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[Lumbajak]

To prevent the horrible taste of drinking orange juice after brushing your teeth, take a salted edible (salted peanuts or cashews work especially well) and keep it in your mouth for a good minute.

In other words: Suck on my salty nuts to get rid of fluoride aftertaste.


@Duke: Hope things go well for you in the long term. And you gotta promise us you'll go back to Duke-ish avatars when you get back.

[Aqizzar]

Janet: Live in the Midwest. We get big storms and tornadoes all the time.

She already lives in Texas.  We get summer hailstorms here alright - sky turns green, then rains chunks of ice in the midday sun.  Fucking metal.

A few things that made me happy today.
-My summer commute won't be as bad as I thought it would be, although today is a little cooler than normal.  Traffic isn't that bad is the point.
-One of my summer classes is taught by a professor I had a year ago, a living caricature of a crooked weasely campaign pollster, and an entertaining windbag.  Best of all, he remembers me and likes me, and he gives really easy tests.
-He taught us about how Athenian democracy really worked, and it winds up being both almost totally nondemocratic (I love when ideas are completely wrong), and winds up being very much like my favorite form of government, giving me a little wiki-style nerdgasm.
-And completely unrelated - Toady's little death-warrant against Impaler[WiG].  Because he shit all over my donatathon way back when, and I wanted to think he was an asshole but everyone else seemed to love him for making some utility.  So now I'm vindicated (retroactively) in thinking he's a total asshole.  Ha, and indeed ha.

[Jackrabbit]

So now I'm vindicated (retroactively) in thinking he's a total asshole.  Ha, and indeed ha.

You have this way with words, you do.

[Gunner-Chan]

New 1TB hard drive. Yay!

[smigenboger]

I was enjoying the nerd-core drama that has recently surfaced about the almost cartoon-like evil attempt to steal the secret technologies of the Toad-Cult to further along a capitalist agenda. "We created the DfHack for the good of all mankind, but it has fallen in the hands of a traitorous villain, who seeks control of the great power for his own glory!"

I kind of wonder what his motives were though, like did he think he could put it on Steam and charge $15 a month for it? DF is a game created by passion, not greed, with what seems to be the desire for fulfilling a self-imposed challenge on the creator's part, along with making the game great for greatness's sake. It's clearly not done for the money, and even if it was hijacked, there probably isn't enough money in it for a couple of programmers to make it worth their while. Money-making games seem to need many different minds working on it, and non-programmers working on a media agenda. I'm sure Toady could have done other things, especially with his level of education and natural giftedness, but he chose to focus on making Dwarf Fortress something truly original and outstanding. And the people rejoiced.

[Jopax]

I transfered into the advanced group in TKD, i am now tired beyond reason and extremley happy about it

[Realmfighter]

I just got quoted again by Ein.

[ein]

I just noticed that my computer actually has two power buttons.
One is for sleep and the other is for actually shutting it down.

[Itnetlolor]

Janet: Live in the Midwest. We get big storms and tornadoes all the time.

She already lives in Texas.  We get summer hailstorms here alright - sky turns green, then rains chunks of ice in the midday sun.  Fucking metal.

I get hurricane seasons over here on the east coast. I think they're fun, but they do tend to spoil a good beach day every once in awhile.

I think what particularly bugs me in that regards is that I work a full shift, it's nice, bright, cheery, and sunny out; once I'm off the clock, I see this city-sized jellyfish of a storm charging my way as I HAVE to patiently wait to be picked up. Add to it, it's freaking roasting out, the ocean's pretty, and once I get home *KER-POW* is heard a good several blocks away. Crap.

Aside from that, we get some rather awesome storms over here. And for some reason, despite how many hurricanes (and how violent they get), I apparently live in a blind spot where the storms aren't as violent, despite being as big as the state of Florida itself. And after the passing, (just as well with any cells that tend to hit on occasion) the after-storm effects are pretty cool. Not often the scenery gets as green as it does post-storm (plant life). Toss in the oceanscape and a kickass double-rainbow over the horizon with an orange/purple sky... I think it gets harder to describe after that. I'd have to take a picture of one of these to show how insanely awesome they tend to turn out. Seeing as the climate has been reverting lately, I should be more likely able to snag a picture of what I'm talking about.

EDIT:
And as it turns out, the storm just cleared and it's ridiculously bright out now.

[ToonyMan]

New 1TB hard drive. Yay!

YESSS I've always wanted one since they're relatively cheap now.

[Itnetlolor]

New 1TB hard drive. Yay!

YESSS I've always wanted one since they're relatively cheap now.

Yes, they are nice. Unfortunately, I kinda crammed mine with games that are rendered useless thanks to an incident with vaporized water.

Still working out what to get rid of to free up space.

EDIT:
Speaking of which, I just got myself a new power supply replacement fitting for all the crap I have on my system. Should help out the cooling for it. Hypothetically, my machine working despite having a lower watt output makes me think that the processes and such are top priority, and cooling is bottom; power-wise. So, in theory, higher/proper wattage, proper cooling power and more power to the necessary parts. I'll be surprised if my machine ends up working far better afterward. And as a bonus, the cables are longer and come with a bundler net. This thing should be a piece of cake to install and shift around in case I get more stuff to add. Definitely will make me worry less about the wiring I currently have setup within. It's a mess, and I think there are some crossings, and at least one power cable is hugging the graphics card. Not pretty.

BTW, if I ever end up deconstructing and reconstructing my machine, I might be able to make things much simpler inside so debugging it physically should be easier, both real bugs and if/when the computer acts up.

Here's what I ordered: link

Spoiler: Specs of my current one (click to show/hide)

Model
Brand    HIPRO
Model    HP-D2537F3R

Spec
Type    ATX12V
Maximum Power    250W
Fans    1
Main Connector    20Pin
+12V Rails    Single
PCI-Express Connector    No
SLI    No
Modular    No
Input Voltage    100 - 127V/ 200 - 240V
Input Frequency Range    47 - 63 Hz
Input Current    6/ 4A
Output    +3.3V@18A,+5V@25A,+12V@14A,-12V@0.8A,+5VSB@2.0A
Approvals    cUL, FCC, TUV

Manufacturer Warranty
Parts    1 year limited
Labor    1 year limited

Reminder, taking the survey with the stuff I have installed, I was advised to get at least 440W of power, and with my last card 360W. ...Yeah, so according to my statement above, it could explain how my last card may have blown out. And I think I already mentioned it before, but the old family computer had a 400W power supply, and that thing worked nicely, until old age caught up with it.

[Tarran]

1TB of memory is a lot, why do you need so much? I mean, several hundred GBs I understand. But really, what are you using that needs so much memory?

[ToonyMan]

You can never have enough space.

[SHAD0Wdump]

1TB of memory is a lot, why do you need so much? I mean, several hundred GBs I understand. But really, what are you using that needs so much memory?

I wouldn't use that mindset. In the past, we thought a gigabyte was alot and that we would never use it all. Now there are games upwards of 10 gigs floating around. It won't be long before there are programs that surpass a terabyte.

[Realmfighter]

I never understood it much myself.

I get by with 30 GB's.