I once had a computer damaged whilst in shipping... with no insurance. Doh!
The damage was minimal but I needed to figure a way to ensure there was no damage the next time.
I realized the damage occurred when the different assembled components were flexed, jostled, dropped... whatever.
Duh! Disassembled components travel independently - like packet switching.
Also, most components don't need a package - just write your name and address on the component case (slap a label on it if it's a card or something) affix postage and drop in the mailbox... problem solved.
Shipping all the parts ASSEMBLED is just begging for problems.
. . . Mac user would ever allow that to be the background image of their box. The dust/crud and that white thingy on the front paw would have been Photoshopped out long ago.
Shortly after reading this story I looked up how hard drives work and tore a couple broken ones apart.
The arms move crazy fast due to their linear actuated motors with very sexy magnets that can do neat tricks with my pack of cigarettes through the bar room table - the waitress actually yelped.
Spending the time it takes to view the whole thing on my P's modem.
And having to explain why it's funny.
I'm so far away from the T1s . . . woe is me.
Happy 25th.
That movie was great . . . the small sphere thing shootin' around the basement . . . teenaged peeping toms . . . feeding the junkyard dog gum . . . sound bite spouting aliens . . .
Wait a minute!
I friggin hate those aliens!
They F-ed up another perfectly good movie with a lame-ass, hail-mary attempt to end the movie.
I guess they didn't realise that moldy bread is the only TRUE interstellar lifeform.
I've stopped washing (everything) in fear of the damnation I'll recieve for throwing all that "rotten" food away.
I still can't get over the fact that the Hubble just magnifies the light that hits the lens and doesn't actually see through space, through all those light YEARS.
I used to work and smoke in a smoking office in the US. We all smelled like we'd been in a bar all day and that smokey amber color is really hard to get off the Macs.
Now I'm in a non-smoking office and treasure my smoke breaks where I go outside and focus my eyes on things that are far away.
I will quit someday (hopefully by choice and not lung cancer) but smoking forces me to leave the office. No phones, no idiot boss, just pretty trees and sweet, sweet nicotine.
We can sort by zip code in the US and in your preferences you'd type in your zip and specify how many numbers in difference you'd filter in.
EXAMPLE: I am in Grand Rapids, MI at 49503-4102. CmdrTaco, Hemos and others are in Holland, MI [methinks] at 49424 or there abouts. So if I set my zip preferance to +/- 100 it should filter in everything happening within 1-2 hours driving time.
Now those of you with enough free time/money/frequent flier miles who are gonna try to get to this party in Calif., but don't live there, can kiss my brown eye.
Sincerely -Slurry
PS- When I get control of the nukes I'll know where to send 'em to uh, koff, gain competitive advantages.
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QuickTime asks you to upgrade on the first application start of each day it's used.
... change your date back at this point.
BEFORE starting QuickTime change your date to a MUCH higher year e.g. 2020.
Then start QuickTime.
When asked to "Why upgrade?" click "Later." NOTE: giggle to your self at this point.
QuickTime won't ask you to upgrade again til the first time you use it in 2020.
Oh yeah
Just sit on the flat bed scanner/color copier.
Beware the perilous crevASSe.
At its heart lurks a hideous beast.
Depending on age you may see more/less "rivers."
I once had a computer damaged whilst in shipping ... with no insurance. Doh!
... whatever.
... problem solved.
The damage was minimal but I needed to figure a way to ensure there was no damage the next time.
I realized the damage occurred when the different assembled components were flexed, jostled, dropped
Duh! Disassembled components travel independently - like packet switching.
Also, most components don't need a package - just write your name and address on the component case (slap a label on it if it's a card or something) affix postage and drop in the mailbox
Shipping all the parts ASSEMBLED is just begging for problems.
. . . Mac user would ever allow that to be the background image of their box. The dust/crud and that white thingy on the front paw would have been Photoshopped out long ago.
Didn't you read A Wrinkle in Time?
Once we figure out how to remove/shrink the space between the subatomic particles "small" will take on a whole new meaning.
What was that line in HG2G? Do to a gross miscalculation in scale, the entire armada was swallowed by a terrier. -something like that
Shortly after reading this story I looked up how hard drives work and tore a couple broken ones apart.
The arms move crazy fast due to their linear actuated motors with very sexy magnets that can do neat tricks with my pack of cigarettes through the bar room table - the waitress actually yelped.
Sure those little shelves look cool - but how do you think those guys felt when the needed opaque mouse pads for their brand new OPTICAL mice?
I was told putting magnets near my drives would destroy my data.
And they expect me to believe there's tiny, patented, magnets in all of them?
Yeah . . . right.
my cyborg body.
Step One: bionic eye
Seriously, that's the funniest thing I've read in a long while.
Spending the time it takes to view the whole thing on my P's modem. And having to explain why it's funny. I'm so far away from the T1s . . . woe is me. Happy 25th.
36" TV < 16:9 HDTV
21" CRT < 22" LCD
me < tetrachromat
One more option to select when I get my bionic eye installed.
RGB +1, IR, thermal, zoom . . .
"That's nothing. He can HEAR pudding."
toe-rin-ee-tee is how you'd have to sound it out if all you spoke was Japanese.
Their phonetics are quite limited when compared to English . . . only 50 or so different sounds.
Did ya go thru with it? I did.
America flips a coin . . . nd the winner is . . . a TIE!
When will we learn Democracy doesn't work?
Actually I'm going to "throw [my] vote away" by writing in John McCain.
He was the coolest candidate we've had in my memory -IMHO
I'm grabbing the trailer now. I can FTP it to someone to mirror 'cause I don't know how (DON'T LAUGH!) It's about 28 Megs.
And, should I convert it to other formats?
Eatrh's a dump.
Heck, even the whales are leaving -didn't you ever see Star Trek IV: The Voyage home or read The Hitchhikers books.
The evidence is clear -the fungi have reached us and now it's time to go.
That movie was great . . . the small sphere thing shootin' around the basement . . . teenaged peeping toms . . . feeding the junkyard dog gum . . . sound bite spouting aliens . . .
Wait a minute!
I friggin hate those aliens!
They F-ed up another perfectly good movie with a lame-ass, hail-mary attempt to end the movie.
I guess they didn't realise that moldy bread is the only TRUE interstellar lifeform.
I've stopped washing (everything) in fear of the damnation I'll recieve for throwing all that "rotten" food away.
And now we know what "shrooming" is really about.
I still can't get over the fact that the Hubble just magnifies the light that hits the lens and doesn't actually see through space, through all those light YEARS.
Linking to the site, I had higher hopes.
Alas, tripe.
Oh well there's still OMM.
I used to work and smoke in a smoking office in the US. We all smelled like we'd been in a bar all day and that smokey amber color is really hard to get off the Macs.
Now I'm in a non-smoking office and treasure my smoke breaks where I go outside and focus my eyes on things that are far away.
I will quit someday (hopefully by choice and not lung cancer) but smoking forces me to leave the office. No phones, no idiot boss, just pretty trees and sweet, sweet nicotine.
We can sort by zip code in the US and in your preferences you'd type in your zip and specify how many numbers in difference you'd filter in.
EXAMPLE: I am in Grand Rapids, MI at 49503-4102. CmdrTaco, Hemos and others are in Holland, MI [methinks] at 49424 or there abouts. So if I set my zip preferance to +/- 100 it should filter in everything happening within 1-2 hours driving time.
Now those of you with enough free time/money/frequent flier miles who are gonna try to get to this party in Calif., but don't live there, can kiss my brown eye.
Sincerely -Slurry
PS- When I get control of the nukes I'll know where to send 'em to uh, koff, gain competitive advantages.
German for "Super" eg. Superman = Ubermensch
till I get my PS2, then I'll crack the hell out of it. I'll be a monkey's bitch before I buy an uncrackable DVD device.
Is it just my stupidity or are my quickies infected with the HollandCRC virus?