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Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

As long as it isn't one of the vegetable ones, what can be wrong?
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"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways Lord Reimer, your sad devotion to that ancient OS have not helped you conjure up the Guru Meditation or given you clarvoyance enough to find 1% marketshare"
- FondueDaredevil

"[...] we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and [...] we're lying to them all the time."
- Gabe Newell

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:51 am Post subject:

Yeah, it was a good meaty lasagna. I ate most of it. Just not in the mood for eating is all. Some popcorn might be good tho. Maybe a soda or something.
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Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:53 am Post subject:

You know, its days like this that I know I'm not going to get anything done. And I keep thinking, I could make some real progress in WoW Very Happy

. But if I had taken the day off instead, I'd be home doing house stuff.

And the funny thing is, I have a few deadlines next Thursday, and I'm absolutely relishing looking forward to how busy I'm going to be next week.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Jeremy Reimer · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:56 am Post subject:

I consider progress in WoW to be real achievement. When people ask me what I did over the Christmas break I always say "I got so much done! I got my Mage up to 29, my Paladin up to 19 and my Night Elf Hunter up to 12!"

Then they look at me funny and walk away.
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-- Carl Sagan

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Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

Speaking about that, www.escapistmagazine.com has something up about MMORPGs.
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Miss Congeniality

"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways Lord Reimer, your sad devotion to that ancient OS have not helped you conjure up the Guru Meditation or given you clarvoyance enough to find 1% marketshare"
- FondueDaredevil

"[...] we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and [...] we're lying to them all the time."
- Gabe Newell

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:59 am Post subject:

My brother (Vault) has kind of hit a wall right now. He doesn't play as much, so I've committed to keep an alt at the same level as his alt so we will always have the opportunity to play together, if infrequently. But I'm mostly responsble for his playing WoW in the first place, so I'm trying to help him level his main char. Trouble is, most of my time in game is on the weekends when I can stay up half the night (because I get to sleep in till about 8am on weekends WHOO!), whereas he's not on during the weekends at all that I know of (Maybe during the day, when I'm normally working around the house). So there's maybe a few nights a week when we are on together, and sometimes he's not even on then either.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject:

Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

So.. why not call them and give 'em something like this:

Dudes, I'm doing essential research here! I need to calculate on how much money we would lose without that filter in place!
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Miss Congeniality

"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways Lord Reimer, your sad devotion to that ancient OS have not helped you conjure up the Guru Meditation or given you clarvoyance enough to find 1% marketshare"
- FondueDaredevil

"[...] we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and [...] we're lying to them all the time."
- Gabe Newell

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject:

I could totally do that. But I do a lot of web browsing anyway, and I really would rather not draw any attention to that. So I just live with it.

Keep in mind that I'm master of my own realm, I just happen to run a network that sits underneath a corporate layer managed by a different group, who I know personally, but don't trust enough to ask for "favors".

I think I should renew my efforts at an httptunnel to my home systems. I've tried a few times in the past with no success. And things are even tighter these days, so I imagine any sort of tunnelling woudn't pass the application inspection gateways.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject:

Come on Magus, I see you lurking there. I haven't posted this much in many many months!!!
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:

I'm going to get that popcorn now. When I get back, I hope to see a post Wink

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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Magus · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject:

WoW came back up later, and I managed to grind enough leather to craft a Dragonscale breastplate. It just needs a nice Agility or Intellect enchant...
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1 The Network is my domain, I shall not want; 2 though it makes me wait upon collision, it leads me to the Internet; 3 it restores my connection. It leads me in paths of hypertext transfer for google's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of power failures, I fear no data corruption; for backups art with me; thy UPS and thy status light, they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a firewall before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my CD-R with BurnProof, my buffer never underflows. 6 Surely good deals and pr0n shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Datacenter for ever.
-HitScan

Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject:

Awesome. I actually saw that on IRC this morning.

I quickly logged before work to check my auctions. Another dissappointing night. Incurred some losses. I hope I have better luck with the weekend crowd.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

And teh popcorn is teh yummy.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

I prefer potato chips. Because I hate it when get a bowl of popcorn that wasn't completely popped.
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Miss Congeniality

"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways Lord Reimer, your sad devotion to that ancient OS have not helped you conjure up the Guru Meditation or given you clarvoyance enough to find 1% marketshare"
- FondueDaredevil

"[...] we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and [...] we're lying to them all the time."
- Gabe Newell

Magus · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:20 pm Post subject:

Dragonscale armor is a grind to make, but boy does it sell well. 10g for those gauntlets! Smile

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<Paolo|Work> anything that has to do with Java is by definition stupid

1 The Network is my domain, I shall not want; 2 though it makes me wait upon collision, it leads me to the Internet; 3 it restores my connection. It leads me in paths of hypertext transfer for google's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of power failures, I fear no data corruption; for backups art with me; thy UPS and thy status light, they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a firewall before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my CD-R with BurnProof, my buffer never underflows. 6 Surely good deals and pr0n shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Datacenter for ever.
-HitScan

Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject:

You'll make your money in high ticket items. So far I've made mine with lots of low level stuff nobody wanted.

This popcorn is a bit burnt. I thought I had that microwave all figured out.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

Damn, where's the option in ebay to cut down on those damn notification emails.
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Miss Congeniality

"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways Lord Reimer, your sad devotion to that ancient OS have not helped you conjure up the Guru Meditation or given you clarvoyance enough to find 1% marketshare"
- FondueDaredevil

"[...] we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and [...] we're lying to them all the time."
- Gabe Newell

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject:

Getting back to the topic of distractions, the other day in the Ars journals I found a link to a flash implementation of Bobble Bobble 2. I managed to save off a copy to store on my USB drive.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

And the kicker this whole Holiday season is that I've been waiting patiently for the arrival of my new Powerbook, and I was hoping to have lots of time during the holidays to play with the bonus of noone else around.

Not only has it not come yet, but the Macbook Pro was released (which I'm not really concerned about anymore after learning that WoW runs like buttah on a monsterbook), and now I'm entertaining another job potentially putting a time limit on my torrid affair with Apple hardware.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

Doesn't Apple have this policy to trade in products that were bought/delivered around a macworld?
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Miss Congeniality

"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways Lord Reimer, your sad devotion to that ancient OS have not helped you conjure up the Guru Meditation or given you clarvoyance enough to find 1% marketshare"
- FondueDaredevil

"[...] we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and [...] we're lying to them all the time."
- Gabe Newell

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject:

No idea. My first one, and I didn't buy it anyway. Work did. I think I'll be happy with the 17" tho.
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Mord · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject:

OMG could this be a dumber name? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060113-5977.html
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Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God. - Superintendant Pang, Lashou shentan (a.k.a. Hard-Boiled)
I note that you don't have any OSY member quotes in your sig. - the twinkster
Nonsense. "Bias" is people whom don't agree with me. - FondueDaredevil

Gabe: I wish you weren't a fucking liar.
Tycho: I'm not a liar.
Gabe: Well, I wish you didn't lie.

Riso · Commodore Joined: 28 Feb 2001 Posts: 3019

OMG Friends sitcom flashback pain!
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Miss Congeniality

"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerous ways Lord Reimer, your sad devotion to that ancient OS have not helped you conjure up the Guru Meditation or given you clarvoyance enough to find 1% marketshare"
- FondueDaredevil

"[...] we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and [...] we're lying to them all the time."
- Gabe Newell

Magus · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject:

And people wonder why I don't watch TV...
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<Paolo|Work> anything that has to do with Java is by definition stupid

1 The Network is my domain, I shall not want; 2 though it makes me wait upon collision, it leads me to the Internet; 3 it restores my connection. It leads me in paths of hypertext transfer for google's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of power failures, I fear no data corruption; for backups art with me; thy UPS and thy status light, they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a firewall before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my CD-R with BurnProof, my buffer never underflows. 6 Surely good deals and pr0n shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Datacenter for ever.
-HitScan

Wilde is a 4' chinese man in a bright pink tutu, lime green pimp hat with peacock feathers, and a purple feather boa, wearing tissue stuffed snakeskin combat boots, holding a gun bigger than he is, smoking a cigarette in the parking garage, trying to look menacing while pouting and head banging to Godsmack I stand alone