Grrrr....

I've been all over town looking for a simple bracket I need to secure the speakers I'm taking to work tomorrow, and every hardware store I've been to has no idea what I'm talking about...until I drawl them a picture...at which point, they say, "Oooooooooooh! I know what it is now...ummmmmm, if we had anything like that, it would be on aisle XYZ."
So I go to the aisle in question, only to find something that kind of *looks* similar, but would never work in the application that I need it for. :bang:

The really irritating thing is, I used them often at my old job, so I know they exist!

I was really confused until I figured out Kitrax meant "aisle" ...it sounded you had to take a plane in search of elusive hardware. :p

Can't you make one yourself Kit?

DotW, Blackpool is the capital of cheese! It's THE seaside town :lol:

I was really confused until I figured out Kitrax meant "aisle" ...it sounded you had to take a plane in search of elusive hardware. :p

You mean you've never heard of the isle in question? It's located in the sea of conjecture. :p

Can't you make one yourself Kit?
I could...if I had an Acetylene Oxygen torch, an anvil, a ball peen hammer, and a drill press...oh and some roundbar to form it out of. :bad:


I was really confused until I figured out Kitrax meant "aisle" ...it sounded you had to take a plane in search of elusive hardware. :p
Ah...stupid me.

*fixed*

You mean you've never heard of the isle in question? It's located in the sea of conjecture. :p

-_-

Quiet you...

Hey Kit, was it you who posted that photo of the number of cables connecting (internetically) Australia to the rest of the world? If so, is there anyway you could post it again? I am trying to find it to explain something to someone.

internetically

I think we have a new word here.

Which uni do you go to Dave?

Sorry for the rather belated reply but I go to Teesside University in Middlesbrough...some call me mad but I actually like the place :D

I went to Teesside!! I'm from Middlesbrough and I live in Darlington now! That's soooooo cool! What course you doing?

I'm on Digital Music and Animation, just finished my second year awaiting results...bit nervous cos I think I messed up my 3D work. What did you study?

Why is it that I love older actresses like Judi Dench and Helen Mirren :hmm:

Because they are classy :D

Why is I have man crushes on older actors...Patrick Stuart, Harrison Ford...yeah I'm not ashamed to admit it :p...hell Leanord Neemoy (sp?) for his voice, god I love his voice :shake: Civ 4 was always a good game in my books simply because he read the research stuff!

I did mental health nursing for a year but had to quit as I (ironically) had a nervous breakdown :lol: ah well, if you can't laugh at a serious mental health problem, what can you laugh at?

You'll do fine with your results, it Middlesbrough, we're all barbarians who eat with our fingers and can't read, you'll ace the class!

You'll do fine with your results, it Middlesbrough, we're all barbarians who eat with our fingers and can't read, you'll ace the class!

I know you northerners are unsophisticated, backwards, idiots...but then the South isn't much better :p

Well...this is true.

If you're ever stuck for anything while you're up here then give me a shout

Hey Kit, was it you who posted that photo of the number of cables connecting (internetically) Australia to the rest of the world? If so, is there anyway you could post it again? I am trying to find it to explain something to someone.

Google is your friend (http://www.nrc.nl/multimedia/archive/00170/270808ECO_glasvezel_170984a.jpg) It's not in english...but I think you can figure it out. :D

Here's another image (http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg) for good measure.

Man alive, my students this session are needy little whiners. They're driving me up the freaking wall!

My wife just made a German Choclate cake with holes punched into it and poured in the Caramel. Then drizzled more caramel on top... Time to bust out the hole-punch, hopefully there's room left for one more on the belt! :rolleyes:

My wife just made a German Choclate cake with holes punched into it and poured in the Caramel. Then drizzled more caramel on top... Time to bust out the hole-punch, hopefully there's room left for one more on the belt! :rolleyes:

Just make sure you have insulin on hand...just in case you go into diabetic shock! :p

In other news...I just found out I get 2 days off that won't count towards my vacation account because my boss has a shred of decency. :D I have to switch to the day shift for a week of EMT training, and they were going to make me work Sunday 1am-7am...and then expect me to work 9 hours on Monday starting at 8am. That would have been fun... :skeptic:

I absolutely destroyed the store record for the most customers for two days straight. No, I didn't destroy it, I raped it until it begged for it's mother. 1378 customers in 17 hours... you do the math.

I rolled myself a huge ecological cigarette upon arriving at home both evenings. Talk about relaxing after a [expletive] day.

I hate my boss's boss. Get a pack of batteries, already.

I absolutely destroyed the store record for the most customers for two days straight. No, I didn't destroy it, I raped it until it begged for it's mother. 1378 customers in 17 hours... you do the math.


...wow. Where the hell do you work?

Hell?

Mwa! Ha! Ha! Brooouuuhaaahaahaahaahaaha! Mwaaahhaahhhaahheehhaa!*cough* *cough* :evil:

Hell?

Mwa! Ha! Ha! Brooouuuhaaahaahaahaahaaha! Mwaaahhaahhhaahheehhaa!*cough* *cough* :evil:

..oh you went there. :lol:


Having said that...I CAN picture DoTW running a store in hell >.>

I just trailed round loads of different chemists to get my tablets. Everywhere was either out of stock due to a manufacturing problem or had a 3 hour wait!

Good job that they're my happy pills or I'd be seriously ****ed off!

Woo, hopefully I'm old enough now that people will stop asking if I'm still in high school.

O'man, the noober thread got locked!
You gotta put up with him for a couple of minutes to get the extra xp.

Home. Typing. Dodging books. Hurray! :p

If frogs have their pupils positioned vertically, they are most likely nocturnal.


Nights are great this time of year - I just hope there are no thunderstorms though...

Heading off for the weekend, I'm sure it will be a muddy mess. I think I've seen sunlight for a total of 15 minutes in the past 9 days!

I find myself in need of snacks...


Oh. Chicken. That will do. :)

Woo, hopefully I'm old enough now that people will stop asking if I'm still in high school.

Well? Are you? :hmm:

In other news, I have to hand in my final paper in my Written Analysis class in under an hour...I'm a little nervious, because it's 25% of my overal grade. :eek:

Not even at all.

The worst part is that half of the people who ask, are the those whom I only see while on campus (Washington State). You'd think they would be able to put it together, but then again, I'm probably overestimating the already underwhelming mental acuity of the student population here.

School's out for two weeks *and* I got an 'A' in all my classes!!! (an A = top marks for you oddballs that use a different grading system)

I must celebrate with booze...lots and lots of booze! :yum:



Besides that news of awesomeness...I'm listening to one of TSO's Xmas albums for some reason. :skeptic:

Congrats! :thumb:

School's out for two weeks *and* I got an 'A' in all my classes!!!

Woo. Want a freaking medal?

O'man, the noober thread got locked!
You gotta put up with him for a couple of minutes to get the extra xp.
Don't worry...Neeber will show up soon enough... :p

Woo. Want a freaking medal?
Well since you offered...I *would* like a medal. :D

Too freaking bad you can't tell sarcasm when you see it.

Ugh, my roommate is moving out tomorrow... Gonna be really boring without him around, I guess I'll start working out again.

Too freaking bad you can't tell sarcasm when you see it.

The fact that text makes it difficult to convey sarcasm is one of the greatest failings of the internet in my opinion.

I'm pretty sure in this case that sarcasm was detected... Regardless, I do agree with The Magister as far as the failure of text to convey not just sarcasm, but [most] any tone of voice.

Well I don't know about ANY TONE OF VOICE. I MEAN CAPSLOCK IS GENERALLY ATTRIBUTED TO SHOUTING.

Too freaking bad you can't tell sarcasm when you see it.
Either that, or you just suck at it! I'm leaning towards the latter... :p


I'm pretty sure in this case that sarcasm was detected...
Exactly...that's why I responded with equal amounts of sarcasm - the only difference being that mine had quality! :D


Well I don't know about ANY TONE OF VOICE. I MEAN CAPSLOCK IS GENERALLY ATTRIBUTED TO SHOUTING.
Shhhhhhhhhh! Use your *indoor* voice!

*ducks to avoid flying words, daggers and such...*

My parents bought a glass engraving kit for my brother. He is surprisingly good with it, (or unsurprisingly, given he took Drawing Genius +1 feat at age 2...)

Anyway, I want to play with glass! :( ...but instead I have to study a bunch of subjects I really don't care much about atm.

I'm back!

WB Z! :D

ION, I'm the only guy at my workteam right now. I'm in a summer-hot sizzling room filled with sweet perfume and scent of women.

Another summer in these cramped quarters might drive me nuts once more. Hyarr, hyarr, hyarr.

Either that, or you just suck at it! I'm leaning towards the latter...

[Expletive] you.

Well, I want a medal -- I just got my King's Tears gem! Maybe that counts as a medal in and of itself.

I also deserve a medal for not smacking my most annoying student upside the head. She's got this really strident, whiny voice that just cuts across my nervous system like fingernails on a blackboard. She also has the maturity of a 14 year old (for those who don't know, I teach adults)

Another medal should be coming my way for not ramming into every jack<donkey> who pisses me off on the way to work.

So forward all medals I deserve to the following address:

LKD
c/o The Alberta Institute for the Repressed Insane
Happy Valley, Alberta
T8F 0X0

/end babble

While rummaging in my old emails a few days ago, I found an old email from a former friend of mine, a female dog I really hate with a passion. Anyway, this old email was about a rant of hers... no, I won't go in the details. Really. Unless you have a few million years to waste, that is. Looking at that mail, I felt the irrepresible urge of replying her something dry and caustic at the same time. And I did. Didn't had to dig very far... "Cry me a freaking river". She actually replied to me, asking me if something's the matter, and that instead of "saying such things", I shouldn't have bothered emailing her back. Then, time for the grand finale -- "Hah! Glad to have been a bit of sunshine in your day.". I had myself cracking a smile.

ION, tonight was smooth as italian marble floors... then again, after surviving WW3 and WW4 last week at work, everything else looks like a two-week vacation.

[Expletive] you.
Right back ya' bud! :D

You know, I'm really glad I found a smart [Expletive] [Expletive] here on the BoM who has a similar way of showing affection through words. :grin:
Well, I want a medal -- I just got my King's Tears gem! Maybe that counts as a medal in and of itself.

You don't get medals for samiversaries.... :p

I took my sister to see Nickelback last night for her birthday. My feet hurt now, 4 hours of standing in a boiling hot, overcrowded stadium.
Mind you, it was a lot better than I thought it would be and the support band were rather good. However, just to show how old I'm getting now I have a child and stuff, I'd much rather have been sitting down!

Welcome back, Z! :)

*goes back to improving her chances of academic failure*

*goes back to improving her chances of academic failure*

Ah procrastination. I knew him well.

You mean you no longer know him? I don't know if I should feel jealousy or pity :shake:

You mean you no longer know him? I don't know if I should feel jealousy or pity :shake:

We stay in touch, but it seems like I see him less and less these days :(

Awww, yeah, my rep is going up and my weight is going down. Yay me.

Now half the board is gonna neg-rep me, but whatever.

Procrastination: everybody's best friend.

And the reason why I'm posting here right now. Crap.

God knows I'm procrastinating -- I have essays to grade, and I don't want to do it any more than the students wanted to write 'em.

I should be revising for a programing test worth 30% of my total mark...
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...Oh look, forums.

Today's rain came with hail. Whee. I think I'm growing gills, and I swear the webbing between my toes is getting thinker...

Wake up at 6, eight hours of work, four of basketball... busy day.

I finally found out what the strange stains on several of our couch cousins are from....one of our cats just sits there and licks them until the licked area is about 4-6 inches in diameter. :skeptic: Up 'till now, we had no idea what they were...but I just walked in on her, and she just gave me the, "What? I'm not doing anything wrong..." look.

Dumb animal.... :rolleyes:

My mums dog does that. Just randomly licks soft furnishings.

Like what is it with people who like use the word "like" something like a dozen times like in a single sentence?

Like what is it with people who like use the word "like" something like a dozen times like in a single sentence?

Like I dunno.... Like, I guess they're like valley girls. :bang:

They also tend to overuse the word 'totally' like totally all the time

Like I dunno.... Like, I guess they're like valley girls. :bang:
I like totally hope not because they were like totally male, y'know :lol:

Any male that uses the word 'like' as an interjection is not "totally male."

Jury duty... bleck. I know it is my civic duty and all, but it is just a hassle, particularly for the infirmed!

You might get some interesting cases.....or not

You might get some interesting cases.....or not
I'm going with not >.>

Yep, it'll be parking fines and kids caught with a joint.

I have coffee and quiet time for the next hour!! YAY!!!!!!

I think I've found a direct corrolation between my creativity and how many games I play, it goes like this:

More games = Less Creativity

It sucks cos I enjoy playing games but I need to cut down so I can get creative :(

New version of DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/) is out!

Seems to be a colletion of bug fixes more than anything else but there's a couple of interesting ones: SVGA support and prefetch queue. Between them they should fix a number of compatibility issues.

I think I've found a direct corrolation between my creativity and how many games I play, it goes like this:

More games = Less Creativity

It sucks cos I enjoy playing games but I need to cut down so I can get creative :(

I find that reading books helps creativity. Therefore:
Creativity = books*2 / gamesPlayed

I took the speaker system I've been working on for the past few weeks to work last night....and I realized my bay is *much* louder than I thought. My tests at home showed that the speakers can pump out the tunes remarkably loud, but in my bay, I've got to have the volume cranked up to 90-100% just to hear music 10 feet away. :bad:

I know I need to make a pre-amp to save the battery in my mp3 player (the system currently has 3 stereo plugs sucking power from the Mp3 player)...hopefully a pre-amp will help bump the power up a bit too.

The more I sleep, the more tired I am, these days. Sadly, not sleeping all night seems to have the same result...

I'm not even mentioning food.

Stress should be banned... or sent to the quasielemental plane of salt covered in paper-cuts. :p

HA! I solved my wireless internet connection problems with one thing.

A cable.

The salt should be covered in paper cuts??

Been invited to a barbeque at our friends house. I really don't want to go because it means I have to drive so I can't have a drink!

The more I sleep, the more tired I am, these days. Sadly, not sleeping all night seems to have the same result...
I usually have the same problem with sleep. There's a sweet spot (around 8 hours) that I have to hit. If it takes me a long time to go to sleep and then I have to wake up early I feel awful for the rest of the day, and if I just oversleep and get up late because I have nothing to do I have a massive headache. I have set my alarm to early-ish for Sunday mornings to avoid this, and I always feel angry when I have to resort to that!

The salt should be covered in paper cuts??

Well, if they made weapon salves (unguentum armarium)... :p

(If I recall my pharmacy history classes, it had components like hematite, lichen taken from skulls found under the gallows, human or bear fat, powdered worms boiled in wine... it's probably for the best it got applied to blades and not wounds)

...or I could just correct my weird sentence construction and stick with stress having paper cuts...

Good night, but it doesn't feel all that great now that it's over (not due to intoxicants, lol).

Why do I feel so depressed suddenly :(

Have a banana. :banana:

It's got dopamine in it. Happy-happy, joy-joy.

Or prozac. Prozac works for me

8:45 in the [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] morning and I'm awake. All that for a stupid English test. I admit the idea of going on a riot in the administrative section of this bunch of idiots sounds pretty damn good right now. Not to mention I work until [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] [expletive] 8PM tonight. So I'll have to spend the whole day suffering the advanced lack of sleep thanks to those [expletive] [expletive] who think it's a good idea to schedule a [expletive] test on a [expletive] Saturday morning.

Argh!!!!!!

Easily solved DotW. I'm English and therefore fully qualified to speak English...you passed with flying colours!

Easily solved DotW. I'm English and therefore fully qualified to speak English...you passed with flying colours!

Ummmm....you spelled 'colors' wrong... :p

Damn, my sleep schedule is already wired for the Summer. I wake up at 6:00am weekdays without an alarm, and I just discovered that it seems 7:00am is the time for Saturdays... boo on this, I want to sleep in.

"Sorcerer's Place - Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights 2,....."
I remember when having the Dragon Age there seemed like it was saying "BG3", a Duke Nukem Forever that would never be released, but one could always dream.
And now it's coming out, as a mindless action rpg with a story we already know.

...Nostalgy is a bad place is what I'm saying.

And someone please create a Universal English rule for those colour, honour, odour thingies.

Ummmm....you spelled 'colors' wrong... :p

Technically, chances are you did, Kit. :p

Magister:

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This usually helps me when depressed. One of my favourite childhood cartoons. :) (I have no idea what the original thing, (without synchronisation) is called though)
Best part is when his mom is looking for him.

Aww so cute! I wish I watched this as a child.

Have a banana. :banana:
I just got reminded of a Bill Bailey act (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyMxn8RmSDw) and laughed out loud :lol:

Easily solved DotW. I'm English and therefore fully qualified to speak English...you passed with flying colours!

Why, thank you dear -- wish those idiots could hear you. Anyway, after a can of Cran-Razz Xyience, this test was a laughable waste of time. Might me on the risque side, but I have to tell it -- I laughed my ass off when question #51 came around. This was in the oral comprension part... they say a sentence twice, and you have to select the answer that reflects the sentence heard. "I like d***" was the phrase, and it was also a possible answer. I understand they're refering to the PERSON, but still...

"I like d***" was the phrase, and it was also a possible answer. I understand they're refering to the PERSON, but still...

:lol:



Thanks Loreseeker, I actually feel better now :)

Ummmm....you spelled 'colors' wrong... :p

No I didn't babes. That's how you spell colour in England. :p

I was at a friends last night ans she asked me to put some stuff in her garage. As I went in, I tripped over and smacked my head. Managed to knock myself out for a minute and when I came round, I couldn't hear! It came back about 5 minutes later but it was a really weird feeling

I was at a friends last night ans she asked me to put some stuff in her garage. As I went in, I tripped over and smacked my head. Managed to knock myself out for a minute and when I came round, I couldn't hear! It came back about 5 minutes later but it was a really weird feeling
I smell the makings of a lawsuit. :bad:

Nah, was my own fault for not looking where I was going

People have sued for less >.>

How strange was it that the $232 million powerball ticket was sold in Winner, SD.

How strange was it that the $232 million powerball ticket was sold in Winner, SD.

South Dakota, huh? Just think how many double-wide trailers you could buy with that much money! :shake:

And someone please create a Universal English rule for those colour, honour, odour thingies.

No need- most posters seem to be clued up enough to spell 'em right. It's just exceptions like Kit that you have to be lenient towards. ;)

Aye, it's just the lazy Americans you have to watch out for :p

I'm not a conservative but...what is it with hippies and anarchists that make me want to beat them to mush the more I read about their whiny ranting in some poopy magazines of their making.

The first party to criminalize being a hippie/commie -anarchist gets my vote.

Air France seems to be missing a plane along with over 200 passengers.... :bad:

At this point, all we can hope for is a repeat of the Hudson River incident.

I've moved!

I spent my first night in my new flat yesterday. I had forgotten how tiresome moving was, I spent most of the weekend moving and buying things and trying not to forget anything (I did forget a few things in the end, of course), then stayed up until almost 2am last night cleaning the place. The flat looked really nice and clean when I visited a month ago, but it's only after I moved that I started noticed everything that was wrong with it. Ah well.

Now comes the fun part: buying more furniture, getting internet installed, notifying all the agencies about my change of address (long list that one). It's going to be a busy week. But at least I have my very own new space now!

No need- most posters seem to be clued up enough to spell 'em right. It's just exceptions like Kit that you have to be lenient towards.

Aye, it's just the lazy Americans you have to watch out for

:shake:

ION, blah. Welfare check day, the one day a month where all the 'too lazy to work' subhuman leeches get out of their lairs to buy scratchers, cheap beer, cheap cigarettes and raid the sandwich supply. I'm not in a good mood either... should be interesting.

I had such a great weekend, dinner and a movie with a lovely lady on Friday, and poker and drinks with my old friends on Saturday.

I think that I may be crazier than my doctors think...

We're getting a new kitchen on the 19th of this month and we've decided to take out the wall between the dining room and kitchen so we have more light (the design of the house means that the kitchen is quite dark for most of the day). Anyway, the builder and electrician are starting work on the 12th to take the wall out. The crazy part is that Rob and I have decided to have Ashleys birthday party on the 14th at home!

I think that I may be crazier than my doctors think...

We're getting a new kitchen on the 19th of this month and we've decided to take out the wall between the dining room and kitchen so we have more light (the design of the house means that the kitchen is quite dark for most of the day). Anyway, the builder and electrician are starting work on the 12th to take the wall out. The crazy part is that Rob and I have decided to have Ashleys birthday party on the 14th at home!


That's not crazy.... My parents had Xmas and New Years Eve parties at their house while their entire kitchen was gutted. No stove (it was relocated outside until the new gas line had been installed), no cabinets, a 10' x 4' hole along the ceiling, 3 walls were missing, there was a 4' x 4' hole in the wall where a new window was going, and dust/rubble was everywhere. :eek:

My mom's knees and ankle were really bad back then, so she insisted everyone come over to their house for the two holidays. :bad:


Besides, kids like destroying stuff...give him a hammer and let him go wild on some sheetrock! :bigeyes:

i remember the best day at my old job, the day we got to tear down all the shelves, cash registers, refund thing and all things misc, that was ****ing AWESOME, we all gathered crowbars or 1½ meter metal pipes and ripped through everything, afterwards it was beer and pizza time! ROCK the **** ON

3 walls were missing

Must have been cold with only 1 wall in the house.

Anyone who liked the Monkey Island adventure games should check the latest post in the Adventure Game Fans social group.

That is all :)

Next RP session is a month away :( which should in theory give me a fighting chance to pass my June exams, but I honestly doubt it. Lazy Unlimited

Random reason not to eat honey cakes at 1am:
Touch is probably the perfect illusion. No two molecules are actually touching, surface to surface, assuming one can even define surface of a molecule properly, and yet, solidity works like a charm... :smash:

Erm...do you mean that the honey cakes are stuck to the table Lore?

Nah, merely that eating honey cakes at 1am can trigger "molecules may never touch" mode of thought. Nothing important.

Erm...do you mean that the honey cakes are stuck to the table Lore?

That seems to happen a lot around a friend of mine. Even if the food is plain bread...I think it may just be his house >.>

Or it could be his table... (I'm not sure I want to think too closely about it!)

I'm knackered! My mums back is really bad and I found her about to go and dig her borders over in the garden this morning so I did it instead. I pay someone to do my garden so why the hell I didn't just phone my gardener to do it is beyond me!

Stuck back in this crappy room at university halls again. On the upside I have internet though.

The lad should be getting net in his flat this week so when I meander back up North I should be able to get online and badger you all without returning home to six pages of updated topics since my absence.

also LARP is awesome. I made us 100gold (equivalent of a lottery win) just by absorbing random overheard conversations and reporting them to the right people at the right time. I am currently a spy for a guild and a clan, in a position of vague importance in the second richest guild and have gained enough popluarity that my survival is pretty much ensured if there is another attack in the guilds and I decide to get involved.
(I'm not supposed to, being a crip and all, means I have to take an automatic hit if someone decides to attack me :( but I can throw a few spells at least first damnit!)

I was trying to translate from arubesh what the rest of the classes were in Star Wars: the Old Republic MMO (http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/classes). For example, from the released classes under trooper, it said: "Freedom's shield".

From the unreleased? "Che-" "Check " "Check B" "Check Ba... oh no not..." "CHECK BACK LATER".

Clever buggers. I wonder who figured out that some nerd was going to try to do this.

I'm moving offices, again. This has to do with office shakeups. I'm keeping my head low, and will try to get moved quickly tomorrow so I can still get work done.

Stuck back in this crappy room at university halls again. On the upside I have internet though.

The lad should be getting net in his flat this week so when I meander back up North I should be able to get online and badger you all without returning home to six pages of updated topics since my absence.

also LARP is awesome. I made us 100gold (equivalent of a lottery win) just by absorbing random overheard conversations and reporting them to the right people at the right time. I am currently a spy for a guild and a clan, in a position of vague importance in the second richest guild and have gained enough popluarity that my survival is pretty much ensured if there is another attack in the guilds and I decide to get involved.
(I'm not supposed to, being a crip and all, means I have to take an automatic hit if someone decides to attack me :( but I can throw a few spells at least first damnit!)

I wish I could LARP, however no one around here does anything like that :(

We get quite a lot of foreign folk turn up at the main events run here. There are four big events a year and we can get thousands of people at them. It's incredible to see. :)

:banana: :bang: :banana: :bang:

My new PC components arrived this morning and I was so happy! :banana:

Then while opening one the boxes my thumbnail broke and about half of it snapped off, exposing all the flash underneath and bleeding quite profusely. Hurts like hell! :bang:

Thankfully it's the left thumb and I'm right-handed, so I can still sort-of function normally. :banana:

But it still means I can't use my left hand properly, and how the hell am I supposed to put a PC together with only one hand?! :bang:

OK, mood swings galore today...

:banana: :bang:

Ack! The pain in my throat is unbearable! It hurts to speak, swallow food or drink, hell...it hurts to *breathe*!!! :sick:

Anyone want to trade me a complete respiratory system...you know, one that works? :wail:

Awww, poor Ziad. Hope it stops hurting soon x

Awww, poor Ziad. Hope it stops hurting soon x

Dude, what about Kit?! :lol:

Packing sucks. Managed to put my back out so have not done as much as I'd hoped. If I get woken up at 5am again I'll be up packing to Rammstein and Lamb of God. I don't have to live here anymore and like hell I'm pandering to the hungover anymore.

Ack! The pain in my throat is unbearable! It hurts to speak, swallow food or drink, hell...it hurts to *breathe*!!! :sick:

Anyone want to trade me a complete respiratory system...you know, one that works? :wail:

Good thing you can still type isn't it? :)

You don't seem to be having much luck at the minute Kit

Oh for the love of Satan, looks like I made the mistake of underestimating that former friend of mine's stupidity, and big time -- she abysmally failed to get the sarcasm, and now is telling me knowing I'm alive puts sunshine in her day!!! GAH, calling her a dumb [expletive] is a freaking understatement! I guess this calls for the big guns -- time to whip out the entire artillery and lay her flat on her back with a firework of streaming profanities and name-calling as well as totally free jabs at her liking of garden gnomes -- not the real deal, but one perticular SOB who was definitively worthy of the title.

I still can't believe it. This one is so dumb she wouldn't know sarcasm even if it walked right by her.

Dude, what about Kit?! :lol:

*sniff*
I know when I'm not loved.... :cry:
*sniff*


Anyhoo...this year has really sucked health-wise. I haven't been ill so often since I was 10-ish. Hopefully once summer gets here things will improve.

I know how you feel. Have pretty much been bound to my wheelchair this year and since January I haven't had the strength to be able to push myself either.

Problem being now Sal and I are no longer together I have nobody in this city who will help me get around. Will make the rest of my university course interesting if I can't attend half my classes. Am looking at moving into a house opposite the uni, problem is it's got a mainroad between the house and the uni itself meaning I have to use the underpasson my own with limited mobility :rolleyes:

Kev is looking to get transferred South though, so we might get a place together nearby :)

I know how you feel. Have pretty much been bound to my wheelchair this year and since January I haven't had the strength to be able to push myself either.

But look at the bright side of your situation...you could get a Hover Round electric wheelchair. If I lived near you, I'd sup it up for you. Not much, just upgrade the motors/gears, bigger tires, and a 3-point restraint belt for when you're going 80mph down the highway... :bigeyes:

But look at the bright side of your situation...you could get a Hover Round electric wheelchair. If I lived near you, I'd sup it up for you. Not much, just upgrade the motors/gears, bigger tires, and a 3-point restraint belt for when you're going 80mph down the highway... :bigeyes:

After seeing part of the name involved 'hover', I'm now imagining 8 racing around in an anti-grav chair.

Actually that sounds pretty cool. Wish I had one of those.

But look at the bright side of your situation...you could get a Hover Round electric wheelchair. If I lived near you, I'd sup it up for you. Not much, just upgrade the motors/gears, bigger tires, and a 3-point restraint belt for when you're going 80mph down the highway... :bigeyes:

And I suppose you'd also help out with her tickets for speeding, driving an unregistered motorised vehicle, flying at low altitude, and heaven knows what else? :p

@8people: Please do not let Kitrax "improve" your wheelchair! We'd like to keep you a while longer at SP! :D

And I suppose you'd also help out with her tickets for speeding, driving an unregistered motorised vehicle, flying at low altitude, and heaven knows what else? :p

@8people: Please do not let Kitrax "improve" your wheelchair! We'd like to keep you a while longer at SP! :D

Hey! I'm only an enabler...what she does with it is her own business, and I shall not be held responsible for any negative attention from any branch of law enforcement...

Legal disclaimers make the world go round.... :roll:

I can't even afford an electric wheelchair if I wanted one :lol: so far just need to keep money aside to repair the manual I have!

I'm also going to start blasting people with magic at LARP, I can't go more than five minutes without somebody trying to get me to get spikes on the wheels or something else :rolleyes:

I have bumper stickers on my chair and had a bell and a horn for when I needed to get people out the way (the number of times I've been walked into or pushed around by some idiot!) People stare, at least with stickers on they have something to read while they do. But I am not altering my chair any further, there's a fine line between having a personal touch and becoming everybodys joke.

One of my friends even has a motorbike engine in her garage that her and her mother keep threatening to modify :doh:

You could get a pack of huskies to pull you!

Not sure how it'd work in lectures though....

My thumb is much better today, so I'm passing on all Silvery's good vibes to Kit. May they serve you as well as they served me!

In other news my new PC was put together yesterday night (with only 9 fingers... yeah it took a while) and now it's up and running! I haven't had time to install the OS but I plan on doing this tonight, then I'll have it all to myself for the weekend! :banana:

Time to start hunting all those games I've been meaning to play for a couple of years... NWN2, Witcher, err... that's it?

The next few days are looking up to be pure :banana: with no banging head against wall! And to top it all off I get paid today! :D

Just got from a fantastic week with the girlfriend :) We went to Bath for a week it was lovely, best weather possible! We also got an upgrade from the hotel because a baby seagull fell from a nest on the roof and ended up in the gutter outside our window. It was making lots of noise and so I went and told reception and they gave us a new room no extra charge! :D 4 poster bed awwwww yeah!

Bit sad its over, what with us going to seperate uni's we don't get much time together but we make do with what we get :) Had to come home eventually.

Now to defragment my computer...last time I did this it took 2 days solid to do...I don't do it often :(

Now to defragment my computer...last time I did this it took 2 days solid to do...I don't do it often :(

Good thing it's really not necessary in XP. :D

Note to self: Windows XP pre-SP2 crashes on install if you use a PCI-E card.

Fascinating.

Note to self: Windows XP pre-SP2 crashes on install if you use a PCI-E card.

Fascinating.

Ouch. That's got to hurt. :(

Managed to fix it! :) Posted about it in Techno-Magic, as it seems to be an not uncommon problem.

Just got back from a funeral. :bad:

My will to remain civil was severely tested when the idiot who still thinks he's Jessica's biological father said something very rude to the both of us. The only reason I held my tongue was because it was his father who lying lifeless before us when he decided to open his moronic mouth.... :toofar:

Well, I'm back. Work has kept me busy, I just did a 48 hours shift, that's six consecutive days, arrgh! However I'm earning quite the amount of money, which is good.

Have you ever tried inputing " The answer to life, the universe, and everything " on Google or the amazingly cool (yet still in beta) Wolfram Alpha (http://www56.wolframalpha.com/) project ? The answer is uncanny!

I just wrapped up my b'day party (a few days late) and it was good. Reasonably crowded, music was great, just a few people less than I wished for, but just enough to have cooked and bought beer for ;) Dishes will be left for tomorrow.

Welcome back Flix! You still owe me a coffee too :p

Welcome back Flix! You still owe me a coffee too :p

:lol: that much I do. But I thought you prefered tea over glorious coffee ?

Make that a tea then! With cucumber sandwiches. And scones. With clotted cream. Or maybe just some crumpets.

Sigh. I miss Edinburgh :(

(Don't get me wrong, Montreal's good fun, but Edinbugh... those were the best years of my life, thinking back)

Crumpets with melted cheese and loads of butter. It's the future

You can't put cheese on crumpets!

Next you'll suggest gravy!

Crumpets with melted cheese and loads of butter. It's the future

You can't put cheese on crumpets!

Next you'll suggest gravy!

Crumpets with loads of butter, cheese, and gravy?

I need to become a cardiac surgeon and set up shop in the UK! :shake:

Take that gravy and cheese with fries and you've got a sweat meat :p

Back! Still down with mono, but it is at least giving me a good excuse to be lazy. So much Fifa has been played I don't even know what to do with myself. And I'm rereading the Liveship Traders trilogy right now - brilliant stuff.

Take that gravy and cheese with fries and you've got a sweat meat :p

:nolike: Ick. I can feel my heart crying just THINKING about that one.

Take that gravy and cheese with fries and you've got a sweat meat :p

Do you get a free stent if you super-size your order? :shake:

Speaking of food...I just ate an entire rotisserie chicken all by myself. :yum: The only problem is, if I move, I just might pop...good thing I'm content to stay right here. :D

"Gluttony", "Sloth", "Pride" and "Lust" all in one day. Something tells me this week is going to be awesome! :bigeyes:

I'm having lemon chicken and chips for tea

I'm eating and apple and drinking water. Yummy.

Bah. Tired as hell, and working tomorrow. Bah.

I'm thirsty. Yet there's nothing to drink besides water :(

It could be worse - salt water... :p

Examdoom. There has been an administration mix up with one of my subjects which might or might not make my life fairly miserable. I'll know in a few minutes. EDIT: So far, so good - crisis averted, it seems.

ION, Sloth's Cursed Scroll of Backstabbing in mirror writing, read by looking in a mirror... will I get to see Sloth stab me?

Only 3 more weeks of college before my last exam! Failed it last time because I did something really stupid.

I left all my decent brushes at uni and really feel like painting Warhammer now I'm at home :(

I'm on my 5th cup of coffee in 4 hours...wondered why I was cllimbing the walls!

After a complete screw up of a semester in one of my classes no one knows ANYTHING about the subject. The solution: We get a take-home exam :lol:

Is that like a take-home pizza but with less cheese and more pineapple?

I think it's less edible. ;)

Since I've today off, Mondays doesn't seems as bad now. Yay ! Now, it's time for coffee !

Grrr.

To quote Garfield, I hate Monday.

Grrr.

To quote Garfield, I hate Monday.

I have every Monday off. :)

/gloat

Hah, I have to work tomorrow, but got the rest of the week off :)

Bah! Teases, both of you!

ION I haven't had time to enjoy my new desktop PC properly. I barely got to install Windows on it, all the drivers, the usual software suites and the ones I use at work, and that's about it. I need to buy a DVI cable for the monitor (connected through VGA for the moment... Sapphire are so cheap they don't provide a DVI cable even with their high end cards!) and another fan for my case, things in there are getting quite hot.

I hate Monday.

So do I. Especially the Mondays where I work and it's unfortunately a _(!*@$^_@!(*^$_ sunny day with hot weather... if tendence follows, between selling a gazillion smoothies, slush, "beer"... yup, I'm gonna look forward to come home to Mary, tonight.

I've got 350 chocolate bar wrappers to print off then I have to hand wrap them. They're due to the customer within the next 2 weeks and we're still waiting for her to confirm the design!
My business would run so much more smoothly without the damn customers getting in the way!

I've got 350 chocolate bar wrappers to print off then I have to hand wrap them. They're due to the customer within the next 2 weeks and we're still waiting for her to confirm the design!
My business would run so much more smoothly without the damn customers getting in the way!

You need one of these signs (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20090313.jpg)! :D

Mmmm chocolate. Love it. Milk chocolate, that is.

Kit, that gave me a chuckle. :shake:

ION, just learned I work Thursday night... [expletive], [expletive], [expletive]! A real PITA shift... but with Hornyboy back to school, then it all wonderfully falls on me. Wheee. On the somewhat bright side, this means a bigger paycheck. Which means I'll go to the cigar store and get me a hugeass Montecristo, which I'll light after a Blueberry Royal Blunt. I'm so gonna get cancer someday... meh, gotta die of something.

*buzzing around aimlessly*

... and I'm officially late.

*runs off*

That's a great idea Kit but I don't think it'll fit on my business cards :lol:

If Silvery doesn't want one of those signs, I'll take one.

Clients!! Hrrrmmpfff grrr... :nolike:

Had a really good nights sleep, woke up feeling pretty okay... then I tried to get out of bed...

OMG I hate it when I manage to get injured in my sleep and can't tell until I actually try to MOVE.

The collagen in the tissues that hold joints and bones together properly doesn't work in my body so every so often bone clusters like in the hands and feet collapse.

Stepping with full weight onto that hurts like a mother!

Well my exam today was rather anticlimactic. >.> I finished 40min before everyone else did and walked out the door with angry people glaring at my back. I never thought Java would be so easy :)

Just came back from 3 days in London. I liked it, but after walking 15 miles to, around, through, underneath and inside just 3 museums, my feet are hurting :[
Also, what is up with the whole changing of the guards? The whole pompous 40 min. ceremony just to replace two guards? The hell?

Also, what is up with the whole changing of the guards? The whole pompous 40 min. ceremony just to replace two guards? The hell?

Heh...that's 40 minutes that no one is paying any attention...so it's the perfect time to swipe the crown jewels! :evil:

...tell us how that goes Kitrax.

All the phenol:chloroform in the lab is making me light headed :roll:

:beer: All the beer in my blood is making me light headed :roll: :spin:

I should be studying, but, as you can tell, procrastination is fun.

I don't even come on the BoM UNLESS I'm procrastinating these days. Gaaaah!

Fairly low-key shift. Welcome relief. Currently enjoying a Purple Haze Royal Blunt cigar with a few shots of the Green Fairy.

That's what I call chilling out after a day's work.

Fairly low-key shift. Welcome relief. Currently enjoying a Purple Haze Royal Blunt cigar with a few shots of the Green Fairy.

That's what I call chilling out after a day's work.

Green Fairy?

I'm FREEZING! Got the heating on in June for Gods sake!

I'm guessing DotW means absinthe. :)

Z: Chloroform smells sickeningly sweet to me - phenol just sharp - give me ether any day though. :D

I was riding the train without a ticket, for a very good reason, so I got another ticket that said "80€". Now I'm just so.....blargh, I needed that money. :bang:

Was feeling incredibly ill yesterday after having a handful of peanuts. Not developing an allergy at least but something about them really upset me somehow!

Feeling much better this morning and writing up painting plans again. I've somehow left all my paintbrushes behind at uni when I had my first wave of moving out so need to go back fairly soon, am in a painting mood!

Green Fairy?



i believe the grren fairy is a form of absinthe

i believe the grren fairy is a form of absinthe

I did think that was the case, but wanted to be sure :)

Chloroform smells sickeningly sweet to me - phenol just sharp - give me ether any day though. :D
Hey, whatever works for you! ;)

The new ebay search sucks :mad:. I'm looking for vinyl records and now due to the new search ebay.com and ebay.co.uk do not show results from the other ebay sites, and the other ebay sites (.de, .fr, it.) do exactly the same thing. I think that this is happening because .com and .co.uk place the vinyl records under the category "records", .de places them under the category "vinyl", .fr under the category "vinyles" and so on and this "brand new search engine" can't undestand that it's the same thing :bang:. Of course this means that I must search seperately each regional ebay site, which is absolutely frustrating :mad:.

I have an easy solution for you: switch to CDs already! :p

The brats of the cd and mp3 generation like you will never know the delight of listening to a vinyl record :p.It's a ritual that you'll never understand.

Somebody made a plugin for winamp that could take a high res scan of a vinyl and play it as an mp3 :xx: looked pretty neat.

I have a huge Vinyl collection and take care of my record player like it's the family jewels, no one touches it but me! Especially my 1st album i got when i was just 7 yrs old.... Kiss - Double Platinum... "Shout it, Shout it, Shout it Out Loud!!" Yeah baby! Damn, i so jealous of Gene Simmons...

The brats of the cd and mp3 generation like you will never know the delight of listening to a vinyl record :p.It's a ritual that you'll never understand.

You say that like it's a bad thing... :hmm: :p

The brats of the cd and mp3 generation like you will never know the delight of listening to a vinyl record :p.It's a ritual that you'll never understand.
Oh yes, there's nothing like the cracks, hisses, and pops of vinyl. Oh, and don't forget that you have the put the needle down in *just* the right spot...

Vinyl records are best used as frisbees. :evil:

Well, now I have enough wine and beer to make this evening... interesting. And I only work at 11 AM tomorrow, even more fun :beer:
Now all is left to do is to wait for my friends to come to Flix's

Oh dear I'm drunk ... without the spell checker I'd never succeed in writing proper English.

Went to a concert of La Vela Puerca, great band, and they played well. But the audience ... geez ... it was in a posh club with posh-ish people. Last time I saw the band they were in a small club and every one was drunk, smoking (or smoking weed) and dancing. Certainly, then there were no shirt-wearers around, nor I-might-sweat-people, nor little blouse-wearing girls and polo-shirt boys. Sillly. Great band, good playing and music - definitely poor crowd and unsuitable location.

84% today on a networking exam. This course is proving to be ridiculously easy :nolike:

84% today on a networking exam. This course is proving to be ridiculously easy :nolike:

And that's bad ?

If it was ridiculously easy, you should have done much better than 84%

OH MY GOD! I think I just killed a lettuce

Oh yes, there's nothing like the cracks, hisses, and pops of vinyl. Oh, and don't forget that you have the put the needle down in *just* the right spot...

Vinyl records are best used as frisbees. :evil:

Vinyl is for collectors now. Like me. My brother tried to use a record of mine as a cup holder, the fingers on his hand haven't worked the same since...

84% today on a networking exam. This course is proving to be ridiculously easy :nolike:

Just wait until you get in to the OSI model, endless protocols, Ethernet frame dissection, more endless protocols, etc....

I passed the Cisco network exams a few years ago, but forgot almost everything since. I really couldn't care less about when to use EIGRP and when BGP, etc, meh.

Heh...that's 40 minutes that no one is paying any attention...so it's the perfect time to swipe the crown jewels!

I did see the crown jewels, but I couldn't see what the fuss was about. They couldn't interest me, even though some of the artifacts were made of gold and are inlaid with thirteen gazillion diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, pearls and other war loo.. eh.. legally obtained glitteries ;). They're are, btw, stored behind 10 cm thick massive steel doors and permanently guarded by people like him (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Coldstream_Guard_July_06.jpg) . I did like the stone and mineral collection at the Natural History Museum better than the crown jewels, especially the large marble collection and the large collection of minerals and semi-precious stones like malachite and Lapis lazuli.

Hoy! Barms! Back! Wonderful!

My babbling imagination is stuck in absolute refractory period...

Alas I am facing a complete lack of anything remotely interesting to say on BOM yet I still have got this urge to do so.

Oh yeah, I know, I want a bicycle ! I realised last week that it would take me approximatively an hour of riding to get to work, while it takes me currently 45 minutes of public transportation to do the same. The choice is, I think, quite obvious.

Random Babbling Post: Lose touch with meaningful thought one post at a time :D

I had a customer yesterday which for the first time in a long time pissed me off so bad I wanted to beat the living hell out of. Too bad I was on duty.

Holy crap my internet is working again! I wonder how long it will last! :D

I realised last week that it would take me approximatively an hour of riding to get to work, while it takes me currently 45 minutes of public transportation to do the same. The choice is, I think, quite obvious.Hah, similar here. It takes me about 50 minutes to go to work on public transportation (need to switch trains, and basically drive an 'L'). It takes me about 55 minutes when cycling and cutting it short. As I don't really have time to work out, but must work ... well, the synergy is obvious.

Because it is not so great to be in sweat when arriving at work, I most of the time only cycle the 15km back. Anyway, when working five days that makes me cycle some 75 km per week, and much more if I do 'side quests' or cycle to work as well :)

I have neither the equipment nor the motivation to cycle to work....I probably should though, but I never will. :rolleyes:

There is lots on this page but it is irrelevant, for it has been tainted by the gravvvvy! :(

:banana: I have internet at home!!! :banana:

As much as I hate people who use multiple exclamation marks, this event really deserves them!!!!!

:banana: I have internet at home!!! :banana:

As much as I hate people who use multiple exclamation marks, this event really deserves them!!!!!

I worry about people when they start using more then three exclamation marks.

Well this is awesome, I carelessly said at work that I was looking for a bicycle and then one of my bosses said her step daughter was selling hers. So, apparently after half an hour latter we've haggled the used bike for 100 $. Which is quite low, considering a new decent one is around 300 $. I may decline the offer if the bicycle is not to my liking, however.

Is it just me or it's kind of weird to go to your boss's home on a day off ?

I haven't decided whether it's sad or funny that my cat is the biggest problem I have with my internet connection...
She once again managed to unplug the modem. I of course was not home whne this happened, so my mother was without internet connection for an hour 'til I got back... LOL
To be fair, the power cord is not easy for mom to get to. Now if I could just make it cat-proof.

Is it just me or it's kind of weird to go to your boss's home on a day off ?
:mommy:

Come to think of it it's weird on any day!

I'd feel so odd going to a bosses house. Really odd :nolike:

Packing sucks, especially when it's to move back somewhere, and not to move someplace new.

Ate too much.
Drank too fast.
Gluttony leads to suffering :(

Well I bought the bicycle after all, 100 $ for the bike itself and then 30 $ for an helmet and a lock. Beside some aesthetic problem (i.e there's some paint gone) it's in perfect condition. So the 20 km ride home was smooth and fun. Oh, the happiness !

Is it just me or it's kind of weird to go to your boss's home on a day off ?
That depends on how attractive she or her step daughter are.... :love:

Ate too much.
Drank too fast.
Gluttony leads to suffering :(

In my experience, it almost always leads to lethargy! :sleep:

I did some calculation and apparently I'm 6887 days old. That's a lot of days.

I did some calculation and apparently I'm 6887 days old. That's a lot of days.

Why that's 9917280 minutes! :p

I did some calculation and apparently I'm 6887 days old. That's a lot of days.

Did you use this calculator (http://www.7is7.com/otto/datediff.html)?

Apparently I'm 16,309 days old... :geezer:

7505 :lol: seems such a long time when said in days, doesn't it? :) My boyfriend is over ten thousand :lol:

Did you use this calculator (http://www.7is7.com/otto/datediff.html)?

Apparently I'm 16,309 days old... :geezer:

Nah, I used the good old brain, pen and paper.

Edit: Waaaiiiiiiiiit, my calculation indicated 6888 (considering today) but the internet says 7614 days ? How could I have miscalculated that much?

7363 days. And 176716 hours (nice number, no?)

12751 days here. And I'm feeling every one of the collection today...

Back to work tomorrow :wail:

I'm on holidays now. Yay :)

Back to work tomorrow :wail:

Yup.

I hate my work schedule.

3.2 exams in 7 days *collapses*

Thankfully they are over.
Hopefully, the results will not be terrible.

Wee, back after a 9 day vacation/5th yr anniversary.
All i can say is women are SO much sneakier than men! :)
The wife had me convinced that our place in florida had been broken into & trashed:(, so we had to go done to do repairs and get the insurance ball rolling.
Well
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Turns out there was nothing wrong with the house!!
She had just used it as an excuse to get us to florida, where she had book us a caribbean cruise for our anniversary!:thumb:
She & my brother had planned everything so that i wouldn't have to worry about being away from work for over a week and to look after our animals.

Had a great time(except for rain part of one day) & just can't figure out what that woman sees in me(she is definitely the best thing to ever happen to me).
Back to the postings.

Nobody can figure out what your wife sees in you... or what mine sees in me... or for that matter what any woman sees in the man she married.

Kudoes to the wife... but don't piss her off, she's clearly capable to doing things to you you'll never see coming....

Yeah just when you think you get them figured out, they hit you with a swerve.
Thats ok though as my brother was a double agent:D, he was helping me suprise her at the same time he was helping her suprise me.

I had acquired an antique french cabinet bookcase for her(as the traditional 5th yr gift is wood & she loves old furniture) that he had placed in the house while we were gone.
She was so suprised when we got back.

It makes me feel sort of lonely reading that post :(

don't piss her off, she's clearly capable to doing things to you you'll never see coming....
Are you speaking from experience there? :p

*sigh* my computer is royally screwed...it doesn't see the hard drive most of the time :( I only had it a year now I have to consider getting a new one, something to do with the harddrive logic board? I don't know didn't really understand the message the computer man left me. Not sure if I can get my stuff off it either, atleast the parts are salvagable I think so it shouldn't be too expensive to replace...£300 for an equivilent comp...still a bit annoying though.

Just over half way through Mercenaries 2, still having fun, also played some Prototype yesterday and MY GOD!!! I want it so bad :D

Been reading alot of books by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and stuff, for some reason I find it really interesting, think I've just begun to get interested by modern military stuff. Even spent a good couple of hours the other day on wikipedia reading about organisation of the British army and NATO...facinating! :)

Maybe you just need to replace the drive and not the entire computer...

Quote:
Originally Posted by T2Bruno
don't piss her off, she's clearly capable to doing things to you you'll never see coming....
Are you speaking from experience there?

I don't know about T2, but I can safely say that I agree with him and I speak from personal experience.