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Exitao

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Prescient

I don't know if I'm being punished for being a bad person, or rewarded for being a good person.

Just at the time I decide I should organise and back up all my files &c, I click on a link to a video and suddenly have no sound.

I have no speaker in the system tray to adjust volume, and when I go to the control panel, it tells me I don't have a soundcard/chipset. I go to the device manager, remove the audio stuff, restart the system and it works again. And then I go click on the link... and no more soundcard. I do this several times.

Around this time I notice that the icon in the system tray for my antivirus program is missing. I can't open the program, I can reinstall it.

If my windows install disk wasn't already in use in another PC I'm slapping together, I'd be reinstalling now.

It seems good timing that I just backed up everything I want to keep.

So... am I lucky... or unlucky? Reminds me of a Taoist fable.

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at_leo_87

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

you're lucky because you backed everything up. you can always expect computers to die or fail on you or blow up.

my computer has been acting weird too. the context menu won't pop up when i right click on the programs list from the start menu. i cant figure out why.

i hate the stupid random things that computers do that make you hate your existence.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 5 2009 16:40:53

Exitao

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

Well, whatever it was, it knocked out my antivirus app so I couldn't even reinstall it.

I was lucky.

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at_leo_87

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

have you been downloading stuff?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 5 2009 20:32:39

andresito

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From: New Holland

RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

Hinduism: This stuff has happened before and will happen again.

Buddhism: Stuff happens... but maybe it's not really stuff.

Zen: What is the sound of stuff happening?

Judaism: Lord, why does this stuff happen to me?

Evangelicalism: Jesus, we praise you and ask why this stuff isn’t happening to someone else?

Catholicism: Stuff happens because you deserve it.

Open Theism: Stuff happens to God too.

Anglo-Catholicism: Verily, verily, stuff happeneth.

Atheism: Stuff happens. Then you die. No more stuff.

Rastafarianism: Let’s smoke the stuff.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 5 2009 23:51:37

Stu

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RE: Prescient (in reply to andresito)

quote:

Hinduism: This stuff has happened before and will happen again.

Buddhism: Stuff happens... but maybe it's not really stuff.

Zen: What is the sound of stuff happening?

Judaism: Lord, why does this stuff happen to me?

Evangelicalism: Jesus, we praise you and ask why this stuff isn’t happening to someone else?

Catholicism: Stuff happens because you deserve it.

Open Theism: Stuff happens to God too.

Anglo-Catholicism: Verily, verily, stuff happeneth.

Atheism: Stuff happens. Then you die. No more stuff.

Rastafarianism: Let’s smoke the stuff.

Brilliant Stuff man!!

your own work??

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 9 2009 9:01:35

andresito

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Stu)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Stu
Brilliant Stuff man!!
your own work??

Haha no! I wish!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 9 2009 18:18:22

at_leo_87

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RE: Prescient (in reply to andresito)

you forgot islam!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 9 2009 22:52:46

andresito

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RE: Prescient (in reply to at_leo_87)

Islam — If stuff happens, it is the will of Allah.

Jehovah's Witnesses — Let us in and we'll tell you why stuff happens.

Scientology — Faeces occur

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 10 2009 0:16:20

at_leo_87

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

HAHA is the list complete now?

quote:

Jehovah's Witnesses — Let us in and we'll tell you why stuff happens.

i like that one.

anybody got any tips on saying NO to them? they're so darn nice, i would feel mean

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 10 2009 1:13:36

NormanKliman

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RE: Prescient (in reply to at_leo_87)

quote:

anybody got any tips on saying NO to them?

"I'd like to talk, but we're in the middle of sacrificing a goat..."

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 10 2009 7:04:21

Guest

RE: Prescient (in reply to NormanKliman)

If you tell them you don´t believe in the bible nor do you believe in a god, they are usually a bit nonplussed: they have not been taught to improvise. Though I like Norman´s idea better

Sean

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at_leo_87

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

yes, but i bet they would have some back up reply they came up with ahead of time. they can be persistent!

i stopped answering calls from random numbers because they used to come at me all the time that way. now im afraid to even answer my door!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 10 2009 11:27:24

Ron.M

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RE: Prescient (in reply to at_leo_87)

quote:

yes, but i bet they would have some back up reply they came up with ahead of time. they can be persistent!

Yeah..

You know, on my very first visit to the United States and arriving at O'Hare Airport with a sense of excitement, like "Wow! I'm really in the US!!", I was walking down the arrivals hall after clearing Immigration/Customs and the very first person I met was a really friendly guy, who came up and shook my hand and asked me where I was from etc.
I chatted to him for a bit and then he handed me this book and an LP record as a "welcome" gift to the US....

And then asked me for $30 as a token of respect for the "Hare Krishna" Movement.

Luckily I hadn't exchanged any cash yet, so I had to "reluctantly" give them back...

In general though, I met lots of good people in the States.

As for The Witnesses, I got really tired of spending time arguing with them and now I just say "Nah...it's not for me....hope you have a nice day though folks"...

And they go away!

Why did I ever bother arguing about stuff with them before???

cheers,

Ron

PS: Where the heck is "New Holland"?

(Also love Norman's new avatar!

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andresito

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Ron.M
PS: Where the heck is "New Holland"?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 10 2009 14:05:40

NormanKliman

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Ron.M)

quote:

Also love Norman's new avatar

Hi Ron! I'll never forget that picture. You ever have one of those mornings? The alarm doesn't go off, you realize that you've run out of coffee and there's not enough butane gas for the water heater...

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 11 2009 6:20:17

Ron.M

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RE: Prescient (in reply to NormanKliman)

quote:

Hi Ron! I'll never forget that picture. You ever have one of those mornings? The alarm doesn't go off, you realize that you've run out of coffee and there's not enough butane gas for the water heater...

It also somehow puts me in mind of Terremoto de Jerez!

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 11 2009 6:58:37

at_leo_87

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

from wikipedia:
Duende (mythology), a fairy- or goblin-like creature in Spanish and Latin American mythology

is that what thing is supposed to be? it looks like it wants a hug/kill

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 11 2009 8:07:40

edguerin

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

quote:

If you tell them you don´t believe in the bible nor do you believe in a god, they are usually a bit nonplussed

As a kid I witnessed my father telling them that.
The result was, that they got on their knees and prayed for "the poor benighted soul"

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Arash

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

I even backup my backup!!

Means, i have 2 external hard drives, one is in use for backup the files from my Notebook and the second one is only to backup from the first external HD

..... i read many articles that external HDs use to die often, because there are very cheap now and the quality is not so good (just like the CDs and DVDs you burn).

I would go crazy if all my flamenco stuff would be deleted all of a sudden.
It took me years to collect all that stuff.

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Arash

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

btw, the correct islamic one is: blow up the whole stuff. No more stuff.

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NormanKliman

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RE: Prescient (in reply to at_leo_87)

quote:

Duende (mythology), a fairy- or goblin-like creature in Spanish and Latin American mythology

is that what thing is supposed to be?

Bengue, actually.

Seriously, it's a common mole. Vaguely reminds me of Peter Max's Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine. But if you think that's ugly, have a look at the star-nosed mole in the attached photo. Interesting animal. I've read that it uses its mobile nasal tentacles (come here and give me a kiss, baby...

) for examining food, and that its reflexes when eating are supposed to be so fast that they're at the very limit of neuronal speed.

Just be sure not to think about these images right before you fall asleep...

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edguerin

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

cute

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 11 2009 9:13:48

aarongreen

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RE: Prescient (in reply to NormanKliman)

Years ago I knew this crazy old artist who was a recluse in the house he grew up in. At the point I knew him he was close to 80 years old and sported a mohawk. His place was overflowing with piles and piles of junk, books, objects d'art, tapestries etc. One day he was sitting on his front porch, screened in and full of junk, and saw a mother and her daughter coming up his walkway. He thought to flee when he realized they were Witnesses but then decided against it. When they knocked on his screen door he also realized they could not see him where he was sitting (behind an enormous monkey cage) so he called out "Hello!"
The Mother then said "We're Jehovah's Witnesses, can we come in and talk to you?"
He replied "Sure but I have to tell you that I'm blind and I'm not wearing any clothes".

Without a word they turned around and walked very quickly away from his door.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 12 2009 12:36:00

at_leo_87

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RE: Prescient (in reply to aarongreen)

quote:

Years ago I knew this crazy old artist who was a recluse in the house he grew up in. At the point I knew him he was close to 80 years old and sported a mohawk. His place was overflowing with piles and piles of junk, books, objects d'art, tapestries etc. One day he was sitting on his front porch, screened in and full of junk, and saw a mother and her daughter coming up his walkway. He thought to flee when he realized they were Witnesses but then decided against it. When they knocked on his screen door he also realized they could not see him where he was sitting (behind an enormous monkey cage) so he called out "Hello!"
The Mother then said "We're Jehovah's Witnesses, can we come in and talk to you?"
He replied "Sure but I have to tell you that I'm blind and I'm not wearing any clothes".

Without a word they turned around and walked very quickly away from his door.

HAHAHA

i would try that but what happens if i get charged with indecent exposure?
but... if they're girls and curious ones at that.... well...
dear penthouse forum....

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 12 2009 12:57:21

Exitao

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RE: Prescient (in reply to at_leo_87)

quote:

ORIGINAL: at_leo_87

have you been downloading stuff?

Heh. I'm addicted to downloading.

So... that star nosed thing... where's the rest of its face?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 13 2009 21:49:34

NormanKliman

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RE: Prescient (in reply to Exitao)

quote:

So... that star nosed thing... where's the rest of its face?

I don't know; I've only just become aware of what these animals look like. They don't seem to have much in the way of eyes or ears, and I guess the mouth is in the grey-brown area under the nose. If you're really interested, there are more photos and even a video available through Google. It looks a lot less frightening in the video!

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