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Nichi · July 27, 2012, 09:39:57 AM

Sounds good. Hope it works out ^_^

Chocofreak13 · July 27, 2012, 10:21:28 AM

ooo, i'm in the process of starting a site for my comics. who knows, if i could get site hosting through you, it'd probably make things a lot easier.

Paul · July 27, 2012, 12:41:36 PM

Go for it, Kraus!

Bella · July 27, 2012, 06:56:57 PM

The only reason I'm watching the Olympics opening ceremony is to see 50 women dressed up as Mary Poppins fight a 40-foot Voldemort puppet.

If this doesn't happen I'm gonna be pisssssed.

Quote from: stewartsage on July 26, 2012, 07:49:35 PM
Oh god yes. She'd be like Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote if it was set in Georgia instead of Maine and Mrs. Fletcher was a cook, not a writer.

Quote from: Chocofreak13 on July 26, 2012, 08:15:35 PM
am i the only one who hopes someone does this on the internet?

Quote from: PentiumMMX on July 26, 2012, 08:19:21 PM
I think it'd be cool if somebody did it

I'm glad my visual impairment was able to bring this much amusement. : p

Nichi · July 27, 2012, 07:41:10 PM

@Bella: Um...what? All I care about is if ~~David Tennant~~ The 10th Doctor lights the torch -w-
I feel it's about as likely as Rare producing a new Banjo-Kazooie game, but hey

Bella · July 27, 2012, 07:51:31 PM

Ugh actually it was really anticlimatic, I thought it was gonna be an aerial battle but no, just a giant Voldemort puppet that sort of collapsed when the Poppins' showed up. =__=

But the hundreds of old-timey doctors and nurses dancing around almost makes up for it. (Even though it's kind of terrifying to see hundreds of whitecoats together.)

And the enormous, horrifying disembodied baby's head.

Not to mention the facial hair in the Industrial Revolution segment... competitive sideburn-grooming should be an Olympic sport....

Nichi · July 27, 2012, 08:18:06 PM

Mmm. Sounds neat, though :3

Also, you need to get on Skype, so we can commence conference call #2

Bella · July 27, 2012, 08:24:32 PM

I can't believe they managed to do a montage of 50 years of popular British music that completely excluded Radiohead, but somehow made room for Amy Winehouse and Muse. : |

But Tim Berners Lee and his NeXTCUBE were featured, so.......

Chocofreak13 · July 28, 2012, 01:19:06 PM

i hope that's on youtube, it sounds hilarious. :0

Paul · July 29, 2012, 07:31:10 AM

Berners-Lee made music with his NextCube? o.o

Anyway, I managed to successfully botch my Arch Linux installation after a failed upgrade -> loads of work backing up all the files and then reinstalling everything. Base installation went pretty fine, except the GRUB installation somehow didn't work correctly, so I went for syslinux instead.
But setting up the system takes some time on Arch (the system is FAST but you're supposed to install everything except the base sys from the repos (full customization possible), so I'm currently stuck in the decision which window manager / login manager to use

Chocofreak13 · July 29, 2012, 09:15:56 PM

@paul: nice. i wish i could figure out how to work linux so i could use it. but idk where to start. :\

so guys
I HAVE JUST BEEN INFORMED (by [as]) THAT CANADA IS NOW RICHER THAN AMERICA
CANADIAN AND PROUD, BITCHES~~~~

Bella · July 29, 2012, 09:24:36 PM

Quote from: Paul on July 29, 2012, 07:31:10 AM
Berners-Lee made music with his NextCube? o.o

Oh, no, he was just sort of sitting out center-stage with his NeXTCUBE on a desk whilst music played in the background...

Raffaele the Amigan · July 31, 2012, 01:31:13 AM

Quote from: Bella on July 27, 2012, 08:24:32 PM
I can't believe they managed to do a montage of 50 years of popular British music that completely excluded Radiohead, but somehow made room for Amy Winehouse and Muse. : |

But Tim Berners Lee and his NeXTCUBE were featured, so.......

I was on feeding stray cats so I recorded the event on my dbtv decoder that has usb connect. In order to see it on sunday...

But the 16 GB key I used was filled in nowhere and left me while watching in the middle of the parade of the nations when it was walking Iran...

I left my nation, the queen announcing, and the olympic flame (that is the only thing worth it)... I should stay with unsolved curiosity... Sad!

I will check youtube for the events I missed...

However the ceremony was just pretty... ^_^

Paul · July 31, 2012, 07:01:04 PM

Tomorrow my family trip starts... see you in 3 weeks

Nichi · July 31, 2012, 07:36:38 PM

@Paul: Have fun ^_^

So, there's two strong possibilities of a job for me at the moment:

- My grandpa is looking into retiring, so there's a chance he might be able to have me hired at the hardware store he works at currently. That would be nice, but I'm on the fence about the idea; I really can't picture myself working in any other hardware store other than the one he used to own from '83 to '97, so working in a different one just feels wrong
Also, they ditched their nice NEC-powered Unix terminals for Dell Optiplexes running Windows XP >_>;;

- Game-X-Change is hiring, and one of the guys there is very interested in getting me on there; since I know the store well and I'm practically a walking encyclopedia on video games (Mostly older titles, but since they deal in older games, it pans out). I'm not too fond of their store manager, but I think I'll at least give it a shot.

There's no telling which one I'll end up with, but to be honest, I'm leaning toward Game-X-Change more, if only because I'd like to work alongside more people my age