.
Yeah, but with all of that Yami yogurt in the fridge, a dude can't be bothered to care.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
The only beauty of my new work schedule.
I’m off in an hour. Then I get to eat some shitty food, lay down for a few hours, and do it all again tomorrow.
Fear the NPE
Still splitting room?
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I hate sharing a room with someone who works your same shift. It sucks ass.
At least this guy is way cool about it and tries to be as quiet as possible.
Fear the NPE
If you work the same shift, don't you sleep at the same time?
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Yes.
And it blows ass. Generally you share a room with someone who works opposite you as to not share sleeping time. The camp I am staying at right now does not have enough rooms though.
Fear the NPE
So you work while they sleep, and so on...
But the same sleep schedule isn’t too bad if the other guy doesn’t snore or something.
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Do you have the Bose noise cancelling kind?
Man do I love midgets.
It's just a closet full of coffee filters.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
But at least we know what to get him for Christmas.
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A colostomy bag.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
I was thinking coffee filters, but okay.
Man do I love midgets.
Handkerchiefs seemed to have lasted a while,
and the idea isn’t all that different.
Man do I love midgets.
Snot and crap are two different things
I am no longer in Spokane, but I think I'll keep the name anyway.
You wash and reuse cloth baby diapers,
why not TP?
Man do I love midgets.
I would argue because you only have to do that to a kid for 4 years max.
I’m probably going to live for another 30+.
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Just like anything else that's "non" disposable,
you have to replace it occasionally. People buy new handkerchiefs..
Note: Thingray is 100% against the use of handkerchiefs and reusable TP. I’m merely playing the devil’s advocate here.
Man do I love midgets.
Not my point.
I can see washing diapers for 4 or so years per child. I can’t see washing my shit covered kitchen towels every few days for the rest of my life, whether I rotate in new ones or not.
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Ok ok ok ok my sandwich is trying to come out of my nose already
holy shitballs this is the funniest thread i’ve ever read, I can’t breathe
Needs more...
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by PositivePaul on Nov 18, 2008 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
But the dude on TV seems so trustworthy....
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The dude on TV looks lik he should be in a low budget Jackass-style youtube video.
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He looks like he already was, and landed on his face.
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Can't afford to get workers their own rooms but spring for Blackberries
nice
by seattlebruin on Nov 18, 2008 12:01 PM PST up reply actions
Hard to build on permafrost perhaps?
Man do I love midgets.
Blackberries are cheap now
I am no longer in Spokane, but I think I'll keep the name anyway.
My company buy me a blackberry!?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHaHaHaHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, I bought it myself. I even bought the laptop I use as a work computer myself because the ones they would give me suck ass.
Fear the NPE
Also:
http://orphanarmy.com/wp-content/sketches/quarters/quarters.gif
Man do I love midgets.
I voted for the grizzly snatching a tasty salmon.
But the gay ass polar bear one on top won I think.
Fear the NPE
They took so long to come out for the western states, I kind of lost interest.
Man do I love midgets.
Why'd the little bastard climb the pole anyway?
My cat gets stuck on the roof about once a year, and I just laugh at him until he finds his own way down.
Man do I love midgets.
Coyote leaves, cat climbs down....
My cats run up trees to get away from animals, and when the threat is gone, they return… I’ve never quite understood why occasionally an animal just decides to stay treed.
Man do I love midgets.
sadder than that scene in Stroszek?
And by scene, I mean that whole movie.
Also Mister Lonely comes out today starring (or at least containing) Werner Herzog.
Your favorite meme is dead
Have fun bunking with another guy.
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Hmmm.
So THAT’S why Sports and Bremertonians disappeared — the Nisqually Quake transported Bremerton to off the coast of Africa (click the picture to enlarge it).
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Already fixed.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
Today's Nostalgic Fun Fact
Remember the animated series “Gargoyles”?
Demona, the evil woman Gargoyle, was voiced by Marina Sirtis. That’s right. Counselor Troi.
(This fun fact is still not as cool as Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel Air being TMNT’s Shredder)
Somehow I don't think your "Random 90s Cartoon & Star Trek Fun Fact"
will become the next BOTD.
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Yeah, that surprised me as well.
And also, after not liking her at first, the Nostalgia Chick is starting to grow on me.
And today's Nostalgia Critic was awesome as usual.
“Wait. Johhny Cage dies? This movie is looking up already!”
I think Ray Romano needs to worry...
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
I wonder if this is what NPH branded women with in H&K2?
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Way to pick a tattoo that will be relevent later in life.
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It will always be relevant.
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Ah yes, relevant.
In 30 years when her grandkids ask her about it, they’ll know exactly who Ray Romano is.
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And she can share the story of how she finally did it.
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Hope it's a short story.
Prison visits aren’t very long.
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You'd get jail time for performing a public service?
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Kind of rules out any sort of alibi...
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The Bart, The
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
She should have made the bottom Henna.
So she could swap it out as necessary.
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That would at least make a bit of sense.
Man do I love midgets.
I hate Ray Romano too but that is crazy
I am no longer in Spokane, but I think I'll keep the name anyway.
Is that a comma or a mole?
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Ben Franklin
Okay, I'm starting to regret my choice to go without cold medicine today.
I felt stoned all day yesterday at work, and wanted my head clear today, but now I’m starting to suffer..
Man do I love midgets.
I love Stumbleupon.
Bahahaha!
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
Never stopped me.
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It would usually encourage me.
Man do I love midgets.
Teej
I finally got around to listening to the entirety of Paper Trails (I usually have a delay time from when I download something to when I actually listen to it) and it’s catchy as all hell. My favorite songs are Whatever You Like and Slide Show but there’s really so many good songs on it.
Thr33 Ringz can’t be described as anything other than what you would expect from T-Pain, with a few good songs and a bundle of obnoxious skits
Yeah it's pretty sick
I like the hook for Porn Star as well
I don't really enjoy Swagga Like Us as much as I did when I first heard it
It gets old really fast
now you can come sing a good song to me in person
to wash that out of my brain.
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Did you go see them this weekend?
I was really bummed I couldn’t come up for that.
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Oh yes.
Reaffirmed my belief that pogoing is in fact the best dance in the world.
Embarassing moment; I lost an earplug about halfway through the set and couldn’t really hear all that well. Nardwuar sang the first line of “Don’t Hump the Dog” and put the mic in my face. I couldn’t hear what he was saying and just stood there looking like an idiot. I did get to hold him up when he played keyboard while crowdsurfing, however.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 1:23 PM PST up reply actions
I should put you in touch with a friend of mine
a guy I used to go to a ton of shows with, but now he always complains that he has no one to go to shows with any more. He’s got very similar tastes, he was there as well.
I used to get sore calves from pogoing at Fastbacks shows.
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What's his name?
There’s a chance I know him.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
Hampton.
Blondish hair, mod/bowl cut, about 5’ 10" or so, usually wears a Royal Mail jacket to shows these days.
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Is he in any bands?
I swear I’ve met a fellow that fits this description.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 1:30 PM PST up reply actions
He isn't, hasn't been since high school I don't think
but he is friends with a lot of Seattle band- and ex-band types (Kurt Bloch, Kim Warnick, Rob Morgan, the guys from Coconut Coolouts, the list goes on) and he goes to a TON of shows – used to go to 2-3 a week, but now he’s got a kid and lives in Everett so he doesn’t get down as much as he used to.
I’ll send both of you an email.
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Kurt Bloch was there.
Pretty sure I know who you’re talking about because I saw him talking to a guy that fits your description that I see at many shows.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
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And nothing else compares
Oh no nothing else compares
Oh and nothing else compares
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by PositivePaul on Nov 18, 2008 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
So far this thread
has namechecked Juice Newton, Bill Medley, and Milli Vanilli. Just pointing that out.
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All in a days work.
And don’t forget Ray Romano.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
He character has to be one of the most useless and stupid characters of all time.
Furcal
by JI on Nov 18, 2008 1:27 PM PST up reply actions
Deanna Troi?
She was pretty useless in Mass Effect too…
I was just going for bad musicians
but bad actors will also fit in there.
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I hope you're happy
and I fully expect at least one Little River Band reference OH CRAP NOW I’VE DONE IT MYSELF
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For anyone that's interested:
Click for full size. Seattle has a great alt-comedy community and the Entertainment Show is always a blast. If you’re not doing anything next Tuesday night, come on down.
Well that little computer adventure really sucked.
I finalyl got the system to start, but then I started getting the blue screen of death flashing when windows was loading. I figured that my old hard drive (old settings and all) didn;t like the new hardware and was being cranky about it. I had been asking you all for advice on my laptop while wroking on the big one. As I was plugging the desktop in back in the computer room I heard the laptop from the other room give the “my batteries are dying you asshole so fuck you I’m going to sleep” message. No prob I’ll just bring it in here and plug it in to use while I work on the desk top. There is no floor. Fuckin laptop must’ve got jealous of the desktop and also went into blue screen of death mode. WTF? Now I had 2 non-working systems and no way to jump on internet to help troubleshoot. Though now that I think about it, I could’ve used the blackberry. But since all I had on the desktop was games I just decided to re format and put in my recovery disk. I have no idea how it happened but it ended up installing an additional windows xp onto the same drive as the other one (C:). When I start the computer it asks me which one I want to use giving me 2 options each saying windos xp professional. If I choose the top one, it goes to what I am currently using, and it says it’s on C: drive. If I choose the bottom one, it goes blue screen and then just restarts. Uh, W.T.F???
Doesn't sound like your C drive got a full format.
I’d fdisk it from a DOS boot disk and reinstall the OS again.
Ah hah.
Don’t use the Alienware recovery disk, wasn’t designed for the home-made system you’ve got. Shove the XP pro disk in there.
When the XP disk gives you a format option, run a full NTFS format.
Speaking of hard drives, Brian
I went to Fry’s last night. Sold out of the TB’s. I blame you for buying the one that would have gone to me instead. Quit hoarding terabytes and share with the rest of the common world
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:04 PM PST up reply actions
it seems pretty unlikely that Fry's will ever have a sale like that again
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I know
Thankfully they did a raincheck for me, so I can pick one up when they go on sale again. I’m going to use it as a secondary to the main HD on my computer, which is only 80GB.
Wow, I just realized that 5 years ago, I would have never felt the need to not only have more than 80GB, but would also have rarely said “only” 80GB. And now I’m buying a terabyte for a hundred bucks. Wow
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:08 PM PST up reply actions
and
a year from now you’ll be buying a 10TB drive for $250 or less. There is no ceiling. This is a very good thing.
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I agree completely
Just amazing to me, though. Like that old quote from Bill Gates where he said that nobody would ever need more than 32mb for anything.
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:11 PM PST up reply actions
how long do you archive?
or is that not something you can divulge?
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I can imagine
But stuff like that makes sense. Obviously the average person has no need for much more than 500GB, really, and even that is pushing it. I really don’t even need more than that, but I could spend $75 for 500, or $110 for 1TB. Might as well, because in the long run it won’t hurt to have it there
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:16 PM PST up reply actions
I have about 1.2 TB altogether here at home.
A 750 GB set up in Raid 1 as my primary drive.
A 300 GB that basically just has all my media on it.
1 150 GB that I’m still trying to recover data off of, but ultimately will be an emergency drive.
And I think I have a few 40 and 80 GB’s hanging around somewhere that are blank.
I have an 80 and two 120's that house all the media from my old computer
And a 320 portable that I use to move things from place to place. My Thinkpad has 120 on it and is completely full right now with music, my Macbook (Thanks RC!) has 60 and is relatively clean, and my new Desktop has an 80 which is completely empty. The TB will be used to house all my music and movies. I use it as a server essentially, running the music and movies to my Xbox 360, as well as to the laptops when I’m busting around the house. I plan on making the music and movies accessible as a web server so I can get to them from anywhere. Just not quite sure how yet. Anybody with suggestions?
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
Then I will be the gullible loser sidekick
Just give me one. I will gladly pay you pennies on the dollar for the drive you just purchased.
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:43 PM PST up reply actions
Narf!
Daaah, where’s my hard drive, Brain Brian?
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 5:04 PM PST up reply actions
Soon, my friend.
After we find $1,614,000 to build the gyroscopic transducer chip and take over the world you will be swimming in hard drives.
You're so smart
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 5:55 PM PST up reply actions
Far fucking out.
I do, however, have access to all of my saved games from this version. Now I’ll just back those up and reformat the whole damn thing.
Speaking of which, yesterday I ordered me a HDD enclosure so I could access my media stuff on one of my old drives
Because I completely forgot to make sure this new MB had IDE ports.
Anybody have any experience with these HDD enclosures? Good? Bad?
I don't even know what an HDD enclosure is.
Man do I love midgets.
It's a little case that you plug any 3.5" HDD into.
Turns it into a plug-n-play USB hot drive.
The thing is, I'm planning on using this drive still until I get around to getting another SATA drive.
Do those converters work well for continuous use, or are they just good for quickly getting data off drives?
When pressed I've used these continually.
For what you’re doing you might want to stick with the enclosure.
Depends on who you ask and how they're defining that write/read speed.
However USB 3.0 will be the final nail in Firewire’s coffin.
Yeah, but USB 3.0 just got introduced
and it will crush both 2.0 and Firewire, so firewire is indeed dead.
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Except Firewire 800...
But rocks.
Firewire’s fate was sealed when it was removed from the entry-level Macbooks. It’s not long for the future, which is too bad because it totally kicks USB’s butt.
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by PositivePaul on Nov 18, 2008 10:19 PM PST up reply actions
Now that is a neat product
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I wish I didn't have another test tommarrow, and two other things tommarrow, because I really just want to drink myself into a stupor right now.
Also, fuck 2008. What a fucking shitty year.
54!
It's acctually rediculous how quick things changed.
2007 started off well, and just kept getting better, and hit a crescendo at around Christmas. And as soon as the calender changes, everything get fucked up. And just kept getting worse.
Yay for humans being awesome at making up patterns!
54!
November has sucked (being so sick and all)
but 2008 has been an okay year.
Man do I love midgets.
I have no major complaints with 2008
it has definitely been a calmer year than 2007.
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Getting engaged was my "yay".
Man do I love midgets.
there aren't many better years than ones that include an engagement.
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'Cept maybe the wedding and honeymoon year.
Man do I love midgets.
That would be true
but wedding years are also COMPLETELY INSANE with wedding crap. It’s good, but definitely exhausting. Which reminds me. When you honeymoon, go somewhere and relax – me and mrs. pdb went on an epic trek around my favorite parts of Western Europe, which was all kinds of awesome, but we did way too much and didn’t have enough downtime.
When we got back it took us a month to get over how tired we were from the wedding runup and the honeymoon. Wouldn’t trade a minute of it, but I would say in hindsight that a relaxing honeymoon might have been a better choice.
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We're spending the wedding night at a local hotel,
then heading off to Cannon Beach for about a week before heading up the coast for a few days. We might spend a day or two in Astoria or something.
In other words, no huge plans, just going to one of our favorite places (and the place we got engaged).
Man do I love midgets.
I got sick on my honeymoon which was lame
But I also got 4 aces playing video poker which paid for most of our trip. Plus I sat on the beach in November which is always good.
Sick - sucks.
Beach + 4 aces = good
Man do I love midgets.
On another note,
the majority of the wedding is already planned. We even got the invitations in the mail the other day. Dress is bought, hall reserved, tuxes ordered, photography is set up, food is arranged….
Still some stuff to work on like flowers and other small stuff, but the BIG stuff is mostly handled.
Man do I love midgets.
Even still
you’ll be surprised how stressful the last month before the wedding is. And how little of that stress is actually yours.
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I'm sure it will be stressful.
Booze takes care of that! LOL!
But I know one of the hardest parts is going to be letting other people take care of things as the day gets closer. I know Jeanuts and I are going to want to directly supervise EVERYTHING, and there’s just no way you can do that.
Man do I love midgets.
And there's no way you should
in all honesty, of all the money we spent on the wedding (which wasn’t a lot), the most valuable money we spent was the $500 on a wedding coordinator. I didn’t want to do it, but it’s the best thing we did – she ran EVERYTHING from the week prior to the wedding to the entire night itself.
She choreographed the ceremony, figured out timing, worked with all our vendors to make sure everything showed up when/where it was supposed to, and just generally made the day before and the day of a lot less stressful. I can’t recommend this highly enough.
You may think you can do it (I thought I could), but you’ll have so many balls in the air the week of the wedding you won’t know which way is up.
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Something to think about.
The thing is that we’re not really using any “vendors”, everything is being done by friends who do each specific service for a living.
It might still be smart to either hire or “assign” a wedding coordinator though. We have friends who do this “type” of thing as well.
Man do I love midgets.
Find them and use them.
A point person is invaluable on the day of your wedding. On that day, the last thing either of you will want to worry about is where the food is, where the flowers are, what’s up with the music, etc. Pick someone you trust, deputize them to do all the coordination for you, and let them know they’re running the show and that they are to solve things before they get to you.
I can’t really stress strongly enough how useful this is.
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I think I know just the person.
Now the hard part will be convincing our families that they AREN’T the ones in charge! LOL!
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You laugh but that's exactly what happened to us
even though we told everyone we paid for a coordinator, certain people (coughinlawscough) decided that they could do a better job even though they had just gotten to town the day before and had no idea what we were doing. They had to be pulled aside by a few other people and told to keep out of the way.
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I fully expect this to happen with both of our families.
But I also know bouncers who can handle that problem!
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That's been mine too
And I even got to do it in a fun and special way, which was great. However, the 12 months leading up to it were pretty rotten for me. I don’t have my hills and valleys conveniently with calendar changes. Mine usually shift around the summertime
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by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:10 PM PST up reply actions
And a record deal.
Actually, 02008 has been pretty okay.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 3:02 PM PST up reply actions
A record deal makes for a pretty good year I'd say.
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I was wearing a helmet and a cup by the final week of 2007
2008 has at least been much better than that.
So we already knew that Jared Wells looks like Robert
but from some angles, Sean Green looks like Brett.
Oh yay it's time to register for classes again.
Goodbye, money.
We just paid for ITT for the oldest boy,
I know how this one feels.
Man do I love midgets.
See I think my financial situation got better
It was some of my leisure activities that took the hit.
I am no longer in Spokane, but I think I'll keep the name anyway.
So far so good for me on this one.
I still have all my leisure activities, and I’ve added some as well.
Man do I love midgets.
It was not a complaint for sure
But now we have more shared things.
I am no longer in Spokane, but I think I'll keep the name anyway.
I am of the opinion that my wife likes me to be out doing stuff
So she can have the house to herself.
I am not complaining really,
But never see my paychecks as they go straight into her account and I then get an allowance.
We keep separate accounts.
Man do I love midgets.
I actually prefer this as I learned fewer divorces for couples who share their money.
I like playing the odds.
We've gone eight years this way,
and it’s worked really well, so we’re just not changing anything. We do have a joint account for large expenditures though, we just make our own deposits to it.
Man do I love midgets.
I registered yesterday.
I really, really, REALLY hope my Perkins application gets approved.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 3:36 PM PST up reply actions
I'd be afraid that would be the thin end of the wedge
first the Roomba just whirs around your house, silently, cleaning away. Then one day, it gets the rest of the appliances involved in some sort of unholy robot/appliance alliance, they foment an uprising, and before you know it, they’re taking over your house and you’re sleeping on the lawn.
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Damn that brave little toaster!
Man do I love midgets.
the toaster is the one you have to fear most
you’re in the bathtub, minding your own business; one word from the Roomba and SIZZZZZZZZZZLE you’re done.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
That lamp can be a bitch as well.
Man do I love midgets.
Don't forget the heating blanket
He was a real whiner as well
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
no, that's why the roomba gets the other appliances involved
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
KIIIIIIRBY!
I love that movie
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
I need to find it on DVD
Man do I love midgets.
Ask and ye shall receive (click for link)
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 4:45 PM PST up reply actions
Well look at that,
I never even knew the toaster went to Mars.
Man do I love midgets.
Sure did
How about the Land Before Time series? When I left my son with the babysitter today he was watching number TEN, and I know it’s gone even higher than that.
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
That reminds me of my favorite SNL sketch of the last five years.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 3:34 PM PST up reply actions
Bought my mom a Roomba two Christmas's ago.
Totally worth the money. I can’t wait until next week when I get to watch it go around the room again.
Roombas are addictive
beware. We’ve got the roomba and scooba (the mop type robot). Oh, and stock in IRBT (which has fared remarkably poorly for a company that keeps getting govt. contracts).
I am watching it now. I did one room earlier, and it's tackling the living room right now.
This little fucker can clean!
I just now got the most bizarre craving for Oreo cookies.
I’m not even hungry.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Excellent. A True deMOnstRation of thE
pOweR of thE subiliminal advertisements On Sbn.
the other angels fan
by Eyebrows on Nov 18, 2008 3:59 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I WILL NOT BE A PAWN TO YOUR RIGHT WING OREO AGENDA
oh wait, I thought I was on some other blog there for a second.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Not even for a double stuff bacon oreo?
Man do I love midgets.
That's it.
I’m caving and buying a Costco membership.
Split the cost
Can’t go wrong
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 5:56 PM PST up reply actions
Too late, already purchased one.
Split the cost with my brother.
That's it!
You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!
by Jeff Sullivan on Nov 18, 2008 7:40 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I don't think any of us expected you to say that.
Furcal
by JI on Nov 18, 2008 8:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
clown college?
you can’t eat that.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
by pdb on Nov 18, 2008 8:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
In other news, MLB is thankfully getting rid of Silverlight and going with Flash.
“Flash provides a TV-like experience. You turn it on and it works,” said Bob Bowman, president and CEO of MLBAM.
Unlike Silverlight, which hardly ever works.
This is a positive.
Although Silverlight’s been working good for me for listening to The End at work.
Fringe is on tonight!
With shorter commercial breaks!
…that’s not a good thing.
Oh come on Foreman.
The kid is taking steroids.
I had to torrent last week's episode.
I’m still programmed to tune in at 9.
IB.... those two letters make me twitch.
Single most useless piece of paper I’ve nearly killed myself for.
Thank God I'm not alone in this regard.
Fuck you extended essay and historical investigation.
Also, I hate English class. I seriously see no educational purpose for making shit up and trying to justify it with evidence.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:28 PM PST up reply actions
My junior year AP English class was one of the most useful courses I've ever taken.
The last semester was devoted entirely to studying and analyzing logical and argumentative fallacies.
All we do is read literature.
And analyse the shit out of it. Literally everyday is reading an Emily Dickinson poem and finding the meaning in it. I do find certain classes interesting but this particular variety of English is annoying. Plus the teacher is annoying.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:31 PM PST up reply actions
that would have been useful to learn in high school
I didn’t learn that stuff until college philosophy courses.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
The instructor would turn us on each other every Friday.
He’d assign a debate topic at the start of the week and by the end of the week we were supposed to have studied up and taken a side. The entire period would be an all-out debate between the students.
The moment one student used a fallacious argument, someone was supposed to stop the debate and list the specific fallacy and the reason that student’s argument fell under it.
that would have been a most excellent class
I don’t think my entire four years of high school came anywhere close to that.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
This teacher was a master at his craft.
Former military Drill Sargent. Scared the living shit out of us despite being all of 5’8".
Normally high school students would rebel against that kind of a teacher, but he knew how to gain the respect of his students. His class was extremely hard, but he was an extraordinarily fair instructor.
This would work.
My “Theory of Knowledge” class I had to take was somewhat similar to that except it only dealt briefly with logical fallacies.
I look forward to actually taking interesting classes in college.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:38 PM PST up reply actions
Historical investigation? This is new.
I did my extended essay in mathematics, mainly cause no one else was.
Is historical investigation what they were calling guided coursework?
It's the interal assessment for history.
Basically find a history question and write 1600 words answering the question. Not too difficult but we did a practice one last year that I actually enjoyed and the one I’m doing this year that is actually going to the IB is going to suck because it’s on Quebec and I have two sources. Plus my extended essay is on history so I’m a little burnt out on it right now.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:35 PM PST up reply actions
I managed to work Little Buddha into an essay about Siddhartha and got an 85.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:38 PM PST up reply actions
Wait, you did this in H.S.? Realize you're talking to a guy that graduated in the early '90's.
From an itty bitty high school in the sticks.
That's IB for you
Sucking every little bit of joy out of your life in 11th and 12th grade.
Hopefully things have changed in the last 10 years, UW didn’t even recognize IB when I got it in 98.
I only managed to stomach about a month of IB before I dropped back into the AP program.
I stressed out over those classes so much my parents started to worry about my health.
I sometimes question why I post here.
Compared to a pile of you guys I have to rub two sticks together just to put a simple sentence together.
Believe me I have communication problems
I have difficulties formulating a sentence that doesn’t extend way beyond how long it should be.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:53 PM PST up reply actions
I always remind myself of a line from 'River Runs Through It'.
Where the boy’s dad keeps making him rewrite a paper, telling him ‘less’ every time.
Trust me, I'm not here to play compare the brain.
It is cool (and a bit schadenfreudey) to see someone going through what I went through, though.
Nah, I'm not giving you crap.
It just blows my mind the options available now. And the options kids in bigger urban schools had compared to where I went.
You know who blows my mind
My Grandfather could multiply 4 digit numbers in his head. He said most of the kids he went to school with could do it.
How else do you sneak Tetris into math class?
by James F'n X on Nov 18, 2008 10:03 PM PST up reply actions
Travel back to 1995 with me.
The M’s were much better and NT4 was the power behind our school network.
by James F'n X on Nov 18, 2008 10:05 PM PST up reply actions
You an probably train yourself to do it piecewise.
I’m much more of a numbers guy, so that sorta thing makes sense to me.
by James F'n X on Nov 18, 2008 10:03 PM PST up reply actions
I've been able to run some 3 digit against 4 digit
But only now and then. Somebody starts talking and poof!
You must get a 5
and only on higher level tests
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:49 PM PST up reply actions
I don't know if they take the diploma
UW is fairly far down my list.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
When I hit college after the army, the 2nd generation of head start students were showing up in big numbers
WSU was really raking them over the coals, it was a bunch of crap. A friend of mine has two daughters that both received doctorates in pharmacology before they were 22. He had to fight the admin tooth and nail to get their head start classes recognized, or they probably would have tacked on another couple of years to that.
Its a load of crap when you think about the tax money that gets wasted because one college claims they have more rigorous standards than another (especially when they are in the same state). The classes lost when you transfer from quarters to semester systems is another thing that sets me off.
Running start would have been a good choice.
Damn it early 2007 John.
by Mariner John on Nov 18, 2008 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
Nah that's running start.
Head Start is a program that allows high school students to attend community college classes during school hours.
Ah, had it right the first time. All this stuff wasn't available in my day.
We used burnt sticks on the cave walls. Detention was smashing the bones to get the marrow out.
I'm quite glad my high school didn't offer IB or AP, I think
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I did IB English and History and I did quite well.
I was smart enough not to try IB science or math. Or not smart enough maybe.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 11:27 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah but I got to skip class and spin cookies on the ice in the parking lot
I’ll take that over education 25 days a week
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But I still got A's because my coursework was not demanding
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I did well in the classes I gave a shit about.
I did poorly in the classes I thought were stupid even though I could have quite easily done well in them.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 18, 2008 11:47 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I did about the same thing.
I had this Spanish II class my senior year. I didn’t want the class, but I had to have something to fill the time slot, so I told the counselor just to put it wherever. The teacher was also a major dick. So I did as little work as possible and purposely ended up with the 3rd lowest grade in the class. It brought my GAP down to 3.3, but I didn’t give a shit.
What is the deal with foreign language?
My counselors insisted that I take two years of it in high school otherwise a university would never look at me. The transfer counselors at EDCC don’t seem all that worried that I only have one year of Spanish.
We were required to take one year of it to even pass high school. So fine, I got a B+.
Then we were told the same thing, needed two years for college. But when I did my own research and whenever I talked to college counselors, they pretty much same the same thing as yours. Basically “2 years? What? No. A foreign language credit is nice, but generally not required depending on what you are going for. We have foreign language classes.”
It's because most colleges require two years before graduation.
HS guidance counselors like to pretend like there’s no such thing as electives in college.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 19, 2008 12:37 AM PST up reply actions
Should go for the international master's next
that’ll cover the reply button.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
OK one last computer question.
I finally got everything back up and running well, it was a long night. The last thing is that when I boot up I get a message from the nVidia control panel saying the video card is getting enough power so has been set to low performance so it doesn;t kill itself. I’ve plugged it directly into the power supply, what gives?
That's a damn beefy power supply.
Go into the BIOS and make sure you’re set to 16x PCI-Express
Short of that, I’d have to guess your card has some serious issues with it. I think you may need to send it back.
OK, one last question about the card
There’s 2 power plug in on it. Does it matter which one I use? there’s nothing on the card to indicate such or in the manual.
Ha!
Hi I’m Rob and I obviously have no business doing all this myself. So plug SLI1 and 2 into the same video card?
That's right.
If there isn’t power running into both power inputs on the card it’ll give you that error message you saw.
I swear to God
every time I build a new machine I have to play the power supply game. Get everything plugged in and seated right and then I realize “oh well fuckcicles, I need a new power supply again.”
Now they want to screw up the X-men series
The next movie is being scripted by Josh Schwartz, the guy behind The OC and Gossip girls. Prequel. Link.
This is important
I’m really really hungry but have no idea what food I want to eat and can’t think of anything- so somebody please name foods for me- please nothing Asian and nothing fried
Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Washingtonhighways.org
I have a bag of Lays potato chips and Ritz crackers
No kitchen
So it can either be something I go out and buy at the store or restaurant food
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I do have a food processor and a microwave
Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Washingtonhighways.org
Do you know a good place to get either a really good or a really bad burrito at 10 PM?
Really bad being worse than Taco Bell, Taco Bell being average
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I do like the sound of it though
Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Washingtonhighways.org
oh...wait, I know
Thanks
Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Washingtonhighways.org
There's a taco truck called los tres hermanos
at s. 12th and somewhere around Steele or so. Good burritos.
I'm guessing they're closed at 10:50 PM
but I’ll keep that in mind for future reference- I have yet to find a burrito I am truly in love with here
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I have a confession to make.
I love the music of Enya.
So much so that I own every one of her albums.
On CD. That I legally purchased.
The first step to healing is being honest with yourself.
I also own the complete works of Billy Joel, America, LRB, Diana Krall, Genesis, Earth Wind and Fire, and Huey Lewis and the News.
Hey where do you stand on Annie Lennox?
I spent an inordinate amount of time last night trying to find her covering some soul type songs. Best I could find were some Live By Request numbers on youtube.
Annie Lennox during her Eurythmics tenure was amazing.
I wasn’t all that fond of her solo stuff.
The thing about her that blows my hair back is her voice sounds so great live.
And I’m pretty sure she’s not using anything like pitch perfect. Pretty powerful voice though.
Did somebody say Huey Lewis?
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Nov 18, 2008 10:39 PM PST up reply actions
I just watched the poorest officiated NBA game I have ever seen in my life.
Posting up? OFFENSIVE FOUL!
Getting your jersey held? FOUL ON YOU!
Being run down while being firmly planted? Foul on you, unless you’re golden state. If thats the case, you can flail around like a retard and get the foul call.
I hope Delaney is having fun partying with Donahey right now.
54!
Every sport is making this kind of movement.
Football is becoming a touch not tackle sport.
In baseball, the pitcher is no longer allowed to instill fear into the hitter.
Hockey… well, you can still beat the shit out of a guy.
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