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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Just remembered the American connection with Bonny Prince, was this guy
    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6889
    who wrote a lot about the 45-ers :)

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    It's Friday, Friday! :cheese: And you gotta get down on Friday! :coolsmile:

    Only one complaint: I'm broke for a week! *cry* *cry* In 2 minutes I spent $1300 :ahhh: :bug: and so it's back to hot dogs and Top Ramen.. maybe splurge on Spicy Kimchi Bowl Noodles... :blank:

    ..BUT..

    THIS will be waiting for me in the local store soon! :snake: :snake:

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-17-3-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-1tb-8gb-hybrid-hard-drive-black/6339015.p?id=1219661389849&skuId=6339015

    My new baby should be ready tonight or tomorrow for in-store pick-up.. this is the first computer I've bought that I won't have to upgrade (lol)! :gulp: 16GB of RAM, i7 4720 quad-core, TOUCH SCREEN :bug: - the works! :coolsmile:

    4GB VRAM.. this thing could run iRay.. which is a nice touch.

    Honestly, for music I don't need anywhere this much raw power, but if I push further back into 3D work it'll;be ready for it - or if I decode to do movie soundtracks for a living (lol)!

    Next weekend will be TRANSFER DAY - move everything on to the new system. I expect it to take about a week to move everything I have over and rebuild my studio setup around this new machine.

    She has a name - she is Charybdis!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Charybdis

    Appropriate as my current machines name is Scylla. :snake:

    Anyway, this should last me another 4-5 years and stop me whining about how slow my laptop is! :blank:

    *edit* Aaaaaaaaaannnndddd.. it's in the store waiting for me! Going to go pick it up after work!! :cheese: :cheese:


    ...appropriate name as well considering the recent situation with the one you ordered from Newegg. ;-)

    Yeah.. there's a store closer to me, but they don't have that model and I flat-out refuse to see this thing shipped even as far as 10 blocks!

    One hour and I bail to call a cab and go get it.. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.. :cheese:

    You seem just a tad bit excited, TF. I would be excited too. Have fun with Charybdis this weekend. Who needs to eat, anyways?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited June 2015

    For those of us who have (or have had) the opportunity to name families of computers, which names or naming schemes have you used?

    I've primarily used the Greek Gods & monsters as well as the Jovian & Saturnian moons.

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  • donahue_shelly@yahoo.com[email protected] Posts: 763
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    For those of us who have (or have had) the opportunity to name families of computers, which names or naming schemes have you used?

    I've primarily used the Greek Gods & monsters as well as the Jovian & Saturnian moons.

    When Fiance's friend built our current machines, Fiance had his system named Samuel and my machine is Angela, from my story.
    I don't think we ever officially named our XP machines though.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited June 2015

    fyredrygyon said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    For those of us who have (or have had) the opportunity to name families of computers, which names or naming schemes have you used?

    I've primarily used the Greek Gods & monsters as well as the Jovian & Saturnian moons.

    When Fiance's friend built our current machines, Fiance had his system named Samuel and my machine is Angela, from my story.
    I don't think we ever officially named our XP machines though.

    Phones tablets compys and shares all named after fictional robots and ai's like :

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    I have about ten minutes to eat my early lunch

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    I have about ten minutes to eat my early lunch

    A bit early for lunch here, thanks goodness there will be breakfast in between :lol:

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2015

    trying to test render bump maps, but uber caffeinated. + hurty toothies. and storminess. humidities up.

    i put up a strand of pink flamingo lights in my room. ready for happy hour.


    remember that movie, was like a piece of Brooklyn on an asteroid, but the people didn't know it? there were vacation billboards and they were like, has anyone been there? was a kewl movie.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    fyredrygyon said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    For those of us who have (or have had) the opportunity to name families of computers, which names or naming schemes have you used?

    I've primarily used the Greek Gods & monsters as well as the Jovian & Saturnian moons.

    When Fiance's friend built our current machines, Fiance had his system named Samuel and my machine is Angela, from my story.
    I don't think we ever officially named our XP machines though.

    Phones tablets compys and shares all named after fictional robots and ai's like :


    i name mine after barista witches. :)

    ah dang, hit the caplock insted of a, haz to retype

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    was Mary queen of Scotts actually Scottish? was just thinking prolly not safe to assume.


    Bonny Prince Charlie, is that bonny as in bonny lass?

    Perhaps he was thin, lanky, and angular, and a misspelling is in play?


    found a statue of him. he was a Stuart. vaguely remember reading something about Stuart. a war or something.

    Hmmm... funny, he doesn't look like Stewart.

    Bonny Prince would have been Charles 3 of England but couldn't get it together enough to have a successful rebellion. His dad was called The Auld Pretender, he was the Young Pretender to the English throne and a descendant of Mary Stuart and her son James I of England who took over when Elizabeth I last of the Tudors died :)

    the same Mary of Scotland?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:
    Misty Whisky said:
    on the viking tv series, 800s, there was 4 kingdoms in England. in season1 they were raiding Northumbria.


    not finding Mary queen of Scotts statue, search shows her death mask. they executed her.


    Took the fun outta being Queen dinna it?


    not healthy to be Queen. they executed Queen Antoinette also.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2015

    ice cream break :) snack attack


    ca hdri

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,039
    edited June 2015

    Misty Whisky said:
    ps1borg said:
    fyredrygyon said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    For those of us who have (or have had) the opportunity to name families of computers, which names or naming schemes have you used?

    I've primarily used the Greek Gods & monsters as well as the Jovian & Saturnian moons.

    When Fiance's friend built our current machines, Fiance had his system named Samuel and my machine is Angela, from my story.
    I don't think we ever officially named our XP machines though.

    Phones tablets compys and shares all named after fictional robots and ai's like :


    i name mine after barista witches. :)

    ah dang, hit the caplock insted of a, haz to retype
    ...I do that a lot (CAPS LOCK). One key I wouldn't mind if it stopped working .

    Only have two "named" systems right now, the Notebook has been named "Little One" for as long as I've had it and the workstation in "Big Sister" (based off my story).

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited June 2015

    I hit the caps lock instead of shift all the time and end up having to retype everything

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,039
    edited June 2015

    ...if I have Word open and it is a lot to retype, I block copy and paste. change case, and copy the corrected text back. Have enough trouble with my dyslexia typing things just once.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,039
    edited December 1969

    ...just looked at the advance forecast. Supposed to get up to 100° Later next week.

    and it isn't even mid July yet.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,207
    edited December 1969

    The remnants of Tropical Storm Bill are headed my way. Rain all day tomorrow.

    Dana

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    She is awake and aware, my Charybdis! :cheese: :cheese:

    She's fast, omg.. 8 GB SSD on a terabyte hybrid.. Windows boots in 45 seconds :Downloqding Bryce and Studio now.. 4GB VRAM GTX 850 :bug: :bug:

    She's everything I wanted.. power.. beauty. and the touchscreen makes Win 8.1 liveable..

    Totally worth 16GB RAM.. she is perfect as born, no upgrades needed .Blowing $1300.. she will let me ,make my visions real.. :cheese: :cheese:

    Noodles and hot dogs for 2 weeks. worth it. Now I can do animation! Goddess, help you all.. lol..

    No wonder I don't have a gf.. my computers are my loves... :red: :red:

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    Finally heading home.

    Bus was half an hour late. I have Chinese for dinner tonight and two cookies. Yummy!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,039
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    She is awake and aware, my Charybdis! :cheese: :cheese:

    She's fast, omg.. 8 GB SSD on a terabyte hybrid.. Windows boots in 45 seconds :Downloqding Bryce and Studio now.. 4GB VRAM GTX 850 :bug: :bug:

    She's everything I wanted.. power.. beauty. and the touchscreen makes Win 8.1 liveable..

    Totally worth 16GB RAM.. she is perfect as born, no upgrades needed .Blowing $1300.. she will let me ,make my visions real.. :cheese: :cheese:

    Noodles and hot dogs for 2 weeks. worth it. Now I can do animation! Goddess, help you all.. lol..

    No wonder I don't have a gf.. my computers are my loves... :red: :red:


    ...sweet.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,039
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    Finally heading home.

    Bus was half an hour late. I have Chinese for dinner tonight and two cookies. Yummy!


    ...but are they fortune cookies?

    ...ugh about the bus.

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    So while I never told anyone publicly about this - a few weeks back my grandpa got the flu, and if that wasn't bad enough broke his leg in a fall at night just as he was starting to get better. Was in the hospital for a while, and while he's been back for some time now... It's affected a lot of stuff.

    On top of that, things have been getting financially tight here where I'm working, and soon... It's going to be closed down. The house will be sold, the school will be moved, and I'll be permanently living in the house I've been staying at on weekdays when not working.

    I really, really love this place. Crisp fresh air, the pine and oak trees nearby, and just... Having lived here for 10 years. Ever since my dad died, I've been very reluctant to move around or travel, so I wasn't too thrilled with the new place even if I had super awesome internet over there and a really large room all to myself. While I've gotten over the not wanting to head back after my work weekend is over, it now seems that – as early as next month – all this will be coming to an end.

    Whether or not I'll be getting another job as nightwatch depends on a lot of things, but it's very likely I'll be jobless for a while – again. I'll really miss this place, and it just feels... With everything that's been happening these past eight months, like my world's been coming crumbling down around me bit by bit, and now it's ready to just collapse all at once. Really feels like it's “too soon”, but this is one of those few times when I literally am just helpless to do anything about it.

    How will things go after the change is anybody's guess, but I've never reacted or adjusted well to change. Especially not such drastic and sudden ones.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,039
    edited December 1969

    ...I can definitely empathise.


    {{{{{{{{{{{hugz}}}}}}}}}}

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    Finally heading home.

    Bus was half an hour late. I have Chinese for dinner tonight and two cookies. Yummy!


    ...but are they fortune cookies?

    ...ugh about the bus.

    no they are chocolate chip cookies.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,039
    edited December 1969

    ...hmm chocolate chip fortune cookies, now there's an idea...

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,207
    edited June 2015

    TroutFace said:
    She is awake and aware, my Charybdis! :cheese: :cheese:

    She's fast, omg.. 8 GB SSD on a terabyte hybrid.. Windows boots in 45 seconds :Downloqding Bryce and Studio now.. 4GB VRAM GTX 850 :bug: :bug:

    She's everything I wanted.. power.. beauty. and the touchscreen makes Win 8.1 liveable..

    Totally worth 16GB RAM.. she is perfect as born, no upgrades needed .Blowing $1300.. she will let me ,make my visions real.. :cheese: :cheese:

    Noodles and hot dogs for 2 weeks. worth it. Now I can do animation! Goddess, help you all.. lol..

    No wonder I don't have a gf.. my computers are my loves... :red: :red:

    If you like desktop mode rather than "tile mode", and miss a real start menu, check out StartMenuX It's on sale right now for only $9.99. Well worth it! I put it on our laptop, that had Windows 8 and was upgraded to Windows 8.1. It's great. I have it set to boot into desktop mode. You can switch when you want to as usual.

    Dana

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    testing testing does this work? Nope wrong size

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    Misty Whisky said:
    trying to test render bump maps, but uber caffeinated. + hurty toothies. and storminess. humidities up.

    i put up a strand of pink flamingo lights in my room. ready for happy hour.


    remember that movie, was like a piece of Brooklyn on an asteroid, but the people didn't know it? there were vacation billboards and they were like, has anyone been there? was a kewl movie.


    Dark City? I likes it. :)
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...I can definitely empathise.


    {{{{{{{{{{{hugz}}}}}}}}}}


    {{{{{{{{{{{more hugz}}}}}}}}}}}
    We missed you, Rezca.
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    How do I switch from iRay to 3delight?

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