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Sounds lovely! Enjoy. I'm looking forward to beer, hot dog, tater chips and a Godzilla movie marathon!!
GO GO GODZILLA!! :-P
Godzilla?!
"here lizzy lizzy lizzy ... think i need a bigger box" yo chiero taco bell
complainnt nys tax refund not in yet.
need it to buy the rams extras (and make the girl sheep? Goats? happy(
on amazon has 8gb for 110, or could go for the 16gb for 196.
do imacs have hdmi out?
need something to run final cut pro, hopefully out to 2560x1080 monitor.
IMHO, after about age 17, no one can consider themselves the "first choice".
By that age, we've all dreamt our ideal and then spend a lifetime looking for that which doesn't exist.
I've got a cousin who was loosly connected to the hollywood people and had occasions to be on some of the studio lots now and then. She's contnually dropping names. You can hear it coming then a big thud as the name hits the floor. I and the rest of the family have learned to just walk away when the names start falling. However, one story that particularly amuses me is her story about running into Jerry Seinfeld. He was riding a bicycle on the studio lot and she ran into him with her car. Apparently he wasn't badly hurt and behaved gratiously but I don't remember the rest of the story which grew longer everytime she told it. I'd just like to hear his version of the story some time.
I'm not immune to name dropping though, I have encountered three. One was a singer from the '50s. I passed him on the street in Washington, DC during the '80s once but didn't recognize him until someone behind me yelled out "Hey, Tony Bennett,..." I then realized why he'd looked familiar, and kept on walking. Big whoop! And I also got Leonard Nimoy to sign one of his record albums for me when he gave a lecture at my college. Even bigger whoop! But over time I've come to appreciate my biggest whoop of all was when I met Paul Dirac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac He gave a lecture to a group of about 6 people at our pitifully small college in the late '60s just sitting in folding chairs around a cheap folding table in an otherwise empty small classroom. So, we got quite a close experience with him for a couple of hours. I didn't follow everything he was describing but I do remember his conclusion that Einstein's gravitational constant must be increasing. Fifty years ago he said that, and it's only recently that observations of accelerating expansion of the universe fits his prediction. Cool!
This sort of opens the topic of "degrees of separation". i.e. People who know people who know people... I was amused to realize that I am only 4 degrees of separation away from Queen Elizabeth II. My other half worked as butler for Dorothy Parker (wealthy lawyer) in Washington, DC who had lived in the Waldorf Astoria in NYC and was friends with the Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallis Simpson who both, of course, knew the Queen.
Check this out: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204392 ; Hope it helps
Le sigh. Too true, Batman. :-/
I know someone that know's Richard Garriott, th Ultima creator. Richard is apparently a bit eccentric. Most game developers seen to be a bit touched, I'm a good example of that...
I avoided that malady. Back in the early '70s a friend of mine from college asked me to join him in making computer games for home computers. I glibly responded "There's no future in computer games. It'll never catch on".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer) His games were popular for a while but he was quickly overtaken by bigger companies. Although he still keeps his hand in it.
Perhaps I should have jumped at the opportunity, squirreled myself away in a dark lab making games for 40 years going franticly bonkers before quickly falling into penniless obscurity instead of the long interesting career I have had ending in quiet bonkerness and penniless obscurity. NAH! I've got lots of memories and am surviving the long expected penniless obscurity quite nicely thank you. And I get to share my quiet bonkerness with y'all.
I saw there is a title of a thread called naked ladies of the wests. Where is the scantly clothed men thread? Is there one? A render thread of men wearing just enough to keep the thread TOS compatible yet they show enough to encourage people to get more male stuff out and bought?
I must have checked my refund status too many times today as they are blocking my access to my status page. They said there will be updates by mid February and since February has twenty eight days it would have been yesterday, right?
yeah, you bring up a good point.
need a nice oiled up men skin shader.
You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine , sing it Barry !! ahwooooo
gawwd this song gets me goin, cant not dance, think my co workers lookin for straightjackets
I remember that one, playing on the littel transister radio!
Dana
don't think i'd be a second choice either at my age
yep, spinster
Most famous musician I ever hung around with, and do again lately, is my friend Lenny Luzitano.
Dana
Lack of sleep lately? Or is that from something you've been smoking?
(referring to your avatar)
Dana
I will cheerfully note that I created/coded computer games for a mere 5 years before getting so burned out that I couldn't even play computer games for 2 years after, and to this day if I try to code up even the simplest game I get stress headaches and sick to my stomach.
This kind of burnout is not uncommon in an industry with normal work schedule means 10-12 hour days, plus weekend when it's crunch time and you either ship or get fired. It's also typical to be hired for one project and be laid off once it ships. Oh, the stories I could tell... it's the rare person that lasts more than 10 years in a coding position, most run like Hell for management or production positions. :-/
Feh.
Maybe because, from the waist down, naked men look ridiculous and poorly designed? :-|
If someone caught me, they'd throw me back in the river! :-|
...met several famous people (well one was a group).
The group was Blood Sweat & Tears (the original with David Clayton Thomas) when they played a concert in Milwaukee what seems like eons ago now. Partied with them after that concert and after they played the Milwaukee Summerfest (just after Thomas left the group).
Played Pool (well got my butt handed to me in pool) with(by) "Sir" Charles Barkley when the Rockets were in Portland one weekend and he showed up at a pub I frequented.
Science Fiction Authors (mostly at conventions)
Ann McCaffrey
Larry Niven
Jerry Porunelle
Theodore Sturgeon
The late Ursla K LeGuin (Portland local)
CJ Cherryh
Dr. Asimov
Robert Asprin
Comics writers/artists
Stan "The Man" Lee
Jack Kirby
Roger Stern
John Byrne
Radio/Comedy
David Ossman, (former member of the Firesign Theatre, NPR radio host, and radio theatre workshop coordinator)
Music/Classical & Jazz
Marie Claire Alain (one of the worlds greatest concert organists)
Katia and Marielle Labèque (internationally renowned duo pianists)
Les Paul (one of the guests at an electronic music symposium I attended, and yes, he played a couple works)
Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach, Classical and Soundtrack composer) Interviewed him for the local newspaper when he performed a concert in Olympia WA.
My one regret was not being able to meet with Olivier Messiaen (whom I consider my greatest musical influence and mentor as a composer/improviser) as he died several months before I was to travel to France to visit with him.
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Almost forgot, Presidents/VPs:
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew.
Shook hands with both of them.
Originally came from a fairly staunch Republican family in Wisconsin and after the 1972 election (first year of the 18 year old vote) received an invite to the inauguration festivities, all expenses paid.
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Oww, owww, owowowowowow pain hurt anguish agony, not feeling good.
My ride to the grocey store fell through (keeping an eye on a sick kid) so I was forced to walk a mile and a half in a not-broken-in prosthesis, after not having walked further than 3 blocks in the past 6 months! :-O
Aspirin dow, chair in relax mode.
The amazing thing is that it's not my right foot or the amputation stump that hurt, no soreness, no rubbed open holes in skin, no nothing. The prosthetic doc did very good, the fancy right shoe insert and the kick-butt engineering of the prosthesis did the job! Foot and stump warm and happy, my circulation is apparently as good as mu foc told me it was. Thank Deity for little favors! :-)
Now, the 'what hurts' list: hamstrings, calves, knees, hips, lower back, neck and shoulders. A decent portion of my fat carcass is NOT happy with me. If this plays out as usual, more bits will hurt tomorrow to pile on.
Thankfully beer arrives tomorrow in exchange for my USB drive, so I'll survive the weekend happily!! :-)
That being said, a mostly successful shopping trip. Got noodle soups, hot dogs (on mega sale!), corn tortillas and flour tortillas. I have a few bucks left over, I was starting to hurt to the point I just wanted to go home once I had enough fppd to tide me over while I sell stuff. Maybe I'll go back for refried beans and taters, now that U know the trip is physically possible. My body tends to shape up pretty quickly with regular exercise.
The weather helped - low 70f's, overcast, strong breeze. Never overheated.
Once the beer arrives I'm good for a while, so I'm in pain but relatively happy. I think it
s nap time now that the aspirin is cutting in! :-)
...which is why I walked away from it over two decades ago, and today would rather pay other people to do scripting for shaders, plugins, & the like rather than do it myself..
tee heeee
UPS tracking # update
8 core is in Pensylvania
Thursday, February 15
3:19 PM
Package received by carrier
Horsham, PA US
8 cores, and win10 anxieties. i can't find the setting for show file extentions and unhide system files.
oh how the network guru has fallen. was MCSE certified in Win NT lol 1998
oh how Novell has fallen. passed CNE 3 tests, 1996
Happy is good *hugs* :)
Morning. Busy, and late as a white rabbit complaint ;)
...I always feel better when the marketing is done. Particularly when the weather looks like it's going to get bad and I can just stay inside, work on projects, and nosh away. Will have to make that trip this afternoon (if I can get the phone to charge, still having issues with the jack making a solid connection so I can use my virtual bus tickets) as tomorrow through the weekend looks pretty wet and cold.
think a bacon cheese burger will help fortify for the winX tussle
...couldn't hurt.