Not everyone wants to drive some huge SUV! I currently own my largest car, a Honda Accord. Which is also very easy to squeeze into those tiny little parking spots by me. Luckily my new place now has a driveway and a garage, so I don't have to worry about it as often anymore.
After a bad accident that completely wrecked my last car (not my fault, thankfully) I had a rental, and all they had available was a Chevy Colorado. That was much easier to park than I thought a truck would be. It was the short cab with the extended bed, so it was a pretty long truck. It was different not being so low on the ground to all the SUVs around me, but still, even the Colorado was dwarfed by all the gigantic SUVs that are so popular in Central NY. And snow is not a reason, my Accord is amazing in the bad weather, and I get through areas that I see big SUVs stuck in. A lot is about the driver and not the car.
I write this reply from a Linux box. What do I do for a living? I own a PC shop. A huge amount of what I do is removing spyware from computers. I don't think this is Windows fault. The people that bring the PCs in many times admit to what they did, saying they didn't care and just clicked yes to make it all go away. These same people would type their password and hit OK just to make it "go away" on a Mac or in a Linux GUI, too.
I run Linux because I want to and enjoy it, not because I'm on some anti-MS agenda. I sell mostly Windows machines. Most of my clients couldn't handle a Linux machine, but the anti-MS proganda on/. is extreme.
I'm the same way a lot of times, but I do enjoy the old games every so often. I have quite a few emulators, and mostly play Mario 3. I actually have an old NES hooked up right now, and the only game I play is Punch Out. It had been so many years since I had played it last that I found it provided a challenge again.
One thing I really do like about older games is with a lot of them, I can just sit down and play for a little bit. I don't have time to emerge myself into complex games anymore, I end up mostly playing racing games or Super Monkey Ball on the X-Box with the little time I do get to game. And Monkey Ball is so great as a party game, I haven't even played single player yet.
I guess I'm getting old (I'm 23!!!) but games sure aren't what they use to be.
I would really think that the release of classic NES titles would even be a better draw for people that were really old enough in 1986 (when the NES had a US nationwide release) to have had one. I know I had one when they first came out. And 23 is not old. I'm 27, so you'd be making me ancient by those standards!
I do plan on getting one after awhile, though. But then, I said that about the Gamecube, and still haven't picked that up yet.
I'm currently looking to buy an Intel iMac, mostly because I want something to do video and graphics editting on. I run Linux on all my other machines, and while I have found a nice solution for my photo editing (ufraw+digiKam+Gimp,) I still prefer to use a Mac for it. Oh, and I sort of want to play WoW, but am not going to screw around with Wine to try it out.
The only thing that has held me back from a current Mac is OS X, though. I really don't like the interface. It does come down to personal choice, and a lot of people do like it, but it just doesn't click for me.
Now of course, as you cannot change HD platters within different drive with different heads like you can do with a CD, each manufacturer can (and will !) encode differently. It has been reported that hard disks with the same reference wouldn't "interoperate" exchanging the controller part because of differing firmware versions, while the format is standardized for CDs or DVDs.
I've had to change the controller on a few hard drives for clients who did some really stupid things to their drives, but didn't want to pay to send it out and needed data off of them. It has worked on a few drives, who were close or the same for production date/product runs, but then on the other hand, it hasn't worked for even more drives. I'm sure a few of these cases the abuse was too severe and the drive itself was damaged, but a few times it was obvious that the controller just wasn't going to work on the other drive for whatever reason, be it firmware or some other little difference, even though the drive would seemingly start to work (many times the BIOS on the machine would find the drive with the different controller, but label it as jibberish.) How so many people managed to damage the controller is beyond me, though. We luckily haven't seen this happen anytime recently.
I'll have to check it out later. I just put the alpha on the SUSE notebook, and am using it at the moment. So far it's working great, so I'm going to play around with it. And flash now works on the notebook (always has on the desktop.)
I have the same issues with one of my web mail clients. Gmail doesn't cause any serious issues (takes ages to up memory usage to anything noticable,) but one of my work based accounts, running mailEnable, will ramp up memory usage over an 8 hour period to 700+ megs. The thing is, it does it on my SUSE 10 x86_64 notebook and on another Windows XP SP2 notebook, but not on my desktop, which is also running SUSE 10 x86_64. The notebooks are just running adblock, while my desktop has that plus Grease Monkey, Forecast Fox, and a few other extensions I'm sure I'm forgetting.
The article links to another article, Why Johnny can't program, which is really good. That article has a good concept: That what we call "programming" is actually a hierarchy with shades of gray. C++ is programming. But is writing an Excel macro programming? How about programming a VCR? What if I write requirements and then code-gen a class hierarchy or a database schema? Programming is more than just writing code.
I have clients that talk about programming their computers with Microsoft Office or programming their Windows (which has meant anything from defragging the hd to reinstalling the entire OS.) It drives me a bit batty, but I have to remember that a large portion of them can't stop getting spyware no matter what kind of antivirus/anti-malware software they run. I've seen them tell Spysweeper to let spyware run and to never bother them again instead of just running the scan it recommends.
There's a driver glitch with brand new hardware!!! It's already been two weeks and they haven't fixed it yet!! What does this mean for the computing landscape? Is this Wintel's downfall? Will Apple return to their days of prominence? The implications could be enormous!
Didn't you hear??? Apple is switching to MS Windows, I heard it from a reliable source! And Linux costs just too much to run, we're all out of alternatives!
"Electric shaver?! Ha! What are you, a chick? You're not hardcore unless you shave with a rock."
Oddly enough though, people who use rocks for deodorant...ehh, not so much.
I had one of those rocks, it worked really great, actually. I have allergy problems with a lot of deodorants, and I figured it couldn't hurt to try it (unless I was allergic, heh.)
Do you remember back in the day, when we used to have to walk uphill, both ways in the snow, just to get to the arcade? And games back then only cost a quarter to play, we didn't have no stinkin' home consoles to play all we wanted! We took our money from working in the factory (we didn't have no schools back then, I tells ya) and decided if we wanted to play Pong or get moon pies! Kids these days, I tells ya, you have it too easy!
Sure, everybody buys specialized products, but they also buy very generalized products. Again, your example is skewed. Who has a toaster oven, but no oven? An oven can do the same job as a toaster oven, it's just that the toaster oven happens to do it a little quicker and efficiently, but everybody still has ovens.
Try cooking a roast or a 30 lb. turkey in an oven, and see how far you get.
Instead, I'm going to bake a potato in my toaster oven, and while it's doing that I'm going to toss it into my full size oven. I figure if I bake the toaster oven at the same time I'm baking a potato in it....
I swear, "eyecandy distracts me from my work" is the new "I ditched TV ages ago and I'm all the better for it blah blah blah".
I was one of those "ditched TV ages ago" people, mostly because cable was expensive and I was poor. So I gave up on it, read a lot more, and played a lot more video games (okay, I played Unreal Tournament and that was about it.) Now I can afford cable, have the whole digital package, blah blah blah, and love it. I still don't watch a lot of TV and I play less Unreal Tournament (now the 2004 variety.) I'm pretty sure I'm not worse off because I watch TV some now, if anything I'm better for it, because I still read a ton and get to enjoy my other hobbies, but I also work out more because I like to while I watch TV.
On the subject of eye candy, if you don't like it just DISABLE IT. Not that hard. I like KDE with transparency turned on. I'm pretty sure it doesn't distract me from getting my work done, and I enjoy the experience more with a little bit of eye candy prettiness. I dislike OS X for the main reason that I just don't like it. I don't need to give a ton of reasons why, it's just not for me. Same goes for GNOME, I just really don't like it. Desktop wars are as pointless as OS wars. We have multiple choices, so just choose what suits your needs and you enjoy using.
Now/. distracting me from work is a completely different matter.
I'm not going to get into politics here, as much as you might like, but the reason most new cars are "silent" (they're not, they're actually quiteloud from the OUTSIDE) is because the most common type of engine, a 4 cylinder, has a terrible exhaust note.
My 4 banger makes sort of a "WEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee!" noise, and that's with everything stock. I'm sure if I put a new exhaust system I could sound more like a pack of angry bees and less like a hyper squirrel, though. I'd rather not make my car look like a Matchbox Car, though. But no matter what, my car will never sound "mean."
I drive a 4 cylinder 95 Honda Accord, btw. When I bought it, having a "mean" and fast car wasn't my #1 priority.
I've seen the same exact attitude from a Promise Keeper myself, actually. I asked him what happened to people (I specifically asked about cavemen to see what he responded) before the birth of Jesus. He told me they all went to hell because they should have known Jesus in their hearts naturally, and not need to be told about it (even though he wasn't actually born yet.) He is also waiting for his daughter to meet the right man and settle down, even though her picture is next to "Bull Dyke" in the dictionary *laugh*. He ignores the fact his daughter is a lesbian because it would fall against his believe system, while condemning everyone else for the same thing.
That is a great shirt, too, but I can understand why he'd only wear it out to clubs. I would find it funny but I imagine a lot of the general populous (depending on where you live) might have a rock throwing reaction. I guess the hardest part of the guild would be having it there for anyone that wants to join and not have to deal with the general attitude of the other players, while not advertising it too much (therefore pointing it out for harassment.)
Homosexuality is a disfunction because there is no inclination to pro-create. A lot of money gets spent to have pandas in the zoo make babies - no one considers it 'natural' if a species dies out.
It is an outgrowth of a disdain for the conventional on some level. And it can be recovered from - Project Exodus is one such organization that facilitates this and there are a few more.
I know I'm just feeding the trolls at this point but I'll bite.
Comparing gays to pandas at a zoo is not only insulting but doesn't make any sense. While there are not many pandas left (due to humans!) there are MORE than enough people. And who says gay people don't want children? My friend who happens to have two moms would probably argue that you're wrong (and if your wondering, he isn't gay because of it.) He wasn't adopted, either. And what about straight people that don't want children? Should they be treated the same way and rehabilitated? Because they don't want to procreate are they also "not natural" like gays?
Who decides what's conventional? I know I'm not part of some committee that decides what's right, wrong, immoral, ethical, or whatever. As a white straight male shouldn't I be entitled to a vote? Or do I get left out because I'm not Christian? Should I be rehabilitated, also?
It doesn't affect my daily life if the person I'm working with, talking to, or even just passing by happens to be gay. I'm not in their bedroom, nor are they in mine. It doesn't even matter to our species survival. People are starving because there isn't enough food, diseases cured ages ago claim lives because of a lack of medicine, wars are raged daily, people kill people. Let's not forget about things we can't cure yet, like AIDS! Yet the world population increases. Looks like homosexuals aren't destroying us after all.
f you penetrate the crap and look at what Bliz's real motivations are, I'm pretty sure that really they don't want to be seen as truly "gay friendly" for fear of losing the demographic who sees "gay friendly" as basically "Satan friendly".
I would have to think that the group of people who see "gay friendly" as "Satan friendly" would have a higher percentage of people who think that any kind of RPG is Satan worship. These people are going to complain and protest no matter what, just because it's an RPG.
And you're right, having a GLBT friendly guild would be the best way to get away from the jackassery. Ignore is a powerful function. I don't even play WoW, but I used to play EQ and didn't play with anyone outside of my friends normally because I got sick of seeing 12 year olds type "OMG U SUX FAG!!" because I just wanted to solo or tried to actually share loot. I'm straight and it bugs the hell out of me.
Mostly it is determined by a relationship to the subjects father, meaning that is it not genetic but conditioned.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean at all by this. I do not know my father. Neither does a very close friend of mine. I am straight. He is gay. We grew up in the same neighborhood, were raised in a very like fashion, and even have many of the same interests (hell, we even work similar jobs.) I'm not sure how the relationship with our fathers (or more like lack of) caused this. He doesn't choose to be attracted to other men in the same way I don't choose to be attracted to women. I just am, it's not something I chose, just like I didn't choose to be a white guy. I control what I do in regards to my attractions, but I don't choose who I'm attracted to.
And how can someone "recover" from being gay? You can recover from the flu or from a bad injury. You don't recover from being gay, there's nothing wrong with a gay person, so there's nothing to recover from!
We'll probably visit Denmark, actually. My fiancee has family there, so we always have a place to stay, which is nice! Some of her cousins are around the same age as us (late 20's/early 30's.) She also wants to visit England, and I really want to make it to Ireland and Germany. Her family lives right near Copenhagen, actually. I have a lot of family in Germany and Ireland, but I don't really know any of them, but it'd still be interesting to hunt some of them down and meet some of my extended family.
We've discussed moving over to Denmark in the future. Her mom would love to move back home, I'm sure, but so much of her family (fiancee's mom, that is) is now in the US (kids, grandkids, and her sister) that she wouldn't move back by herself. We'll probably end up in NYC first, though. I just need to get out of Syracuse, NY. The crime, poverty (which has gotten worse due to a large mall's development being up in the air,) and dirt is just starting to get to me (this city is so damn dirty!)
Yeah, I noticed I left out the East a bit after I posted it. Was doing about 3 things at once, but mostly remembering how good the food was! =D Everything there was amazing, and the staff was really nice. I hate to say it, though, but everyone seems nice in the city compared to the attitude everyone has in Syracuse.
I've been wanting to visit Europe for some time now, just haven't had the chance just yet. I do make the trip down to NYC pretty often, though. I park my car in Jersey City, and don't touch it again till I leave (we stay are a relative's flat there.) Take the train into the city, and just walk or take the subway to get places. I love it. Where I live, I have to drive to get anywhere and there is no real public transportation. I live in a suburb of Syracuse, NY (about 5 minute drive from the main part of the city.) It's not like a live in a little town or village.
Where I live I feel like I'm in the minority of people at a healthy weight. In NYC, I'm the norm. But then, there are many restuarants in the city with healthy food that tastes good (we ate at an amazing vegan place this weekend, Angelica Kitchen. It's on 12th St between 1st and 2nd Ave. Worth the wait if there is one!)
Apple's stuff is also quiet, and I bet the portion of Linux users who sleep in a room with a running computer is higher than that for other operating systems.
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Not everyone wants to drive some huge SUV! I currently own my largest car, a Honda Accord. Which is also very easy to squeeze into those tiny little parking spots by me. Luckily my new place now has a driveway and a garage, so I don't have to worry about it as often anymore.
After a bad accident that completely wrecked my last car (not my fault, thankfully) I had a rental, and all they had available was a Chevy Colorado. That was much easier to park than I thought a truck would be. It was the short cab with the extended bed, so it was a pretty long truck. It was different not being so low on the ground to all the SUVs around me, but still, even the Colorado was dwarfed by all the gigantic SUVs that are so popular in Central NY. And snow is not a reason, my Accord is amazing in the bad weather, and I get through areas that I see big SUVs stuck in. A lot is about the driver and not the car.
I write this reply from a Linux box. What do I do for a living? I own a PC shop. A huge amount of what I do is removing spyware from computers. I don't think this is Windows fault. The people that bring the PCs in many times admit to what they did, saying they didn't care and just clicked yes to make it all go away. These same people would type their password and hit OK just to make it "go away" on a Mac or in a Linux GUI, too.
/. is extreme.
I run Linux because I want to and enjoy it, not because I'm on some anti-MS agenda. I sell mostly Windows machines. Most of my clients couldn't handle a Linux machine, but the anti-MS proganda on
I guess we must both be new here.
I like the sound of goatse.kids!
I'm the same way a lot of times, but I do enjoy the old games every so often. I have quite a few emulators, and mostly play Mario 3. I actually have an old NES hooked up right now, and the only game I play is Punch Out. It had been so many years since I had played it last that I found it provided a challenge again.
One thing I really do like about older games is with a lot of them, I can just sit down and play for a little bit. I don't have time to emerge myself into complex games anymore, I end up mostly playing racing games or Super Monkey Ball on the X-Box with the little time I do get to game. And Monkey Ball is so great as a party game, I haven't even played single player yet.
I guess I'm getting old (I'm 23!!!) but games sure aren't what they use to be.
I would really think that the release of classic NES titles would even be a better draw for people that were really old enough in 1986 (when the NES had a US nationwide release) to have had one. I know I had one when they first came out. And 23 is not old. I'm 27, so you'd be making me ancient by those standards!
I do plan on getting one after awhile, though. But then, I said that about the Gamecube, and still haven't picked that up yet.
I'm currently looking to buy an Intel iMac, mostly because I want something to do video and graphics editting on. I run Linux on all my other machines, and while I have found a nice solution for my photo editing (ufraw+digiKam+Gimp,) I still prefer to use a Mac for it. Oh, and I sort of want to play WoW, but am not going to screw around with Wine to try it out.
The only thing that has held me back from a current Mac is OS X, though. I really don't like the interface. It does come down to personal choice, and a lot of people do like it, but it just doesn't click for me.
I've had to change the controller on a few hard drives for clients who did some really stupid things to their drives, but didn't want to pay to send it out and needed data off of them. It has worked on a few drives, who were close or the same for production date/product runs, but then on the other hand, it hasn't worked for even more drives. I'm sure a few of these cases the abuse was too severe and the drive itself was damaged, but a few times it was obvious that the controller just wasn't going to work on the other drive for whatever reason, be it firmware or some other little difference, even though the drive would seemingly start to work (many times the BIOS on the machine would find the drive with the different controller, but label it as jibberish.) How so many people managed to damage the controller is beyond me, though. We luckily haven't seen this happen anytime recently.
I'll have to check it out later. I just put the alpha on the SUSE notebook, and am using it at the moment. So far it's working great, so I'm going to play around with it. And flash now works on the notebook (always has on the desktop.)
I have the same issues with one of my web mail clients. Gmail doesn't cause any serious issues (takes ages to up memory usage to anything noticable,) but one of my work based accounts, running mailEnable, will ramp up memory usage over an 8 hour period to 700+ megs. The thing is, it does it on my SUSE 10 x86_64 notebook and on another Windows XP SP2 notebook, but not on my desktop, which is also running SUSE 10 x86_64. The notebooks are just running adblock, while my desktop has that plus Grease Monkey, Forecast Fox, and a few other extensions I'm sure I'm forgetting.
There's a driver glitch with brand new hardware!!! It's already been two weeks and they haven't fixed it yet!! What does this mean for the computing landscape? Is this Wintel's downfall? Will Apple return to their days of prominence? The implications could be enormous!
Didn't you hear??? Apple is switching to MS Windows, I heard it from a reliable source! And Linux costs just too much to run, we're all out of alternatives!
"Electric shaver?! Ha! What are you, a chick? You're not hardcore unless you shave with a rock."
...ehh, not so much.
Oddly enough though, people who use rocks for deodorant
I had one of those rocks, it worked really great, actually. I have allergy problems with a lot of deodorants, and I figured it couldn't hurt to try it (unless I was allergic, heh.)
Games just aren't as fun as it used to be.
Do you remember back in the day, when we used to have to walk uphill, both ways in the snow, just to get to the arcade? And games back then only cost a quarter to play, we didn't have no stinkin' home consoles to play all we wanted! We took our money from working in the factory (we didn't have no schools back then, I tells ya) and decided if we wanted to play Pong or get moon pies! Kids these days, I tells ya, you have it too easy!
Sure, everybody buys specialized products, but they also buy very generalized products. Again, your example is skewed. Who has a toaster oven, but no oven? An oven can do the same job as a toaster oven, it's just that the toaster oven happens to do it a little quicker and efficiently, but everybody still has ovens.
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Try cooking a roast or a 30 lb. turkey in an oven, and see how far you get.
Instead, I'm going to bake a potato in my toaster oven, and while it's doing that I'm going to toss it into my full size oven. I figure if I bake the toaster oven at the same time I'm baking a potato in it
I swear, "eyecandy distracts me from my work" is the new "I ditched TV ages ago and I'm all the better for it blah blah blah".
/. distracting me from work is a completely different matter.
I was one of those "ditched TV ages ago" people, mostly because cable was expensive and I was poor. So I gave up on it, read a lot more, and played a lot more video games (okay, I played Unreal Tournament and that was about it.) Now I can afford cable, have the whole digital package, blah blah blah, and love it. I still don't watch a lot of TV and I play less Unreal Tournament (now the 2004 variety.) I'm pretty sure I'm not worse off because I watch TV some now, if anything I'm better for it, because I still read a ton and get to enjoy my other hobbies, but I also work out more because I like to while I watch TV.
On the subject of eye candy, if you don't like it just DISABLE IT. Not that hard. I like KDE with transparency turned on. I'm pretty sure it doesn't distract me from getting my work done, and I enjoy the experience more with a little bit of eye candy prettiness. I dislike OS X for the main reason that I just don't like it. I don't need to give a ton of reasons why, it's just not for me. Same goes for GNOME, I just really don't like it. Desktop wars are as pointless as OS wars. We have multiple choices, so just choose what suits your needs and you enjoy using.
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I'm not going to get into politics here, as much as you might like, but the reason most new cars are "silent" (they're not, they're actually quiteloud from the OUTSIDE) is because the most common type of engine, a 4 cylinder, has a terrible exhaust note.
My 4 banger makes sort of a "WEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee!" noise, and that's with everything stock. I'm sure if I put a new exhaust system I could sound more like a pack of angry bees and less like a hyper squirrel, though. I'd rather not make my car look like a Matchbox Car, though. But no matter what, my car will never sound "mean."
I drive a 4 cylinder 95 Honda Accord, btw. When I bought it, having a "mean" and fast car wasn't my #1 priority.
But I am no manufacturing engineer, so for all I know they are made out of baby seals.
This made me laugh and get strange looks from everyone around me. Something about that line just struck me as hilarious.
I've seen the same exact attitude from a Promise Keeper myself, actually. I asked him what happened to people (I specifically asked about cavemen to see what he responded) before the birth of Jesus. He told me they all went to hell because they should have known Jesus in their hearts naturally, and not need to be told about it (even though he wasn't actually born yet.) He is also waiting for his daughter to meet the right man and settle down, even though her picture is next to "Bull Dyke" in the dictionary *laugh*. He ignores the fact his daughter is a lesbian because it would fall against his believe system, while condemning everyone else for the same thing.
That is a great shirt, too, but I can understand why he'd only wear it out to clubs. I would find it funny but I imagine a lot of the general populous (depending on where you live) might have a rock throwing reaction. I guess the hardest part of the guild would be having it there for anyone that wants to join and not have to deal with the general attitude of the other players, while not advertising it too much (therefore pointing it out for harassment.)
Comparing gays to pandas at a zoo is not only insulting but doesn't make any sense. While there are not many pandas left (due to humans!) there are MORE than enough people. And who says gay people don't want children? My friend who happens to have two moms would probably argue that you're wrong (and if your wondering, he isn't gay because of it.) He wasn't adopted, either. And what about straight people that don't want children? Should they be treated the same way and rehabilitated? Because they don't want to procreate are they also "not natural" like gays?
Who decides what's conventional? I know I'm not part of some committee that decides what's right, wrong, immoral, ethical, or whatever. As a white straight male shouldn't I be entitled to a vote? Or do I get left out because I'm not Christian? Should I be rehabilitated, also?
It doesn't affect my daily life if the person I'm working with, talking to, or even just passing by happens to be gay. I'm not in their bedroom, nor are they in mine. It doesn't even matter to our species survival. People are starving because there isn't enough food, diseases cured ages ago claim lives because of a lack of medicine, wars are raged daily, people kill people. Let's not forget about things we can't cure yet, like AIDS! Yet the world population increases. Looks like homosexuals aren't destroying us after all.
And you're right, having a GLBT friendly guild would be the best way to get away from the jackassery. Ignore is a powerful function. I don't even play WoW, but I used to play EQ and didn't play with anyone outside of my friends normally because I got sick of seeing 12 year olds type "OMG U SUX FAG!!" because I just wanted to solo or tried to actually share loot. I'm straight and it bugs the hell out of me.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean at all by this. I do not know my father. Neither does a very close friend of mine. I am straight. He is gay. We grew up in the same neighborhood, were raised in a very like fashion, and even have many of the same interests (hell, we even work similar jobs.) I'm not sure how the relationship with our fathers (or more like lack of) caused this. He doesn't choose to be attracted to other men in the same way I don't choose to be attracted to women. I just am, it's not something I chose, just like I didn't choose to be a white guy. I control what I do in regards to my attractions, but I don't choose who I'm attracted to.
And how can someone "recover" from being gay? You can recover from the flu or from a bad injury. You don't recover from being gay, there's nothing wrong with a gay person, so there's nothing to recover from!
We'll probably visit Denmark, actually. My fiancee has family there, so we always have a place to stay, which is nice! Some of her cousins are around the same age as us (late 20's/early 30's.) She also wants to visit England, and I really want to make it to Ireland and Germany. Her family lives right near Copenhagen, actually. I have a lot of family in Germany and Ireland, but I don't really know any of them, but it'd still be interesting to hunt some of them down and meet some of my extended family.
We've discussed moving over to Denmark in the future. Her mom would love to move back home, I'm sure, but so much of her family (fiancee's mom, that is) is now in the US (kids, grandkids, and her sister) that she wouldn't move back by herself. We'll probably end up in NYC first, though. I just need to get out of Syracuse, NY. The crime, poverty (which has gotten worse due to a large mall's development being up in the air,) and dirt is just starting to get to me (this city is so damn dirty!)
Yeah, I noticed I left out the East a bit after I posted it. Was doing about 3 things at once, but mostly remembering how good the food was! =D Everything there was amazing, and the staff was really nice. I hate to say it, though, but everyone seems nice in the city compared to the attitude everyone has in Syracuse.
I've been wanting to visit Europe for some time now, just haven't had the chance just yet. I do make the trip down to NYC pretty often, though. I park my car in Jersey City, and don't touch it again till I leave (we stay are a relative's flat there.) Take the train into the city, and just walk or take the subway to get places. I love it. Where I live, I have to drive to get anywhere and there is no real public transportation. I live in a suburb of Syracuse, NY (about 5 minute drive from the main part of the city.) It's not like a live in a little town or village.
Where I live I feel like I'm in the minority of people at a healthy weight. In NYC, I'm the norm. But then, there are many restuarants in the city with healthy food that tastes good (we ate at an amazing vegan place this weekend, Angelica Kitchen. It's on 12th St between 1st and 2nd Ave. Worth the wait if there is one!)
Apple's stuff is also quiet, and I bet the portion of Linux users who sleep in a room with a running computer is higher than that for other operating systems.
I don't sleep in the basement!