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Bagel

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Posted on 04-05-11 12:31:07 PM, in oh snap (last edited by Bagel at 04-05-11 03:16 PM) Link
I missed my join date on the 30th.

Blargh.

Well, I've been here for two years then. Not ... active for a while as I only really started posting in August 2009 or so.

But still.

Here's some random images to slightly increase the load time and be generally irritating, which is something I do well. Also there hasn't been a stupid, unfunny random thread in a while.






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Posted on 04-05-11 07:33:17 PM, in Posting from my new Power Mac G5! Link
Specs from System Profiler, please!

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Posted on 04-05-11 08:17:52 PM, in Posting from my new Power Mac G5! Link
If it's a dual 1.8Ghz, it's either this or this, then.

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Posted on 04-08-11 12:28:15 PM, in Government shutdown and what's in that Republican Budget Link
Frankly, I see it this way: humanitarian programs are great and all, but not if there's no money to support them! There has been *way* too much spending going on; some of those programs' spokespeople are going to have to just quit bitching and make do with what they have. You shouldn't have to pay for the government's mistakes, but that's the way it works right now and it's not changing anytime soon.

Some people are way, way too spoiled by having some of these programs; a lot of people in places like ... say, India do not and will never have access to something like Medicare or Planned Parenthood at all, and they muddle through somehow. Basically: deal with it. It sucks, which is a massive understatement, but again: that's how it is, and change takes time.

However a shutdown doesn't benefit anybody, anywhere; this situation has been entirely engineered for political reasons, once again ignoring what's good for the country in favor of popularity. Blame lies on both sides here: the former Democratic legislative branch for not passing a budget for the fiscal year (before it started last October) purposefully in order to trigger this situation (and therefore make the right side look worse), and the Republicans for being stubborn immovable walls as always.

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Posted on 04-08-11 08:46:23 PM, in Government shutdown and what's in that Republican Budget (last edited by Bagel at 04-08-11 08:47 PM) Link
Originally posted by Skreeny
Americans should send their children to sweatshops to make shoes for 25 cents an hour.

Because I was totally advocating that. I am a completely heartless bastard with no empathy toward anyone.

Yyyyeah, sarcasm has no place in a debate; that's moving from sharing an opinion to oneupmanship.

I'm trying to see things realistically without emotions getting in the way here -- if it makes me sound like a callous, uncaring robot, then that's not surprising.

Moving on.

The military budget has been growing like crazy since forever. Spending goes up during wartime, but then people resent getting a pay cut in peacetime, so ... yeah.

Look. I'm not against people being healthy or educated, or whatever. I am more of the mind that if someone makes a bad decision they should have to at least try to be creative and deal with the consequences themselves first, and then if they can't handle the situation on their own, use the public help program as a last resort only. If only more people could do so, those programs wouldn't need as much funding, but oh wait there's human nature driving people toward taking the easiest way out.

There are some actual good ideas for fixing this budget on both sides, but no one ever will concede that for a second. Instead it's all the ideas from one party, or nothing. Blah. It's obvious, but this is not about what's good for America; it's about organizations making money at the expense of everyone else, as usual.


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Posted on 04-10-11 02:16:17 PM, in Least useful Windows programs (last edited by Bagel at 04-10-11 02:20 PM) Link
Sticky Notes, in Vista and 7.

Really, why would you want fake sticky notes overlapping all your other windows? You can't change the font or color, either; all you can do is resize.

Runner-up is System Restore. In all my time of using Windows, it has successfully restored a previous state only one time. In addition those restore points by default end up eating a large chunk of disk.


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Posted on 04-11-11 12:56:40 AM, in Passing the time Link
Most recently I've been going through Orson Scott Card's Ender saga on my phone when I have a few minutes to kill. That guy really understands people.

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Posted on 04-11-11 12:40:55 PM, in Obligatory desktop screenshots thread (last edited by Bagel at 04-11-11 12:43 PM) Link
Instead of coming in a compressed archive or as a raw executable, a lot of OS X software comes on a compressed disk image. It's just different, really. It is a little more user-friendly than just getting a file listing. Often there is just an executable .app file and an alias (shortcut) to the user's Applications folder, with some brief instructions in the background image of the window. Installation is just drag and drop that way.

mac
This is my work machine. I try to keep it as simple and distraction-free as I can while still being able to do things quickly.

windows
With the WinSAT results page showing the new scores from new video board (GeForce GTX460 1GB oc'd to 720MHz) yay!

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Posted on 04-12-11 02:31:50 AM, in HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOODSTAR Link
Bloodstar, since you talk about it all the time, I got you a gift

Here it is.

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Posted on 04-16-11 02:24:01 PM, in It looks like you're trying to create a new thread. Link


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Posted on 04-16-11 04:10:50 PM, in Encyclopedia Dramatica is gone Link
Good riddance.

Honestly, it wasn't funny. It never was.

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Posted on 04-16-11 04:53:01 PM, in It looks like you're trying to create a new thread. Link
I managed to find an old copy of Bonzi Buddy but it only has Peedy. I can't find the purple gorilla bear thing. I do remember it existing on my grandparents' old computer for some reason; they were running Windows 95 on a 486 (in 2002.)

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Posted on 04-18-11 02:31:11 PM, in Anybody got a website? (last edited by Bagel at 04-18-11 02:31 PM) Link
Currently my site is a manual redirect to my bandcamp page.

I am reworking the site some (locally; none of the changes are live) so that I won't be so dependent on bandcamp for everything, though sales would still have to go through them. The old index shows how terrible my coding skills used to be in early 2008. I've gotten better since then but haven't really got any examples to prove it ...

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Posted on 04-20-11 02:20:41 AM, in Portal 2 blathering Link
Finished the single player mode today. Took maybe 6 hours of actual play time.

It was enjoyable; the new mechanics got a *little* tedious toward the end, and SO MANY LOADING SCREENS. Seriously Valve -- you could have consolidated some of those maps.

I'm looking forward to the editing tools; I hope they don't end up being too hard to use.

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