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You laugh now, but they were keeping Dorset dry for ... hours ...

They should let me deal.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

I shared Shadowlands, followed by some much needed high-camp Commando shenanigans (my friend was ignorant of both films ..!) the other night.

There's no point unless you have a monitor with a WUXGA resolution (1920x1200) or above.

1. I'd bet the culprit is frequency; her LCD probably only has a limited number of legal frequencies, and could be only 50Hz, for example. 2. Don't forget the nutmeg for bathing Kewpie Dolls in honey. Or you might be able to sacrifice star fruit and custard apples with a giant plastic anime axe.

... Of the world.

I am pleased that I am blissfully unaware of the many permutations of productions that have zero-budget and a bunch of attention-seekers, marketed under the "reality" banner. Just as zero-budget extras-in-old-curtains were a hallmark of the early SF tv, and laugh-tracks were a staple of previous generations' comedy shows, this too will pass into legend. And it can't come soon enough for me. (It will be interesting for future crops of sociology students to trawl through in their endeavours to grok the dynamics and ethics of the human social condition, though. I just don't want to watch it. With advertisements.)

"Out of Range" means that the frequency or resolution is too much for her (you sly dog, you) monitor. Most probably the frequency. Safe mode should boot into a very ordinary default VGA resolution, so I'm not sure why that tactic isn't working. Anyway, because Windows took your monitor as the plug'n'play default, and your monitor is a weirdo-one, she is suffering. You must atone to the gods of IT and sacrifice all your PayPal credit on small, head-bouncing Kupi dolls and ritually drown them in molasses (honey is okay for a substitute, but you'll have to add some nutmeg as compensation).

The video card is completely dependent on the monitor size (and hence resolution); you'll not see any benefit from a beefy GPU unless you have a big screen to run.

Phew.

President Schwarzenegger, here are the five unthinkable options! The people elected me to lead, not to read.

... And here I thought the correct greeting (in Mandarin) was Ni Hao.

It's a knockout blow!

It was more a parasitical crime of opportunity, rather than a premeditated farming proposition.

Welcome to hell ...

I'm patiently waiting for Black Mesa: Source before I play through HalfLife again. Though I was kinda feeling like a blast on HalfLife 2. Natch, it was written before you were born.

Quo usque tandem abutere patientia nostra. "Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes" ahhahhaa Si tu dixero, necesse erit ut tu interficiam.

The only classical (demi-)god to have died during the lifetime of the civilization was Pan.

That should be more than adequate for all that typing you'll be doing instead of playing games! "

Something important happens?

... Except this Chinese baker was caught less than a decade ago.

The story reminds me of an earlier (also Chinese) baker who was using human cadavers to flavour his buns ...

Thanks. Actually, since I've cut my vacation as she couldn't make it, she's been able to keep from losing her stomach contents for most of the days, and the new meds seem to be helping with the constant pain. We just went to see some films instead of the usual, which involves me reading to her in the coffee shop. Yesterday we started a really cool book, by a psychologist that I admire (a rare thing indeed), Philip Zimbardo, called The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. (Zimbardo designed and organised the now infamous Stanford Prison Experiment in 1970, which he had to terminate early due to the "success" of the social factors under observation. He also wrote my tertiary psych text book, which is why I was attracted to the book. He most recently had to be the expert witness in the Abu Graib investigation, which is part of this book.)