Bartimaeus

I'm sure Waldon would've loved that, Guard Dog. I remember when Waldo first started posting here just like it was yesterday...I didn't read what he actually said, but I remember him posting something. Ah, Maldo, how I'll miss you...

We'll never forget you, Waldon. RIP, ???-2015

That....doesn't sound good either. I pity you Hey, we can all only cope with life and ourselves as best as we can.

I don't see it at all, really... But then again, I don't see anything in hardly anyone, so my opinion matters very little, I suppose.

Completely failed to sleep, apparently. Between having my two baby nieces and these bloody lightning storms...I have slept maybe four, five hours in the last 48. At least they're darlings and actually worth the pain, though.

All the physical prowess in the world will be of naught if you don't want to play (and train for) football.

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Certain textures irritate and/or shock my senses, and paper is unfortunately one of them, and it does both. So although I obviously can't avoid it as much as I'd like, I avoid it as much as I can.

I also can't stand anything chalk-y feeling, anything fuzzy, anything satin-y-feeling, or anything microfiber-y. Life's tough when you're Bartimaeus.

I have despised the feeling of paper since I was a child. Nevertheless, I've always been an avid reader...so ebooks, whether I'm reading them on a tablet or on my desktop (I actually prefer reading ebooks on my desktop over all other devices), are quite the blessing for me. Paper, whether it's regular sheet paper, card board, tissue paper, or whatever else...is a horrid feeling thing. If I could avoid touching the stuff for the rest of my life, that would be great.

You're reminding me of why I made the switch to ebooks...that, and I loathe the feeling of paper.

I wonder if that could actually make things worse: if it's all infected, might be that removing the tooth would provide more direct access to the gums (and through the gums, your other teeth)? I'm not a dentist, though...and I would want to consult one before doing something as drastic as permanently ripping out one of my teeth.

That sucks a lot. I pretty much never brushed my teeth ever for like the first eighteen years of my life, and all I've got to show for it are a few smaller cavities (didn't even need a single crown or anything). Guess I'm really lucky - most people would've had to pay a much higher price than that. What horribly stinky breath I must've had for the longest time, though. Good luck with your teeth and getting them back in order!

How do you figure?

I might've spoken a little too strongly in my previous post. When it comes to computers, doing random crap like unplugging your printer isn't too terrible of an idea, particularly if you don't have a clear idea of what the issue is to begin with. Indeed, if you're troubleshooting with little to show for it, doing "random" stuff like that is probably what you want to do next - just to try and get something to change in your situation. As an example of doing something totally random-seeming fixing something, if you try to restore from a Windows system image using the Windows 7 re-imaging tool, and you happen to have a flash drive plugged in, the restore will inexplicably fail for no reason every time. Don't know why, and the program doesn't even say it's the result of the flash drive being plugged in: it just doesn't work if there is one plugged in. Remove the flash drive, and things work perfectly again. So if you're desperate, doing stuff like that isn't really a bad idea...it just isn't all too likely to fix your problems or reveal what the problem is...but if you're talking about spending >$100 to possibly fix what may or may not be the actual cause of the problem (you're even completely sure yet!), doing that sort of stuff is likely worth your time.

Though illegal immigrants might not be licensed to even be able to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples to begin with, either... (e: holy recursiveness, batman)

Yeah, that should not matter in the slightest, unless that printer is actually the problem, which I really doubt it is. I mean, I guess you could try unplugging that and seeing if it makes any difference, but really, that's basically just doing something at random and has as much of a chance of fixing something as unplugging your DVD drive or something.

Yeah, which is why I agreed with you in the opening of my post, but went on to argue anyways, I guess.

Er...to be fair, if God exists (and prohibits something) then surely His authority would actually be more important and relevant than any state or federal authority? I agree...however, for me, the contention is whether or not that's really what God would want you to do when your government/legal authorities say otherwise. Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and give unto God what is God's. If she really believes that is the correct course of action...well, fine: she's free to interpret her faith and act upon it (...and live with the consequences) however she wishes. Just as we're free to criticize the thought process leading up to her choosing that course of action,

It still sounds like some sort of hardware problem: none of what you said (not having some Windows updates, having too much stuff open, etc.) should really be ever causing regular issues like you've detailed. Maybe something extremely rarely...but not like what you've been experiencing.

am not thinking we would like hurl much as a teacher if he sees self and professors as analogous to employers who "care very little about your personal opinions." funny, but in our limited experience teaching, we very much wanted to hear the opinions o' our students and while we did indeed wanna make sure that they learned the material, we were far more interested in what the students could synthesize and create from what they had learned from us as 'posed to students trying to tell us what they thought we wanted to hear. and yeah, the nonsense about academic language is fiction. sure, every discipline has its own vocabulary and students must learn, but you are talking 'bout pruning language that is inappropriate or offensive to an instructor. cal that "academic language"? is another label that has evolved over time to mean something ugly. HA! Good Fun! I don't think Hurlshot was really implying the two different situations were analogous... Take out "your bosses are going to care very little about your personal opinions" (...and restructure the sentence to make actual grammatical sense) and that would be closer to an analogous comparison. That bit was there to highlight the difference, if anything, in degree of the two situations that have similarities (...that are yet distinct from one another), not to imply that the situation with the teachers was the same as the situation can often be with bosses (in that they wouldn't really care about you, as the student/employee). I am saying this in good faith, though, based on other things Hurlshot has said of his teaching in the past.

I hate updating Windows because none of the Windows updates (...for actual WIndows) ever say what they actually do, so you have to look each one up. I also have never use automatic updates for anything if I can avoid it.

Yeah, it was probably El Dorado. And yeah, updating (with a major patch) in the middle of a campaign means your map is going to get all warped. I would've just rolled back to the previous patch via Steam to finish the campaign. You can "update" to a "beta" that's actually a previous patch version by going into EU4's properties and the beta tab.

El Dorado...which I felt was the weakest expansion released so far. Nation Designer and Americas development were the main selling points of it...and the Americas still pretty much sucks, so...and I'll never use the Nation Designer because of just how weird/ahistoric of a feature it is.

Europa Universalis has come a long way in that regard, then, judging by the hundreds that you can play as in EU4...

It's tough to go back in an "iteration" series like Europa Universalis or Civilization if you've already played the latest ones first. I kind of did it going from Civilization 5 to Civilization 4...I thought Civ 4 was honestly at least a little better in some ways...but Civilization is just too danged shallow (and ahistoric, which means a lack of verisimilitude for me, which prevents me from really getting into it like I can games such as Europa Universalis). I don't think I'll ever really be able to go back and play the earlier EUs.