Random Thoughts....

[Hidden_Hunter]

Originally Posted by fbc

'Mail Goggles' - it's in the 'Lab' section of 'Settings'. It makes you answer some questions before being able to send an email.



Jeez, at 22 a five-figure bank balance was the stuff of dreams for me (and will be again soon once I buy a house... err I mean once I buy a small, small part of a house and sign away my internal organs to the bank...). Yeah, buying a house, selling that house, buying another house, getting married, getting divorced, and selling that last house in the space of a few years really messes with your finances for quite some time...

That's not meant to sound jealous btw - sounds like you're setting yourself up nicely.

I have a fairly significant portion of my house deposit saved for (looking to buy in the next 12 to 18 months)

[salle]

Originally Posted by Crazyjeeper

So I unhooked my DVD drive and boom, everything seems to be working fine again.

My flatmate had similar problems with his dvd-drive

[Zesty]

I came home tonight to the news that my mum saw my neighbour's cat dead in the gutter as she was coming home, obviously cleaned up by a car. She had to go in next door and break the news to her and her children when they came home shortly afterwards. We're all pretty upset.

I'm not surprised that something like this has happened, people speed through our street to avoid the one parallel to ours which has speed humps. I think we need them here too. I don't want this to happen to our own cats. We do keep them in overnight, and this cat was left out at night to wander about, but it would have been hit in daylight. Our cats are pretty lost atm, going around sniffing everything with their tails down, they just know something has happened. They were really friendly with this other, older cat and they used to play together a lot. Ugh..it's just horrible.

[ChelsDS]

yhalothar

[Crazyjeeper]

Originally Posted by salle

My flatmate had similar problems with his dvd-drive

I can't believe something like a DVD drive would cause such problems, but I'm back to my original config minus the DVD drive and all is well.

I am really really really really glad it wasn't something bigger though.

[NooDle]

Massive "catching up" post from me

Originally Posted by Buffy_09

I was on the bus today, heading up to pick up my laptop.

Ah I see the issue here. The issue is "old people talking to random strangers because they have nothing better to do". They will not comprehend that you have stuff to do and need to be someplace, instead of just wandering around aimlessly.

See also : old people that ask to cut infront of you in the store (FUCK OFF), old people who choose to go to the store after 5 pm when everyone else is getting home from work, etc.

Only solution is just euthanizing everyone over 70. Sorry gramps.

Originally Posted by ninjacoco

Eating chili for breakfast seemed like a good idea at the time...

...but let me assure you, it isn't.

I am intrigued... was the rest of the day "loud" or "silent but deadly"?

Originally Posted by Reckoning

Bears without fur look odd.

Saw that too, huh? The best part is that they still have hair on their heads, so they kinda look like they're wearing a wig.
To the people who don't know what I mean : (spoilered for scaryness)

Originally Posted by Hidden_Hunter

I just had a coffee with low fat milk...

holy fuck that was disgusting

One should never add milk to coffee, it instantly makes it hyper disgusting

Originally Posted by Clockwerk

I was thinking about "Back to the Future" today and was wondering something. You know at the end of the first film when Doc says "Where we are going we don't need...roads" and the car takes off, well how does the car produce initial lift? If the wheels turn sideways in order to become vtol engines, how do they get into that position in the first place?

you know what, I've never thought of that...if the "rims" of the wheels provide the thrust, it doesn't make sense that it lifts off first, then the wheels flip down.

Also, hoverboard technology doesn't work on cars since 1) they're too heavy and 2) they don't work in the rain!

Originally Posted by racingfan1

Alright, who broke FinalGear? We're all depressed and shit now. How do we fix it?

Mine was broken and stuff too... all fixed now

Originally Posted by Red_Bull

That was my 'holy shit' moment of the day!

That was hilarious!

Originally Posted by fbc

'Mail Goggles' - it's in the 'Lab' section of 'Settings'. It makes you answer some questions before being able to send an email.

Ah the benifits of teh Googol. Never thought of it being used like that though.
Besides, who goes on an emailing rampage when plastered?

Originally Posted by BlaRo

Holy fuck, Zombieland was 26.9 million kinds of awesome.

Allrighty, must see this then. I particularly like the precision in your post. the .9 does it.

Originally Posted by ChelsDS

yhalothar

hai

[brydiem]

Originally Posted by Zesty

I came home tonight to the news that my mum saw my neighbour's cat dead in the gutter as she was coming home, obviously cleaned up by a car. She had to go in next door and break the news to her and her children when they came home shortly afterwards. We're all pretty upset.

I'm not surprised that something like this has happened, people speed through our street to avoid the one parallel to ours which has speed humps. I think we need them here too. I don't want this to happen to our own cats. We do keep them in overnight, and this cat was left out at night to wander about, but it would have been hit in daylight. Our cats are pretty lost atm, going around sniffing everything with their tails down, they just know something has happened. They were really friendly with this other, older cat and they used to play together a lot. Ugh..it's just horrible.

I know how you feel, my area is a 50 zone, but people will regularly do 60 or more. My kitty loves to roam about, as do other cats (pretty animal friendly area), but there are still incidents- there is about 2 pet deaths a year from cars hitting them and a lot more wildlife dead. Nobody has ever owned up to hitting the animals, which I think is deplorable. If I ever hit an animal, I would immediately try and find out who he/she belonged to and try to tell them how sorry I am and everything.

My cat, when he was about 2, got hit by a car and injured his leg. He ended up having to get some pretty serious surgery which cost us a bit and took him a lot of time to get over (he still occasionally has issues from it), but we never found out who did it. If somebody had come to us and honestly said that they were sorry and offered some sort of apology (and possibly a bunch of flowers), I would be annoyed that they didn't observe their surroundigs better, but I would understand. If I found out who did it now (even if they told us themselves), I would tell them how much pain they put us through and try to get the money off them for the medical bills and suffering. Then buy O'Malley a cage crawler

[public]

Dun dun dun, hope the school admin gives me the webspace for my thesis project soon. Deadline's creeping up and to be able to finish the written part, I need to finish the website project so I can write about it. =P

[public]

Originally Posted by Clockwerk

I was thinking about "Back to the Future" today and was wondering something. You know at the end of the first film when Doc says "Where we are going we don't need...roads" and the car takes off, well how does the car produce initial lift? If the wheels turn sideways in order to become vtol engines, how do they get into that position in the first place?

I've found that it's better not to think about the plot too much.

[NooDle]

Originally Posted by public

I've found that it's better not to think about the plot too much.

Oh absolutely...but TBH BTTF does not have that many plot holes.
The other great "timetravel" movie like Terminator has lots more, and when you think about it, it kinda ruins the cool of the movie. So I tend not to.

[public]

Originally Posted by NooDle

Oh absolutely...but TBH BTTF does not have that many plot holes.
The other great "timetravel" movie like Terminator has lots more, and when you think about it, it kinda ruins the cool of the movie. So I tend not to.

Pedantic scrutiny of plot structure? Where we're going, we don't need pedantic scrutiny of plot structure.

[Clockwerk]

In reference to plot scrutiny: I totally buy the fact that one day we might be able to time travel, however I just can't buy spontaneous defiance of the laws of gravity. My only thought is that there is some sort of anti-gravity device that Doc brought back from the future that is just never referenced because it is not important to the plot.

[public]

I watched Primer (2004) yesterday, and it's pretty realistic.

Edit: The flying car conversions in 2015 probably cater all the anti-gravity stuff.

[nsx_23]

I think its pretty safe to say that every single aerospace student got shafted by today's control systems exam.

Seriously, lectureres putting shit into the exam when they explicitly states in their lecture notes "we will not cover this" is bullshit, but sigh, can't do much now.

Fingers crossed for scaling.

[JScullin]

Originally Posted by katwalk

I will find you some car presents as thanks

Don't worry about it.

[ninjacoco]

NooDle: loud.

That is all.

[flydiscovery]

This is pathetic. I'm sitting in the dark because I went to bed so late and woke up so early that I want my PETS to continue getting some sleep. SIGH. Went to bed around 12:30/1am and woke up before 6.

[nsx_23]

Originally Posted by Richmondgal

*Finds glass and pours herself a bit of vodka with lime cordial, soda water and ice.

I need one of these after my horrid exam today.

[NooDle]

Originally Posted by ninjacoco

NooDle: loud.

That is all.

Win. Proud to be a loud fartmachine.

[SMN]

How can someone be TO NICE to someone else?
I don't get it...