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Nearly had a panic attack when I booted my pc up and suddenly got "cheksum error" followed by a "cannot detect operating system" messages... After a bit managed to sort it out, something reset my bios to default factory, so I had to reset the raid and wotnot. But geez, that's always scary when that sort of thing happens. Decided to let that stress go by blowing stuff up in Saints Row 3.

Heh, I'm half tempted to dust off my stacks of those boxed sets and supplements and take a picture of the pile..

Got asked to do some tech support on the laptop belonging to one of my sister's friends. They got talked into buying a flash-bang HP laptop via PC world a few weeks ago. Of course, then they didn't realise it didn't have a cd/dvd drive, and all of their software drivers for the printer and router and wotnot they have at home.. are of course on CD. And these folks are incredibly non-technically savvy. Then I get into it, and for some reason, even though they paid the £30-40 to have it set up for them by PC World, and it's only a few weeks old.. it has a ridiculous amount of updates that should be done. Firmware, drivers, windows 8, a massive amount. But they all hang. HP's auto updates, Windows Updates, they say they're downloading and installing, but they just hang. Then trying to get to systems controls to find out if there's anything odd.. and every time you click on anything there, the computer freezes. So spending a few hours looking at that and trying to figure out what part of it is just Windows 8 annoyance and what's actually a problem. I am thoroughly even less-impressed with PC World then I already was. Which , actually, is kind of impressive by itself.

Ow. I repeat, Ow. I have no bloody clue what I've done, but something on the left side of my back really isn't liking me at the moment. half my arm movements and any forward curvature of my spine sends joyful spasms of aches and pains along that side of my torso.

Isn't a chunk of the anti-gay bible aspect in Leviticus? Which also has the big chunk of "tattoo's are bad, mmkay?", "you should not cross-breed cattle" and the "you're going to hell if you wear clothes made out of more then one type of material" if I vaguely recall... It does seem to me that if the various churches are okay dropping the latter bunch and not stressing over them, why are they getting so hooked on that part?

And an interview with Brian Fargo looking back over his career for those who might be interested.. polygamia - Brian Fargo : The Golden Era of Computer RPG's is Yet to Come

"Drink leads to drunkeness, drunkeness leads to beer goggles, beer goggles lead to dirty women, once you have a dirty woman in your jock.. forever will she dominate your destiny...."

Besides general puttering around, dabbling at work, taking some phone calls, mentally preparing to steal my sister's room when she moves out and turn it into a mix of office and game room.. Made a playlist of the complete Pirates of the Caribbean score and had that running throughout the evening. Played host and made tea when a friend of my mom's visited so they could have a general chit-chat. Didn't win the Eurolottery roll-over. Hey, when it's hitting the £150 million plus, you'll throw down for a couple of lucky dips for the sheer hell of it. What is it they say, you have better odds of dropping dead on the trip to get the ticket then you do of actually winning the jackpot.. Having a big mug of hot chocolate before I track down where the cat is at, and make sure things are all sorted and organised before I call it quits for the night and go face the challenges of Morpheus...

In my experience, about 70% of the time they just want a friendly face to tell them they still look good. Remember, women are completely mental. That's why the Crazy / Hot graph was invented.

Challenge.. Accepted. Since Wals hasn't had the chance to do so yet..

Well I'd have reacted differently, but I'd still have reacted. I ran it by a couple of people I know who are not well-versed sci-fi geeks.. and none of them have a problem with the name. In fact, none of them recognised the soylent name in the first place...

Eh, I made a bet with some friends back in secondary school that I'd still be going strong a century from then. So to win my pound we've arranged to meet up a short distance from where my school was when I'm 114... Edit: I mean, literally ever couple of years one of us turns round and does the "Remember, 2093, July 21st, just outside of Clements..."

hm, apparently gran fell down out in her garden this morning and is still being a bit wobbly. So its the family arranging to get her in for a doctor's checkup this afternoon. The joys of making it to your 90's I'd say...

Pushing through the morning, had an on/off sleep, and a bout of weird dreams, now sipping tea and letting a minor headache fuzzle around in the background. The dogs are being a bit back and forth and all "fuss me! fuss me!", and the sun is shining so I'm pondering whether to try clearing a bunch of laundry before I poke at something work related.

Also, if this wasn't a forum of fairly well-versed sci-fi movie goers, that would probably have gone over a lot of people's heads...

For that Nostalgia Flashback of Amusement!! http://youtu.be/bCeESZhmHsM

I have to admit, I do enjoy starting a new character and running around on the beginner planets...

Is this where the old crack of "rugby is a game played by men with odd-shaped balls" comes into play?

http://youtu.be/l1VfLiRcilA

You have the madonna with the big boobies hanging on your wall? a slightly gay gestapo agent hitting on you and airmen hidden in your house?

No , not brandy. Port.

Salutations Ros.. Enjoy these moments while they last.. The birthdays that celebrate yet another year of good life, wait until you feel it's more the birthdays are simply staving off another year before the grave..

Some of those were.. incredibly painful to listen to. I'm not sure if it's just the dialogue making it even worse, or the delivery of that dialogue... "I have to stay alive and write this article before I die..." "hug me if I'm dying..and vice versa.."

As long as it doesn't descend to the depths of the "would your rather" side of the x vs y..