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Cesar
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posted 10-21-2004 02:49 PM
I think this should be a place for everyone (young or old) to bitch about stuff. So feel free to join in and talk about anything (I'll be reading it at least ^.^)
Let us talk colleges and their primitative sources of getting in touch with the student population. To be more specific, this campus that I am specifically appling to deals mostly with computer science therefore the entire student body should be edumicated in computer science (in short, they should fuck'n e-mail us of important news instead of using the unreliable bitch that is the post-office).
I got a piece of mail a week ago saying that I was accepted into the program of my choice (and not much more). Today I get a letter saying that because I haven't whored myself to 100 really fat chicks (gave them money), I didn't get in.
Wait a minute. Something is missing between last thursday and today (the payment package, so I can laugh at the number of digits).
So I call in and get this woman with a really aggressive tone. I explain the situation, and she begins answering me like I'm fucking lieing or something. She informs me that it is a really big and pretty package like I was a retard kid.
I'm getting nervous and this point and she tells me that she is resending the package. I hear a few clicks of the mouse. Then I ask if there are any open spots still left and she says 'yeah'. Not a reassuring 'yeah', but a 'I'm-ending-this-conversation-now yeah'. So now I'm nervous, again. And it wasn't about an hour later that I calmed my fears enough to write this message.
This week is going to be long. So post anything here.
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Lark84
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posted 10-21-2004 03:53 PM
What the hell were they thinking? You don't just change something as fundamental as that, as sudden as they did, without a fucking notice! At least they could have told us it was coming, so we had time to stock up on the old color, while at the same time bitch and complain to them so they would've seen how bad of an idea it was.
I'll admit, in the beginning I didn't think it was that big of a deal, I figured "so what, I have very few grey parts anyway", but as my building style shifted more towards spaceships and mecha, which look wonderful in grey, or with grey greeblies, and I began aquiring the new 2004 sets, which contained cool as fuck pieces in the "new" greys, I got increasingly frustrated with it all.
I now have my old regular bricks and plates, and some greeblies, in the old greys - not to mention the 10 bags of bricks and plates I bought from Shop@home when they were released as a "last resort" for the old greys - and a bunch of new parts in the new, bluish greys, and I'm just dying to use those parts together, but I can't, because it looks so off. And grey is not an easy color to collect, since it's so scarce.
So the new color "tested better with focus groupd", but come the fuck on, that's not gonna save your business! Not to mention the new godawful 4*4 click hinge hatches, as opposed to the old finger style ones, and actually, click hinges in general replacing finger hinges, just because someone screwed up a patent renewal. Click hinges are useful for many things, but those hatches just look terrible, especially since they're not airtight and won't look realistic on space ships etc.
However, the Creator line is great, going back to their roots and all, but, right now, my emotions are torn, I feel frustrated and betrayed by the company I've loved and trusted for so many years, yet, I want to get down on my knees and praise the Creator line, and all the other new stuff which looks good, but in the middle of it all, there are the new greys and the disappearing of finger hinges which make my stomach ache when I think about them.
Why, LEGO?
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posted 10-21-2004 07:55 PM
Further resentment against "Da Police"
Me: *Walks down the street to the train station to catch a train*
Me: *Sees cop car and immediately turns face away then starts to cross the road*
Me: *Hears a car pull close and a voice saying "Come here please"*
Me: *Walks over reluctantly*
Me: Is there a problem?
Cop 44: We have suspicions that you may have drugs in your possession.
Me: You can tell that by a person walking down the street?
Cop 44: You hid your face.
Me: I am anti-social to strangers. I assume you are cops? If so can I see identification as well as some names?
Cop 44: I am 44.
Cop 56: 56.
Me: They run out of names? Oh I see, task force gain, trying to crack shooting voilence.
Cops together: Yes that's right *nods*
Cop 44: Are you carrying any ID?
Me: Yes. *reluctantly hands over a drivers license, wallet*
Cop 44: *Runs a check which takes several minutes.*
Me: *Is embarrassed as a shitload of friends comes as well as community people*
Cop 44: You're fine. *Gives back drivers license*
Me: And the wallet?
Cop 44: Oh here *hands wallet*
Me: And no drugs?
Cop 56: Drives off.
Happened to me. Unbiased account but it was embarrasing as fuck.
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posted 10-22-2004 02:09 AM
I have recently realized how bizarre the real world and business politics/hierachy/bullshit really is...
I DID already know busness crap was nuts, but being thrown into it and seeing it 1st hand is like being part of a big conspiracy theory [damage control is funny to watch unfold] ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
-MK
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ThomasTR
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posted 10-22-2004 02:14 AM
I have learnt that if you can manage to master Mick Jagger's dancing technique, you can get some groin-to-groin action with the ladies on the dancefloor.
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White Cat
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posted 10-22-2004 03:38 AM
There was this Japanese anime TV series called "Robotech" that I started buying on VHS several years ago. In case you haven't see it, Robotech is about a little town on Earth that gets taken into space in a bubble and then battles evil aliens with giant robots. I purchased around 25 to 30 tapes when suddenly they were taken off the market. No one could give me a reason why, and because these were continuing stories, I had no way of finding out how their story ended.
Then about three years ago, I found out that they were releasing the series on DVD box sets. I purchased the first three sets, but then found out online that the company that started releasing the DVD had gone out of business, and the new company had renamed and repackaged the sets. I believe I had started collection the Macross saga, but the Robotech website listed fifteen box sets, including Robotech: Master Timeline, New Generation Timeline, Robotech Remastered, Robotech Remastered: Extended Edition, and Robotech: The Sentinels. I have no idea if these are new stories or some of the same old stories repackage, and I don't have the time or money to spend of all of this.
Bottom line, America? There should be one comprehensive Robotech DVD set, so I can finally find out what happens to the little town in the space bubble.
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-- Barack Obama, campaigning in Iowa
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posted 10-22-2004 12:26 PM
quote:
Originally posted by White Cat:
Bottom line, America? There should be one comprehensive Robotech DVD set, so I can finally find out what happens to the little town in the space bubble.
It popped, save the money.
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posted 10-22-2004 07:38 PM
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My bill from the University of Waterloo
It is the student's responsibility to pay fees within the appropriate deadlines whether or not a fee bill has been recieved.
I'm really going to have to try this someday. Actually, a company owes me money but haven't paid me yet because I haven't submitted an invoice yet. Maybe I should ask for interest...
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So "a" can be any value?
-a guy in my Calculus class, on the nature of variables
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Dark_Herakurosu
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posted 10-24-2004 03:03 PM
So I'm going to be hitched now. No specific date or anything, but the loser ex-pokemon whatever is now a loser ex-pokemon whatever with a fiancee and a huge deficit in the fundage area due to a shiny thing on said fiancee.
The real problem (well, one of them) is this: her parents suck major ass. Her jobless mom constantly yells at her, and treats her like shit. Her dad keeps trying to get her to sleep with him, the toothless bastard. Because of this, she's gotten into a bad depression. I had to push her to apply to college again. She was ready to go last year after we graduated, but that leads me to another problem...
Early September last year she fell asleep in English class. She woke up with everyone standing over her, asking if she was okay. Apparently she had a grand mal seizure. Until now, nobody knew she had epilepsy, though she was having absence seizures as far back as sixth grade (she didn't know what they were, just blinked out for a second). In late January she went into status epilepticus because they couldn't get her meds right. The doctors believed she'd have to have a VNS implant to try and stop seizures, and for that, surgery. So she had to disenroll in college. Later we find out my fiancee doesn't have to have a VNS, and that her meds are starting to catch hold. Grr.
That's not the whole of the problems, though it is a lot. There's a good chance that she has ovarian cysts, for reasons I'm sure you don't want to hear. It does run in her family. A hysterectomy is the only thing that can fix it. That pretty much kills what little chance we have of having children. So no little D_Hs running around. You can bet when I broke this to my parents they weren't too happy. They're already wary of my fiancee's medical problems, but now they're pissed at both of us for some reason.
To make matters worse, I'm all the way up in Muncie, and she's down in Indianapolis, 1.5 hours away, and I don't even have a car (stupid freshman rule). The good news is, she'll be coming up here next year. So we can spend time after classes together without interruptions. I don't expect anyone to honestly read all this, so I might as well put the obvious message:
tl'dr
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There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs, huge erections, and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
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moogleman
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posted 10-24-2004 06:34 PM
So I went to see Billy Talent the other night, and I brought my mp3 player so I could record the show, and the recording is of really shitty quality. I mean, couldn't the guy in front of me have been a little quieter? It's all his clapping and cheering and not much else.
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spunman
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posted 10-24-2004 09:38 PM
So I'm on my way home one day from work, and stopping by the daycare I see my wife's van in the parking lot, and she's strapping the kids into their car seats. I ask what she's doing. She says she's picking up the kids. I ask where she got the car seats (we only had one set, in my truck). She says her parents bought them for her, she's getting the kids, she's gotta run by the bank, and she'll meet me at home.
Our oldest gets out of school in 15 minutes! (She's nuts picking up the kids & leaving only 15 minutes to get home...) It's more than a 15 minute drive. So I rush home. Luckily, I'm home before the kid. I walk in the house and it's empty, except a bunch of garbage and newspaper all over the floor. Okay, I'm kinda shocked at this point. Kid doesn't come home. I take stock: the fridge, TV, piano, small table, and a bed are left. Oh, and my clothes (except my favorite expensive leather jacket). After a bit I decide to call the school. No, the kid was picked up an hour before school got out. Note said he was "moving".
I hang up. Phone rings. I don't answer. Machine picks up. Wife says she's going to see her mom, doesn't know when she'll be back.
That was April. End of May, I went to see my kids (now in another state). My wife refuses to see me, but insists I have supervision while I'm with the kids. So I get to put up with my in-laws while I'm with my kids. Her mom's on the phone the whole time, dad's standing by the door like he thinks I'm going to try to escape. Something's not right, but at least I get to see my kids. I never even got to tell them goodbye, after all. Then the process server shows up. Boom, I'm getting divorced, whether I like it or not. Process server leaves, in-laws are on his heels with kids in tow. I got to see them for 45 minutes. Oh, and the suit for divorce comes complete with a restraining order: can't be around my kids without supervision, etc.
For those that may remember, the girlfriend I had just before getting married went psycho. And a friend I've had since WAY before then just shot himself a few weeks ago. Why? His wife was trying to leave him.
I couldn't do gay, but swearing off women for life is looking pretty enticing.
NEXT!
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Dweedle
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posted 10-24-2004 10:53 PM
holy christ what did you do to offend this poor woman
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posted 10-25-2004 12:29 AM
spunman, with all do respect this wife sounds like a real bitch. Was this 100% unprovoked?
If so, fuck her, she's just a bitch and you deserve much better... I'm sorry for all this, it's not right.
As long as YOU did nothing wrong, then she can't do this to you...
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Originally posted by spunman:
So I'm on my way home one day from work, and stopping by the daycare I see my wife's van in the parking lot, and she's strapping the kids into their car seats. I ask what she's doing. She says she's picking up the kids. I ask where she got the car seats (we only had one set, in my truck). She says her parents bought them for her, she's getting the kids, she's gotta run by the bank, and she'll meet me at home.
Our oldest gets out of school in 15 minutes! (She's nuts picking up the kids & leaving only 15 minutes to get home...) It's more than a 15 minute drive. So I rush home. Luckily, I'm home before the kid. I walk in the house and it's empty, except a bunch of garbage and newspaper all over the floor. Okay, I'm kinda shocked at this point. Kid doesn't come home. I take stock: the fridge, TV, piano, small table, and a bed are left. Oh, and my clothes (except my favorite expensive leather jacket). After a bit I decide to call the school. No, the kid was picked up an hour before school got out. Note said he was "moving".
I hang up. Phone rings. I don't answer. Machine picks up. Wife says she's going to see her mom, doesn't know when she'll be back.
That was April. End of May, I went to see my kids (now in another state). My wife refuses to see me, but insists I have supervision while I'm with the kids. So I get to put up with my in-laws while I'm with my kids. Her mom's on the phone the whole time, dad's standing by the door like he thinks I'm going to try to escape. Something's not right, but at least I get to see my kids. I never even got to tell them goodbye, after all. Then the process server shows up. Boom, I'm getting divorced, whether I like it or not. Process server leaves, in-laws are on his heels with kids in tow. I got to see them for 45 minutes. Oh, and the suit for divorce comes complete with a restraining order: can't be around my kids without supervision, etc.
For those that may remember, the girlfriend I had just before getting married went psycho. And a friend I've had since WAY before then just shot himself a few weeks ago. Why? His wife was trying to leave him.
I couldn't do gay, but swearing off women for life is looking pretty enticing.
NEXT!
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posted 10-25-2004 01:15 AM
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Originally posted by White Cat:
There was this Japanese anime TV series called "Robotech" that I started buying on VHS several years ago. In case you haven't see it, Robotech is about a little town on Earth that gets taken into space in a bubble and then battles evil aliens with giant robots. I purchased around 25 to 30 tapes when suddenly they were taken off the market. No one could give me a reason why, and because these were continuing stories, I had no way of finding out how their story ended.
Then about three years ago, I found out that they were releasing the series on DVD box sets. I purchased the first three sets, but then found out online that the company that started releasing the DVD had gone out of business, and the new company had renamed and repackaged the sets. I believe I had started collection the Macross saga, but the Robotech website listed fifteen box sets, including Robotech: Master Timeline, New Generation Timeline, Robotech Remastered, Robotech Remastered: Extended Edition, and Robotech: The Sentinels. I have no idea if these are new stories or some of the same old stories repackage, and I don't have the time or money to spend of all of this.
Bottom line, America? There should be one comprehensive Robotech DVD set, so I can finally find out what happens to the little town in the space bubble.
Are you comfortable?
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White Cat
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posted 10-25-2004 03:42 AM
Comfortable and furious, Sama.
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Cesar
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posted 10-25-2004 05:38 PM
My payment package still isn't here yet. I'll freak out if it doesn't arrive by tommorow.
Three different 1-800 numbers keep calling my house, it is pissing me off. I pick up to realize its those bloody telemarketers, that profession should be banned.
Another thing is Need for Speed Underground. If that game rings the bell, its the christmas present you threw out long ago. Why do cars with better handling slide all over the place? It is like trying to control a car on ice. If you move from side to side trying to stablize the car, you end perpendicular to the traffic and anoter car t-bones you.
I need to find a way to relax.
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Dark_Herakurosu
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posted 10-25-2004 05:52 PM
You do know Robotech and Macross are the same thing, right?
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spunman
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posted 10-25-2004 08:04 PM
MK: Was this 100% unprovoked?
No. A while back, she pulled out a $50,000 annuity her uncle left her (when he died) while I was deployed. I came home to find that I was in a much higher tax bracket and only recently finished paying off the overdue taxes. After this, she couldn't control her spending and wrote roughly $4,000 in hot checks (again, while I was deployed--good thing we aren't deploying anymore... for now). She got an arrest warrant and a criminal record (it's a felony) for that one. Luckily, the law here is pretty intelligent and realized I hadn't done anything wrong myself, so despite this being a common law state (how we got "married" in the first place) I wasn't held accountable for anything. Still, with kids to look out for, I thought it was best to take away her checking account and credit cards. She tried forging my checks instead while my back was turned for a while, but I've also got a very good bank, and they caught on quickly. When that failed to work, she started taking out loans with my forged checks for collateral while I was TDY (that means not home, but still in the country, and much shorter term than a deployment). Since a check used as collateral for a loan doesn't hit the bank unless the "loaner" attempts to cash it due to an overdue payment or such, the banks never saw these, and they worked well for her for a bit. Then she had to leave town immediately after a TDY of mine and, of all things, forgot to make the payment on her loan. So the "loaner" calls while I'm home and she's not. I learn everything. She got home and I confronted her about it, telling her I was now locking my checks in a safe while I was going to be out of town. With no ILLEGAL options left to her to use money that wasn't hers to begin with, she apparently panicked and took off. Either that, or the most recent arrest warrant (due to an accelerated judgment because she never paid off the money or community service from her earlier arrest) scared her enough to flee the state. Funny thing is, she fled TO a state where she already has a previous criminal record.
Hopefully, it goes without saying that I had no knowledge of her criminal activities before this (I like to think of myself as a VERY law-abiding citizen), but her record goes back a ways across a number of states.
I sure can pick 'em, can't I? But it feels, oh! so good to vent finally.
So when you're feeling down, just remember, you could be "spunman". Doesn't that make you feel better? Sucks to be me, eh?
Thanks for the support y'all. And in the interest of the flaming notice, K is still an ass. (I had to say it.) I love this place.
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Dweedle
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posted 10-25-2004 08:29 PM
i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one
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posted 10-26-2004 12:57 AM
You do know Robotech and Macross are the same thing, right?
No, I didn't.
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posted 10-26-2004 02:26 AM
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No, I didn't.
That could have been funny if his delivery wasn't so terrible.
edit: I just noticed that was exactly the same thing WC posted. I am teh smrt.
spunman, that totally sucks. =(
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posted 10-26-2004 08:06 AM
When the quadruple vodkas and red bull are Ł2.50; spending Ł20 is the way forward. Waking up in Portsmouth in some random's bed two hours after your lecture which took place 15 miles away in Southampton probably isn't the way forward. I am missing a jonny though so hopefully I'm not gonna get clapped out.
P.S. I<3Dweedle
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OK, I know I'm probably not the nicest Pokemon Trainer when it comes to giving advice, and if I get flamed on this, it is probably well deserved. So here goes...
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Dweedle
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posted 10-26-2004 12:16 PM
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Originally posted by Boodabonzi:
P.S. I<3Dweedle
bear my children
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spunman
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posted 10-26-2004 06:24 PM
Boodabanzi (sp?): Nice. Red bull is great with drinks. Plenty of caffiene and the goodies that make Gatorade great. Red bull = no hangover. I love it. Jager bomb + jager bomb + jager bomb... Who cares if red bull tastes like piss by itself. Who in their right mind would drink red bull without hard liquor?
Actually, I don't spend much time at home sober these days. Home and sober don't seem to mix anymore. (See above posts.)
Dweedle: Ain't you a school teacher? For shame! Hehe, but I remember you in that post about the teenage girls in skirts that don't wear panties. Ah, to be a teenager again...
This place is excellent therapy. I'm glad I finally decided to come back. Was thinking about it forever, but kept telling myself nah, they're not even around anymore. What business do I have there?
Hell. I belong here. Never should've left.
Yet, that being said, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I vanish for a while again. Ah, well. I'll have to get a girlfriend first, and when that's the case, I don't mind.
So no one else has anything to vent about? How about my pinkies? Wanna vent about my pinkies?
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spunman
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posted 10-26-2004 06:31 PM
Wait! Was it Dweedle? Or was it Doobie, or something. Ah, now I can't remember. Doodle? Tweedle? Damn!
Hm... Why didn't I just edit my last post...? Ah, but it's not my fault. It's the tequila. My typing is excellent when I'm drunk. I'm so proud.
Now where are the friggin' "vents"? Somebody vent. I need to hear some real crappy shit to make me feel better. Someone's gotta be worse off...
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posted 10-26-2004 08:44 PM
I got a lot of pent-up shit, but I hate shitting it on other people.
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Dweedle
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posted 10-26-2004 09:38 PM
spunman what in god's name are you blathering about
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Cesar
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posted 10-26-2004 10:07 PM
Bitch'n and complaining is the entire point of this thread.
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spunman
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posted 10-26-2004 10:18 PM
Powercat!
http://www.math.miami.edu/~jam/azure/forum/tuff/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=007489
Now, how the hell did I get you mixed up with him? I got the English teacher bit right, but that turned out to be your mom, not you.
Page 2 is where he talks about girls suggesting "extra-curricular activities" and, later, wearing short skirts and thongs/nothing. Pretty funny. Whaddaya do in a situation like that? Ask them to please wear underwear next time?
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posted 10-27-2004 04:16 AM
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Originally posted by spunman:
So no one else has anything to vent about?
OK, I'll bite.
I have allergies. Or at least, so the doctors say. What that means is as follows. I have no depth perception. I always have a headache; taking ten aspirin at a time does nothing. My ears constantly ring. Always have joint pain. Back usually hurts, but not always. I itch incessantly when I get hot. My heart rate has increased to a pretty constant 130, and is heavy enough that I can usually hear it and it's visible from the pulsating of my chest under my shirt. Bloody spots are gradually multiplying on my limbs. I can't even feel my limbs if I keep them still for more than a few seconds. It often hurts to breathe in. My jaw refuses to open when it doesn't feel like it. No sense of balance. I hallucinate when lacking sleep. I can't ignore everything enough to fall asleep until I've been lacking sleep for a long time. My short term memory has gone to crap; I often can't remember something five seconds after I thought of it. My memory of being between about 15 and six months ago is slim to nothing; my best friends tend to remember more of my life than I do. Images tend to ripple and fold whichever way they please, moreso if a surface lacks variety (like a wall). I get to take about a dozen pills a day and four shots a week at $70 per week to counteract it, and they don't even know if it'll work for at least a few months, during which time I am at home for obvious reasons.
What the crap, allergies are supposed to make you sneeze.
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How about my pinkies? Wanna vent about my pinkies?
(00:37:20) <lsaway> spunman was annoying
(00:37:23) <lsaway> he couldnt type
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posted 10-27-2004 10:06 AM
Rolken: Holy shit, What kind of allergies give you those symptoms? I feel sorry for you, it must be tough...
spunman: You write with proper capitalisation now? wtf? ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
And let me add something:
The girl of my dreams lived right across the street from me, but I was too shy to talk to her. This summer, she went abroad to study, and her parents moved. In other words, I'll never see her again.
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Rolken: You win. I feel better. Thanks. Too bad I can't do anything in return.
Yes, capitalization is a relatively new thing for me. I like to think my grammar, spelling (American, not British), and punctuation were always excellent, but the caps seemed like such a waste. Why the difference between the large and lower cases? They're both the same letter... But, reams of official paperwork later, and the fucking caps are now a habit.
So, uh, get well soon? At the risk of being flamed as a fucking pansy-ass Jesus freak, I'll pray for ya.
Eh, what am I talking about? What risk? Like I care if someone flames me? Bring it. Yer all just ones and zeroes, ya fuckin' 'tards!
OTOH, no one ELSE wants to have to scroll down through a bunch of flames. Even I don't, I'd rather read them. But, for the sake of those who would be annoyed, please don't flame me.
*whispers: bring it!*
I have downgraded my drinking habits from tequila to scotch, for those who don't see a difference. Scotch is much more forgiving. But I seem to go through it faster, so it turns out more expensive in the long run.
Oh, and don't drink and drive! Or drink under age (in the U.S. or other countries that even care about your age). And don't drink and operate heavy machinery. And don't mix alcohol with medication. And alcohol use in pregnant women may result in fetal injury or even death.
Long enough yet? Yup. *Clicks "Add Reply".
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1 and 0's, bits and bytes. Our race revolves around transistors and electrons.
Electrons!
I got this book called "The way Things Work" back in grade 6. It is one of the most valueable investments I've made in my growing years. And I still look back at it (it has a children-ish thing going) because it gives out a lot of information that I simply didn't care about in grade 6. It teaches you how to add in binary and how the process works with computers to produce numbers (not numbers really, the number 3 taken in it's simpliest form (ie. a calculator) is more like 7 numbers). I didn't give a fuck about binary in grade 6, I just liked looking at pictures of aeroplanes.
So where was I going with this? Oh yeah. Your porno is 1's and 0's, as is your movies, games, and whatnot. Don't even get me started about signals and shit. Because I don't know how they work. You'd need a bigger book for that. It's called Google, which is funny, because google has information on binary when it is binary.
I've stopped bitching for a while, because my package finally came in. So I'll be content for the next few days.
Sorry to hear about it stunman. How long did you know her?
Rolken, *ahhhh-choooooo*! I would get a second opinion. Actually, I suffer a few of those symtoms. But I can handle it. Jaw refuses to open?!? wth? Wish the best of luck to ya, I hope you find out what is wrong with you.
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Bah. Colleges absolutely suck with paperwork. If they try to give you crap, don't let them push you around, stand your ground until they slam the phone down.
Re: the allergies... oh, I HAVE gotten a second opinion, and a third and a fourth and a fifth. It took a few just to get somebody who'd give a diagnosis at all!
CT scans, MRIs, neurology, psychology (wtf I'm not crazy), bloody chiropractics (which is BS but my parents demanded it, and they're paying for it), etc. In fact, the allergist said there was no way he'd consider treating me except that nobody else had a clue and I was at least slightly allergic to literally everything he tested except the negative control.
edit: oops, failed to read any posts above the last one. :x
spunman, believe it or not, most of it really isn't that bad anymore. It's been a progression for about four years, so much of the stuff I hardly notice (I would forget to mention things like my ears ringing to the doctors to begin with, until I'd rattled it off enough, even though it was happening as I spoke).
I was a fan of your typing style, actually. cool demeanor while still attending to detail. also I am all about praying.
Lark, to be honest, I don't think you're missing out on much. It looks like you barely knew this girl, and infatuations like that usually don't seem to be something that can build into a relationship; people end up realizing they have too little common ground or just don't like the nuances of each other's personality when they get to know each other better. But I dunno, maybe you already got to know her better than I'm inferring.
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posted 10-28-2004 03:57 PM
Rolken: You're probably right, but who knows... If I had *talked* to her (well, I did, by definition, talk to her, but you know what I mean), I might've discovered that we didn't match, or that we did...
I'll get over it. Otherwise, in 20 years, I'll write great books and poems because of the pain in my heart, and earn a lot of money. It's a win-win situation.
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for nostalgia i'll TRY not to use caps (unless it's for the bold-ish stuff, like THIS!) just this once. but a new habit is still a habit, and hard to break.
i got robbed today. more goodness. my gameboy is among the missing, along with all my pokémon games (which includes my saved games, duh). and all the booze. (look! i found out how to make an é on a laptop!--desktop was stolen)
damned good thing i was sober when i got home from work. (who's dumb enough to work drunk?) soon as the officer took all the prints (stupid bastards left fingerprints! you'd think today's criminal would be smarter) i went shopping. now i'm good as ever.
hell, the topic's nice, but i need to find a "vents" FORUM. oh, wait, i'm already in one...
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P.S. I<3Dweedle
bear my children
what? my children for bears?
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OK, I know I'm probably not the nicest Pokemon Trainer when it comes to giving advice, and if I get flamed on this, it is probably well deserved. So here goes...
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i still lol at your sig every time i see it baby
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for nostalgia i'll TRY not to use caps (unless it's for the bold-ish stuff, like THIS!) just this once. but a new habit is still a habit, and hard to break.
i got robbed today. more goodness. my gameboy is among the missing, along with all my pokémon games (which includes my saved games, duh). and all the booze. (look! i found out how to make an é on a laptop!--desktop was stolen)
damned good thing i was sober when i got home from work. (who's dumb enough to work drunk?) soon as the officer took all the prints (stupid bastards left fingerprints! you'd think today's criminal would be smarter) i went shopping. now i'm good as ever.
hell, the topic's nice, but i need to find a "vents" FORUM. oh, wait, i'm already in one...
If you were truly robbed you have my sympathies. I was robbed several times in the past as were other family members. The places I have lived in haven't been very cosy if you know what I mean. Different suburbs just brings a different mix of junkie. In any case if someone was to enter my house with bad intention I wouldn't hold back on any violence. I am pro "kill the SOB who enters your house to steal your crap or rape a female". The way I see it. If you are dumb enough to enter a house to do something against the law you don't deserve to live. See you can tell I have been robbed big time.
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i still lol at your sig every time i see it baby
I cry tears of pure unadulterated sorrow when I see yours. Memories, misty water coloured memories.
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Yurika: If you are dumb enough to enter a house to do something against the law you don't deserve to live. See you can tell I have been robbed big time.
Well, I wasn't home when it happened. I believe it was actually me coming home early that scared them off. They were in the house just before they left (still trying to get the TV and stereo out). All my stuff, in my luggage, was stashed by the fence in the side yard. They left it, which leads me to believe they ran straight back from the house and jumped the fence. Didn't want to risk going to the side yard where they could be seen from the front. But when I got home, they hadn't been gone long at all. All my Halloween candy (which they tried to steal) in a bag in the side yard hadn't melted yet.
They probably felt the same way you do, though. More precisely, they probably feared that I felt that way. Couple of stupid teenagers robbing a house and suddenly a huge truck pulls into the driveway. Big, bald guy in a military uniform steps out and starts walking toward the front door with keys. My baby brother eventually outgrew me in height AND muscle mass--I'm actually the runt among the guys in my family--but I'm a far cry from scrawny. Not to mention that with someone in a military uniform, you never know if that uniform includes a sidearm. Our job DOES occasionally include killing people, after all.
I can see how one may think a big, bald, military dude would want to kill someone robbing their house. But then, one would be wrong if one did. Just thrash 'em about, get some identification, and send them on their way. They had big feet (there was mud out back, hence much of the mess in my house), but they were still just kids. Kids are stupid. Kids don't deserve to die for being stupid, not when they're just taking stuff. Now, if someone else were living with me, and even kids were attempting to do them harm... My plea of insanity would not be a lie.
I keep noticing more stuff that's missing, though. Every now and then when I go looking for something it's not where I left it, and it's not anywhere else, either. Annoying. But when I DO find what I'm looking for, I always take a few precious seconds to keep looking, cuz... Y'know.
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posted 11-02-2004 01:40 AM
I have had quite a bit stolen. When I was robbed as well as my aunties and shit they stole stuff from the fridge. They even took my toothpaste once. I had this dream where I was walking through the house and someone is robbing it. Then they see me and try to catch me by surprise. I see their shadow and I swing a combat knife which slices theirs neck (non decap) and then blood starts spraying and they run around making a mess. The next night I had a dream of me cleaning up after the dude. It sucks if that were to happen in real life because I would have to clean up after the idiot.
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I am going to break down and cry. I was going to post a new thread about this, but than quickly remembered about this thread.
I. Cesar. now hate. Windows. 9-H-8.
I fdisk my dad's hard drive, reformated, and insert the disk from hell. Almost near the end of the installation process, I get a message shortly after restart that of windows protection error and something to do with vmm32.vxd can not be found/corrupt.
Ok. There are two things I could have done (and one thing that I should have). Restart the installation process OR google. I was trapped in my basement and the closest computer with internet acess with upstairs. So in my laziness, I decided to reinstall. And alas, the same message comes up. So I google the file vmm32.vxd
This is where I now realize I did a half ass job. While there was several pages on the file, some of them were close. It wasn't until 4 reinstallations later (and two windows 98 disks later, I thought it could have been a damaged disk) before I added in the "windows protection error" into google. First page on the list has the amazing simple answer:
Remove the disk.
No! I thought to myself. Impossible, the respected Microsoft Corporation in which I own a Microsoft Base station and Mocrosoft Network Adapter, and once owned a Machintosh but disposed of it because of the memory issues (seriously, it sucked. If it would have took an extra $60 to put in more RAM so it is more useable. It wouldn't have made a dent in it's $3000 price tag back then) and Linux OS. A multi-billion dollar corporation could not have overlooked this small problem.
But indeed it worked. Well not exactly perfectly. You see soon after installation proceeded I got yet another 2 error messages about missing .dll files. And in the process of installing the microsoft wireless network adapter, it wasn't showing images (so I practically had to guesstimate which adapter was mine according to the little pictures). Now when I load windows, I get three "we cannot find this file, even though it is in system.ini" and anotehr "This file is missing, and the microsoft network cannot be used". Oh, and I cannot open .exe files for some reason nor adjust my resolution despite having the correct drivers.
I wanna break down and cry.
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posted 11-18-2004 02:31 PM
What is truly mind-blowing is that you display an attitude regarding this incident which leads one to believe that you did not expect everything to be fubar from the start.
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What is truly mind-blowing is that you display an attitude regarding this incident which leads one to believe that you did not expect everything to be fubar from the start.
In Windows 98, no less.
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posted 11-22-2004 02:35 AM
Cesar: I. Cesar. now hate. Windows. 9-H-8.
So don't use Windows? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) Ubuntu and Fedora Core 3 are both quite usable on the desktop for average users. Unless your dad likes to play a lot of Windows only games, he could probably suffice with either of those. I installed Linux on both of my sister's PCs at home and am in the process of convincing my parents as well. But, that's enough Linux pimping...
I'm pretty fucking pissed at Fry's and HP/Compaq now, however. The DC plug/adapter on my girl friend's laptop cracked so she couldn't get any current when it's plugged into the wall. We took it to Fry's to get repaired and still haven't gotten it back... oh, and we took it in 3.5 months ago. (3.5 months is correct, I'm not sure exactly how events were spaced apart so you'll just have to deal with it if my week counts don't add up right.)
When we first dropped it off they warned us it might take a few weeks and they weren't even sure if they could fix it in store or not and we'd have to come back. I came back a few days later to check, and they informed me they'd have to ship it to HP/Compaq to get repaired because the motherboard was actually cracked. I agreed and asked if I had to do anything to get the process going, and they said no, they'd take care of it.
Two weeks go by and I call Fry's up and ask for the status on the laptop. I get some answer like "oh, we tried to repair it but couldn't, you can pick it up if you like." I then yelled at the woman on the phone that two weeks before I had already told them to ship it to get repaired. The next week I call them up again and get told it's been shipped to HP/Compaq... finally.
I wait two more weeks and go into Fry's to ask if they've heard back from HP yet... I'm told they just sent it out last Friday (like three days ago when I went in). I got so irritated and yelled at them for lying to me two weeks earlier, but there was really nothing I could do except demand for some hard copy proof that it had actually been shipped.
Two or three weeks pass and I finally get a call from Fry's saying HP got the laptop and got a quote and approved it over the phone. At this point I'm finally relieved that maybe another week or so and the laptop'll be back and my girl friend can stop worrying about it.
So yesterday I call Fry's again to check on the laptop since another two or three uneventful weeks had passed and no word. The lady over the fun reads off the log of things in the computer using too many acronyms for me to actually understand what happened, but then says it's been closed. I enquire if that means it's ready to pick up, she answers that she believes so but wants to check for it first and puts me on hold. About five minutes later she asks me "sir, did someone already pick it up for you?" "... no..." "oh... well, let me check with $NAME who closed the service request and call you back." I wait twenty minutes with no response, so I head to the store.
Once I get there and wait for thirty minutes as they run around looking for the laptop or any paperwork, they finally figure out HP sent the laptop back (so they closed the original service request order), but the DC adapter was still loose... and apparently they thought HP installed Linux on it and so they openned a new SRO for the DC adapter along with needing to reinstall Windows XP. (Linux was in fact installed on it when we turned it in, but not only did I never once fucking tell them to touch the hard drive, HP's laptop hardware has such shitty Linux support I don't know why they would install anything but Windows... the Inuyasha background should have clued them in too.)
So now her laptop's getting sent to California because not only did the first place they sent it to not do anything, but now they think Linux accidentally got installed by HP. They didn't even fucking call me and say "uh sir, Linux got installed on your laptop, were you aware of this?" Instead it's, "omfg not Windows!! I'M SO FUCKING RETARDED I'LL JUST RANDOMLY REFORMAT THE HARD DRIVE WITHOUT CONTACTING ANYONE!!"
I'll be severely pissed if by time we finally get it back any part of the hard drive's been damaged... Anyone know if there's any legal action that can be taken? No where on my original service request did I say anything about wanting them to do anything with the software.
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Oh, also my girl friend had to get a biopsy for skin cancer last week... she's supposed to get the results back later this week. She's been real upset about it, and it doesn't help that she's also beginning to stress about finals coming up soon.
(Sorry for double posting, I didn't want to just tack this onto the end of my huge Fry's rant.)
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I use windows mainly for gaming, and no-one else uses this computer. I have a 80 gig hard drive and been freakishly been tring to install both linux and windows. But I have too much stuff in here that I don't want gone and too lazy to burn it to CD. So I'll just wait for a disaster to come by and format my drive.
There is probably some legal action you can take because this is taking unreasonably long time to get fixed. It is probably written down somewhere that they are not responsible for any data lost, so you might be out of luck there. Pure bullshit, since it sounds like a hardware problem and not a software issue.
Hope the cancer results come back negative (for cancer. I was wondering whether to use postive as in 'good news' but it might be perceived as postive 'she has cancer'. So I used negative, which can still be interpreted the same way. Oh well, you know what I mean)
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Cesar: I use windows mainly for gaming, and no-one else uses this computer.
Oh, I read that as you were trying to reinstall Windows for your dad or something.
I have a 80 gig hard drive and been freakishly been tring to install both linux and windows. But I have too much stuff in here that I don't want gone and too lazy to burn it to CD. So I'll just wait for a disaster to come by and format my drive.
Is it in FAT32 or NTFS? If it's the former, I believe that's fairly simple to repartition under Linux without any risk of losing data... NTFS is deterministically solvable, but the solution I'm most familiar with basically involves deleting your partition table and recreating it and hoping you didn't screw up somewhere.
I've heard either the latest version of SuSE or Mandrake has a GUI that can repartition NTFS, but I haven't played with it.
There is probably some legal action you can take because this is taking unreasonably long time to get fixed.
I'll have to talk to the campus pro bono lawyer see if he might know anything if they don't get the laptop back soon.
It is probably written down somewhere that they are not responsible for any data lost, so you might be out of luck there. Pure bullshit, since it sounds like a hardware problem and not a software issue.
Especially lame since I never once complained about the software condition, only the fact that the DC adapter was b0rked.
Hope the cancer results come back negative (for cancer [...])
Thanks.
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posted 12-13-2004 05:05 PM
I have something new to bitch about, yay!
Ok, so a friends birthday was like 4 days ago. But she had exams and couldn't have a party yet (which is good, because my gift hasn't come through the mail yet). I ordered her a "talk nerdy to me" shirt because I thought she would like it, and I order it in large.
That was Novemember 22nd, got shipped on December 3rd, and finally got here December 13. So i opened it up, and dude it was looked like a small.
I check the tag, yep it is a large. For fuck sakes, the US doesn't have an obesity problem, your large is our small.
So now I'm in a pickle. I'm going to a) have her try it out and I know its going to be too small so b) exchange, which will put me back $4 and about 20 more days.
Dudes, wtf. An anorexic midget couldn't fit into that shirt.
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