Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106

[Player_Zero]

This is why you should use a mac.

[ColonelFuster]

Dragonrider, I feel your pain.
I, too, was given a Mac when mt laptop was on hiatus.
I, too, hate it. What really burns me is how everyone who has a Mac LOVES it, though! It's the most annoying ting ever.

In fact: it was touched upon in The Dark Knight, I believe, in the interragation room scene....

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[Rawhide]

My family got a Mac today. This is historic because, well, we never have before.

OK, we didn't 'get' it. We were 'given' it. But....

*fingers twitch*

No right click...no scroll wheel...none of my favorite keyboard shortcuts (not even CTRL+A?)....GAH!

I'm on MY computer right now. My comfortable Dell laptop. My brother has one too. So does my mom. But our family computer is now a Mac.

I have nothing against them; just for someone who's grown up on PCs and is a total poweruser (that is, uses keyboard shortcuts for everything), they're infuriating.

*headdesk*

Get a two button mouse, plug it in. Voila, you have a right click that actually works like on a PC. Also, all the keyboard shortcuts exist, they are just different to what you are used to.

Unless they've changed in the past 5 years or so, Macs have the same shortcut keys...you've just got to hit that funky pound sign at the bottom instead of ctrl.

I don't find anything particularly wrong with Macs, but I'm not going to pay more for an artsy computer when I'm not doing anything particularly artsy with it.

Apple doesn't reduce the price of their new PCs, instead, they silently upgrade them. If you buy at the right time, you can buy a Mac for cheaper than you can buy an equivalent Dell.

This is why you should use a mac.

No, this is why you should buy a Mac.

[rubakhin]

Oh my God I am bored. I need to kill four hours (then I'll be busy).

I already made like five batches of cookies (they were horrible), so baking is right out.

[TwoBitWriter]

Oh my God I am bored. I need to kill four hours (then I'll be busy).

I already made like five batches of cookies (they were horrible), so baking is right out.

You should send them to Dallas_Dakota. I'm sure he would thank you.

[rubakhin]

But they are a little disgusting! I don't want to send him cookies that are a little disgusting. I like him.

[Lyesmith]

Find some cursibly addictive flash game to play?

[rubakhin]

Good idea.

I suggest this one.

(Don't even act like you're not all as bored as I am. You're in the Random Banter thread.)

[Oregano]

What have I missed in this thread, I've only had a chance to skim through it.

I used a Mac once in school, I didn't like the interface, it was just so odd to me.

[ghost_warlock]

Good idea.

I suggest this one.

(Don't even act like you're not all as bored as I am. You're in the Random Banter thread.)

I'm not bored. I'm tired. And I'm just posting to tell everyone about the wonderful lunch I just had. Delicious Pad Thai (pork) and iced coffee with coconut milk in. The waiter was all snickering when I ordered my food 10/"Thai hot," but then was all surprised when I finished it off. He doesn't know me as well as the regular guy there.

[TwoBitWriter]

Ugh, Thai Food...

But I'm biased, I don't like overly-hot foods and I have never enjoyed Asian cuisine, even the Americanized version you get at cheap buffets.

I had leftover Hamburger Helper and a Sandwich for lunch today because I'm all married and responsible and realized months back that every time I eat out for lunch I take away from what we have to live off of every month.

[Dragonrider]

I don't have an inherent problem with Macs, nor am I surprised that all the same functions exist as on a PC. Just it's frustrating because they're differently placed so learning them is highly irritating.

[CurlyKitGirl]

HECK YES!!
I have finally done something worthwhile. I have finally finished reading Sons and Lovers!
This may not sound like much to you readers out there, but it's a mere fifteen chapters and roughly four hundred and thirty pages long.
It took me a week to read the first nine chapters then I ran smash into a wall.
I could not read another page, it was so dull.
In other words: it's taken me a month to read six chapters of a book.
And this is me we're talking about here. I've been forcing myself through one chapter a week for four weeks and made mayself finish the last three chapters on the bus today.
By Offler, I hate that book.
Nobody in my entire E Lit class has managed to read it all the way through making me the first person to finish it and we're starting it next week. I'm so chuffed with myself. Even Chapter Eleven of Dorian gray was more riveting to read than that.
And frankly, when you can flick through the book in the free before the lessons with your mates and pick out disturbingly erotic/creepy and hilariously over - erotic moments at random it shows how bad the book is. And people call it a classic.
It's passable as a book, but I don't see how it's so famous and one of the best books he's written.
To compare: I read all of Cold Comfort Farm in a fifty five minute bus ride. Two hundred and thirty five pages of a hilarious, satirical, parodical (is that even a word?) novel in less than an hour.
Seven weeks reading four hundred thirty odd pages.

But it's over now. I won't have to read it al the way through again. And the freudian aspects are immensely disturbing.

[bosssmiley]

I don't find anything particularly wrong with Macs, but I'm not going to pay more for an artsy computer when I'm not doing anything particularly artsy with it.

But Jack, all the cool and arty I-stand-out-from-the-herd types use Macs. As seen here:

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"Yes, we are all individuals."
"I'm not."

HECK YES!!
I have finally done something worthwhile. I have finally finished reading Sons and Lovers!
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And frankly, when you can flick through the book in the free before the lessons with your mates and pick out disturbingly erotic/creepy and hilariously over-erotic moments at random it shows how bad the book is.

You and your esoteric hobbies.
Congratulations on managing to read it though. Now you are free to read some decent early 20th c. lit. (like Wodehouse or Saki) to wash the taste away.

ION: Mayans built road into Hell ("We think they did it for the lulz..." -- leading archaeologist), tiles as a substitute for steel and The Cimmerian on trench warfare as pulp inspiration.

[Dallas-Dakota]

I like him.

Yay. Ruby likes me. Should I be worried that Ruby like-likes me?

[Dr. Bath]

Wodehouse is fantastic. One of the few writers whose books I will buy on sight. (especially if they have those lovely old orange penguin covers with the stylish 20s style illustration)

I likes them... precioussss.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Also, gollum-cookiemonster offspring :
We nomsssess it my preciousses, we nomsssess it.

[Lyesmith]

Bah. I always get gloomy in the evenings.
I'm usually fine at school, though.
Freakin' people, not being around to cheer me up.

[rubakhin]

Yay. Ruby likes me. Should I be worried that Ruby like-likes me?

I like-like everyone.

[bosssmiley]

Wodehouse is fantastic. One of the few writers whose books I will buy on sight. (especially if they have those lovely old orange penguin covers with the stylish 20s style illustration)

I likes them... precioussss.

Now my head is fully of Wodehouse/Tolkien collaborations that should have been:

The Ballad of Bertie and Luthien
The Fall of Blandings
The Book of Lost Tales of St Austins
Psmith of Wootton Manor

and, of course, the epic "One Ring for Jeeves"
pearls before swine

[TwoBitWriter]

Bah. I always get gloomy in the evenings.
I'm usually fine at school, though.
Freakin' people, not being around to cheer me up.

Hooray! Aziraphale is here! I was holding my breath for seven hour hoping that my most favorite playgrounder would show up!!!

Huzzah! Hooray!

DD, bust out the cookies, I'll bring the champagne!

Hope that made your day a bit nicer... If not, steal some of your parent's booze.

[Lyesmith]

I like-like everyone.

Please, continue...

[Kaelaroth]

Please, continue...

What he said. But cuter, because I said it.

[Lyesmith]

What he said. But cuter, because I said it.

Is everything you do somehow instantly cuter than me?

[Kaelaroth]

Is everything you do somehow instantly cuter than me?

Yes, obviously. Because I'm focussing very hard on Brad Pitt, and kittens.

[Lyesmith]

Yes, obviously. Because I'm focussing very hard on Brad Pitt, and kittens.

Where I am angsting out in jealousy and listening to muse. I'll conceed my point.
I'm assming everything I say is more GRIM AND DARK, then? And probably more cynical.

[Kaelaroth]

Where I am angsting out in jealousy and listening to muse. I'll conceed my point.
I'm assming everything I say is more GRIM AND DARK, then? And probably more cynical.

For now, I agree. *nodnod*

[Dragonrider]

I just finished the first draft of my NaNoWriMo novel!

*counts on fingers*

Twelve days to write 70,000 words.

OK, so it's not DONE yet. I'm an addition-by-revision writer, in that it'll probably be over 90,000 once I'm finished going over it (so it's actually probably GOOD it's as short as it is). But the main story arc is complete.



*does happy dance*

[TwoBitWriter]

I just finished the first draft of my NaNoWriMo novel!

*counts on fingers*

Twelve days to write 70,000 words.

OK, so it's not DONE yet. I'm an addition-by-revision writer, in that it'll probably be over 90,000 once I'm finished going over it (so it's actually probably GOOD it's as short as it is). But the main story arc is complete.



*does happy dance*

I hate you...

I spent four and a half years of university to get my "Professional Writing" Degree.
But I had to get a job to support myself and my wife and hardly get any writing time in anymore...

I got a couple of unfinished novels and can't get them finished...

Really though, DR, I'm actually very ecstatic for you!

[Lyesmith]

I'd like to be a writer. I just dont think i have the talent needed.