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1 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 4, 2015 2:41:11pm

A video featuring pies while VB is in Israel and not baking any. Are we compensating for something here?
;)

2 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 2:53:33pm

I was feeling a little pie-deprived.

3 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 2:54:04pm
4 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 2:55:31pm

Well, that took a while longer than I thought it would. Liquid cooling is now installed and, besides being much more quiet, CPU temp is now at ambient temp. Installing the thing required taking the whole bloody works apart and as long as it was in pieces I took the time to clean every last nook and cranny, reseat the RAM, video cards, and all of the connectors. Phooey. The Navy corrupted me on that score. “You call that clean, sailor? I’d hate to see how you wipe your ass. Do it again and do it right or, by God, I’ll…”

Imagine my pleased surprise when everything worked the first time.

5 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 2:55:55pm

OK, so what about the guy pie he murdered at the beginning?

6 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 2:57:24pm

re: #4 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Haha.

My case is showing signs of 4+ years of cat hair. I really need to do a thorough cleaning, probably replace at least one fan if I can manage it. And that’s not to mention the fact that I could use an update on the OS drive (it’s a little full) and a serious folder clean-up.

After the app is done, maybe.

7 freetoken  Apr 4, 2015 2:58:16pm

re: #5 Nyet

OK, so what about the guy pie he murdered at the beginning?

Morality is not a slave to consistency!

8 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 2:59:27pm

re: #7 freetoken

Morality is not a slave to consistency!

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little pies.

9 HappyWarrior  Apr 4, 2015 3:00:07pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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This is the kind of thing that leads to Christians being put in camps.// Seriously though nice to see a counter to Memories’ grift.

10 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 4, 2015 3:00:51pm

re: #8 Nyet

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little pies.

Do I contradict myself?

I contradict myself.

I am large, I contain multitudes…of pies.

(Some of them with savory fillings)

11 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:01:34pm

re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Yeah, my tower of power recently received a cleaning. The previous iteration kicked the bucket over a Christmas vacation when the northbridge fan got derailed by excessive cat fur. The current iteration has a passively cooled northbridge, naturally.

12 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:02:02pm

re: #11 thedopefishlives

Yeah, my tower of power recently received a cleaning. The previous iteration kicked the bucket over a Christmas vacation when the northbridge fan got derailed by excessive cat fur. The current iteration has a passively cooled northbridge, naturally.

I fried a northbridge chipset once.

That was fun.

13 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:03:50pm

re: #12 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I fried a northbridge chipset once.

That was fun.

I cooked off an old AMD K6-2 processor once. Didn’t completely melt it, but there was a distinct whiff of singed electronics.

14 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:04:16pm

re: #13 thedopefishlives

I cooked off an old AMD K6-2 processor once. Didn’t completely melt it, but there was a distinct whiff of singed electronics.

YOU LET THE MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPE!

15 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 3:04:29pm

re: #13 thedopefishlives

I cooked off an old AMD K6-2 processor once. Didn’t completely melt it, but there was a distinct whiff of singed electronics.

Let the magic smoke out, did you?

16 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 3:04:49pm

re: #14 klys (maker of Silmarils)

YOU LET THE MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPE!

Jinx…

17 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 3:04:50pm

Geek out time.

18 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:04:51pm

re: #15 TedStriker

Let the magic smoke out, did you?

I take my Coke with rum, please. :D

19 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 3:05:58pm

re: #18 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I take my Coke with rum, please. :D

I bet you would…

///

20 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 3:06:42pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile Malbolge programmers #2F34#@3FMF#3$f23JK)4fr$#3%^h5

21 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 3:09:04pm

re: #6 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Haha.

My case is showing signs of 4+ years of cat hair. I really need to do a thorough cleaning, probably replace at least one fan if I can manage it. And that’s not to mention the fact that I could use an update on the OS drive (it’s a little full) and a serious folder clean-up.

After the app is done, maybe.

Good idea! Keeping things clean keeps them cooler, too. Folder housekeeping is a drag. The only thing that saves me is that in my early days on UNIX my boss was adamant about naming conventions If you haven’t gone SSD already, be sure and take a look at them when you replace your OS drive. They’ve come way down in price and the difference in speed is eye-opening.

22 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:09:58pm

re: #21 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Good idea! Keeping things clean keeps them cooler, too. Folder housekeeping is a drag. The only thing that saves me is that in my early days on UNIX my boss was adamant about naming conventions If you haven’t gone SSD already, be sure and take a look at them when you replace your OS drive. They’ve come way down in price and the difference in speed is eye-opening.

mr. klys gave me an SSD for Christmas about 4 years ago now; that’s the OS drive and certain programs that benefit strongly from the speed increase.

The problem is it’s also full.

23 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:10:02pm

re: #14 klys (maker of Silmarils)

YOU LET THE MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPE!

A friend of mine set his old NT4 box on fire when I was in college. Apparently he had some old wiring that shorted and caught the insulation on fire.

24 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:11:11pm

re: #23 thedopefishlives

A friend of mine set his old NT4 box on fire when I was in college. Apparently he had some old wiring that shorted and caught the insulation on fire.

…and here all my friends set on fire in college was microwave popcorn.

That doesn’t make you very popular when you do it at 3am.

25 #FergusonFireside  Apr 4, 2015 3:11:49pm

re: #24 klys (maker of Silmarils)

…and here all my friends set on fire in college was microwave popcorn.

That doesn’t make you very popular when you do it at 3am.

The stink of the century.

26 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:12:31pm

re: #22 klys (maker of Silmarils)

mr. klys gave me an SSD for Christmas about 4 years ago now; that’s the OS drive and certain programs that benefit strongly from the speed increase.

The problem is it’s also full.

Mrs. Fish snooped my email to buy me a duplicate of the SSD I bought for her tower. It runs my windows partition and my Linux runs on a RAID 0 array.

27 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:12:34pm

re: #25 #FergusonFireside

The stink of the century.

Well that and evacuating the dorm at 3am is not anyone’s favorite thing to do.

28 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 3:12:48pm

re: #22 klys (maker of Silmarils)

mr. klys gave me an SSD for Christmas about 4 years ago now; that’s the OS drive and certain programs that benefit strongly from the speed increase.

The problem is it’s also full.

The good news is that a new SSD that’s twice the capacity will probably cost abut the same as your current one. The bad news is that you have to decide just how paranoid you want to be about backing up before you migrate everything to a new drive.

29 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:13:13pm

re: #26 thedopefishlives

Mrs. Fish snooped my email to buy me a duplicate of the SSD I bought for her tower. It runs my windows partition and my Linux runs on a RAID 0 array.

mr. klys’s Christmas present this year ended up being a 480gig SSD. His was even smaller than mine was, and relatively early generation too.

30 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:13:47pm

re: #27 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Well that and evacuating the dorm at 3am is not anyone’s favorite thing to do.

Though the guys generally didn’t mind when the girls’ dorms got evacuated at 3 in the morning.

31 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:14:37pm

re: #28 Higgs Boson’s Mate

The good news is that a new SSD that’s twice the capacity will probably cost abut the same as your current one. The bad news is that you have to decide just how paranoid you want to be about backing up before you migrate everything to a new drive.

Eh, all data is on other drives. Times like 3.

When you have 6 terabytes of storage space, you can afford to be silly like that. >.>

32 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 3:17:01pm

re: #25 #FergusonFireside

The stink of the century.

One of my otherwise quite intelligent co-workers once concluded that if you could make scrambled eggs in a microwave you should be able to make “hardboiled” eggs in one as well. That’s “eggs” plural.

33 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 3:18:39pm

re: #31 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Six terabytes? Run away! Run away!

34 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 3:19:55pm

Richard Carrier’s latest two posts are about the problematic views of some prominent atheists. A must read for those interested in the topic.

Why Atheism Needs Feminism (My opinion: “pure” atheism is just a lack of belief in God, so in this sense it doesn’t anything but that; but if there is to be any movement called atheistic - and “movement” always implies broader social aspects - it needs to be feminist, as well as generally anti-bigot, in practice).

Peter Boghossian on Gay Pride and Hobnobbing with an Online Misogynist

35 freetoken  Apr 4, 2015 3:20:45pm

re: #34 Nyet

I tend to not like “movements”.

36 freetoken  Apr 4, 2015 3:21:04pm

Have I mentioned lately how evil Facebook is?

37 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 3:22:33pm

re: #35 freetoken

Me too, but they exist independently of us, so those who can positively influence them should do so.

38 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:23:32pm

re: #30 thedopefishlives

Though the guys generally didn’t mind when the girls’ dorms got evacuated at 3 in the morning.

When I was in college with the now-Mrs. FBW, there were strict rules governing when the you were allowed to be in the residential sections of the dorms of the opposite gender - not after 2 AM.

However, there was no real penalty for being there, apart from being escorted out of that section. And Security was not allowed to knock on doors, looking for boys and girls in the wrong areas, either.

Basically, as long as you were in the room, you were cool. I myself lived the last quarter of Freshman year in the Freshman girls dorm, after the now-Mrs. FBW’s roommate dropped out.

39 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:25:40pm

re: #38 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, we had similar restrictions. Doors had to be left open, etc. Doesn’t mean shenanigans didn’t go on, just generally not in the rooms.

40 goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2015 3:26:52pm

re: #35 freetoken

I tend to not like “movements”.

You should aim for at least one a day.

41 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:27:47pm

re: #39 thedopefishlives

Yeah, we had similar restrictions. Doors had to be left open, etc. Doesn’t mean shenanigans didn’t go on, just generally not in the rooms.

We had no such door restriction. I think they didn’t care if you were banging like a screen door in a tornado, as long as you didn’t keep your neighbors awake.

42 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:28:36pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

You should aim for at least one a day.

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Hey, I’m just a regular guy….

43 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:28:46pm

re: #30 thedopefishlives

Though the guys generally didn’t mind when the girls’ dorms got evacuated at 3 in the morning.

I went to a school with co-ed dorms, so this was generally not an issue.

44 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:29:04pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

You should aim for at least one a day.

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Alternatively:

Yes, but would you trust one?

45 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 3:29:25pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

You should aim for at least one a day.

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Okay.

46 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:30:06pm

Nevermind.

47 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 3:30:32pm

Poop. Poop. Poop.

With that out of the way, proceed.

48 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:30:34pm

re: #46 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, well. This was the late 1970s, when you didn’t exist.

Ah, but the dopefish is about my age. :)

49 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:31:02pm

re: #43 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I went to a school with co-ed dorms, so this was generally not an issue.

We had 6 dorm buildings. 2 were co-ed, 2 were men only and 2 women only. It was interesting living arrangements.

50 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:33:20pm

My school had a coed dorm, but it was coed by floors, with one bathroom/ floor. We all felt that was cheating, calling that a ‘coed dorm’.

51 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:34:46pm

re: #50 Blind Frog Belly White

My school had a coed dorm, but it was coed by floors, with one bathroom/ floor. We all felt that was cheating, calling that a ‘coed dorm’.

My freshman dorm was coed floors, with each pair of rooms sharing a bathroom.

After that I moved into the on-campus apartments.

52 #FergusonFireside  Apr 4, 2015 3:36:39pm

re: #41 Blind Frog Belly White

We had no such door restriction. I think they didn’t care if you were banging like a screen door in a tornado, as long as you didn’t keep your neighbors awake.

Quotable.

53 PhillyPretzel  Apr 4, 2015 3:37:17pm

I was a commuter student.

54 #FergusonFireside  Apr 4, 2015 3:39:03pm
55 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:39:37pm

re: #51 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My freshman dorm was coed floors, with each pair of rooms sharing a bathroom.

After that I moved into the on-campus apartments.

APARTMENTS! Luxury! Luxury!

I lived in an apartment Sophomore year. OFF-campus. It was a shithole, in retrospect. But it was OUR shithole!

Junior year I was back in the dorms, in the smallest single room they had. If you opened the door, it came within 2 inches of hitting the bedframe. I set my alarm clock at the opposite end of the room, and I could STILL reach it without completely leaving the bed.

56 PhillyPretzel  Apr 4, 2015 3:39:51pm

re: #54 #FergusonFireside

lol. cute.

57 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:40:39pm

re: #53 PhillyPretzel

I was a commuter student.

I commuted for 5 years of grad school.

58 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 3:41:04pm

re: #55 Blind Frog Belly White

APARTMENTS! Luxury! Luxury!

I lived in an apartment Sophomore year. OFF-campus. It was a shithole, in retrospect. But it was OUR shithole!

Junior year I was back in the dorms, in the smallest single room they had. If you opened the door, it came within 2 inches of hitting the bedframe. I set my alarm clock at the opposite end of the room, and I could STILL reach it without completely leaving the bed.

In other words, you lived in a closet.

59 #FergusonFireside  Apr 4, 2015 3:41:13pm

Off campus, 4 wild women & 5 cats.

60 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:42:13pm

re: #58 TedStriker

In other words, you lived in a closet.

No, no! It had a window! and a small closet of its own!

61 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 3:42:16pm

re: #57 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I commuted for 5 years of grad school.

Did the same for my bachelor’s…90+ miles a day round-trip, at least 2-3 days a week, for 5 years, with the exception of one semester.

62 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:42:17pm

re: #55 Blind Frog Belly White

APARTMENTS! Luxury! Luxury!

I lived in an apartment Sophomore year. OFF-campus. It was a shithole, in retrospect. But it was OUR shithole!

Junior year I was back in the dorms, in the smallest single room they had. If you opened the door, it came within 2 inches of hitting the bedframe. I set my alarm clock at the opposite end of the room, and I could STILL reach it without completely leaving the bed.

On-campus housing was covered by my scholarship.

I did get the serious luxury apartments senior year (A DOUBLE BED, and that only took up a quarter of the room! AND IN APARTMENT WASHER AND DRYER), which my parents kicked in a little for (it wasn’t fully covered, since it was only quasi-on-campus) but given that that’s all they paid for my undergrad, they considered it a good deal.

63 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 3:42:48pm

re: #60 Blind Frog Belly White

No, no! It had a window! and a small closet of its own!

So, your closet had a closet?

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64 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:44:54pm

re: #63 TedStriker

So, your closet had a closet?

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Pretty much. I never looked closely to see if there was yet another closet in that closet.

65 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:45:07pm

re: #51 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My freshman dorm was coed floors, with each pair of rooms sharing a bathroom.

After that I moved into the on-campus apartments.

I lived in the same room all 4 years, with the same roommate for 3. He was a great guy and we are still friends.

66 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 3:45:35pm

re: #64 Blind Frog Belly White

Pretty much. I never looked closely to see if there was yet another closet in that closet.

It’s closets all the way down!

///

67 Lidane  Apr 4, 2015 3:46:49pm

A Florida woman said she received threatening calls at her bakery after being the subject of an Arizona man’s “social experiment” regarding same-sex marriages.

WKMG-TV reported that Sharon Haller started getting harassed after she got a phone call from Joshua Feuerstein on Thursday, asking her to make a sheet cake bearing the statement, “We do not support gay marriage.”

Feuerstein, who identifies himself as a former pastor, posted video of himself making the phone call online. After asking if it was a prank, Haller said she would not make such a cake. Feuerstein then identified her business and complained that conservative Christian businesses are being forced to accomodate LGBT customers.

“Call her yourself, ask her the same exact questions,” Feuerstein tells the viewers. He has referred to the video as a “social experiment.”

68 #FergusonFireside  Apr 4, 2015 3:46:52pm

OK, off to the neighborhood grill!

Have a great night.

69 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 3:46:55pm

Dorms. Heh.

I got out of the Active Army and went back to school (didn’t do well. Was not ready even then) and they tried to get me to live in the dorms. After the barracks? No thanks.

70 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 4, 2015 3:47:05pm

re: #64 Blind Frog Belly White

Pretty much. I never looked closely to see if there was yet another closet in that closet.

Next closet: Narnia.

71 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:47:29pm

re: #65 thedopefishlives

I lived in the same room all 4 years, with the same roommate for 3. He was a great guy and we are still friends.

I had some fantastic roommates (sophomore year was with 3 great girls, senior year with 2 more, and one of my best friend junior year), most of whom I am still in touch with, at least sporadically.

I also had the flatmates from hell junior year, proving that even your own little room cannot fix a completely intolerable living situation. We ended up moving as a pair to a different apartment after the fall semester.

72 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:48:34pm

re: #65 thedopefishlives

I lived in the same room all 4 years, with the same roommate for 3. He was a great guy and we are still friends.

Roommates. That’s one thing I’ve avoided as much as I could, which was a lot of the time.

73 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:49:02pm

re: #72 Blind Frog Belly White

Roommates. That’s one thing I’ve avoided as much as I could, which was a lot of the time.

The apartments granted me my own little room, which didn’t solve all issues (see above) but fixed a lot of them.

74 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:49:46pm

re: #67 Lidane

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Wait - what?

75 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:50:26pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

Next closet: Narnia.

“Hey! It’s Narnia damn business what goes on in there!”

76 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 3:52:41pm

Berkeley, Sixties. What are “dorms”?

77 Lidane  Apr 4, 2015 3:52:45pm

re: #74 Blind Frog Belly White

Wait - what?

Pastor calls Florida baker to demand she make an anti-gay marriage cake. She refuses. He then uses the call as a pretense to say that Christian businesses are being forced to accommodate LGBT people. Idiots start flipping their shit — posting negative review on her site, calling her bakery to threaten her, etc.

For the record, the bakery in question has catered gay weddings. The owner has no problems doing so. The pastor basically used this poor woman for his own ends.

78 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 3:53:02pm

re: #76 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Berkeley, Sixties. What are “dorms”?

That’s right, you dirty hippies slept in communes, right?

//

79 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:55:37pm

My only two roommate experiences were Freshman year of college. The first was a stranger who was assigned. He was an okay guy, but we had nothing in common and he moved out when one of his friends’ roommates dropped out.

In retrospect, he likely thinks of me as the roommate from hell.

The other was after he left, and I offered a friend who was living in a room off campus the spot. BIG MISTAKE. We ended up HATING each other, and the only reason he’s still alive is that the now-Mrs. FBW’s roommate dropped out and she invited me.

At first, I wanted to stay and kick him out, but she was…persuasive.

80 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 3:57:54pm

re: #75 Blind Frog Belly White

“Hey! It’s Narnia damn business what goes on in there!”

That’s a great quote.

81 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:58:10pm

re: #77 Lidane

Pastor calls Florida baker to demand she make an anti-gay marriage cake. She refuses. He then uses the call as a pretense to say that Christian businesses are being forced to accommodate LGBT people. Idiots start flipping their shit — posting negative review on her site, calling her bakery to threaten her, etc.

For the record, the bakery in question has catered gay weddings. The owner has no problems doing so. The pastor basically used this poor woman for his own ends.

That’s what I thought it said. What she refused to do doesn’t have anything to do with “Christian businesses … being forced to accommodate LGBT people”, hence my confusion.

82 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 3:59:35pm

re: #80 thedopefishlives

That’s a great quote.

I’m on fire today!

83 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 3:59:37pm

re: #78 klys (maker of Silmarils)

That’s right, you dirty hippies slept in communes, right?

//

We did our best to become the kind of people whom our parents had warned us about.

84 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 4:01:55pm

re: #82 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m on fire today!

Stop, drop, and roll!!

85 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 4:02:13pm

re: #84 thedopefishlives

Stop, drop, and roll!!

That is …way funnier than it should be.

86 Belafon  Apr 4, 2015 4:03:10pm

re: #77 Lidane

Pastor calls Florida baker to demand she make an anti-gay marriage cake. She refuses. He then uses the call as a pretense to say that Christian businesses are being forced to accommodate LGBT people. Idiots start flipping their shit — posting negative review on her site, calling her bakery to threaten her, etc.

For the record, the bakery in question has catered gay weddings. The owner has no problems doing so. The pastor basically used this poor woman for his own ends.

What would an anti-gay marriage cake be for? Can you have an anti-gay wedding? Would it and a gay wedding annihilate into energy?

Should someone call a bakery and ask if they will make an anti-hetero wedding cake?

87 prairiefire  Apr 4, 2015 4:03:23pm

re: #83 Higgs Boson’s Mate

We did our best to become the kind of people whom our parents had warned us about.

I was so shocked when I graduated from high school in the late 70’s and realized all the hippies were gone. Then Reagan and the 80’s, ooffff. I had to buy the Preppie Handbook in a non-ironic way so I would know how to blend in.

88 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 4:04:20pm

All this talk about cake and now I want icing.

89 thedopefishlives  Apr 4, 2015 4:04:45pm

re: #85 klys (maker of Silmarils)

That is …way funnier than it should be.

Thank you, I’ll be here all week.

90 Floral Giraffe  Apr 4, 2015 4:04:49pm

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Sick puppy that you are ;)

91 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 4:07:09pm

re: #87 prairiefire

I was so shocked when I graduated from high school in the late 70’s and realized all the hippies where gone. Then Reagan and the 80’s, ooffff. I had to buy the Preppie Handbook in a non-ironic way so I would know how to blend in.

A black leather flight jacket and mirror shades always fit in. If nothing else the preppies will be scared away.

92 HappyWarrior  Apr 4, 2015 4:09:04pm

re: #67 Lidane

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What a fucking dick. Pastor can go fuck himself.

93 prairiefire  Apr 4, 2015 4:10:23pm

re: #91 William Barnett-Lewis

A black leather flight jacket and mirror shades always fit in. If nothing else the preppies will be scared away.

I was relieved when I discovered British Glam.

94 Lidane  Apr 4, 2015 4:15:47pm

re: #87 prairiefire

I was so shocked when I graduated from high school in the late 70’s and realized all the hippies were gone. Then Reagan and the 80’s, ooffff. I had to buy the Preppie Handbook in a non-ironic way so I would know how to blend in.

Heh. Back in the 80’s my standard accessories were a bedazzled blue jean jacket with rock band pins all over it, a terrible perm, and Swatch watches.

Have you ever watched that TV show The Goldbergs? It’s a flashback to my childhood in oh so many ways. I like it.

95 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 4, 2015 4:17:05pm

I think I’m going to watch “The Big Lebowski” this evening. It just feels right. That and some Sauerkraut, Kielbasa and biscuits and I’ll be happy.

96 BeachDem  Apr 4, 2015 4:17:39pm

I’ll preface this by saying GET OFF MY LAWN!

Freshman year, all-girl dorm. Five 2 a.m. weekend night sign-outs per quarter (rest were 1 am; I think weekdays were 10 or 11.) Male visitors in lobby only. No alcohol. Not allowed to stay in hotels near campus.

Sophomore year—co-ed (by floors) dorm—separate elevators. Unlimited 2 am weekend nights. At one point, there was an arson fire in the dorm and two people died—really sad.

May 22, 1968: Two students were killed after a fire was set in an 11th-floor lounge in Lincoln Tower. Both women lived on the 11th floor: Pamela Sue Patterson, 18, a freshman from Ludlow Falls, Ohio, and Retta D. Foster, 22, a sophomore from Colorado Springs, Colo. A week after the fire, Harriett Frances Leeb, 18, a freshman from South Euclid, Ohio, was arrested. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent almost a year in Lima State Hospital.

We had police on-site the rest of the year. We would play euchre with the policemen all night—they were the only men allowed on our floor.

Junior year—off-campus rooming house. Followed university rules, but there was a shared kitchen.

Then it was off to apartments, 24-hour debauchery, and the rest, as they say, is history.

97 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 4:18:04pm

re: #87 prairiefire

I was so shocked when I graduated from high school in the late 70’s and realized all the hippies where gone. Then Reagan and the 80’s, ooffff. I had to buy the Preppie Handbook in a non-ironic way so I would know how to blend in.

I was relieved to arrive at college and find the place was full of people like me. I grew up in a rural area with a deep streak of anti-intellectualism, so finding some place where people weren’t inclined to hit you because ‘you use big words’ was wonderful.

98 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 4:19:10pm

re: #26 thedopefishlives

Just mostly assembled my new machine. New Asus motherboard supports raid. Got my old C drive, 1tb, another just like it, and a new empty 3tb drive. Pondering the options. Raid 5 maybe? Startup on hold for the corsair cooler that is coming Monday. .

99 Lidane  Apr 4, 2015 4:24:12pm
100 Kragar  Apr 4, 2015 4:26:00pm

re: #99 Lidane

101 b_sharp  Apr 4, 2015 4:32:17pm

re: #4 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Well, that took a while longer than I thought it would. Liquid cooling is now installed and, besides being much more quiet, CPU temp is now at ambient temp. Installing the thing required taking the whole bloody works apart and as long as it was in pieces I took the time to clean every last nook and cranny, reseat the RAM, video cards, and all of the connectors. Phooey. The Navy corrupted me on that score. “You call that clean, sailor? I’d hate to see how you wipe your ass. Do it again and do it right or, by God, I’ll…”

Imagine my pleased surprise when everything worked the first time.

I’d charge $85/hr for doing that.

102 Dave In Austin  Apr 4, 2015 4:34:22pm

Huh Whut??

103 b_sharp  Apr 4, 2015 4:34:43pm

re: #13 thedopefishlives

I cooked off an old AMD K6-2 processor once. Didn’t completely melt it, but there was a distinct whiff of singed electronics.

Had an EMC board let all the magic smoke out of 4 bridge chips. The customer panicked, I laughed.

104 BeachDem  Apr 4, 2015 4:34:45pm

Yeah, just what De Blasio needs is a sit-down with the giant hairball:

Fox News contributor and veteran newsman Geraldo Rivera complained on Friday that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has not yet opted to meet with Donald Trump.

“Doesn’t that say a lot, that the mayor hasn’t met the biggest, most important developer in town?”

ASSUMES FACTS NOT IN EVIDENCE.

talkingpointsmemo.com

I don’t know who’s more ridiculous, Geraldo or Trump.

105 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 4:35:44pm

re: #98 Great White Snark

Just mostly assembled my new machine. New Asus motherboard supports raid. Got my old C drive, 1tb, another just like it, and a new empty 3tb drive. Pondering the options. Raid 5 maybe? Startup on hold for the corsair cooler that is coming Monday. .

You kids and your toys! Why, when I was a boy….
//

I recently started analyzing NextGen sequencing data. Data files are 2.5 GB, containing 20 million reads. I tried doing it on my old desktop.

Nope.

The company sent me a brand new laptop with a dual-core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM.

Well, kinda. But it took 30 hours to do two alignments.

So I finally looked up what your average schmo doing this uses. Clusters. Or at least 16 cores and 32GB of RAM, with a couple 2 TB drives. Still will take hours to do what I need, but at least it might actually work.

106 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 4:36:29pm

re: #98 Great White Snark

Just mostly assembled my new machine. New Asus motherboard supports raid. Got my old C drive, 1tb, another just like it, and a new empty 3tb drive. Pondering the options. Raid 5 maybe? Startup on hold for the corsair cooler that is coming Monday. .

Well, when you’re ready for a video to play on it you can start here…

107 b_sharp  Apr 4, 2015 4:39:42pm

re: #98 Great White Snark

Just mostly assembled my new machine. New Asus motherboard supports raid. Got my old C drive, 1tb, another just like it, and a new empty 3tb drive. Pondering the options. Raid 5 maybe? Startup on hold for the corsair cooler that is coming Monday. .

RAID 5 or 6 is the best way to go, but the drives should be all the same size.

You can partition the 3TB manually, but it can be a bit of a pain.

108 Belafon  Apr 4, 2015 4:41:01pm

re: #102 Dave In Austin

109 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 4:41:56pm

re: #108 Belafon

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No, because that would cost real money and that they hate more than anything else Jesus taught.

110 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 4:43:54pm

re: #108 Belafon

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I asked that about the Muslim bakeries that the Right so gleefully posted about yesterday - “So, you gonna give THEM a million dollars?”

But seriously - what will they do for the SECOND business that anounces they’ll discriminate? The 3rd? The Nth?

111 Lancelot Link  Apr 4, 2015 4:43:59pm

re: #102 Dave In Austin

Well, on the plus side, at least these particular right-wing darlings didn’t murder any children in exchange for their donations.

112 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 4:44:39pm

re: #111 Lancelot Link

Well, on the plus side, at least these right-wing darlings didn’t murder any children in exchange for their donations.

I have to laugh because it is so true and I don’t want to cry.

113 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 4:52:09pm

re: #111 Lancelot Link

Well, on the plus side, at least these particular right-wing darlings didn’t murder any children in exchange for their donations.

Nah, they’d just rather let them die from starvation or lack of health care. That way they get the same effect without getting their hands dirty.

114 Romantic Heretic  Apr 4, 2015 4:56:09pm

re: #13 thedopefishlives

I cooked off an old AMD K6-2 processor once. Didn’t completely melt it, but there was a distinct whiff of singed electronics.

Cooked the hard drive on my Mac last year. My fault. Didn’t keep in properly clean and the main vent got clogged.

Doesn’t help that the Mac doesn’t seem to worry about heat. No matter how hot the Mac gets the fans don’t seem to really get going. So I installed a fan control app that adjusts fan speed according to temperature parameters that I set. It’s helped a lot.

115 stpaulbear  Apr 4, 2015 4:58:40pm

re: #67 Lidane

WKMG-TV reported that Sharon Haller started getting harassed after she got a phone call from Joshua Feuerstein on Thursday

I bet Haller doesn’t close up her bakery and disappear.

116 Romantic Heretic  Apr 4, 2015 4:59:15pm

re: #35 freetoken

I tend to not like “movements”.

Yeah. They can come at the most inconvenient of times.

117 Varek Raith  Apr 4, 2015 5:00:18pm

re: #114 Romantic Heretic

Cooked the hard drive on my Mac last year. My fault. Didn’t keep in properly clean and the main vent got clogged.

Doesn’t help that the Mac doesn’t seem to worry about heat. No matter how hot the Mac gets the fans don’t seem to really get going. So I installed a fan control app that adjusts fan speed according to temperature parameters that I set. It’s helped a lot.

Fan control programs really are a must these days.
Seems the vendors are more worried about the noise than, you know, death heat of death.
:/

118 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 5:00:38pm

re: #116 Romantic Heretic

Yeah. They can come at the most inconvenient of times.

100 comments too late ;)

119 Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2015 5:03:15pm

re: #96 BeachDem

I’ll preface this by saying GET OFF MY LAWN!

Freshman year, all-girl dorm. Five 2 a.m. weekend night sign-outs per quarter (rest were 1 am; I think weekdays were 10 or 11.) Male visitors in lobby only. No alcohol. Not allowed to stay in hotels near campus.

Sophomore year—co-ed (by floors) dorm—separate elevators. Unlimited 2 am weekend nights. At one point, there was an arson fire in the dorm and two people died—really sad.

May 22, 1968: Two students were killed after a fire was set in an 11th-floor lounge in Lincoln Tower. Both women lived on the 11th floor: Pamela Sue Patterson, 18, a freshman from Ludlow Falls, Ohio, and Retta D. Foster, 22, a sophomore from Colorado Springs, Colo. A week after the fire, Harriett Frances Leeb, 18, a freshman from South Euclid, Ohio, was arrested. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent almost a year in Lima State Hospital.

We had police on-site the rest of the year. We would play euchre with the policemen all night—they were the only men allowed on our floor.

Junior year—off-campus rooming house. Followed university rules, but there was a shared kitchen.

Then it was off to apartments, 24-hour debauchery, and the rest, as they say, is history.

There was a family with several girls in the vicfinity of our highschool/college. All were hand-picked, we thought, to keep our minds on celibacy.

120 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Apr 4, 2015 5:04:13pm

I have to say, it’s almost eerie how much Denzel Washington nailed this part.

121 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 5:04:35pm

re: #105 Blind Frog Belly White

16 cores?! My way into more processing is up to 3 GPUs. Can’t get close to that though.

122 Romantic Heretic  Apr 4, 2015 5:08:11pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

What a fucking dick. Pastor can go fuck himself.

From the looks of him nobody else will.

123 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 5:09:30pm

re: #121 Great White Snark

16 cores?! My way into more processing is up to 3 GPUs. Can’t get close to that though.

It was described as a practical minimum, if you’re not going to do clusters.

124 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Apr 4, 2015 5:11:43pm

Miracles do happen. A coach shoots a gun at the other coach in a crowded gym and it doesn’t hit anybody.
philly.com

125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Apr 4, 2015 5:12:41pm

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

126 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 5:13:40pm

re: #123 Blind Frog Belly White

re: #117 Varek Raith

re: #107 b_sharp

This board has two gigabit lan ports. One for internet one for actual home lan? That sounds like an opportunity for an extra secure connection.

127 Romantic Heretic  Apr 4, 2015 5:13:49pm

re: #117 Varek Raith

Fan control programs really are a must these days.
Seems the vendors are more worried about the noise than, you know, death heat of death.
:/

Humans have really weird priorities.

I only notice the fans on my Mac if they are cranked near to maximum.

128 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 5:13:52pm

re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

Windows eats it all up.

129 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 5:18:21pm

re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

Intensive calculations can make computers cry. Or serious video processing.

I would throw some of my simulations for grad school at my desktop and then switch and do some other things for a while. Forget running them on a laptop.

130 Lidane  Apr 4, 2015 5:19:26pm

re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

Candy Crush.

131 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 5:19:46pm

re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

In my case upgrading from editing/rendering HD and 2k further up to 4k or 3d video content and 7.1 audio. That and 4k content from stills and making timelapse etc. It’s the output render and color correction in Speedgrade that eats it up. Instant overclocking and maxed out ram. Or real time multi camera footage editing.

132 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 5:19:53pm

re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

Ask Chuck Johnson.

133 GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 4, 2015 5:22:28pm

re: #54 #FergusonFireside

Hans. Solo. lol

134 Higgs Boson's Mate  Apr 4, 2015 5:30:37pm

re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

3D modelling and rendering. A few hundred million polys needs some serious hardware to render and texture. Fortunately, I can use both GPUs. Creation and manipulation of the models is all in my 8 core CPU.

135 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Apr 4, 2015 5:32:50pm

Geez I barely even use Office. I’m too cheap for it I use Works instead. Actually the reason is that I use the Works database, and I can’t figure out how to use the one in Office.

136 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 5:34:32pm

Or as a vulgar Russian saying goes, “I won’t take a shit in the same field with him”.

137 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 4, 2015 5:54:46pm

re: #124 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Miracles do happen. A coach shoots a gun at the other coach in a crowded gym and it doesn’t hit anybody.
philly.com

And people thought Bobby Knight was ill-tempered…..

138 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 6:03:13pm

Um, wow. Retweeted by Roseanne Barr. Not sure how to feel about that.

139 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 6:04:40pm

re: #138 Charles Johnson

Um, wow. Retweeted by Roseanne Barr. Not sure how to feel about that.

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Like, that even that clock shows the right time sometimes.

140 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 6:05:43pm

If rights are based on God, then we’re all fucked because in that case it’s impossible to prove that rights exist.

141 Varek Raith  Apr 4, 2015 6:06:20pm

re: #127 Romantic Heretic

Humans have really weird priorities.

I only notice the fans on my Mac if they are cranked near to maximum.

My vid card has a silly default fan set up.
It would stay at 35% speed until it hit 60C, then only ramp up to 50%.
It wouldn’t go above 75% until after it hit the danger zone.
I mean, wtf?

142 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 6:09:56pm

There was no right to SSM, and now there is in many countries. Obviously, rights are created by us.

143 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 6:12:00pm
144 Amory Blaine  Apr 4, 2015 6:13:16pm

RAID 5 is no good for drives > 2tb. If there is an error during rebuild it will fail.

145 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 4, 2015 6:16:08pm

re: #144 Amory Blaine

RAID 5 is no good for drives > 2tb. If there is an error during rebuild it will fail.

How about a 24 drive, 6TB SSD Array. It’s a bit dated, but it’s still a very funny video..

RBS

146 CuriousLurker  Apr 4, 2015 6:17:25pm

re: #136 Nyet

If you’re still here, I’m just stopping by to let you know I’m a big Stephen King fan and bought Joyland based on your recommendation. I’m loving it so far. I fell asleep last night while reading the part where Devin left his dad and headed out to start his new job. Thanks for recommending it.

I try to take a break from the serious stuff on the weekends and stay firmly planted in fantasy-land (no serious books or movies—just fiction and animated films). As a matter of fact, I’m getting ready to go finish watching Hotel Transylvania, then restart where I left off in Joyland. Mental health break, y’know?

Later, lizards. ;-)

147 Varek Raith  Apr 4, 2015 6:20:57pm

re: #145 RealityBasedSteve

How about a 24 drive, 6TB SSD Array. It’s a bit dated, but it’s still a very funny video..

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Video

RBS

148 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 6:20:59pm

re: #146 CuriousLurker

If you’re still here, I’m just stopping by to let you know I’m a big Stephen King fan and bought Joyland based on your recommendation. I’m loving it so far. I fell asleep last night while reading the part where Devin left his dad and headed out to start his new job. Thanks for recommending it.

Cool :)

Have you already read Revival? It’s a neat little horror story a la Lovecraft.

149 CuriousLurker  Apr 4, 2015 6:24:55pm

re: #148 Nyet

Cool :)

Have you already read Revival? It’s a neat little horror story a la Lovecraft.

Not yet, it’s on my wish list. I’m waiting to see if the Kindle price will drop a bit (it annoys me to pay more than $10 for an electronic book unless it’s something I want really badly and can’t bear to wait).

150 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 6:26:12pm

re: #145 RealityBasedSteve

I suppose the proper response is not “momma like.”

151 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 6:28:39pm

re: #149 CuriousLurker

It’s fresh from the oven, so it figures that it would cost more. I guess it doesn’t hurt to wait.

I have yet to read:

The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
Doctor Sleep
Mr. Mercedes

By the time I’m finished with those, Finders Keepers will be out :)

152 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 6:29:35pm
153 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 6:30:34pm

re: #138 Charles Johnson

Um, wow. Retweeted by Roseanne Barr. Not sure how to feel about that.

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Stopped clock and all that.

Wish more people, including religious people, understood what you said though. Humans invented the idea of rights and it’s at the core of our social contract with each other. Without that contract, we’d eat each other alive.

God. for those of us who believe in God, has different concerns entirely.

154 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 4, 2015 6:31:40pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

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So, 10-20 for irrelevant, 10-20 for bigoted, etc. So 80 or so each day reminding him of what a schmuck he is.

RBS

155 Kragar  Apr 4, 2015 6:33:06pm

The new Mechanicus stuff is looking good.

156 stpaulbear  Apr 4, 2015 6:33:54pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

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Tell him that anyone who’s twitter account is having any impact at all gets at least 50 tweets a day saying that they’re irrelevant.

157 b_sharp  Apr 4, 2015 6:34:12pm

re: #126 Great White Snark

This board has two gigabit lan ports. One for internet one for actual home lan? That sounds like an opportunity for an extra secure connection.

If it’s a gaming board it will be for load balancing.

If a server board it is for internal/external or bridging.

158 prairiefire  Apr 4, 2015 6:37:00pm

re: #153 William Barnett-Lewis

He taught us the “golden rule”. Happy Easter, WBL

159 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 6:38:37pm

re: #157 b_sharp

It’s a gaming board. Not sure how to take advantage. Maybe it’s no help?

160 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 4, 2015 6:40:52pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

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When it comes to irrelevant, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

161 b_sharp  Apr 4, 2015 6:41:08pm

re: #159 Great White Snark

It’s a gaming board. Not sure how to take advantage. Maybe it’s no help?

Not likely.
On a network the two ethernet ports can be ‘ganged’ together with the appropriate (managed) switch/router to double connection speed/bandwidth.

162 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 6:44:56pm

re: #161 b_sharp

Well LWC and I are looking to upgrade the apartment LAN to gigabit. Maybe a managed switch is worthwhile instead of an dumb switch and a gigabit modem for incoming internet from At&T.

163 Nyet  Apr 4, 2015 6:45:32pm

164 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Apr 4, 2015 6:46:42pm

re: #138 Charles Johnson

Um, wow. Retweeted by Roseanne Barr. Not sure how to feel about that.

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I used to think she was two sheets to the wind. But I read an article in which she was sympathetic to Charlie Sheen and it gave me a whole new perspective. First, the fact that she was sympathetic sort of made me even more suspect about her. But what she said about him, and by equating it to her own experience, was that when you become a Hollywood megastar, it really becomes easy to lose contact with your core self and with the rest of the world that you used to know. Before you know it, you’re a caricature of yourself.

165 b_sharp  Apr 4, 2015 6:47:23pm

re: #162 Great White Snark

Well LWC and I are looking to upgrade the apartment LAN to gigabit. Maybe a managed switch is worthwhile instead of an dumb switch and a gigabit modem for incoming internet from At&T.

Are you going to play against LWC? Because a managed switch won’t help internet speeds unless you have two modems.

166 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 6:51:25pm

re: #164 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I used to think she was two sheets to the wind. But I read an article in which she was sympathetic to Charlie Sheen and it gave me a whole new perspective. First, the fact that she was sympathetic sort of made me even more suspect about her. But what she said about him, and by equating it to her own experience, was that when you become a Hollywood megastar, it really becomes easy to lose contact with your core self and with the rest of the world that you used to know. Before you know it, you’re a caricature of yourself.

She’s still a libertarian nutbar though.

167 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 6:51:32pm

re: #165 b_sharp

No. It’s a gamer board but it’s about using Adobe Creative Suite-Premiere, Photoshop, Speedgrade. Encore. There are sometimes big file transfers. Like multi gigabyte video files. Neither of us game hardly at all.

168 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 4, 2015 6:59:16pm

UK v Wisconsin game tied at halftime.
Yowser, what a game!

169 SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Apr 4, 2015 7:00:23pm

re: #166 TedStriker

She’s still a libertarian nutbar though.

That I didn’t know.

170 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 7:02:51pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

UK v Wisconsin game tied at halftime.
Yowser, what a game!

I’m not a basketball fan, really don’t like the game much at all. But I’ll root for an underdog anyday and it’s funny to see the Badgers in that role tonight. So give ‘em hell, Bucky.

171 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 4, 2015 7:03:53pm

Forbes drops effusive praise on the late Singporean hangman flogger hippie hater leader Lee Kuan Yew, quoting NRO’s even more effusive paen in the process:
Singapore: A Fascinating Alternative To The Welfare State

Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, died last week at age 91. Almost every obituary has remarked on the radical transition his leadership heralded. As John Fund wrote at National Review:

By embracing free trade, capital formation, vigorous meritocratic education, low taxes, and a reliable judicial system, Lee raised the per capita income of his country from $500 a year to some $52,000 a year today. That’s 50 percent higher than that of Britain, the colonial power that ruled Singapore for 150 years. Its average annual growth rate has averaged 7 percent since the 1970s

.

172 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 4, 2015 7:04:02pm

re: #170 William Barnett-Lewis

I’m not a basketball fan, really don’t like the game much at all. But I’ll root for an underdog anyday and it’s funny to see the Badgers in that role tonight. So give ‘em hell, Bucky.

Badgers are doing great!

173 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 7:06:50pm

re: #158 prairiefire

He taught us the “golden rule”. Happy Easter, WBL

And for you and yours as well.

174 HappyWarrior  Apr 4, 2015 7:07:41pm

re: #171 Shiplord Kirel

Forbes drops effusive praise on the late Singporean hangman flogger hippie hater leader Lee Kuan Yew, quoting NRO’s even more effusive paen in the process:

.

The famed right wing tendency to overlook authoritarianism as long as the markets are “free.”.

175 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 7:08:07pm

re: #171 Shiplord Kirel

Forbes drops effusive praise on the late Singporean hangman flogger hippie hater leader Lee Kuan Yew, quoting NRO’s even more effusive paen in the process:
Singapore: A Fascinating Alternative To The Welfare State

.

Anytime I run into a Singapore apologist, i send them this link: archive.wired.com

176 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 7:09:31pm

WELL worth checking out.

177 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 4, 2015 7:12:46pm

re: #176 klys (maker of Silmarils)

WELL worth checking out.

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You need to post that at teleskiguy’s page:
littlegreenfootballs.com

178 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 7:13:48pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

You need to post that at teleskiguy’s page:
littlegreenfootballs.com

Done.

As an aside, the tweets he references have never shown up for me, either in the comments or on the page. So I can’t actually see what he’s talking about. >.>

179 ObserverArt  Apr 4, 2015 7:16:52pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

UK v Wisconsin game tied at halftime.
Yowser, what a game!

Go Wisconsin!

///

Hey…Columbus is B1G country.

I liked the earlier discussion about college living. I was all out full Bohemian going to art college. Our whole school at that time was Bohemian. It consisted of a classic old elementary school that was for pure classrooms, and everything else was a series of old warehouses that served as all the studio space for painting, printmaking, sculpture, glass blowing, ceramics, etc. Art being pretty much a ‘shop’ and manufacturing, it was the ideal way to go.

We also had the Columbus Art Museum of Fine arts, that had some classrooms and an nice auditorium for huge classes and for shows, films, presentations, etc. That was right in the same area. It was many of the museum patrons that started the art college.

Our dorms were old inner city apartment buildings, with two students to each apartment. They were old, a bit tattered and sometimes cold in real bad weather, but we all had a blast. We were all artists!

Then I moved with some guys I knew that were going to Ohio State, and it was okay, but too preppy. Junior year it was into an old classic house on the east side of town. One whole block of homes was all art students. At that time in Columbus (‘74/75/76) downtown was pretty dead at night, so the art students had free range once all the workers went home. So, we got away with huge parties that never seemed to draw the police no matter how outrageous we all got.

It was fantastic.

It also taught us, as artists, we would need to live on the fringes…sometimes being in the arts can be a fairly tough life as far as making huge money, so that make-do attitude has served many of us well.

Bohemians!

Today, the whole school is all spiffed up, a lot of new buildings and even more entire huge warehouses and industrial type buildings added, so just about every discipline has a building for classes and studios.

180 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 4, 2015 7:23:08pm

re: #14 klys (maker of Silmarils)

YOU LET THE MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPE!

I gave you an upding for this. I haven’t heard it in years, and it made me laugh.

And it’s so true! Without the magic smoke, components don’t work!

181 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 7:24:05pm

Well, foo. I wish I were dishonest enough to grift my way into some of that sweet Wingnut welfare dough.

Why you ask?

Local craigslist: Used Princeton 65 Fender Amp - $250

A freaking Fender Princeton Reverb 65 for 1/4 new. :bang head: 15 watts of Tube amp yumminess with built in spring reverb tank at an insanely low price. But too much for me right now, alas.

Grump.

182 ObserverArt  Apr 4, 2015 7:29:52pm

re: #181 William Barnett-Lewis

Well, foo. I wish I were dishonest enough to grift my way into some of that sweet Wingnut welfare dough.

Why you ask?

Local craigslist: Used Princeton 65 Fender Amp - $250

A freaking Fender Princeton Reverb 65 for 1/4 new. :bang head: 15 watts of Tube amp yumminess with built in spring reverb tank at an insanely low price. But too much for me right now, alas.

Grump.

Aww. I too wish you could get that. Great amp. A buddy of mine had one back in high school, and I used to borrow it when I first tried to learn guitar.

I think Johnny Marr likes that model too. He used some of them in the studio with his old Jag guitars with the Smiths.

183 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 7:32:54pm

re: #125 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

What the hell do you people do with all that processing power?

Align 10 x 20 million x 100 base pair reads with a 4.5 billion base genome, then compare the results with each other.

184 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 7:34:14pm
185 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 4, 2015 7:36:11pm

re: #183 Blind Frog Belly White

Align 10 x 20 million x 100 base pair reads with a 4.5 billion base genome, then compare the results with each other.

They do that on CSI while getting a cup of coffee all the time.

RBS

186 ObserverArt  Apr 4, 2015 7:38:03pm

re: #184 Charles Johnson

250 years later, religious fanaticism is stronger than ever in this country.

Yes. Dangerously so. Who would of thought we would need protected from those that were set up to be protected. I guess freedom is too much to handle for some. They seem to need it and use it so they can go abuse others.

187 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 7:44:37pm

re: #185 RealityBasedSteve

They do that on CSI while getting a cup of coffee all the time.

RBS

Yeah. Generally they do it by putting the end of a Q-tip in a $500 centrifuge, then watching a silly graphic on a screen you’d never be able to see because it’s transparent and all you’d see is whatever’s behind it.

And all in the dark.

188 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 4, 2015 7:46:03pm

re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. Generally they do it by putting the end of a Q-tip in a $500 centrifuge, then watching a silly graphic on a screen you’d never be able to see because it’s transparent and all you’d see is whatever’s behind it.

And all in the dark.

Well, everybody knows that makes it more sciency.

189 TedStriker  Apr 4, 2015 7:46:37pm

re: #188 RealityBasedSteve

Well, everybody knows that makes it more sciency.

And more serious-er.

190 ObserverArt  Apr 4, 2015 7:48:07pm

re: #189 TedStriker

And more serious-er.

Don’t forget more dramatic-y.

191 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 7:49:21pm

Only import/export and the settings menu tutorial left.

Except I’ve got two things to add to the program now and one requires redoing all the screenshots.

And at some point I need to make dinner.

192 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 4, 2015 7:50:30pm

re: #175 William Barnett-Lewis

.

Anytime I run into a Singapore apologist, i send them this link: archive.wired.com

I was watching a report on the history of Singapore last month. Yew was still well at the time. One segment struck me in several different ways. In the early days many Singaporeans lived in squalid conditions with no running water, electricity or sewage systems. Children got little or no education. Yew’s government constructed public housing apartment blocks, and required all the poor Singaporeans to move into them. Required, by law. The apartments had electricity, running water and toilets, and provision was made for schooling the kids. Meanwhile, the shanty towns were razed.

A similar clean-up changed the waterfront from a smelly, dangerous area into parkland, at the expense of losing some of the unique fishing village culture still extant.

On one hand, I can admire Yew’s vision of the future, and his determination to drag Singapore — kicking and screaming if necessary — into the 20th century. On the other hand, the autocratic methods used to achieve those goals are more than a bit chilling.

The retrospective featured interviews with Singaporeans from all walks of life. One woman, who was a child when her family moved from the shantytown into public housing, had nothing but praise for Yew, though she seemed a bit wistful for the shantytown days.

I’ve not visited Singapore yet. It’s one of the world’s most expensive cities to live in, and my teacher’s salary would be eaten up in a few days, but I want to see it at least once. It’s not a place I would want to live.

193 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 8:05:22pm

This tweet started a serious brouhaha tonight.

194 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 8:07:38pm

re: #193 Charles Johnson

This tweet started a serious brouhaha tonight.

[Embedded content]

Truth does that sometimes. Keep speaking it.

195 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 8:11:45pm
196 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 8:12:54pm

JUST LET THE DAMN GAME END ALREADY.

197 jaunte  Apr 4, 2015 8:14:14pm

re: #193 Charles Johnson

Which somehow led the person you were exchanging tweets with to decide you were “homophobic.”

198 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 8:16:37pm

It always amazes me how many hours the last two minutes of a basketball game can take … /////

199 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 8:17:05pm

re: #198 William Barnett-Lewis

It always amazes me how many hours the last two minutes of a basketball game can take … /////

Let it go, let it go, I can’t take this game anymooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore…

200 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 8:17:29pm

And UK goes home at 38-1.

201 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 8:18:26pm

re: #200 William Barnett-Lewis

And UK goes home at 38-1.

It sounds like it was a good game.

If basketball is your thing.

(It’s not mine, but my sister was like “if I am subjected to this I am sharing it with you.” My folks are Badgers alum.)

202 Kragar  Apr 4, 2015 8:18:30pm
203 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 8:18:40pm

re: #197 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Which somehow led the person you were exchanging tweets with to decide you were “homophobic.”

That must have been after I blocked him. He was getting more and more upset, and it wasn’t hard to see where it was headed.

204 Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 4, 2015 8:18:46pm

re: #190 ObserverArt

Don’t forget more dramatic-y.

A friend calls CSI/NY “Turn On The Lights, Lt. Dan!”

205 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 8:18:54pm
206 Targetpractice  Apr 4, 2015 8:21:24pm

re: #200 William Barnett-Lewis

And UK goes home at 38-1.

207 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 8:21:45pm

re: #206 Targetpractice

Your bracket broken?

208 b_sharp  Apr 4, 2015 8:22:20pm

re: #167 Great White Snark

No. It’s a gamer board but it’s about using Adobe Creative Suite-Premiere, Photoshop, Speedgrade. Encore. There are sometimes big file transfers. Like multi gigabyte video files. Neither of us game hardly at all.

Sorry for the delay in responding. My dog attacked me and I had to play.

You have to remember the system is only as fast as the slowest component used in any given task. If you are transferring files from your system to a NAS or another computers, even if you have dual ethernet on your system, unless the other system or NAS does too, having the superfast connection on your system won’t help.

209 HappyWarrior  Apr 4, 2015 8:22:56pm

My bracket is officially screwed but I am not upset since I got a cousin who is a first year Badger. Good for them. Hope they beat Duke.

210 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 8:23:34pm

re: #209 HappyWarrior

My bracket is officially screwed but I am not upset since I got a cousin who is a first year Badger. Good for them. Hope they beat Duke.

My parents are Badger alum. His parents live in NC.

I’m just going into hiding until this is all over.

211 Targetpractice  Apr 4, 2015 8:23:56pm

re: #207 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Your bracket broken?

No, UK fan. And I don’t care how it makes me look, I’m going to say the referees were giving that game to Wisconsin.

212 ObserverArt  Apr 4, 2015 8:25:01pm

B1G!

Maybe Wisconsin can get the second big sportin’ national championship this year for the conference.

Third really…they got the wrestling title a couple weeks ago. The grapplin’ Buckeyes added to the football title.

213 HappyWarrior  Apr 4, 2015 8:25:53pm

re: #210 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My parents are Badger alum. His parents live in NC.

I’m just going into hiding until this is all over.

Uh oh heh. It’s been a while since my alma mater made the tourney.

214 #FergusonFireside  Apr 4, 2015 8:26:00pm

re: #209 HappyWarrior

My bracket is officially screwed but I am not upset since I got a cousin who is a first year Badger. Good for them. Hope they beat Duke.

I have Wisconsin. What a great game.

Sorry for KY though.

215 retired cynic  Apr 4, 2015 8:26:07pm

B1G fan here, for, um, over 50 years, and I loved it!

216 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 4, 2015 8:26:24pm

re: #193 Charles Johnson

The concept of universal rights is a product of the Enlightenment, and to some extent the humanism of the Renaissance and even British law, beginning with Magna Carta. European philosophers, including Rousseau, Locke and several others, helped forge our modern concept of human rights. They argued that everyone was entitled to the same rights, not just the landed gentry, the aristocracy, the clergy and the monarch. From their efforts, we got the US Constitution with the Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Universal Rights of Man.

Underlying those philosophies was a belief in an abstract Deity that conferred those rights on humanity, as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, for example. But there was no understanding that religion — that is, the organized churches — or Scripture itself granted those rights. In fact, religion then as now typically was all about depriving some people their human rights to benefit other people’s circumstances.

To argue that God gives us rights directly is a backhanded way of justifying discrimination against certain people. If homosexuality is a sin, then it follows that God must not favor gays and lesbians with civil rights. Not having equal rights is a kind of temporal punishment for their sin, and a True Believer, as an agent of God, is then justified to discriminate against gays and lesbians, or anyone else they don’t approve of.

To admit rights come from secular sources — the government or humanistic traditions — deprives bigots of their justification for discriminating against people. So, I’m not surprised you’re getting pushback from some quarters.

217 #FergusonFireside  Apr 4, 2015 8:27:11pm

So did Kincannon do something else? See Gus tweeting, trying to catch up.

218 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 4, 2015 8:27:16pm

I’m relieved that, after tonight, I don’t have to sit through yet another NCAA championship game.

:D

219 HappyWarrior  Apr 4, 2015 8:27:20pm

re: #214 #FergusonFireside

I have Wisconsin. What a great game.

Sorry for KY though.

I had Kentucky and UVA. Really wanted to see the Cavs do well this year. And the one year I don’t pick MSU to go that far, Izzo pulls another final four out.

220 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 8:27:35pm

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m relieved that, after tonight, I don’t have to sit through yet another NCAA championship game.

:D

That’s looking on the bright side!

221 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 4, 2015 8:29:36pm

niters all!

222 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 4, 2015 8:30:27pm

Off to work. Later lizards.

223 Charles Johnson  Apr 4, 2015 8:31:44pm

re: #216 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Well said!

224 ObserverArt  Apr 4, 2015 8:32:25pm

re: #211 Targetpractice

No, UK fan. And I don’t care how it makes me look, I’m going to say the referees were giving that game to Wisconsin.

I think the refs were equally bad toward both teams. Bad calls all game long.

225 Great White Snark  Apr 4, 2015 8:35:03pm

re: #208 b_sharp

Well it will be interesting to see what does what configuration wise. Can’t hurt to try different setups and test the flow through. The network is not much of a bottle neck. When the cooler comes in we can spend the time configuring in detail. Tweak for Adobe stuff.

226 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Apr 4, 2015 8:36:19pm

re: #223 Charles Johnson

Thanks. I taught Western Culture a few terms back, and one unit was about Enlightenment philosophy and its political effects. I had to bone up on that period of history so I could make sense of it for my Chinese students.

Since then, the Xi Jinping government has sent university professors warnings against teaching “Western ideas” like democracy and universal human rights, so I’m not sure how much of my previous lectures could be safely used now.

227 ObserverArt  Apr 4, 2015 8:37:35pm

Later all. Have a nice Easter/Holiday/Sunday.

228 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 4, 2015 8:41:28pm

I’ll buck the trend …and leave to go make dinner.

(Settings menu is all that’s left for the tutorial, and then adding the two things to the program, and then redoing ALL the screenshots, and then the FAQs and the download page, and …sigh.)

229 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 4, 2015 8:59:23pm

Well, I’ve finished The Big Lebowski, and now watching “The Punisher” (the 2004 one with Thomas Jane and John Travolta). It has probably the best (most amusing) fight scene in any action flick. Kept that “comic book feel” to it.

230 teleskiguy  Apr 4, 2015 9:10:46pm

What a cool little short! PIES!

231 teleskiguy  Apr 4, 2015 9:13:46pm

re: #36 freetoken

Have I mentioned lately how evil Facebook is?

Evil? Nah!

232 freetoken  Apr 4, 2015 9:15:45pm

Facebook is evil.

233 prairiefire  Apr 4, 2015 9:16:56pm

re: #36 freetoken

Have I mentioned lately how evil Facebook is?

Ooh, send me a friend request./

234 teleskiguy  Apr 4, 2015 9:18:51pm

My name is Wen Hui Wang on Facebook, if anybody cares. I post something there about twice or three times a month, if that.

Twitter, on the other hand…

235 teleskiguy  Apr 4, 2015 9:20:11pm
236 sagehen  Apr 4, 2015 9:26:29pm

I watch SNL so you don’t have to.

Tonight’s worth-watching parts:

CNN re-enactment videos of the plane crash, Iran negotiation, Indiana bakery and Hillary e-mail stories.

1/2 credit for the “neurotology” promo video (that’s only funny if you watched HBO’s Scientology documentary) and parts of weekend update.

237 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 4, 2015 9:26:43pm

The Heathen Alien Illuminati Vaccine is Killing Me!!!!

RBS

238 jaunte  Apr 4, 2015 10:07:26pm

Iran:

Kentucky:


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