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Flamer's Corner / Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« on: May 19, 2017, 01:31:23 PM »
Hey, it turns out that you can send back a plate every time you visit a restaurant and we won't kick you out. EVERY DAMN TIME. You have a problem with you food. But this time[/] you got verbally abusive with the staff and were loud and belligerent enough to make other customers complain about YOU. So, yeah, we fucking want you to leave now. Please fucking leave and never come back.

Take the trash out with you.

Thanks.

This brings back TONS of memories from my food service days. When it's every damn time you go to the same restaurant chances are it's not the staff but YOU who are somehow causing the problem. I can see once or twice... but every. damn. time? No. Glad to hear you guys kicked one out.

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: how do I post a
« on: May 11, 2017, 04:10:27 PM »
I did this so I never knew before.

Yes, have some.

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I gotta get back on my Euro Truck Simulator.

Now that I work from home, I suppose this is logical this way I can sit in traffic on a video game after work since I don't have to deal with it commuting.

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New Geeks on the Block / Re: Hola. Marhabaan. Whatever.
« on: February 15, 2017, 03:50:51 PM »
In those 10 years a new word has been discovered... For a second I thought someone registered the username twerk and was posting an intro thread...

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Political Opinions / Re: Personhood Fails in Mississippi
« on: February 03, 2017, 03:20:02 PM »
Main screen turn on...

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Entertainment / Re: New Star Wars Movies
« on: February 03, 2017, 03:19:17 PM »
Finally saw Rogue One last week.

I'll be honest... I didn't really think it was all that great. It seemed like they just wanted to bring in more money so they wrote another movie for the hell of it. They know that us Star Wars geeks HAVE to go out and see it for fear of missing out (FOMO)

Novice... to your point... it was more or less... forced. By seeing A New Hope one can deduce exactly what we saw in Rogue One. I'm hoping The Last Jedi will hit the nail on the head.

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Main Page Stuff / Re: Back in my day…
« on: February 01, 2017, 10:36:21 AM »
What is it to read the information into knowledge so too. I like it a lot because I'm not that good.

Yes, have some.

Pepe, is that you?

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Anarchy / Re: OMG ITS ME! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
« on: January 27, 2017, 08:09:21 AM »
From time to time I look back at some of the older shit I've posted and think to myself, "Weird Tingly Feeling? Is it really nearly 15 years?!" 5500 DAYS!

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Flamer's Corner / Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« on: January 27, 2017, 08:07:09 AM »
Exactly!

It's not that hard of a concept, really. Even if it's something that requires a lot of leg work and you can't answer it right away that day, a simple email back saying something like, "Hey, this will take me some time to pull the reports. Will get it back to you by end of day tomorrow." is totally understandable.

I got into the habit of attempt #3 to CC their manager on the email. Mind you this was usually like 7 business days after the first one. It was always amusing to see how upset they got. Seriously... what did you think was going to happen? LOL!

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Flamer's Corner / Re: The 'Let's Bitch About Our Jobs' thread.
« on: January 26, 2017, 02:15:11 PM »
Internal emails that require a response but never get answered and go ignored for prolonged periods of time.

I realize that things get hectic and there are bigger fish to fry but if someone from outside of your department emails you at least try to get back to them within a few business days.

This was a big problem at my previous employer because the workforce was so large and spread out across the country that you would from time to time email people whom you've never met or never will meet in your life. All the more reason for them to ignore your email and hide behind their computer screen like nothing ever happened. Even if you'd reply on top of the first email it would still go ignored.

</rant>

This one really, I mean REALLY, grinds my gears to no end.


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Anarchy / Re: OMG ITS ME! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
« on: January 26, 2017, 01:39:12 PM »
Hi Chris, I'm good tks. We had an ice storm last night and I was out of power for a while. Not much new with me. Work + kids keeps me busy. I hit 40. Does that make me an old man by BizB standards? lol

What's going on with you?

You still up in Canada? (You'll have to excuse me if you've never even lived there!)

I was dumb and ditched going after a CS degree and am now paying the pricing for doing that. Probably one of the biggest mistakes thus far. Took the plunge and moved in with the lady friend this past October and things have been going well ever since. Oh, and I hit 30!

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Entertainment / Re: New Star Wars Movies
« on: January 25, 2017, 11:42:49 AM »
Keyword: "seems". I think there is an explanation for this that will come up in the next movie. Memory wipe or something cliché like that.

Funny... I just watched TFA last night and thought something similar. In the last fight scene between her and Kylo it was almost as if she was in The Matrix and asked Tank for a pilot program to fly a B2-12 helicopter. All in all though, I was just as upset last night as I was the first time when I saw TFA because it was as if I was watching the very first episode again. I don't know why I got my hopes up this time.

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Anarchy / Re: From the bowels of the internet...
« on: January 24, 2017, 06:42:41 PM »
...Also, I don't remember what part I wrote from the above.

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Anarchy / From the bowels of the internet...
« on: January 24, 2017, 06:41:48 PM »
Lookie what I ran in to today. Sometimes after work when I'm bored I'll hunt around on archive.org and relic in the good ol' days of the internet...

Clicky click for the original

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~Fade-In~

"It's easy", Johnny said, "..infact almost fool-proof, I've do it a hundred times."

Brett always had got a queasy feeling in his stomach when Johnny, his street-smart fast talking best friend, starts to pull one of his scams. "Now go over there and do it just like I told you." barked Johnny. Brett never really thought to much of Johnny's bossiness. Being from the same neighborhood and alittle older, he felt, Johnny is what it would feel like to have an older brother.

Brett had recieved the nod from Johnny. The mark, today, a well dressed man carrying a copy of the "The Wall-Street Journal". Johnny always said that stock brokers were just like flys,"If it looks good to them, they'll dive right in the shit!", and he was right. Drawing closer, Brett pulled out the envelope, and placed it in his sleeve.

The contents, an old 1902 penny, in a plastic case marked "Vry-Rare". This scam Johnny loved, because it really only cost them about a dollar to pull off, and if done right could net about a 500% profit.

Now, walking just behind the mark, Brett extended his arm and made contact. It was on. "Excuse me sir, I think this fell from your breifcase", Brett sheepishly said. Puzzled, the man said thanks, and Brett kept walking. "Yo, hold up!", the man said. Brett turned slowly and relished the feeling of hooking the fish. "This isn't mine son.", the man exclaimed.

"Oh, I'm sorry sir, it looked as if it came from your briefcase, maybe it was from someone in front of you, anyway....sorry, here I'll take it back.", Brett said. Brett snatched the envelope rather quickly, which made the man kinda curious of what was in it. Brett continued walking, but not to far in front of the man, so he'd be sure to see Brett's reaction. "Wow...fucking cool!", Brett moaned. Now the mark completely hooked, came over to Brett and asked, "Well, what do you got there kid?"

Brett held the penny up in the air, as if it was a lost treasure just being unearthed, "Looks like some kinda old coin." Feeling the scam going good, Brett relaxed abit and asked the man, "Do you know anything about coins?" The man shrugged and said, "Well...ah, sure, let me see that." Brett almost laughed as the guys eyes zeroed in on the "Rare" part."Hey look there's a note in here.", Brett said sounding surprised.

The note said, "Here it is Mr. Jacobson, I was hopeing you could give me the half the appraisal you gave me" It had a phone number written on top near the letter-head that said=="FROM THE DESK OF Tom Tutone". Brett turning to the man, asked if he had a cell phone. The man of coarse did, and pulled it out. The man gestured to Brett, "Would you like to use it?" "Hell no, with all the radiation and waves of stuff coming out of those things, no sir, you do it." Brett said. The man shook his head, began dialing the number, and mumbled, "Radiation, huh."

"Hello.", it was Johnny, in his businessman's voice.

"Good evening, is this Mr. Tut-one?", asked the man.

With an argy sigh, Johnny said,"It's pronounced Tutone, like a car color." Johnny loved messing around with the marks, and "Who is this?"

"My name is Bob, and well Mr. Tutone, I believe a package of yours, that maybe was being delivered, or I don't know, being handle out on 3rd ave, has ended up in mine and young man hands. I'm calling for him, on my cellphone, he originally thought it fell from me."

"Oh shit!" Johnny yelled,"My coin! Where on 3rd ave. are you, and who's got my penny?"

"Well, were in front of the Starbucks, right next to Smith's Cafe'" said the man. "The kid's holding the coin now.

Johnny said slowly with a stern voice, "Listen to me Bob, I need you to do me a huge favour, STAY RIGHT THERE WITH MY COIN, I will be right there. I'm sure your a busy man, so I WILL, make it worth you while, say $500.00 dollars for waiting for me. Get the coin from that kid and I'll meet you in that Starbucks, down there, in ten minutes. Bob please don't split on me with that coin, I do have your cell number with name on the caller I.D., I'm sure your an easy guy to find. Are we on the same page?"

Bob happily replied, "Yes."

"Oh, and one more thing Bob, can you order me a Colombia nariño supremo, and get yourself something nice, I'll be right there."

The man hangs-up the phone, turns to Brett and says, "I can take it from here if you want kid. The guys coming down in a couple of minutes and said to say thanks, and to give you twenty bucks....so here ya go.", and gestured for the coin.

"No, no, I wasn't born yesterday there Bobby. You look pretty damn happy to be having to have to wait for a complete stranger.", as Brett slid the coin into his pocket. "How much did he say it's worth?"

"Come'on kid stop, busting my balls, I've done all the work here. I made the call....and I was meeting someone else down here anyway, before this..., come'on kid" moaned Bob.

"Your acting weird Bob, I tell-ya what, I think I'll keep the coin and take it down to a coin shop today.", Brett grinned.

"Whoa! hold up....ah, what did you say your name was?", Bob asked.

Brett replied, "Greg"

"Well Greg, let's just say, today is your lucky day. This whole situation, you, me, the coin, you being a good samaritan and all, well...let's talk on the level here. Follow me." and they walked over to the A.T.M machine outside Starbucks. "That coin, in your pocket, is worth two hundred dollars," as Bob placed his card and pin number in. Like a hawk Brett took note, of the four magic numbers, while Bob continued to spew something,"the gentleman has my full name and phone number, and I need to make sure this gets back to him. So you see, your going to give me that coin and I'm going to make sure this gentleman gets back his coin, and from this process you just made two hundred dollars,...um, ok." Bob asked.

Brett smiled, repeating the four numbers in his head over and over,"Not a problem sir! What ever you say." Brett stuck out his hand with the coin in it, and Bob gladly took it, and placed ten crisp twenty dollar bills in it's spot.

"So I guess this is good day to you, there Bob." said Brett. Bob thinking to himself, of what to do with the three hundred extra dollars, said "Looks like it, you have a good day also."

Brett went to where Johnny said to meet, after they finished the scam. Johnny smiled when he saw Brett walk up to him, and Johnny giggled, "I told the fuck to get me a supremo." Brett enjoyed the laugh, it was a real tension realease, but he was really was thinking of how to get Bob's atm card.

"Guess what Johnny?" Brett grinned, "I know his pin number."

"You fucking know his what?" gasped Johnny.

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~fades out~

,and now you fade your continuation in

"His pin number for his card", Brett replied.

"How the FUCK did you manage to get that while you were at it?", Johnny replied in a rather fast and snappy manner which seemed to surprise Brett even though he himself has a foul mouth. Brett took a moment to reply after being dumbfounded by Johnny's rage - "Easy, I looked at the keypad when he put the number in and I remembered it. How else would have I gotten it?" he said.

"I don't care how you got it, the cool thing is you have his mother fucking pin number!" Brett answered to his answer.

While the two boys were bickering about how Brett got the man's, the man was busy waiting on line getting Johnny a Supremo from the Starbuck's to stay on Johnny's good side when they met. After all, he was going to be getting a lot of money from the kid, who he thought was a man, and he certainly didn't want to make him mad or pissed off.

"There's no way in hell I'm going to steal his wallet", cried Brett. "Besides, he already knows what I look like. He'll notice me."

"By the way" Brett continued, "Here's half of the... eighty dollars he gave me for the penny."

Johnny gave him a sideways glance and almost said something, then shoved the two twenties into his pocket.

"Here's what I'm gonna do", said Johnny. I'm going to take one of these twenties up to him and tell him he dropped it, just like you did with the envelope. When he goes to put it in his wallet, I'm going to grab it, and when he tries to take it back, I'm going to scream 'rape!'."

Brett just shook his head.

"I'll wait outside", he said.

Brett walked out the door, while Johnny walked up to the man waiting in line.

"Hey mister," he said as he tugged on the corner of his sportcoat. "I think you dropped this."

The man looked at the bill for a moment and said "thanks, kid." He stuck the money in his pocket and turned around to make his order.

"Fuck!" Johnny thought. "How the hell am I going to get his card now?". He paused. He then realized that the mane would have to take out his wallet when he paid for the coffee and food at Starbuck's. "I'll just grab it then" he thought again to himself.

Trying not to look too suspicious Johnny pretended to squint at the menu above the counter so he could get a good go at the wallet when Bob pulled it out of his back pocket. "$7.69" the lady at the counter said to the man. The man then reached into his pocket and pulled out the same 20-dollar-bill that Johnny had just given him. It almost seemed as though Bob didn't have a wallet, at least not that Johnny had seen.

The man got his change, put it back into his left pocket, and took his food back to a table where he waited for Johnny. While Bob was at the table waiting for someone that he had already seen but just didn't know it, Johnny went back to Brett and told him what happened.

"I didn't get his wallet! It's like the loser doesn't even have one!" he exclaimed in a loud manner. "Shhh!" Brett said hastily. "Aren't you worried that someone is going to hear?" Johnny took a brief moment to think about what was just said to him. "Oh yea, well... but... it's New York, do you think anyone is going to REALLY give two shits about some man's wallet?"

The two boys stood at a bench for about five minutes trying to think of another way to get the man's wallet without causing too much of a scene at the Starbuck's that would cause them to be caught by the cops. "I don't know... we already got the 200 bucks, why do you still want his atm card?" Brett suggested. "I mean, this is already MORE than we need" he added. "You're right, but the man seems like he's got a lot of money, and he doesn't seem to sharp either, once I do get a go at his wallet, he's not going to know what to do once it's out of his hands. It's too good to pass up." Johnny noted while looking up at the sky desperately thinking of ways to boost the man's wallet."Hold up, there slick. You already got how much?", Johnny asked in a soft voice.

"Ah...I mean eighty bucks....., I was shooting for the two hundred." Brett said.

Johnny leaped from were he stood, going striaght for Brett's pockets. "Eighty-bucks, huh! What the fuck's this?" Johnny yelled, as he ended his sentence with a punch to Brett's ribs.

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Anarchy / Re: OMG ITS ME! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
« on: January 24, 2017, 02:38:44 PM »
Holy shit! How have you been Judge?! What is new with you?

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Main Page Stuff / You can't make this stuff up
« on: January 20, 2017, 08:26:29 PM »
From time to time I still get updates about job openings from when I was a student in college. I guess it's a good thing that they provide this kind of communication to their alumni in the event that they find themselves looking for a job proactively or become unemployed.  

What I didn't realize, though, is just how GULLIBLE younger graduates have become with respect to jobs. Actually, let me rephrase that. How GULLIBLE they have become with pretty much everything. Maybe this stems from them getting the bulk of their news from social media and thinking it's perfectly fine? Maybe high schools are letting kids down by only focusing on making sure that students pass a test?

I got an urgent email from DeSales University warning me about a scam that's been going around. I thought they were referencing the Gmail phishing scam that has been going around recently. Nope, this was something completely different. I thought it was something really bad. Was someone going to their job fairs on campus pretending to be an recruiter from a local organization only to be some kind of crazed rapist dressed in nothing but a trench coat? Are they requesting nude photos prior to being hired and then posting them on their website?

No. None of the above. Actually, they are soliciting college students for administrative positions and then directing the students to deposit phony checks into their accounts and turn around and TRANSFER FUNDS TO ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL BEFORE THE CHECK HAS EVEN CLEARED.

Apparently this kind of how the whole thing goes down according to IC3's website:

"You will need some materials/software and also a time tracker to commence your training and orientation and also you need the software to get started with work. The funds for the software will be provided for you by the company via check. Make sure you use them as instructed for the software and I will refer you to the vendor you are to purchase them from, okay."

"I have forwarded your start-up progress report to the HR Dept. and they will be facilitating your start-up funds with which you will be getting your working equipment from vendors and getting started with training."

"Enclosed is your first check. Please cash the check, take $300 out as your pay, and send the rest to the vendor for supplies."

Honestly, I find this to be quite sad that a university has to send out this kind of communication. No bells go off when they're being hired for this position and no I9, W4 or any other forms are filled out? True, maybe they are presented with phony forms to make it convincing, but I seriously doubt they go through this much trouble. They'll just move on to the next moron. More importantly, though, is that why is your "employer" instructing you to withdraw funds to give to someone else for equipment or software? And why would you dare turn over funds before the check has had a chance to clear?

At the very least there should be push back on the fact that the check must clear before doing anything else.

Seriously, what planet are we on that we have to be telling mid-20-somethings that checks don't clear right away?


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Homework Help / Re: Dreamweaver: parse error
« on: January 18, 2017, 09:05:58 AM »
Who uses Dreamweaver anyway? I've always used Front Page. C'mon now...

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Main Page Stuff / Back in my day…
« on: January 14, 2017, 08:27:56 PM »
Even back in my day people were gunning others down in theaters
I think it’s appropriate to preface this by saying that back in my day I used to frequent Fark before it went downhill and there was a mass exodus of members. I don’t necessarily think there was any real reason why the site went down hill, either. I think it was a combination of the fact that there was more competition from sites similar to it, as well as the fact that social media became a staple in most people’s lives just before it could get real big and appeal to the masses. This notion really makes sense now because back then most sane people laughed it off thinking no one was ACTUALLY getting their news from social media, but we’ve all found out this is sadly true and has been going on for a long time now.  

This is just a long winded way for me to tell you that yes, I used to frequent Fark a lot back in the early 2000s but now find myself browsing Reddit several times a day.  

I saw in r/AskReddit someone asked “What will be the Millennial generation's ‘I had to walk 20 miles uphill both ways in the snow to school every day’?” and I got to thinking… “Yeah… what will I tell my kids when they’re in their early teens?”  

Some people responded with the obvious “Back in the day you had to wait for the modem to connect to the internet… we only had a 14.4k modem!” or “We had to actually drive our own cars!” but what are some other things that us millennials had to endure that the next generation will find to be barbaric?  

Opposing opinions
Apparently this has been going on for a while now but I have only started to take notice of it over the last 4 or so years. We have a global epidemic going on in which younger people, people post-millennial age, no longer want to listen to other people’s opinions, nor do they want to have to defend their own when questioned by someone who doesn’t share their same view. And I’m not talking about the late 60s and 70s “stick it to the man” mindset.  

The parents of the girl on the ground voted for Trump. She should have known better.
Sadly, I don’t think this is something that is ever going to be fixed. I think thanks in part to technology and social media platforms people are either fed content that plays into their perceived persona that has been extrapolated by some fancy algorithm, or they themselves have effectively doctored what they will “hear” by unfollowing/blocking any friends who don’t seem to meet eye to eye, and only visiting websites and reading content that cater to their own likes.  

Now when they go out in the “real world” and run into someone who doesn’t agree with their opinion on a certain subject matter they no longer know how to effectively deal with the situation.  

Back in my day you would see lengthy forums topics online of people arguing and defending their opinions on something they felt strongly about, or college students could actually have meaningful debates with their professors on a topic when given the opportunity to do so without fear of getting kicked out or ruthlessly ridiculed or attacked by other students. It’s sad - people now seem to have lost their gusto in defending their own opinions and are willing to live in their own little silos.  

Printed TV Guides
Yeah… for all you young people, this was actually a thing. You used to have to wait for the paper to get the TV guide for your cable provider to find out when Teen Mom was going to be airing on MTV. Oh wait, just kidding, we didn’t have trash like that on TV then. MTV actually played music videos then.  

But seriously, you would have to go through this book - usually it was printed every other week if I recall correctly - and highlight or earmark the shows that you wanted to watch or record using your VCR. There were no fancy DVRs with an easy to search/update listing of upcoming shows on each channel. And there was no real easy way to record something that was going to be on late at night. Sure, you could program the VCR to record it when it came on, but you had to program it that day and god forbid if you messed it up then it didn’t get recorded. TV guides rival card catalogues in terms of how primitive things were just 20 years ago. Hell, I don’t think my local library at the time transitioned from the old card catalogue system to computers until 2000. Both of these changes were welcomed by us millennials.  

Maps and MapQuest
I like to brag about the fact that I have a pretty damn good sense of direction and therefore don’t have any issues with using a map to find my way from point A to point B if given a few moments to review the map and maybe take note of one or two significant landmarks indicated on the map in the area. Kids who are just starting to drive now? Not a chance in hell could they use a map. They’re lucky to be able to find their way to their own high school when it’s time for them to start driving on their own without the assistance of a GPS.  

I remember getting lost in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2005 because I didn’t have a GPS to help guide me and I was just winging it trying to pick someone up. New Brunswick is especially challenging because of the number of one way streets there are - I wound up getting within one block and then just walked the rest. Pretty damn good considering I looked up the directions the night before and was going off of memory. Looking back on the situation I am pretty lucky I didn’t go down the wrong street and wind up being held up at gunpoint and robbed.  

Infrequent Mass Shootings
Almost every week we’re hearing about some kind of mass shooting in which numerous people were gunned down in a public place and even beyond the ones that make the national headlines there are numerous instances that occur on a daily basis around the United States. Did this go on back in the 80s and 90s? Of course it did, but did it happen at such an alarming rate like it does now? I don’t recall there ever being such fear back in the 90s as there is now when it comes to the threat of potentially being gunned down when going out shopping with your family one afternoon.  

This isn’t meant to be a piece on whether gun control should or should not be a thing, all I’m pointing out is that back in the day I think we can all agree that mass shootings did not occur as frequently as they do in 2016/2017. Perhaps the media and social media allows us to hear about these instances at a much higher rate than in prior years, but it sure does seem like the instances of it occurring are much more frequent that they were even back in the early 2000s.  

Aren't we supposed to be driving flying cars already?
Cars that aren’t self driven
Being a geek and a motor head, I’m kind of torn about the notion of cars being able to drive themselves in a few short years. Sure, we already have cars on the roads that are driving themselves, but they are mostly reserved for the rich. And yeah, Uber has some self driving cars on the streets running red lights, too. But they are still not ready to be rolled out in mass quantities.  

In all likelihood though, in 15/20 year’s time cars will no longer be driven by humans but instead by themselves. Just think about all the possibilities there are and how much extra time everyone will have for selfies and other nonsense.  

This for sure is going to be one of those things that I will harp on my kids for when they have the luxury of hopping into their car and having it drive them somewhere without the need of interacting with it. Let’s just hope the iRobot scenario doesn’t play out on us and the cars come after us as a form of rebellion.


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Entertainment / Re: Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet
« on: January 14, 2017, 10:35:11 AM »
I think I like this version of the side view. Now, I need to do some more at different angles.  Then, I'll move onto the rest of him.

I like this one the best and the dark grey background does make it look more sinister. Maybe some maroon accents to really make it pop if you're going to stick with the grey background (assuming you like it enough to incorporate it into a logo). I can certainly see the progress! I could not even come close to this. At all. I don't have an artistic bone in my body.

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Entertainment / Re: New Star Wars Movies
« on: January 14, 2017, 10:32:40 AM »
I'm right there with you that TFA was just a modern-day version of A New Hope. About 50 minutes in I was getting annoyed that I had just paid to see essentially the same thing that I had seen many years ago as a kid. I mean, were they just getting low on cash and needed a way to bring some more in?

Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen TFA yet! Don't read further!

The one thing that really bugs me with TFA is the fact that Rey learns how to essentially use The Force within what seems to be MAYBE 3 days time whereas everyone else before her took a much longer time and then proceeds to give Kylo Ren a run for his money, despite him having trained and practiced for years on end.

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Entertainment / Re: Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet
« on: January 08, 2017, 09:49:03 AM »
I fooled around with some kind of tablet like that maybe 12 years ago and I remember thinking the same thing: It's damn hard getting used to the fact that you need to look at the screen as opposed to the tablet to see the progress you have made.

To those who have never used one this might seem common sense... "Duh! you just look at the screen to see what you're doing!" but your entire life you're used to looking at the pen/paper to see what your next move will be.

I think because of that I gave up, but I'll also be the first to admit that I am by no means artistically gifted.

The tablet I had had some kind of cool clear plastic cover that you could remove to allow you to trace things - does the Wacom have that as well? I checked out a review and don't recall seeing it mentioned.

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Main Page Stuff / Re: 2017 New Year's Resolutions for #FFFFF Guys
« on: January 01, 2017, 08:42:15 PM »
Dan is fluent in Klingon, too... I'm sure.

LOL! Looking at that pic again I can see the resemblance between him and Mr. Worf. Dan's hair is a little more on point if you ask me.

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Main Page Stuff / 2017 New Year's Resolutions for #FFFFF Guys
« on: December 30, 2016, 09:31:50 PM »
To some, this is exactly what happened this year. To those same people, this is what is going to happen over the next four years.
Pretty clever, right? If you don’t get the joke I can’t help you. I can give you a hint though - have you seen MTV’s PSA outlining new year's resolutions for white guys? Let it sink in. You might have to do some Googling to figure it out if you’re not a true geek.  

So here we go again. Another year is about to end and another about to being. Me personally… I honestly don’t see the significance in celebrating yet another revolution around the star that is in the middle of our solar system. I guess it’s another excuse for most people to get shit faced drunk and make poor decisions. Whatever floats your boat, I guess? Social media has been blowing up with people claiming that 2016 has been the “absolute worst year evar” and I am seriously wondering why. Is it because of celebrity deaths? The US election? I sure hope it’s not celebrity deaths that have made this past year the worst ever for many. The geek community will be brought to its knees if we lose another tech icon - Steve Jobs was enough in 2011 let’s wait another few years before we let another tech great log off for good.  

So now it’s time for tons of people to make bullshit resolutions that they’re not even going to bother to keep two weeks after the start of the new year. Some of the most popular resolutions from previous years have been getting in shape, spend less and save more, get organized and read more.  

Fair enough. Those aren’t necessarily bad resolutions. I can get behind most of them. But that’s not what I found through doing my own research on this subject. I went around the local weekend flea market here in eastern Pennsylvania and asked a bunch of random people what their resolutions were and I figured I’d share some of the more interesting ones with you… God help us.  

This is pretty much EXACTLY what Stacey looked like
Stacey Clien, 22 
I’m not going to lie, I’m a sucker for dogs and she just happened to be walking around the flea market with her sister and they had their 3 year old collie with them and couldn’t resist going up to pet the little fella. It’s important to note that Stacey was wearing her favourite Drexel University hoodie and was walking around with her LuLaRoe leggings while carrying a Starbucks cup in one hand and her cell phone surgically attached in the other. I honestly should not have bothered to ask.  

When asked, Stacey told me that she is going to tune on mainstream media and rely solely on social media for her news because as she said “The news failed me this November when I thought Hillary was going to win but they were way wrong. I could have voted for the winning guy but since the news was wrong my vote went to waste” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing out of her mouth. For the hell of it, I decided to ask her what she was studying in college and what her career aspirations were afterwards. Sadly, she told me it was history and she wanted to teach high school students. That was enough for me.  

Brad Green, 28 
Brad was wearing a Bob Marley hoodie and I just wanted to see what he would say for the hell of it, knowing damn well I already knew what he was going to say. When I worked the question into the conversation it was almost like clock work. He went right into a scripted tirade as to why weed should be legal and how he is tired of having his pot sent to him through FedEx. When I asked him if he was worried about drug sniffing dogs one day discovering his package he said that he has tried to have his dog smell the marijuana and is convinced that she has never been able to pick up on the scent through the cardboard that it’s packed in.  

This is probably Dan every other time he is not out of the house
Dan Plock, 44 
Dan was actually a vendor at the flea market who had the typical run down pedo van with a sagging reason suspension and rusted out wheel wells. I honestly wasn’t sure what I was going to hear back from Dan when I haphazardly asked him what his resolutions was going to be. Sure enough, I found myself your typical radical right winged middle aged, white guy who thinks the government is out to get home. Go figure.  

Dan started to go on and on about how he’s going to stockpile as many guns and ammo as he can because he said the government is eventually going to take away the right to purchase firearms. Note that he said purchase, not own. Somehow he transitioned from the topic of guns to the topic of the police being out to get everyone. He was telling me something about one of his friends getting stopped by the police and as soon as the officer stepped up to the car he said “Alright, where’s all the money?” Dan is 100% convinced that the reason why the new $100 bill has the holographic stripe is so law enforcement can see how much money you have in your car and better determine who they are going to pull over.  

I’m guessing he forgot his tin foil hat that morning. Lucky for me an older guy wearing a Vietnam hat came up and that got his attention. Rumor has it that they are still there talking today.  

Abby Fry, 32 
This was an interesting conversation. I don’t even know how I got to talking to Abby and it only lasted for about a minute or two, but in the short time that I talked to her, she told me that her resolution this year was going to be to work even more than she did the previous year while throwing the fact that she works harder and makes more money in the face of her boyfriend “at least 3 times a day” because she said that her mom raised her to be that way and that men were basically inferior. She then proceeded to take out her phone and show me an app that has tracked all of her time she worked last year and was proud to show me that she logged in 74 hours in an average week. She also told me that she was hoping to reconnect with two long lost pen pals in Europe who tried to organize a 3 way with her several years back - she was “willing to give it another try - I was really shocked when I finally met up with them for the first time and realized that they were just trying to con an American girl into having a 3 way with them while writing me letters… I never saw it coming!”  

Uhhh… Right. Call me cynical but that was pretty obvious as soon as she started telling me that.

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Anarchy / Re: Merry Fucking Christmas, you insufferable bastards
« on: December 26, 2016, 12:10:52 PM »

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I wish this was a joke but it is the number one answer I get as a waitress when I ask, cheerfully(and rhetorically, by the way, you waitress doesn't actually care, I just want your tip money) "Are you ready for Christmas?"

I will never understand how people do this. My grandmother, my mother, and myself have always tucked away a little bit of money each week over the course of the year to avoid this. CHRISTMAS HAPPENS EVERY YEAR. IT'S NOT GOING TO NOT HAPPEN. It's not going to get less expensive unless you want to be like my dad and go all Jehovah's Witness, we don't celebrate holidays around here, on people.

The best is when I would make the schedule and people would go, "I didn't realize Christmas was so soon! I can't work Christmas Eve!" I was always confused because Christmas and Christmas eve always fall on the same dates... the 24th and 25th. How does it sneak up like that?

Of course, since it was more or less a first come, first serve basis (to an extent) you would get people who would huff and puff about being on the schedule until 6 or 7 on Christmas Eve. That was par for the course, though.

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