Hilarious Animated Short: The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete
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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?
;)
3 | Charles Johnson Apr 4, 2015 2:54:04pm |
I think you'll appreciate this, Charles, #pizza4equality @Green_Footballs http://t.co/Lo8ETZhBr9 It's sure to tick off your nemesis.— Scott Wooledge (@Clarknt67) April 4, 2015
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.
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
guypie 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 |
17 | Charles Johnson Apr 4, 2015 3:04:50pm |
Geek out time.
Perl programmers celebrate parse over.— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) April 4, 2015
C programmers celebrate Lint. @GlennF— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2015
@Green_Footballs I gave up C for Lint!— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) April 4, 2015
@GlennF Javascript programmers have a problem with this.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2015
@Green_Footballs @GlennF they really need to get into the holiday Node— gretchen anderson (@gretared) April 4, 2015
18 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 4, 2015 3:04:51pm |
19 | TedStriker Apr 4, 2015 3:05:58pm |
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
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 |
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?
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.
54 | #FergusonFireside Apr 4, 2015 3:39:03pm |
When Frozen meets Star Wars…. Hans Solo and Slave Elsa @starwars @WonderCon #WonderCon #FrozenWars pic.twitter.com/ZVDUGjhilr
— Chelsea Hamill (@chelseahamill) April 4, 2015
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.
57 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 4, 2015 3:40:39pm |
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.
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?
///
64 | Blind Frog Belly White Apr 4, 2015 3:44:54pm |
re: #63 TedStriker
So, your closet had a closet?
///
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 |
Florida baker threatened after former Arizona pastor's anti-LGBT 'social experiment' http://t.co/HqCD0XZN1Y— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 4, 2015
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 |
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!”
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 |
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 |
85 | klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 4, 2015 4:02:13pm |
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.
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 |
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. .
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??
Jack Brady is right #MemoriesPizza owners are millionaires But it is liberals who made it happen #GetSomeHelp pic.twitter.com/cHlv05Oi32
— mikemckenna (@mikemckenna19) April 4, 2015
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.
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
@mikemckenna19 If we start hating on poor children, will you take care of them?
— Lonnie Mask (@LonnieMask) April 4, 2015
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 |
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 |
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.
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 |
@Green_Footballs he is one of the lowest individuals I have ever encountered. I would not want to breath the same air as he does.— chris beck (@SubBeck) April 5, 2015
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.
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 |
Actually, @ChuckCJohnson, it reveals how insane *you* are. pic.twitter.com/6NNnJi7ndn— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
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 |
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 |
Not to mention bigoted, misogynistic, racist, etc. pic.twitter.com/hky0qHb5Oq— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
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.
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
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 |
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.
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 |
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 haterleader 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 haterleader 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.
Stunning NASA before/after images show what the megadrought has done to California’s snowpack: http://t.co/lSXVLf9TyQ pic.twitter.com/qoF70iXyIp— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) April 3, 2015
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 |
I just got a graphic reminder that people who question religion are serious pariahs in America.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
And the sad irony is that the founding fathers of the United States tried to make questioning religion safe, as best they could.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
250 years later, religious fanaticism is stronger than ever in this country.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
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 |
190 | ObserverArt Apr 4, 2015 7:48:07pm |
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.
No, “rights” do not come from God. Human beings invented the concept of rights, and religious beliefs have often been *opposed* to rights.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
194 | William Barnett-Lewis Apr 4, 2015 8:07:38pm |
re: #193 Charles Johnson
This tweet started a serious brouhaha tonight.
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Truth does that sometimes. Keep speaking it.
195 | Charles Johnson Apr 4, 2015 8:11:45pm |
What's the point of Twitter anyway if you can't poke a stick into a hornet's nest every once in a while?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
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
It's human beings who are fighting to grant these basic rights to LGBT people, but it's fanatically religious people trying to deny them.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
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…
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 |
@RyJamesG @Green_Footballs @ChuckCJohnson I'll take that as a statement that you're misogynist and neo-nazi— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 5, 2015
203 | Charles Johnson Apr 4, 2015 8:18:40pm |
re: #197 jaunte
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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 |
“Sure, he's a stalker and a racist and a misogynist, but he's MY MAIN MAN!” @carlokuhrt @RyJamesG @ChuckCJohnson— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2015
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 |
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!
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.
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.
231 | teleskiguy Apr 4, 2015 9:13:46pm |
re: #36 freetoken
Have I mentioned lately how evil Facebook is?
Evil? Nah!
thank you facebook pic.twitter.com/9C6pqmsKgL— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) April 5, 2015
233 | prairiefire Apr 4, 2015 9:16:56pm |
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 |
pic.twitter.com/rzE7WVxTYJ— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) April 5, 2015
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:
GOP, if you're confused by all this celebrating in Iran, it's called peace. A lot of people in the world like peace. pic.twitter.com/gdLikmmLL3
— No Justice No Peace (@drumbeats4peace) April 3, 2015
Kentucky:
City officials now reporting 11 arrests. People on the street heard yelling “f—- the police” pic.twitter.com/aIeSUqlmja
— Paris Lewbel (@PLewbel) April 5, 2015