Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition

[Shale]

Pretty much every graphics driver nvidia has released in the past eight months is a buggy piece of crap. This is more extreme than the other problems, but sadly not entirely unexpected.

[Cotigo]

Huuuuuuge difference between "buggy piece of crap" and "hey now your graphics card doesn't work."

[Shale]

It all comes down to "don't update your drivers until Nvidia remembers what testers are for" in the end.

[AAA]

 And another reason I'm glad I went ATI

[Cotigo]

Way less depressed than I expected to be.  However it's relatively hard to get to sleep, and it's extremely hard to tell the difference between tired and bored.

So bored.  Horny, too (moreso than normal).  Kinda funny to see what I was using the MJ to suppress.

[Idun]

Me hugging you will be as much MJ as you'll ever need. ; )

Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.

[Cotigo]

Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.

That's what she said.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Like I'd give up on a committed relationship for Djinn of all people. >_>

EDIT: Well, no. Djinn would be leagues more probable than VSM. At least Djinn looks pretty hot.

*raises eyebrow*
*decides to take the backhanded compliment like a gentleman*

Snow is teh tsundere.

Me hugging you will be as much MJ as you'll ever need. ; )

Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.

Either Idun is adorably innocent... or this is the hottest comment ever made on these forums.

[Shale]

I'm pretty sure it's not Option A.

In other news, now my girlfriend's mother is dying of cancer. Doctor gives her six months.

What the fuck, DL curse?

[Cotigo]

I'm pretty sure it's not Option A.

In other news, now my girlfriend's mother is dying of cancer. Doctor gives her six months.

What the fuck, DL curse?

Jesus, exactly which supernatural force's or possibly CIA agent's coffee did you piss in?

[Shale]

I don't know, but I'm going to hit him in the nuts with a hammer.

[NotMiki]

Shale, that's awful.  I hope things turn out as well as they can.

[Idun]

Like I'd give up on a committed relationship for Djinn of all people. >_>

EDIT: Well, no. Djinn would be leagues more probable than VSM. At least Djinn looks pretty hot.

*raises eyebrow*
*decides to take the backhanded compliment like a gentleman*

Snow is teh tsundere.

Me hugging you will be as much MJ as you'll ever need. ; )

Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.

Either Idun is adorably innocent... or this is the hottest comment ever made on these forums.

The food. I.. I thought everyone would think that. Clearly I'm blindsided. But they are awesome. The fish they normally use is tilapia, one of the most whored out groups of fishies out there.


Shale. Ugh. ):

[Dhyerwolf]

Logistical computers question: I'm in the market to replace my laptop, and I have absolutely no idea what to aim for. I was happy with Dell, but all things considered, I'm seriously expecting a response that their plant exploded given how long this damn thing is being taken to be made. I'm looking for nothing fancy at all, and it basically doesn't have to have any specific qualities. I'm just looking for what essentially will be the most durable. Any opinions?

[Grefter]

Clearly I'm blindsided. But they are awesome. The fish they normally use is tilapia, one of the most whored out groups of fishies out there.

A more true statement about the vagina has never been made.

Let me preface this with just how important my PC is to me.  I know it should be apparent, but it is like this.  I grew up with a computer.  I have always had a computer.  Some people have pets, I have computers.  When my PC isn't working it isn't just the lack of communication with my friends and family or my chosen form of entertainment.  It is like my dog is dying here.  From repeated pained injuries.  And it costs about the same as well, which is a real bitch.

So in my continuing saga of fuck my computer.  So my CPU was fucked based on the fact that my PC wouldn't even reach POST since Tuesday and that was well the error my Mobo was giving.  So off I go on the weekend to fork out 300 loonies for a new CPU, may as well get an upgrade to an I7 from my I5 and pick up that Edit - Sound card (not video) I have been eyeing up while I am at it right? WRONG.

So turns out that it wasn't the CPU, it was the MoBo, probably the socket was fucked, so the CPU like should work and I am out 300 bucks.  MoBo gets taken back to the shop to be replaced because that shit is like 3 months old.  Get a new temp MoBo on loan from my Dad that he will use to make a HTPC with (micro ATX board, so lolworthy for gaming).  I get that home, install ethernet drivers so I can connect to the net.  My little brother is buying all new components for a PC and if I was going to replace my MoBo I was going to buy a case anyway (instead of the sound card), so fuck it, I am broke but I will scrape together the cash and get a new case.  It should be the last thing I need to spend on my PC for a long time.  I jump on to the net, read one page in Discussion.


Then my boot drive dies.  

This would be my brand new hard drive from December.  So in the last 4 months I have purchased 4 computer components.  RAM, Mother Board, CPU and Hard Drive.  Of these, the RAM is slower than I wanted, so I planned to replace it with something a bit faster, I have replaced the CPU unnecessarilly, the Motherboard has fucked itself as has the Hard drive.

Fuck this shit. Fucking fuck it why did I choose to be an early adopter.

At least my soundcard when I could be fucked installing it is an old piece of hardware (Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium), so it PROBABLY will work.

I am so fucking broke right now.  Need a new HDD, will probably have to rip all my music again (new stuff isn't backed up, but I have been meaning to do that for a while anyway).  I haven't lost anything mission critical, but I am really broke and burned out mentally on computer stuff.   Have I mentioned that last week at work was one of the worst I have had?  So yeah I get a week of work at an office full of computers being that guy that is good with the database who gets to voodoo shit into sense.  At least it is fucking software though.  I can deal with software.  This hardware shit makes me want to hang myself.

[Cotigo]

Dude, didn't you get a warranty on... any of that?  For all this shit to be breaking so soon after you had just bought it (especially the HD) it sounds like you're fucking yourself by not getting some sort of warranty on 'em.  Don't most computer part outlets offer a warranty of some kind? 

[Grefter]

Getting it on the Motherboard, some stuff varies.  HDD probably won't get it, the CPU I thought was fried so I wouldn't get it on that.  So of the two things that have -actually- broken I have warranty on one of them (probably).

Hard drives are cheap enough that it probably isn't worth claiming anyway, by the time I would get it back (3-4 weeks likely?) I will be able to afford another one.

[Cotigo]

Ah, I was misreading because it is 8 AM.  It's not that everything broke, it's that some things broke and you are a bad capitalist.  Gotcha.

[Grefter]

It is more that everything is in a steady state of self destruction.  I suppose I am leading by example there, but that is not the intention.

[Lady Door]

I recently started drinking tea. I'd been avoiding it because my first experience was with a poorly steeped, cheap herbal blend, and it tasted like grass in hot water. I've upgraded to organic green tea and organic yerba mate, but they're still the store-purchased, little bag kind. They taste just fine. I enjoy them, except for the weird aftertaste and mouthfeel I get after I drink a cup.

I'll get over to Samovar in the City sometime soon so I can pick up "real" tea. Any recommendations?

[Cotigo]

Me 3 hours ago:  Hey look it's warm outside.  A little overcast, but there's no reason to not be comfortable and lazy and not wear proper pants/shoes.

As I try to leave campus to return home, Weather used Snowstorm!!  A terrible blow!! Zennydon A takes 95 damage.

Fortunately it is New Mexico weather and in ~30 minutes the snow stopped long enough for me to get home.

Never thought I'd be running to get to my place of work.  Didn't see my boss/coworkers, but still...

[Ultradude]

I recently started drinking tea. I'd been avoiding it because my first experience was with a poorly steeped, cheap herbal blend, and it tasted like grass in hot water. I've upgraded to organic green tea and organic yerba mate, but they're still the store-purchased, little bag kind. They taste just fine. I enjoy them, except for the weird aftertaste and mouthfeel I get after I drink a cup.

I'll get over to Samovar in the City sometime soon so I can pick up "real" tea. Any recommendations?

Yerba Mate. My experience with this is from a guy at my church (he's since moved out of town) with family in Brazil who brought some really authentic stuff on a church trip, and I can describe it pretty much as 'fuck yeah' even if most of the other guys didn't like it.

Anyways, if you've been liking green I like gunpowder greens myself, in spite of very little experience. Smokey.

Maybe find a good mild black tea like Prince of Wales, Twinings makes it good in tea bags.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

New job impressions!

A) Oh good contract stuff went alright.

B) 500 bucks on food (both for groceries and eating out) aid? Fucking sold.

C) HOLY SHIT THE HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN COVERS EVERYTHING

D) They have private pension funding retirement plans? Heck yeah.

E) Wait a minute my boss is like ten states away from here for a company ceremonial duty and won't be back until Wednesday?

F) Sweet, they gave me an institutional pen drive!

G) ... what the heck have I gotten into. >_>

This is gonna be fun.

[NotMiki]

This is all from the perspective of someone who doesn't really ever put milk or sugar in his tea, so keep that in mind.

If you like black tea, Twinings really is a great brand.  I second the recommendation of their Prince of Wales tea (though I prefer it without milk) and their Earl Gray is excellent.  Their gunpowder isn't too good, though.  Oh, but their green tea with jasmine is very nice (you should definitely try green tea with jasmine if you've never had it).

For green teas, Chinese teas like gunpowder have a darker, smokier flavor than Japanese greens like sencha, which are a bit grassier (but in a good way).  I prefer Japanese teas generally, but they're both nice.

If you see a Darjeeling, give that a shot.  Darjeeling is a really light black tea that's really nice to drink straight.

Oolong tea has a very earthy taste to it, smells kinda like if you ripped the bark off an oak tree after a heavy rain.  I like it.  Your mileage may vary.

As a general note, black tea is best brewed at boiling, 220, and green tea is best at 180, which is a fair amount cooler.  If you brew green tea too hot, the color will be more on the tan side, and it'll be more bitter than it otherwise would have been.

[Cotigo]

Interac phone interview done, next one is in Phoenix on May 15th.

Just need to be less nervous, because when I get nervous I babble, and babbling makes me look stupider than I am.