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It's because you're too scrawny since you rolled a 3 for your constitution attribute. You need to be sturdy and strong, that would help you fight illness.
Swine flu kills fewer people than the regular flu pe ryear. And the regular flu strikes every year.
1. Wash your hands, soap and water, count to 20+ seconds (hot or cold doesn't matter). Don't bother with any of that sanitizer unless you can't find water, it's not nearly as helpful.
2. Don't touch your face...ever.
3. Sneeze and cough into your elbow, encourage everyone around you to do the same.
Three easy tips on avoiding the flu, whatever strain, courtesy of the WHO and CDC.
It's just conditioning. I've kept my phone in the same spot in my pocket for the past 5 or 6 years, so even when I feel the slightest of movements at the top of my left leg, I assume it's the phone buzzing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Fuck, I think I must have touched my face at least 4 times in the process of writing this post.Quote:
2. Don't touch your face...ever.
Aside from developing a strong habit of touching your face, it only applies after your hands may have contacted something contaminated. If you are, for example, sitting at home, it doesn't really matter (unless you have potentially diseased people hanging around) or have otherwise managed to compromise your last bastion. Out there, like at work, it's an unfortunate habit indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
I heard touching your face makes it more oiley aka zit heaven
That, as well as black heads. I have anecdotal evidence from people I know (and see).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
I don't touch my face precisely because it is oily. I only get zits when I'm stressed I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
Why the fuck do so many people insist on making as much noise as possible in the library? I thought of all places on a university campus, the library is supposed to be the quietest. Instead of that, I'm always surrounded by jackasses who take forever to unload and pack up in the noisiest manner possible. Meanwhile, there are other vapid asshats who have conversations either on their phones or whisper loudly with some other dipshit about the last time they got drunk, nailed some girl, or got nailed by some random guy, etc. When did becoming a dreg of society actually become something of which to be proud?
The common areas in the library are zoos. It's like a social gathering place for students that's not a bar. I don't study in libraries, though I think it's a skill you need to acquire to be able to work/study/sleep regardless of distractions.Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
Because in my experience, some of the dumbest people go to the library because that is where they believe one goes to study when at college/university. Most of those kind of people don't really even belong in university, they just do it because that is what is expected in their place in society, their parents are paying for it, and they go to college to party. They don't even have an idea what they want to do in life, and a lot of the them are Liberal Arts majors.Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
I'm generalizing of course, but this was my experience. Our library had group study rooms for discussions and talking, and they were either (a) empty, or (b) full of people so loud you could hear them five bookshelves away from the closed door. Everywhere else was the barely-hushed whispering and people talking on cell phones or not studying playing on laptops (not the commuters, this was at 10pm).
It doesn't work for everyone, but I got around to studying either in my academic buildings (Engineering) or under headphones in my dorm rooms. Music wasn't really distracting and I didn't really listen to it anyway, it becomes white noise. My roommate was similar, he'd study with the television on for the white noise.
The library never gets used for studying, because that is what a lot of the idiots think is the place to go to be smart. It rarely works for them, but most of their classes aren't hard anyway.
Disclaimer: I apologize for any individuals in the Liberal Arts who paid their own way into University or had a true interest in their field of study, European students who passed relevant entrance/placement exams in their respective countries, or anyone else who earned their way into and through college. I also apologize to persons who legitimately used the library for studying (often under the headphones just like me to block out the noise, and those who used the computers in the library to type their papers and written homework assignments. The statements made by Ryllharu in no way represent the views of gotwoot, the university he attended, or anyone else.
I used to find good spots to study at my old university but I haven't been able to find anything in the past 4 years I've been at my current one. And the thing is, I'm not sitting in areas where there are tables for groups of people to gather, I'm on the 2nd highest floor along the perimeter where there are single person carrels...which is only the 6th floor because this POS university only has 7-floor library. The 7th floor is even noisier, if you can believe it. After almost 9 years (on and off) in university, you'd figure I'd be able to study with distractions but I can't. For some reason my mind seems to focus on the most annoying thing that most people can ignore.
Maybe I should just get a new set of headphones. I used to study with music all the time, and I think I retained information better because I used to also get better grades then too.
I totally believe it. We had a 6-floor library (only four above ground). The top floor was always the loudest. That's where the idiots gather. They want the best view out the windows.Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
You need to find the microfilm. No one goes there.
I can never study at university period.
The clothes I'm in aren't as comfortable as home clothes, there's people walking around the place, and I can't be myself.
And I don't like study groups. I do things at my own pace.
This is strange. No matter how much I try to remember, I can't recall a single instance when any of the libraries of my university would have seemed noisy to me. I did study in a couple of them over the years and there was nothing disturbing me. Other people were also quietly studying or reading publications or something. Nobody was discussing or talking to a cell phone.
Maybe it's because you have to pass an entrance exam over here. Who knows. Or maybe I was just lucky. Or maybe it's because we Finns consider ourselves quiet people, even though that hardly applies to students.
I also think the idiots gather on the top floor because they think nobody will be there to disturb their moronic conversations. What's really irritating is how they think they're being studious by just being there during mid-term and final exams even though all they do is prattle on like a bunch of nimrods.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
On monday I'll check the microfilm floor. Thanks for the tip!
I can never productively study at home because there are too many distractions...like Gotwoot, haha. And study groups are teh suck, I've also always been a lone studier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
What kind of clothes are you wearing to school? I always just wear my normal clothes, although I never wear anything "nice" because anytime I have I usually felt over-dressed so I think I can understand where you're coming from.
Which reminds me of the attire of a majority of university students, a lot of track-pants and Ugg boots. I could go on about how a lot of them are sporting the reprehensible "hobo" look, but I don't want to go off on a rant.
You have no idea how lucky you were.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Just jeans and shirt or something like that. Maybe a jacket if it's cold. I wear more well-worn, loose fitting clothes at home.Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
Oh, and no shoes, while I wear joggers to uni.
LOL, jeans are all I ever wear outside the house. I don't feel comfortable wearing joggers outside the house, but then I only own one pair and I've had them for like 12 or 13 years now. Now that I think about it, I'm surprised they haven't fallen apart. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
You feel comfortable wearing joggers inside the house?Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
What the hell are joggers?
Sneakers.Quote:
Originally Posted by samsonlonghair
Joggers = jogging (track) pants. I've never heard people call sneaker shoes "joggers".Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
EDIT: And I never wear my shoes inside my house or anyone else's for that matter.
I've always used "joggers" and "sneakers" interchangeably. I haven't confused anyone yet, but I'll ask some friends in case they're just too nice to correct me :o.Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
According to the Urban Dictionary you're right. I've always heard the term used for jogging/track pants but it could just be a local thing. :confused:
My ears are ringing. It's driving me nuts.
I has an ouchie.
It's really windy here today in Silicon Valley. I was riding to work. Going 25 (according to Garmin). A gust lifted up my front end. Seriously, I got lift, and turned my front wheel a little. When my wheel touched the ground the fork snapped in half, broke. I tore up my arms something fierce. My heart rate monitor chest band is scraped out of commission (thank god I was wearing it and my chest is ok.) My fork snapped in half. My front wheel had a few spokes pull out of the hub. So I need a new wheel and fork. I've got some road rash and maybe micro tears in the muscles in my shoulders. All things considered, I'm alright.
It was an unpleasant experience, accentuated by the fact I've been waiting for a month to get my steer tube cut, which I finally got this morning. My poor, poor bike. She's only got some 500 miles. RIP(es) fork.
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/q...l/P1000725.jpg
Man that's gotta suck.
Good to hear at least you're not out scraped out of commission. Get it patched up and hit the road again! ;)
What material is your front fork made of? Carbon fiber or aluminum or something else? That sucks man. Didn't you just recover from a bad accident?
um...Actually, if you can figure out for me how to fix a fork I'll give it a shot.
I'm SO lucky I didn't re-fracture my (currently still) shattered fibula. I'm also very greatfull to still have a chest and not just a red spot over my ribs. My arms are messed up really bad. I almost can't drive.
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/q...l/P1000727.jpg
The zipper broke in half when I went down. =( It's the one thing I can't replace.
I'm on my way to recovery.... Fibula still broken. Doc made me promise not to crash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Stupid freak accident. Carbon Fiber fork, though I fully believe this would have ruined any fork. Steel would have bent really far, Al would have bent a bit and cracked and CF just snapped. I've got a good 20K+ miles on carbon forks and can't hold anything against them, this was a freak accident.
http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/q...l/P1000726.jpg
You can't repair load-bearing carbon fiber. Boat hulls, surfboards, car hoods, all repairable to an extent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cal_kashi
But it is impossible to fix that fork in any way where you can use it again. There is no way to reweave the load bearing fibers so that they could take tension/compression.
I was thinking of jamming a good stick in there, maybe maple, and duct taping it together... you think not so much?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
I see no reason that can't handle 50+ mph stresses.
Do you have a warranty on the frame? A number of carbon fiber bike frames have them (so long as you're the original owner).
Jokes aside, trying to use a repaired carbon fiber frame is a great way to seriously hurt yourself.
I've had the frame for about 500 miles. Got a new frame in May the day before I shattered my leg. Finally started riding it recently. I even finally got the steer tube cut today. Shop has been to busy for weeks. Cannondale should replace it, though they may try to recover their costs. If they try that I'm going to claim I think there is a problem with the forks. I've seen forum posts of this fork breaking like this. I figure at worst I'll pay some $3-400. Hopefully nothing. *sniffle* poor frame, I hardly new thee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
No kidding, I won't even ride a frame that's scored past the clear coat. I go WAY too fast to take those risks. Appreciate the advice though, in case I WAS that dumb. =P
Wouldn't it be funny to see though? A broken fork with sticks jammed in it with tape all around it?
Hah, I was really hoping you weren't that dumb. Sorry, I've been at work for 28 hours out of the last 48. My sarcasm detector isn't exactly functioning properly anymore.
<bitch>
Doing crisis work, that isn't part of my job, but because I sit in the same cube as the people whose job it is and we have the same supervisor, we get the pleasure of doing most of the work. Hell, those guys shouldn't even be doing it.
</bitch>
Hang in there, and spend some time plotting how to ruin the people who are causing you problems. Shouldn't be hard in this economy. If it makes you feel better, I have 2 jobs. I'm in two groups, validation and verification. Both expect 30-40 hours per week. I have long work days... sigh.
A cable just broke on the Bay Bridge.
http://cbs5.com/local/bay.bridge.cable.2.1274773.html
I told ya'll it was windy ;)
Seeing those pictures my steel bike doesn't anymore feel quite as heavy as before...
Go give your bike a hug =D. I know I did yesterday; but not tonight. We're fighting and bitch is sleeping on a hook in the garage where she can sit in the dark and think about what she's done.
My bike's shifters are kaput. They are Shimano DXs on a Specialized mountain bike. From what I'm reading, these type of "quick shifters" fail a lot and are impossible to repair. Replacing them might be $100 or more. Currently I'm stuck with maybe 3 gears.
With speeds and declines like you'll find in the Bay Area, maybe you should consider wearing riding leathers when you go biking, Cal_kashi?
what the hell was I thinking?
"Oh, sure, I've nearly failed math at highschool, and I had to take the lowest level exam.. But I bet university level is going to be a whole lot easier.."
I'm probably the greatest idiot in the entire campus.
and it's not like i have any spare time, I get up at 06:00 and return at 17:00, (an hour commute each direction), and for the first two hours of the day, I feel like my legs are made of jellow (I'm going to have nightmares about my legs snapping like those bikes.. spooky).
I'm such a big jerk, and it's proably to late for me to change course (I don't even know if I should try).
If they won't let you drop it then i suggest to just try and find out of the school offer any sort of tutoring for that course/subject.Quote:
Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
Math is one of those things that require a lot of repetition, and I've had my fair share of difficulties with Calculus. I found it to be a lot easier once i started going over the materials for a short amount of time everyday and try to do a question or two on my own.
You guys have fancy bikes. I can't imagine paying more than a hundred dollars for a part of a bike. To me a bicycle is supposed to be a cost-cutting instrument: a cheaper mode of transportation. Bicycling is a lot of fun too, but I've never been one to spend much money on fun.
My bicycle is a Frankenstein contraption made of parts from four different yard sale bicycles. I have a flashlight electrical-taped to the handlebars for a headlamp, my back brakes barely work, and my front brakes don't work at all. God, I love my bike.
For a basic bike that's true. But I primarily use mine to commute. It's what i bought it for, my goal being to pay it off with saved gas. In the meantime it's important that te bike is strong and fast so that it is a legitimate means of commuting. It's not something someone is likely to do if it takes all day. My ride to work is 45 miles round trip and if I'm feeling really strong that day I can do it in 2 hours round trip. At those speeds it's actually faster for me to ride to work than drive during rush hour. I've also commuted at least 6000 miles since I bought it, (8 months of riding, 4 off for a broken leg). So, my car (at best) gets 20 mi/gallon. That's 300 gallons. At $3/gallon that's $900 bucks. 3000 more miles and it's paid for.Quote:
Originally Posted by samsonlonghair
To ride at night I have to bright Nite Rider headlights. One isn't bright enough when I go over 20. I charge them at work when I get in so that I don't use my power and use rechargeable AAA for the rear.
By all means I LOVE riding my bike. IT's the most fun thing in the world for me. But taking into account that I use it instead of driving does the cost make sense? And 1500 is really cheap for a bike. Also, I broke that bike and got a new much better frame so now I have a $3000 bike =D.
It's true you can't repair them. What you can do is go bike recycling. GO to a college campus, ride around during the day time and look for bikes that are locked up but a bunch of stuff has already been stolen. Like the wheels and the seatpost and saddle etc. Most of them will still have handlebars and shifters. Find your shifters or some that will work. In my mind that's not bike thievery that's reducing land fill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Leathers would be way to heavy and hot. It's a risk I take riding and it's still worth it. Crashing at 25 messed me up but I'm mostly OK. I've crashed near 40 before and that was hell. I can hit 54 in a 30 right by my house, there are some hills in the east bay where I can regularly hit 60 and once in Orange County I hit 70. That is scary fast, as well as crash and die fast. Never again. You need to find a balance between weight of gear what they provide and temperature. Bike clothes already go a long ways towards protecting your body, assuming you aren't going too fast. When I mountain bike I may get more aggressive. When I go downhilling or it's 3AM and I'm wasted on an illegal trail that drops into Memorial stadium I'll wear armor.
Death BOO Z
I feel like my legs are made of jellow (I'm going to have nightmares about my legs snapping like those bikes.. spooky).
Don't be scared, I have bad luck with things like this. (See below). You have nothing to fear.
I've broken 10 frames in the last 10 years. none from crashing.
4 SPecialized FSR XC's 99,01,02,03.
3 KHS Flite Team frames (all in spring '03)
Simonetti Aluminum custom sprinters frame. (Down tube broke in the middle on a ride, looks like a can would when you tear it apart in your hands, a crack starting on the top of the tube in the middle, spirals all the way around and gets to the top again an inch from where it started)
Cannondale six13, the top tube was pulling out of the lug at the seat-tube/top-tube/seat-stay junction.
And a Steal Schwin MTB, (college commuter)
All failed w/o crashes encouraging failure.
Cal_Kashi, stop double posting man.
You're crazy. I've spent maybe forty dollars on my bike. I could buy a decent car for fifteen hundred.Quote:
And 1500 is really cheap for a bike.
cal kashi is off on the university campus parting out peoples bikes !
My sister said they sometimes throw peoples bikes into the trees if they're not locked up.
My current bitching.... If I'm going to have to move around a bunch of people by monday... shouldn't somebody tell me? I shouldn't have a random cubicle dweller telling me these things.++
The problem actually ended up being that after I moved the people, one of them didn't even know they were moving, and 2 of the people weren't ready to move despite my being told to move their computers to other locations... completely rediculous stuff.
Australian Left 4 Dead 2 censorship comparison
What is this shit?
I'd better be able to get a US version if I buy this from Steam.
Man, what a lucky country you have. I reckon the history of Australia doesn't know a single case of a dirty cop either. Donning a uniform makes you holy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Article
Sucks about the L4d2 Australia thing. I'd be pissed.
As for my bitching, I went to some random person's apartment Halloween weekend and poured my beer into used cups. Nearly two weeks later and I'm still sick. I wake up choking on my own mucus every night, it sucks hardcore.
Thought it might be swine flu but no fever. Urghhhhhh....
That sounds harsh. I hope you pull through Genma.
Opera Link decided that my newly updated laptop was the master version of Opera for some reason, and deleted all my bookmarks. I had to fight it for about 20 minutes to get my bookmarks back, and now I have a real backup instead of believing in Opera's solution for getting them back (which didn't work at all).
Real cute when a feature designed to assist in keeping your bookmarks freaks out and trashes all of them.
That's what you get for using a browser called "Opera".
I use an add-on in firefox called Xmarks that syncs the bookmarks on my laptop and PC with a server to keep them consistent. I used to back up my bookmarks.html file somewhere, but I haven't done that for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
I going to do that now, lest the server decides to wipe everything and sync my computers to that version, since auto-sync is on. (All 187 of them :p)
Discussions based on turns.
Arguments based on evidence.
Topical nitpicking instead of personal insults.
Is it too much to ask? :(
Not on gotwoot irc. We have it all!Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Damn, I just took an aptitude test for a company I sent a job application to. I'm applying for a writing job, but they still make everyone take the test, which contained a long math section with questions like:
A certain sum of money is invested at 10%. Twice that amount is invested at 8%. The total amount of interest from both investments is $91. How much is invested at 8%.
I'm sure there are some people who could do that problem relatively quickly. I, however, haven't touched a math problem in 4 years and only answered maybe 2 or 3 out of 30 correctly. I hope I did well enough on the other sections to balance everything out.
By the limited information, I'm assuming they aren't compounding the interest, so the formula should be simple:Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
91 = 1.1*x + 2*1.08*x
91 = (1.1 + 2.16)x
$27.91 = x
Since x is amount invested at 10%, that would mean that $55.82 is the amount invested at 8%
Hah, I knew you'd try to answer that.
But the practice test said the answer was $700 dollars.
Anyway, I'm just annoyed because to do well I would have had to do practice problems like these for at least a few weeks. Hopefully everyone did as badly as I did.
Assertn, what you calculated makes the $91 as the total return (principal + interest), and not just the interest.
A little late, but here it is anyway:
91 = 0.1*x + 0.08*2x
91 = 0.26x
x = 91/0.26 = 350
So amount invested at 8% is 2x = 2(350) = 700
Anyway, my bitch for today is my Policy class. I studied for a fucking week for the midterm, which we just got back today and I failed. HARD. I can understand my grade if I studied the night before or the day of but I didn't. Even passing the class at this point doesn't even seem possible and I need this class to graduate because it's a core course. I don't understand why they'd make a 4th year class so impossibly difficult when everyone has fought all the way through the program up to this point. You figure by now they'd give us a little bit of a break by now.
I got a parking ticket at this ridiculous school because I was supposedly blocking a drive. I don't see how the hell that's possible, I was parked between two vehicles. Also if I was blocking anything, I'd probably be towed. I got the ticket at 3:30 and I wasn't out of class until 8:30, are they trying to say I was blocking people for that long? Bullshit. I bet I can't even get my fucking diploma next month until I pay the 25 bucks. Nazi fucking parking services acting like they own the place.
My driving law lessons are boring as hell...
I understood need to explain every sign, how to check oil etc in your car but god dammit - 1h movie which consisted of statements like the (in)famous "people die when they are killed" in F/SN, with showing three fucking times how each lamp is getting lit, etc. Give me 15 minutes and a car and i can explain it all to someone, and i don't have my driving license yet(I'll get that - if i pass at 1st time - somewhere around January) - it is a common knowledge...
There are such fools out there driving cars that they must have got their driving license from a cereal box. A person with normal wits would find lessons like that tedious at best but some people really need them.
Here in the US capital of inconsiderate asshole drivers who are convinced they are the best drivers on the road, New England, I sincerely wish that our driver exams were so rigorous. I guarantee that if everyone here was retested, 80-90% would fail.
Just remember, driving is a privilege, not a right.
Driving may be a privilege, but it's also a necessity. I would never drive if there was a decent public transportation system where I live. In the 1950s GM conspired to have the local train station demolished. Now the only way to get around is by car.
Are road rule lessons compulsory, or just something you can choose to do?
Here you just have to pass the road-rule test to get your Learner's License. I just studied the book for a week. I would imagine sitting through a class to be quite boring.
The whole "people die when they are killed" is a bit overboard though I think. If people don't get that idea from the start, I doubt they'll get if after you say it a few times in a classroom.
Thinking of crazy driving ...
so my area's getting pounded tonight by what the weather folks are calling "nor-Ida" (because it's the intersection of a noreaster and the remnants of hurricane Ida. And I'm driving home at like 8:30, because I spent a bunch of time in the gym. Middle of a downpour, doing like 45 on the highway, and had three near misses in a stretch of 1000 feet. First was a guy in the left lane encroaching on mine, right next to me, which I had to swerve and hit the brakes to avoid a collision. Second was the aftermath of a previous collision, which involved 4 cars stopped in the middle two lanes of the four "through lanes". No flashers, no brake lights, just tail lights. Come on folks, put on your damned flashers if you're going to park in the middle of a busy highway!
Then as I slid around to avoid that, someone zips past me at about 85 and cuts me off, coming within about 6 inches of my front bumper. This while I'm down to the upper 30's, and going faster than most of the traffic.
Anyway, at least that last guy got pulled over a mile later, which made me happy. Probably woulda been better if the cop were back at the accident site cluing people in to the fact that there were two lanes blocked by wreckage though ...
I like driving, a lot more than taking public transit. But sometimes it's just like ... what the heck are these people doing, ya know?
why would you use an email service that issues a challenge response email to anybody who emails you? If I have to email somebody, click on a link, and type a captcha message each time I email them, i'm not going to bother emailing them.
No it was literally like that statement - here is one of quotes "sign 'dangerous turn ahead' means that there is dangerous turn ahead"...and asshole drivers are here as common as in the us, i think. Unfortunately the lessons are obligatory, that is if i want to get a driving license.
I sent my graphics card back for warranty.
ETA: 6wks ~ 3 months.:eek:
That's pitiful. Back when I got a video card with the tv-out dead, it took exactly a week for me to get a new one. That was understandable seeing how the store first sent it somewhere, they verified it's broken, and sent the replacement card to the store.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
But 6 weeks - 3 months... Did you ask them if it's absolutely necessary for them to tape the card to the back of a tortoise for transportation?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Well I can bitch about that too....
In France, for many products, you have to wait 4 weeks to several months to get a part replaced... only after you spent weeks negociating with your french representative that the part is dead and under warranty and they have to replace it.
Then you wait long weeks/months, then it arrives in France, and then you have to negociate again for weeks to get the part from their company to you...
Goods usually come from china, via boat...
In the end, for some products, I found a better quality alternative directly from China, where they get their goods...
Things are:
Price is 1/10th or even 1/20th (I have one example even lower) the price paid in France, even with airmail...
I receive goods in about 10 days
I don't care if some fail on me, because I can fry 10 before it costs me the price of one here
If I have some fry on me, I only need 10 days at most to get a replacement if I have a shortage.
The person I work with in China is pleasant, has a relatively good english.
Representative in France, for same products are most of the time unpleasant, even more when there's an RMA involved... so Screw them, there's no meaning in ordering those parts from them other than being screwed yourself.
Flash player 10.1 is pretty awesome for ati stream computing users, cause it enables HW accelerated flash playing.
Too bad it only videos on gametrailers.com actually play.............
I went to Frys w\ my wife so she could get something her mom needed... anyhow, we got there 5 minutes before closing so we were rushing, found what she wanted and I was thinking of buying MW2 for PC, which wow... how could they not have?
Anyhow, walking back across the store this book caught my eye, and there was just 1. These shelves are like.... 2 feet deep, it was the 2nd to bottom shelf and just 1 book was there. I go into pick it up... and Fuck me if I didn't slam my forehead full force into the shelf.
Srsly... it was painful and I then tried to play it off despite having clearly been seen by at least 2 frys employees. I iced it when I got home but am hoping it's not dark purple when I wake up in the morning... I have a pretty good sized egg on my forehead : (
I bought MW2 for pc, and guess what? it won't run.
there is some damned bug there that prevents it from running, steam blames activision and vice versa... great goddamnit - i can't even get my cash back because this is steam-only game.
and the funny part is - the pirated version worked without any problems..
I don't suppose you can run the pirated version using your proper key/steam account without getting banned by VAC, can you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xelbair
Nope, that vers got its steam ripped off.
I'll see what responses i shall get from activision and valve, but from what i heard from other fora it will be like "Its valve's steam fault!" and the valve response will be similar "It is activision's problem"
Maybe you should post something about this in the "help me" threads, complete with errors and your PC setup. Might be something as simple as a driver update or some other app running in the background that's causing the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xelbair
That was covered in some faq - I've tried everything solution possible.
Ugh. I just spent the past 7 hours in the Emergency Room with an IV in my arm and a pulse of 124. After going through 4 bags of fluid, some Morphine, and something called Zofran, I don't feel any better. Clear liquids and saltines will be my meals for the next few days, while waiting for the bacteria to pass.
If it doesn't kill you, it can only make you stronger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marik
Yet even ICU, 4 bags of IV fluid, morphine, and something called Zofran won't stop Marik from posting release updates. Truly hardcore.
Oh, so that's why the Naruto release update was late.
I shall delete that hate mail and send you a get-well-soon card instead :p
PS: Did you eat something bad?
Yeah, I had some wings from across the street. They gave me food poisoning, so I've been diagnosed with Gastroenteritis. I'm gonna stay away from wings for awhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Edit: @Kraco below: No, not yet.
Have you reported the place?
Following up this post I decided to go ahead with the order.
MS then tells me I will have to do a clean install rather than simply download the upgrade.exe since I'm using xp (for an additional $14 through the post). That's well and all, and since it's kind of necessary, I purchased the $50 license as well as the $14 CD.
After I checked out, I got redirected to the download page, which lists two options:
1) EXE - for upgrading with compatible OS
2) ISO - for clean installations.
^ BUT THEY DON'T TELL YOU THIS UNTIL AFTER YOU PAY NOW DO THEY?
Woah sounds pretty terrible. Take care Marik!
Take this opportunity to try chicken feet. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marik
You may be pleasantly surprised.
Sounds like something that will make me even sicker. I'll pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
:eek: @ the google images of chicken feet.
bahha, I more tired than a pack mule.
I had a job in the university today. I was there to watch over some Psychometrics exams (an academic admission exam, sort of, like the SAT) taking place, and it took it's toll on me...
day started out good, there was an english-only exam, which was short, and no one interrupted, but then we had the real exam...
50 something people (who were all of the same minority group, woo-hoo!) acting like jerks and making a howl. everything took twice as much time for us as it did for other groups, and we finished more than an hour after everyone else.
I pooped, I crushed for 4 hours when I got home, and now I'm going to bed again..
also, they all had similar sounding names, which I can't pronounce well, so it felt like a memorial service (with extra emphasis on each syllable of the names: "JubRan JubRan", "AhMed AbuSaLim"...).
still, It pays well.
g.night
I discovered I had no internet last night. I'd already spent 10-15 minutes trying to repair my connection... trying wired, wireless, restarting the router... Then I realized the router was showing no internet connection so I called verizon and spent about 10 minutes in their automated system before being transferred.... TO HOLD!
I had to goto bed at some point, had been on hold for over 45 minutes. Woke up in the morning.... and had internet! but now I dont, and have to wait until tomorrow or the next day for a new router to arrive :( srsly.... BOOOO
So..verizon insists there's nothing wrong at their end? If not, a new router may not be your fix.Quote:
Originally Posted by itadakimasu
I have very rarely had any troubles with my connection, but the few times there have been, I have suffered from no wait times to catch a person and after the few typical questions the ISP has never tried to insist it's something on my side. Rather, they have always said they will check their own settings and systems (and that has always helped as well). Doesn't sound like this Verizon values its customers too highly.
well, the wireless doesn't seem to work at all.
It almost seems like a DNS issue, but then the router does lock up when you try to access it. I could get to yahoo, google, certain ebay pages, but most other pages wouldn't load.
Wireless doesn't broadcast... If the replacement router doesn't fix it I'm gonna be cranky!
My internet went out sometime on sunday night and I wasted an hour on hold before having to goto bed cause it was late.
My wife called on monday and they sent me an email w\ a UPS tracking number for a new router they were sending out to us.. ok! great. Tuesday, no router... owell, wait til wednesday.
My wife calls back yesterday and they tell her that the routers are not in stock and that it will not ship out until the 31st... are you fucking kidding me? no internet for 2+ weeks? that just doesn't work...
so, i jump on their website and do a tech support chat session and this guy assures me that the router actually shipped yesterday, despite ups's website not showing any results for the tracking number verizon gave me. The guy tells me it will arrive on wednesday for sure.
Wednesday/yesterday : No router... so, I give them a call and now this guy tells me close to what they told my wife before, the order shows pending and he doesn't know where the router is or if they're in stock, or on back order... despite this though, he goes on to tell me that the router will ship that night and get to me today... srsly?
my response to him was immediately to ask him why I've at that point been given 3 completely different answers to the same question.
Anyhow, my internet was back working somehow so i'm not too worried about it, but it was not working monday or tuesday.
On a plus note, they did offer my wife some kind of internet/tv package w\ 25/10mbps internet speed for $79...which I think I will do.
Today i lost all of my firefox tabs - that is 1 year worth of tabs(about 50-60, some of them are impossible to get back)...
My mother used mine pc, i warned her 5 fucking times, "watch out for pop-unders and close the main browser, the one with tabs, last" (she of course hates tabs and opens everything in new window...), and guess what? all tabs are gone, and the best part is - it was not her fault that all my tabs are gone, but in fact she closed the main browser first(tabbed one) - it is my fault for using the tabs and keeping them that way, and I'm the stupid one...
Can't they for once say "I'm sorry i messed up, its my fault" instead of telling me that it is my fault?
You know there's a function called "Bookmark all tabs"?
It may have saved you.
After my brothers and sister did that for the 10th time I password protected my session and told them to use the damn guest function.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xelbair
Now it wont happen again, thanks to "about:config" in ff(don't mess up there), and bookmarking all tabs is bad idea for me - I've got too much bookmarks to look there to find anything. Why in the first place firefox allows pop-unders? It does not even have simple option to block them - you have to tweak variables in config manually.
Have you tried organizing your bookmarks into folders? Once I started doing that, I found that I actually started using bookmarks, rather than just making them for sites I'd only visit every six months.
You can even make a "Regular Tabs" folder or something like that.
My bookmark consists of 222 entries organised into 33 folders/subfolders/sub-subfolders etc.
The biggest tree is 5 deep.
When i organize something i spend more time searching there than just looking through chaotic list.
and here's my bitch - new year's party was not so good, even though there was one great girl..
Yet another bitch - my graphics card is broken...again.. goddamnit, i'm writing from my mum's laptop.
Xel : what kinda card did you have?
I haven't posted here in a while so I thought I would !
Movie Theater price gouging... pisses me off. I saw Avatar with my sister saturday and it was $4.50. 1 liter bottle of water? $4.50... that isn't my bitch though.
I went again yesterday because my wife and her brother didn't get to see it. We went to one theater and it was sold out, so then we went to another theater and wow... $9.50 per ticket? srsly? Then you get to the anal rape section that is the concessions... $6.50 for a "small" soda? $8 for a bag of popcorn?
I'm a thrifty guy so stuff like that pisses me off. same thing @ the gym... why would i pay $2.75 for 20oz of powerade if I can go next door and get a 32oz bottle for $1.25 ?