The OT --- 01/11/09
by .Taylor on Jan 11, 2009 1:22 PM PST
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What are your favorite quotes? Witticisms, sayings, mottos, epigraphs, etc.
For example, here are some of mine:
From "Sometimes a Great Notion" --- "Man will oppose everything except a hand extended; that he will stand up in the face of every hazard except lonely time."
From Oscar Wilde --- "A true friend stabs you in the front."
From Debi Gliori: --- "A volunteer is someone who doesn't want to do something, but ends up being morally blackmailed into doing it anyway."
From Cyril Connelly --- "Whom they wish the destroy the gods first call promising."
Baseball-related ones are always good.
Additionally, who's going to win the Super Bowl, NCCA tourney, and Stanley Cup, and why?
Oh, and World Series. Can't forget about that.
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Big Z is the MAN.
by .Taylor on Jan 11, 2009 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
I don't see whay you should.
No harm no foul.
Man do I love midgets.
My Super Bowl wish:
Eagles/Chargers.
Man do I love midgets.
only if you count the Dolphins in 82
but that was a strike shortened year. I think that the only team that has made the Super Bowl with less than 10 wins in any non-strike year was the 79 Rams.
* sarcasm might be involved in this comment
Not going to lie
I’m rooting for the Cards to win it all
You may gain some yards on the ground, but eventually Lofa will end up biting you in the ass.
I love Kurt Warner
You may gain some yards on the ground, but eventually Lofa will end up biting you in the ass.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 11, 2009 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
The Cards don't bother me
Then again, I rooted for the Angels to win the WS in 2002 because I found them inoffensive.
Either way, if the Iigles win today (hope hope hope) then I really don’t mind who wins the Super Bowl. I wouldn’t mind seeing the Chargers, Philly, or the Cards winning. And while I still hate the Steelers for 2005, I love their defense.
I'll take the Cards.
And, for baseball, the Yanks over the Rays for the World Series Pennant. So, the Yanks’ll win it all.
Big Z is the MAN.
by .Taylor on Jan 11, 2009 1:26 PM PST reply actions
I will probably attend the Final Four next year in Indianapolis, and have attended the past two NCAA tourneys
and would be willing to pay virtually any amount to attend a Super Bowl or World Series featuring the Seahawks or Mariners
Boy, the Dawgs are looking good this year.
Big Z is the MAN.
by .Taylor on Jan 11, 2009 1:42 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, that says "who's going to WIN," not "who's going to" for each event
Super Bowl – Pittsburgh
NCAA Tournament – not a team from the Pac Ten or WCC
World Series – Yankees
by seattlebruin on Jan 11, 2009 6:34 PM PST up reply actions
Not sure if this would go under off topic?
But as I wasn’t an M’s fan until 2005, I am unfamiliar with people who were bad in 2004, such as Scott Spiezio and Rich Aurilla. Were they given multi year contracts and then cut the same year?
Spiezio's was a 3yr signed in 2004, Aurilia was a 1yr deal signed in 2004
by JI on Jan 11, 2009 2:03 PM PST up reply actions
Who in t heir right mind would become a Mariners fan in 2005
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Who would become an M's fan in the 80s?
Oh, that’s right, everyone on this site over 30.
“This is the year they’re going to finish. 500!”
In fairness you're right
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1991 was almost the best year of my Mariner fandom
which is really sad.
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Bill Plummer sucked.
I’m a Lefebvre Beliebvre.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 11, 2009 10:22 PM PST up reply actions
I became a Mariners fan in 2001.
Don’t look at me that way. I’d just moved to Vancouver in October 2000, and I saw that the M’s had just signed this cool Japanese guy I’d heard about on Iron Chef (really, they’d talk about Ichiro on Iron Chef).
It was a good year for a first year.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Hello
I moved up to Washington late 2004, and I always root for the hometown team. Plus, the city seemed much more interested in their local sports than they did in Florida, where everyone cheered for New York baseball teams.
Hey that works
We became Mariners fans in 1998 after moving to Idaho
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Washington Caps will win the Stanley Cup
Backstopped by 20 year old phenom goaltender Simeon Varlamov after Jose Theodore has a freakish hair styling accident.
Your favorite meme is dead
The Red Wings are the Yankees of the NHL.
by Mariner John on Jan 11, 2009 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
As much as I dislike the Red Wings
There is no team that is analogous to the Yankees. Perhaps the Rangers, except for the winning part. With the salary cap, no hockey team can do what the Yankees do. Also, no other fan in sport can be as bad as Yankee fans. Red Sox fans are a close second, and soccer goons exist on a separate level.
Your favorite meme is dead
Not for long if the Detroit economy keeps plummeting through the earth and busting out the other side only to collide with the moon.
Incidentally, It’s a good time to buy real estate in Michigan.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Incidentally, It’s a good time to buy real estate in Michigan.
by seattlebruin on Jan 12, 2009 9:37 AM PST up reply actions
I think it's a bout time to just give the state of Michigan to Canada
The automakers are plummeting, the whole Detroit area is a giant ghetto, University of Michigan’s football team sucks, the state just has absolutely nothing going for it
Determined, Jonesing Commentor | Proud proprietor of Wyomingroutes.org & Washingtonhighways.org
Our economy's doing okay through all this.
We really don’t want Michigan dragging us down.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Are you arguing for or against his point?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
One of my favorite sayings ever isn't even a saying
“Knowledge adds, wisdom lets slide” – Paul Westerberg
Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.
Three good ones from the prologue of a book I just returned to
“Ignorance is not bliss. What is not known can and does hurt us.” – John K. Roth, A Consuming Fire
“…I shall be quick to state that not only do I not possess all the answers—I don’t even know all the questions,” – Elie Wiesel, A Consuming Fire
“This planet may, at any moment, as a result of madness or stupidity, explode in the face of God—and we don’t even think about it. We don’t even care, we are not even concerned.” – Elie Wiesel, A Consuming Fire
So after spending most of the day playing around with Windows 7, I've decided I'm gonna join Robert and use it as my primary OS until it expires.
I partitioned my HDD on my main machine to give it about 200GB and I’m downloading the 64 bit version now.
Any of you guys trying out run into any problems yet?
A few Fallout 3 hiccups, but I suspect Bethesda will patch that.
I’m running primarily on the 64-bit Windows 7 myself.
This is my first real crack at a 64 bit system actually. Tried 64 bit XP once but the drive support was pretty bad.
Intel Due Core E8400
Asus P5N-D 750i SLI
Nvidia 9800GTX+
2 GB Ram(gonna upgrade to 4 come payday)
200GB Partition of a 750GB Western Digital HDD
I gotta say, this is quite impressive indeed. Very quick and very very smooth. Startup time was 1 minute and 14 seconds and shutdown time was a blazing 13 seconds. Detected all my drivers and devices right off the bat, didn’t have to install shit. Also detected all the peripherals that I’ve tried on it.
Programs that are confirmed to work:
Firefox 3
Thunderbird
UTorrent
Photoshop CS2
Nero 8
Microsoft Office 2003
AVG 8
Power ISO
VLC
WinRAR
BitPim
PC Wizard 2008
Pidgin
Programs that don’t work:
Zone Alarm Pro
Peer Guardian 2
Daemon Tools
Alcohol 120%
DVD2one
Daemon Tools are being worked on. And DVD2one isn’t a big deal. I’d like to have Alcohol 120 and Peer Guardian working soon though. And Zone Alarm is kinda a big deal. Anybody know of a good 64 bit firewall?
I haven’t tried any games yet, but will tomorrow. And I’m quickly changing my mind about the new taskbar.Overall this is quite an impressive piece of work. Good job Microsoft.
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”-Gen. George S. Patton
"Mr. Churchill, you are drunk!"
"Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly."- Winston Churchill
BOOYA! You got Slurved!
I'm always surprised to see a college tech textbook be really out of date.
This quote from “Windows XP Command Line” is choice.
This clock provides a beat that synchronizes all the activities. The faster the beat, the faster the CPU can execute instructions. This is measured in megahertz(MHz), where one MHz is equal to 1,000,000 beats of the clock per second. This original 8088 CPU had a MHz rating of 4.77 MHz. Today, 500 MHz is the common speed, and speeds are available up to 866 MHz or more. In fact, a 1 GHz CPU is currently in development by the Intel corporation.
Welcome to 2001.
Wowza!
A whole GHz, all on one single machine? What will I do with all the power?
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:13 PM PST up reply actions
I remember getting a new Dell Dimension 4100 with an 866 MHz processor in late 2000
That computer was the bee’s knees- my parents wanted to get a family computer that would last several years so gave me a $2000 budget to find the best computer we could get.
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I was tasked with the same, and came away with basically the same
Of course, I also remember being stoked that we got a bitchin’ 486 way back in the day
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:19 PM PST up reply actions
I remember when the Commodore 64 was an awesome system.
Go 64. Amber monochrome all the way.
"Beer is ... love ..." Ben Franklin
Yep. My first computer had 64K of RAM.
Which was matched by my calculator in high school. Good times…. it was also a ‘portable’ computer, in that it weighed slightly less then 400 lbs.
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20
It had no peripherals, so anytime I wanted to write a program in Basic, I had to re-key it. I loved the game Gorf on it.
I previously posted as "Man From Nantucket"
My first computer was a Sinclair zx81.
It had 8 kB of system ROM but only 1 kB of RAM.
If I cound make it work I’d post a picture of the manually designed circuit board.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Hahahaha
I love Wikipedia for this exact reason.
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure it's missing a few Oregon highway related lists
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One to be exact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_named_state_highways_in_Oregon
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Dumb bastards
Can’t Wikipedia do anything right?
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:21 PM PST up reply actions
So I just got back from the Thunderbirds game at the new ShoWare arena in Kent
Anybody else made it out there yet? Nice little place, and I caught two great games this weekend. I went on Friday and was treated to a 3-3 tie that ended in a shootout loss after overtime, and then tonight we scored 3 in the first period en route to a 5-2 drubbing of the Prince George Cougars. Plus, since we scored 5 goals, everybody won a free hamburger from Dairy Queen. All in all, it was pretty entertaining. Anybody else have plans on heading out before the season is done?
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
Excuses, excuses
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:24 PM PST up reply actions
I live right up the hill so probably eventually
by Mariner John on Jan 11, 2009 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
I was planning on going to both games all week long
And when I was approaching the ticket window a lady came up and gave me a free ticket that she had won in the chuck a puck at the last game (she has season tickets, so no use for freebies). I sat next to her and her partner during the game, and in that game’s chuck a puck she won 2 more free tickets for Sunday, and offered them to me so I could bring somebody with, so I packed my 5 year old son along tonight. She also won 2 more tickets tonight, and asked for my phone number so she could call and give them to me before next Saturday’s game
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:37 PM PST up reply actions
Like they give her free tickets to get people into the games?
If so, fine by me. She’s very nice and has given me 3 free tickets and a promise for more
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:45 PM PST up reply actions
Plants don't have a central nervous center and would thus be unlikely to attend a hockey game.
by Robert on Jan 11, 2009 9:47 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
You are right how could I be so foolish
by Dewey N on Jan 11, 2009 9:48 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You're so helpful
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:54 PM PST up reply actions
If knowedge is like herpes I hope to give everybody sores.
by Robert on Jan 11, 2009 9:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Slut
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 10:22 PM PST up reply actions
Unless she was named Audrey 2
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:50 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
but they do have a surprising amount of vasculature and enough turgor pressure
to withstand being cross checked.
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!! I DRINK IT UP!!
I don't think she'd have much fun if I went
I sat next to her and her partner during the game…
But yes, she must be quite good at it. Been a season ticket holder for a long time, and constantly has free tickets. She said they almost always go to waste, and that’s why she got my number. I work within walking distance to the new place, so this works well for me
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:43 PM PST up reply actions
I meant to imply that she seems to have good luck.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 11, 2009 9:45 PM PST up reply actions
That's what I figured
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Jan 11, 2009 9:49 PM PST up reply actions
Someone not named seattlebruin make an OTFPOTD for today
and have good tags and memes that we haven’t talked about in a while, like LLikipedia and Scrappy’s
I guess that means not me.
I was never a part of either of those discussions.
Although I do bring it with my old-school tags.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
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