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At 11/4/11 08:06 PM, Malachy wrote: I felt the same way before I went to one. It's usually almost 20 people which you would think would be unbearable...

not to worry, never figured anyone here was some manner of terribly unlikable person.

At 11/4/11 08:07 PM, Famas wrote: So you're only willing to be pleasant to cute people? I see, hmm

scribbles down notes on stationary while making disapproving faces behind half-moon glasses.

do your worst; sociologists don't believe in psychology!

unless thats the approach you're taking...

I got to play with an iPhone today at work.

The corporate I.T. guys have been updating our computer and phone systems, and they're replacing our department phones with these company exclusive iPhones. We can scan a bar-code with them and find out how much of an item we have on hand, how much we have coming in, what other company stores have the item if we're out... we get internet access to check competitor pricing.... it just goes on and on. We can't make phone calls on them just yet, so we still have to carry our old mobile phones around to call other departments.

And they've got these super-thick otter-box cases on them. It winds up making the phone (overall) about double the thickness of a regular iphone as one coworker showed me. I accidentally dropped the phone at one point and it actually bounced away from me a few feet.

But to actually mess with the phone and the programs itself, I think I finally get why people rave over these damn things. I wasn't quite used to having to type out a message on the screen's keyboard (these are not the slender fingers of a surgeon, mind you), but they are frickin useful. I'll have to save my pennies and see about getting myself one, now. :-D

my I-phone fell off a 15 ft scaffold, & a 18v Dewalt cordless drill went with it.
THe drill landed on the phone just off centre of the touch pad.
The phone was in a heavy duty otter case & all that happened to the phone was a slight dent & scuff in the clear protective cover, the drill had to go & get fixed, the nose casing section on the drill had split from the impact.

I tell everyone I see with an I phone this story...the cases are big & bulky compared to the phone, a heavy plastic type covering with clear touch pad protector & a rubber outter cover on the body of the phone... but if you do anything outside of desk environment.... you need one of these cases because the phone itself is too delicate for manly use ( or womanly if your phones gotta take abuse.) Mine was 1 year old in July.
First mobile phone I've ever had that has lasted a year, since they used to be bolted in your vehicle !

Smart phones are really something these days. When I got my TV set up last time I moved the guy used an iPad for his paperwork and for me to sign off with. It was his personal one but the cable company set him up to use it for house calls with their special software. He said it said it saved him a ton of time. Plus, any idiot can use a smartphone so I can see it being nice for big retailers to adopt them for associates to save on training them on proprietary scanners/computers and instead having an intuitive app for it all on a company iPhon.

I wrote this post on my Droid3 smartphone :3

Interesting video.

At 11/9/11 12:17 AM, Korriken wrote: Interesting video.

I'll see your interesting video, and raise you something that has everything to do with zombies, guns, rock music, and girls who jiggle with every step they take; click.

do the japanese just not know how make bras? you know they exist, you see them on characters, but they don't actually DO anything. Not that I'm complaining.

I'll see your slipknot japanimation and raise you a music video that also includes zombies, guns, hot girls and better music that doesn't make my ears bleed.

At 11/10/11 01:57 PM, Famas wrote: that doesn't make my ears bleed.

Of course it doesn't, only dolphins can hear the notes she's hitting.

jeez the regulars lounge is about as dead as Michael Jackson's chances of making a career comeback.

where did everyone go?

At 11/21/11 01:24 PM, ZJ wrote:

At 11/21/11 12:00 AM, Korriken wrote: jeez the regulars lounge is about as dead as Michael Jackson's chances of making a career comeback.

where did everyone go?

Poli regs aren't known for their rapid posting. It's more about substance than speed around here, it seems. Which isn't a bad thing. It's a nice break from General.

What's up Korri? You pumped for politics in 2012? I sure am. It's gonna be the year that host the first Presidential election that I can actually vote in.

This thread held the largest BBS thread spot until earlier this year. It grew pretty fast, but that is probably why it is slow now: newer regulars are intimidated by the size of the thread and probably the number of vets and mods who post here... so they don't post here. And as the folks who used to post in the thread move on in their lives they aren't replaced with newer regulars, so it slows down.

At 11/21/11 01:24 PM, ZJ wrote:

What's up Korri? You pumped for politics in 2012? I sure am. It's gonna be the year that host the first Presidential election that I can actually vote in.

well, make sure you make a well informed decision, whoever you choose.

At 11/21/11 02:31 PM, Malachy wrote: And as the folks who used to post in the thread move on in their lives they aren't replaced with newer regulars,

;;;
Some of us don't move on...we're in a rut & too lazy to climb up the sides to get out
~;p

At 11/21/11 03:18 PM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 11/21/11 02:31 PM, Malachy wrote: And as the folks who used to post in the thread move on in their lives they aren't replaced with newer regulars,

;;;
Some of us don't move on...we're in a rut & too lazy to climb up the sides to get out
~;p

Some of us were trampled into deeper sections of muck by the ones crawling out of the pit

At 11/21/11 06:30 PM, Malachy wrote:

Some of us were trampled into deeper sections of muck by the ones crawling out of the pit

and some of us realize that a mud bath is good for the skin and we figure we might as well stay in it.

a mud bath is indeed good for the skin, unless you take it in Hungary.

haha old news

Bloody hell is it ever snowing out today !
The flakes are little tiny things... but so thick, I can't see the river out my window !
Weather stations saying we could be getting 30+cms (thats more than foot for you Americans)
Makes me wish I was in the Southern US or even better Central America ~;)

At 11/23/11 07:17 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Down here it's all rain. Looking at next week's forecast, first it's gonna snow and then it won't. The weather here's like a woman. Can't make up its mind what to do.

The common joke around here is, "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes."

At 11/23/11 10:16 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 11/23/11 07:17 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Down here it's all rain. Looking at next week's forecast, first it's gonna snow and then it won't. The weather here's like a woman. Can't make up its mind what to do.

The common joke around here is, "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes."

Sounds like Maryland, although it's even worse here: our seasons last two weeks. Some days in January are hotter than some in July.

I read this comment about the weather from a person who said this on bitch tread a while back & it stuck in my mind
"We only have 2 seasons...one that's really hot & one that's not. The worst is the season you happen to be in now."

But I do not know where this was.
It's overcast today, theres a foot plus on the ground & after I finish my breakfast I'm going to get the snow blower out... the weather girl is saying we're going to get rain later.

There's a poster from my home town that said "don't like the weather? wait five minutes!" with a series of photos taken from the same day at the same location. Started out with snow at 8am, rain at 11am, sunny with all the snow melted and green grass at 2pm and snowing again at 6pm.

At 11/24/11 08:47 AM, morefngdbs wrote: But I do not know where this was.

Sounds like an equatorial country if it stays warm all year round like that.

the weather girl is saying we're going to get rain later.

Rain on top of snow? Not fun.

At 11/24/11 10:05 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Went out for a disappointing Thanksgiving dinner with my husband and parents.

;;;
I have never been 'out' for Thanks Giving in my life.
One of the BEST parts of Thanks giving is L E F T O V E R S !
What's that song ? ? ?

Turkey , dressing ,
gravy, rolls & pie
Condiments piled up
'til they reach the sky

I wanna leg
some creamy spuds
the carrot smash
a Pumpkin P I E !

Hand me some whipped cream
I want to eat until I die ~;)

All my life has been a family deal, with as much family as we can get together... the planning starts way in advance & gets worked out who's bringing what & of course there is always multiples, (cause Nana is positive her creamy mashed potato's are better than anyone elses, my Aunt knows no one can make a cheery desert like her { my Mums is better} so you get several deserts, veggies, everyone preserves stuff in my family )
Its always a big deal, & I do look forward to it ... but of course we hold it in October

so I've been steadily working on my cartoon, and I've hit a hell of a snag.

in the beginning the series is light hearted comedy with some mild violence here and there, with some serious moments, but as it goes on the comedy begins to fade and things get very, very serious.

I find that as a problem myself.

Of course, i got the basic plotline drawn out, but its really bothering me, as to how to modify it to still make sense and add more comedy to the end episodes.

It does kind of help that I found some unlikely inspiration... kind of a facepalm moment, given my age, but I got an open mind when it comes to entertainment. Well, that and the chrs actually have more than a 1 dimensional personality, unlike most shows these days (spongebob, phineas and ferb... ugh). That and it seems like stress induced insanity is a common theme, which is always entertaining.

anyway....

course, my main objective is to make each episode unique (unlike most shows that have most of the same crap with some variation). However, morality lessons are, well, nonexistent in itself. I suppose any morality lesson would have to be had on the overall plot of 2 ppl more or less being forced to share a dorm that have some rather nasty prejudices toward each other learn to get along, eventually become friends. I already know I can't have the entire series with the main characters on the campus, and I might toss the entire "unwanted chance meeting at a school dorm" beginning scrapped for something else. Problem is, given the back story, there's no other option I can think of at the moment, due to the 2 beginning main characters' races hating each other. Unless I begin with a plot hole anyway... Which I don't want to.

the character list keeps expanding too... problem is a few of the characters make it look like I'm bashing on religion, especially the Bishop that wants to summon a sacred demon to bring perfect order to the world, with him as the ruler. yeah, a holy demon, let the religious nuts argue that one.

course, in the world i've been working on, demons and angels are neither holy nor evil inherently. Some angels turn evil and become unholy angels, some demons rebel against the dark lord and become sacred demons. There's also "demons" that are basically natural animals spirits that end up fused with human spirits to create a sort of demi-human creature that resembles a human, but with some animal traits (kinda like this but with more clothing and smaller, more human hands.)

the elf and amazon end up adopting one that looks like a raccoon, after clobbing a few townspeople for treating "a small child that has done nothing to anyone so badly) which is basically where they begin to find more common ground... then they find out its parents were killed by bandits.

One of the running concepts that I have included is that the elf would have died a hundred times over if he didn't keep a thick spellbook harnessed to his chest, which acts like one very interesting piece of armor that can stop even an amazon warrior's javelin from impaling him. course, that's magic for you.

This is going to sound weird but I think I'm starting to realize I actually like christmas songs. Maybe I'm getting old, maybe just the contenued expereince of being forced to sit through them when I was younger is wearing off. Also, it's vital to one to avoid novelty christmas songs, regular christmas songs are novelties, don't play with it. Also, "Christmas someplace hot" stopped being clever a long time ago.

Ever notice that all the songs in the missals at church are copyrighted in the 60s?

probably mostly to do with Vatican II and the whole doing things in the local vernacular. Also, they re-translated the mass and it's now closer to the original Latin in vocabulary/sentence structure.