The General Chat thread

[AdmiralMemo]

Welp, goodbye LRR due to Cam and Kathleen tonight, if so. (Honestly, I don't care for it, either, but I wouldn't want to see LRR get suspended over it.)

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

Eh? What happened.

[AdmiralMemo]

What do you mean? Something happened?

[phlip]

Eh? What happened.

Did you miss the context buried at the bottom of the last page? Memo was talking about the hypothetical of Twitch banning streamers for colourful language... not anything that actually happened.

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

I don't watch the Stream since... it's hard to watch it when it streams outside of UK operating hours.

Last time I missed Kathleen missing the Checkpoint chair. I thought I missed something else.

[Lord Hosk]

I walked into class today and saw a scattering of small notes at various seats, including the one I normally sit at.

"11-11-2014 Thank you" signed by the professor.

as each veteran walked in he made eye contact, nodded then said nothing else. More than one of us, myself included teared up a little.

[empath]

Damn onion ninjas in my room again! Worse than frickin' mice!

Oh, and yeah: thank you.

[Valkyrie-Lemons]

So on Thursday I'll be getting my first assignment piece back from Uni.

This'll either mean that Friday will be "Yay! I did well, let's celebrate with Desert Bus!" or "Boo! I did badly...well Desert Bus will cheer me up!"

So I'm kinda sorted either way. : )

[Bebop Man]

Sheesh, everybody's getting married.

[Lord Chrusher]

It is a hazard of being in one's late twenties.

[Darkobra]

The worst part is I'm being made to buy a suit.

[Prospero101]

I could make a joke here about Scotsmen and freedom, but I get the feeling that Darkobra will reach through the Internet and beat the hell out of me.

[AdmiralMemo]

I guess that's a plus of not having friends: not being dragged along to everyone's weddings.

[plummeting_sloth]

At this point, I've acquired enough of an odd collection of suits, I'm actually looking forward to wedding season to actually have an excuse to wear them all. Wearing nice clothes to the lab is just an opportunity to watch as acid eats a hole through them

[My pseudonym is Ix]

Bizarrely, I decided I wanted new dresswear the other day; not through weddings or having literally any reason to wear it, I just decided I wanted a kilt for Christmas.

[Darkobra]

I could make a joke here about Scotsmen and freedom, but I get the feeling that Darkobra will reach through the Internet and beat the hell out of me.

The night's young and I had to tell a guy that his laptop is beyond repair and there was no way I was buying it because I might actually catch it.

"What do you mean?! Anything can be fixed!"
"Well, first of all, you're still using Windows CE."
"It turns on!"
"Second of all, that laptop is so big I thought you had a second laptop hiding under it."
"It's harder to lose!"
"Third of all, if that laptop was a human being, I'd be drowning it in the bath until the bubbles stopped simply to end its suffering."

So yes. If I were to reach through the internet and beat you, I'd be using that laptop.

[Prospero101]

You're kidding. You have to be exaggerating. He could not have had that bloody laptop for eighteen goddamn years. That laptop can vote and buy lottery tickets.

[Darkobra]

It was a 67 year old man who came in with it. And I was astounded. I was legitimately amazed and was trying to find the NICEST way to tell him "Your laptop belongs in a museum." But my God did he fight tooth and nail to try and sell it off. Nearly bought it from him myself for £5 just to show it off and charge people to see it.

[Master Gunner]

I think I still have a laptop from '98 sitting around somewhere. Probably at the bottom of a pile of other ancient hardware.

[My pseudonym is Ix]

Worryingly, that would make that laptop older than my younger brother, and he's less than a year away from starting university.

[Prospero101]

I think I still have a laptop from '98 sitting around somewhere. Probably at the bottom of a pile of other ancient hardware.

Where it BELONGS. It does not belong in regular use (or, at least, as regular use as a 67 year-old man has for a laptop).

Reminds me of a 91 year-old who keeps coming into the shop where I work because he likes me. Worryingly, this man is the single most annoying creature on the face of the earth, with a Frankensteinian combination of cynicism, holier-than-thou-ism, and a lack of mental acuity that prompts him to repeat the same two or three subjects over and over.

[viscomica]

I think I still have a laptop from '98 sitting around somewhere. Probably at the bottom of a pile of other ancient hardware.

Where it BELONGS. It does not belong in regular use (or, at least, as regular use as a 67 year-old man has for a laptop).

Reminds me of a 91 year-old who keeps coming into the shop where I work because he likes me. Worryingly, this man is the single most annoying creature on the face of the earth, with a Frankensteinian combination of cynicism, holier-than-thou-ism, and a lack of mental acuity that prompts him to repeat the same two or three subjects over and over.

Sounds to me like an everyday 90-something person (I talk from experience. My grandmother is kind of like that, only female, obviously)

[Merrymaker_Mortalis]

I have two faces.
One for the world.
One for God.
Save me.

[RedNightmare]

I have many faces.
One for friends
One for work
One for family
And innumerable more
I do not wear them as masks
There is no true face
They are all a true side of me
I am more like a sphere of faces
Turning to show the appropriate side
At the sphere's core there is one face
But that face only I can see.


Sorry, This got stuck in my head and I had to write it out

[Timelady]

Oh, I love that poem! Do you have any more written out around the internet somewhere? I'd love to read it.

Anyway, computers. This had to have taken place about...five, ten years ago, but that's not any excuse.

So, my dad had gotten me a surprise present: apparently they'd been deaccessioning computers at his workplace, and he was actually able to get one for free, and he thought I might find it useful to have.

Now, my dad is not computer illiterate. Not by a long shot. Most everything I know about computers, I learned from him. All I can figure is that he never got a good look at what he was taking home.

The thing was running DOS. I believe 4.0. Maybe earlier. And the single disk drive...was a 5 1/4" floppy. And I don't mean alongside the hard drive, as you probably already guessed. I mean that was the only disc drive.

I really[i] wish I had kept the damn thing in retrospect, just because it was seriously cool to have. Unfortunately, the actual usefulness of it was nonexistent. Maybe in the bizarro universe or something. It being probably 2008 or thereabouts I could NOT find disks for it, it pretty obviously had no modem or anything, and let's face it, I just didn't have the space for it.

I can only [i]imagine what they were using it for at his workplace for so long!