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jiffer
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response 254 of 563:
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Feb 1 13:49 UTC 2006 |
Happiness is having a new-used car. It has air, no oil leaks, seats 7, and
a V6! Thank you Mom and Dad for the early graduation present. Anyone want to
buy a 97 Deathmobile,... err I mean Geo Metro... I have always called it hte
deathmobile, my name for car... I have to find a name for the mini van now.
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glenda
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response 255 of 563:
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Feb 1 17:24 UTC 2006 |
Re #253: Yes, we have one. It is both usefull and a pain. It is usefull
in that the door is locked even if one the kids can't find their keys such
that they can lock the door when they have to go to class. It can be a pain
if you go out to get the mail and either unthinkingly shut to door or a cat
leans against it and you don't have your keys on you and either no one else
is home or the only other person home is sleeping on the third floor and can't
hear the bell or your pounding. It is also a pain when one of the kids sets
it to unlock while sitting on the porch, waiting for a friend to arrive, takes
in groceries, or runs down to the party store for Mom and then forgets to
re-lock it thus leaving the door unlocked if leaving without keys (and
assuming it is locked) or going to bed for the night and forgetting to set
the dead-bolt or putting on the chain. Overall I prefer having it to not
having it.
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tod
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response 256 of 563:
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Feb 2 19:30 UTC 2006 |
IHB I just learned that a former coworker has taken a job directly across the
street on the same floor and now we can play charades.
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nharmon
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response 257 of 563:
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Feb 2 19:32 UTC 2006 |
LOL
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marcvh
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response 258 of 563:
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Feb 2 19:33 UTC 2006 |
Be sure to get laser pointers so you can get each other's attention.
It kind of ruins the effect if you have to phone him to tell him to look
at you.
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tod
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response 259 of 563:
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Feb 2 20:08 UTC 2006 |
Figuring out which floor he was on was funny because I was describing people
on different floors: "Is there a chick in a pink angora sweater in the SW
corner?" "Is there a fat guy with a red tie and feet on his desk?" "Do you
have a conference room with IKEA shelfing?" and after enough of that
"Ok, I see you. You ARE the fat guy with the red tie!"
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edina
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response 260 of 563:
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Feb 2 21:10 UTC 2006 |
hahahahah!
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jadecat
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response 261 of 563:
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Feb 3 16:53 UTC 2006 |
IHB- It's Friday, I won a free vacation day at the staff meeting today,
AND I got a new-to-me laptop for $50 from work's garage sale (Compaq
Armada, P3 900 mhz with 512MB RAM. Not the newest or spiffiest- but
better than the desktop I currently have. Did I mention the only $50
part? :) ) Oh and it came with a carry bag and separate mouse.
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keesan
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response 262 of 563:
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Feb 3 17:40 UTC 2006 |
Wow! My very best computer is about 100MHz, kindly given to us by a grexer,
with 24MB RAM, and about 1GB hard drive. Overkill for our purposes, of
course. We also have a broken Armada, which is 500MHz and sometimes powers
on (you have to put in the dead battery) and sometimes boots and has no hard
drive, from another kind grexer. And a 133MHz with no floppy drive, from a
grexer who gave up fixing the monitor hinge (Jim fixed it). I am happy
grexers are so generous with their unused equipment.
I am also happy we finally got Opera working in an older linux with newer
libraries, 35MB includes two other browsers and Kermit. Opera is memory
intensive so needs 32MB RAM. We even got it to boot straight to X with an
rxvt and a little menu in the rxvt title, for our memory-challenged
84-year-old friend, who can now type l for links, o for opera, d for dial,
r to reboot and power off. My new upstairs neighbor also wants a computer.
We are never making any more Windows computer . My landlord wanted WORD and
EXCEL. Jim has DOS WORKS. 'I hate Windows'. Unfortunately you need it to
upgrade some 1997 X2 modems to V90. In exchange for the 35MB computer we got
a Lucent linmodem.
We also have, from a kind grexer, an overclocked-from-600 MHz 750MHz board.
The 900s should start showing up in a year or three. We are still making
people 166's (cpu upgraded from 133).
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kingjon
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response 263 of 563:
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Feb 3 18:34 UTC 2006 |
Is the 100MHz in the first line of #262 supposed to have another zero?
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nharmon
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response 264 of 563:
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Feb 3 18:35 UTC 2006 |
Heh. Nope.
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keesan
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response 265 of 563:
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Feb 3 18:57 UTC 2006 |
100.0MHz? We mostly use the color 486 laptop because I had already set it
up with linux and got X working with its odd video card. Jim wants to put
linux on his pentium laptop soon. We have an 8MB PCMCIA memory card to
upgrade the 24MB 100.0 MHz laptop with, and a 10Mbit ethernet card so we can
plug into friends' DSL modems and transfer files to their computer via upload
and download if they have a Mac.
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jadecat
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response 266 of 563:
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Feb 3 19:10 UTC 2006 |
Well, this particular laptop was one that the engineers here used to
use- they have since gotten better ones. Still for me this is an upgrade...
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edina
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response 267 of 563:
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Feb 3 20:47 UTC 2006 |
IHB it's Friday. After I get through tomorrow afternoon, the weekend is my
own.
I'm also happy because I'm in charge of picking up our trial team every day
and it has meant listening to great conversation.
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tod
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response 268 of 563:
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Feb 3 20:50 UTC 2006 |
IHB Grex staff is too arrogant to tell us what happened
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richard
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response 269 of 563:
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Feb 3 22:03 UTC 2006 |
IHB the Super Bowl is this weekend, Seahawks vs. Steelers, should be a good
game. And the Rolling Stones, the "world's greatest rock and roll band" are
playing at halftime. Mick Jagger has promised to do Janet Jackson one better
and flash BOTH of his tits :)
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tod
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response 270 of 563:
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Feb 3 23:03 UTC 2006 |
Oh yea? I heard Aretha is going to flash all SIX!
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mcnally
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response 271 of 563:
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Feb 3 23:43 UTC 2006 |
'Round here we don't 'ppreciate folks talkin' trash about the Queen of Soul.
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slynne
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response 272 of 563:
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Feb 4 00:23 UTC 2006 |
yeah, dont dis on Ms Franklin.
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bru
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response 273 of 563:
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Feb 4 13:26 UTC 2006 |
I am happy to be back home even if it is only for a week.
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richard
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response 274 of 563:
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Feb 4 16:50 UTC 2006 |
Detroit is probably swamped with people in town this weekend for Super
Bowl looking for something to do. Downtown Detroit in February isn't
exactly the most happening place in the world, I would guess.
Tailgaiting outside the Silverdome this time of year is probably only
for the hardcore fans too.
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bru
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response 275 of 563:
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Feb 4 17:31 UTC 2006 |
being at the grex lunch
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tod
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response 276 of 563:
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Feb 4 18:52 UTC 2006 |
Big wind storm coming here in Seattle.
The big question on everyone's mind is if we'll be out of power during the
Super Bowl. I've seen alot of folks buying generators and batteries along
with their Superbowl snacks and balloons.
IHB I have a fireplace, firewood, and one of those lil handcrank/solar radios
so no harm no foul. (Course' the commercials wouldn't be the same on a radio
but it beats nothing I spose. *I'm too cheap to buy a generator or get a
hotel room for the SuperBowl)
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slynne
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response 277 of 563:
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Feb 4 19:39 UTC 2006 |
resp:274 Tailgaiting at the Silverdome might also be kinda dumb since
the game is being played at Ford Field ;) Also, while Detroit might not
ordinarily be the most happening place in February, apparently it really
is hopping lately. See: http://www.detroitblog.org/
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tod
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response 278 of 563:
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Feb 4 19:57 UTC 2006 |
re #277
D00D! That explains why I got such great parking at the Dome!
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