Useless Conversation

[Oban]

speaking of cell phones, anyone know of a phone that can do 2 Sim cards at once? love to have my work and personal lines on the same phone.

Found a dual sim adapter but you can only do one at a time.

There are a few Chinese phone manufacturers that make dual SIM phones.  Samsung has a dual SIM too, but I have never seen it in the wild:

http://www.simoncells.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=4657&mtc=froogle

However, there is only one that I know of that has two sets of radios to keep both SIMs/lines active at the same time. It is quite large though, about the size of an old Newton.  If I stumble across the link, I will post it.

[murdoc]

Supposedly the new Blackberry Bold will have slots for dual sims, but I'm just going from what a co-worker said, not anything I actually read or saw.

[Lantyssa]

I saw a Righ!

[Der Helm]

I can't rap.

Who'd have thought that ?

 

[voodoolily]

Shit, it's not that bad (it's got a melody at least -- that's my only breakdown). This would Noise. Or this

You need deprogramming. Listen to each of these five times:


Yoshida Tatsuya & Eiko Ishibashi

I just found out about Shinki Chen and am having happy times in my earwax.

[Cyrrex]

I can't rap.

Who'd have thought that ?

 

Thankfully, keeping the universe in balance, I can.  Biatch.

[NiX]

Shit, it's not that bad (it's got a melody at least -- that's my only breakdown). This would Noise. Or this

You need deprogramming. Listen to each of these five times:


Yoshida Tatsuya & Eiko Ishibashi

I don't get it. Any of it.

I just found out about Shinki Chen and am having happy times in my earwax.

[Der Helm]

Thankfully, keeping the universe in balance, I can.  Biatch.

Come over and do my rap part for me in the Othello production I am part of ?

Please ?

[rattran]

Thankfully, keeping the universe in balance, I can.  Biatch.

Come over and do my rap part for me in the Othello production I am part of ?

Please ?

Rap, in Othello? Germans are crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCGte5fUOBg

[Signe]

I bet you could rap if you did it with a death metal voice.

[stray]

Then he would be Rob Zombie.

[Trippy]

Hmm, well when someone asks me to put 32GB of memory on a server, I don't think "Hay, maybe I can give them 16GB of RAM and 16GB of paging space".  Perhaps this is just me.

Stray, I'm not going to be able to invite you over.  You be slappin' bitches everywhere.  That server he was asking about is indeed virtual, and I just "built" it today.  It does have 32GB of physical RAM allocated to it, out of a total 128GB or so in the frame.  It's a logical partition, or LPAR, which is somewhat different from a virtual I/O, or VIO, partition, because it has actual physical I/O adapters assigned to it directly from hardware slots (much easier on me).  VIO partitions have virtual everything: the "disks" are logical partitions served from the VIO server, the ethernet "adapters" are virtual ones mapped to physical ones in the VIO server (could be several virtual ethernet adapters sharing one physical).  However, whether the partition is a VIO or a regular old LPAR, the memory and CPU are the same: memory is mapped from the hypervisor via address translation table and CPU are just "slices" of real CPU.

He's probably a Unix guy. In the old days people would actually setup Unix boxes where virtual memory was used to run apps out of and not just a place to swap out "offline" apps. In Windows you would never want to do that cause the VMM is beyond horrid.

[Der Helm]

I bet you could rap if you did it with a death metal voice.

Your suggestion will be passed along.

[Yegolev]

He's probably a Unix guy. In the old days people would actually setup Unix boxes where virtual memory was used to run apps out of and not just a place to swap out "offline" apps. In Windows you would never want to do that cause the VMM is beyond horrid.

Ah, maybe.  That's old shit, or perhaps cheap shit, but RAM is cheap these days.  We could do things like that, I suppose, but it would be a lot of work for little benefit.  Best to let the VMM handle it in modern times.

[Cyrrex]

I bet you could rap if you did it with a death metal voice.

Your suggestion will be passed along.

I had a friend who won a Karoake contest by singing that song "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)" using death metal voice.  It cannot fail to impress.  Let us know how it goes.

[voodoolily]

I had a friend who won a Karoake contest by singing that song "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)" using death metal voice.  It cannot fail to impress.  Let us know how it goes.

Hey, that's one of my moves! Except I do "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins.

[stray]

I try to pull off Fogerty every once in awhile... I'm an out of tune baritone though, and it isn't pretty.

[Der Helm]

It was a great success.

[Sky]

A German production of Othello with death metal voiced rapping¿ 

Speaking of ze germans....Helm, I wanted to ask you if it's normal to roll a wheat beer mit hefe to mix the yeast with the beer. I was told to just reserve the last 1/2" in the bottle when pouring and to not disturb the yeast. But I was just reading a brewing book from the early 80s that says ze germans like to roll the bottle before opening to mix it.

[Signe]

I have decided to take a French refresher course because I seem to have forgot most of it and I don't think I sound pretentious enough.  Don't be surprised to see me using phrases such as "Il me faut un docteur" and "tu vas mourir".  Sometimes I accidentally make up words in French.  Please don't bother to correct me because I'm not likely to care and you'll only end up looking petty and foolish.  SRSLY!

[Nebu]

Sometimes I accidentally make up words in French.

I don't know why, but this gave me a "Better off dead" flashback.

[Der Helm]

A German production of Othello with death metal voiced rapping¿ 

I...
HATE...
THE MOOR ...
[/growl]
(worked pretty well) 

edited to brag: This woman was our director 

Speaking of ze germans....Helm, I wanted to ask you if it's normal to roll a wheat beer mit hefe to mix the yeast with the beer. I was told to just reserve the last 1/2" in the bottle when pouring and to not disturb the yeast. But I was just reading a brewing book from the early 80s that says ze germans like to roll the bottle before opening to mix it.

I usually roll the bottle after having poured about 2/3rds of the beer. Yes, we try to get as much yeast in the glass as possible.

Damm. Now I have to get my hands on a bottle of wheat beer to try it your way.

[Oban]

For competitive karaoke, I can only pull off the 99's and 100's on U2 and Beatles songs.

I really need to practice some newer songs, but I do not think my liver will make it if I do.

[Righ]

I saw a Righ!

'sup.

I just found out about Shinki Chen and am having happy times in my earwax.

I don't know him, but Googling him reminded me that I need to buy a copy of Cope's Japrocksampler to join my copy of Krautrocksampler. Unlike the latter, there's no danger that I already have more than half the albums upon reading the newer book.

BTW, Banco rocked big time. Fucking Italian passion.

[murdoc]

So, to be the big downer on this page: My wife and I found out that we're not going to be able to have kids and now I'm not too sure how to move forward with things as we both wanted one quite a bit. It was a rather shocking and unexpected bit of news, and I imagine once the shock wears off we'll be able to rationally discuss our options.

[Nebu]

So, to be the big downer on this page: My wife and I found out that we're not going to be able to have kids and now I'm not too sure how to move forward with things as we both wanted one quite a bit. It was a rather shocking and unexpected bit of news, and I imagine once the shock wears off we'll be able to rationally discuss our options.

I'm sorry to hear it murdoc.  I do hope that you'll consider adoption.  There are many wonderful children that are just looking for an environment to thrive in.  Perhaps you could give a life to someone less fortunate and feel like it's not a bad alternative. 

[Signe]

Aww, I'm sorry, Murdoc.  I hope you figure out something.  Give each other lots of hugs.   

[voodoolily]

So, to be the big downer on this page: My wife and I found out that we're not going to be able to have kids and now I'm not too sure how to move forward with things as we both wanted one quite a bit. It was a rather shocking and unexpected bit of news, and I imagine once the shock wears off we'll be able to rationally discuss our options.

I hear Korean babies are all the rage these days. 

Sorry to hear your news - some good friends of ours got the news that they're (er, the husband is) infertile, and it is quite a shocker (and not the good kind).

[Ironwood]

So, to be the big downer on this page: My wife and I found out that we're not going to be able to have kids and now I'm not too sure how to move forward with things as we both wanted one quite a bit. It was a rather shocking and unexpected bit of news, and I imagine once the shock wears off we'll be able to rationally discuss our options.

Tricky.

Is it her bits or your bits ?

[Lantyssa]

So, to be the big downer on this page: My wife and I found out that we're not going to be able to have kids and now I'm not too sure how to move forward with things as we both wanted one quite a bit. It was a rather shocking and unexpected bit of news, and I imagine once the shock wears off we'll be able to rationally discuss our options.

I'm sorry to hear this.

Speaking as someone who cannot have kids, whose best friend growing up was adopted, and who now has many friends with adopted children, I would like to second Nebu's suggestion.

[murdoc]

So, to be the big downer on this page: My wife and I found out that we're not going to be able to have kids and now I'm not too sure how to move forward with things as we both wanted one quite a bit. It was a rather shocking and unexpected bit of news, and I imagine once the shock wears off we'll be able to rationally discuss our options.

Tricky.

Is it her bits or your bits ?

Mine.

Adoption conversation came up briefly, but like I said I think we both need the shock to wear off a bit so we can rationally discuss things. She's taking it very well, considering my wife has always wanted to be a Mom and go through that whole process. She currently works with kids with Cerebral Palsy and it easily the most caring individual I have ever met, so this is killing me right now.

Anyways, don't really have anyone here to talk to about it, so I decide to post my problems to random internet strangers instead. I do appreciate the kind words though, can't lie and say I wasn't looking for someone to say them, but they truely are appreciated.

Thanks useless conversationalists.

[JWIV]

Ouch Murdoc.   Certainly take some time before rushing into options or consulting a fertility specialist.   There are certainly routes you can pursue if IVF or the like aren't feasible (such as adoption), but take our time with it all.

[HaemishM]

Like Nebu said, there are a shitton of kids out there who need good, caring homes. You don't even need to go to another country for them.

But if it's your bits that's the problem, that's an easier hurdle to overcome than if it were her bits. So there's that.

Sorry about your bits, though.

[Engels]

Tough spot, Murdoc, sorry to hear that. In the end, however, its the desire to raise a child that's vital to raising a child well. Since its clear that you both have that, what particular set of genes is in play, be it hers, or an adopted child's, isn't as important as you may currently feel it is. I know right now that probably is of no consolation, and I'm sorry yer hurting :/

[Yegolev]

Sorry Murdoc.  Take your time and check your options.