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2008-11-12, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
This is why you should use a mac.
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2008-11-12, 11:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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....
SpoilerLook! It's me!
The Fey Archer (made for my fiance, many years ago.)
Savannah gets the awesome credit for my John Locke avatar.
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2008-11-12, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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.
No, this is why you should buy a Mac.
"My Hobby: Replacing your soap with gravy" by rtg0922, Doll and Clint "Rawhide" Eastwood by Sneak
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2008-11-12, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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2008-11-12, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-12, 02:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-12, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
Find some cursibly addictive flash game to play?
Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2008-11-12, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-12, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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2008-11-12, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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2008-11-12, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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2008-11-12, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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2008-11-12, 03:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
Bathatar!
Squid bones are lies.
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2008-11-12, 03:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
But Jack, all the cool and arty I-stand-out-from-the-herd types use Macs. As seen here:
Spoiler
"Yes, we are all individuals."
"I'm not."
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.Last edited by bosssmiley; 2008-11-12 at 04:08 PM.
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2008-11-12, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-12, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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2008-11-12, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-12, 04:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
Bah. I always get gloomy in the evenings.
I'm usually fine at school, though.
Freakin' people, not being around to cheer me up.Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2008-11-12, 04:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-12, 04:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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 swineLast edited by bosssmiley; 2008-11-13 at 05:38 AM.
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2008-11-12, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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.
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2008-11-12, 04:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-12, 04:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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2008-11-12, 04:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2008-11-12, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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2008-11-12, 04:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2008-11-12, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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2008-11-12, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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*
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2008-11-12, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
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!
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2008-11-12, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106
I'd like to be a writer. I just dont think i have the talent needed.
Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.