The Big Damn Nook Thread! by seryn

Sure, I'm game

::Dons a riot helmet/mask::

First rule: not in the face. Cuz, y'know, ow. Anyway, game on!

Also, I found this online: http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product_id.16523/dn/nerf/def
ault.cfm

The Nerf Firefly!

LMD: Wal-Mart. 8 bucks.

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Monday, February 20, 2006 8:32 AM

*now knows what to get everyone for Christmas.*

*grabs a Valkyrie shield and helmet.*

*hums "Flight of the Valkyries" while taking aim at Orpheus then ducking behind her shield*

*thwak*

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Monday, February 20, 2006 8:59 AM

Nerf:
The only way to kill an evil Alien mutant santa.

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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:28 AM

::Plucks a sucker dart from his face-guard and tosses it back, shouting 'Fire in the hole!'::

::Grabs the Calvinball, tucks it under one arm and charges for the wetbar, gun a-blazin'.::

"P'kew! P'kew!"

::Dives behind the wetbar::

Score! That's a wet-bonus right there!

::Fires another round from behind the bar for good measure::

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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by citizen:
Nerf:
The only way to kill an evil Alien mutant santa.

LOL!

I am ever so glad I introduced you to Sluggy Freelance!

*uses her shield to catch Orpheus' shots in the shape of an S." Scores a

Hey, while you're there, O, could you make me a cape cod? Fits today. Cold and rainy.

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Monday, February 20, 2006 11:05 AM

::Whips up a Cape Cod for Serenity::

Cheers...Now die!

::Pulls the trigger. Click.::

"No more buwwets..."

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Monday, February 20, 2006 11:11 AM

hahahahahahahaaaa!

That was great!

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Monday, February 20, 2006 5:01 PM

So how do you make a cape cod?

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Monday, February 20, 2006 5:01 PM

So how do you make a cape cod?

Scorpion Regent

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Monday, February 20, 2006 6:36 PM

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Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
I was just trying to fill in the void you left behind, JadeHand, is all. It's a large void and I am very small. But I was doing my best.

Are you back? Can I give you *ImissedYouSquidges* now?

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Well, I'm mostly back. I'll be communicating mostly from work the next few days as I'll be spending most of my home time reconstructing the beast that is my computer. I'm ready to wipe the hard drive and start from scratch. All salvageable bits have been cut out of the old hard drive (files that I don't want lost like pictures of Browncoats and my whole music collection that I spent days loading. Yes, it's 95% Marillion) It pains me to do it, but it should be more funtional when it's done. *crosses fingers*
Thanks for the huggles

I love my Browncoats

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Monday, February 20, 2006 7:14 PM

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So how do you make a cape cod?

::shrugs::

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:43 AM

Cape Cod

1oz. Vodka
Cranberry Juice
Lime Wedge

In a Highball or bucket glass with ice add vodka.
Fill with cranberry juice.
Squeeze Lime and drop in the glass.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:13 AM

But hold the lime.

And I like to drink them out of martini glasses, because it's pretty.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:33 AM

Cape Cod, I like it. There's probably a different name for it on the west coast, but if I tell the bartender what's in it he can make it.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:21 AM

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So how do you make a cape cod?

::shrugs::

LOL! That's amusing.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:18 PM

Yeah, look who you're asking.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:33 PM

LIGHTMEDARK

Quote:
Originally posted by Jadehand:
(files that I don't want lost like pictures of Browncoats and my whole music collection that I spent days loading. Yes, it's 95% Marillion) It pains me to do it, but it should be more funtional when it's done. *crosses fingers*

There was a time where my collection was dominated by NIN, but now I have lots of all kinds of stuff...it's kinda sick, actually...all ripped on to my computer. It's something like 22gb.

Formatting, eh? I used to be so anal about system integrity that I would format my computer every 2 weeks when I was younger...you get really used to looking at progress bars on installs, haha.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:48 PM

If there's any reason I'm looking forward to leaving college, it'd be so I can ditch this laptop set up a good desktop. Actually, I can't believe the laptop's held on this long, what with the soda episode last summer.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:13 PM

I have too many computers... last count was four laptops and one desktop (two or three if you count all the disembodied parts lying around the place...)

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:29 PM

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I have too many computers... last count was four laptops and one desktop (two or three if you count all the disembodied parts lying around the place...)

Gasp.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:24 PM

its not that bad, it's just cause I don't really throw away or sell on much. I've got my first Laptop which is a sub notebook I bought back in '98, my second laptop that I bought from ebay and died about two weeks later, my current laptop and my work laptop. It's hard keeping track of them all though...

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:06 AM

You wanna donate one to the "Serenity needs a computer so she can actually get online at home" Fund?

I can hardly ever use the computer at home because my grandfather's always playing on the NASA homepage and my grandmother plays hearts for hours on end.

:eyeroll:

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:19 AM

You can have the broken one, £50...

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:43 AM

so the reformat thing, not working out so well. giving me a headache. And work just went from majorly annoying to "let me show those postal workers how it's done." Ready to quit but, not ready to be without a job. plus need to get computer back to fully functional.
For those who know more about reformatting, when I reinstall the basic OS and that's just about all that's there, the registry is fresh too right? no old registry info should be there, right?

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:54 AM

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Originally posted by citizen:
You can have the broken one, £50...

You are so generous!

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:16 AM

Jadehand:
Yep, once you've reformatted none of your old data, including the registry, will still be on the drive. Whats the problem?

CMS:
Yeah I know, too generous for my own good...

Unfortunatly any of the machines I don't actually use, and that I could give you, you really wouldn't want anyway, cause they're not even worth giving away, let alone selling...

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:24 AM

And plus, they wouldn't work with my Republican 0.06a OS anyway, right?

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:54 AM

MYSTERYMAN

Seryn, again too lazy to sign in.

my shiny new iBook fund got pushed to the back this year.

It was a case of saving up to get one, and before i'd even been at it a month something else much more fun came up (Atlants! whoot!). So thats next years project.

Old bertie here is coming up for four years old and i'm beginning to get paranoid that each hiccup is the beginning of the end.

While we have a boffin in our midst though, are macs good computers? I was aiming for one mainly 'cause they were the ones used in college and I heared ta rumor that there was some kind of CAD/pattern drafting software available.

Plus they is pretty and oh so shiny.

But what are they like generally? reliable? Idiot proof?

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:37 PM

Well the boffins not replying so I will.

I've not really used Macs, mainly because IBMs have all the software I use and I'm used to them...

Mac's at least seem quite easy to use, I also know that they are more robust than IBMs under most circumstances plus people don't really write Viruses or Spyware for them.

Depends what you want, if you're not going to pass files between it and windows much, and you don't play too many games then it's probably a good bet.

I want to get a Mac at some point, mainly to test code and websites I'm working on, but I can't really justify the expense for a computer I'm not really going to use (says the man-geek with five+ computers)...

Oh and I just bought my ticket for D*C, finally got paypal sorted so that it would let me pay

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:41 PM

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Originally posted by MysteryMan:
Seryn, again too lazy to sign in.

But what are they like generally? reliable? Idiot proof?

Mac is the operating system that Bill Gates plagarized to make windows. They are easy to use and fun. Like every computer they are prone to inevitably betray you in the form of hard disk failure and obsolesence. They are good, but they require their own software and if something goes wrong you will need to find a Macintosh expert for repairs. How ever they tend to have a fierce following, not unlike some tv series/movies I might mention. They are considered by many to be a better system though some will argue that it's apples and oranges. If in doubt buy new. Used computers come with their own obsolesence accelerator card. Unless you are lucky enough to get a used system that someone has upgraded to current standards.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:18 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
Mac is the operating system that Bill Gates plagarized to make windows.

Though Apple originally plagerised Mac OS GUI from Xerox's Star OS

...

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:21 AM

Ah, yes I found out that it's a common thing to get those pop-up things until you get your updates installed. so spent about 6-7 hours getting 38 updates last night, working on service pack 2 on dialup, hours of entertainment.
Now I just need to get a proper Anti-Virus program up and running.
Macs from what I hear are good for a lot of art type programs, but generally don't give you much ability to tinker. I took my system apart, added a dvd/cd mega burner and a big-@$$ harddrive. You can't do that with Macs. A Mac is like a tool you use until it breaks, A PC is an appliance that requires maintainence and upkeep, but can be upgraded to suit your needs. From my understanding that is, I've never used a mac so I could be off.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:32 AM

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Ah, yes I found out that it's a common thing to get those pop-up things until you get your updates installed. so spent about 6-7 hours getting 38 updates last night, working on service pack 2 on dialup, hours of entertainment.
Now I just need to get a proper Anti-Virus program up and running.
Macs from what I hear are good for a lot of art type programs, but generally don't give you much ability to tinker. I took my system apart, added a dvd/cd mega burner and a big-@$$ harddrive. You can't do that with Macs. A Mac is like a tool you use until it breaks, A PC is an appliance that requires maintainence and upkeep, but can be upgraded to suit your needs. From my understanding that is, I've never used a mac so I could be off.

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He's losing it. And he knows.
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The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

Macs are very tinkerable.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:58 AM

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I tend to be anti-mac. As I've grown older I've become less of an extremist, so I don't hate them anymore. They have their uses. The switch to the x86 platform is good (although AMD makes the better chip (for the most part)...stupid intel). It makes the Mac more attractive. I admire some of the "philosophy" for lack of a better term surrounding Mac and it's users.

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:17 PM

SERYN

Oh trust me, I don't tinker. I just don't have the nerve, I tried to up grade the memory (or whatever it is that makes it faster to get things off the drive) I got the casing off and worked out where it was meant to go and couldn't make it fit. Turns out I had the wrong type, it was this particular letter and my machine needed another letter or number of whatever, so I asked how I found out what I needed. I understood about the first two words of the reply. So my answers was basically, 'well f*** that. can I get a refund?'

And I thought laptops had a finite amount of tinkerability (new word!) anyway?

'sides the one I want has an 80gig(orwhatever) drive anyway. I have most of my music collection on it and several programmes, and i'm barely using about a quarter of that. Memory and processor can cope, thats about as much as this thicko needs

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Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:06 PM

LMD:
Yep, Apple switch to the x86 CISC chips seems stupid since the IBM PowerPC 970 RISC chip (which is what the G5 is) is faster than comparable x86s. All in the instruction set ya see

.

I hurt. Pain. Everywhere.

Ow.

Just started a new martial art (Shaolin Nam Yang Kung Fu) and I haven't done any training in a year, so the kind of hard constant training for an hour and a half that I've just done has knackered me, and it hurts. Alot.

Also speaking from experience I know it'll be even worse tomorrow

.

So obviously I've committed myself to training twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays...

I've litterally got bruises all over me, and despite finding it painful to move and being tired I have more energy than I know what to do with...

Anyway, time for a hot bath...

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Friday, February 24, 2006 4:29 AM

My rootbeer is flat.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 4:33 AM

I have a new car, and I still hurt, except my eyes, I can move them fine.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 4:46 AM

Well, at least your eyes don't hurt.

Is it a good hurt?

You did, after all, willingly go to this martial arts class thingy and let yourself get beat up.

*hands Citizen a cup of hot tea and a straw*

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Friday, February 24, 2006 4:52 AM

It's not really what I'd classify as a good hurt, but it is more or less self inflicted.

Luckilly because I was taking delivery of my new car I have an unofficial day off, so its not so bad. I drove my car which was nice, its especially nice too see just 3 miles on the clock too

.

Thanks for the tea.
*Sticks straw in his ear and drinks.*

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Friday, February 24, 2006 5:07 AM

Silly!

So, when are we going to see a picture of this new car of yours?

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Friday, February 24, 2006 5:25 AM

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Luckilly because I was taking delivery of my new car I have an unofficial day off, so its not so bad. I drove my car which was nice, its especially nice too see just 3 miles on the clock too .

You still measure things in miles?

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Friday, February 24, 2006 5:27 AM

COZEN

Miles, eh? And here I'd thought y'all fine folk went metric ere us Canucks.

I could swear I saw the posted speeds in km last I was there. If not, just how slowly was I going?

Good scotch!

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Friday, February 24, 2006 5:36 AM

Nope, miles, we invented them and we're not giving them up and don't any of you forget it!

And if you were doing 30kph in a 30mph zone (most urban roads) you'd be going around 18mph...

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Friday, February 24, 2006 5:46 AM

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Originally posted by cozen:

Good scotch!

Nightcap, eh?

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Friday, February 24, 2006 5:56 AM

COZEN

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
Nightcap, eh?

I'm sure that working nights begets similar reversals to what are routinely experienced by "suthpawrz". For example, the scotch I'm having is clearly a daycap.

I thought that much was obvious.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 6:14 AM

Can I have a daycap, too?

*holds out glass*

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Friday, February 24, 2006 6:25 AM

COZEN

Bien sur!

*Pours*

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Friday, February 24, 2006 6:29 AM