Signe
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Now I want Viva Pinata on the Wii.  |
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schild
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Viva Pinata is fucking awesome.
Also, I don't know about that, a lot of the appeal really did come from how detailed all the plant-life was. It kinda made me froth for a PS3 Harvest Moon.
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Signe
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I just want to play Viva Pinata!  |
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Lantyssa
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Have you seen the extended commercial for Viva Pinata? It's really messed up.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Merusk
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That commercial gives me the cuckles. "Set me free Children and I will grant you a wish!"
I still enjoy the Skittles commercials more. The Rainbow one is my favorite, but the wife loves the singing rabbit.
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Wolf
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omg I know the guy that won the Golden Palm at Cannes. /flex
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As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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Miasma
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I'm bored at work and have very little to read because so many people have today off and aren't posting :-(. Bored edit: I can't tell the difference between the sad :-( and the huh  emotes. I guess the huh has a couple extra pixels on the lips. Bored edit2: Oh, it has black ???s coming out of his head but you can't see it on the board because it's black too, just like the afro on :mrgreen:.  |
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Bunk
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Only silly people use a black background. Its far too easy to spot from a distance at work.
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL
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Miasma
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So you're one of those crazy 22 people using white stuff eh? Rebel rousers, the lot of ya!  Oh and that link to "Jake" who made the f13 theme is now a hardcore porno site  . |
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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Black theme makes reading a lot easier.
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Wolf
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Those other 5 people using my theme. They need to drop it. I am unique!
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As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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Bunk
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I actually find the Babylon theme to be one of the easiest on the eyes I've ever used. Helps that I'm using a crappy old monitor at work, so white is more like greyish-offwhite.
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"Welcome to the internet, pussy." - VDL
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Merusk
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So one of the IT guys came down to upgrade the memory on my machine to 1G today right before I got in. When I arrived, he was just finishing up and mentioned to me that he noticed my workstation had been having problems shutting down.
I said, "Yeah, it's been doing that for a few months if I forget to close any file explorer windows before I shut down." - Not mentioning that I'd googled the error that pops-up and it's bossware-related.
His comment was, "No, it's your screen saver" and then pointed to my machine that was now displaying the Pirates 3 desktop background I'd put up.
I blinked for a moment, then said; "Er, that's not a screen saver, that's a desktop. It's just a .jpg image." He shook his head and replied, "Whatever, but it's my opinion that it's what's causing you to not shut down."
I honstly think he was serious and not fucking with me. I boggled. Hell, I'm still boggling.
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Lantyssa
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Tip about IT: Most of them are idiots, just like every other profession has.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Murgos
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Go have a talk with his manager and see if you can get him fired. It will make you feel better.
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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Shit like this makes me think that I should have had a stellar career in IT. Yeah, that jpg background is causing problems in your machine's shutdown process.  |
Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Cheddar
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IT has nothing to do with skill, sadly. It is an industry rife with blood sucking leeches.  |
No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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schild
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That picture is scary as hell. <shiver>
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Chimpy
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Everytime I see leeches I wince a little remembering seeing Stand By Me for the first time as a kid.
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Rasix
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Tip about IT: Most of them are idiots, just like every other profession has.
Yah, I was talking to one of the IT guys at work when I had to get my hard drive swapped out on my laptop. We got to talking about consoles some how. He wants to buy a Wii. |
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
"Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Zonk
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A few comments to rudely insert myself into this useless conversation:
The Pinatas are the best thing ever. Just 8 more achievements to go.
Leeches freak me the fuck out. I almost dropped my laptop off of a chair when I scrolled past that image for the first time.
IT people are indeed just as likely to be idiotic as any other person; they're much more likely to be able to fix your printer than the average idiot, though.
I have been up till 4 in the morning two days in a row now, and it's reminding me something fierce that I'm not even in my early 20s anymore. Damn the omnipresent march towards my death!
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Merusk
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Go have a talk with his manager and see if you can get him fired. It will make you feel better.
No, no it won't. I've posted about the foibles of my IT department before. It was just a general "Why on earth... " about their direction and habits then. This has just crushed my spirit. Being my department's IT interface guy doesn't help me, either. Back to writing my own damn Acad tools. |
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Murgos
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Pics or it didn't happen? |
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Yegolev
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There are two kinds of (deskside) IT people. The kind that come by your desk to fix your PC and don't know what a desktop background is, and the kind that you can say "I lost my local admin rights" to and just reply "OK, go reboot" and fix the problem. If you have any of the second type, make friends.
I guess there is a third type if you consider people like me that don't talk to end users. I hates me some end users, and they hates me.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Ironwood
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Local Admin rights ?
What clown does that ?
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Yegolev
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I need local admin so I can install non-approved applications and generally screw around with things. Or maybe you meant the deskside guy.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Signe
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Your sig makes me want to pinch you really hard.
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Yegolev
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Your pinch makes me want to sig you very hard.
Pretty sure it is going to be short-lived. When are you getting off of that toilet?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Signe
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As soon as I'm done that spliff.
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Sky
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It's tough dealing with end users. The staff here know I just get in and get things done, I'll tell you all about it if you want to know, but most people just want to get back to work. The public, otoh, they all think I should know everything about every piece of hardware and software on earth and then get real pissy when they find out I really don't give a fuck about computers outside my work domain and my gaming rig at home. I'm just not a big computer hobby guy, I'm almost a technoluddite, in fact (no cell phone, no pda, my only gadget is an ipod I got this year).
But I'll generally fix any problem that arises on our own machines rather quickly, and build in redundancy so folks have little downtime. That's the shit I get paid for, not being some tech guru know-it-all.
I'm much friendlier than I was when I started seven years ago.
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Signe
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Am I the only person in the world who doesn't have themselves on google alert? I think I might be.
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Chimpy
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Am I the only person in the world who doesn't have themselves on google alert? I think I might be.
I don't even know what fucking google alert is. So to answer your question. No, there are at least 2 of us. |
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Zonk
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Chimpy: http://www.google.com/alertsI'll admit to having myself using google alert in a couple of ways on myself. Mostly it's to make sure that I know when people are saying bad things about me. :P |
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Furiously
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Oh yea - just what I want, ton's of news about my professional baseball career. Oh wait - It's someone else's career.
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