The Counting Eurohippuses Doesn't Help Me Sleep Complaint Thread

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited June 2013

    Shopping done, one bottle each of Luksusowa and Monopolowa - plenty for a long time! (big grin)

    Now nibbling chicken strips dipped in A1 sauce, yum!


    ...after what just happened today (see previous page) I'm ready to drink a bottle of each.
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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    M F M said:
    @KK: that's not cricket (angry frowny face)... I wonder how they achieved that - *speculates* ... *deleted probably against TOS*... because popping up ISP pages in front of what you're doing, when you're using a completely different communication mechanism is NOT something that happens every day.

    ...I actually was on the modem at the time it occurred as as I had switched from the Hotspot's server because their bandwidth was getting hammered by someone streaming vids. Like I mentioned I was blocked from from getting on any other site as well as every tine I opened a new tab and clicked a bookmark the same screen would pop up. Currently back on the Cafe's server as I am finished with my downloads.

    That 10$ surcharge does not include the fact I have to purchase their 120$ "hotspot" modem.

    They just send you a bill here, wireless data bill shock is a recognised (by the Tabloids) medical condition that leaves people angry and speechless :o)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited June 2013

    ...that wouldn't be as much a bother as it wouldn't take effect until the current service month was over.

    It's the whole blocking of service which has already been prepaid for until I agree to the surcharge for a service I cannot use until I spend the additional 120$ for the modem it requires (getting 0$ trade in on my current one even though I pay extra each month for insurance against failure or loss of the modem) is what riles me.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Whew, only one hour and 45 minutes and I can go home! Well, shopping first... I need a bottle of Patron tequila and a bottle of vodka, both for this weekend. I want to just say home, sip drinkies, render, and write, and read! I need to get all of my Kindle library on to my tablet PC.. that should keep me busy a while!


    Seriously tempted to go out for drunken debauchery on Friday, but fore that I could get a nice back massage, a backup USB hard drive, and have money left over for a Chicken Wing Sunday! Sigh.. maybe my drunken debauchery days are over. I feel sooooooo oooollllldddd! (cry cry cry)


    I need to be able to write during my downtime at work, AND when at home. I'm thinking of changing up my workflow to use Google Docs for the first draft, then into either Scrivener for revision and editing or straight into Jutoh for final editing, art, and publication. I have long dead spaces when I could be doing something (like right now, waiting for the ONE test guy to test 4 different flavors of the software) and I could easily get 200-500 words a day in during lunch. Must.. write.. more.. AAIIIEEEE! (aaaaaah face)


    250 hits today on my Red Room authors page. Weird. I'm not advertising myself except in my sigs in the few places I post, and in my online chat profile.. not even my Facebook! I wonder who on Earth is reading my stuff? (weird feeling face)


    ...can't help you on the tequila (don't really drink the stuff as it reminds me of paint thinner) but for Wodka's try one of these:

    Vikingfjord - a Potato Wodka From Norway distilled with pure glacier water. Very smooth and clean.
    Luksusowa - My personal favourite Wodka Distilled in Poland since 1928.
    Monopolowa - Though made in Austria since WWII, it still adheres to the original Baczewski family recipe dating back to the late 18th Century. Extremely high quality, and over two centuries of heritage at a very reasonable price.


    smooth and clean. tinks i can even remember a name like Vikingfjord.


    swedish chef says something that sounds like fyord, yorrd deh fyord

  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    It was hot today and I am tired.

    Morning. Coldest day evah here, or something...

    What a way to wake up....!

  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Shopping done, one bottle each of Luksusowa and Monopolowa - plenty for a long time! (big grin)

    Now nibbling chicken strips dipped in A1 sauce, yum!


    ...after what just happened today (see previous page) I'm ready to drink a bottle of each.

    If you were here, damn man, I'd *give* you one of the bottles! (holy carp emote)

  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Shopping done, one bottle each of Luksusowa and Monopolowa - plenty for a long time! (big grin)

    Now nibbling chicken strips dipped in A1 sauce, yum!


    ...after what just happened today (see previous page) I'm ready to drink a bottle of each.

    If you were here, damn man, I'd *give* you one of the bottles! (holy carp emote)

    Effing message board! "Error Message: Unable to receive your submission at this time" - what BS.. (very angry face)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    ...thanks, about to head to the neighbourhood brewpub for their Wednesday "cheap pint" day.

    They also have a very fast server.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited June 2013

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Shopping done, one bottle each of Luksusowa and Monopolowa - plenty for a long time! (big grin)

    Now nibbling chicken strips dipped in A1 sauce, yum!


    ...after what just happened today (see previous page) I'm ready to drink a bottle of each.

    If you were here, damn man, I'd *give* you one of the bottles! (holy carp emote)

    Effing message board! "Error Message: Unable to receive your submission at this time" - what BS.. (very angry face)

    It was lying. : )

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  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...thanks, about to head to the neighbourhood brewpub for their Wednesday "cheap pint" day.

    They also have a very fast server.

    Rock on! Have fun for me! (cool smile)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    noes understand the silver fish symbolism?

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...thanks, about to head to the neighbourhood brewpub for their Wednesday "cheap pint" day.

    They also have a very fast server.


    fast waitress?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited June 2013

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...thanks, about to head to the neighbourhood brewpub for their Wednesday "cheap pint" day.

    They also have a very fast server.


    fast waitress?


    ...that too.

    Seems the "upgrade" was done anyway as I just plugged the modem back in and tested it after which there was a text message that read:

    A change has been made to your Cricket Wireless account. If you have not authorized this change, please call 1-800-Cricket.

    So evidently it was forced on me and I'll have to pay an extra 20$ next month (once for this month and again for July). The old modem still seems to work at least, for now.

    The issue I have with being an instant "hotspot" is anyone else within range can glom onto it. thus impacting my bandwidth so there is zero advantage for the extra cost.

    ...you betcha' I'm going to call them tomorrow, and it won't be pretty. Looks like that thee bus/hour+ trip to the Comcast office has now become a necessity.


    Well, I hear a pint or two of "CatDog" calling me so off to the pub.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    It was hot today and I am tired.

    Morning. Coldest day evah here, or something...

    If that's the coldest day "evah", I'd like to trade. If that were our coldest day ever, I'd be quite happy!

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    there's 3 raccoons by the bins outside. not the first timt i seen them, but is still startling. they can have it.

    i'm gonna try and dream of my virtual bf. (sorry HJ)

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Sweet dreams!

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited June 2013

    ...and over at the Daz Dept. of Redundancy Dept...

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  • WoolyloachWoolyloach Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I was going to post a long, serious rant in here, until I decided that nobody,not even me, cared.


    I won't be going out, for strippers and/or beer, because I was meant to write, and if I don't the freaking UNIVERSE will move against me until I do! (really pissed off face)


    So I will work on my two short stories, and turn my long-form novels into serials.


    And I hope nobody no-one no freaking annoying deity gets in my WAY so I can finally try to recapture a thing that existed for maybe a year.


    The world is such an awful place, without her.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...and over at the Daz Dept. of Redundancy Dept...

    :D :D :D

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    I was going to post a long, serious rant in here, until I decided that nobody,not even me, cared.


    I won't be going out, for strippers and/or beer, because I was meant to write, and if I don't the freaking UNIVERSE will move against me until I do! (really pissed off face)


    So I will work on my two short stories, and turn my long-form novels into serials.


    And I hope nobody no-one no freaking annoying deity gets in my WAY so I can finally try to recapture a thing that existed for maybe a year.


    The world is such an awful place, without her.

    I hope your mission goes well, Wooly!

    Dana

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,975
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...which is unreadable (the .dsx).

    It is a plaintext file, just one with an extension associated with DS.

    Right-click on it.

    Open with... either Notepad or Notepad++, which I'm going to recommend to you right now.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited June 2013

    ...not on the workstation (not at home) yet. If it just had a .txt extension, I would have known to do that. All these ".d-- this" and ".d--- that" files, who knows what it means?

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  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited June 2013

    I've tried opening a number of things with Notepad++. Either I get readable text, or a bunch of gibberish. If it's gibberish I close it quickly - Usually means it's something you're not supposed to touch ;P

    Apparently you can modify CivIV savefiles with Notepadd. Change the difficulty of a save, even the leader and civilization you're playing as. Fun ^^


    On another subject, I'm getting an art from a friend of mine (Commissioned, but the end result is the same :B ) of two of our dinos racing and having fun. Is looking cute so far :3
    Mine is on the right, hers is on the left.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...not on the workstation (not at home) yet. If it just had a .txt extension, I would have known to do that. All these ".d-- this" and ".d--- that" files, who knows what it means?

    .dsx is just their version of an XML file. XML is used on the web a lot, but it's really just plain text in a specified structural layout, used for the storage of data...information. Just like the .dson files are actually their version of json files. json is a javascript data file format. They're just using web standards in their applications. You can put any extension you want on a file. The only thing it will change is whether windows can automatically determine what application to use to open it. The file itself, its contents and structure, will still be the same thing.

    But the folder structure for the product is right there in the zip file, too.

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    ...with a veritable alphanumeric soup of filetypes floating out there these days, tossing a new extension into the mix (instead of simply using one of the established counterparts) just adds to the confusion, especially when it looks similar to a more specialised filetype.


    Apologies, but the way I see it, this is becoming more complicated then it needs to be.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...and over at the Daz Dept. of Redundancy Dept...

    Was there something about an Install Manager there?
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    OK...I admit it.
    Victoria 6 popped up in the Store, and I bought almost everything.
    I'm so ashamed...

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    I was going to post a long, serious rant in here, until I decided that nobody,not even me, cared.


    I won't be going out, for strippers and/or beer, because I was meant to write, and if I don't the freaking UNIVERSE will move against me until I do! (really pissed off face)


    So I will work on my two short stories, and turn my long-form novels into serials.


    And I hope nobody no-one no freaking annoying deity gets in my WAY so I can finally try to recapture a thing that existed for maybe a year.


    The world is such an awful place, without her.

    *hugs*

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...and over at the Daz Dept. of Redundancy Dept...

    Been trying to ignore it all :o)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    OK...I admit it.
    Victoria 6 popped up in the Store, and I bought almost everything.
    I'm so ashamed...

    Have the eye surfaces been updated?

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