Bazza

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
 
Children of the Sun Billy Thorpe

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
 
Ben yammering on about some sh!t

Re: The cranky thread
 

Well, it is where it is. She and I spend time together; she calls me when she needs to vent, I call her when I am too lonely to sit by myself another minute. I've seen the writing on the wall for sometime. She isn't much of a decision maker, and neither am I, left to our own devices we might spend literally years in a quasi-separated marriage of inconvenience. But her parents lead and she follows. I know now that by the time December rolls around, my marriage will be over and they'll probably push to have her break off contact entirely. That will be the ultimate test. I am hopeful that we might eventually reconcile and move forward together; but until we can both think for ourselves and direct ourselves we would only be drifting along and never truely happy.
At least that's what I tell myself. I have no real interest in dating someone else, or rather, I can't forsee that happening, I don't go out, I don't meet women my age at work, I am a pretty solitary fellow and can really turn off the charm when I am in a snit, or simply drift away. And that was when I was with her. Now its even worse.
I have always been afraid of the world and wrapped myself in the bubble wrap of routine. I "go with the flow" so much I think I've lost my spine.
 
Of course, I am going to Gen Con this year. Flew to London by myself, own a car. Might be getting a serious upgrade in employment soon, could conceivably get out of debt in the next two or three years... I don't know. I'm kind of having to take the wheel of my life for the first time and I am unsure what to do with this shifter thingy.
 
I tend to be more blind optimist than pragmatist, so I feel good about each coming day, even if I don't embrace it like it's my last.
 
Anyway, thanks for your well wishes:D

Re: The Last Word
 
. . . I'm really struggling with this task . . .
 
. . . Task . . . That's naughty . . .

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Well, this is a great birthday I'm having...
 
I'm at work dealing with f$%^ spyware/viruses that infected our servers. Our servers!! That isn't supposed to happen. I want to take every virus/spyware writer and repay their kindness... Grrr.... Anyway, I'll be offline for a while.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Some days I wish all advertising would be banned.
 
At least one day a year would be great.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I'm satisfied about the stability of Mac OS X. Today I've been foing "spring cleaning". I wanted to backup some documents to DVD so I can use a "clean" Hard Drive. During my spring cleaning I found documents going back to when I started using Macs in 1991, not to mention the hobbies I've had along the way, accumulating shareware/freeware, my collection of rpg materials scattered over numerous folders and taking that trip down memory lane.
 
Spotlight and Smart folders were very helpful in finding the numerous archives and Stuffit Spacesaver files scattered over the HD. I wish Spotlight could find "locked" files, that would have been a timesaver. Finder had to be relaunched about ten times when "getting info" on 700+ files. My workaround was to take it folder by folder.
 
Some (user) accidents resulted in me:
* opening hundreds documents (text files, word documents, excel files, clarisworks files) AT ONCE! Opps.
* opening 30+ Mac OS 'classic' applications at once. Boy did the dock grow small real quick. Thank goodness for the power to force quitting the classic environment (multiple times).
 
When you see your screen gowing haywire, and having to force-quit applications to restore "order" but the OS stability is rock solid. No restart needed dispite me doing some silly things (as above).
 
And so the Mac has evolved into a better machine. Still has the easy to use interface of the past but now with Tiger (and Unix) the system has evolved into a great, usable and (did I mention) stable machine.
 
When the time comes the NeXT computer I buy will be a Mac also.

Re: The Last Word
 

I passed my probation so now I have a perm job. (that's right it has a hairdo)

Re: The cranky thread
 
When are they going to stop putting up so many fricking stoplights? Why don't they just post a stop sign every fifty feet on every street and get it over with? Because you know, it's all about safety. If a pedestrian steps in front of a train it's the pedestrian's fault, but if they step in front of a car suddenly the driver is supposed to bend the laws of physics to save the idiot. Because of course the driver should have left fifteen minutes earlier. Yeah, let's make it so all drivers have a half hour less time to spend with their families. Hell, let's go all the way and limit all cars to 10 MPH. Although I'm sure some bonehead will figure out how to get killed even then.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
You just can't beat something original & funny
 

 

 

 

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
> > ...and, in case you missed them, error messages in haiku:
> >
> > Out of memory.
> > We wish to hold the whole sky,
> > But we never will.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > First snow, then silence.
> > This thousand dollar screen dies
> > so beautifully.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > With searching comes loss
> > and the presence of absence:
> > "My Novel" not found.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > The Tao that is seen
> > Is not the true Tao, until
> > You bring fresh toner.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > The Web site you seek
> > cannot be located but
> > endless others exist
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Stay the patient course
> > Of little worth is your ire
> > The network is down
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > A crash reduces
> > your expensive computer
> > to a simple stone.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > There is a chasm
> > of carbon and silicon
> > the software can't bridge
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Yesterday it worked
> > Today it is not working
> > Windows is like that
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > To have no errors
> > Would be life without meaning
> > No struggle, no joy
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > You step in the stream,
> > but the water has moved on.
> > This page is not here.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > No keyboard present
> > Hit F1 to continue
> > Zen engineering?
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Hal, open the file
> > Hal, open the damn file, Hal
> > open the, please Hal
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Having been erased,
> > The document you're seeking
> > Must now be retyped.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > The ten thousand things
> > How long do any persist?
> > Netscape, too, has gone.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Rather than a beep
> > Or a rude error message,
> > These words: "File not found."
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Serious error.
> > All shortcuts have disappeared.
> > Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Three things are certain:
> > Death, taxes, and lost data.
> > Guess which has occurred.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Everything is gone;
> > Your life's work has been destroyed.
> > Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Windows NT crashed.
> > I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> > No one hears your screams.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Seeing my great fault
> > Through darkening blue windows
> > I begin again
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > The code was willing,
> > It considered your request,
> > But the chips were weak.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Printer not ready.
> > Could be a fatal error.
> > Have a pen handy?
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > A file that big?
> > It might be very useful.
> > But now it is gone.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Errors have occurred.
> > We won't tell you where or why.
> > Lazy programmers.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Server's poor response
> > Not quick enough for browser.
> > Timed out, plum blossom.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Chaos reigns within.
> > Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> > Order shall return.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > Login incorrect.
> > Only perfect spellers may
> > enter this system.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > This site has been moved.
> > We'd tell you where, but then we'd
> > have to delete you.
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > wind catches lily
> > scatt'ring petals to the wind:
> > segmentation fault
> > - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > ABORTED effort:
> > Close all that you have.
> > You ask way too much.
>
>

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
You know you need a new lawyer WHEN....
 
 
During your initial consultation, he tries to sell you Amway.
 
He tells you his last good case was a "Budweiser"
 
When the prosecutors see who your lawyer is, they high-five each other.
 
He picks the jury by playing "Duck-duck-goose"
 
During the trial, you catch him playing his Gameboy.
 
A prison guard is shaving your head..
 
Every couple of minutes, he yells "I call Jack Daniels to the stand!" and downs a shot.
 
He frequently gives juror number 4 the finger.
 
He places a large "NO REFUNDS" sign on the defense table.
 
He begins his closing with "As Ally McBeal once said..."
 
Just before he says "Your Honor", he makes little quotation marks in the air with his fingers.
 
The sign in front of his office reads "Practicing law since 2:30pm".
 
Whenever his objection is overruled, he tells the judge "Whatever."
 
He giggles every time he hears the word "briefs".

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Amen.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
ANZAC: lest we Australians and New Zealanders forget.
 
In the last years a lot aof young Australians have made what can only be a pilgrimage to ANZAC Cove in Turkey on this day, April 25th. With all what ANZAC legend means to Australians as a maturing of the nation this pilgrimage is indeed heartening. I suppose for those who have made the trip you would have to call it "a pilgrimage into the soul of the nation". It has that importance to young Australia.
 

 
*the Last Post*

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I'm often surprised and interested by what generates people giving rep. Some of it is just timing (not being able to rep when desired and repping when the next "worthwhile" thing is said) but often there are individual items which resonate more than expected or, often, what I may think is something really interesting and worthwhile gets zero attention while another thing which I may post without thinking much about gets repped a few times.
 
I've never studied it, but I'm sure it'd be easy to be a "rep whore" in the on-topic fora, though it would take some study over a few months to really get the hang of which things generate the more rep-heavy posters' interests. Whereas there isn't much subtlety or thought required to be an NGD rep whore, as RFK demonstrated amply.

Re: The Last Word
 
ten thousand

Re: The Random Chaotic Vacuum Void Thread.
 

We are the particles that escaped and are floating in cyberspace.

IMHO My Ass
 
I have found something that makes me incredibly peevish: the custom of qualifying one's opinion as being an opinion at every turn. The constant use of "in my opinion," or the ever-haughty "in my humble opinion," being the primary cases in point. There are an infinite number of quaint coloquialisms that convey this milquetoastism.
 
Of course it is your bloody opinion, which is personal, and which is, in all likelyhood, probably less than humble. What in tarnation else would it be? It is plainly evident to the critical mind it is an opinion. Sources are cited ("according to:..."), facts are presented ("X number of men on both sides died at battle Y..."), and their nature is self-evident.
 
The use of the term, in most cases, is superfluous, rendering writing milquetoast and chatty, which appears to be the insidiously spineless goal. God forbid some thin-skinned weak-minded sould should take fright because you believe something to be true, or state your personal beliefs in unquivicable terms. God forbid they should grow up and learn we don't all see eye to eye, or actually be required to put their brain matter to work to forumulate a rational counter argument, or the intestinal fortitude to live and let live.
 
What's worse, when one doesn't use these sad, breezy qualifyers and states their opinion in clear terms, the common response is: "that's your opinion," or "from your perspective." No massive pile of bull excrement, Sherlock! Of course its my opinion! What the perdition else would it be? "Thats your opinion," does not constitute a counter-argument. It is merely a dismissive way of saying: "I do not care to, or am completely incapable of, producing a counter argument." All too often its the latter. Its an utter and complete failure of rhetoric.
 
In this same vein, the use of the terms "truth be told," "the truth of the matter is," and their ilk are equally loathsome. If you believe you have some special insight to the truth that your fellow man does not, simply state the truth. Spare the reader your prophetic pretentions of cosmic consciousness and superior secret knowlege. If it is truth, your argument will withstant challenges. If it is not, you will find yourself diminished before those to whom you sought to lord your seerdom over.
 
And for shame if you use these terms when expressing your opinion on some matter. Were you being dishonest in the conversation before you expressed and opinion being "truth be told"? Are you ashamed of your beliefs or your feelings? Do you feel you do not have a right to them? Get over it. Grow some spine. Spine is good. A man with spine is respected. A coward is not. My mother once told me: women respect strong men, not milquetoast ones. And its not just women, kids - its the world at large.
 
Say what you mean. Say what you believe. Don't bloody equivocate.

Who is going to get the 'last word'?
 
Edit: this thread was started a long time ago (two years from this edit) for the current discussions, go to the end of this thread.
 
Edit 2: approx 3 years as from this edit, previous edit was "Apr 25th, '07 at 07:44 PM".
 
Edit 3: Previous edit was: Feb 10th, '08 at 08:22 PM. This thread has been going for nearly 5.5 years (exactly 2015 days)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
To those searching for jobs, who need these words and especially to Lemming, Lemming's wife and RebeccaRed50. The lyrics are written by Simon Kirke/Paul Kossoff (of Free) and the song appeared on the album Kossoff Kirke Tetsu Rabbit. The song is called Hold On.
 

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
To those searching for jobs, who need these words and especially to Lemming, Lemming's wife and RebeccaRed50. The lyrics are written by Simon Kirke/Paul Kossoff (of Free) and the song appeared on the album Kossoff Kirke Tetsu Rabbit. The song is called Hold On.
 

Re: The Last Word
 
True. But drinking Superman makes your lips Thor... *boom*

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Ingrid is currently very close by and good news, she dropped some "weight" going from a category 5 to category 3. Previous post with links here: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=650213&postcount=5065
 
Hoping for the best.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Weird... oh well. I'll upload it directly.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER