drinking bad german beer and watching a cheesy "So you think you can dance"-style show…. Saturday night, baby!
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Lonnehart wrote:it's okay… if it's coming from the chimney. otherwise i'd just be like- that house isn't alive, it's on fire
Isn't smoking bad for anything? ESPECIALLY HOUSES?!?
heh… sorry… everytime I see smoke, a blazing inferno isn't too far from it…
'chimneys- the fine line between having a fire and being on fire'
OMG:
I was just imitating (mocking?) Paul McCartney's cover of "I't's So Easy To Fall In Love" and I sounded exactly like Adam Sandler. And it's not just me who thinks so.
Not only was my husband "impressed" (concerned?), but Roku concurred. And you know, I mean, we're talking ROKU (Minister of Cutenes et al) uncanny stuff, man
S0: ah-question-roony: Is there only one thread alive on DD (ye know: this one). IS THERE?!
I propose that someone ( out there - in the nether) create a thread for just this kind of OMG nonsense. And another thread for: techno is eating me alive (aka: As Lonnehart's PC Turns).
I'd do it, but it is a constant embarrassment to me about how many threads I've started already. If the DD Awards had THE Annual Spammer – well, I definitely would have been a contender.
ayesinback wrote:More or less. And it's only going to get worse. But some days after new years it should go back to september/october ish traffic…
S0: ah-question-roony: Is there only one thread alive on DD (ye know: this one). IS THERE?!
Well, there's the Random discussion forum… :) Pretty bare in there though.
And yeah… Lonne's comp stuff is a bit of a non sequitur. Could be a good idea for a thread though, where people just talk about computer stuff and get all technical.
Forum posting is a silly beast: people don't see anyone posting in a while, so they don't post themselves… and so on in a spiral of defeat.
Buuut I'm still here. ^_^
OK, the week's quackcast will be about Christmas/holiday stuff, so if you want to record a Christmas carol or thanks to all your commenters over the year, or thanks to the comics you read, or write something about you fave Christmas filler, Please post it here:
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/topic/174847/
Lonnehart wrote:
So I guess having 5 fans (two in the power supply and 3 case fans) sucking out the air from inside the case isn't enough?
5 fans sounds a little excessive, actually, and it's quite possible that the fans aren't working in cohesion. I have no idea how the fans are currently aligned on your computer so I honestly can't judge the best configuration for the fans but I'd suggest aligning them so that they're blowing in air from one side (preferably the front) and blowing out the other side (preferably the back). Try to align it so that it's expelling as much potential heat out of the computer. A fan positioned near your graphics card, that expels air, is a good idea, for example.
ozoneocean wrote:
Well, there's the Random discussion forum… :) Pretty bare in there though.
I'd contribute more to it, except that combination of being very busy nowadays and losing the ability to moderate has kept me away from such important duties.
…and I liked the name "WTH". <_<
2 inside the power supply (it came with them), 2 on the back of the case, one on the access panel, and another one I added to the lower front after removing the front panel. Decided to go ahead and switch the access panel fan around so that it's sucking air into the case. Oddly enough my system temperature rises, but my CPU temperature goes down. What the heck is going on?!?
And now apparently my CPU temperature is 92 degrees F while the system temperature is 102 degrees F. Oh, well… I won't try frying eggs on the motherboard.
Megabejebus thunderstorm here!
I went outside to watch it, but couldn't see much with the houses and trees in the way, then I saw a flash coming from behind me, then one to the side… And realised I was right in the centre of it.
VERY, very loud out there. Sounded like something exploded a couple of times, I swear one of them sounded like electrical sparks and fizzles on a massive scale after the initial titanic CRACK. Lots of rain afterwards too, bucked down! But it never lasts long here.
I unplugged all the computers and electrical stuff almost exactly 2 minutes before the power winked out. Very lucky. I probably shouldn't have left it that late. :)
Ugh… let's hope a thunderstorm is all you get, Ozone. Don't want to find out you dropped off the radar due to Mother Nature throwing a fit…
And thanks for the advice, Genejoke. My PC's temperature has been holding steady between 30 and 45 degrees celsius. All I gotta worry about now is dust control…
Yes… evil Dust Bunnies around the world are conspiring to short out everyones computers…
I used to think that you just needed to turn off your computer and not unplug it… then one day we had lightning hit our backyard which traveled through the ethernet in the wall and litterally scorched out anything that had an ethernet cable attached to it in the house…. that was a daaark daaark daay for me
Macattack wrote:
I used to think that you just needed to turn off your computer and not unplug it… then one day we had lightning hit our backyard which traveled through the ethernet in the wall and litterally scorched out anything that had an ethernet cable attached to it in the house…. that was a daaark daaark daay for me
Yikes… didn't think that much electricity could travel through such thin cables.
Oh… and if any of you out there are doing work on your own computer, you don't have to unplug from the outlet (but you should do so anyway in case a bolt of lighting strikes your house from out of the blue). Lightning doesn't strike here too often, so I just use that black power switch located on the power supply…
I need to stop admiring the thing… then again, it's the first time I've had one with black housing… And I also look at the Radeon Sapphire 6570 video card too much too as it's the first ATI card I've ever put in any machine I've built. Now I gotta figure out what to do with those SATA and power cables. They're not blocking airflow, but they sure look messy… As for that custom cowling you see on one of the fans, I took it off and decided it was a better idea to invert the fan on the access panel so that it blows air into the system. Now my system looks kinda evil at night with the red shining through the drive bays.
Now here's a random thought… if the Reapers from Mass Effect attempted to invade the Star Trek universe, would that universe survive at all? I'm pretty sure even the Borg will end up indoctrinated by them…
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Oh what sweet hell have I stumbled upon to here? Nooo!
One month ago today, my first dog, Skippy, died. I had him since I was 11 years old (I'm 24). I was incredibly sad last month, and I still am.
At the time of this writing, my second dog, Binky, died an hour ago. I am absolutely speechless. I'm so shocked, I can't even cry. I had him since I was 13.
Both of my dogs died a month apart… Nov 14th and Dec 14th. I am absolutely speechless, stricken with enormous grief. Absolutely nothing about this Christmas is "merry."
Dogs are gone, family members are in the hospital, other family members continue to act like soulless antagonists. And yet, somewhere in all of this, I have to fight back the tears and move on.
There's a song by Queen that explains my situation wonderfully: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBOvOatPqnY
That's areally, really sad Nicky. Unfortunately not many dogs tend to live much past those ages so they probably both gave it their very best and had good, safe, happy lives with you, the best lives they could have possibly had.
It would've been very difficult for them to go on too much longer, but while they were living they were yours you you were theirs.
Sorry to hear that Nicky, but you're taking the right attitude. Ozone got the nail on the head about dog ages, they are some good innings for dogs. I know that won't likely make you feel any better so my advice would be exactly what you're already doing.
I've got my sons nativity this afternoon and my daughters tomorrow, I will do the dutiful parent thing and laugh and clap at all the right moments. My son in particular is excited about it as he has a funny line and can't wait to make me laugh.
All things end from ebay listings to empires. All life is born to die. How one deals with those endings is one foundation of character.
Another is how one deals with getting cut off in the check-out line. Face-it life is pain, anyone who tells you different is selling something and all of life's lessons of really can be summed up in cute little sayings that permeate all human cultures and now are beign reduced to ways for people to top their friends on Facebook and Twitter.
You know I really hate some of the stuff I've written. Why is that entire sequence in there? It doesn't make any sense. I did some cool images and wanted to use them. My own conceit. And this piece of garbage just ain't worth the proverbial bucket of warm spit.
Ugh… my condolences on your losses, NickyP. Don't let it all bring you down…
Oh… and if anyone who plays the Mass Effect series insulted that hanar from the first game by calling him a "big stupid jellyfish", well… um…
Blasto: The Jellyfish Stings
Is it just me, or are all the nyan cats moonwalking?
… My condolences, NickyP. Wish I could help, but no idea how. And ugh, what's with it's timing? Not just the fact that it happened a month apart, but today's my birthday. Makes me feel like my birthday is cursed or something…
NickyP – I'm so sorry. Pets ARE family members. I just disagree a little – don't "fight" the tears. Give yourself a break and feel as sad as you need to in whatever way you need to. Sure, it can't go on and on, but fighting it sometimes means that you carry a deeper, more painful ache. For now, the loss will loom largest – but as time goes on, the memories of the good times will out shine. Time is your medicine.
@Bravo - not exactly sure what you were writing, but I think it's possible that I might agree with some of it. I do not agree, however, that life is all about pain. I believe life is about change. Some change can be incredibly painful, but the well we dig from our pain creates the reservoir of the joy we can experience.
(ok - so you handle the dour, and I'll go for the trite – and some place in the middle is where 60% resides)
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today, I feel entirely overwhelmed. Haven't slept well for about a week. wacky, unfinished dreams that evaporate when I awake. there's too much to do. and when I start something, there's an interruption: "can you look at this?" "what do you think about this?" "how are you feeling?"
I think I'm feeling an anxiety attack in the making
Um… about Nyan Cat… er… eh… hmm…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Cu5kn2dZw
Just tried something with my computer. I put the old GeForce 8500GT in my new computer system and my Radeon Sapphire 6570 into the old motherboard. Sure enough the motherbord's PCI 16 slot still works, but the GeForce is definitely dead. Maybe I can sell the old graphics card's copper heat sink to the local scrap metal dealer… hmmm…
This heat sink is pretty large for a video card… well, at least I think so…
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