LadyCrimson

I didn't know where to put this - it's not a video, music, or movie. Just a little website with a flash-created spider you can "play" with. The purpose is to try and make as realistic a spider as they could in flash. I think it's awesome. http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ The other thing I did today - watch hubby try to fix the toilet. It works now, but not sure if it'll stay that way. It may be about plumber-time....again. Older houses and plumbing...sigh. Plus I played more WotLK beta. Death Knights are so much fun...in fact, they're too fun. They'll be nerfed a lot before release, I'm sure. heh

Hurlshot's not too far away from us, and for the area he's correct. There's not many who can manage to save up 20%, let alone 30% (at least for their first house) entirely on their own. Most people we've known who managed to buy (when we couldn't) had help from their families. We absolutely hate being in debt - and refused to touch those hinky loans - so I understand that POV...and that's one reason we didn't buy condos in our 20's etc. Like many others, boy do we regret that now, haha. The rent-while-you-save thing seemed fine when we were in our 20's...not so much in our late 30's/early 40's w/time running out and watching inflation+the house prices skyrocket almost out of our reach despite savings and higher income brackets. Our house is small, but eventually we could either add-on and it'd be awesome, or sell it and move on. I think it'll work out for us a lot better in the long run. We do hate the mortgage, tho. :D

She sounds young and unsure of what she wants in a relationship. There's also always the possibility of undiscovered mood disorder issues that complicate her decisions/actions. She could simply be addicted to the "grass is greener" syndrome. Or she may be the devil incarnate. Some people are a lot slower than others to "grow up" re: relationships or even know if they really want one, and this can and does affect their earlier relationships like gangbusters, including immature or inexplicable (to "us", and maybe even to them) behavior, leaving confusion all over the place. This applies to men as well as women. That doesn't make it feel any better, tho, when you're in the middle of it. My sympathies. @ theslug - Neither men or women have some kind of monopoly on being able to "figure themselves out."

I don't know what you're talking about. Now excuse me as I go watch some HD-HBO while I'm waiting for my humongous download to finish.

Bridge to Terabithia (2007) ... despite some nice performances by the young actors, most of the movie I felt pretty bored. The ending was decent/sad, but that's about it. Haven't read the book. I guess I've lost a lot of the child-within or something...it just didn't grab me. Although it did make me recall some childhood memories of friends and I playing at Superfriends and the like.

Ive been wondering the same thing. My cable internet provider (Comcast) is instituting a 250GB per month cap before you have to pay extra. I play WoW quite a bit and am curious how much juice that game sucks. I looked at my bill last night and it doesnt detail my monthy usage, which makes sense seeing as how there has never been a limit before, but still. Quick search shows that it's probably around 10-20mb/hour of play. Not enough that I think you should really be worried about with a 250GB cap. Thanks for looking that up. *does some quick math* So, 20mb/hour = 50hours/GB = 12,500hours/250GB cap? Someone else I know who has lived with severe dorm-room limits thought playing D2 non-stop for 24 hours might be 50Mb. Other people have tried things like watching a few streaming video/listening to streaming audio, then downloading some large files etc. and reported figures like 2-5GB for an hour or two of such "common" activity. If you're a big gamer who downloads tons of big game patches/online-bought games every month on top of that, it could be a problem. But otherwise, I think most people won't have any problems at all w/Comcasts cap. Some other companies, however, have - or are proposing - much lower caps...like under 50GB. I'd hanker a guess that between hubby's work stuff and my internet surfing/gaming, we might suck up close to 100GB a month, but it's really hard to estimate and I could be way off either way. I definitely think any company w/a cap should include a bandwidth usage meter w/their package.

It's sometimes interesting, as a woman who fits very few of the female stereotypes, to read this forum. Perhaps I'm really a man!

Hope it's nothing serious and just flu. Strange illness/symptoms are always disconcerting. But glad the doctor wanted to play it safe...I like doctors like that.

Obviously, basic gameplay hasn't changed, but there's tons of changes to the way skills/trees work, pets work, buffs/raid-stacking works...I literally feel like I have to learn how to play my hunter all over again. It's not just altering a skill or two...it's literally the whole tree/s, with new skills, re-arrangement of skills on the tree, and what they do. Beyond that ... I haven't been very impressed with the new land...w/BC, the 'new areas' seemed cool and interesting compared to the pre-BC areas, but Northrend's first area, at least, is really unexciting. I'm sure it'll get better later. I hope.

Sitting around this morning wondering what our average internet bandwidth usage might actually be, in light of the seeming new/upcoming trend of companies w/download limits. Marveling at how it can feel chilly here in the morning, sometimes, and then by mid-afternoon be "ugh" hot. I like it... Thinking that the WoW expansion may not be to my personal liking and for once Blizz won't be getting my money.

It's called already being filthy rich and just coasting along to pay for the new multi-million mansion... hahah I didn't think 21 was that bad, but it was nothing special, yeah.

I'm a female, and I believe there's no such thing as "romance". Not in the...to coin a phrase...romanticized media way that many (especially relationship-inexperienced) people seem to think of as "how a relationship should be." This romanticizing of relationships is, imo, one reason why people give up on relationships far too early. I don't mean to say relationships can't be romantic, in that when you look at your spouse you feel all squishy inside because of how wonderful you think they are...that sort of emotional "high" people tend to associate with romance etc. Just that imo relationships don't come about because of "true romance" - "true romance" comes about because of the relationship, if that makes sense. Relationship-romance is not the same as the initial tee-hee magnetism of early attraction/courting. I remember having a discussion once with someone who's marriage was falling apart. He kept focusing on how he bought new cozy living room furniture and was trying to romance his wife/make her feel wanted/loved by creating a "romantic, cozy" environment w/the flowers, candy, candle light dinners, baths, massages, and all that. It wasn't working, and I couldn't seem to get across to him that those things were (in his case at least) not the reasons for the relationship falling apart. He had a defined idea of what romance was and couldn't step outside of that box. No one is going to respond to such surface and supposedly "romantic" overtures if the intellectual/emotional connection isn't established - and the greatest mistake people make is in thinking such connections can be established in 6 months and then you never have to think about it again. People change...interests, jobs, priorities and activities...you have to keep reestablishing the emotional and intellectual connection somehow, as life moves forward, in whatever way that works in your relationship. Course, sometimes it just won't work out, but if you succeed, the "romance" will still be there 50 years later. So I guess what I'm saying is that I believe a long-term relationship does not spell out no-romance, as long as your idea of romance is realistic and not based on fantasy or only physical attraction.

"If I Had Words" from the film Babe. Chipmunked vocals FTW

Hahahah! I love it. Re: using compressed air to dust...I guess if you have 'dust covers' on your fans, that would help, but be cautious when using that method...I farked up my power-supply and video card fans once, because the huge clouds of flying dust got into the fan bearings or something. First they made noise, then they ground to a halt. If you can find a good one for pc's, a vacuum works a lot better, especially if you have months or years of dust collected.

It's icky hot here, we no longer have a swimming pool since we moved, my street is blocked off from the city slurry-tarring the road so I can't drive anywhere for a while, and the WoW beta is shutdown for the afternoon. But ... I can always sit in a bathtub full of cold water and I can walk to the nearest mini-mart for some ice cream. Mmm...ice cream.

The load on the pc from all that video-info can be immense...especially w/older pcs. Definitely get more RAM. But even with that, some games will drop their frame rate by quite a lot when you turn Fraps on. It's just something that has to be accepted and lived with, at the moment.

Dead Calm. A 'psychotic stranger' on-a-small-boat suspense movie that missed the 'classic' mark by a little bit, but is still a fun piece. I like how it essentially has just three people in the whole movie, plus its gorgeous cinematography. Also the first movie where I really "noticed" Sam Neill & Billy Zane.

I just got into the WoW WotLK beta, so I'll be playing that for a while. At least, after they finish with a 7 hour server thingie that, of course, was started 10 minutes after my first login. First major beta-play I've ever been in...they're really changing everything...this will be interesting.

Tell me where I actually said that a game plot itself is 100's of hours long. Maybe I'm unusual, but every game I've really liked I've played for 100's of hours. Which is why I don't like shooters much - they're not typically very replayable imo.

I might have minded the movie-ending slightly less if it hadn't had one of those "NOOOOOOOOOOOO" type moments. With 'what if" stories like The Mist, I like ambiguous endings that leave the reader/viewer with something to muse on.

Can you actually play the game? Is the character speech-text also garbled, or is just those main menus? Tried different drivers etc? Sounds strange...

Relatively useless as a party member (why use him when others were so much better) but had a few amusing lines. But I didn't find him interesting or compelling, no. Mostly, the large, round, death-star wanna-be just got in my way visually so I told him to take a hike.

I took a shower.

The ending was left very ambiguous - no big conclusion, but w/a very slight sense of (yet unlikely) hope. He doesn't shoot anyone, no army to the rescue.

Or in the majority of cases, worse. I have to admire your optimism, though. After all the rehashed stuff that the EU has been making even worse time and time again, Ive grown pretty pessimistic about the whole deal altogether. The only things of EU that interest me now are KOTOR(Both the games and the comics) and the Legacy comics, though the bad art on the KOTOR comics really isn't helping... Agree about the usually worse trend. And I try to be optimistic about everything, because now and then rehash/sequel can end up being as good, and even more rarely, better, than previous attempts...yet I'm not so optimistic where I'll rush out and buy - I have friends/reviewers be the guinea pigs before I spend my money on it. *wink