The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Schools often have outdated computers. I remember when I was in high school and at home I had a 386, at school in our computer class where I was learning Turbo Pascal, we were coding on 8088s that looked like they'd been hauled out of a dumpster... complete with the old amber monochrome monitors.

But, color me surprised, where I work is making good progress in migrating to 7. We just got a new automation system that runs on 7 (albeit 32 bit because of driver incompatibility with 64), so the biggest hurdle is already cleared. Now it'll just probably be a matter of over time replacing aging PCs running XP with newer ones running 7. We actually have a couple machines running 8 that are used by salespeople. They hate it.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

David said:
XP still really isn't a bad choice, unless you're using some kind of super-specialized software that can only run on 7 and up. I can't imagine a (non computer graphics/engineering) school needing anything too advanced.
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Yeah that's true I guess. I went to an vocational school, so I just assumed that all schools had up to date computers. Wrong was I.
 
Shakey

Shakey

Utah Mormon bishop brandishes Samurai sword to defend neighbor
Hendrix, who teaches martial arts, grabbed the 29-inch (74-cm) carbon steel Samurai sword he keeps next to his bed and ran to the woman's aid. He said that when he came face to face with the suspect, the man stopped in his tracks.
"He was kind of taken aback to have this sword drawn on him and he jumped back," said Hendrix, who is a bishop in charge of his local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation.
"He said, 'I'm leaving,' and turned and ran, so I ran after him. I didn't want him to get away anonymously," Hendrix said.
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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

My wife's hamster died yesterday. I wish I'd known about it then, instead of finding out today, but he largely kept to himself. He was 3 years and 8 months old--I've never had a hamster live that long.

This isn't in the rant or whine thread because the only thing I feel bad about is that I don't feel bad. He wanted nothing to do with us. So it's just weird.
 
Frank

Frank

Ms. Korea competitors:



You might say to yourself, man, these women all look real alike. This time, it's not because you're racist.



They've all had the same plastic surgeries to achieve the "Samsung Robot" look that's apparently pretty big in urban Korea.

http://kpsurgery.tumblr.com/
 
drifter

drifter

I wouldn't be surprised that they all have had plastic surgery done, but I also wonder how much of that is makeup/Photoshop?

For example, here are the 2013 Miss Seoul contestants au naturel. You see a lot more variation here.

 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Yeah, my sis-in-law once called the volunteer fire department because the cat was stuck on the roof of her one story house. The fire department then called my brother... he was so embarrassed, he works with some of those guys.

He came home during lunch, climbed a ladder, grabbed the cat, and tossed her over his shoulder... she landed safely and ran off.

"You know honey, nobody ever finds cat bones on the roofs of houses."
 
Frank

Frank

Is it wrong that it kind of pisses me off that they gave 1/300th the space for the comics in that guide than they did for pictures and loving descriptions of fucking t-shirts?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I could've been playing video games for the last six hours, or reading, or something productive, but instead I pissed it all away doing fuck-all on the internet. Behold glorious me!
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Quotemander Prime said:
I could've been playing video games for the last six hours, or reading, or something productive, but instead I pissed it all away doing fuck-all on the internet. Behold glorious me!
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...yeah thats my day too usually. Though honestly it should be illegal nowadays for anyone to say "There's nothing to do" what with the massive amount of leisure delights both physical and cybernetic. Even if your poor there is always something to do, stay alive! And if one decides to do nothing, that in itself is not an act of doing nothing but merely laying/sitting down! It is impossible for anyone to do nothing as long as they are alive, and if they are dead they are also doing something! Decomposing! And even when the universe dies it will STILL be doing something in the fact that the universe itself will mostly decompose to form nutrients for the great galactic star beasts that may or may not exist! EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS CONSTANTLY DOING THINGS FOREVER!

This has been Yoshimickster, being Yoshimickster.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Yoshimickster said:
...yeah thats my day too usually. Though honestly it should be illegal nowadays for anyone to say "There's nothing to do" what with the massive amount of leisure delights both physical and cybernetic. Even if your poor there is always something to do, stay alive! And if one decides to do nothing, that in itself is not an act of doing nothing but merely laying/sitting down! It is impossible for anyone to do nothing as long as they are alive, and if they are dead they are also doing something! Decomposing! And even when the universe dies it will STILL be doing something in the fact that the universe itself will mostly decompose to form nutrients for the great galactic star beasts that may or may not exist! EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS CONSTANTLY DOING THINGS FOREVER!

This has been Yoshimickster, being Yoshimickster.
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You remind me of a friend of mine on an eerily regular basis.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Wife: We're getting Loki neutered. He keeps marking me as his territory.
Me: If we do that, we won't be able to afford your Wacom tablet.
Wife: ... Well, I guess as long as he's non-violent it's not a big deal if he stays unneutered.

Thus, my wife is willing to get peed on for a Wacom tablet.
 
Tress

Tress

I think we can all agree that it was meant in jest, as I think most of us will agree that we could do without it. Let's just edit it out and avoid the issue altogether, yeah? What do you think, Dave?
 
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