The Big Damn Nook Thread!

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CITIZEN

Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:05 PM (P)

Anything as long as it's not The Shawshank Redemption or The Green Mile, I only watch those alone cause they make me cry.

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CALLMESERENITY

Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:06 PM (P)

I love Ghostbusters!!

And only the first Matrix movie because I really didn't like the other 2.

And I just said "not too much blood". I couldn't handle Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down, but I was okay with Braveheart and Shaun of the Dead (cuz it was really funny)

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JADEHAND

Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:17 PM (P)

There are no sequels, only Zuul.
If someone asks if you are a god, you say YES!.

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The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

CALLMESERENITY

Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:22 PM (P)

*blank stare*

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JADEHAND

Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:30 PM (P)

blank stare?
BLANK STARE?
oh, you must not have watched Ghostbusters over a hundred times.
the first line there is a play on a line from Ghostbusters "There is no Dana only Zuul" when Dana is possessd by Zuul, I replaced Dana with Sequels in reference to you bringing up the Matrix sequels. I refuse to believe they exist, except for certain scenes, they were ...disappointing. The second Line is a direct quote from Ghostbusters.
Sorry. I'll go now.

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"He's seen too much of life And there's no going back.
The loneliness calls him, And the edge which must be sharpened,
He's losing it. And he knows.
But there's a fighter in his mind and his body's tough
The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

CALLMESERENITY

Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:49 PM (P)

See, this is why I need to watch Ghostbusters again. I can't remember the last time I saw it and I don't remember that line.

But, I used to live in Philly where that building they used for the crazy gargoyle apartment building is. It's really some crazy stuffy office building or something. But it's nice to show tourists and it's neat because it's right near the Piers and it stands out, no other skyscrapers near it.

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SERYN

Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:38 PM (P)

If you like Shawn of the Dead (Go Pegg!) you'd probably like Dog Soldiers, so funny, we (Mum and I) giggled outr way through it, despite the blood (one bad bit where a werewolf gets into the back of the rover)its basically a bunch of squaddies annoyed that they're missing the football, v. a family of werewolves.

I still get teased over it cause when we were watching it I laughed so hard I made this funny 'snork' noise.

Its got one of the Pertwee's in it and that guy who played the evil dude in Plunkett and Mclean.

oh, thats another movie we should watch...

But no, Ghostbusters is cool, very much need to watch that again (though, yey, I got the Zuul reference)

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ORPHEUS

Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:50 PM (P)

Yeah, I still need to check out Dog Soldiers.

::After a night of sleeping on the floor next to a perfectly good pillow, gets up and looks around::

Did somebody say breakfast? No? Ok then, dinnertime! So what we havin'?

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CALLMESERENITY

Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:07 PM (P)

I hope it's eggrolls. With duck sauce.

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ORPHEUS

Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:22 PM (P)

Ooh!

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CITIZEN

Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:08 PM (P)

Just checked an old email account of mine, and look what I found:

GeDunkRose of FIREFLYFANS.NET has sent you the following message:

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But can I send you PMs?

Arrrr me hearty!

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LIGHTMEDARK

Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:33 PM (P)

ahaha, that's great

ah, shaun of the dead was good, i'll have to check out that other

and you can have violence and love, hell, my favorite book Heroes Die just might be a love story (depends on how you look at it) but is filled with some rather brutal violence

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SERYN

Friday, February 17, 2006 12:00 AM (P)

I was about to say that I'm sure a lot of films and books are love stories as well as being violent, but I can't now think of a single one... gimme a few days.

I've also forgotten what else it was i was going to respond too..

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Friday, February 17, 2006 12:48 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
Just checked an old email account of mine, and look what I found:

GeDunkRose of FIREFLYFANS.NET has sent you the following message:

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But can I send you PMs?

Arrrr me hearty!

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To respond to GeDunkRose, you can go here:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?un=GeDunkRose

hahahahahaha!

I forgot about that.

You can respond to GeDunk all you want, but she doesn't ever check her email (mostly because her email address is completely made up.)

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JADEHAND

Friday, February 17, 2006 3:11 AM (P)

oh, Love and Violence?
True Romance. with Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt(the roommate stoner) and several others who's names I can't conjure just now. Christopher Walken, oh yeah, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmore, and Gary Oldman

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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

JADEHAND

Friday, February 17, 2006 3:17 AM (P)

Or one of my other personal favourites: The Crow.

LIGHTMEDARK

Friday, February 17, 2006 3:20 AM (P)

true romance...i own that. my last gf bought it for me because it was her favourite romantic movie of all time, lol

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SCORPIONREGENT

Friday, February 17, 2006 5:35 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
I was about to say that I'm sure a lot of films and books are love stories as well as being violent, but I can't now think of a single one... gimme a few days.

How about Fight Club? It's a love story. There's always Romeo and Juliet.

Scorpion Regent

SCORPIONREGENT

Friday, February 17, 2006 5:38 AM (P)

Tristan and Isolde.
Excalibur.

Scorpion Regent

CITIZEN

Friday, February 17, 2006 9:42 AM (P)

Romeo and Juliet, best stick to fight club, less violent.

Just got this sent to me:

Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just take the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy...
The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree. Share this with other women who are good apples, even those who have already been picked!

Now Men....

Men are like a fine wine.

They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

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CALLMESERENITY

Friday, February 17, 2006 2:01 PM (P)

NO fight club! That goes in my "too gross" catergory. Ewwwwww. Or you can watch it, just let me leave the Nook till it's over.

Apples and wine, huh? Very amusing.

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COZEN

Friday, February 17, 2006 2:06 PM (P)

*Sets to climbing the "apple" tree....*

CALLMESERENITY

Friday, February 17, 2006 2:50 PM (P)

I am feeling very much in need of amusing today.

So please, someone, amuse me!!

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CITIZEN

Friday, February 17, 2006 4:29 PM (P)

*Citizen starts juggling Huggies wearing Monkies while balancing a grand piano on his chin by one leg while an old man plays that Circus music track. He is riding a unicycle*

*It doesn't end well*

Hows that?

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CALLMESERENITY

Friday, February 17, 2006 4:42 PM (P)

Very amusing!!

Thanks, Sean!

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CITIZEN

Friday, February 17, 2006 5:41 PM (P)

I try.

Edit:
How about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, that's got romance...

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:14 PM (P)

I've never seen that one, so I vote yes!

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CITIZEN

Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:27 PM (P)

Thank god for that, I thought I'd killed the Nook...

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:45 PM (P)

No one can kill the Nook! That's inconceivable!

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CITIZEN

Saturday, February 18, 2006 7:53 PM (P)

If anyone can, Citizen can!

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:18 PM (P)

cuz he sprinkles it with love and makes the world taste good!

No, wait, that's the candyman.

But you, Seanny, give yourself far too much credit. It takes more than one wacky british bloke to kill THIS Nook!

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CITIZEN

Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:26 PM (P)

I thought the candyman was the guy with the hook hand who killed people?

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:41 PM (P)

Ew. I hope not. That was the song from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The old one.

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SERYN

Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:50 PM (P)

who was also a spider dressed up as a clown.

or was that a clown dressed up as a spider?

or another film entirely?

I dunno, no-one alive could ever convince me to watch that film.

Nah, no-one can kill the Nook.

not while i'm half the pedant I am.

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CALLMESERENITY

Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:53 AM (P)

Huh what?

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SERYN

Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:11 AM (P)

I don't know.

sorry.

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JADEHAND

Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:43 AM (P)

you people are far to active, still having issues. will check in again soonish.

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He's losing it. And he knows.
But there's a fighter in his mind and his body's tough
The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

SERYN

Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:14 PM (P)

oh, see you soon JH!

Right, consulted the Fount of All Movie Knowledge.

The film i'm wittering on about it Steven Kings 'IT' the scary moster is some beasty that sometimes appears as a clown.

So its not Candyman at all.

But either way i'm not watchin 'em.

I value my sleep to much.

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CITIZEN

Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:41 PM (P)

ah yes, the giant telepathic alien spider that lives underground, appears as a clown, is hurt by silver and eats children.

What's scary about that?

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Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:49 PM (P)

honestly?

the appearing as a clown thing...

(my one enduring memory of a circus is loosing my shoe under the seating (bleachers?)and my dad wouldn't go fetch it until the show was over. so when the snake lady came out and people were allowed to go hold the snakes I couldn't go, I started crying, and then a clown came over and I was so pissed off at my dad, and upset at not getting to see the snakes, and scared of the clown that I think I started screaming my head off right then and there - I was such a quiet child...)

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CITIZEN

Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:52 PM (P)

Ah well, you can hold my snake if you want.

What?

No! no my Snake! Rusty!

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Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:54 PM (P)

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CITIZEN

Sunday, February 19, 2006 11:00 PM (P)

Serenity, have you got something in your eye?

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Sunday, February 19, 2006 11:26 PM (P)

Nope!

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CITIZEN

Monday, February 20, 2006 12:01 AM (P)

Then what's all the winking about?

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Monday, February 20, 2006 1:33 AM (P)

see, I take a few days off, and I get replaced.

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The loneliness calls him, And the edge which must be sharpened,
He's losing it. And he knows.
But there's a fighter in his mind and his body's tough
The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

CALLMESERENITY

Monday, February 20, 2006 2:24 PM (P)

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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ORPHEUS

Monday, February 20, 2006 3:06 PM (P)

::Makes a stop in the BDN::

So I found my new favorite toy this weekend:

That's right. It's a Nerf REVOLVER!

I got my roommate and a bunch of out friends to go buy one....

College students + Nerf Guns - any figure of authority = long nights and lost darts.

::Fires a shot into the air::

"Toink!"

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SCORPIONREGENT

Monday, February 20, 2006 4:04 PM (P)

CMS: If you are so small how come you have such a huge heart?

Orpheus: Great toy! I do think I am suffering from gun envy. It's perfect, it's big, it's shiny, It's obviously a toy so no cop is going to shoot you for having one, It isn't trying to pretend to be anything other than what it is, Perfect.

Scorpion Regent

CALLMESERENITY

Monday, February 20, 2006 4:35 PM (P)

Hmmm....SR that might be why I've been having these horrible pains in my chest!

Well, that's one theory anyway.

And also *hugs* because that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Also for making me smile.

Orpheus: that rocks. I So very much want one.

I think they should be standar Nook issue!

CalvinBall with Nerf Revolvers!!! Who's with me!

*dons hot pink "zorro" mask and matching cape.*

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LIGHTMEDARK

Monday, February 20, 2006 6:16 PM (P)

i want one

now

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ORPHEUS

Monday, February 20, 2006 6:22 PM (P)

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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CALLMESERENITY

Monday, February 20, 2006 6:32 PM (P)

*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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CITIZEN

Monday, February 20, 2006 6:59 PM (P)

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

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Monday, February 20, 2006 8:28 PM (P)

::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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CALLMESERENITY

Monday, February 20, 2006 8:49 PM (P)

Quote:
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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ORPHEUS

Monday, February 20, 2006 9:05 PM (P)

::Whips up a Cape Cod for Serenity::

Cheers...Now die!

::Pulls the trigger. Click.::

"No more buwwets..."

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CALLMESERENITY

Monday, February 20, 2006 9:11 PM (P)

hahahahahahahaaaa!

That was great!

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SCORPIONREGENT

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:01 AM (P)

So how do you make a cape cod?

Scorpion Regent

SCORPIONREGENT

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:01 AM (P)

So how do you make a cape cod?

Scorpion Regent

JADEHAND

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:36 AM (P)

Quote:
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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The loneliness calls him, And the edge which must be sharpened,
He's losing it. And he knows.
But there's a fighter in his mind and his body's tough
The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

ORPHEUS

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:14 AM (P)

Quote:
So how do you make a cape cod?

::shrugs::

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JADEHAND

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:43 PM (P)

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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The loneliness calls him, And the edge which must be sharpened,
He's losing it. And he knows.
But there's a fighter in his mind and his body's tough
The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

CALLMESERENITY

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:13 PM (P)

But hold the lime.

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

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SCORPIONREGENT

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:33 PM (P)

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.

Scorpion Regent

CALLMESERENITY

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:21 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by Orpheus:
Quote:
So how do you make a cape cod?

::shrugs::

LOL! That's amusing.

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ORPHEUS

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:18 PM (P)

Yeah, look who you're asking.

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LIGHTMEDARK

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:33 PM (P)

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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ORPHEUS

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:48 AM (P)

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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CITIZEN

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:13 AM (P)

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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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:29 AM (P)

Quote:
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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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:24 AM (P)

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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CALLMESERENITY

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:06 PM (P)

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 2:19 PM (P)

You can have the broken one, £50...

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:43 PM (P)

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 2:54 PM (P)

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

You are so generous!

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:16 PM (P)

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 6:24 PM (P)

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

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MYSTERYMAN

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:54 PM (P)

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?

CITIZEN

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 11:37 PM (P)

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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SCORPIONREGENT

Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:41 AM (P)

Quote:
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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CITIZEN

Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:18 AM (P)

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 3:21 PM (P)

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 8:32 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by Jadehand:
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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The years have been unkind, but kind enough." -Ocean Cloud (Marbles) -Marillion

Macs are very tinkerable.

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LIGHTMEDARK

Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:58 PM (P)

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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SERYN

Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:17 PM (P)

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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CITIZEN

Friday, February 24, 2006 12:06 AM (P)

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 2:29 PM (P)

My rootbeer is flat.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 2:33 PM (P)

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 2:46 PM (P)

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 2:52 PM (P)

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 3:07 PM (P)

Silly!

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

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Friday, February 24, 2006 3:25 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by citizen:
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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COZEN

Friday, February 24, 2006 3:27 PM (P)

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!

CITIZEN

Friday, February 24, 2006 3:36 PM (P)

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 3:46 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by cozen:

Good scotch!

Nightcap, eh?

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Friday, February 24, 2006 3:56 PM (P)

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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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CALLMESERENITY

Friday, February 24, 2006 4:14 PM (P)

Can I have a daycap, too?

*holds out glass*

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COZEN

Friday, February 24, 2006 4:25 PM (P)

Bien sur!

*Pours*

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Friday, February 24, 2006 4:29 PM (P)

L'chaim!

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