As a guild leader and raid leader I'd say it's more of a D&S relationship with a bit of switching. I'm D in a raid situation, but there are times I feel like I'm everyone's bitch when I log on for some quiet play time and everyone wants me to do GM stuff.
Knowing humans for what they are, it's likely some corporation would get them classified as non-human so that they can be used for experimentation without the same ethical issues as human trials present.
ps riddle I might know a guy who know a guy who can source "long pork" - well if the gourmet horse is a police horse can you imagine what gourmet long pork comes packaged in? 10 points for the 1st person with a userid shown to post the correct (rather morbid) answer...
Would it come packaged in a limousine? You can't get much more gourmet than that, unless you were thinking chefs' whites.
Men relax by "getting away from things". Women generally cannot do this. Women need things in order in order to relax, they don't "forget" about things not in order.
If you honestly believe this and you want your female partner to relax, then surely the best thing you could do is help her get the most out of control things under control so that she can relax.
I now have the mental picture of a saber toothed tiger pooping a rainbow. Thanks. I have to go to a serious meeting about interface agreements and I will be thinking about pooped rainbows from oversized fanged tabbies.
This. And I say this as someone who is a gamer. I don't always enjoy the same types of games my husband plays. Or the same types of TV shows or the same types of books. I get incredibly frustrated sometimes when I'm getting pushed to play/read/watch something I have no interest in, and visa versa not being allowed to do something because he has lost interest in it.
Together time is important. But so is alone time, especially if you have kids.
There must have been something you had in common when you started dating - what was that and can you revisit in your together time?
If you insist on going down the gaming path, I recommend co-op games rather than competitive. Especially if there is a significant difference in skill level. And you need to be extraordinarily careful not to make her feel like she's letting you down if she makes mistakes. There are co-op board games as well as computer games, they may be a better option, less reaction based and you can potentially make up some homebrew rules variants if you want to make it more fun.
Since Christmas, the number of SPAMs I receive that appear to have come from one of my own addresses has out of no where skyrocketed. And because it comes form one of my valid addresses, it slips through the spam filter and gets auto filed in my 'sent from me' folder.
One of the nice and often underrated features of WoW is that there are about 8 different colourblindness filters built into the client for different kinds of colourblindness.
Graphic designers used to work with shrouds over their large monitors all the time so that wall colours didn't reflect onto what they were working with and skew the outcome. They used to be standard for RasterOps and other high end colour balanced displays.
Another option is to look at the brightness settings on your monitor. Most are adjustable. Firstly consider using a lower (warmer) colour temperature, or alternately just adjusting the brightness down and potentially the contrast slightly. This may alleviate the symptoms without needing to mess around with software configurations.
That said, if you are routinely suffering from glare based headaches, you probably need an eye exam and something like transition lenses.
A shudder just went down my spine even trying to picture that.
Though on reflection, it probably wouldn't have been white on black text, it would have been a scrolling marquee of rainbow text that probably also used the Netscape blink tag.
Back in the dim dark past when I used to do website UI stuff (TM), I used to set my backgrounds at something approaching 5% grey and the text at something like 95% grey because it was much easier on the eyes to read, but still afforded ample contrast. Don't ask me to remember the RGB settings, it's been too long.
I tend to have this problem at the local train station I use to exit the city in the evenings, the platform boards at the station entry are portrait orientated LCD screens. I have to remember to remove my sunglasses as I approach so I can read them as I get rushed past them in a hurry by the stream of people.
One would hope that if we found a way to significantly extend the human lifespan, people would become much more interested in conservation and issues like Global Warming, because they would potentially be around long enough to see the effects of their actions.
A few years back (maybe as much as 7 years), I did a cost benefit analysis of the cost per page of the average inkjet printer vs the average laser printer. There was a very small window of around 70-90 pages per month where it was more economical over 5 years to run an inkjet printer.
The analysis was done across several hundred inkjet models and a similar number of laser printers. It was done for a client trying to make a business case for removing hundreds of inkjets and replacing them with network lasers
Given how much laser printers have fallen in cost these days, I'd be surprised if even that window still existed. Unless you were doing photo printing, I really couldn't recommend an inkjet to anyone.
The 'problem' with inkjet printers is they use a wet ink - which is basically finely ground solid pigment in suspension. Over time and exposure to air the suspension dries out and the pigment blocks the nozzle injectors. The finer the nozzles, the faster it blocks.
If you want a printer that can sit for day, weeks or months without printing and then work perfectly on the rare occasion you need it to - buy a laser printer.
If you want a cheap colour printer, buy an inkjet, but know that you will have to either run the cleaning cycle or print a 'test' page on it at least once a week to keep it functioning. Not the cartridges only have a shelf life of a few months once opened, after which the ink has thickened too much to still work. A bigger problem for units with a fixed print head (cartridges are cheaper, but fixing the heads more expensive), less of a problem for units where the print head is integrated with the cartridge (disposable heads makes the carts more expensive but you discard the problem unit each time so generally maintain a higher print quality).
Disclaimer - I used to fix printers, inkjet and laser. Seriously, nothing stains like inkjet ink. If you spill toner on yourself use tissues and cold water to get it off.
Verse 1
*Ahem*
Mi mi mi mi miiiiiiiii
I am the great mighty poo,
and I'm going to throw my shit at you!
A huge supply of tish,
comes from my chocolate starfish.
How about some scat you little twat?
Verse 2
Do you really think you'll survive in here?
You don't seem to know which creek you're in.
Sweet corn is the only thing,
that makes it through my rear.
How do you think I keep this lovely grin?
*ting*
Spoken: Have some more caviar.
Verse 3
Now I'm really getting rather mad,
you're like an niggly, tiggly, shitty, little, tag nut!
When I've knocked you out with all my bab,
I'm going to take your head and ram it up my butt!
Conker: Your butt?
GMP: My butt!
Conker: Your butt!?
GMP: That's right my butt!
Conker: Urgh
GMP: My butt!
Conker: Eww!
GMP: My buuuuuutt!
Verse 4
(each line is carried one pitch higher)
Ahhhhh
Ahhhhhh
Ahhhhhhh!
Ahhhhhhhh!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
That was my thoughts exactly - it's bulimia without the tooth enamel damage.
As someone who has struggled with involuntary vomiting most of my life (apparently I have mild gastroparesis - where the stomach doesn't empty itself into the intestines properly), I can tell you that in and of itself, vomiting is not a good way to lose weight, but is a great way to screw with your metabolism.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Slashdot Mirror
Woosh.
As a guild leader and raid leader I'd say it's more of a D&S relationship with a bit of switching. I'm D in a raid situation, but there are times I feel like I'm everyone's bitch when I log on for some quiet play time and everyone wants me to do GM stuff.
Knowing humans for what they are, it's likely some corporation would get them classified as non-human so that they can be used for experimentation without the same ethical issues as human trials present.
ps riddle I might know a guy who know a guy who can source "long pork" - well if the gourmet horse is a police horse can you imagine what gourmet long pork comes packaged in? 10 points for the 1st person with a userid shown to post the correct (rather morbid) answer...
Would it come packaged in a limousine? You can't get much more gourmet than that, unless you were thinking chefs' whites.
Men relax by "getting away from things". Women generally cannot do this. Women need things in order in order to relax, they don't "forget" about things not in order.
If you honestly believe this and you want your female partner to relax, then surely the best thing you could do is help her get the most out of control things under control so that she can relax.
I now have the mental picture of a saber toothed tiger pooping a rainbow. Thanks. I have to go to a serious meeting about interface agreements and I will be thinking about pooped rainbows from oversized fanged tabbies.
This. And I say this as someone who is a gamer. I don't always enjoy the same types of games my husband plays. Or the same types of TV shows or the same types of books. I get incredibly frustrated sometimes when I'm getting pushed to play/read/watch something I have no interest in, and visa versa not being allowed to do something because he has lost interest in it.
Together time is important. But so is alone time, especially if you have kids.
There must have been something you had in common when you started dating - what was that and can you revisit in your together time?
If you insist on going down the gaming path, I recommend co-op games rather than competitive. Especially if there is a significant difference in skill level. And you need to be extraordinarily careful not to make her feel like she's letting you down if she makes mistakes. There are co-op board games as well as computer games, they may be a better option, less reaction based and you can potentially make up some homebrew rules variants if you want to make it more fun.
Since Christmas, the number of SPAMs I receive that appear to have come from one of my own addresses has out of no where skyrocketed. And because it comes form one of my valid addresses, it slips through the spam filter and gets auto filed in my 'sent from me' folder.
One of the nice and often underrated features of WoW is that there are about 8 different colourblindness filters built into the client for different kinds of colourblindness.
Graphic designers used to work with shrouds over their large monitors all the time so that wall colours didn't reflect onto what they were working with and skew the outcome. They used to be standard for RasterOps and other high end colour balanced displays.
Another option is to look at the brightness settings on your monitor. Most are adjustable. Firstly consider using a lower (warmer) colour temperature, or alternately just adjusting the brightness down and potentially the contrast slightly. This may alleviate the symptoms without needing to mess around with software configurations.
That said, if you are routinely suffering from glare based headaches, you probably need an eye exam and something like transition lenses.
A shudder just went down my spine even trying to picture that.
Though on reflection, it probably wouldn't have been white on black text, it would have been a scrolling marquee of rainbow text that probably also used the Netscape blink tag.
Back in the dim dark past when I used to do website UI stuff (TM), I used to set my backgrounds at something approaching 5% grey and the text at something like 95% grey because it was much easier on the eyes to read, but still afforded ample contrast. Don't ask me to remember the RGB settings, it's been too long.
I tend to have this problem at the local train station I use to exit the city in the evenings, the platform boards at the station entry are portrait orientated LCD screens. I have to remember to remove my sunglasses as I approach so I can read them as I get rushed past them in a hurry by the stream of people.
What happens if two people wearing this kind of treated fabric try to hug each other - would they bounce off?
I would potentially mean the end of inadvertent wet T-shirt competitions. ;P
One would hope that if we found a way to significantly extend the human lifespan, people would become much more interested in conservation and issues like Global Warming, because they would potentially be around long enough to see the effects of their actions.
A few years back (maybe as much as 7 years), I did a cost benefit analysis of the cost per page of the average inkjet printer vs the average laser printer. There was a very small window of around 70-90 pages per month where it was more economical over 5 years to run an inkjet printer.
The analysis was done across several hundred inkjet models and a similar number of laser printers. It was done for a client trying to make a business case for removing hundreds of inkjets and replacing them with network lasers
Given how much laser printers have fallen in cost these days, I'd be surprised if even that window still existed. Unless you were doing photo printing, I really couldn't recommend an inkjet to anyone.
The 'problem' with inkjet printers is they use a wet ink - which is basically finely ground solid pigment in suspension. Over time and exposure to air the suspension dries out and the pigment blocks the nozzle injectors. The finer the nozzles, the faster it blocks.
If you want a printer that can sit for day, weeks or months without printing and then work perfectly on the rare occasion you need it to - buy a laser printer.
If you want a cheap colour printer, buy an inkjet, but know that you will have to either run the cleaning cycle or print a 'test' page on it at least once a week to keep it functioning. Not the cartridges only have a shelf life of a few months once opened, after which the ink has thickened too much to still work. A bigger problem for units with a fixed print head (cartridges are cheaper, but fixing the heads more expensive), less of a problem for units where the print head is integrated with the cartridge (disposable heads makes the carts more expensive but you discard the problem unit each time so generally maintain a higher print quality).
Disclaimer - I used to fix printers, inkjet and laser. Seriously, nothing stains like inkjet ink. If you spill toner on yourself use tissues and cold water to get it off.
Heh. I started singing that in my head after I read your comment.
Verse 1
*Ahem*
Mi mi mi mi miiiiiiiii
I am the great mighty poo,
and I'm going to throw my shit at you!
A huge supply of tish,
comes from my chocolate starfish.
How about some scat you little twat?
Verse 2
Do you really think you'll survive in here?
You don't seem to know which creek you're in.
Sweet corn is the only thing,
that makes it through my rear.
How do you think I keep this lovely grin?
*ting*
Spoken: Have some more caviar.
Verse 3
Now I'm really getting rather mad,
you're like an niggly, tiggly, shitty, little, tag nut!
When I've knocked you out with all my bab,
I'm going to take your head and ram it up my butt!
Conker: Your butt?
GMP: My butt!
Conker: Your butt!?
GMP: That's right my butt!
Conker: Urgh
GMP: My butt!
Conker: Eww!
GMP: My buuuuuutt!
Verse 4
(each line is carried one pitch higher)
Ahhhhh
Ahhhhhh
Ahhhhhhh!
Ahhhhhhhh!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
That was my thoughts exactly - it's bulimia without the tooth enamel damage.
As someone who has struggled with involuntary vomiting most of my life (apparently I have mild gastroparesis - where the stomach doesn't empty itself into the intestines properly), I can tell you that in and of itself, vomiting is not a good way to lose weight, but is a great way to screw with your metabolism.
I've seen one split down one side suddenly like a burst balloon while someone was using it, they hit the ground with a thump.
I thought that was called turkey slapping.
Though in your case, it may be quail slapping.
This would work best as a system to return mined materials back to Earth.
As used in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.
Just don't let Mike share his AI code with Watson, he already has a sufficiently interesting sense of humour.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.