LadyCrimson

"I don't care if she's blue & animated, just look at those and tell me she's not hot." (edit: drat, Wrath beat me to it! lol)

I now have tires manufactured in 2009. Much better. Also, I'm in a really good mood. Neither rain or ant invasions or the looming income taxes can dampen my spirits. *happy dance*

Customer to doll: "May I put a bag over your head?" Doll to customer: "If that excites you, my love, then yes." Customer to seller: "I'll take her."

The Hangover was cute I guess. Had some LOL stuff...rather silly but charming. Mom was over the other evening so I saw Up again, since she hadn't seen it yet. I liked Up more on a 2nd watch. It's still uneven, but for some reason when I already knew the story certain things that annoyed me didn't as much.

Today I learned about the DOT year-manufactured code on car tires. Of course I learned this right after I bought new tires during some other auto work I had done last week. When I checked, apparently my 'new' tires were made in 2000. Don't expect 3 month old tires out of shop this day & age, 2-4 yrs would've been fine, but 10 years is a bit much! The funny thing is the guy at the Subaru dealership mechanic shop was chiding me for not having changed my tires in 10 years and how dangerous that was even tho I didn't have that many miles on them/they had tread etc. So then they put 10 year old tires on my car & charge me 450 bucks for em. HAHAHA (that's cryin' laughter...) Back to the shop I go to do some chiding of my own.... P.S. In case you're like me & didn't know, the issue is that even if tires are new in sense of having 0 miles on them, the rubber over time/ even in storage gets old & more easily separates, making them less durable & possibly less safe.

Read that cnet 'exclusive' article, too? Sigh...exclusive or not, it kinda ruined the suspense. Thanks, cnet. I never did play much of Arcanum. I couldn't stand the interface and it wasn't long before I stopped playing because of it. I know, how shallow of me. Always said I'd try it again later...maybe now? Never tried the 2nd game cnet is claiming will be the 1st two available. I don't know what VTMB stands for, but they claim it's Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.

My D.Keeper discs still work on XP just fine...haven't tried on Win7/the new pc tho. I bet the imp sprites on DK1 would move so fast it'd be hard to pick them up or slap them...lol I'm not hoping for any particular game...just that it's a good one. :D

My father bought a Camaro (I think it might've been a '67 or '68 tho)...it was blue and cool. When my brother was 16 or 17 it became his car. Many memories of hovering around while he tried to do tuneups on it and such. But car maintenance is not my bro's thing & he trashed it by not taking care of it & eventually it was gone. :/

Surrogates. Not great. Watchable, nothing more. Going to watch The Hangover tonight, see what the fuss is about.

So you'll be taking the exam standing up, then? ...the iPad is all the rage on Twitter (most of it in the form of absorbency jokes). The concept sounds ok, but for $500+ I'd rather buy a cheap laptop etc. Trendiness is never cheap.

Oh, I do some stuff online, I'm not completely in the stone-ages...couldn't live w/out my banks billpay. But that's using only one website...my bank. I prefer to limit internet credit card exposure when I'm able, and no I don't like Paypal either. Know several IRL who've actually had identifies stolen in recent years as they spent online in ever increasing frequency....One day before I die it's likely they'll be no offices of any kind for such stuff, but until then...I still prefer to hoof it when I can.

He's definitely not a "gamer." He cracks me up when playing, god luv him. Most of it is that he isn't a dedicated gamer (doesn't usually play much so never gets used to it) so he wants something he can just 'jump into', plus he has some mild dyslexia issues which makes him a slow, deliberate reader (hence disliking reading unless it's study-work related). So Quake3, Gears of War, Mercenaries of War2...thanks, I'll check those out.

Never did try Quake 3 I think...we liked the original Doom way back when. Does Left 4 Dead have a LAN option or is it online/single-player only? He might like running around shooting zombies etc.

lol...he tried that years ago, didn't like it. It's too "complicated." He doesn't want big learning curves on options, units, builds and he doesn't like lots of dialogue trees (rpg's). ...he prefers things like Diablo's, Overlords, Tombraiders, certain shooters, and obviously, Borderlands. Not into PvP either. WoW was too "big".

Thanks to my spouse, rainy winter days and marathon long sessions (which I rarely do on my own anymore), I am now rather sick of Borderlands. ...but I did discover a lot more about the way weapon stats, chr. skills & skill mods work, plus found a whole lot of 'hidden' areas & chests I hadn't noticed before. We need a new, easy to play LAN game.

Being an old fart or something, I'm becoming more and more annoyed when everyone's response to my saying something like "I have to go to insur. offices/DMV etc. to renew" is: "Renew online, why don't cha." ..... Because I don't want to, that's why. Gar!

I thought the exact same thing. All the big set up about how special the bond, how they choose you...then...aww, the poor little thing, cast aside! And...Dundee is one of the best light romantic-comedies. The sequels not so much, but the 1st one was awesome-sauce.

Shall We Dance, the original Japanese version. How did I miss this little gem? Lovely chr. story w/humor and meaning. No flash, no Hollywood ending etc. and all the better for it. I have no desire to see the Richard Gere remake. Also watched Inglourious Basterds. Hubby didn't like it because of too many subtitles, but I enjoyed it. Not as much as Pulp Fiction (the dialogue in Pulp Ficiton was awesome), but it had moments. Brad Pitt got to have a lot of fun, anyway. I wouldn't consider Waterworld or The Postman in the worst movies ever camp, but they certainly weren't very good, imo. Exercises in Costner-ego or something. Altho, I must admit I got a kick out of Dennis Hopper hamming it up in Waterworld...heheh

Considering the article is actually talking about having a certain area of the brain be larger, rather than overall brain mass, I'd say....no. But the article might explain why my husband is so much worse at video games than I am...as well as why I can verbally converse while watching TV and not lose track of either, while he can't at all. His caudate and putamen sections must be smaller. So now we will have "caudate and putamen envy."

Pants on the Ground, remix -

Hubby usually doesn't game much, but when he does, it's always on the big TV. Usually not LAN either. The PC doesn't stay by the TV all the time, so not really worth running wires through the walls etc. and the wireless was convenient and works fine for occasional web surfing & internet sports watching for both the laptop & the TV. There's now a long cable running from his office, down the hall, into the family room and to the PC sitting temporarily by the TV. When he gets tired of the game it'll disappear. heh Now we just need talk-headphones so we can stop shouting at each other down the hallway.

Cats are patient creatures, but I guess she reached her limit. Baby-kitty just sits on the floor and stares at me...for hours.

Cowabunga-kitty-chair-leap? Kitty thinks it's time you stop playing games and feed/pet/play with the Mastah of the house instead.

Wireless network connection sucks for gaming apparently. Or at least the one we use to surf the web on the big TV does. Works fine for the web, but not for games. When we dragged a hard cable instead, 98% of the horrible lag in Borderlands LAN went away, so, yeah. Much better. Now we can actually play (as opposed to position-shift-lag/die). Hubby got his Siren to 50 and is working on his own Sniper. I made a Solider to go with him. Soldier's a bit dull on his own, but works well as a pair. Luv shooting hubby to heal him etc.

Yeah...they got it free from a dealer/supplier they were working with. It's not the kind of card they need either (and it won't fit in the cases they tend to use anyway), so he didn't want it. K, that's what I was curious about/suspected. We might have a use for it someday but not at the moment. The ebay idea is a pretty good one, altho I think hubby would rather hang on to it. He collects spare parts ... a lot.... heh