Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Cajungal
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*huuuuuuuugs*
If it stays crazy like this, I'm going to take up drinking.
Careful. Crazy leads to drinking, drinking leads to bowling, bowling leads to suffering.
--Patrick
Bowling leads to fights in the parking lot with nihilists.
GasBandit
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Another whine from me today - I really gotta get off my ass and order a new work PC for myself. I don't wanna go through the hassle of moving my "work environment" over to a new machine, but this one is ridiculous. 2 gigs of ram on windows XP doesn't cut it any more, even for web browsing, sadly. Opening just about any given thread populates elements on the screen about as fast as a 2400 baud modem did a Roboboard BBS back in the early 90s. It's revolting how a web browser now requires more system resources than most games did 10 years ago. And I don't even dare open the GIF or video threads on this machine any more.
If I can find a prefab one that still comes with windows 7 maybe it won't be so bad.[DOUBLEPOST=1453152273,1453152118][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, 10 points to the house of any user who knew what a Roboboard BBS was without looking it up, except Patrthom.
If I can find a prefab one that still comes with windows 7 maybe it won't be so bad.[DOUBLEPOST=1453152273,1453152118][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, 10 points to the house of any user who knew what a Roboboard BBS was without looking it up, except Patrthom.
Hah, I know what it is. The guys who I have my patents with were trying to use roboboard to bring graphical bbses to the masses. When I came on board, I said "fuck that shit" and wrote something up from scratch--which is where the patents came from.
I just awoke my father from a seizure...and I just learned it wasn't his first either. I'm really scared.
Edit: Thank you.
Edit: Thank you.
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RBBS was good, but I was into Major BBS. Nexxus Point in Ann Arbor had four incoming lines, and being in Ann Arbor it was a local call from a number of nearby communities, so it was relatively popular.[DOUBLEPOST=1453157002,1453156689][/DOUBLEPOST]Aw, I liked Max and Ermas.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/en.../01/18/max-ermas-closes-restaurants/78975834/
But not enough to drive an hour to eat there.
GasBandit
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Yeah, but Major didn't do SVGA, it was still ANSI, right?
I mean, most of my favorite BBSes ran Renegade, but the point I was making about Roboboard (or maybe it was Roboterm) was that, even at 14.4k, you could see it drawing each SVGA line and filling/painting every polygon, one at a time.[DOUBLEPOST=1453157344,1453157308][/DOUBLEPOST]
I blame java. Stupid java.
I didn't know it without looking it up, even though I was a ProComm/ZTerm user way back when.
Merit!
Me, too. They weren't the best, but they were good enough.
--Patrick
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I had an account and poked around occasionally, but never came close to using a fraction of their resources. I served a mission for my church from '95 to '97, left when I was still using bbs, came back and it was all about the Internet.
omg that's scary!!
Yes, yes it was, still a bit shook up but I'm better and so is he.
Does that mean you can joke about it now? Good...
You should throw some lettuce on him... make a seizure salad!
Little too soon, but still much appreciated.
How soon is too soon? The morning our house burned down in 2005, my sister and her husband came to pick up my mom and I to takes us over to their house. He and I were alone in their car and he tells me this was making him reconsider his Halloween costume because that weekend seemed a little too soon. The costume? A smoldering Buddhist monk with a gas can. 
Tears turned into uncontrollable laughter. I said no. Now more than ever, he HAD to do it. This while the firefighters were still on scene.
Tears turned into uncontrollable laughter. I said no. Now more than ever, he HAD to do it. This while the firefighters were still on scene.
My only reaction I can think of for this costume is... wow, holy crap.A smoldering Buddhist monk with a gas can.
It helps that the big Halloween party they used to throw had a prize for Most Tasteless Costume. And that prize was srs bsns.
It might be a while for me, might be a week, might be a month, depends.
fade
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Man, I'm having the EE equivalent of writer's block. My wife got me a nice Hakko temperature controlled soldering station for Christmas, and I have no idea what to make. I looked around the web for inspiration, but everything is the same buzzer or flashy light circuits. I need some inspiration. Got any ideas @stienman ? Weird. I cannot @ anybody.
GasBandit
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You could make an alarm clock and put it in a briefcase.
