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greg-the-fox wrote:

Tank Abuse wrote:

So when your PC starts getting old you're going to automatically deem it broken?

Yes the first time I bluescreen I will throw it out the window
Nah I'll just overclock the fuck out of everything and try to milk stuff as long as I can, and then upgrade parts if I have to. It will be a long time before my computer stops being awesome though.
I'm using an iPod from 2005, and a feature phone from like 2008. My car is from 1996. I will use stuff until it disintegrates into dust. But I will bitch constantly about it.

I was only saying it's weird that Chrome was having performance issues, even though I was using 1/4th of my RAM and my CPU was basically idling. That's Chrome's fault, not my computer's. Software bottlenecks are a pet peeve of mine, I want my hardware used efficiently. Even if it's being used in a ridiculous way.

32-bit applications are limited to 4GB of RAM. Sad but true.

Not so sad for me, since I only have 4GB to begin with, but still sad.

I have a speech to deliver tomorrow that I've been working on for two weeks.
Even though I've edited and re edited and re re edited, I still can't fucking deliver this from memory without looking at my notecards every 2 seconds, and even then I get confused sometimes. No I haven't really practiced it that much, but practicing hardly helps, and I'd have to practice for hours and hours to really get any better. This is just not something that I'm good at. I'm good at writing essays. Actually the more that I flesh a speech out, the worse I'll be at delivering it. If I'm just winging something, I can always go off on a tangent or improvise. But this I have fucking 34 powerpoint slides that are synced up with specific things I have to say, and if I miss one thing I'll be all off, because I won't be looking behind me at the screen... I think I can get through this speech okay, but actually making eye contact more than half the time? Yeah, not happening.

greg-the-fox wrote:

I have a speech to deliver tomorrow that I've been working on for two weeks.
Even though I've edited and re edited and re re edited, I still can't fucking deliver this from memory without looking at my notecards every 2 seconds, and even then I get confused sometimes. No I haven't really practiced it that much, but practicing hardly helps, and I'd have to practice for hours and hours to really get any better. This is just not something that I'm good at. I'm good at writing essays. Actually the more that I flesh a speech out, the worse I'll be at delivering it. If I'm just winging something, I can always go off on a tangent or improvise. But this I have fucking 34 powerpoint slides that are synced up with specific things I have to say, and if I miss one thing I'll be all off, because I won't be looking behind me at the screen... I think I can get through this speech okay, but actually making eye contact more than half the time? Yeah, not happening.

What do they teach you kids in speech class nowadays?

You have to build the powerpoint so that it reminds you of what you're supposed to say...

Riv wrote:

What do they teach you kids in speech class nowadays?

You have to build the powerpoint so that it reminds you of what you're supposed to say...

I'm not allowed to look at it, I have to face the audience. Last time I did that she took a lot of points off for not making eye contact.

My speech went well

I really, really, really, really want a reuben. I hate having no money
I haven't eaten fast food in over a month and I'm about to go crazy.

greg-the-fox wrote:

My speech went well

I really, really, really, really want a reuben. I hate having no money
I haven't eaten fast food in over a month and I'm about to go crazy.

That actually sounds really really good. We have a one at work we make that is incredible. Then again i like corned beef anyways.

I wish my hard drive wasn't so damn loud
And my graphics card didn't coil whine (it's not that bad though)
My case fans are actually the quietest moving part of my computer

I'm gonna put the case on the floor behind my desk, whenever I find a wood board to put it on (so the power supply doesn't get smothered by the carpet)
Plus this thing is just massive for no good reason, why didn't I choose a smaller case?

I just encountered a 5 second ad on youtube with a skip option after the standard 5 seconds.

hi.

The only reason I'm not asleep right now, is because I'm laughing to hard at old episodes of Whose Line.

Greg wrote:

hi.

hullo.

Why am I so into rap music lately?
And by "so into" i mean listening to the 2 "white people" rap albums I like over and over (Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having, and Doomtree - Doomtree)

Also every time I sit down at a computer my left hand goes into "gaming position", even at school computers. Nobody has caught me doing that yet.

Why am I so white

greg-the-fox wrote:

Why am I so into rap music lately?
And by "so into" i mean listening to the 2 "white people" rap albums I like over and over (Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having, and Doomtree - Doomtree)

Also every time I sit down at a computer my left hand goes into "gaming position", even at school computers. Nobody has caught me doing that yet.

Why am I so white

'Cause you don't go outside.

greg-the-fox wrote:

Also every time I sit down at a computer my left hand goes into "gaming position", even at school computers. Nobody has caught me doing that yet.

This is actually a pretty common thing. When I first took IT Studies in highschool my teacher walked around the class, rounded up those with their fingers in the "gaming position" and asked them "What do you think is the one thing essential to a good video game?" (We were learning programming so it was something she wanted us to be very social in learning.)

Greg wrote:

greg-the-fox wrote:

Also every time I sit down at a computer my left hand goes into "gaming position", even at school computers. Nobody has caught me doing that yet.

This is actually a pretty common thing. When I first took IT Studies in highschool my teacher walked around the class, rounded up those with their fingers in the "gaming position" and asked them "What do you think is the one thing essential to a good video game?" (We were learning programming so it was something she wanted us to be very social in learning.)

It's honestly just the most comfortable way to have your hand on a keyboard. And I can transition to typing from that pretty fast.

GREG, YOU'RE BACK. I missed you.

Greg wrote:

greg-the-fox wrote:

Also every time I sit down at a computer my left hand goes into "gaming position", even at school computers. Nobody has caught me doing that yet.

This is actually a pretty common thing. When I first took IT Studies in highschool my teacher walked around the class, rounded up those with their fingers in the "gaming position" and asked them "What do you think is the one thing essential to a good video game?" (We were learning programming so it was something she wanted us to be very social in learning.)

It's funny, my fingers default to that position, but it has nothing to do with gaming— It's because I have a long history of hiding my computer activity from my parents, and command+w is the Mac keyboard shortcut for closing a window.

Also, command+q is quit. And command+tab is for cycling programs. And command+~ is to cycle windows. And command+1 opens a lot of main application windows. And it's only a slight adjustment of my hand away to reach command+z. And I can reach all the other modifier keys, which I use a lot. Pretty much everything important is around that area.

Had a job interview this morning.

This one looks hopeful, fingers crossed!

Finally got my left over financial aid check. I'm gonna save most of it, but I think I'm gonna use a bit of it for something I shouldn't first.

Lucan wrote:

Finally got my left over financial aid check. I'm gonna save most of it, but I think I'm gonna use a bit of it for something I shouldn't first.

I bought a mechanical keyboard with mine
This one is really nice and it keeps going on sale, it's definitely a steal for $100. They must have had a lot of trouble selling it at $150.

Aside from a parking pass, which also cost $100, I'm trying to save the rest of it. I'm sitting on a whole buttload of cash now after being broke for the longest time, and it's really hard to resist spending it all at once Since I dropped a class they gave me a reeeealy big check this time I guess I could at least buy some new clothes, mine are all shitty and old.

greg-the-fox wrote:

Lucan wrote:

Finally got my left over financial aid check. I'm gonna save most of it, but I think I'm gonna use a bit of it for something I shouldn't first.

I bought a mechanical keyboard with mine
This one is really nice and it keeps going on sale, it's definitely a steal for $100. They must have had a lot of trouble selling it at $150.

Aside from a parking pass, which also cost $100, I'm trying to save the rest of it. I'm sitting on a whole buttload of cash now after being broke for the longest time, and it's really hard to resist spending it all at once Since I dropped a class they gave me a reeeealy big check this time I guess I could at least buy some new clothes, mine are all shitty and old.

Hmm. Well I could use a new mouse or headset, but my keyboard is good. I really don't want to spend much of it. should also probably fix the horn in my car first though, if I do anything.

Lucan wrote:

Hmm. Well I could use a new mouse or headset, but my keyboard is good. I really don't want to spend much of it. should also probably fix the horn in my car first though, if I do anything.

I should get my car's air conditioning fixed. But I could buy a laptop for the price the mechanic will charge

I found an old cd-r, popped it into my friend's computer, and saw my porn collection from 2007. Ohoho... This is terrible

Porn on disc? I'd have never saved it like that.

I've always been too scared of people coming across my shit to ever save porn on anything other than an encrypted folder in my hard drive.